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This Strategy builds on the UK's strengths but also represents the start of a step-change for AI in the UK, recognising the power of AI to increase resilience, productivity, growth, and innovation across the private and public sectors.

Assist is a secure tool created in-house to support government communicators. It went live in April 2025, following the initial prototype launch in November 2023. The tool features pre-built, task-specific prompts to save users time. It enables communicators to brainstorm ideas, produce first draft communication products and review work in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take manually.

A free national AI training programme targeting 10 million UK workers, with a specific goal of upskilling 2 million SME employees, delivered in partnership with 23 major technology companies.

The UK Sovereign AI Unit is a government body established within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build and harness the UK's domestic AI capabilities.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, enacted on 19 June 2025 by the UK Parliament, establishes a broad legislative framework governing data access, privacy, and digital services. It covers customer and business data access, personal data processing, electronic communications, health and social care information standards, biometric data retention, trust services, and provisions relating to copyright and the development of artificial intelligence systems.