Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said the firm wants to hire more staff in the UK, in contrast to redundancies seen across the tech sector.It comes a day after Fortnite-maker, Epic Games, announced it wasBig firms including Amazon, Meta, Google and Microsoft have cut tens of thousands of jobs since 2022.Instead, he told the PA news agency when asked about AI and jobs in the UK: "We're hiring in that area, yes, and so I do expect [investment] to increase.
Antony Walker, deputy chief of techUK, the industry association, said: "The transformative nature of AI will certainly boost staff headcount in AI businesses over the next couple of years." Meanwhile, Tim Pullan, CEO of ThoughtRiver, which provides AI for legal professionals, said he thought the global economy was at the start of "an AI-driven revolution"."As a country, we have huge potential to grow as an AI superpower, and I'm sure this is the start of a trend which will see more and more companies looking to take advantage of the UK's deep tech expertise, and the UK benefiting from the investment and innovation that this will bring.