National Security Agency
National Security Agency appears in 80 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not National Security Agency's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of National Security Agency is steady — it appears in 80 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What National Security Agency coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 29 classified coverage items, one item is 3.4 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 29 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
80 articles mention National Security Agency across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 26 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report The National Security Agency told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models.
- regulation The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation released a cyber security advisory on distillation.
2 posts on company and project channels mention National Security Agency across the full 15-month record. They come from any company or project channel Compass reads, not only National Security Agency's own. They are counted separately from the 80 press articles.
Where they were published:Cloud Blog · 1MIT News - Artificial intelligence · 1
Press coverage and company and project posts are two separate counts. Every press figure on this page, including the monthly line and the rising or falling call, comes from the independent press only. Before October 2026, Compass counted these posts as press coverage. How this is measured.
- Sources: the NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions this year to test AI models; proposals for a US AI regulatory body estimated costs of $20M-$40M per year (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)Techmeme
- Should US Open-Weight AI Labs 'Distill' Frontier Models Too?Slashdot
- The Pentagon Deploys Custom ChatGPT And Grok For Military UseThe Mac Observer
As of 7 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 356,656 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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