{"id":236408,"date":"2026-06-24T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/only-7-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:50:12","slug":"only-7-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/only-7-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 7% of EU Companies Considered \u2018Intensive\u2019 AI Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/only-7percent-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/\">Only 7% of EU Companies Considered \u2018Intensive\u2019 AI Users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/only-7percent-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/only-7percent-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 08:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The European Central Bank (ECB) research reveals that 70% of firms surveyed use artificial intelligence (AI), with most employing it infrequently or moderately.<\/li>\n<li>Only 7% of firms in the euro area are applying AI intensively, emphasizing that its deployment is not widespread.<\/li>\n<li>Companies planning to adopt AI in 2026 significantly outpace those not currently using it: nearly half of non-users intend to invest in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Intensive AI use is more common in smaller and younger firms, particularly within high-tech, knowledge-intensive services.<\/li>\n<li>Firms that intensively use AI have a higher degree of investment in the technology, dedicating nearly 20% of their annual investment to AI-related activities.<\/li>\n<li>While businesses are tailoring their AI integration methods\u2014such as hiring AI experts or reconfiguring workflows\u2014to suit their industry needs, a consensus is forming about AI reshaping job roles rather than eliminating them.<\/li>\n<li>AI is expected to lead to a workforce redeployment towards higher-value tasks, resulting in more specialized roles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 7% of EU Companies Considered \u2018Intensive\u2019 AI Users https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/only-7percent-of-eu-companies-considered-intensive-ai-users\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24 08:49:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/European-Central-Bank.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-236408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236410,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions\/236410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}