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This week the gap between what AI companies say and what they do got harder to ignore. OpenAI announced new safety measures but then pushed a model...

August 2026I live in Windsor. I see the prices every day. The average detached house in the town hit £720,000 last month. That is up 4% from last y...

People love a bargain. They see a 30% off sticker and feel a rush. They hunt for discount codes, compare prices across sites, and wait for sales. T...

I spent this morning running models on a laptop. No cloud, no API costs, no latency. The hype says local AI replaces everything. The reality is nar...

Notice a video titled "You won't believe what this actor said." You click. It is a 10 minute video with 2 minutes of content. That is the pattern. ...

You don't need a guarantee to return a faulty item. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you 30 days to reject something that's not fit for purpose a...

Intel just laid off 15 percent of its workforce. That is not a company about to sell billions of dollars of AI chips. It is a company admitting its...

The European Commission fined Meta another €400 million for failing to comply with GDPR requirements around targeted advertising. The ruling reinfo...

The big retail parks near the M4 are expanding again. More chain restaurants, more car showrooms, more identikit housing estates on the old farm fi...

You see it everywhere. People celebrating how much they saved. Look at this receipt. I got this for 80 percent off. They are not calculating the ho...

I run a bunch of small models on my laptop. They do two things well. One is structuring messy text. I pipe in garbled meeting notes and get back cl...

Pop culture clickbait has been running the same playbook for a decade. The patterns never change because they never need to. You still see the same...

Most people think they have a legal right to return a faulty item and get a refund. You don't. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you 30 days to re...

The scale of AI infrastructure spending is staggering. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will collectively spend over $200bn this year on data cen...

The UK AI Safety Summit last week was a masterclass in misplaced priorities. The government put safety before capability, which sounds noble. It is...

The castle queue snakes past the Copper Horse by 9am. Tourists clog the pavement outside the Crooked House. Local shopkeepers say footfall is up 20...

Value shopping is not about buying cheap things. It is about paying the right price for the right thing. Most people confuse price with value. A ch...

I run local models for two things. One is automation that needs privacy. The other is automation that needs speed. Everything else stays on OpenAI....

Pop culture clickbait is not creative. It is formulaic. The same six patterns have dominated headlines for a decade because they exploit how your b...

The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act changed how businesses handle subscriptions. From early 2025, companies must give you a straight...

Spending on AI infrastructure is not a bubble waiting to burst. It is a structural shift that will continue for years.The confusion comes from conf...

Apple’s quiet update to the MacBook Air with the M4 chip got the headlines. But the real story is the price drop on the M2 model. That machine is n...

The cafes along Peascod Street have steady trade. Not full but not empty. A few people sit outside Costa with dogs at their feet. The bookshop on K...

I see people spend hours chasing discounts. They compare prices across five sites. They wait for flash sales. They buy things they never wanted bec...

I spent the last month running local models for small tasks. Not coding assistants or chatbots. Just automation glue.The thing that works: categori...

Pop culture clickbait is not creative. It is a formula that has not changed for a decade. The curiosity gap headline promises information you canno...

If something you buy is broken or not as described, you have 30 days from receipt to get a full refund. That is the law under the Consumer Rights A...

The numbers coming out of the big tech earnings calls are getting harder to justify. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta collectively spent over $20...

The EU Digital Markets Act hit major streaming platforms this week. Spotify immediately added in-app purchases outside Apple's payment system. The ...

The town centre is quiet. More shops are closed than open. The ones that remain look tired. You can walk from the castle to the river and barely pa...

Too many people confuse deal hunting with value shopping. They chase 50% off signs on things they never needed. That is not saving money. That is s...

Running a local language model is not about replacing cloud services. It is about doing specific jobs without sending data out of your network. The...

The same patterns have been running for a decade. A celebrity does something normal. The headline screams "gone too far". A movie gets a mixed revi...

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, any goods you buy must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. If they fail on any of the...

The numbers keep going up. Cloud providers are spending more on data centres and chips than they earn from the services those assets support. Reven...

The same week that saw another round of layoffs at a major social media company also brought a report on how much time executives spend on internal...

You see it all the time. People queuing outside a shop at 5am for a 20% off sale on stuff they don't need. They think they're saving money. But the...

I spent a good chunk of today testing a local model against a simple automation task. The idea was to have it extract specific fields from an invoi...

I was watching some videos tonight and got caught in that trap where you watch something just because the thumbnail made you angry. The face with t...

Had a mate ring me yesterday. His laptop died 18 months after he bought it. Shop told him tough luck, warranty was 12 months. He was ready to just ...

I was sitting in a pub with an old mate who works at one of the big cloud providers. He was telling me about the numbers they're seeing. Data centr...

Noticed this week that the AI search summaries have gone mainstream. Every query now gives you a paragraph of text before any links. It changes the...

I saw it this morning on my way to the shops. The council painted the lane last week and now cars are parked half on the pavement, half in the cycl...

Spent half an hour this morning watching a bloke on YouTube explain how to save 12 quid on a train ticket by booking six weeks in advance and split...

I watched the Clickbust launch today. It's one of those things you see coming but still surprises you when it actually lands. The premise is simple...

It ran at 8am this morning. I spent the first hour just watching the logs tick over. What caught my eye was how quiet it was. No crashes, no flood ...

Lithium batteries have been banned from checked luggage for ages on the flights I use. But apparently that wasn't across the board. Some airlines a...

Clickbust ran today. First time in production. Six months of work and it finally did its thing without falling over. That moment when you hit deplo...

That's the third one. The third run of this thing where we all get together and cut the noise. It works because we don't try to fix everything. We ...

Today was the first time Clickbust actually ran in production. Not a test run. Not a dry run. The real thing. It caught a few things. Nothing drama...

The first batch of emails landed at 8am. What caught my eye was the open rate. Not the headline number but the spike in the first hour. That tells ...

OpenAI announced Jalapeño today. Custom inference chip with Broadcom, better perf/watt than anything current. Nine month tape-out, fastest ASIC cyc...

Clickbust ran today. That's the weekly newsletter that takes a headline and shows you the mechanics behind it. The one that got me this week was fr...

Today Clickbust ran. Not a test run, not a soft launch. It went out into the wild and the logs started filling up immediately. The idea is simple: ...

Walked past a guy on the street today filming himself. Phone out, talking to the lens, full performance. He was in a suit, outside a Greggs, doing ...

Had a conversation today that turned into something bigger than I expected. We were talking about where the next AI breakthrough comes from. Most p...

Clickbust ran this morning. Nothing special, just another test. But I watched the reaction in real time. A headline hits. People start typing. With...

Everyone talks about the AI bubble like its just a tech thing. Nvidia down 20% and people think grab your popcorn. But this isnt 2000 where the dam...