Craig Hale

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

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Adopting AI is a major priority for businesses - but employees are falling behind on education

By Craig Hale published

All worker types, including CEOs, are showing a lack of readiness when it comes to using AI in cybersecurity.

Apple Creator Studio – apps included

Farewell Apple iWork? Iconic brand appears to be disappearing in favor of Creator Studio

By Craig Hale published

Apple's iWork brand looks to have been retired after two decades, with the launch of new Creator Studio, which includes paid subscriptions.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025. SoftBank and OpenAI announced that they have agreed a partnership to set up a joint venture for artificial intelligence services in Japan today.

'He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future': Sam Altman says OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

By Craig Hale published

OpenAI snaps up OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger – OpenClaw will now go on to be an "open and independent" platform.

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Microsoft launches 'Trusted Tech Alliance' to try and restore some faith in Big Tech

By Craig Hale published

15 major firms join together to launch the Trusted Tech Alliance as geopolitically-influenced data sovereignty pushes play out.

Businesswoman reading and signing a contract in a home office.

5 mistakes everybody makes when it comes to invoicing software – and here's how to avoid them

By Craig Hale published

Sponsored

Invoicing software can streamline payments and improve cash flow, but only if you choose correctly

People deliberating over UX design

Amazon has a new creative agent to help your business build its own ads

By Craig Hale published

Amazon's AI agent won't just create your ad for you, it'll also do all the market research and data collection for maximum impact.

AI

Feeling swamped by all the different AI agent names? GoDaddy has a new plan for avoiding confusion

By Craig Hale published

GoDaddy's Agent Name Service and the ANS Registry and the world's first agentic AI trust layer.

Sage Payroll

5 mistakes everybody makes when it comes to small business payroll software – and here's how to avoid them

By Craig Hale published

Sponsored

Avoid the most common payroll software pitfalls and run small business payroll

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WP Engine-Automattic feud resurfaces with new claims of royalty fees and contract threats

By Craig Hale published

WP Engine just updated its legal claim against Automattic, but CEO Matt Mullenweg isn't concerned.

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IBM says it will actually start hiring entry-level human workers, rather than relying entirely on AI

By Craig Hale published

IBM still uses AI like every other company, but it's planning to hire more junior workers to plug the gaps that AI leaves open.

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LinkedIn launches one-stop shop for all the tools your SMB needs to succeed and grow

By Craig Hale published

Premium All-in-One is one of three Premium plans LinkedIn has for SMBs.

Anthropic Claude 4.5

'AI companies shouldn’t leave American ratepayers to pick up the tab': Anthropic says it will cover electricity price increases caused by its data centers

By Craig Hale published

Anthropic responds to President Trump's demands to protect US citizens against AI-induced energy bill rises.

ChatGPT

'We believe the people responsible for defending the country should have access to the best tools available': OpenAI is giving the US military access to ChatGPT

By Craig Hale published

OpenAI has agreed to let the US military use ChatGPT for "all lawful uses" without imposing technical restrictions.

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Zoom has a host of new AI tools it thinks can supercharge your productivity

By Craig Hale published

After the launch of Zoom AI Companion 3.0, Zoom is adding even more tools to make its agentic AI platform "proactive," not "reactive."

Glowing server racks inside a data center.

Barely any EU data centers are actually ready for AI - and upgrading could be a costly challenge

By Craig Hale published

Europe's existing data centers aren't ready for AI – upgrading them is challenging, and new built-outs are slow.

Autonomous finance

5 mistakes everybody makes when it comes to bookkeeping software – and here's how to avoid them

By Craig Hale published

Sponsored

Avoid costly bookkeeping software mistakes and choose smarter from day one

ChatGPT app on an iPhone

OpenAI hails 1 million Codex downloads, but warns limits may be coming - but ChatGPT Deep Research users get a whole load of upgrades to boost their work

By Craig Hale published

OpenAI says Codex macOS app has been downloaded more than 1 million times in just over a week.

Windows 10

Still using Windows 10? Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates on older PCs ahead of expiration, so you might want to update ASAP

By Craig Hale published

Affected (legacy) Windows 10 devices might not get the new Secure Boot certificates, Microsoft says.

Office chairs

Turn your computer off! Workers are causing massive office energy bills with these annoying habits

By Craig Hale published

We're used to turning lights off when we're not in the room, but workers need to get into the habit of turning off computers and monitors.

Stress

Employees are wasting thousands of hours a month on admin - so is AI the answer?

By Craig Hale published

Workers are wasting 5.6 hours/week on average doing admin (mostly responding to emails) – so doi we need more suitable AI tools?

Artificial intelligence India

Microsoft researchers crack AI guardrails with a single prompt

By Craig Hale published

A single prompt can shift a model's safety behavior, with ongoing prompts potentially fully eroding it.

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Workday CEO Eschenbach steps down – co-founder Bhusri to return

By Craig Hale published

Workday's co-founder is returning to lead the company after Eschenbach steps down following two-year tenure.

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Salesforce halts development of new features for Heroku cloud AI platform

By Craig Hale published

Heroku has gone into a 'sustaining engineering' phase, which means Salesforce won't be updating it with new features anymore.

Flags of the European Union in front of the Berlaymont Building, which houses the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium

Europe is going all-in on sovereign cloud – investment to triple by 2027

By Craig Hale published

European governments, regulated industries and critical services are all doubling down on anti-hyperscaler, pro-sovereignty changes.

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Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services

By Craig Hale published

Microsoft has set out its roadmap to fully retire Exchange Web Services from April 2027, after around 20 years of service.

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