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Earlier this week, I found myself with time to kill in an airport lounge ahead of my flight back to San Francisco from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

So I did what any bleary-eyed tech editor who felt totally wiped out from dozens of interviews and events would do: I parked myself in an oversize lounge chair, booted up the airport Wi-Fi and decided to see if Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s new AI productivity tool, could write a presentation I planned to give, summarizing the trip.

Specifically, I wanted to see how the AI would analyze transcripts from most of my conversations, pull out the key themes and put them in a slide deck for a presentation I intended to give Pro subscribers to The Information in the coming days.

I learned a ton of lessons.

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