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- Report: Europe's AI gap is organisational, not technical, as US workplace use hits 43%
A Sifted report sponsored by London Business School argues that Europe lags the US in workplace AI adoption mainly because of an organisational gap — skills, management, trust and the cost of fitting AI into how firms work — rather than a technology gap. Citing a St. Louis Fed analysis, it says about 43% of US workers used AI for their jobs in early 2026 versus 32% in Europe, with US workers logging more than three times as many AI work hours as those in Germany, France and Italy; Eurostat data shows only 20% of EU firms use AI at all, up from 13.5% a year earlier, with Denmark at 42% and Romania at 5.2%. The report also cites McKinsey figures that 88% of organisations use AI somewhere but just 7% have fully scaled it, says more than 85% of banks supervised by the European Central Bank now use AI, and notes that UK avatar startup Synthesia reportedly turned down a $3bn offer from Adobe last year.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Clueso raises $10M Series A for AI agents that make corporate video
San Francisco-based Clueso has raised a $10M Series A led by India-focused Dharana Capital, bringing total funding to $12M. The company says more than 1,000 businesses use its platform, naming Atlassian, Zendesk, Seismic and Ironclad, and reports customer claims of fivefold productivity gains and 80% lower production costs, none of which was independently verified. Its agents navigate real software, perform the workflow and record the footage themselves, then rerun it to refresh videos when a product changes; a connector also lets assistants including Claude and ChatGPT create, edit and manage videos. The report says more than 80% of the new money came from existing investors increasing their stakes, leaving new backers under $2M of the round. Rival Synthesia was valued at $4B in January after a $200M round led by Google Ventures.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Survey: 78% of managers use AI to draft performance feedback
A Highwire survey of 1,034 corporate employees found that 78% of managers used AI in the past year to draft, edit, summarize or inform feedback or a performance review, but only 16% of non-managerial employees were told AI influenced theirs. Employee reactions were mixed: 54% said feedback became more specific and actionable, while 34% found it more generic and 32% said it was less useful. Nearly one in four employees now rehearses difficult workplace conversations with an AI tool, and Synthesia's new Sessions feature lets staff practice with AI avatars and get an "AI coach" assessment, though the company says it is not a replacement for mentorship.
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