Google Just Made Its Windows AI Free. Microsoft Still Wants £30 a Month for Copilot.
Google just made its Windows AI free. Microsoft still wants £30 a month for Copilot. If you run a small business and you’re paying…
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43% of UK Businesses Were Breached This Year. Almost None Have an AI Policy For It.
43% of UK businesses were breached or attacked in the last twelve months. That is roughly 612,000 organisations, according to the government’s own Cyber…
HMRC’s AI Just Recovered £10 Billion. Small Business Is 62% of Why
If you run a small business, HMRC is already using AI to read your books, and it is getting better at it fast. The…
UK Small Business AI Use Just Doubled. Confidence Didn’t Follow.
Adoption just went through the roof Something shifted this year. Simply Business’s 2026 SME Insights Report, a survey of 1,842 UK small businesses, found…
UK Small Business Confidence Just Hit a Record Low. Here’s the One Lever Still Working.
UK small business confidence has just hit its lowest point since records began. That is not a headline we enjoy writing, but it is…
AI Just Changed the Game for Small Business: What You Can Actually Hand Over Now
Most small businesses now use AI. Almost none of them have let it actually do anything. That is the gap sitting underneath a lot…
54% of UK Firms Use AI But Only 12% Earn More: Closing the Productivity-Profit Gap
54% of UK firms now use AI. Only 12% have anything to show for it on the bottom line The British Chambers of Commerce…
Deepfake Scams Are Now a Top Fraud Threat: How to Protect Your Trades Business
A supplier calls your office phone. It sounds exactly like the person you’ve dealt with for three years, right down to the slight cough…
46% of UK Construction Pros Now Use AI: Inside the £23,000 Productivity Gap
Nearly half of construction and design professionals in the UK are now using AI in their business, according to the first Houzz UK State…
Missed Calls Cost UK Trades £24,000 a Year: How AI Phone Agents Fix It
Every trade business owner knows the feeling: you are up a ladder, under a sink, or mid-job with dust on your hands, and the…
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…
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…
