225 | Agents are trained in “AI gyms” so they can take your job, How people are using ChatGPT and Claude, Why LLMs hallucinate, and more important Ai news for the week ending September 19, 2025
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Sep 20, 2025
Discover how 700 million people use ChatGPT weekly, with a surprising 73% not using it for work. Explore the silent automation revolution powered by Claude, where 77% of tasks are fully automated. Learn about AI training gyms developing workforce-ready agents and the global divide in AI adoption, with Israel and Singapore at the forefront. Delve into OpenAI's unsettling findings on AI hallucinations and the complexities of AI agents, including Salesforce and Microsoft’s struggles to implement them effectively.
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ChatGPT Is Mostly Personal; Claude Is Mostly Automation
OpenAI reports 700M weekly users with 73% of messages non-work related, showing ChatGPT has become a general consumer utility.
Anthropic's Claude API is used 77% for automation, signaling a split between personal and automation-focused platforms.
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Coding Dominates Claude Usage
Claude's usage is heavily coding-driven: 36% of tasks are coding and full-stack delegation rose to 39% by August 2025.
This trend implies models that excel at specific automation will displace more human work as they improve.
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AI Adoption Is Deeply Uneven Globally
AI adoption is uneven: Israel and Singapore far outpace global averages while India and Nigeria lag significantly.
This divergence suggests AI could widen existing economic and technological inequalities, not close them.
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Is AI really ready to revolutionize the workplace—or are we all just beta testers with fancy job titles?
In this episode of The Leveraging AI Podcast, Isar Meitis dives into the latest reports, product launches, and behind-the-scenes drama shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From jaw-dropping usage stats from OpenAI and Anthropic, to Microsoft’s digital agents with KPIs, to the billion-dollar race to build gym-trained AI employees—this is the stuff the headlines aren’t telling you.
In this session, you’ll discover: - How 700M people are using ChatGPT every week (and why 73% of it isn't even for work) - Why Claude is powering a silent automation revolution (77% of its tasks are full-blown process automation) - Why most employees are *still* barely scratching the surface of AI at work - The alarming global divide in AI adoption (Spoiler: Israel and Singapore are leading by miles) - OpenAI’s shocking take on hallucinations—and why your AI might be confidently wrong, often - Why Salesforce’s AI agent rollout is a cautionary tale in overhype and underdelivery - Microsoft + Workday’s plan to treat AI agents like actual employees (KPIs and all) - Meta’s AR glasses and the “Zoom avatar” future that’s either cool or creepy * 🛒 Why OpenAI wants ChatGPT to start shopping for you (and why that’s a data privacy nightmare) - The billion-dollar training gyms building AI agents to take over real-world business tasks - The inevitable tension between faster, cheaper, and... accurate AI - What business leaders need to *urgently* understand about reinforcement learning and economic displacement
📘 Anthropic: Claude Usage & AI in the Economy 🔗 Anthropic Economic Index – September 2025 - https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report
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