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PM speech on AI Opportunities Action Plan: 13 January 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a speech this morning on the AI Opportunities Action Plan.

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Author: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street

AI teacher tools set to break down barriers to opportunity

£1 million of funding awarded to 16 ed tech companies to build teacher AI tools for feedback and marking, driving high and rising education standards.

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Author: Department for Education

Starmer claims AI could led to ‘golden age of public service reform’, even making services ‘feel more human’

Government to publish AI opportunities action plan amid backdrop of economic difficulties in UK

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Author: @AndrewSparrow

Flyer for Labour MP in corruption probe ‘found in deposed Bangladesh leader’s palace’

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden insisted he has full confidence in Tulip Siddiq – and she denies any wrong doing

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Author: Millie Cooke

London’s bitter cold snap comes to end as UK thaw sparks flood warnings

Ice and snow is expected to melt with localised flooding possible

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Author: Ellie Crabbe

Why hasn’t Tulip Siddiq been sacked?

City minister’s proximity to Keir Starmer and delayed reaction from Tory opposition are part of the picture

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Author: Georgina Quach,Stephen Bush

Calls for Jack the Ripper inquest after DNA breakthrough

Blood connected to suspect could finally reveal killer’s identity 130 years later

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Author: Tom McArdle

UK’s Starmer touts plan to ‘turbocharge’ living standards with AI

British Prime Minister says AI has the potential to ‘transform the lives of working people’.

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Author: Al Jazeera

Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI

Going our own way will unleash national renewal

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Author: Keir Starmer

UK pledges huge increase in computing capacity to build AI industry

Labour to expand sovereign computing power in response to report by British venture capitalist

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Author: Madhumita Murgia,Anna Gross

Storm forecast as Britain to be hammered by snow, rain and brutal 75mph gales

The weather forecast comes days after the Met Office issued yellow alerts of ice and snow for various parts of the country.

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Author: Astha Saxena

Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI

Artificial intelligence will deliver a decade of national renewal, as part of a new plan announced today (13 January 2025).

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Author: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Starmer ‘asleep at the wheel’ as A&E waits up 400-fold in a decade

It comes after 20 NHS trusts across England declared critical incidents as the number of people in hospital with flu continues to rise

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Author: Millie Cooke

Reeves returns from China to new crisis in business confidence amid economic woes

A survey by Deloitte of the chief finance officers of major companies has revealed that business confidence is at one of its lowest points since the Covid-19 pandemic

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Author: David Maddox

Business chiefs’ pessimism adds to pressure on Rachel Reeves

The figures came in a quarterly survey carried out in December.

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Author: Christopher McKeon

‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

Keir Starmer plans to ‘unleash’ technology with massive investment and deployment, despite public fears

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Author: Robert Booth

Newspaper headlines: ‘Huge’ AI expansion and ‘A&E trolley hell’

The government ramping up AI use in the public sector and NHS bed shortages lead Monday’s papers.

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Author: @BBCNews

Streeting describes nurses as ‘backbone of our NHS’ after worker stabbed in A&E

Police were called to the Royal Oldham Hospital on Saturday evening.

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Author: Jordan Reynolds

Alex Salmond’s widow urges SNP politicians to stop attacking late husband

Moira Salmond said it was difficult to understand the reason for the attacks, which are causing ‘hurt and pain’ to her family

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Author: Daniel Sanderson

Body of ‘murdered’ man, 46, found in landfill months after he vanished

Police have identified the body as that of missing man Cumali Turhan (left) as they continue to appeal for information on the whereabouts of the suspect in the case, Ceyhan Dinler (right)

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Author: Gemma Parry