{"id":260858,"date":"2026-06-01T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:40:21","slug":"uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"UK businesses are spending heavily on AI and cybersecurity despite fear that new tech could expose new cyber risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks\">UK businesses are spending heavily on AI and cybersecurity despite fear that new tech could expose new cyber risks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 06:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-f146e23f-ff26-45e7-8a91-b0dacd61ef57\">\n<li><strong>Most businesses plan to spend more on AI, cybersecurity and general investments<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>AI and geopolitical tensions are raising cyberattack concerns across the board<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Many businesses worry they may have to scale back investments<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-16f6c5d2-c5b0-434a-9b68-df7716f5ab83\">One in five business leaders now worry that they may have to pause investments amid geopolitical uncertainty, however for the time being, investment remains high.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the latest Barclays data shows that Britain&#8217;s bigger firms have increased longer-term borrowing, suggesting that they plan to continue investing in technology.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-16f6c5d2-c5b0-434a-9b68-df7716f5ab83-2\">Around two-thirds (68%) plan to increase cybersecurity investments over the next year, with cloud, cyber and AI accounting for a joint 44% of planned tech budgets over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ai-investments-continue-despite-ongoing-concerns-3\">AI investments continue despite ongoing concerns<\/h2>\n<p id=\"elk-465588b3-e7c6-4a91-806e-e1ca852527cb\">Barclays found that more than half (52%) of companies have seen productivity benefits from AI, including administration, decision-making and affording more time to high-value work. This comes as three-fifths (61%) now use agentic AI in their workflows.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the outlook remains generally positive, business leaders do have some concerns over ongoing geopolitical tensions \u2013 four in five report a negative impact from the Middle East conflict already.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays UK Corporate Bank CEO Matt Hammerstein explained that &#8220;uncertainty has become the norm&#8221; for businesses across the UK now, noting that the response has not been as expected:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than pulling back entirely, many are adapting to this new reality by tightening financial discipline, managing cash carefully and prioritising investment where it strengthens resilience, productivity and long-term competitiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<p>With larger companies already having gone in hard on AI, the banking giant also found that Britain&#8217;s SMEs are now starting to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/pro\/uk-businesses-are-spending-heavily-on-ai-and-cybersecurity-despite-fear-that-new-tech-could-expose-new-cyber-risks\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK businesses are spending heavily on AI and cybersecurity despite fear that new tech could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/UjSNcAZ5SebctebKAMQNVF-2560-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-260858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260860,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260858\/revisions\/260860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}