Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise thousands of public comments on Bath Rugby’s proposed 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground, folding an AI‑assisted thematic analysis into the officer’s 121‑page planning report that went to councillors...
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When a government website begins to expose machine-readable metadata in its HTML, it’s not a trivial cosmetic change — it is a deliberate technical decision with consequences for search, data reuse, transparency, and the way downstream services and mashups can consume official information. In...
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The Town of Gray is quietly turning a policy conversation into practical public service: after adopting guidelines for generative AI this summer, the town’s communications and IT director has begun using Microsoft Copilot to produce faster, more accessible meeting recaps, is hosting public...
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San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...
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Louisville is betting that a pragmatic, tightly scoped burst of artificial intelligence pilots can squeeze more value from every public dollar, and it’s backing the bet with a $2 million line item, a new Chief AI Officer, and a first wave of 5–10 short projects aimed squarely at measurable time...
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The routine posting of “meeting notices” is where civic procedure meets real people — and where a quiet failure in process can become a headline.
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Source item: a GazetteXtra article titled “Meeting notices” (by DAILY TIMES STAFF) was published August 10, 2025 and runs as...
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San Francisco is taking a landmark step in public sector technology by extending the power of Microsoft's Copilot AI, based on OpenAI’s advanced GPT-4o model, to 30,000 municipal employees. This ambitious rollout, among the largest of its kind for local governments globally, reinforces the...
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