The Environment Agency has begun a small pilot of the Regulatory Guidance Assistant (RGA), an AI tool built by Hitachi Solutions with in-house Defra digital teams to help water quality permitting offi…
HM Revenue and Customs has deployed a machine learning tool that segments all four million UK-registered businesses by their "propensity to pay" tax debts, according to a newly published transparency …
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…
Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University and Chalmers University of Technology found that 15% of UK parliamentary motions analyzed in 2025 contained AI-assisted content, up from 3.5% in 2022, with…
Matt Clifford, former Downing Street AI adviser and chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), will step down from his Aria role on 6 November after taking a senior position as m…
Warwickshire County Council has signed a £2.4m deal with London-based tech consultancy Beam to implement council-wide AI and automation tools, including transcription, document generation, and chatbot…
The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate has issued new national guidance stating that 'people, not AI systems, remain responsible for decisions' and that automated technology should not be used …
Multiple teams across the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are studying how artificial intelligence could affect the jobs market and the welfare system, junior ministers Lilian Greenwood and …
The UK government has launched the first procurement competitions under its £100m Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme, inviting UK-based firms to develop AI solutions for public sector challenges incl…
University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust has performed what it claims is the world's first brain operation using AI-assisted technology, removing a pituitary brain tumour from 4…
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…
HM Treasury has awarded a £280,000 one-year contract to BearingPoint to accelerate AI adoption in government finance operations, following a year in which the department's AI use moved from early expe…
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 UK Department for Transport, along with the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, has deployed a deep learning image recognition model based on Google Visi…
The Cabinet Office has awarded Guidehouse Europe a £1.7m contract to support the Future Civil Service programme, which aims to increase trust and accelerate the use of AI in the civil service. The con…
HM Revenue and Customs is seeking a £4.6m, five-year contract with a provider of AI and metadata tooling to replace its legacy on-premise metadata management system, which is nearing end of life. The …
Professor Mumtaz Patel, president of the Royal College of Physicians, warned that AI and other innovations alone cannot overcome NHS pressures, responding to a General Medical Council report finding t…
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…