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.
01 May 2026 PM: Musk testifies on Grok, Anthropic chases $900B, OpenAI tightens ChatGPT security
Musk admits xAI distilled Grok from OpenAI models. Anthropic races to a $900B round. OpenAI brings hardware keys to ChatGPT…
1 May 2026: Grok Distillation, Anthropic’s $900B Round, ChatGPT Adds Yubico (AM)
Elon Musk testifies xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models, Anthropic eyes a $900bn raise, and ChatGPT now supports Yubico hardware…
What is reasoning in AI, and is the model really thinking?
AI companies say their newest models can reason. What that really means, when it actually helps, and whether the machine…
30 April 2026: OpenAI Explains the Goblin Glitch, Anthropic Eyes $900B (AM)
OpenAI publishes a candid post-mortem on GPT-5's quirks while Anthropic circles a $900B valuation, plus Microsoft Copilot tops 20m users.
Anthropic’s new model tier finds 27-year-old bugs. Who can actually use Claude Mythos Preview?
Claude Mythos Preview is Anthropic’s most capable model, gated to security researchers. Here is what it can do, and why…
29 April 2026 PM: Scout AI’s $100m War Bet, OpenAI Lands on AWS, and Google Translate Turns 20
Scout AI raises $100m for military AI agents, OpenAI models arrive on Amazon's cloud, and Google Translate hits 20 with…
Why AI gets things wrong even when it sounds confident
AI language models predict text rather than look up facts, which is why confident-sounding wrong answers happen. Here is what…
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, or retrieval-augmented generation, is the trick that lets AI models answer questions about your own documents. Here is how…
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…