Artificial Intelligence & Gen Artificial Intelligence news in the UK

A curated overview of recent Artificial Intelligence and Gen Artificial Intelligence consulting coverage in the United Kingdom, aggregating partnerships, investments, surveys and sector analysis.

This section on Consultancy.uk aggregates coverage of Artificial Intelligence and Gen Artificial Intelligence in the United Kingdom, presenting headlines, research and commentary from late 2025. The page lists a broad range of items across the practice area, with the service filter showing there are 308 articles tagged under AI & Gen AI. Entries span the market’s major themes: technology partnerships and specialisations, new firm launches, merger and acquisition activity, investor backing and empirical studies into adoption and impact.

Recent headlines cited on the page illustrate the breadth of activity. They include Publicis Sapient obtaining an Amazon Web Services Agentic Artificial Intelligence Specialisation, Palantir naming PwC as a preferred partner for its Artificial Intelligence technologies in the UK market, and Capco forming a partnership with fintech Yarowa for Artificial Intelligence-based insurance solutions. Corporate moves feature as well: Optima Partners announced fresh backing from Growth Capital Partners and Broadgate Consultants and Ortecha completed a merger to create a 200-strong advisory. New consultancies such as Valliance have launched with result-based fee models to address what they describe as an expectations gap in Artificial Intelligence delivery.

Research and survey items on the page highlight adoption challenges and the business case for Artificial Intelligence. A study found under one-quarter of organisations are turning Artificial Intelligence insights into business action, while a survey of more than 1,000 decision makers reported technology and Artificial Intelligence are now related to almost half of resilience-related investment. Other findings include that Half of businesses are using Artificial Intelligence to boost resilience and that Artificial Intelligence companies have driven a 44% spike in the valuation of the world’s leading 100 unicorns. Commentary pieces stress talent shortages, security concerns and the need to invest in human capability as the technology moves from hype toward measurable returns.

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Seedance video models launch on Atlas Cloud with tiered pricing

Atlas Cloud has added ByteDance’s Seedance video generation family to its model platform, offering Lite and Pro text-to-video and image-to-video options across 480p, 720p, and 1080p resolutions with transparent per‑second pricing. The integration targets production use cases with low latency, unified APIs, and enterprise‑grade reliability and compliance.

European Parliament sets packed Strasbourg agenda on defence, energy, rights and disinformation

The European Parliament’s week in Strasbourg from 15 – 21 December 2025 is dominated by debates and votes on defence readiness, energy security, human rights, digitalisation and disinformation, alongside the Sakharov Prize ceremony. President Roberta Metsola’s agenda includes high-level meetings, plenary openings and participation in the European Council and EU-Western Balkans summit.

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