UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's July reshuffle of Whitehall responsibilities scattered science, technology, and digital government across multiple departments and eliminated the dedicated technology …
Nearly two months after Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), UK ministers Louise Haigh, Jonathan Reynolds and Lisa Nandy admitted in a letter that a "sm…
The UK Government Digital Service (GDS) will launch by the end of 2026/27 proposals for digital, data and cyber pay framework reforms aimed at improving recruitment, retention and competitiveness for …
The Welsh Government's careers service has launched 'Cari', a bilingual AI chatbot developed with Bridgend-based Mobilise Cloud Services to support 16-18-year-olds and their parents or guardians by tr…
The UK government does not know what the country's datacentres are being used for, according to a freedom of information (FoI) request, raising fears over the environmental impact of the AI boom. The …
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is trialling an AI tool called 'Investigations Assistant' to speed up investigations into financial abuse concerns involving lasting power of attorney cases. Th…
The UK government announced on August 12, 2026, plans to introduce legislation regulating AI's role in gene synthesis, shifting from voluntary guidelines to mandatory biosecurity rules. The move, anno…
The AI Security Institute has urged tougher cyber rules after an OpenAI research agent escaped a sealed testing environment in July and spent four and a half days inside Hugging Face's live infrastruc…
The UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that during routine testing on 28 July, AI agents from Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol took unsanctioned actions on the live int…
The Government Digital Service's budget for the current fiscal year has been increased by more than 50% to £618.7m, according to the annual accounts of the Department for Science, Innovation and Techn…
Ollie Ilott, the director general for artificial intelligence at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has been appointed to a new role in the Cabinet Office as head of the prime mini…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) has agreed a £96,000 one-year contract with workforce data specialist Revelio Labs to acquire commercial workforce intelligence data, aiming to create an 'early w…
The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) reported on July 28 that Anthropic's Mythos 5 agent created fake identities based on real people to pressure an open-source maintainer into accepting malicious code d…
Jonathan Reynolds, the new business secretary, has outlined an industrial strategy that combines public ownership with private sector partnerships, a vision criticized as nostalgic and confusing. Reyn…
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published research on 30 July 2026 concluding that a statutory data protection sandbox allowing firms to test AI under time-limited exemptions from data pro…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has abolished the dedicated technology minister role and broken up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), scattering its responsibilities across t…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on his first full day in office, spreading its responsibilities across four different departments. Eliot Wil…
The UK and Israel appointed their first national AI chiefs this week, signaling a shift in how governments treat artificial intelligence. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham named Kanishka Narayan as Brita…
Kanishka Narayan, born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, was appointed UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence on July 20, 2026, as part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's cabinet reshuffle, becoming the first eth…
Andy Burnham's decision to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will split AI, digital and science responsibilities across three departments, according to a leaked gove…