I got tired of AI stats articles citing each other in circles, so I traced 93 stats back to their original sources

Every time I needed an AI stat, I'd land on some listicle citing another listicle citing a tweet. So I spent the last few days going through primary sources instead — the Stanford AI Index, IEA reports, Gartner press releases, Crunchbase data, actual court filings — and kept only the numbers I could confirm at the source. Some that surprised me: - Corporate AI investment hit $581.7B in 2025, up 130% in one year (Stanford HAI) - AI data center electricity use grew 50% in a single year (IEA) - Workers with AI skills earn a 62% wage premium over the same role without them - 74.2% of new web pages now contain at least some AI-written text (Ahrefs, 900k page sample) - Despite all the agent hype, actual enterprise deployment of AI agents is still in the single digits Full list here, every stat links to its primary source: https://thebotpost.com/guides/ai-statistics-2026 It's my site, full disclosure — no paywall, no email gate. If you spot a number that's off, tell me and I'll fix it.