Chris Howell

It looked real… until it wasn’t AI-generated images are now convincing enough to fool thousands — sometimes millions — of people. A recent example involved highly realistic AI images claiming to show Zendaya’s “wedding” to Tom Holland — widely shared online and believed by many to be genuine, even though the event never actually happened. The pictures looked exactly like the kind of photos you’d expect to see from a real-world celebration, which is why so many people accepted them without...

Rising Hardware Costs, AI Demand, and What It Means for Smaller Organisations Not long ago, local AI felt like a smart shortcut. If you could run AI on your own laptop or office machine, you could keep sensitive work closer to home, reduce reliance on subscriptions, and avoid sending every task into the cloud. For small businesses, that sounded appealing. For freelancers and solo operators, it sounded even better. The promise was easy to understand without needing a technical background: more...

Last year, I asked four AI systems to predict the 2025 Formula One World Drivers’ Champion . All four selected Lando Norris. When he went on to win the title — narrowly — the experiment looked like a clean validation of data-driven forecasting under stable regulations. But 2026 is different. The 2026 Formula One season represents the most significant technical reset the sport has experienced in more than a decade. The aerodynamic philosophy changes dramatically, active aero replaces...