Wes SpencerCo-Founder, Empath · Co-Founder of Empath | Recovering Cybersecurity Guy| Keynote Speaker | 2020 Cyber Educator of the Year | Building the MSP Workforce Operating System

AI Adoption Is Skyrocketing: The Data Proves It

3 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker references the company's January annual security report, highlighting a dramatic 400% year‑over‑year increase in the number of domains that host AI tooling, as observed from a DNS perspective. The figure deliberately excludes large platforms such as Microsoft (including Outlook) and Google Workspace, yet still shows a massive surge, and the speaker emphasizes that the growth trajectory continues upward.

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Skyrocketing. I think we did our annual security report in January, was about 400% year over year growth in AI tooling from the DNS side. Like, that's just the domains that have AI tooling on them and not counting ones like, you know, Microsoft, which has some AI stuff and Outlook. Right. Google or, you know, Google Workspace, like not counting those, it's still like 400% and the trajectory is just growing. So there you go, right?