Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Tom Loosemore
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This. I also fear Palantir own the ontologies that describe how each NHS Trust's data model maps onto the NHS Canonical Data Model. Nice looking lock-in you've got there, vendor. Grrr.
Anyone know if any bits of HMG are offering full fat open weight LLM hosting to their teams?
(Stuff Qwen3.5 397B, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GLM5.1)
There's some genuinely excellent use of LLMs in all this. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-gemi...
And if not, after what happened on Friday, maybe they should?
I'm mulling the need to update my definition of digital, given everything. www.linkedin.com/pulse/updati...
"[The warship] gave out five blasts on their horn, which means 'have you seen us?' We immediately turned two degrees to port"
A two degrees course change?!?? That's essentially imperceptible. Am much less surprised warning shots got fired after reading this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tom Loosemore
I just blogged about the government's use of AI to improve planning, and how I fear the imminent AI arms race around planning permission.
Also, I give grifters an idea. I may regret this.
loosemore.com/2026/06/17/a...
I've written up what we've learned from this here - in particular digging a bit more into complaints that *weren't* taken up by the commissioner and how this could shape our future approach www.mysociety.org/2026/06/17/w...
When we are told (glibly) by junior health ministers that the contract with #Palantir for the #NHS #FDP means that we 'own all the data', this is the bit they are fundamentally not understanding:
The data STRUCTURE is riddled with Palantir-specific references.
medconfidential.org/2026/critica...
Absolutely cracking reporting here from the Graun www.theguardian.com/business/202...
