{"id":1007329,"date":"2026-05-08T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007329"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:13:54","slug":"ai-use-surges-globally-but-rich-poor-divide-widens-microsoft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/08\/ai-use-surges-globally-but-rich-poor-divide-widens-microsoft-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI use surges globally but rich-poor divide widens, Microsoft says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world&#8217;s working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft. <\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2026, 27.5 percent of people aged 15-64 in developed countries used a generative AI tool, compared with 15.4% in the developing world &#8211; a gap that widened by 1.5 percentage points from the second half of 2025, according to the report&#8217;s estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world&#8217;s working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft. In the first quarter of 2026, 27.5 percent of people aged 15-64 in developed countries used a generative AI tool, compared with 15.4% in the developing world &#8211; a gap that widened by 1.5 percentage points from the second half of 2025, according to the report&#8217;s estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007329\/revisions\/1007348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}