Sarah Drummond
Sarah Drummond covers artificial intelligence and emerging technology. She writes about AI tools, model developments, and what the latest advances mean for businesses and consumers in the UK.
AI for research: is Perplexity better than Google?
AI-powered search tools like Perplexity promise direct answers instead of links. Here is when they are better than Google, when…
22 April 2026: Meta Records Keystrokes, Mythos Under Fire and SpaceX Bets $60B on Cursor (AM)
Meta begins recording employee keystrokes for AI training as Anthropic's Mythos is breached and SpaceX discloses a $60B option to…
AI Daily: Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.6 with 300-agent swarms, ChatGPT ships Images 2.0
Today's AI news: Kimi K2.6 launches with 300-sub-agent orchestration, ChatGPT ships Images 2.0, and NeoCognition raises $40M to build humanlike…
AI tools for photos and video: what is actually worth using
A plain-English guide to the AI photo and video tools that are actually worth your time, from upscaling and background…
21 April 2026: The AI That Can Hack Your Browser, Ads Inside ChatGPT, and Half a Billion for UK AI
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview finds zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously. OpenAI launches CPC ads in ChatGPT. The UK opens a £500m sovereign…
21 April 2026: OpenAI Launches GPT-Image-2, Adobe Goes Agentic, FCA Names Eight Banks for AI Testing (AM)
OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2 with near-perfect text rendering, Adobe unveils agentic CX platform, and the FCA confirms eight banks in AI…
NSA Deploys Anthropic’s Mythos AI vs Pentagon — 20 Apr 2026
The NSA is running Anthropic’s Claude Mythos on classified networks, agentic shoppers outspend humans at US retailers, and Coinbase builds…
Using AI to write and edit: what it’s good at and what it gets wrong
AI can draft and edit faster than any human. But AI writing has tells, and publishing it unedited is a…
How small businesses are actually using AI right now
AI has settled into a handful of genuinely useful routines for small businesses. Here is what owners are actually doing…
AI Daily 19 Apr: Claude Design Lands, Agents Can Spend
Anthropic launches Claude Design and Opus 4.7. AI agents gain spending power via Mastercard. World ID 4.0 fights deepfakes. FCA…