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AI can suggest. Makers still decide.

Artificial intelligence is moving into British business, but not in quite the way the loudest headlines suggest. The Office for National Statistics reported in July that 35% of UK businesses with ten or more employees were using some form of AI in June 2026, up from about 12% in late 2023. Yet its analysis also described adoption as relatively shallow. Businesses were using more AI, but most adopters were still using only a small number of AI technologies.