AI Magazine September 2026 Issue 49 | Page 16

AI adoption has soared. Just 2 % of European organisations in 2025 reported using AI throughout every key system in their enterprise;
European decision-makers( 57 %) agree that too many innovation initiatives stall at the pilot stage and never go live
( 54 %) of European decisionmakers say their organisations’ information and documents are too‘ messy or scattered’ to use AI reliably

STATISTICS

WRITTEN BY: ADAM POND
AI adoption has soared. Just 2 % of European organisations in 2025 reported using AI throughout every key system in their enterprise;

THAT FIGURE HAS RISEN TO 15 %

650 %

A

INCREASE

NEARLY

THREE IN FIVE

European decision-makers( 57 %) agree that too many innovation initiatives stall at the pilot stage and never go live

MORE THAN

HALF

( 54 %) of European decisionmakers say their organisations’ information and documents are too‘ messy or scattered’ to use AI reliably
16 September 2026