Minister reveals expenditure of about a quarter of a billion pounds a year since 2014, with more investment planned for the coming years following the publication of a new strategy […]...

Former senior Army officer Doug Chalmers has been appointed to lead the Committee on Standards in Public Life and intends to continue the body’s work exploring the impact of automation […]...

Role comes with remit to develop and implement initiatives designed to ensure technology is used ethically and securely, and serve as the department’s primary expert on matters of AI assurance […]...

Scottish local authority seeks supplier to help support £150k plan to implement automated technology, which council hopes will help free up staff time to deal with more complex service issues […]...

Major cities including Belfast, Manchester, and Glasgow – as well as rural areas in England and Scotland – have been awarded a slice of money to support technology use in […]...

Academic institution announces facility focused on artificial intelligence, which leaders say will ‘create a new pipeline of talent with the skills to both benefit from and shape this transformational technology’ […]...

Government agency commits £2m funding to support research initiatives examining how new refuelling technologies and methods for satellites could help enable ongoing work to remove debris from the space environment […]...

Body will be formed from parts of the existing Frontier AI Taskforce, other elements of which will become embedded as policy functions within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology […]...

Meanwhile the Scottish Government has indicated that it is ‘deeply disappointed’ at the lack of invite to the event this week and points out its strategy predates the Westminster equivalent […]...

PM Rishi Sunak calls declaration a ‘landmark achievement’, but tech billionaire airs concerns that governments may act prematurely in setting rules to address ‘one of the biggest threats to humanity’ […]...