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Claude can build working calculators, forms and charts inside the chat. We list five tools a small business can ask for first, from a quote calculator to a 12-week cash chart, with the prompts…
Only 23% of UK small businesses that build their own AI tools formally review them, the lowest of four countries in Pax8's new survey.…
MCP lets Claude and ChatGPT plug into your calendar, files and accounts. It is useful, but a public registry census counted 21,643 servers and…
Claude Haiku 5.5 launched on 7 October at up to 90% less than Haiku 4.5. The cheap rate only covers prompts under 100,000 tokens…
A third of UK firms with ten or more staff now use AI, but the ONS says only 10% of those use it extensively.…
53% of British CIOs have watched an AI agent break company policy and hurt the business or a customer. The global average in the…
OpenAI’s most expensive model costs 100 times as much per token as its cheapest. GPT-6 Astra lists at $10 per million tokens in and…
$4.1 trillion. That is the amount JP Morgan analysts estimate will be borrowed to pay for AI building work between 2026 and 2030, and…
£958 million. That is what Deloitte estimates British workers spend every year out of their own pockets on generative AI tools they use for…
£3.7 billion. That is what BT says UK small businesses lose in revenue every year because nobody picked up the phone. Whether or not…
38 UK businesses close every day because of late payments. That is the government’s own estimate, from research published in July 2025 by London…
OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of what its flagship model costs, and OpenAI says it gets close to the same results on…
