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.
29 April 2026: GPT-5.5 Arrives, Claude Agents Gain Memory, and a £850m Bet on Superintelligence
OpenAI ships GPT-5.5, Anthropic adds persistent memory to Claude agents, DeepSeek launches V4, and David Silver raises £850m for a…
What is RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), and how does it work?
RAG Retrieval Augmented Generation explained in plain English. RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, is the trick that lets AI models answer…
29 April 2026: AWS Opens to OpenAI, Claude Plugs Into Creative Tools (AM)
AWS adds OpenAI's latest models to Bedrock, Anthropic plugs Claude into Adobe and Blender, and Google Translate gets a pronunciation…
GPT-5.5 lands with stronger agentic coding and a steep API price jump
Gpt 5 5 explained in plain English. GPT-5.5 arrived on 23 April 2026 with meaningful gains on agentic coding benchmarks…
28 April 2026: OpenAI Clears Path to AWS as British AI Lab Commands $5 Billion Valuation
OpenAI wins Microsoft concessions to sell on AWS, a British AI lab raises $1.1bn, YouTube tests AI search, and Otter…
What is generative AI, in plain English?
Generative AI creates text, images, audio and video from a prompt. Here is what it actually is, how it differs…
28 April 2026: OpenAI Frees Itself From Microsoft Lock-in (AM)
OpenAI escapes its Microsoft cloud exclusivity, China blocks Meta's Manus deal, and a former DeepMind star raises $1.1B for a…
What is Sora, and why did OpenAI shut it down?
OpenAI's AI video generator closed its consumer app on 26 April 2026. Here is what the shutdown means for users…
27 April 2026: Microsoft and OpenAI Reshape Their Alliance as China Blocks Meta’s Manus Deal
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their partnership, OpenAI may build an AI-first phone, and a…
What is a prompt, and why does wording change the answer?
Why the way you phrase a question to an AI matters far more than most people realise, and how small…