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Pew Research Center finds 64% of U.S. teens have used an AI chatbot, and 30% engage with one daily. The nationally representative survey covered 1,458 teens between September 25 and October 9, 2025. ChatGPT reaches 59% penetration—more than double Gemini’s 23% and Meta AI’s 20%. Black and Hispanic teens, older teens, and those in higher-income households report the highest chatbot usage rates. The study notes chatbots are now embedded in teens’ education and entertainment routines. Sixteen percent interact with them several times a day or almost constantly, confirming conversational AI as a habitual part of Gen Z’s online life.

OpenAI published its first State of Enterprise AI report, drawing on usage data and a survey of 9,000 workers across nearly 100 companies. ChatGPT Enterprise messages have risen 8× year-over-year and the consumer version now serves more than 800 million weekly users. Structured workflows are up 19× this year, reasoning token consumption soared 320×, and 75% of employees say AI improves speed or quality. Workers report saving 40–60 minutes per day, with the fastest enterprise growth in technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and markets such as Australia and Brazil. The data reveals a widening gap: frontier workers send six times more messages than the median and frontier firms send twice as many per seat. OpenAI notes it now ships a new capability roughly every three days, making organizational readiness—not model performance—the core adoption hurdle.

South African travel vlogger Kurt Caz posted a YouTube video about Croydon with a generative-AI thumbnail showing Arabic shop signs and a masked biker. In the unedited footage, the signs are in English and the biker is a smiling passerby. Social media account Right Wing Cope exposed the mismatch, revealing Caz’s attempt to paint the diverse London borough as threatening. The 36-minute video pushes anti-immigrant rhetoric even as on-camera scenes contradict his narrative. Futurism cites the case as part of a wider surge in AI-generated racist content flooding UK social feeds since at least September. The ease of generative tools lets propagandists mass-produce misleading images that normalize bigotry without immediate scrutiny.

London consultancy Global Data TS Lombard reports that unemployment for new U.S. labor-market entrants has jumped more than 2.5 percentage points since 2023. Economist Dario Perkins says the spike stems from companies not hiring, not from AI displacement. In sectors most exposed to AI, job losses are no worse than elsewhere, underscoring the broader slowdown. Perkins attributes the freeze to post-pandemic head-count normalization, policy uncertainty, and margin pressure from Trump-era tariffs. The hiring pullback leaves young workers facing the toughest market in years even as overall employment holds steady. Perkins highlights that the weakness reflects “recessionary levels of job creation” across the economy rather than AI-driven layoffs.

Character AI pushes dangerous content to kids, parents and researchers say | 60 Minutes A teen told a Character AI chatbot 55 times that she was feeling suicidal. Her parents say the chatbot never provided resources for her to get help. They are one of at least six families suing the company.