Story
Anthropic’s usage data shows where automation actually lands
The Economic Index makes the labor question more specific—and more uneven.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Future of Work
How software changes jobs, organizations, skills, and bargaining power.
Editorial scope
Future of Work
How software changes jobs, organizations, skills, and bargaining power.
Essential coverage
Story
Figure is making the humanoid robot a manufacturing argument
The near-term test is not resemblance to a person. It is reliable work inside an existing line.
Story
Microsoft is making Copilot an organizational layer
The enterprise advantage is access to work context; the governance burden follows the same path.
Story
Harvey’s legal AI is a test of professional accountability
In high-stakes work, speed only matters if review, provenance, and confidentiality remain visible.
Story
Sierra is making the customer-service agent a company representative
An autonomous interface carries policy, tone, authority, and escalation rules into every conversation.
Story
Cognition is selling the idea of a software teammate
Devin turns the benchmark debate into a question about delegation and review.
Story
Shopify is treating AI fluency as operational infrastructure
The commerce platform’s internal culture makes a strong claim about how quickly work norms can change.
Story
The AI hiring page is becoming a product roadmap
Open roles reveal where companies expect deployment to become difficult.
Feature
The people who decide whether an agent is ready
Evaluation teams are becoming the quiet editorial layer inside autonomous software.
Feature
What a humanoid robot has to learn before the demo ends
The impressive movement is only a small part of reliable physical work.
Feature
When the workspace starts making decisions
Notion, Microsoft, and Glean are turning organizational context into an active software layer.
Interview
Dario Amodei on the economics of powerful AI
A public-record conversation about scaling, labor, and the institutions around frontier systems.
Research
Where people use Claude at work
A reading of Anthropic’s Economic Index, occupation by occupation.
Research
The hidden work in a generated video
A workflow analysis of prompting, selection, editing, sound, rights, and delivery.
News brief
Anthropic publishes a new Economic Index cadence
The research program is tracking how AI use changes over time.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 02: Reading the Anthropic Economic Index
What task-level usage data can—and cannot—tell us about work.