Eric Hal Schwartz

Eric Hal Schwartz

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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

iLamp

Solar-powered iLamp turns the humble lamppost into an AI hub

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

A British firm’s solar-powered smart streetlight could help solve AI’s growing energy and emissions problem by turning lampposts into decentralized data centers.

Nano Banana Pro

Gemini 3's Nano Banana Pro photo editing is amazing – here are 3 ways to make the most of it

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

How Nano Banana Pro makes editing photos with AI easier and more impressive.

Nano Banana Pro NotebookLM

Nano Banana Pro cast a design spell in NotebookLM to explore the legend of Camelot

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Nano Banana Pro produces beautifully designed, infographics and slide decks for NotebookLM.

Perplexity Comet Mobile

Comet AI browser lands on Android

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Perplexity's Comet browser brings smart, voice-enabled AI help to mobile browsing, aiming to turn every tab into a conversation.

ChatGPT Group Chats

ChatGPT enters the group chat globally

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

ChatGPT’s new group chats feature has been released everywhere to act as a shared collaborator.

2wai

This AI app lets you chat with the dead using a few minutes of video – and not everyone is okay with that

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

2wai's AI app can recreate deceased loved ones, leading to intense debate about whether digital resurrection is comforting or crossing a line.

Grok on a smartphone

Grok 4.1 is trying too hard to impress – and ChatGPT 5.1 makes it look easy

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Grok 4.1 brags about emotional intelligence and personality, but ChatGPT-5.1 is the AI chatbot you’d actually want to talk to.

Target ChatGPT

Target jumps into ChatGPT just in time for holiday shopping

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Target’s new ChatGPT integration makes shopping a conversation.

ChatGPT-5.1 vs Gemini 3

Ignore the hype – I tested Gemini 3 and ChatGPT 5.1 head-to-head on what really matters: ease of use

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Testing Gemini 3 against ChatGPT-5.1 showcases how natural the AI models can be in their responses.

Gemini on a smartphone.

Gemini 3 is here – 3 things to know about the major AI update

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Gemini 3 brings major upgrades to Google's AI models and the platforms using Gemini to become more useful.

WeatherNext2

Why Google’s smarter weather might be the most useful AI in your life

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google’s new WeatherNext 2 AI system brings smarter, faster, and more nuanced weather forecasting directly to your apps and daily decisions.

A laptop screen showing Google's AI mode helping with travel enquiries

Planning a trip? These 3 new Google AI tools could save you a lot of time and money

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google’s latest AI updates make trip planning faster and easier by combining itinerary building, deal-finding, and reservation booking into one smart system.

GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT

I compared GPT-5.1 to GPT-5 on ChatGPT, and now I don’t want to go back

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Testing GPT-5.1 against GPT-5 across multiple real-world prompts shows how small improvements in clarity, constraint-following, and tone make a big difference in everyday use.

GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT

ChatGPT 5.1 is smarter, nicer, and better at actually doing what you asked

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 upgrade makes ChatGPT more reliable and gives it a customizable personality.

Samsung Vision AI

Your Samsung TV just got a personality – and it knows what you’re watching, what you need, and when to talk

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Samsung's new smart TVs include the Vision AI Companion, a voice-activated AI assistant powered by Bixby, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity.

Google Photos AI

Blinked in a photo? No problem – Google Photos can now fix that, and lots more, using AI

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google Photos expands AI tools with personalized facial editing and more.

Scary AI

An AI executive's dire warnings about the future are chilling – but his solution is worse than the problem

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

AI has enormous disruptive potential, but trusting tech companies to guide society through the danger is foolish.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT 5.1 could launch soon - 5 features we’d love to see from OpenAI’s next generation chatbot

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

ChatGPT-5.1 could be a refined evolution of GPT‑5, with hopefully better memory, creativity, accuracy, automation, and personality that sticks.

Nano Banana 2

Google will peel back a new era of AI images with Nano Banana 2

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google’s Nano Banana 2 aims to revamp AI image generation with built-in quality control and upgraded visuals.

Perplexity Comet web browser on a MacBook Pro

Perplexity upgrades Comet to multitask across your tabs

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google is embedding its Nano Banana AI image model into Search and NotebookLM, with Photos to follow.

ChatGPT interrupting

You can now interrupt ChatGPT as it learns to take feedback on the fly

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

OpenAI’s new mid-response editing feature for GPT-5 Pro allows real-time updates during AI replies.

Gemini Art

5 ways to make Gemini your everyday AI art teacher

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

How Gemini's visual feedback can make for a helpful art teacher.

NotebookLM upgrades

You can now use Google's AI study tools for NotebookLM right up until the test starts

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

Google's NotebookLM app adds AI-powered flashcards and quizzes for on-the-go studying.

Black Rotary Telephone on White Surface

Why it's now so hip to go analog and how AI is the antithesis of that

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

As AI makes everything too perfect to feel real, a new wave of analog love is rising in rebellion.

AI ads

AI video commercials are starting to spread, but people won't trust uncanny valley endorsements

By Eric Hal Schwartz published

As AI-generated avatars replace real people in commercials, brands risk losing consumer trust to an uncanny, emotionally hollow marketing strategy.

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