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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
The UK government now says that Ubuntu 12.04 is the safest operating system available, way ahead of Windows 8 and Mac OS X.
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