Glean’s Work AI Index found 87% of digital workers already use AI and bank about 11 hours a week — net ahead even after 6.4 hours of botsitting, briefing agents and checking their output. The 69% who confess to shipping unverified work mark the frontier where trust now outruns oversight.
Anthropic sent senior staff to Washington to unwind the export dispute. One observer recalled the 1999 precedent: the DoD blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing one gigaflop, and Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.