Anthropic AI Updates: June 27, 2026

1. Anthropic Economic Index Report Maps the Daily and Weekly Rhythms of Claude Usage

Anthropic published a new Economic Index report titled “Cadences” that uses hourly-level sampling and artifact classification to study how Claude usage tracks real-world economic patterns. The report finds that personal conversations rise from roughly 35 percent on weekdays to nearly 50 percent on weekends, that work queries follow predictable daily cycles such as business emails peaking mid-morning, and that tax-related requests jumped eightfold around the April 15 U.S. filing deadline. It also reports that 93 percent of conversations produced identifiable artifacts and that tasks mapped to higher-wage occupations consumed about twice the tokens of lower-wage ones, offering a more granular picture of how AI is woven into economic activity. Source

2. Claude Code v2.1.195 Adds an Environment Variable to Disable Mouse Clicks in Fullscreen

Claude Code v2.1.195, tagged June 26, added a CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS environment variable that turns off mouse click, drag, and hover in fullscreen mode while preserving wheel scrolling. The toggle gives users on terminals where mouse capture interferes with text selection a way to opt out without losing scroll support. The remainder of the release consisted of bug fixes. Source