Weekly signals
May 11 – May 17, 2026
103 connections drawn between subjects, across 49 pieces and 325 distinct subjects.
A connection is a relationship one piece asserted between two subjects, in that piece's words. It exists because somebody wrote it down, which is why this number has no equivalent anywhere else.
Where domains collided
- business × culture 41
- culture × tech 36
- art × culture 36
- business × tech 35
- academic × tech 29
- art × business 24
Volume by beat
| W12 | W13 | W14 | W15 | W16 | W17 | W18 | W19 | W20 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| culture | 31 | 41 | 43 | 28 | 18 | 31 | 40 | 32 | 34 |
| tech | 27 | 37 | 39 | 32 | 20 | 35 | 32 | 31 | 30 |
| business | 18 | 39 | 38 | 28 | 18 | 28 | 29 | 27 | 31 |
| art | 18 | 24 | 27 | 20 | 13 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 21 |
| academic | 13 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 17 |
| fashion | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 |
Rising
- TikTok 0.5 → 4
- Lower East Side 0 → 3
- Museum Management and Curatorship 0.3 → 3
- Nature Human Behaviour 0.5 → 3
- Donald Trump 1.5 → 4
- Journal of Cultural Economics 1 → 3
- Survivor 0 → 2
- Independent Art Fair 0 → 2
Cooling
- Sam Altman 5.5 → 2
- OpenAI 5.3 → 2
- adidas 2.3 → 1
- Elon Musk 2.3 → 1
- Strait of Hormuz 1.8 → 1
- China 1.8 → 1