{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-15T10:09:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-14-openai-eu-agentic-adoption-report/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-14-openai-eu-agentic-adoption-report/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-10-14-openai-eu-agentic-adoption-report","date":"2026-10-14","date_precision":"day","short_title":"OpenAI report: agentic AI use in the EU","deck":null,"takeaway":"On Oct 14, 2026 OpenAI published \"The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic\", a report from OpenAI Economic Research on agent use by EU businesses.","category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"OpenAI: The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic (Oct 14, 2026)","url":"https://openai.com/index/the-eus-next-chapter-in-ai-is-agentic","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-15","updated":"2026-10-15","orgs":["OpenAI"],"title":"OpenAI Economic Research: Codex and ChatGPT Work produce over half of EU Enterprise output tokens, but EU 'frontier firms' trail global peers","summary":"On Oct 14, 2026 OpenAI published \"The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic\", a report from OpenAI Economic Research on agent use by EU businesses. In its EU sample of ChatGPT Enterprise customers, Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens; weekly users of both among EU small and medium businesses grew more than eightfold since May 2026. The share ranges from 22% (Slovenia) to 85% (Lithuania), and EU frontier firms use less than half as many tokens per user as frontier firms elsewhere.","key_facts":["Agentic share: among EU ChatGPT Enterprise customers in OpenAI's sample, Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens","SMBs (200 or fewer users): weekly active users of Codex and ChatGPT Work grew more than eightfold since May 2026, in every member state","Spread: agentic share of Enterprise output tokens from 22% in Slovenia to 85% in Lithuania","Frontier gap (top 10% of firms by output tokens per active user, Enterprise and Business accounts): in September EU frontier firms used over 4x the tokens per active user of typical EU firms, but frontier firms outside the EU used over 2x as many as EU frontier firms; EU firms are only 10% of frontier firms globally","Data are OpenAI's own usage measurements; the full report is a PDF linked from the post"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["openai","eu","adoption","agents","codex","enterprise","economics","usage-data"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nOpenAI's economics team published a usage report aimed at EU policymakers, measuring how much EU business use of ChatGPT has shifted to\nagentic tools (Codex and ChatGPT Work) and how unevenly. It appeared the same week as the EU AI Office's information requests to OpenAI and\nAnthropic about agent incidents.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt is a rare quantitative look at agent adoption by country, and it frames Europe's problem as depth of use rather than access. All figures\ncome from OpenAI's own data and sample definitions.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-10-14-eu-ai-office-investigates-openai-anthropic-agent-hacks","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-14-eu-ai-office-investigates-openai-anthropic-agent-hacks/","date":"2026-10-14","date_precision":"day","short_title":"EU AI Office opens first AI Act enforcement test","deck":"Information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic over their agents' summer hacks","takeaway":"These are the first enforcement steps under the AI Act's rules for the most capable general-purpose models.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":1,"official":0,"filed":"2026-10-14","updated":"2026-10-14","orgs":["European Commission","OpenAI","Anthropic"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-15","type":"filed","text":"Created (found as uncited openai.com page)"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-15","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-10-15","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-15"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":167,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":106,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":197,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":136,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}