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Anthropic valuation ↑ Chinese emissions ↓ Chatbot manipulation ↑

Azeem Azhar
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Hannah Petrovic
Sep 08, 2025
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Hi all,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week – 10 stats, in less than 250 words.

Let’s go!


  1. Payroll growth ↓ TS Lombard analysts warn that US payroll growth is stalling. Payroll declines have historically coincided with recessions.

  2. A landmark AI copyright win1 ↑ Anthropic’s valuation has tripled since March, reaching $183 billion, with ~10% of the Series F raise to be paid to authors whose work was used to train their AI models.

  3. Self-preference ↑ Job applicants using the same AI tool to write their CV as the AI system reviewing applications are 23-60% more likely to get shortlisted.

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