{"id":1028733,"date":"2026-08-14T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028733"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:11:04","slug":"ai-boom-is-starting-to-show-in-uk-economys-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/ai-boom-is-starting-to-show-in-uk-economys-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom is starting to show in UK economy&#8217;s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s economy is showing the clearest signs yet that it is benefitting from the global artificial intelligence boom, with data on Thursday showing rapid growth in related industries and a surge in computer hardware investment. <\/p>\n<p>While the Office for National Statistics said Britain&#8217;s economy grew by 0.4% in the second quarter, the \u200cinformation and \u2060communications sector \u2060contributed almost half of that expansion &#8211; more than any other industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s economy is showing the clearest signs yet that it is benefitting from the global artificial intelligence boom, with data on Thursday showing rapid growth in related industries and a surge in computer hardware investment. While the Office for National Statistics said Britain&#8217;s economy grew by 0.4% in the second quarter, the \u200cinformation and \u2060communications sector \u2060contributed almost half of that expansion &#8211; more than any other industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028759,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028733\/revisions\/1028759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}