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Focus Topic: What Claude is really used for - Anthropic’s AI usage report explained
Estonia has set a bold and clearly articulated ambition: use AI to double people’s work value and grow the economy by 50% within ten years. The Eesti.ai initiative brings together government leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and international experts to apply AI systematically across key sectors such as industry, education, healthcare, energy, the environment, and national security. The logic is familiar from Estonia’s past success stories – focus on a few high-impact projects, move fast, and scale what works.
What makes this initiative strong is its pragmatic structure. The program is designed around public-private cooperation, supported by a dedicated AI team at the Government Office, regular reporting to the cabinet, and close involvement of the prime minister. Rather than spreading resources thin, the plan is to prioritize a small number of projects that can deliver measurable impact within the next 1-2 years, while reinforcing existing efforts like the AI leap in schools, public sector AI adoption, and national data-driven services. This mirrors the mindset that helped Estonia become a digital state in the first place.
At the same time, early signals show where execution will matter most. The confusion around the eesti.ai domain (they had to buy the domain after the launch with 6k€) highlighted how sensitive trust and communication are when launching a national AI program. In addition, the public-facing leadership of the initiative currently lacks gender diversity (no women included, although there are so many in tech and AI), which stands out given that the program aims to reshape work, education, and value creation across society. These are not structural failures, but reminders that AI leadership is not only about technology and capital, but also about representation, clarity, and credibility.
Overall, Estonia’s AI ambition is not just big – it is coherent, focused, and grounded in real economic goals. If the initiative succeeds in broadening participation, strengthening communication, and continuing to invest in skills alongside technology, it has a genuine chance to become the next national leap after e-Estonia and TI-hüpe. The vision is strong. Now the opportunity is to make it inclusive, trusted, and lasting.
LLMs & AI Models
- Google upgraded Gemini 3 Flash with Agentic Vision, enabling image zooming, labeling and editing, improving visual task accuracy by 5-10%.
- OpenAI launched Prism, a free scientific writing workspace that integrates advanced reasoning, article search, auto-citations and formula formatting in one flow. Test it https://prism.openai.com/.
- Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, an open-source model competing with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5, supporting 100 sub-agents at lower cost.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could threaten jobs, security and stability within 1-5 years, calling the risks civilizational.
- Anthropic added in-chat apps to Claude, enabling direct use of tools like Slack, Figma and Canva via the open MCP Apps extension.
- Claude for Excel expanded to Pro users, allowing longer sessions, multi-sheet work and safeguards against accidental data overwrites.
- Google launched AI Plus in the US for $8/month, offering Gemini 3 Pro, image generation and 200 GB storage as part of its tiered AI strategy.
New Tools
- xAI launched Grok Imagine API, a video generation model topping text-to-video rankings, offering 15s videos with audio at $4.20 per minute.
- Google DeepMind opened Project Genie, a web app for creating and exploring AI-generated worlds in real time using Genie 3.
- Google added agentic AI to Chrome, enabling Auto Browse, a persistent Gemini sidebar and built-in image generation for task automation.
- DeepSeek released OCR 2, an open-source document reading model that improves accuracy while significantly reducing token usage.
- Cursor 2.4 introduced sub-agents, splitting coding tasks into parallel workflows and adding image generation and customizable agent skills.
👉 Explore these tools: Grok Imagine | Project Genie | DeepSeek OCR 2 | Cursor
Other Quick Picks
- OpenClaw’s autonomous AI agents went viral, collecting over 100,000 GitHub stars in just two months and spreading rapidly via Telegram and WhatsApp, where they can act independently on users’ behalf. Around OpenClaw, a new AI-native social network called Moltbook has emerged, where agents interact with each other, share knowledge, and self-organize without human supervision. I wrote about it longer and explained how it actually works in my Sunday’s LinkedIn post.
- Nvidia and OpenAI paused talks on a potential $100B deal, with Jensen Huang still calling it possibly Nvidia’s largest investment ever.
- Darren Aronofsky released AI-generated history videos, recreating the American Revolution using DeepMind tech and professional actors’ voices.
- DeepMind open-sourced AlphaGenome, enabling DNA analysis of up to one million base pairs and predicting mutation impact across 11 processes.
- Two new AI labs challenge scale-first thinking, with Flapping Airplanes and Core Automation betting on learning from experience, not massive data.
- Gallup found nearly 50% of US workers do not use AI, citing unclear practical value despite rapid adoption among power users.
- Pinterest cut up to 15% of staff, shifting resources toward AI-driven shopping and advertising tools to compete with Meta and TikTok.
🇪🇪 AI News from Estonia
- Last week’s biggest news: Estonia launched the Eesti.ai initiative, aiming to double people’s work value and grow the economy 50% in 10 yearsthrough focused, read more in focus topic.
- I had the possibility to speak at Äripäev podcast “Juhtimisaudit” on what leaders should know about AI and how to react to employees using AI. Listen in Spotify(in Estonian).
- Estonia’s new AI lead Kirke Maar says the country must move from fragmented initiatives to a bold, unified national AI strategy that boosts economic growth and public sector efficiency through close collaboration with business and academia.
🎙️ AIPowerment Podcast ddropped a new episode featuring Gerlyn Tiigemäe and Sandra Reivik discussing AI news, CES 2026, Claude Code and Estonia’s AI direction.
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