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The AI race isn’t for attention—it’s for dependence

July 16, 2026
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AI isn’t just competing for attention; it’s competing against its own cost structure. And here’s my take: Claude isn’t winning “the race,” because that race doesn’t exist as a single track. But it is winning something that may be more valuable: credibility among users who do real work with AI. My conclusion

AI isn’t just competing for attention; it’s competing against its own cost structure. And here’s my take: Claude isn’t winning “the race,” because that race doesn’t exist as a single track. But it is winning something that may be more valuable: credibility among users who do real work with AI. My conclusion is clear: Claude’s rise is bad news for smaller rivals, a warning for OpenAI, and a test for Google, but it is not Anthropic’s coronation. The important news isn’t that traffic is up 736% year over year. The important news is that artificial intelligence is beginning to be sorted by perceived usefulness, not just spectacle. And when the market starts asking, “What can this solve for me today?”, many inflated brands lose steam.

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