The Department for Work and Pensions – despite banning staff use of ChatGPT – is planning to work with suppliers of generative AI services covering the likes of innovation, strategy […]...
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HMRC concludes trials of ‘causal AI’
The department, which is understood to be exploring a range of possible use cases of generative AI tools, has recently trialled technology to understand ‘causes and effects’ of customer interactions […]...
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Connectivity improvements among scarce levelling-up ‘bright spots’, report finds
A new assessment from think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that, in many areas covered by government’s levelling up agenda, the UK has actually ‘gone into reverse’ […]...
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Local government bodies call for ‘centralised mechanism’ to support and fund AI
In a submission to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee – shortly before its dissolution – LGA, Socitm and others call for creation of new programmes and bodies to enable councils’ use […]...
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Ministers hope new AI guidelines will set global cyber standard
A range of measures were unveiled at the NCSC’s annual CyberUK conference, including initiatives dedicated to technical policies, as well as new secure hardware products and programmes to boost skills […]...
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Comprehensive coverage vs dimensions of uncertainty – the complicated world of ‘AI-enriched intelligence’
Artificial intelligence offers unprecedented opportunities for security professionals to analyse material, but such potential is accompanied by major challenges and unknowns, according to a report from the Alan Turing Institute […]...
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World’s ‘most advanced humanoid robot’ moves to Edinburgh
The National Robotarium of Scotland has acquired an Ameca model, which was developed in Cornwall, can reportedly wink, laugh and shrug and is hoped to ‘demystify robotics and foster trust’ […]...
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Glasgow University claims 6G breakthrough
Academics have unveiled a new dynamic metasurface antenna which is claimed to be the first ever wireless antenna capable of operating at a frequency of 60 GHz millimetre wave band […]...
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Universities unveil tech designed to discover ‘first Earth-like planet’
The astrocomb laser system developed by researchers from Heriot-Watt and Cambridge Universities has been compared to a distorted guitar and is designed ‘extremely sensitive wavelength measurements’ of the light spectrum […]...
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New AI Safety Institute to work with US counterparts
Ministers from the US and the UK have unveiled a transatlantic memorandum of understanding through which specialist AI safety teams will work to foster common approaches and conduct joint testing […]...
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