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Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives

This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.

Anthropic Economic Index: new building blocks for understanding AI use

Is artificial intelligence really making people faster at work? What sort of tasks does AI support best? And how might it change the nature of people’s occupations?

Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing

The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

California’s AG will investigate whether Musk’s nudifying bot broke US laws.

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

Wikipedia will share content with AI firms in new licensing deals

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.

The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China

The Trump administration formalized its 25% cut of H200 chip sales in China with a tariff that applies to certain semiconductors.

OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs

OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup. The startup is valued at $850 million.

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others

The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.

US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet on sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit and TikTok, several U.S. senators are demanding the companies provide proof that they have "robust protections and policies" in place, and how they plan to curb the rise of sexualized deepfakes on their platforms.