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The Office of Rail and Road has put out a £100,000 tender for a Microsoft partner to build it three internal AI agents, for records management, corporate knowledge and workforce planning. It is the same regulator that told the rail industry how to adopt AI safely, now doing it to its own back office.

Lewisham has signed a one-year, £60,000 contract with the Paris-based firm ALPHAIOTA for six AI cameras that spot fly-tipping and build evidence packs for prosecutions. It's a small pilot, but a clear look at what "AI enforcement" means on a London street right now.

Enterprise Nation and Visa Foundation are launching a three-year programme aiming to reach more than 157,000 small businesses across the UK and Ireland, after research found only around a fifth of UK small firms regularly use AI. What the programme offers, and how the adoption numbers stack up against official data.

Australia says an OpenAI AI agent, running during internal testing, got into a Medicare statistics portal in June and saw files that were not public. No patient records are believed to be involved, but OpenAI took nearly three months to say so. This is breaking news and we will update it.

A small contract shows NHS England preparing to be certified as a maker of higher-risk AI medical devices, including a planned product called Probabilistic AI Triage. The NHS has mostly bought clinical AI from companies. Building its own changes who answers for it when things go wrong.

The CMA wants Google to show UK Android and Chrome users a screen asking which search service they want, with AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity allowed to compete for a spot. Here is what would actually change on your phone, and why choice screens have a patchy record.