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The record holds 14 entries from Hungary, across 7 industries, led by Government & Public Sector, then Healthcare & Life Sciences. Last updated 14 Sep 2026.

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Government & Public Sector

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RegulationGovernment & Public SectorHungary2 Sep 2026

Hungary moves AI market surveillance to its science and technology minister

Government of Hungary — Hungary AI regulation now falls under the Minister of Science and Technology rather than the Minister of Economy and Energy, after a new government decree strips market surveillance duties from the latter and hands them to the former. Government Decree No. 139/2026 (VIII.31.) makes the switch official, amending the earlier Gov. Decree 90/2026 (V.13.) through a freshly inserted Section 168/A. The reassignment had effectively already happened before this paperwork caught up, since the supervisory body's own website was already presenting itself as answering to the Ministry of Science and Technology. The decree simply confirms, on paper, which ministry now carries responsibility for policing artificial intelligence products in the market.

gdpr.blog.hu
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorHungary2 Jun 2026

Nagyoroszi council opens an AI customer service for residents

Nagyoroszi Council — Nagyoroszi's council in Hungary has opened a freely reachable AI customer service, supplied by Munipolis, still learning and fed solely by the village's own web pages. Preset bubbles cover the commonest queries, typed messages work too, and adjacent topics appear unprompted. The municipal chatbot copes with several languages, spots the edge of what it knows and hands anything past that to whichever council officer owns the case; officials report lighter paperwork already.

Municipal clerkpcwplus.hu
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorHungary4 Mar 2026

Hungarian police facial recognition wrongly names three suspects

Hungarian Police — Misidentifications since January have dented Hungarian police facial recognition, used even for petty offences. A Nyíregyháza secondary school pupil was pursued as a fraud suspect while sitting in class 200 kilometres away; a Szeged woman stood accused of lifting a plush bear in Budapest; a 19-year-old was pinned to a shampoo theft. All three had alibis. Who supplied the kit is unpublished; Remport Ádám suspects the biometric identification cameras are Chinese-made.

qubit.hu
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorHungary23 Feb 2026

Hungary's tax authority builds 2026 audits on AI-supported selection

Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal (NAV) — Hungary's Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal now grounds its 2026 audit programme in AI tax audit selection. Vágujhelyi Ferenc, who leads NAV, sketched a single sweep across invoice feeds, till records, eKÁER consignment filings, sectoral declarations and cross-border money-flow reporting. Risky traders surface the instant a bill is cut, letting AI-driven risk screening put a reviser onto a fraudster ahead of any filing.

Tax auditornav.gov.hu

Healthcare & Life Sciences

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DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesHungary27 Aug 2026

Semmelweis dental clinic evaluates cephalometric X-rays with AI

Semmelweis University — Semmelweis University now runs AI cephalometric analysis software inside the clinical setting of its dental faculty in Hungary. The tool weighs where a patient's skull, jawbones and teeth sit relative to one another, and the university puts assessment at under half a second. Structuring dental records around AI-read dental X-rays is meant to hand clinicians back time at the chair.

Orthodontistsemmelweis.hu
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesHungary30 Apr 2026

Eger hospital reads cytology samples with an AI scanner

Heves County Markhot Ferenc Teaching Hospital — Heves County Markhot Ferenc Teaching Hospital in Eger, Hungary, has put a scanner to work that performs AI cytology analysis on patient samples. Sharper findings and markedly quicker throughput are what the pathology department expects of the device. Shorter waits for a verdict mean earlier treatment, and the hospital frames machine-read cytology as movement towards digital pathology.

Pathologistmail.egriugyek.hu
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesHungary26 Feb 2026

Ten Hungarian hospitals trial AI hand-movement dementia screening

Semmelweis University and the Belügyminisztérium — The Belügyminisztérium in Hungary has opened a national AI dementia screening study called 'Mesterséges intelligencia alapú digitális kézmozgás-analízis alkalmazása a kognitív hanyatlás korai felismerésében', guided by Semmelweis University with the Országos Kórházi Főigazgatóság. Kamondi Anita's team at the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurointervention runs it across ten health institutions. Validating the tablet-based cognitive decline test on 3,000 people precedes any move into surgeries.

Neurologistsemmelweis.hu

Business Operations

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Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsHungary13 Jul 2026

AI use among mid-sized Hungarian firms reaches a record 58%

K&H Innovation Index — Corporate AI adoption in Hungary has reached a high in the K&H Innovation Index: 58 percent of firms turning over at least 300 million forints run some AI-based solution, and those building their own rose from 24 percent a half-year earlier to 36 percent. Phone interviews with 360 innovation managers ran from 14 April to 6 May. Thin skills, plus data protection and confidentiality worries, still brake adoption, cited by 66 and 52 percent of would-be AI users.

hirek.prim.hu
DeploymentBusiness OperationsHungary18 Mar 2026

Hungary will give 500 SMEs an AI-based management system

Government Commissioner for Artificial Intelligence — Palkovics László, Hungary's government commissioner for artificial intelligence, has unveiled AI Start 500, handing an AI management system for SMEs to 500 Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises. Plugging them into AI-based business processes is the purpose, and the commissioner cast the scheme as a small-business AI platform that dissolves firms' wariness.

Small business ownereconomx.hu

Finance & Insurance

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Evidence of adoptionFinance & InsuranceHungary8 Sep 2026

Nine in ten Hungarian banks use AI or plan to within a year

Magyar Nemzeti Bank — Over 170 AI banking use cases now sit in Hungary's banking sector: operations, customer relationships, sales. Izer Norbert, who runs financial markets and digitalisation at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, told the AI Summit 90 percent of domestic lenders use artificial intelligence already or mean to within twelve months. Eight big lenders each carry five or more active AI projects.

economx.hu
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceHungary20 Apr 2026

Uniqa Hungary settles glass and burst-pipe claims with NiQA

Uniqa Biztosító Zrt. — Uniqa Biztosító Zrt. has widened NiQA, its AI claims handling platform, from burst pipes to glass damage, and artificial intelligence now touches one household claim in three in Hungary. Thorniest category first, with every notification the eventual ambition. Automated claims assessment has paid out inside 24 hours since mid-April, and Uniqa's own forecast puts most retail claims automated by 2028.

Claims handlervg.hu

Education & Training

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DeploymentEducation & TrainingHungary28 Jan 2026

Hungarian vocational schools start a compulsory AI basics course

Energiaügyi Minisztérium — Hungarian vocational schools have opened a 10-hour course, 'A mesterséges intelligencia alapjai', midway through this academic year, and AI teaching in vocational education must reach every ninth-grader by 31 December 2026. A trial reached 1,700 learners at 63 sites, 60 home-based and three abroad, says the Energiaügyi Minisztérium; Logiscool supplies syllabus, platform and staff training. School AI lessons should leave pupils able to wield it, follow its mechanics and spot dangers.

Teachertelex.hu

Media, Telecom & Entertainment

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DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentHungary7 Sep 2026

RTL Hungary makes a prime-time show intro with AI in half a day

RTL Hungary — RTL Hungary assembled the opening of its 'A legjobb ajánlat' second-season intro through AI video production, wrapping it inside half a day. Creative director Verebély Marcell put the choice down to a David Lynch-styled promo whose surrounding imagery resisted conventional filming; the team worked it up during April. Generative editing tools also salvaged murky, washed-out January footage.

Video editorindex.hu
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Europe
Hungary—United Kingdom0.73Czechia—Estonia—Belarus—European Union0.66Albania—Germany0.75Netherlands0.77Switzerland—Andorra—Croatia—Russia—Belgium0.67France0.70Guernsey—Italy0.62Malta—Serbia—Spain0.65Austria0.72Gibraltar—Iceland—Slovakia—Sweden0.75Bosnia and Herzegovina—Denmark0.78Finland—Greece—Ireland0.69Latvia—Moldova—Montenegro—Poland0.60Ukraine—
Method and sources

Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.

The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1114 entries across 249 countries.