Euro area firms embrace AI but deep adoption still limited

Euro area firms rapidly expanded their use of artificial intelligence in 2025, with around 70 per cent reporting some level of adoption, according to a new European Central Bank (ECB) study based on surveys conducted in June and December 2025.

An ECB occasional paper by Annalisa Ferrando, Sara Lamboglia, Judit Rariga and Maurice Schmidt drew on responses from about 6,000 firms across 12 euro area countries, offering one of the most detailed cross-country snapshots yet of how businesses are...