( July 21, 2026, 16:23 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: UK AI policy and engagement with the AI Security Institute is being moved to the Cabinet Office, a ministerial department that supports the work of the prime minister, the government announced as part of a plan to scrap and redistribute the functions of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. A new UK AI Taskforce is also being created within a new Office for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet which will aim to unlock opportunities for growth and public sector transformation from the technology, it said in a statement Tuesday. Online safety and information resilience would move to the culture ministry, science and innovation would move to the business department, and the Public Sector Fraud Authority will move to the pensions ministry, it said.Statement follows....
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