Katy Ring

Main content The UK public sector is using AI at a more advanced level than the wider economy, according to new research from AWS. Among public sector organizations that have adopted AI, almost a third have reached the most advanced stage of AI use - defined by AWS as combining multiple models, developing custom systems or deploying agentic AI - compared to just a quarter across all UK businesses.

Main content Token costs are dropping, tokenmaxxing is a fad that that has had its day, so why are AI bills on the rise? The answer will gladden the hearts of AI vendors everywhere - it is because volume adoption is on the rise as AI is applied all over the enterprise. However, as we all know in this industry this undisciplined adoption occurs just before the trough of disillusionment.

These days everybody is hiring or training Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). For example, a few weeks ago AWS told diginomica all about its approach in this area. Twenty years ago, the model for using FDEs was devised by Palantir, whose defense clients consultant/engineers needed to be deployed in the field to ensure systems were working in air-gapped environments.