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Mertens, Kuzee, Harris, Lyu, Li, Rosenfeld, Anto, Fleming, Thompson. 'Crashing Waves vs Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks.' MIT FutureTech, April 2026. arxiv.org/html/2604.01363v1
80 percent of Anthropic’s merged code written by Claude; engineers shipping roughly 8x more code per quarter, comparing 2021 to 2025.
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Favaro, Marina, and Jack Clark. 'When AI Builds Itself.' Anthropic Institute, 4 June 2026. www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement. (80 percent of Anthropic's merged code written by Claude; engineers shipping roughly 8x more code per quarter, comparing 2021 to 2025.
US data centre direct water consumption estimated at 17.5 billion gallons in 2023, approximately 0.3 percent of total US public water supply. Water Footprint Network, Mekonnen and Hoekstra, for embodied water comparisons. Environmental disclosure.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, via IEEE Spectrum, September 2025. (US data centre direct water consumption estimated at 17.5 billion gallons in 2023, approximately 0.3 percent of total US public water supply. Water Footprint Network, Mekonnen and Hoekstra, for embodied water comparisons. Environmental disclosure.)
Agriculture over 80 percent of consumptive water use; environment paragraph.
USDA Economic Research Service. 'Agriculture Dominates Freshwater Use in the U.S.' January 2006. (Agriculture over 80 percent of consumptive water use; environment paragraph.)