Anthropic released the latest edition of their Economic Index this week. This is a report that tracks how Claude is being used across the global economy. This is the third such report, covering a sample from early February 2026. You can

Yesterday I wrote a post about Tyler Cowen’s argument that the research paper is dying in economics. That post was a collaboration between me and Claude. I wrote it, to be clear. But Claude helped me build an outline for it after a lengthy conversa...

Tyler Cowen asks when the research paper will disappear in economics. Think about it, he says: AI can now generate, evaluate, and improve papers. Ergo, the paper is no longer the scarce unit of intellectua...

Miles Brundage recently worried that Anthropic has “an org-wide case of AI psychosis”.

In plain English: they’re shipping features

Imagine that a biological virus is going to spread through the world. Its spread will be rapid, virtually unstoppable, and essentially inevitable. But this is a weird virus, and it will have weird effects. Weird and wonderful even, in some cases, and weird and disastrous in others. But there is good news: there is a vaccine available already, with v...