What's this about?
Anthropic published the research agenda for its Economic Futures Research Fund, shipped a connector letting you query the Anthropic Economic Index (its dataset of how people actually use Claude at work) in plain conversation, and donated another $20M to Public First Action.
What exactly is the "Economic Index"?
Anthropic's ongoing measurement of which occupations and tasks show up in real Claude usage — one of the few empirical windows into AI's labor-market effect, as opposed to surveys and speculation. The connector turns that dataset into something you can interrogate directly in Claude.
Why is it worth noting?
Labs are building the instruments that will measure their own disruption; expect this data in policy debates.