Europe’s AI Agent Race: France vs. the UK and Your Business Playbook
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Setting the Stage
AI agents, systems that autonomously perform tasks and make decisions, are moving fast from experimentation to production. Over 85% of Fortune 500 companies now use AI in some form, and about 70% have deployed employee “copilots.”
Gartner forecasts that by the end of 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents (up from <5% today). The implication is simple: organisations that delay an AI agent strategy risk losing productivity and competitiveness.
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