Anthropic Finds that AI is Radically Changing the Nature of Work for Its Software Developers

Anthropic found that the use of AI is radically changing the nature of work for software developers inside the company, while it is handling increasingly complex tasks more autonomously. Key findings from a survey of 132 engineers and researchers at Anthropic indicate that Claude Code is most often used to fix code errors and learn about the codebase. Productivity gain was a 50% productivity boost, a 2-3x increase from this time last year. In addition, 27% of Claude-assisted work consists of tasks that wouldn't have been done otherwise, such as scaling projects, making nice-to-have tools (e.g., interactive data dashboards), and exploratory work that wouldn't be cost-effective if done manually. Claude fixes a lot of “papercuts”. 8.6% of Claude Code tasks involve fixing minor issues, such as refactoring code for maintainability. These minor fixes could add up to larger productivity and efficiency gains. Another conclusion is that most employees use Claude frequently, yet report they can “fully delegate” 0-20% of their work to it. Claude is a constant collaborator, but using it generally involves active supervision and validation, especially in high-stakes work, rather than handing off tasks that require no verification at all.

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China Prioritizes an Economy Based on AI and Robot-Driven Factories

AI and robots are already remaking the Chinese economy, trying to limit the need for human intervention. The goal of the Communist Party leaders continues to be to maintain its dominance as the world's factory floor to sustain its exports, overcoming today's challenge of rising costs at home and tariffs abroad. AI offers a lifeline to head off those risks by helping China make and ship more stuff faster, cheaper, and with fewer workers, The Wall Street Journal reports. And China wants to deploy what is available today quicker than the U.S. can, locking in any advantages. However, U.S. companies, such as Amazon.com and Walmart, are prioritizing automation in similar ways to Chinese firms. According to the International Federation of Robotics, China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined. The number of operational robots surpassed two million in 2024, the most of any country. One risk is that AI could destroy more factory jobs than China expects, leaving it with too many unemployed workers. However, Chinese leaders are betting that the country’s shrinking population, projected to fall by 200 million over the next three decades, will offset job cuts in factories, boosting productivity without raising unemployment. Today, China’s average factory wages are far higher than in countries such as India.

A Two-Track Economy: Only Infrastructure and Chips Are Booming

Data centers the size of theme parks are sprouting around the country, and developers and chipmakers are raking in hundreds of billions of dollars in investments. The US economy in 2025 is split into two: Everything tied to artificial intelligence is booming. Just about everything else is not, an analysis in The New York Times says. Investments in computer equipment and software accounted for more than 90 percent of growth in gross domestic product in the first half of the year, with the AI gold rush explaining the economy’s surprising resilience this year. U.S. companies spent more than $60 billion on computer equipment in the second quarter, up 45 percent from a year earlier. They spent another $10 billion on data center construction, up 35% from the previous year. Artificial intelligence probably accounts for most of that growth, economists and industry experts say. “Unemployment has risen, hiring has slowed, and industries including manufacturing and home building are cutting jobs. Consumer sentiment has slumped amid high prices. The public sector has been weighed down by budget cuts and federal layoffs. Tariffs, and the uncertainty surrounding them, have been a drag on international trade and led to slower investment by many companies.” In the stock market, seven companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, now account for well over a third of the S&P 500 index's value. Just one of the so-called Magnificent Seven, Nvidia, which makes the chips that power many of the most advanced large language models, recently, though briefly, topped $5 trillion in market value. Such valuations are predicated on assumptions that recent rapid growth will continue for years.

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OpenAI Unveils Group Chats to Bring People Into the Same Conversation

OpenAI is rolling out the group chats feature globally, allowing people to collaborate with ChatGPT in a single shared conversation. Up to 20 people can participate in a group chat. The company's goal is to make ChatGPT more social by turning it into a shared space for collaboration and interaction with others. Friends, family members, and co-workers can share space to plan, make decisions, or work through ideas and content together. Group chats are separate from private conversations, and users’ personal ChatGPT memory is not shared. To start a group chat, the user taps the people icon in the top right corner of any new or existing chat. When adding someone to an existing chat, ChatGPT creates a copy of the conversation as a new group chat, keeping the original conversation separate. Users can invite others by sharing a link with one to twenty people, and anyone in the group can share that link to bring others in. Responses are powered by GPT‑5.1 Auto. ChatGPT follows the flow of the conversation and decides when to respond and when to stay quiet based on the context of the group conversation. Search, image, and file upload, image generation, and dictation are enabled. In September, OpenAI launched a social app called Sora, where users can generate videos of themselves and their friends to share on a TikTok-style algorithmic feed. • OpenAI's Help Center⁠

Genespark, a Startup that Offers AI Workplace Agents, Reaches a Unicorn Valuation

AI startup Genspark closed a $275 million Series B round, bringing its valuation to the unicorn territory with $1.25 billion. This round was backed by Emergence Capital Partners, SBI Investment, LG Technology Ventures, UpHonest Capital, and Pavilion Capital, a subsidiary of Singapore’s state-owned investor Temasek. Palo Alto-based Genspark.ai offers a suite of AI workplace agents to automate everyday tasks, from creating slide decks to researching meeting attendees to recording meeting notes from an Apple Watch. Its single, integrated platform has attracted users over the complexity of other productivity tools, reaching $50 million in annualized revenue. The startup’s founder, Eric Jing, is a Microsoft veteran who built an early voice assistant valued at over $5 billion, according to his LinkedIn profile. The CEO and cofounder, Wen Sang, is an MIT PhD who founded and sold Smarking, an enterprise software company backed by Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

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