Articles by Graham Barlow, Senior Editor, AI

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Today Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO — I've been an Apple computing journalist since 2004, here are the 5 ways that Cook changed Apple for the better

By Graham Barlow Published 1 September 26

Tim Cook has stepped down as CEO of Apple. Here's a look back at how he changed the company over the last 15 years.

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Exclusive: ‘The point isn't that it never misunderstands; it's that the user stays in control’ — Plaud tells us why its new AI earbuds want to do more than record your meetings

By Graham Barlow Published 27 August 26

Plaud's new AI earbuds record your conversations, but that's only the beginning.

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Sorry, OpenAI — people are using your God-level AI to choose wine, wash clothes, and solve other weirdly specific problems, not change the world

By Graham Barlow Published 21 August 26

People aren't using ChatGPT to change the world, they're using it to make their lives better. Here are 5 weirdly specific and clever ways people are actually using it.

ChatGPT has started dropping unexpected f-bombs — and I think I’ve found the reason why

By Graham Barlow Published 20 August 26

I noticed that ChatGPT seems to be swearing a lot more lately, and other people have noticed it too. So, what's really going on?

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My iPhone keyboard was becoming infuriating for typing AI prompts — I changed these 3 settings, and ChatGPT is now much easier to use

By Graham Barlow Published 18 August 26

If you frequently type prompts to ChatGPT on your iPhone then you might want to make these changes to your keyboard for improved accuracy.

I gave ChatGPT my Google Drive ‘digital junk drawer’ — it dug up things I’d forgotten about years ago

By Graham Barlow Published 17 August 26

ChatGPT can now treat your Google Drive as part of its library, unlocking huge potential for organizing your digital mess.

‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words — here’s how that’s even possible, and how EU rules could push OpenAI and Google to follow suit

By Graham Barlow Published 12 August 26

Anthropic has announced that new Claude models will hide an invisible watermark inside any generated text — here’s how that’s even possible, and how OpenAI and Google might have to follow suit.

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I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt

By Graham Barlow Published 10 August 26

An AI agent hacked a gym waitlist while trying to book a class — and it reveals why we need to set clear boundaries before letting AI act for us.

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'Great music is made by people' — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create

By Graham Barlow Published 7 August 26

The AI music revolution has hit an awkward reality — even Suno is starting to put the brakes on.

‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse — so I ran my own comparison against ChatGPT

By Graham Barlow Published 5 August 26

Following up on a Reddit conversation about AI image generators I investigate how Nano Banana 2 compares to ChatGPT at image generation.

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I stopped looking for the perfect meditation app and built my own using AI — and it was done in under 5 minutes

By Graham Barlow Published 4 August 26

I couldn't find a meditation timer app I liked, so I built my own with Google AI Studio and it did it in under 5 minutes.

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A study found 92% of workers over 50 showed signs of disordered sleep — these 3 ChatGPT tricks helped me switch off

By Graham Barlow Published 3 August 26

Researchers have uncovered a hidden sleep crisis among workers my age — here are three ways I use ChatGPT to help me nod off.

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I asked ChatGPT to stop me buying things I don’t need, and it was brutally helpful — I just wish I'd thought of it sooner

By Graham Barlow Published 30 July 26

The best way ChatGPT can save you money is by talking you out of making rash buying decisions.

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I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more

By Graham Barlow Published 29 July 26

I gave Gemini and ChatGPT the same messy collection of personal data to see which one could turn it into a useful plan — and only one behaved like a genuine AI assistant.

I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players

By Graham Barlow Published 27 July 26

I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but I couldn’t get in, and it's proof the AI race is no longer just about better models — it's about access.

Samsung just fixed the foldable phone — now Apple can make it cool

By Graham Barlow Published 23 July 26

The new Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra is the best folding phone I've seen, but I'm waiting to see what Apple does in the same space.

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TikTok says AI-generated spam ‘crowds out original creators’ — so it’s teaching users how to spot AI

By Graham Barlow Published 22 July 26

TikTok is launching a new in-app hub to help you spot AI-generated content as it cracks down on AI slop.

I gave ChatGPT’s new Work mode my most annoying life-admin tasks — and it handled them like a pro

By Graham Barlow Published 21 July 26

ChatGPT's new Work mode is designed for business tasks, but you can also use it for your daily admin.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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