Articles by Craig Hale

With several years’ experience freelancing in tech and automotive circles, Craig’s specific interests lie in technology that is designed to better our lives, including AI and ML, productivity aids, and smart fitness. He is also passionate about cars and the decarbonisation of personal transportation. As an avid bargain-hunter, you can be sure that any deal Craig finds is top value!

Articles by: Craig Hale

Claude can now share context across Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, letting you 'work with a higher degree of efficiency and quality'

By Craig Hale published 12 March 26

Anthropic partners with Microsoft to bring Claude directly to your Excel and PowerPoint workflows.

'Printers are the security blind spot many SMBs overlook': SMBs are ignoring print security — and that could be a major problem for them

By Craig Hale published 12 March 26

Printers aren't dumb peripherals, they're "connected, intelligent endpoints" that are putting your organization at risk of attacks, HP warns.

'It’s a WordPress that stays with you': WordPress can now run within your browser, letting you build private websites not on the public web

By Craig Hale published 12 March 26

You can now build your fully private, local website with WordPress that's stored directly within your browser.

'AI is the Computer': Perplexity reveals Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent running on your Mac

By Craig Hale published 12 March 26

Perplexity has announced its Mac mini-based Personal Computer AI assistant, and it can run your computer for you.

Amazon is making even senior engineers get code signed off following multiple recent outages

By Craig Hale last updated 11 March 26

Even senior developers have been asked to get manager sign-off to prevent AI-generated errors affecting Amazon services.

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Meta snaps up AI agent social network Moltbook - founders will join Meta Superintelligence Labs

By Craig Hale published 11 March 26

Meta has acquired Moltbook and its founders, bringing the Reddit-like AI social network under its Superintelligence Labs business.

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier focused on AI and productivity

By Craig Hale published 11 March 26

Microsoft's third wave of Copilot is all about agentic AI – Copilot Cowork is your autonomous assistant and Agent 365 manages agents like humans.

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Many workers and bosses agree there's 'no time' for AI upskilling - so what's the answer?

By Craig Hale published 11 March 26

Most employers say time is the biggest barrier to AI upskilling – cost and a lack of clear ownership are also problems.

Nvidia might be about to reimagine AI agents at work with new 'NemoClaw' release

By Craig Hale published 10 March 26

"NemoClaw" could be Nvidia's upcoming AI agent management and deployment platform.

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HPE says it can change the terms (and price) of your contract depending on global hardware changes - is it just 'protecting its margins'?

By Craig Hale published 10 March 26

HPE is moving to agile pricing and shorter quote commitment cycles due to rising DRAM and NAND prices.

Anthropic launches a new code review tool to check AI-generated content - but it might cost you more than you'd hope

By Craig Hale published 10 March 26

Anthropic will charge you around $15-25 on average per pull request for a full and detailed review to spot any issues or vulnerabilities.

Adobe Express and Acrobat are coming for business users in Microsoft 365 Copilot, 'making creativity more accessible to everyone'

By Craig Hale published 10 March 26

Adobe is making its Express and Acrobat tools available through M365 Copilot following success integrating them with ChatGPT.

Microsoft delays enterprise Outlook switchover to 2027, says move will 'ensure organizations have the time they need to prepare'

By Craig Hale published 9 March 26

Opt-out phase for businesses to switch to new Outlook has been pushed back by a year, as Microsoft continues to improve the platform.

Anthropic's Claude Marketplace allows customers to buy third-party cloud services

By Craig Hale published 9 March 26

Anthropic wants its customers to use their existing AI spend commitments to spread across other third-party cloud services.

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Google gives CEO Sundar Pichai a mega pay rise, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also gets a tidy bonus

By Craig Hale published 9 March 26

Google and Nvidia are rewarding their CEOs after company success and strong financial performance.

Oracle and OpenAI drop plans for mega Stargate AI US data center

By Craig Hale published 9 March 26

Abilene, Texas will probably top out at 1.2GW, meaning OpenAI can focus on developing new data center campuses with newer chips.

Google has quietly made Gmail, Docs, and other Workspace apps work better with OpenClaw

By Craig Hale published 6 March 26

Google shares 40+ agent skills in "one CLI for all of Google Workspace," but it's "not an officially supported Google product."

Iran state media claims strikes on AWS data centers were deliberate, due to its support for US

By Craig Hale last updated 6 March 26

Iran state media says the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps deliberately targeted Amazon's data centers in the region, but we haven't been able to verify.

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'AI is far from reaching its theoretical capability': Anthropic launches new tool to warn us when jobs might lost to AI

By Craig Hale published 6 March 26

Anthropic reveals how it is monitoring AI's impacts on the workforce, and how policymakers can protect future workers.

ChatGPT 5.4 is apparently a big spreadsheet fan — and even comes with some special Excel and Google Sheets tools

By Craig Hale published 6 March 26

ChatGPT is now using its 5.4 Thinking model for deeper reasoning, and it's even better at handling "professional work."

Florida woman given major jail sentence for illegally selling Microsoft product keys

By Craig Hale published 5 March 26

Florida woman paid Texas company around $20 for Windows 10 licenses before selling the product keys illegally.

OpenAI releases a Windows version of Codex coding app

By Craig Hale published 5 March 26

Amonth after launching Codex for Mac, OpenAI brings Codex to Windows with a new suite of IDEs supported.

'Managers must find a balance': Report claims businesses might need to get HR involved to make workers use AI

By Craig Hale published 5 March 26

Around twice as many managers than regular employees experiment with AI – mangers hold the key to broader AI adoption.

'Email is at an inflection point': new study finds only 13% of emails sent worldwide were actually written by humans

By Craig Hale published 5 March 26

Exclusive Tired of junk mail? You're not alone – 87% of emails are actually generated by automated systems and aren't personal.

Another Oracle data center issue was apparently to blame for latest TikTok outage

By Craig Hale published 4 March 26

After TikTok sees issues in the US for the second time in a little more than a month, another Oracle outage was apparently to blame.

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