The AI Daily Brief · Saturday, August 29, 2026
A recent OpenAI enterprise study revealed that API consumption for agentic AI has surpassed non-agentic use, indicating a significant shift towards AI-powered automation. Non-software engineering departments are driving this growth, with finance and accounting seeing a 20x increase in Codex usage, sales 41x, and legal 108x.
“While starting from the February baseline, engineering related users of Codex and the enterprise, had grown 5X, basically every other function had grown significantly more.”
“Finance and accounting was using Codex 20 times more than it had been in February.”
“Sales and accounting was using it 41 times as much and legal was using it 108 times as much as it had been back in February.”