Anthropic Targets Main Street, Owners Start Cutting Workers for AI, and the AI-Proof Jobs

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Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13 with 15 prebuilt agentic workflows and a 10-city free training tour that kicked off in Chicago on May 14. Time magazine's May 14 feature profiled the first small business owners actually cutting headcount and replacing them with AI tools running $50-$200 a month per seat. And the small business hiring season is pulling in the opposite direction — 974,000 grads getting hired into roles Fortune calls AI-proof. Three stories, five minutes, done.

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