Articles by Eric Hal Schwartz, Contributor

Eric Hal Schwartz is a freelance writer for TechRadar with more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of the world and technology. For the last five years, he served as head writer for Voicebot.ai and was on the leading edge of reporting on generative AI and large language models. He's since become an expert on the products of generative AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and every other synthetic media tool. His experience runs the gamut of media, including print, digital, broadcast, and live events. Now, he's continuing to tell the stories people want and need to hear about the rapidly evolving AI space and its impact on their lives. Eric is based in New York City.

Articles by: Eric Hal Schwartz

Moltbot briefly becomes the internet’s favorite AI chatbot after chaotic rebrand

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 30 January 26

Open-source personal AI assistant Moltbot went viral after a chaotic rebrand to offer proactive automation

ChatGPT’s new age-detection feature is misfiring — and adult users are getting stuck in teen mode

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 29 January 26

OpenAI's age verification AI is annoying adults mistakenly placed in teen mode and pressured to verify their age

Google brings AI Plus to the U.S. with creative tools and shared storage — and it might be the 'just-right' AI subscription deal

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 29 January 26

Google has launched its AI Plus subscription in 35 countries, including the U.S., bundling enhanced AI tools, cloud storage, and video generation features.

The UK government gets it spectacularly wrong on AI – just 3% of the public agree with its stance on copyright law changes

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 28 January 26

A major public consultation revealed overwhelming opposition to the UK government's AI copyright proposal

Google Search gets smarter AI Overviews with Gemini 3 — and adds follow‑up chats to your search results

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 27 January 26

Google Search upgrades AI Overviews with Gemini 3 and a connection to AI Mode

Claude just became a real productivity hub — you can now run tools like Slack and Figma without leaving the chat

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 27 January 26

Claude now controls Slack, Figma, and more, and your AI chat just turned into a real workflow hub.

How to use AI image tools to explain ideas visually

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 27 January 26

Creative prompt-writing techniques to turn AI image tools into fun, powerful systems.

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ChatGPT has a hidden set of creativity switches — here’s how to use them

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 24 January 26

Clever ways to make ChatGPT more imaginative and fun by flipping hidden creativity switches in your prompts.

'We don’t have any plans to do ads at the moment' — DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Gemini will stay ad‑free as ChatGPT begins inserting ads into conversations

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 23 January 26

Google is distancing Gemini from ChatGPT’s ad strategy by promising an ad-free experience for now

Microsoft CEO urges AI developers 'to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful,' or 'lose even the social permission...to generate these tokens'

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 22 January 26

Satya Nadella used his Davos platform to warn that AI’s future hinges on proving real-world utility.

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'I think it's a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging' — Anthropic's CEO warns Davos about letting Nvidia sell AI chips to China

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 22 January 26

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei riled Davos attendees by condemning U.S.-approved Nvidia chip sales to China

Samsung revives its Bixby assistant with an AI brain transplant from Perplexity

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 21 January 26

Samsung is relaunching AI assistant Bixby with Perplexity's real-time AI search.

“It is genuinely hard; we need to protect vulnerable users, while also making sure our guardrails still allow all of our users to benefit from our tools” — Sam Altman bemoans the difficulty of keeping ChatGPT safe in contentious debate with Elon Musk

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 21 January 26

Sam Altman defended OpenAI’s approach to AI safety in a public clash with Elon Musk, revealing the complex challenge of building tools that protect vulnerable users without limiting everyone else.

5 AI image prompts way better than Google Photos remixing

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 20 January 26

Nano Banana image prompts that transform your photos more meaningfully than Google Photos Remix effects

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5 common myths about AI tools, debunked

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 16 January 26

Debunking widespread myths about AI tools.

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Matthew McConaughey trademarking himself saying 'alright, alright, alright' is a preview of Hollywood’s coming AI identity crisis

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 16 January 26

Matthew McConaughey’s trademark filings on his own performance are a smart but incomplete defense against the rise of AI-generated celebrity clones

5 signs that ChatGPT is hallucinating

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 15 January 26

How to recognize when AI chatbots hallucinate

Signal’s founder is taking on ChatGPT — here’s why the ‘truly private AI’ can’t leak your chats

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 14 January 26

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike has launched Confer, a privacy-first AI assistant designed to ensure your conversations can’t be read, stored, or leaked.

Claude's latest upgrade is the AI breakthrough I've been waiting for — 5 ways Cowork could be the biggest AI innovation of 2026

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 14 January 26

Claude Cowork offers a glimpse of a near future where AI stops just responding to prompts and starts acting as a careful, capable digital coworker.

'Small decisions have long tails' – I asked ChatGPT for my horoscope, and what it told me was surprisingly grounding

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 13 January 26

ChatGPT's horoscope led to a surprisingly grounded reflection on the future

Claude just joined your healthcare team — and might be ready to help your doctor help you

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 12 January 26

Anthropic’s Claude is entering healthcare with new tools that help patients understand their medical data and ease administrative burdens for providers.

ChatGPT Health sounds promising — but I don’t trust it with my medical data just yet

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 9 January 26

ChatGPT Health promises convenience and insight, but I don't trust OpenAI with my medical data.

Amazon’s AI is shopping on your behalf where it's not supposed to — and retailers aren’t happy

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 9 January 26

Amazon’s AI-powered Buy for Me service is stirring controversy by placing orders from retailers who say they never agreed to be part of the program

Meet the tiny AI hologram ready to be your esports coach and life planner

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 8 January 26

Razer’s Project AVA provides AI assistance in the form of an animated desktop hologram.

Google TV gets a Gemini glow-up, with a ton of new upgrades

By Eric Hal Schwartz published 8 January 26

Google’s new Gemini features for Google TV make your television smarter, more conversational, and surprisingly creative.

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