The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

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HMRC has awarded a £175 million, ten-year AI contract to London-based Quantexa to detect tax fraud, fix errors, and close the £46.8 billion tax gap, marking a deliberate shift toward British AI sovereignty after more than £900 million in contracts with American firm Palantir across UK government departments.

HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intelligence to detect fraud, fix errors, and close the tax gap. The contract is one of the largest AI deals in UK public sector history. It is also a sovereignty statement. The UK government has spent more than 900 million pounds on contracts with Palantir, the American data analytics firm, across at least ten departments including the NHS. The Quantexa deal is the opposite of a Palantir deal. The company is British....

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