Whitehall’s procurement agency has revealed that one its core arrangements to enable public bodies to buy AI tools is to be given a major expansion, with firms encouraged to apply […]...
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UK government ‘assessing proposal’ for EU AI laws to be implement in Northern Ireland
European lawmakers believe that new legislation should apply across the island of Ireland and, while UK ministers have initially rebuffed such an idea, the two parties continue ‘to engage closely’ […]...
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HMRC faces watchdog probe over ‘high-profile stats errors’
Government’s tax agency is to go through a ‘comprehensive review of its processes’ after recently releasing inaccurate information which then resulted in faulty outputs by the Office for National Statistics […]...
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GDS launches local government unit and cross-public sector skills hub
Government’s technology unit has reactivated its local government ambitions with the launch of a specialist new team, the work of which will be supported by a skills and careers hub […]...
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Home Office explores AI tools to target asylum backlog
The Whitehall department is examining the potential of various types of technology, with the possibility of deploying linguistic platforms powered by AI, as well as other products to increase efficiency […]...
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Scottish Government plans public services app
New smartphone tool for use by Scotland’s citizens will initially focus on information about the likes of weather and travel, before expanding into areas such as verification and other services […]...
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More services impacted in latest outage as government and NHS stress use of multiple cloud providers
The Cloudflare network security system, which enables about a fifth of all websites, was the latest platform to encounter service difficulties earlier this week, following incidents affecting AWS and Microsoft […]...
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HMRC recruits 5,000 citizens to test digital income tax service
Having opened volunteering 18 months ago, government’s tax agency has since attracted participation from thousands of individual taxpayers and specialist agents that will soon need to adopt the online system […]...
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WHO warns of need for AI healthcare laws
A report newly published by the global expert body has found that ‘the technology is moving faster than our ability to govern it’, and calls for nations to legislate accordingly […]...
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Policing sector plans £100m framework for ‘victim and citizen engagement’ tools
Buying body dedicated to serving the commercial needs of law enforcement and other public bodies releases pipeline information outlining plans for commercial vehicle dedicated to platforms for engaging the public […]...
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