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People around the world used AI in innovative ways in health care, work, and agriculture in 2025. In China, young people are using an AI chatbot to discuss their mental health, while in Singapore, a humanoid robot leads morning exercise sessions at a senior care facility and in South Korea, AI companionship robots are given to seniors living alone. In a remote Brazilian town, the sole pharmacist at a free government clinic serving 22,000 people uses an AI assistant to manage prescriptions. Brazil’s judicial system has over 140 AI projects to cope with more than 70 million pending lawsuits, while researchers in Paraguay hope to change how we see criminals through Eva, a chatbot that lets people interact with a woman in prison for drug trafficking. In Indonesia, generative AI is cutting the costs of film production, and in Mongolia, Egune AI is developing LLM models that specialize in the country’s language, culture, and nomadic traditions. In Kenya, a teacher shortage has pushed some educators to use chatbots, and in Malawi, farmers are getting instant farming advice in their own language from an AI chatbot.