AI Strategy stories

Merck deepens Google Cloud tie-up with USD $1 billion AI rollout across research, manufacturing and commercial operations.

SAS deepens UK AI investment with Glasgow research hub funding and free training access for workers, students and apprentices.

EcoVadis expands workplace AI rollout with Google Cloud, using Gemini Enterprise to automate internal tasks and train staff to build custom agents.

Tredence and Google Cloud unveil agentic AI accelerators to help enterprises shift from pilots to production across data, supply chains and customer service.

UK businesses are embracing AI assistants, but Slalom data shows only 31% have adopted multi-agent workflows, leaving staff to do more checking and prompting.

Survey finds UK data centre professionals fear outdated testing, skills gaps and poor monitoring could leave infrastructure unready for AI growth.

Quantium joins Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise push with a new AI practice aimed at moving enterprise agents from pilots into production.

Google Cloud study finds 52% of executives have deployed AI agents, with early adopters reporting stronger returns and wider business use.

Google is tailoring AI playbooks for 19 industries as enterprises shift from pilots to production, with faster rollouts and ROI now the focus.

Bull lands EUR €30 million Sweden AI factory deal to build cloud-style supercomputing for researchers, SMEs and public sector users.

Cognizant named inaugural OpenAI Codex partner as it embeds the coding tool across engineering work for clients and internal software delivery.

Datadog says firms are spreading AI workloads across several models as production failures climb, with capacity limits emerging as a key bottleneck.

Firms shift AI abroad as UK power bills, grid limits and land scarcity undermine efforts to keep high-demand workloads on home soil.

Scottish tech firms stay upbeat on 2026 despite softer confidence, as nearly all businesses now use AI and full adoption doubles to 18%.

Conductor unveils AgentStack to help enterprises track, shape and optimise brand visibility across AI search services and chatbots.

UK AI fund sparks debate over sovereignty, as vendors warn that homegrown models and infrastructure may lag behind US and Chinese rivals.

Berlin start-up Sparky Space rolls out AI workplace platform aimed at helping firms turn training, planning and AI tools into everyday execution.

UK tech staff want more practical AI training as daily use outpaces formal instruction, with cybersecurity and data privacy top of the list.

UK sovereign AI fund seeks to back startups, scale-ups and homegrown innovation as ministers aim to boost growth and strategic control.

UK grants Cosine 500,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI as the London startup pushes to build Britain's fully sovereign coding model.