Anthropic weighs in on Australian productivity debate

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has ramped up its Australian charm offensive, offering to share internal data with the federal government and collaborate on boosting AI uptake to unlock productivity gains.

In the only submission from an AI platform to a parliamentary inquiry into productivity -- the San Francisco-based company behind Claude says AI is already delivering "large, measurable" time savings on economically significant tasks and could lift labour productivity by 1% to 1.8% a year over the next decade.