The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted.

“The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance,” reads a message on the page where the study was formerly hosted. “During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The UK Department for Business and Trade ran a trial of Microsoft Copilot for Office 365 from October 2024 to March 2025. The Department finally released its findings last month. [DBT, PDF]

The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”.

The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated. Users could churn out PowerPoint slides faster, but worse. Excel data analysis was slower, and worse.

And Copilot hallucinated all the way through the study.

Some workers didn’t want to use Copilot from “ethical concerns, particularly the environmental impacts of large language model development and maintenance.”

But what about the supercharged productivity benefits of Copilot?

The evaluation did not find evidence that time savings have led to improved productivity, and control group participants had not observed productivity improvements from colleagues taking part in the M365 Copilot pilot.

At least 72% of the test subjects enjoyed themselves.

Meanwhile, the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), the government unit to push AI internally, is having trouble hiring staff. Because they won’t pay them. The Civil Service elevates IT pay, but a median salary of £67,300 a year isn’t enough to compete in the AI bubble. [FT]

One job offers £42k — £46k in London — for an experienced data scientist with software dev experience to develop a whole large language model and applications for it. Even in this terrible market, the going rate starts at twice that, if not three times. So I hope everyone involved just has a fun time. [gov.uk]

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