Checkatrade’s Free TradeMore App: Free AI Job Management for Every UK Tradesperson
Checkatrade has just launched TradeMore, a free AI powered job management app open to every UK tradesperson, not just those already signed up to Checkatrade. It lands at a genuinely uncomfortable moment for the trade: research behind the UK Admin Drain Report 2026 found the average small business owner in trades loses eight hours a […]
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Proof for $2,000. An 80-Year Problem, Solved. Same Lab Was Wrong Before.
An 80-year-old problem, and a bill smaller than a laptop On 1 August 2026, OpenAI announced that Astra, an unreleased research model, had produced fully verified solutions to ten open mathematical problems, each unsolved for a decade or more. The company published a 249-page manuscript alongside machine-checkable Lean 4 proof certificates on GitHub, and the […]
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Cooper Is Live, and the Renewal Price Just Went Up 25%
Cooper is live, and the renewal price just went up 25% On 13 May 2026, Simpro Group switched on Lightning, an AI-native operating platform rolled out simultaneously across its three field service brands: Simpro, AroFlo and, in the UK and Europe, BigChange. Simpro Group calls it the largest single product release in the company’s history. […]
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There’s Still No UK AI Act: Here’s the Regulation That Actually Applies to Your Business
Every few months another headline asks where Britain’s AI Act has got to. The honest answer is that it isn’t coming, not in the shape people expect. There is no single AI statute before Parliament and no date to circle for one. Ministers have said repeatedly they don’t want to legislate AI as a technology […]
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New UK Rules on AI Decisions Are Live: The Data (Use and Access) Act Explained for SMEs
What actually changed on 5 February 2026 Section 80 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 came into force on 5 February 2026, replacing Article 22 of the UK GDPR. For nearly a decade, the old rule gave people a fairly blunt right: a decision made “solely” by a machine, with no human involved, […]
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The Amazon v Perplexity Ruling: What the First Agentic Shopping Case Means for You
A courtroom just answered a question every online retailer will face On 4 August 2026, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that when someone sends an AI shopping agent onto Amazon to browse, compare and buy on their behalf, it is the shopper who is legally “accessing” Amazon’s site, not the […]
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Selling Inside ChatGPT: What Agentic Commerce Means for Small UK Retailers
The shopping trip that starts and ends in a chat window Something changed in how people shop online this year, and most small retailers have not caught up with it yet. AI-attributed orders to Shopify stores are now up 11 times since January 2025, according to commerce data cited by Elogic Commerce. That is not […]
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ChatGPT Ads Just Went Pan-European: What UK Businesses Should Do With Their Head Start
Today, ChatGPT ads landed in 31 more European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. It is OpenAI’s biggest advertising rollout since it began testing ads in the US back in February. For UK businesses, today marks the end of something quieter: an eleven-week head start most never knew they had. We have […]
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Google AI Mode Passed 1 Billion Users: Is Your Business Showing Up in It?
Sundar Pichai stood up at Google I/O 2026 and said something that should get the attention of every UK small business still treating a page-one Google ranking as the finish line. AI Mode, the conversational search experience Google launched barely a year earlier, has passed one billion monthly active users. AI Overviews, the AI-written summaries […]
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68% of Google Searches Now End Without a Click: What UK Trades Should Do About It
The number that should worry every trades business New research from SparkToro, built on Similarweb clickstream data, puts a hard figure on something most of us have felt for a while: 68.01% of Google searches in early 2026 ended without a single click through to a website. That is up from 60.45% just two years […]
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