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Travel planning in Hawaii, scientific research in Massachusetts, and building web applications in India. On the face of it, these three activities share very little in common. But it turns out that they’re the particular uses of Claude that are some of the most overrepresented in each of these places. That doesn’t mean these are the most popular tasks: software engineering is still by far in the lead in almost every state and country in the world. Instead, it means that people in Massachusetts have been more likely to ask Claude for help with scientific research than people elsewhere – or, for instance, that Claude users in Brazil appear to be particularly enthusiastic about languages: they use Claude for translation and language-learning about six times more than the global average. These are statistics we found in our third Anthropic Economic Index report. In this latest installment, we’ve expanded our efforts to document the early patterns of AI adoption that are beginning to reshap

Economic Research Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI’s role in the US and global economy Sep 15, 2025 Explore our data Travel planning in Hawaii, scientific research in Massachusetts, and building web applications in India. On the face of it, these three activities share very little in common. But it turns out that they’re the particular uses of Claude that are some of the most overrepresented in each of these places. That doesn’t mean these are the most popular tasks: software engineering is still by far in the lead in almost every state and country in the world. Instead, it means that peo

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