The UK Home Office said Tuesday it will recruit 500 officers and commit £500 million ($676 million) over three years from the economic crime levy to a new Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Stra…
Britain's National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) warned in its annual report that criminals are making 'innovative use of crypto asset products to evade detection and move illicit value at scale,' rank…
UK ministers are prioritizing Big Tech interests over public transparency in AI adoption, according to a report by the Open Rights Group, which found the public sector awarded over 2,000 AI-related co…
UK police are rolling out an AI screening tool for the 101 non-emergency line, which receives around 20 million calls annually, to filter out time-wasting calls such as requests for lifts and complain…
The Home Office and police forces will roll out an AI-powered call-routing system for the 101 non-emergency line, developed with Vodafone Business and the National Police Chiefs' Council, which could …
The Home Office estimates that AI software deployed on the police 101 non-emergency line could save forces up to £8.5 million a year by filtering out misdirected and nuisance calls. Around 20 per cent…
The UK Home Office will deploy artificial intelligence software to filter nuisance and misdirected calls to the police 101 non-emergency line, which receives about 20 million calls annually, with arou…
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 Conservative Party has selected Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a convicted former neo-Nazi known for creating AI-generated videos mocking Labour and Reform politicians, as its candidate for the Crewkerne …
Unverified AI summarization poses a due-diligence failure in legal workflows, according to a technical analysis of Claude Code and LLM agent deployment. The article recommends citation enforcement, cr…
A senior judge in the UK's upper tribunal accused the Home Office of relying on an "AI hallucinated" country policy information note (CPIN) to refuse an asylum claim from a Moroccan woman and her chil…
Warwickshire's hospital car park now hosts the UK's first AI-enabled smart lamp-posts, called iLamps, from Conflow Power Group (CPG), which can recognize number plates and faces and are pitched as too…
AI Minister Kanishka Narayan renewed calls for more visas for top engineers, arguing that the UK must help tech companies scale at home rather than sell overseas. Narayan said he would push for visa r…
A UK government-commissioned review recommends the Judicial College train all judges, including magistrates, for a likely rise in AI-enabled fraud and cryptocurrency money laundering cases. The report…
The UK Home Office launched PoliceAI, a £75 million national centre to scale artificial intelligence use across police forces in England and Wales. The centre will prioritize AI tools for digital evid…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in urging the UK to halt its deployment of Facial Age Estimation (FAE) technology at the border…
The UK Home Office is using two AI tools, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS), both powered by GPT-4o, in asylum decision-making without informing applicants or publishing r…
The UK Home Office knew its AI-powered facial age estimation tool for migrant children was flawed and racially biased, but is rolling it out anyway. A leaked report shows the technology often misjudge…
The UK Home Office will deploy an AI age estimation tool at the country's borders from next year to detect adult migrants posing as children, awarding a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd for d…
The UK Home Office has awarded a £322,000 contract to Akhter Computers Ltd to develop and test an AI facial-recognition tool that estimates the ages of asylum seekers at the border, with a planned rol…