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The UK government’s promise to make free AI training available to every adult is a headline-grabbing commitment that mixes genuine public benefit with significant questions about scope, quality and implementation — and it deserves careful scrutiny before it becomes a policy soundbite rather than...

The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a familiar but important paradox: users reported real and concentrated time savings—especially on written work and meeting summaries—but the evaluation could not find robust evidence that those...

The UK government’s recent experiments with Microsoft 365 Copilot have produced a paradox that will shape how public-sector IT teams evaluate generative AI: staff like the assistant and report meaningful convenience gains, yet independent departmental measurement found no clear, verifiable...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a clear, measured verdict: staff liked the assistant, and specific writing and summarisation tasks became noticeably faster, but the trial produced no robust evidence that those time savings translated into...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by...

A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a mixed verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on routine drafting and meeting summaries, but independent evaluation found only modest, use‑case‑specific time savings and no robust...

The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that...

Here’s a summary based on the original article from PublicTechnology: Major UK Government Copilot Trial: Key Findings Scope: 20,000 civil servants 12 government departments 3-month pilot (end of last year) Led by the Government Digital Service (GDS) and Department for Science, Innovation and...

The generative AI revolution is no longer just a far-off promise for efficiency obsessed enterprises or bold tech startups; it is rapidly reshaping the daily routines of some of the world’s oldest and largest institutions. Nowhere is this impact more evident than in the United Kingdom’s civil...

Artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged as a transformative technology, touching virtually every sector of the global economy. In the corridors of government, where efficiency and value for taxpayers are paramount, the adoption of AI is no longer a theoretical luxury but a pragmatic...

Palantir’s Bold Bid for a Government Data OS In a statement that has raised both eyebrows and questions, Palantir Technologies UK is pitching the idea of a “common operating system” for UK government data. In a recent witness submission to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, Louis Mosley—Palantir’s...

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The UK government now says that Ubuntu 12.04 is the safest operating system available, way ahead of Windows 8 and Mac OS X. Full article here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-12-04-Is-More-Secure-Than-Windows-8-and-Mac-OS-X-Says-UK-Goverment-416016.shtml ....

UK Government CTO predicts a shift to the cloud. More...

In a move that might baffle many, the government is planning to upgrade the PCs in the House of Commons from Windows XP to Windows Vista, rather than Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 7. Link Removed - Invalid URL