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The percentage of U.S. employees who reported using AI at work at least a few times a year increased from 40% to 45% between the second and third quarters of 2025. Frequent use (a few times a week or more) grew from 19% to 23%, while daily use moved less, ticking up from 8% to 10% during the same period.

Workslop may feel effortless to create but exacts a toll on the organization. What a sender perceives as a loophole becomes a hole the recipient needs to dig out of. Leaders will do best to model thoughtful AI use that has purpose and intention. Set clear guardrails for your teams around norms and acceptable use. Frame AI as a collaborative tool, not a shortcut. Embody a pilot mindset, with high agency and optimism, using AI to accelerate specific outcomes with specific usage. And uphold the same standards of excellence for work done by bionic human-AI duos as by humans alone.

Store of the Future   //   September 24, 2025ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart’s referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents By Allison Smith LinkedIn Facebook X ChatGPT has emerged as a top driver of referral traffic to retailers’ websites, giving companies like Walmart, Target, Etsy and eBay a fresh source of online shoppers, while Amazon has chosen to sit out. Data from Similarweb, a web traffic analytics company, shows that one in five of Walmart’s referral clicks in August came from ChatGPT, up 15% from July. Other retailers are seeing a lift, too: ChatGPT now drives more than 20% of referral traffic to Etsy, nearly 15% to Target and 10% to eBay.

Companies that succeed with AI are using it to free up employees to do higher-value work, not to replace them outright.

MIT researchers studied 300 public AI initiatives to try and suss out the "no hype reality" of AI's impact on business