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PA Consulting (PA), a Jacobs company, is joining a coalition led by London-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab Cosine to co-design Lumen Sovereign, the UK’s first fully sovereign frontier AI model for highly regulated and nationally important sectors. The collaboration brings together PA, Cosine and other industry leaders to help shape the UK’s sovereign AI capability.

The race to bring new products to market quickly has only intensified. But in the pursuit of speed, development teams often make the most important decisions before risk and regulatory experts join the process. The result is delays, costly changes and, in the worst cases, solutions that the company then has to abandon. Companies usually know the requirements but fail to translate them into concrete product decisions early enough.

From building connected knowledge architectures to enabling continuous, cross-functional decision-making, discover the organizational shifts required to move beyond AI adoption and create lasting competitive advantage in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape The full article was first published in PharmExec.

The current geopolitical situation is causing challenges at a time when the UK urgently needs to make the most of planned infrastructure investment that is needed. The risk is that key components are stockpiled to account for longer lead times which further exacerbates the problem. In the short term, we need regulators and senior leaders across the sector to support industry collaboration to make the most of the stock we hold.

Survey of 6,000 citizens across nine NATO countries reveals a widening preparedness gap: while most Europeans increasingly expect conflict, many question their country’s readiness to respond and are less certain about the role they would play in a major crisis.

As the working world shifts towards digital, tech-infused roles, there’s an urgent need to build these skills earlier and more consistently. Schools are a critical starting point, but they cannot do this alone in increasingly constrained environments.

PA Consulting, a Jacobs company, has launched its Brand Impact Index 2026, in which 7,000 U.S. consumers ranked leading consumer packaged goods and electronics brands according to consumer perceptions of how well they deliver dependable experiences, intelligent innovation, customer-centricity, sustainability and community impact. Of the 297 brands rated, BAND-AID ranked first overall, with its reputation for dependable delivery a key factor in its performance.

The announcement this week by the UK’s Society of Pension Professionals of a framework for how its members should deal with AI is a reminder that the technology is rapidly having a profound effect on just about every facet of life.

R&D productivity is a function of pipeline volume, pipeline value, and the efficiency with which that pipeline is delivered. The bandwidth of major pharma late-stage pipelines has remained stagnant or even reduced relative to pre-pandemic years, as companies have focused expertise on fewer therapeutic areas and fewer, higher-value, first-in-class new molecular entities or selected indication expansion programs.

AI is transforming large parts of working life with tremendous force. Stories about major efficiency gains are everywhere. Several business leaders have argued that they will need fewer recent graduates in the future. Whether this is solely due to AI, I am not sure. But I am certain that AI has the potential to change the way we work. How we adapt to this shift will be critically important, because there is a significant potential pitfall here.