{"id":984215,"date":"2026-01-09T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984215"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:59:51","slug":"germanys-sme-firms-mittelstand-cuts-ai-investments-in-2025-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/germanys-sme-firms-mittelstand-cuts-ai-investments-in-2025-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s SME firms &#8216;Mittelstand&#8217; cuts AI investments in 2025, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s small and medium-sized companies, \u200dcollectively known as \u200bthe Mittelstand, are putting the brakes \u2060on artificial intelligence (AI) investment, a study showed, even as overall corporate spending on AI applications rises. <\/p>\n<p>In a survey \u200cof 200 \u200cMittelstand firms published on Thursday, management consultancy Horvath found these \u200ccompanies spent 0.35% of their revenues on AI technologies in 2025, down from 0.41% in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s small and medium-sized companies, \u200dcollectively known as \u200bthe Mittelstand, are putting the brakes \u2060on artificial intelligence (AI) investment, a study showed, even as overall corporate spending on AI applications rises. In a survey \u200cof 200 \u200cMittelstand firms published on Thursday, management consultancy Horvath found these \u200ccompanies spent 0.35% of their revenues on AI technologies in 2025, down from 0.41% in 2024.<\/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-984215","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\/984215","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=984215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}