The Econ Index now tracks artifacts—the primary output Claude produces in a session. We analyzed Claude conversations and compared how often each artifact was used for work, coursework, or personal life. Blogging is mostly a work activity; translation falls in between.
BUSINESS
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AI concentration risk demands rebel alliance against power and wealth
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The biggest risk in AI is concentration: of power, capabilities and economic wealth. Who can doubt it with trillion dollar companies and government now already controlling a massive part of it? So we need more rebels and more rebel alliance like this one from @usv and friends.
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Anthropic’s Mythos forces DeepSeek into $7.4B fundraising
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Anthropic’s Mythos preview reportedly pushed DeepSeek into a $7.4B fundraising – because they could not compete with Mythos. Until now, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab had relied on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth instead of outside capital. The Information reports the
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Runway launches Agent 2.0 to turn prompts into full marketing campaigns
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🆕Turn a prompt into a full campaign!
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 26 juin 2026
Runway launches Agent 2.0: generate marketing briefs and campaign assets from a single prompt, then analyze performance to optimize and scale across platforms and markets. Built to be the most capable autonomous agent for real-world work.… pic.twitter.com/eWj0malr0PTurn a prompt into a full campaign! Runway launches Agent 2.0: generate marketing briefs and campaign assets from a single prompt, then analyze performance to optimize and scale across platforms and markets. Built to be the most capable autonomous agent for real-world work.
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Build AI to Replace Repetitive Job Tasks and Unlock Potential
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You should build the AI that replaces parts of your job.
— Bernard Marr (@BernardMarr) 26 juin 2026
It sounds provocative, but it’s a practical way to stop wasting human potential on repetitive work. AI can already take on tasks like qualifying leads, answering the same customer questions, moving data between systems,… pic.twitter.com/rVuuY5uFaxYou should build the AI that replaces parts of your job. It sounds provocative, but it’s a practical way to stop wasting human potential on repetitive work. AI can already take on tasks like qualifying leads, answering the same customer questions, moving data between systems,
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CoffeeBench: Cooperation and Competition among LLM Agents
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In CoffeeBench, 6 agents interact via emails or transactions, each company aiming to maximize its profits. When the company where LLM agents manage operations arrives, how will cooperation, competition, and sometimes the
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How AI Could Blow Up Corporate Hierarchies
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How AI Could Blow Up Corporate Hierarchies #AI is set to reshape #workplace hierarchies by giving individuals the power to do work that once required entire #teams. As AI literacy becomes a source of influence, #businesses will need to rethink status, #management, #promotion and
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Gary Marcus warns hyperscaling is a financial blunder for AI
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“Scale cannot solve AI’s fundamental problem with accuracy” If my argument @financialtimes
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Gary Marcus: AI scaling is capital misallocation, but early days
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“Gary Marcus … says that investments into scaling AI is the “greatest capital misallocation in history” which leaves everyone “on the hook”. However, he also says that it is still early days for the AI industry and further exploration into different model architectures and the
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@garymarcus — 2026-06-26
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“If there is a deflation of the AI bubble, the optimists say that the new infrastructure will remain even if the companies do not — just as railways survived the 19th-century railway bust. However, this fails to reckon with the reality of depreciation (few pieces of silicon hold