Anthropic says Claude can now click around on a Mac for paid subscribers, opening apps, using the browser and handling tasks on the user’s behalf. For ordinary UK readers, the big question is not whether that sounds futuristic, but when it is actually useful and what privacy trade-offs come with giving an AI control of your screen.
Google says many people give AI a quick try at work, then give up because it feels slower than doing the job properly. A new Google and Stanford study argues the difference is not better prompts alone, but learning a few practical habits that make AI fit the real workflow.
A new wave of AI side hustles is paying people to upload snippets of their voice, video and everyday life. For UK readers, the practical question is not whether the money is real, but whether a one-off payment is worth handing over personal data that may be hard to control later.
A Meta security incident triggered by an internal AI agent is a timely reminder that workplace AI can be genuinely useful without being ready to act unchecked. For ordinary workers and small businesses, the lesson is to keep humans firmly in charge.
The UK government has backed away from its earlier plan to let AI firms train on copyrighted work unless creators opted out. For ordinary readers, freelancers and small businesses, that is a welcome pause — but not a final answer.
A practical look at the Gemini features in Google Workspace that may actually save time for ordinary users and small businesses, and the limits worth knowing before you rely on them.
For all the noise around AI, one question still trips up plenty of normal people: what is it actually sensible to use these tools for? That is why a new expert guide from The Guardian…
OpenAI appears to be giving ChatGPT’s free tier a small but potentially useful upgrade. According to Engadget, a new model called GPT-5.4 mini is now available to Free and Go users through ChatGPT’s “Thinking” option,…