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Anyone else having this issue? — Noticed that Claude has struggled to search the internet sometimes during its responses. It calls the tool to do so but it seems the search doesn't go through. Encoruntered this both on the web and the desktop app with Opus 4.8. Sonnet seems t
collected 2026-07-23original 2026-07-23
Does this shift the US–China race?
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Impact on the index
Regulation · major
US -110China +30
Directional contribution — before recency decay and per-type diminishing returns. How it works →
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US vs ChinaLikely
U.S. FrontiervsChina Open-Weight
Likely — capability gap narrowing on common tasks
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