Articles by Graham Barlow, Senior Editor, AI

Graham is the Senior Editor for AI at TechRadar. With over 25 years of experience in both online and print journalism, Graham has worked for various market-leading tech brands including Computeractive, PC Pro, iMore, MacFormat, Mac|Life, Maximum PC, and more. He specializes in reporting on everything to do with the most exciting subject in tech right now, Artificial Intelligence. AI is advancing at an accelerated pace and all the big brands from Apple, Microsoft and Google to chip makers NVIDIA are getting involved. TechRadar is here to bring you the latest updates on AI and show you how to get started and make it work for you, no matter your level of interest.

Graham has appeared on BBC TV shows like BBC One Breakfast and on Radio 4 commenting on the latest trends in tech. Graham has an honors degree in Computer Science and spends his spare time podcasting and blogging.

Articles by: Graham Barlow

I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

By Graham Barlow Published 9 July 26

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

ChatGPT’s ‘smartest voice model ever’ is rolling out to everyone today — and GPT-Live-1 gives you more natural conversations without interruptions

By Graham Barlow Published 8 July 26

OpenAI is introducing a better voice mode for ChatGPT that sounds more natural and allows for simultaneous translation.

OpenAI’s next ChatGPT-5.6 upgrade may be too powerful to launch like a normal app update

By Graham Barlow Published 8 July 26

The new ChatGPT-5.6 is releasing on Thursday in a limited preview and comes in three different versions.

Gemini generated image of ChatGPT on a laptop.

Stop starting every ChatGPT conversation from scratch — this one habit saves me time every week

By Graham Barlow Published 6 July 26

Most people start every ChatGPT conversation from zero. Here’s how to work smart.

The Steam Machine, a PS5, and a Garmin Forerunner 70 watch.

ICYMI: The week's 7 biggest tech news stories from PlayStation killing physical games to Anthropic finally re-releasing Fable 5

By Hamish Hector Published 4 July 26

As the USA turns 250, here's the week's biggest tech news stories from PlayStation, Valve, Garmin, WhatsApp and more.

I tried Claude Sonnet 5 with prompts that ask it to finish the job, not just answer the question — and that's where the AI war is going

By Graham Barlow Published 2 July 26

Claude Sonnet 5 shows that the next AI battle isn’t about better chatbot answers — it’s about which assistant can actually get work done.

Mobile phone displaying a Claude login screen.

Claude Sonnet 5 is here, and the 'most agentic Sonnet model yet' shows that the AI war is shifting from chat to agents

By Graham Barlow Published 1 July 26

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model that's built to act more like an agent than a simple chatbot.

Your iPhone is about to get more software updates — and AI is the reason why

By Graham Barlow Published 1 July 26

Because of the risks posed by AI cyber-hacking, we're all about to get more frequent Apple security updates.

Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back after US shutdown it called 'a misunderstanding'

By Graham Barlow Published 1 July 26

Anthropic’s most advanced public Claude model is returning after a US government directive forced it offline — but the episode raises bigger questions about who controls access to frontier AI.

Apple demonstrating the Spatial Reframing feature at WWDC 2026.

5 WWDC features I’ll actually use more than Apple’s new Siri AI

By Graham Barlow Published 29 June 26

Apple announced so much more than just Siri AI at its recent WWDC. Here are five new features I'm looking forward to in the next macOS, and iOS, 27.

ChatGPT has stopped taking your prompts so literally — and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds

By Graham Barlow Published 28 June 26

OpenAI has given ChatGPT-5.5 an update that makes it easier to talk to, so I tested it out.

I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks — and the difference surprised me

By Graham Barlow Published 19 June 26

The iOS app version of ChatGPT has a great hidden feature for choosing how intelligent you want your answer to be.

AI generated image from the trailer for DEADLINES.

The quality of AI movies is already good enough — the real test is whether anyone wants to watch them

By Graham Barlow Published 18 June 26

AI filmmaking has crossed an important threshold: making movies is becoming easy, making good ones isn't.

Graham Barlow at the Hell Grind premiere, London, June 2026.

I watched a 90-minute AI movie made in just two weeks — and Hollywood can stop worrying, for now

By Graham Barlow Published 16 June 26

A 90-minute AI movie made in two weeks sounds like Hollywood's worst nightmare — until you actually sit down and watch it.

A laptop showing Gemini, surrounded by floating Gmail, Drive, Photos, NotebookLM and Flow icons.

Google just undercut OpenAI with a $4.99 Gemini plan — here’s what’s included

By Graham Barlow Published 15 June 26

Google’s cheapest AI plan is now cheaper than ChatGPT’s — here’s what you get for your $4.99

Watching World Cup 2026 with AI helping out.

I'm using ChatGPT to help me follow the World Cup — these are the 5 prompts I'd recommend to any fan

By Graham Barlow Published 12 June 26

Whether you want deeper stats, better planning or help coping with penalty drama, these five AI prompts can make the World Cup a little easier to enjoy.

Lionel Messi with hair styled by ChatGPT.

'Wait... what?' — Lionel Messi’s new ChatGPT World Cup partnership feels like marketing written by AI for people who don’t watch soccer

By Graham Barlow Published 11 June 26

OpenAI's first major football marketing campaign stars Lionel Messi, but it feels more like a corporate AI pitch than a celebration of the world's most popular sport.

Anthropic spent months saying Mythos was too dangerous to release — then it launched a public version called Fable 5 that it warns ‘comes with risks’

By Graham Barlow Published 10 June 26

Anthropic has released a public version of its Mythos model called Fable 5, but acknowledges that it 'comes with risks' despite providing guardrails.

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I sent an email without opening Gmail thanks to ChatGPT's new feature — then I found the catch

By Graham Barlow Published 9 June 26

ChatGPT can now send emails directly from within a chat, and the experience feels surprisingly futuristic — but after testing it myself, I found one big missing feature.

Screenshot of Apple Intelligence on an iPhone, Tim Cook standing in front of a rainbow and Siri AI

17 things we learned at WWDC 2026 — Siri's getting a big AI makeover, Golden Gate is the next macOS, Liquid Glass is changing, and more

By Marc McLaren, Matt Bolton, Hamish Hector, Jacob Krol, Graham Barlow, Josephine Watson Published 8 June 26

Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote was short and fairly sweet. Here are the highlights.

A smartphone displays the Apple Intelligence and Siri icons as it rests on a dark laptop keyboard.

Apple just gave 'Siri AI' its biggest upgrade ever — whether iPhone users asked for it or not

By Graham Barlow Published 8 June 26

Apple's biggest Siri AI upgrade ever could transform the iPhone experience, but I’m not convinced more AI is what users want.

I pushed ChatGPT toward its hidden chat limit — here's what actually happens when you reach it

By Graham Barlow Published 3 June 26

A long-running ChatGPT conversation can eventually hit hidden limits — here's what happens and how to prepare before it does.

Gemini with a warning message on a laptop screen.

Gemini warned me humans might review my chats — but turning it off comes with a surprising downside

By Graham Barlow Published 2 June 26

A warning that humans may review some Gemini chats sent me looking for a privacy setting. What I found instead was a tradeoff that could make the AI assistant far less useful.

OpenAI just quietly retired the last of the GPT-4 models — and it feels like the end of an AI era

By Graham Barlow Published 29 May 26

OpenAI has confirmed that GPT-4.5 will be removed from ChatGPT next month, marking the end of the GPT-4 era.

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I asked ChatGPT to build me a realistic weekly workout for a 54-year-old body — and I actually kept doing it

By Graham Barlow Published 28 May 26

I asked ChatGPT to create a realistic home workout for a middle-aged body, and after two weeks, I’m surprised by how effective and sustainable it’s been.

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