Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption

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Anthropic released a new Economic Index report showing that AI adoption remains uneven across geographies and business functions. The report finds that Claude usage is concentrated in richer countries and in specific tasks such as coding, education, and scientific work. It also shows that enterprise API customers use Claude mostly for automation-heavy workflows, especially software development and administrative tasks. The report argues that companies deploying frontier AI still face bottlenecks around context, data organization, and organizational readiness. Anthropic also open-sourced additional usage data to support further research into AI adoption and labor-market effects.

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