As part of a wider and ongoing review of ALBs and other bodies across government, ministers have announced that the unit is shortly to be merged into its sponsor department […]...
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GOV.UK Chat ‘beating industry standards’ for accuracy
In a newly filed transparency document, the Government Digital Service has provided details of the operation, safety measures, and performance so far of Whitehall’s chatbot, powered by the Claude LLM […]...
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Whitehall department uses AI to draft reports
In response to a parliamentary question, minister Ian Murray tells MPs DCMS is using artificial intelligence tech to summarise documents, enhance its data science capabilities and analyse responses to consultations […]...
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Government develops ‘taxonomy’ to categorise 350 emerging technologies
Whitehall’s dedicated advisory body for issues of science and tech reveals that it has drawn up a defining document, grouping areas across eight broad categories and six levels of detail […]...
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Outdated IT contributes to National Crime Agency failings on bulk dataset analysis
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary says potential of National Crime Agency’s National Data Exploitation Capability ‘remains unfulfilled’ due to outdated and unfit IT, poor access and management of data and under-resourcing […]...
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Copilot saves staff time but does not improve productivity, DBT pilot finds
A trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot by the Department for Business and Trade has found that those undertaking written work made the largest time savings, but that other tasks took […]...
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UK Space Agency to be subsumed into DSIT
As part of ongoing drive to consider the future of agencies and ALBs, minsters announce that dedicated space entity will move into tech department but will not lose ‘immense ambition’ […]...
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Government plans to build AI agent to help citizens with ‘life admin’
Leading firms have been invited to join civil service tech experts to start work on a prototype of a ‘helper’ that ministers hope could be rolled out to the populace […]...
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Cabinet Office ditches plan to build its own new IT system as part of Google-to-Microsoft switch
In government’s annual lowdown on the progress of major projects, Whitehall’s central department reveals that its IT overhaul will task the ICS unit in DESNZ with delivering a new platform […]...
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EXCL: One Login delivery date revised to 2028 with hundreds of millions of extra spending set to be committed
Documents reveal £115m being spent this year and a 2028 deadline for deployment across ‘all central government services’, but DSIT tells PublicTechnology the move is an expansion and an endorsement […]...
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