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…Last updated: May 7, 2026 Economic diffusion It’s crucial to understand how the deployment of increasingly powerful AI systems changes the economy. We also need to develop the necessary economic data…
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A “diff” tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models
…In software engineering, whenever a program is updated, developers face this exact problem of identifying a small, critical change within a vast sea of code. This is why “ diff ” tools were invented…
Project Vend: Phase two
…Not only was there a lot of interest in Clothius’s products, as you can see in the “top 15 products” data, but many of them made a decent profit, too. (That…
Long-running Claude for scientific computing
…Crucially, Claude can edit these instructions as it works, updating them for future work as it works through issues. Here is an early CLAUDE.md for the cosmological Boltzmann solver project, showing…
Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves
…We sample 1 million conversations from both Claude.ai, our consumer-facing web product, and our first-party API, the developer-facing interface for integrating Claude into products and workflows. 2 Coding…
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
…Our usage data will be incorporated in future updates, forming an evolving picture of task and job coverage in the economy. The Eloundou et al. metric could also be updated, to the…
Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance
…Some e-commerce sites autogenerate persistent pages from search queries, even when there are zero matching products. For example, a site will take a query like “anonymous 8th grade first blog post…
Building Effective AI Agents
…Building blocks, workflows, and agents In this section, we’ll explore the common patterns for agentic systems we’ve seen in production. We'll start with our foundational building block—the augmented…
Introducing advanced tool use on the Claude Developer Platform
…4 } }, { "title": "Add dark mode support", "labels": ["feature-request", "ui"], "reporter": { "id": "USR-67890", "name": "Alex Chen" } }, { "title": "Update API documentation" } ] } From these three examples, Claude learns: Format conventions : Dates use YYYY…