AI & Gen AI news in the UK

An overview of news, trends and research in AI & Gen AI consulting in the UK:

Half of UK firms fear staff are feeding company secrets to AI Half of UK firms fear staff are feeding company secrets to AI, according to a startling new study.
09 September 2026
The AI race will be won by strong leadership Technology is evolving faster than most organisations can adapt.
07 September 2026
What it takes to make outcome-based pricing work in consulting The traditional billable hour the consulting industry has relied upon for so long, increasingly seems out of step with the services provided by firms leveraging AI tools.
27 August 2026
Government hands KPMG and EY huge contract for AI training of civil servants During the 2024 election, the Labour Party made the reduction of government consulting spending one of its key pledges.
27 August 2026
Gap in leader and practitioner perception of AI results leads to trust issues Seven-in-10 executive leaders judge their AI deployments successful, but only half of practitioners actually working with those tools agree.
25 August 2026
How Inizio Ignite helps clients navigate uncertainty in the life sciences sector With more than 10,500 experts in over 50 countries, Inizio brings together scientific, medical, commercial, analytics and technology capabilities.
21 August 2026
Five hard AI questions most boards are ignoring AI transformation is a human capital discipline.
20 August 2026
Sales and marketing misalignment preventing UK firms from hitting growth targets Fewer than one-in-ten B2B leaders are highly confident in hitting their growth targets, while less than a third say their sales and marketing is fully unified.
19 August 2026
Why financial services AI pilots are still stalling, three years into the hype The gap between AI investment and AI returns in financial services has become almost uncomfortable to acknowledge.
19 August 2026
How to move AI plans from paper to practice On paper, AI strategy looks straightforward: set a vision, define governance, invest in the right foundations, prioritise use cases and launch pilots to unlock value.
18 August 2026
AI bubble talk will ‘not stop the underlying shift in how work gets done’ Earlier in the summer, Telegraph columnist Russ Mould made waves, when he compared the current state of investments in the AI market, to the conditions which resulted in the Great Depression.
18 August 2026
Ravical enhances AI platform evolution for accountancy firm trust As Ravical continues to expand its offering across the professional services sector, it has introduced a series of product developments designed to help accountancy firms use AI with greater confiden
14 August 2026
Technology and consulting firm Naviq launches for the travel sector Naviq Technology is launching as an ‘AI-first company’, built specifically for the global travel industry.
13 August 2026
The Big Four have now all been caught passing off generative content as ‘thought leadership’ The consulting industry’s four biggest players have long used whitepapers and surveys as a means to drum up business – indicating expertise on key specialisms and topical issues their clients are res
12 August 2026
The hidden design flaw in enterprise AI The majority of C-suite executives say adopting AI is tearing their company apart, while eight-in-ten organisations are struggling with adoption despite record investment.
11 August 2026
Too many business leaders are asking the wrong questions of AI Businesses still struggling to demonstrate meaningful business value are approaching a “cliff edge”, according to Lindsay Ratcliffe, chief innovation and transformation officer at CreateFuture.
11 August 2026
AI credentials increase in M&A popularity as companies look to strengthen ‘defensibility’ The proliferation of AI is leading to businesses re-evaluating how they futureproof their operations.
07 August 2026
London the world’s ‘most intelligent city’ according to BCG AI benchmark BCG’s inaugural Intelligent Cities Index shows London tops a list of the world’s 61 largest cities, when it comes to deploying AI in support of their citizens.
06 August 2026
Mozaic announces partnership with BigPanda As it looks to help clients obtain AI-powered operational intelligence for their service management, Mozaic has announced a new partnership with BigPanda.
06 August 2026
Data centres must factor noise pollution backlash into construction plans As demand for artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital storage continues to accelerate, demand for data centres is rising.
04 August 2026
Data centre construction driving costs up in UK construction market Data centre construction is constraining the supply of labour in the UK construction market – leading to significant cost growth across the country.
03 August 2026
Employees need time to experiment, if AI implementations are to succeed Companies struggling to make the most of AI tools might have neglected the human side of business for too long, according to a new report.
30 July 2026
Big Four business models face moment of reckoning with rise of AI In the wake of a number of scandals in which Big Four consultants have been found to lean heavily on artificial intelligence for reports and advice, some clients have started to wonder if they might
30 July 2026
Klarus suggests pilots have helped mid-market identify key to AI implementation Nine-in-ten mid-market companies are now confident in their internal expertise across all areas of AI deployment, following extensive experimentation.
29 July 2026
Nine-in-ten UK businesses regularly use AI in work, leading adoption Businesses are finally making progress with their artificial intelligence implementation efforts – as more than three-quarters now say the technology is regularly used across their business.
28 July 2026
CFOs more optimistic about AI’s impact on business performance Deloitte’s latest survey of chief financial officers in the UK suggests they are becoming more optimistic about AI’s impact on business.
28 July 2026
Insurance sector must include every layer of organisation to succeed with AI changes As organisations of all kinds look to adopt AI tools in their operations, a new study has explored how CEOs and senior executives are approaching AI adoption in the insurance sector.
27 July 2026
OpenAI promotes Sia to Advanced Partner in its OpenAI Partner Network OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and a suite of enterprise AI solutions, has named Sia an Advanced Partner within its OpenAI Partner Network.
24 July 2026
Max Pardo-Roques launches Lean AI consultancy Boxtree As UK businesses pour money into AI licences without seeing returns, former Develop Consulting commercial director Max Pardo-Roques has launched a new firm applying Lean methodology to the problem.
22 July 2026
UK struggling to keep pace with demand for specialist AI agent talent A new report from Malt claims that demand for expertise running AI Agents has increased rapidly in the last year
20 July 2026
Unit4 gives mid-market businesses free access to AI capabilities Unit4 is launching its 'AI for your World' initiative, which will give new and existing customers access to its AI capabilities with no contractual commitment until the end of August 2027.
17 July 2026
CEOs stung by surprise costs begin scaling back AI initiatives A new study of corporate leaders has found that 42% regard the costs of operating AI as ‘largely invisible’.
15 July 2026

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