{"id":541351,"date":"2026-07-24T03:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541351\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:58:30","slug":"googles-atlas-effort-seeks-to-analyze-ai-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541351\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s ATLAS effort seeks to analyze AI usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out an optimistic vision for artificial intelligence, arguing the technology should empower billions of people rather than fuel fears of a dystopian future. (Credit: Meta)<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">artificial intelligence<\/a> use proliferates, Google, which is behind the Gemini AI platform, has announced an effort to examine how its products are being utilized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google<\/a> asserted that &#8220;we as a society must work together to positively shape how AI impacts our lives, jobs, and economy. In order for this shared work to be effective, it is critical to have a rich understanding of how AI is being adopted and used in the economy. Society needs empirical insights and evidence-based research to inform decisions, initiatives, and actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company said that it &#8220;is launching the first iteration of the AI &amp; Economy ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape and Adoption Study), an ongoing, large-scale, de-identified study of how people are using Google\u2019s AI products and tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/meta-ai-vision-empower-people-mark-zuckerberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ZUCKERBERG SAYS AI SHOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE, NOT REPLACE THEM, IN NEW META VISION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-logo-china.jpg\" alt=\"Google logo\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Google China Tower in Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing, China, July 15, 2026. (CFOTO\/Future Publishing via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Big Tech<\/a> behemoth indicated it is using interactions with its AI for the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ATLAS\u2019s first dataset (v1.0) is built from 15 million aggregated and de-identified human-AI interactions across the Gemini App, AI Mode, and the Gemini API, which together are used by more than 1 billion people monthly. ATLAS v1.0 insights span more than 150 countries, 140 languages, 800 occupations, and 4,000 tasks; ATLAS is the most comprehensive look to date at how real people are using AI at scale,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/technology\/research\/understanding-the-ai-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/google-expands-miami-office-co-founders-flee-california-south-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GOOGLE EXPANDS MIAMI OFFICE AS CO-FOUNDERS FLEE CALIFORNIA FOR SOUTH FLORIDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-data-center-texas.jpg\" alt=\"Google Midlothian Data Center\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Google Midlothian Data Center where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were scheduled to speak Nov. 14, 2025, in Midlothian, Texas. (Ron Jenkins\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.google\/static\/documents\/GoogleATLASv1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lengthy report<\/a> on the analysis states that &#8220;we observe most conversational AI usage happens at home: over 86% of conversations occur outside formal work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the workplace, we show that while AI adoption spans occupations covering just above 88% of U.S. employment, penetration remains shallow and overwhelmingly collaborative in nature, with end-to-end task automation limited in scope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/openai-says-ai-model-hacked-another-companys-systems-during-internal-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">OPENAI SAYS AI MODEL HACKED ANOTHER COMPANY&#8217;S SYSTEMS DURING INTERNAL TEST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-gemini-ai.jpg\" alt=\"google \"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Google Gemini logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Thomas Fuller\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;English accounts for only about a third of global conversations, and users do not show signs of systematically abandoning their native languages for complex professional tasks, as work and non-work activities show nearly identical language distributions,&#8221; the executive summary of the report notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out an optimistic vision for artificial intelligence, arguing the technology should empower billions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-541351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}