{
    "note": "The fixed list of topics. Before it was written, artificial intelligence was searched to test the source, and bell to bell had already been counted for the case file. A topic may be added with its own date. None leaves the list. A search may be corrected, with an entry in corrections.",
    "fixedOn": "2026-11-05",
    "source": {
        "name": "Federal Register",
        "publisher": "Office of the Federal Register, National Archives",
        "api": "https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1",
        "site": "https://www.federalregister.gov"
    },
    "topics": [
        {
            "slug": "artificial-intelligence",
            "title": "Artificial intelligence",
            "area": "Technology",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"artificial intelligence\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "data-center",
            "title": "Data centers",
            "area": "Technology",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"data center\" | \"data centers\" -\"flight data center\"",
            "note": "About half of this count is SEC documents, mostly exchange filings on data-center fees and connections, and they arrive in batches: 26 of the 57 documents from August 10 to November 1, 2026, and 57 of 92 in the 12 weeks before. Without any SEC documents the two windows read 31 and 35. Other offices and databases with Data Center in their name remain in the count, about 7 of those 57.",
            "readingCaveat": {
                "lastWeek": "2026-10-26",
                "text": "Without SEC filings, which arrive in batches, 35 to 31: not a fade."
            }
        },
        {
            "slug": "quantum-computing",
            "title": "Quantum computing",
            "area": "Technology",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"quantum computing\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "unmanned-aircraft",
            "title": "Unmanned aircraft",
            "area": "Technology",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"unmanned aircraft\"",
            "note": "This is the wording federal rules use. It leaves out documents that say only drone or drones: 18 from August 10 to November 1, 2026, against 22 here, and about a third as many since 2016."
        },
        {
            "slug": "critical-minerals",
            "title": "Critical minerals",
            "area": "Security and trade",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"critical mineral\" | \"critical minerals\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "supply-chain",
            "title": "Supply chains",
            "area": "Security and trade",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"supply chain\" | \"supply chains\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "foreign-adversary",
            "title": "Foreign adversaries",
            "area": "Security and trade",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"foreign adversary\" | \"foreign adversaries\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "critical-infrastructure",
            "title": "Critical infrastructure",
            "area": "Security and trade",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"critical infrastructure\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "avian-influenza",
            "title": "Avian influenza",
            "area": "Health",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"avian influenza\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "measles",
            "title": "Measles",
            "area": "Health",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"measles\""
        },
        {
            "slug": "fentanyl",
            "title": "Fentanyl",
            "area": "Health",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"fentanyl\"",
            "note": "Since 2016, about four in ten of these documents are routine DEA notices about companies registered to make or import controlled substances."
        },
        {
            "slug": "pfas",
            "title": "PFAS",
            "area": "Health",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"PFAS\"",
            "note": "PFAS are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a family of long-lasting industrial chemicals. Documents that spell the name out and never use the short form are not counted."
        },
        {
            "slug": "wildfire",
            "title": "Wildfire",
            "area": "Environment and energy",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"wildfire\" | \"wildfires\" -\"wildfire energy\"",
            "note": "In seven of the nine readable years from 2016 to 2025, the 12 weeks to late October beat the 12 before by at least 25 percent, so much of an autumn rise here is the season.",
            "readingCaveat": {
                "lastWeek": "2026-10-26",
                "text": "Much of an autumn rise here is the season. This rise cleared 25 percent in seven of nine past years."
            }
        },
        {
            "slug": "small-modular-reactor",
            "title": "Small modular reactors",
            "area": "Environment and energy",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"small modular reactor\" | \"small modular reactors\"",
            "note": "Few documents use this exact wording. Many say SMR or advanced reactor instead, and those are not counted here."
        },
        {
            "slug": "digital-asset",
            "title": "Digital assets",
            "area": "Finance",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"digital asset\" | \"digital assets\"",
            "note": "Over the years, more than half of this count is routine filings by securities exchanges. Documents that say only crypto asset are not counted."
        },
        {
            "slug": "misinformation",
            "title": "Misinformation",
            "area": "Information",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "term": "\"misinformation\"",
            "note": "Documents that say only disinformation are not counted."
        },
        {
            "slug": "bell-to-bell",
            "title": "Bell to bell",
            "area": "Education",
            "addedOn": "2026-11-05",
            "file": "/files/bell-to-bell",
            "term": "\"bell-to-bell\""
        }
    ],
    "corrections": [
        {
            "date": "2026-11-05",
            "text": "The source treats a plural as a different phrase. “Wildfire” alone returned 28 documents from August 10 to November 1, 2026, and both forms returned 50. The searches for data centers, critical minerals, supply chains, foreign adversaries, wildfire, small modular reactors and digital assets now list both forms."
        },
        {
            "date": "2026-11-05",
            "text": "“Data center” also caught the National Flight Data Center, an FAA office named mostly in routine flight-procedure rules: 12 of the 69 documents with either form from August 10 to November 1, 2026, which leaves 57. That name is now left out of the search."
        },
        {
            "date": "2026-11-05",
            "text": "“Wildfire” also caught a company called Wildfire Energy in merger notices: 2 documents from August 10 to November 1, 2026. That name is now left out of the search. The same exclusion also drops two 2016 Interior notices where wildfire and energy sit side by side in a list."
        }
    ],
    "lapse": {
        "from": "2025-10-06",
        "to": "2025-11-24",
        "note": "The eight weeks whose counts the funding lapse of October 1 to November 12, 2025 pushed far from normal: six low weeks and two catch-up weeks."
    }
}