🤖 Who’s REALLY Driving AI Adoption?

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 📊Who’s REALLY Driving AI Adoption?

• 🧠AI Translates Neural Signals Into Action

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI RESEARCH

📊Who’s REALLY Driving AI Adoption?

Menlo Ventures recently published “2025: The State of Consumer AI.” We summarized the top 10 most actionable insights for you.

Key Details:

1. 61% of U.S. adults have used AI in the past six months. 19% of U.S. adults interact with AI daily.

2. Scaled globally, that translates to roughly 1.8 billion people who’ve tried AI, with approximately 600 million people using it daily.

3. Only 3% of people pay for AI tools, representing one of the largest and fastest-emerging monetization gaps in recent consumer tech history.

4. 24% of Millennials (i.e., ages 29-44) leverage AI tools every single day, more than any other generation.

5. 45% of Baby Boomers (i.e., ages 61-79) have used AI tools in the past six months.

6. 85% of Students (i.e., ages 18 and older) report using AI tools, the highest rate of any group.

7. 75% of employed adults use AI tools, compared to 52% of unemployed adults.

8. 74% of households earning over $100,000 annually use AI tools, compared to 53% of households earning under $50,000 annually.

9. 29% of parents report using AI every day, compared to 15% of non-parents. That’s nearly twice the usage rate (i.e., 1.9x).

10. 28% of U.S. adults report using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with the conversational chatbot hosting roughly 122.58 million daily active users.

Why It’s Important:

• The classic “younger = higher usage” pattern doesn’t hold true for AI. In other words, AI isn’t just a young person’s game.

• We’re still in the “free trial” phase, with AI firms offering steep discounts to entice you to try their services. Whichever AI firm can successfully convert casual users into paying customers will capture the next wave of consumer AI revenue.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

NEURALINK

🧠AI Translates Neural Signals Into Action

Neuralink, which specializes in building a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) to translate thoughts into actions, successfully installed a seventh N1 Implant.

Key Details:

• Designed as a coin-sized device, the N1 Implant rests beneath the skull. It contains flexible threads that insert into specific brain regions.

• It interprets a patient’s neural activity: the raw signals that carry information about everything we see, feel, touch, or think. So, how does the N1 Implant interpret these raw signals?

• Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are trained to recognize patterns in the tiny electrical spikes that occur when our brain cells communicate.

• Once these patterns are identified, the ML algorithms translate them into meaningful commands, like moving a cursor or controlling a robotic arm.

• Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old who suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a swimming accident that left him paralyzed below the shoulders, recently discussed how his N1 Implant works.

Why It’s Important:

• Neuralink’s next project, called “Blindsight,” aims to restore vision in blind patients by early 2026.

• The N1 Implant offers patients with severe physical disabilities the ability to regain digital autonomy. Over 90% of BCI patients report improved quality of life due to restored communication abilities.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Google Labs launched “Doppl,” which enables you to try on any look and explore your style.

Meta reportedly poached a couple of influential AI researchers from OpenAI by offering $100 million signing bonuses.

HeyGen introduced “HeyGen Video Agent,” which turns scripts into talking videos with customizable AI avatars in minutes.

Black Forest Labs released “FLUX.1 Kontext [dev],” an image editing model that simultaneously supports text inputs and image inputs.

Anthropic unveiled the “Anthropic Economic Futures Program” to help society understand, navigate, and adapt to AI’s economic transformation.

Runway announced “Game Worlds,” which allows anyone to generate functioning video games using brief text descriptions and static images.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Gensmo closed a $60M Seed Round to develop a personal Fashion AI Agent.

• DataBahn.ai secured a $17M Series A for an AI-Powered Data Pipeline Management Platform.

• Klutch AI raised an $8M Seed Round to bring intelligent AI Agents to Construction Teams.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• DataVisor (Mountain View, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

• Sauron (San Francisco, CA): Business Operations Analyst, Entry-Level

• Retool (San Francisco, CA): Deployed AI Engineer, Mid-Level

• OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): B2B Growth, Conversion, Senior-Level

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