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    Claude Powers South Korea Finance Ministry’s Anonymous Town Hall App

    A South Korean finance ministry official has built a Claude-based anonymous communication system that allows employees to submit questions, propose ideas, and vote during leadership meetings in real time—a modest internal application that nevertheless captures a much larger shift in...
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    Microsoft Copilot Expands to 50,000 HMRC Staff in 2026

    HM Revenue & Customs has put Microsoft Copilot at the center of a broader modernization program that now reaches more than 28,000 staff, with plans to expand to 50,000 licences during 2026. The scale matters less as a government AI adoption headline than as a sign that HMRC is wiring generative...
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    Shawano County Keeps GovAI for 20–30 Users Under $30 Per-User Pricing

    Shawano County, Wisconsin, will keep GovAI available to selected employees after the platform switched from a countywide subscription to per-user pricing. The change replaces a $9,500 six-month plan covering all employees with licenses expected to cost about $30 per user each month, according to...
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    Senate Allows Frontline Aides to Use ChatGPT Gemini Copilot for Official Work

    The U.S. Senate has quietly given the green light for frontline aides to use three commercial AI chatbots for official work: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini chat, and Microsoft’s Copilot, according to a one‑page memo circulated by the Senate sergeant‑at‑arms’ information technology office. The...
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    Windows 11 January 2026 Patch Chaos: Reliability Over New Features

    Microsoft’s public concession that Windows 11 has slid past “annoying” into a systemic quality problem is the most consequential signal yet: engineers are being redirected into tactical “swarming” teams to triage a wave of regressions that culminated in emergency out‑of‑band patches and, for a...
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    DHS Expands AI Video Tools with Google Veo 3 and Adobe Firefly

    The Department of Homeland Security has quietly added commercial AI video-generation tools from Google and Adobe to the list of software it uses to produce public-facing content — a revelation that raises immediate questions about government use of generative AI, content provenance, and the risk...