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A UC Berkeley, Sao Paulo and Stanford study of 141 countries found that national Claude usage rises 12x for every 0.10-point increase in a country's AI exposure score, based on Anthropic's Economic Index data for February 2026 Claude usage rises 12x per +0.10 rise in national AI exposure
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