Articles by Craig Hale

With several years’ experience freelancing in tech and automotive circles, Craig’s specific interests lie in technology that is designed to better our lives, including AI and ML, productivity aids, and smart fitness. He is also passionate about cars and the decarbonisation of personal transportation. As an avid bargain-hunter, you can be sure that any deal Craig finds is top value!

Articles by: Craig Hale

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‘Speed without control is a liability, not an advantage': GitLab study reveals AI code generation is outpacing controls

By Craig Hale Published 30 June 26

Rapid AI adoption is just shifting bottlenecks downstream as governance fails to keep up, making trust more critical than speed.

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‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects

By Desire Athow Published 30 June 26

Exclusive Despite the growing importance of open source software, most widely used projects are underfunded because they’re not glamorous enough.

Liquid cooling infrastructure overhead pipes routes into powerful AI servers

The summer heat is hitting data centers hard — and outages and downtime may only get worse

By Craig Hale Published 30 June 26

More than half of the world's data center capacity is at risk of rising temperatures, heatwaves, drought and water stress.

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Microsoft takes down over 100 malicious Edge extensions hiding malware in images and fonts

By Craig Hale Published 30 June 26

Microsoft says the 119 malicious extensions were downloaded a total of 2.6 million times since 2021.

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Some businesses expect to hire more workers thanks to AI, not sack them

By Craig Hale Published 30 June 26

Box study finds companies now believe AI will create new roles, including AI agent operators, automation specialists and security professionals.

OpenClaw reveals iOS and Android mobile apps at last — but initial reviews make for tough reading

By Craig Hale Published 30 June 26

OpenAI's done it, Anthropic is doing it... OpenClaw now has a mobile app to let you control your AI agents remotely.

'The goal is not to replace humans': new Meta AI research chief Dawn Song says the next frontier is AI agents that are "economically valuable"

By Craig Hale Published 29 June 26

Meta's AI Research VP believes AI should augment human value and that many benchmarks are irrelevant as companies struggle to prove ROI.

'This is a step in the right direction': Oracle set to open up MySQL - but will it be everything developers wish for?

By Craig Hale Published 29 June 26

Oracle was previously slated over how it handled MySQL – the company now has a new plan to involve the community.

'Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice': Microsoft is fuelling up Excel with lots more AI tools for finance workers

By Craig Hale Published 29 June 26

Microsoft has launched even more AI tools for Excel to maintain the software's position as a go-to finance tool.

BT and Verizon sign 'major milestone' tie-up to connect customers across 180 countries

By Craig Hale Published 29 June 26

BT and Verizon are launching a new 50:50 joint venture to give global enterprises cross-border connectivity, cloud and security.

Megapod is the modular AI data center kit that Elon Musk's Tesla wants to sell — but there's a tiny problem (actually, three)

By Craig Hale Published 28 June 26

Tesla's proposed Megapod AI data center project faces significant hurdles before it even begins – trademark conflicts, established competition and more.

FCC considers axing $2 billion school and library internet connectivity scheme — Chairman blames tablets for moving kids away from "turning pages in books, penciling out answers to math problems"

By Craig Hale Published 26 June 26

E-Rate has funded library and school Wi-Fi for networking infrastructure for nearly three decades – is it time to end it?

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'Changing jobs no longer means financial ruin': AI giants and government join forces to train US workforce to not go obsolete in the age of AI

By Craig Hale Published 26 June 26

"America has a technology strategy" but "it does not yet have a people strategy" – Gina Raimondo wants companies to support workers.

'Humanity now stands on the eve of AGI': DeepSeek wants to "at least double the size of every department" as company pursues hiring spree in pursuit of AGI

By Craig Hale Published 26 June 26

DeepSeek is hiring engineers, product managers and more as it targets the next era of AI – artificial general intelligence.

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Anthropic could be about to release Claude Cowork for mobile

By Craig Hale Published 26 June 26

Claude Cowork's Dispatch remote controller could be launching imminently – some sources suggest it's in beta, but no official announcement has been made.

‘Never let the builder be its own reviewer’: The next challenge is trust, not speed of code generation

By Desire Athow Published 26 June 26

Exclusive AI coding platforms are becoming crucial infrastructure, but governance, verification and trust are now major challenges.