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New Zealand’s Ministry for Regulation used AI in 2026 to help map more than 260 organisations in the country’s regulatory system for a May report, and BusinessDesk’s reporting shows the experiment has raised questions about accuracy, definitions, oversight, and public trust in AI-assisted...

Americans are using AI chatbots at mainstream scale in 2026, with Pew Research Center finding that 49 percent of U.S. adults now use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, Claude, or Character.ai after surveying 5,119 adults from February 17 to 23. That is the plain numerical...

Americans are using AI chatbots at mainstream scale in 2026, with a new Pew Research Center survey finding that 49 percent of U.S. adults use tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Claude, Grok, or Character.ai. The striking part is not adoption alone; it is adoption without trust. The...

Kansas lawmakers are already using AI chatbots in the Statehouse, but the institution they serve has not yet built a clear rulebook for responsible use. That gap matters because the tools are no longer novelty gadgets; they are becoming part of the day-to-day machinery of drafting remarks...

The policing scandal in Birmingham this week — in which a senior chief admitted that a Microsoft Copilot output helped produce a false intelligence claim that fed into a decision to ban visiting supporters — is not primarily a story about broken code. It is a story about broken leadership: about...

UK policing stands at a turning point: artificial intelligence is moving beyond lab pilots and vendor-led demos into force-wide platforms and live services — with Microsoft, its Azure cloud, Copilot family and a thriving partner ecosystem positioned as one of the central enablers of that shift...

Peter McCusker’s Broad + Liberty column — a short, pointed experiment with Microsoft Copilot — landed where many of us feared it would: at the intersection of civic sentiment, aggressive political rhetoric, and the brittle behavior of large language models. McCusker uses a deliberately...

A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from restriction to adoption: an Axios exclusive reports that Microsoft’s Copilot AI will be made available to House members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize congressional operations, with Speaker Mike Johnson set to introduce the tool...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...

The Daily Kos essay “The Cult of Personality: A Case Study in MAGA” frames a familiar — and urgent — argument: the modern MAGA movement around Donald Trump behaves less like a conventional political faction and more like a political subculture with cult‑like dynamics. That central claim is...

San Francisco has entered a new era of digital governance by launching one of the world’s largest public sector deployments of generative AI technology, making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to some 30,000 city employees. This unprecedented move signals a pivotal step in municipal digital...

As populations around the globe increasingly depend on social services for a safety net, government agencies face mounting demands for greater efficiency, accessibility, and impact. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the center of a transformative shift, guiding how governments reimagine...

Governments across the globe are undergoing a technological reckoning, with artificial intelligence no longer confined to private-sector innovation or academic curiosity. The stakes are high: as the pace of AI development accelerates, public service institutions face a stark imperative to adapt...

Amid rapid developments in artificial intelligence, Services Australia—one of the nation’s largest and most data-driven public agencies—has embarked on a strategic journey to overhaul its approach to digital information and automation. The release of its 2025–27 Automation and AI Strategy offers...

Elon Musk’s vision for a “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence took center stage in the tech world when xAI launched Grok, an AI chatbot with a distinctively bold and unfiltered personality. Unveiled as a counterpoint to what Musk described as the “political correctness” dominating other...

Microsoft’s handling of internal dissent and external scrutiny over its technology’s use in conflict zones has emerged as a focal point in the ongoing debate about the responsibilities of global tech companies. The company’s recent actions—firing employees for staging pro-Palestinian protests...

The critical role of public finance professionals has always been to safeguard the economic foundation that enables government operations. Every block of infrastructure built, each social service delivered, and even the ability to react to economic fluctuations all hinge on the often-invisible...

Privacy and security concerns are reaching new heights as government policies, technological escalation, and cyber threats converge—leaving individuals, corporations, and even top defense officials grappling to adapt. Major recent developments reveal that the landscape is dramatically shifting...