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This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say, and there’s no independent source to corroborate it.

AI summaries can be wrong sometimes—always verify important details using the source article.