Articles by Graham Barlow, Senior Editor, AI

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'I don't believe it would have been made without AI' — bestselling author shows why AI-generated movies might not be such a bad thing after all

By Graham Barlow Published 14 October 26

Conn Iggulden's Genghis Khan books are finally becoming a TV series thanks to AI — so I asked the author what it's like to watch his novels come to life.

ChatGPT will soon start secretly watermarking its answers — here's what that means for the text you copy and share

By Graham Barlow Published 13 October 26

OpenAI is preparing to watermark ChatGPT's text — and you might never even notice it's there.

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‘She lost a lot of money. She almost lost her house’ — how an AI scammer tricked one woman into believing she was dating Jon Bon Jovi for a year

By Graham Barlow Published 12 October 26

One in seven Americans have lost money to a romance scam. The new documentary Super Scam Me is switching the focus to the scammers, and away from the victims.

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‘I don't think this is a fight that artists can afford to walk away from’ — award-winning illustrator Rob Biddulph says human creativity is worth defending against AI

By Graham Barlow Published 9 October 26

Rob Biddulph says the problem with AI art isn't quality — it's personality

ChatGPT just changed how it works with 'Intelligent UI'— here are 5 things you can do now that you couldn't before

By Graham Barlow Published 8 October 26

I've been using ChatGPT for years, but its 'Intelligent UI' upgrade makes it feel like something completely different.

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Your boss might be using AI to write your performance review — and some companies could be letting it help decide who gets promoted

By Graham Barlow Published 1 October 26

Manager are turning to AI for dealing with awkward conversations and performance reviews.

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‘There is nothing like human’: Hollywood is betting big on AI movies — just as audiences are turning against them and looking for films made by real people

By Graham Barlow Published 1 October 26

Hollywood is taking AI films seriously, and even Tom Cruise things they are coming, but AI seems to be turning the audience off.

AI slop has escaped the internet — from event posters to cafe menus, it’s suddenly everywhere in the real world

By Graham Barlow Published 29 September 26

From event posters to cafe menus, AI slop is suddenly everywhere — I asked artists and designers what’s going on

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‘These should never have got out of the lab’ — smart glasses are being used to secretly film women, and I'm angry we learned nothing from Google Glass 12 years ago

By Graham Barlow Published 24 September 26

12 years ago Google Glass arrived and so did the privacy concerns. We don't seem to have learned very much since then.

ChatGPT got GPT-6, but you can't use it in Chat — confused? It's time we talked about the difference between Chat and Work

By Graham Barlow Published 23 September 26

OpenAI has made GPT-6 available to ChatGPT Plus users, but you can only use it in Work mode. Here's why.

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The bizarre rise of ‘grandmaslop’ — grandparents are filling family albums with AI images, and their kids hate it

By Graham Barlow Published 22 September 26

There's a disturbing new trend of grandparents producing AI images of their grandkids, but does it point to a larger societal issue?

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ICYMI: the 7 biggest tech stories of the week, from AI apocalypse warnings to our Apple CEO interview

By Hamish Hector Published 19 September 26

We're looking back over the last week to pick out the most important stories published on TechRadar.

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I finally got Siri AI on my iPhone, so I gave it 5 jobs I normally use ChatGPT Voice for — I wasn’t expecting it to be this good

By Graham Barlow Published 18 September 26

I’ve waited years for Apple to fix Siri, and now I’ve started using it again

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‘I’ve just done about 2 weeks' work in an hour. Do I tell my boss or keep it secret?’ — Nearly a third of AI users are hiding it from their employers

By Graham Barlow Published 16 September 26

A new survey reveals that a third of workers are hiding the fact that they use AI from their boss at work. Are you one?

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Got iOS 27 but can't find the new Siri? You're not alone — here's why

By Graham Barlow Published 15 September 26

Updating to iOS 27 doesn't give you the new Siri AI. To get it you'll need to join the next waitlist.

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‘It 100% sounded just like her’: AI voice scams are getting frighteningly convincing — here’s how to protect your family

By Graham Barlow Published 14 September 26

A viral voice scam shows that even if you recognize the voice of a friend or loved one, that's no guarantee that it’s really them.

Google just gave every Windows 10 and 11 PC a Gemini key — I tried it, and it’s the easiest way to use its AI yet

By Graham Barlow Published 11 September 26

Google’s new Windows app turns [Alt] + [Space] into a dedicated Gemini shortcut, making its AI faster and easier to access than through a browser.

‘Who wants a stylus?’ — Steve Jobs famously mocked them, but Apple Pencil support could be the iPhone Duo’s secret weapon

By Graham Barlow Published 9 September 26

The new iPhone Duo supports the Apple Pencil, and that means Apple has finally produced an iPhone with a stylus — but would Steve Jobs have approved?

ChatGPT Images 2.5 is out — I’ve been testing it for 24 hours, and these are the 3 new features you’ll actually use

By Graham Barlow Published 8 September 26

ChatGPT has just updated its Images tool to version 2.5, and it comes with a bunch of improvements. Here are the three you really need to know about.

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‘I’ve seen AIs of me sitting with Obama talking about insane things that we never did’: George Clooney raises the alarm over AI fakes — while Maggie Gyllenhaal says the tech 'fundamentally did not work’ when she was pressured to use it in filmmaking

By Graham Barlow Published 8 September 26

George Clooney and Maggie Gyllenhaal discussed the future of AI in filmmaking at the The Future of Creativity hosted by Finch & Partners and CAA in Venice.

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‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’: We were dreaming about ChatGPT thousands of years before it existed — here's how ancient myths shaped the AI we’re building today

By Graham Barlow Published 8 September 26

The authors of Myth-Made Machines explain how ancient myths and science fiction shaped our hopes and fears about today’s AI.

Google is quietly building an AI version of Canva inside Workspace — and Nano Banana could make it seriously useful

By Graham Barlow Published 3 September 26

Google Pics brings Nano Banana-powered image creation and editing directly into Workspace, giving Canva a potentially formidable new rival.

Caira’s AI mirrorless camera is getting ‘Nano Banana for video editing’ — but it only works on footage you’ve actually shot

By Graham Barlow Published 2 September 26

Caira’s new generative video tools can transform footage using natural-language instructions while keeping the original recording at the heart of every edit.