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An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US states, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of enterprise use is for automation, and more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report

Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
To study such patterns of early AI adoption, we extend the Anthropic Economic Index along two important dimensions, introducing a geographic analysis of Claude.ai conversations and a first-of-its-kind examination of enterprise API use. We show how Claude usage has evolved over time, how adoption patterns differ across regions, and—for the first time—how firms are deploying frontier AI to solve business problems.

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/forester-…

Forester de Rothschild Said to Explore Sale of Stake in The Economist Group
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a significant minority stake in The Economist Group, marking the first ownership shake-up in a decade at the 182-year-old magazine read by both the political and business elite.

WeTransfer heeft haar voorwaarden veranderd....
"Je verleent ons hierbij een eeuwigdurend, wereldwijd, niet-exclusief, royaltyvrij, overdraagbaar en in sublicentie te geven recht om jouw inhoud te gebruiken voor de doeleinden van het exploiteren, ontwikkelen, commercialiseren en verbeteren van de dienst of nieuwe technologieën of diensten, waaronder het verbeteren van de prestaties van machine learning-modellen die ons proces voor inhoudsmoderatie versterken"

WeTransfer is binnenkort eigenaar van jouw bestanden en wil er geld aan gaan verdienen
Economieblog: Welkom in dit liveblog! De economieredactie van NRC houdt je hier de hele week op de hoogte van het belangrijkste economische en financiële nieuws.

Today's main news on nu.nl: how Dutch holiday makers can save €20 by refueling their car in the country with the lowest gasoline price... https://www.nu.nl/economie/6362496/omrijden-voor-een-tankbeurt-op-vakantie-loont-dit-jaa…

Omrijden voor een tankbeurt op vakantie loont dit jaar nog meer
Veel Nederlanders kunnen op vakantie goedkoop tanken in buurlanden. Wie slim omrijdt, kan tientallen euro's besparen. Door de snel gestegen olieprijzen levert het dit jaar zelfs iets meer op.

Virtual Agent Economies
Nenad Tomasev, Matija Franklin, Joel Z. Leibo, Julian Jacobs, William A. Cunningham, Iason Gabriel, Simon Osindero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10147 https…

Virtual Agent Economies
The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is giving rise to a new economic layer where agents transact and coordinate at scales and speeds beyond direct human oversight. We propose the "sandbox economy" as a framework for analyzing this emergent system, characterizing it along two key dimensions: its origins (emergent vs. intentional) and its degree of separateness from the established human economy (permeable vs. impermeable). Our current trajectory points toward a spontaneous emergence of a …

E-Bike-Startup Cowboy ist gerettet
Nach langer Funkstille hat sich das belgische E-Bike-Startup Cowboy zur eigenen Situation geäußert. Dank eines neuen Investors geht der Betrieb weiter.
https://www.heise.d…

The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/14/the-real-collusion-between-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p45#a250815p45

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/notebooklm-ad…

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others | TechCrunch
Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/notebooklm-ad…

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others | TechCrunch
Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.