2023 – The launch of ChatGPT ignites a commercial boom in generative AI, driving rapid workplace adoption and setting the stage for the AI‑driven productivity surge documented in later surveys [1].

Apr 28, 2025 – Anthropic studies 500,000 coding chats and finds Claude Code automates 79% of conversations versus 49% on Claude.ai, signaling a shift toward autonomous code execution [6].

Fall 2025 – Gallup’s fall‑2025 Workforce survey of 22,368 U.S. workers shows 12% use AI daily, a quarter use it several times a week, and half use it at least a few times a year, with tech occupations leading at ~60% frequent use [1].

Fall 2025 – Home‑Depot associate Gene Walinski relies on an hourly AI assistant to answer product questions, saying his job would suffer without it [1].

Fall 2025 – Investment banker Andrea Tanzi and art teacher Joyce Hatzidakis cite daily AI tools for document synthesis and parent‑note drafting, reporting fewer complaints and higher efficiency [1].

Fall 2025 – Research fellow Sam Manning flags roughly 6.1 million U.S. workers—mostly administrative, 86% women, older, in smaller cities—who lack transferable skills and savings, making them vulnerable to AI‑driven automation [1].

Fall 2025 – Gallup finds only a minority of employees view AI as likely to eliminate their jobs within five years; half say it is “not at all likely,” a decline from about 60% in 2023 [1].

Nov 2025 – Anthropic’s Economic Index data shows Claude speeds up high‑school tasks 9× and college‑level tasks 12×, though success rates dip from 70% on simple tasks to 66% on complex ones [3].

Nov 2025 – Augmented AI interactions rise to 52% while fully automated interactions fall to 45%, reflecting new Claude features such as persistent memory and workflow “Skills” [4].

Dec 2, 2025 – Anthropic’s internal survey reports Claude handles 60% of engineers’ daily work, with self‑reported productivity climbing 50%; engineers feel “full‑stack,” tackling front‑end, database, and API tasks they previously avoided [5].

Dec 2, 2025 – Survey reveals 27% of Claude‑assisted tasks would not have been undertaken without AI, and 80‑90% of routine queries now go to Claude, raising concerns about reduced mentorship for junior staff [5].

Jan 15, 2026 – Anthropic releases its fourth Economic Index, adding five “economic primitives” (task complexity, skill level, purpose, AI autonomy, success) to sharpen analysis of AI’s labor impact [3].

Jan 15, 2026 – The Index shows higher‑skill tasks dominate Claude usage (average 14.4 years of education), with data‑entry clerks seeing high AI coverage and travel agents losing skilled tasks, suggesting deskilling in certain occupations [4].

Jan 15, 2026 – U.S. AI‑usage Gini coefficient drops from 0.37 to 0.32, indicating narrowing regional disparities; analysts project nationwide parity in AI adoption within 2‑5 years [4].

Jan 15, 2026 – Adjusted productivity estimates place AI‑driven gains at 1.0‑1.2 percentage points per year for the United States, enough to return labor productivity to late‑1990s levels [3].

Feb 3, 2026 – OpenAI launches the Codex mobile app, letting users manage multiple AI agents and generate code on smartphones, aiming to broaden access in the competitive AI coding market [2].

Feb 3, 2026 – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman remarks, “The models just don’t run out of dopamine… They keep trying, they don’t run out of motivation,” underscoring confidence in persistent model performance [2].

Feb 3, 2026 – Anthropic remains market leader in AI coding, reporting $1 billion annualized revenue from Claude Code within six months of release, highlighting the high commercial stakes of AI‑generated code [2].