{"id":988137,"date":"2026-01-28T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988137"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:53:19","slug":"uk-announces-meta-backed-ai-team-to-upgrade-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/uk-announces-meta-backed-ai-team-to-upgrade-public-services\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces Meta-backed AI team to upgrade public services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government said on Tuesday \u200dit had recruited a team of artificial intelligence specialists to build \u2060AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defence, using funding from Meta. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer, like many other \u200cleaders around the \u200cworld, is looking to tap into the huge economic potential \u200cof developing an AI industry and, at the same time, use the technology to improve productivity across government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government said on Tuesday \u200dit had recruited a team of artificial intelligence specialists to build \u2060AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defence, using funding from Meta. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, like many other \u200cleaders around the \u200cworld, is looking to tap into the huge economic potential \u200cof developing an AI industry and, at the same time, use the technology to improve productivity across government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}