A bunch of large banks from around the world have published a list of principles for trusted agentic commerce. It’s short, sensible and reasonably readable (link in comments). Their first pri…

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London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

Accuracy isn't enough. We evaluate AI agents on reliability — consistency, predictability, robustness, safety, and self-awareness.

Back in March, I was beaten by the bins. I’d spent a happy few evenings (and a great many tokens) trying to build a simple web app: share any UK address, find out which bins to put out, and w…

Earlier this year I blogged about the idea for a Creative Commons-style legal framework to help services respond to requests from AI Agents claiming to act on behalf of a person. The more I play wi…

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This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …

Two years after digital, data and AI were brought together, the settlement is being dismantled. What does that tell us about the state Britain is trying to build?

The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…

This document describes solution-agnostic and technology-neutral schema for how various intermediaries can gate content and services based on age. The analysis of the architecture is done along two di...

If you’re making an AI-powered thing for real, then start by creating a comprehensive suite of evaluation test cases (aka an ‘eval suite’) with which you can continually evaluate the quality …

NHS England » Why strategic commissioning matters now: lessons from the past, what is different this time, and what comes next

I’ve written recently about how citizens’ adoption of AI is putting stress on public services that rely on friction to reduce demand. I’ve since had many fascinating conversations…

We’re evolving the Service Standard from a one-off test into a living standard for modern, end-to-end public services. Here’s how – and how to be involved.

This book by Adam Maddison explores how senior leaders can get real results from AI investment, instead of treating it as a quick fix.

Investigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London’s tech scene, a ‘global leader of tomorrow’ who starred on Dragons’ Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But peo...

Nick Timothy apologised after we flagged four written questions tabled without a declared interest. What this taught us about Parliament's transparency rules.

I just read an excellent article by James O’Malley looking under the bonnet of the UK Government’s recent work using AI to improve the planning process. The works is making excellent us…