The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), a non-departmental public body under the Department for Work and Pensions, is advertising a new AI lead position with a £95,000 salary to oversee the deployment …
HM Treasury reported that its AI deployments advanced from early experimentation to organisation-wide use during fiscal year 2025/26, with Microsoft 365 Copilot rolled out to all 2,000-plus staff afte…
More than 100 councils across England are merging into new unitary authorities by 2028, and the process is pushing out chief executives who hold institutional memory, just as AI tools are being deploy…
HM Revenue and Customs is advertising a deputy director-level role as head of AI assurance with a salary of £86,000 to £110,000, tasked with leading the responsible, safe and effective deployment of A…
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…
Former innovation minister and government chief scientific adviser Lord Patrick Vallance has been appointed as chair of the Prime Minister's new AI Taskforce, which will be based in the Office for the…
Companies House deployed an AI chatbot handling around 300 chats daily and a Copilot AI agent that responded to more than 3,600 customer emails during a trial, contributing to a 5% shift away from pho…
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is hiring an experienced children's social worker for a two-year fixed-term role leading digital transformation, including AI initiatives, in its Children's…
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian have developed an AI-powered method using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to predict lung cancer mutations, such as EGFR, i…
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is building an evidence base on datacentre water usage, working with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Enviro…
HM Revenue and Customs pledges a fully digital inheritance tax service by 2028, with AI and advanced analytics already enabling the protection and recovery of £10bn in tax between 2025 and 2026, accor…
AI and online safety minister Kanishka Narayan said the risk from big AI providers is less about dependence on any single country and more about overreliance on narrow supply chains, in response to a …
The Intellectual Property Office is exploring AI tools to help officials search existing patents, aiming to improve efficiency and effectiveness in identifying prior art documents. The government agen…
The UK Cabinet Office is recruiting an AI innovation director with a salary of up to £163,000 to lead AI adoption across government as part of the Future Civil Service reform programme. The role, repo…
The UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport and its secretary Lisa Nandy are leaving social media platform X, citing concerns over misinformation and hate speech. Nandy said the platform 'isn't heal…
The UK Cabinet Office published terms of reference for a sweeping review of the civil service, focusing on AI's impact, talent retention, and organizational structure. Outgoing PM Keir Starmer announc…
The NHS App will incorporate an AI-powered triage tool that asks patients about their condition and directs them to appropriate care, including GPs, pharmacies, or self-care. Initially offered to 200,…