Alex was an AI editor at Toms Guide. Before joining the Tom’s Guide team, Alex worked for the brands TechRadar and BBC Science Focus.
He was highly commended in the Specialist Writer category at the BSME's 2023 and was part of a team to win best podcast at the BSME's 2025.
In his time as a journalist, he has covered the latest in AI and robotics, broadband deals, the potential for alien life, the science of being slapped, and just about everything in between.
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A new player in the AI music world, ElevenLabs, is coming with a big benefit on its side

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The first openweight model in years from OpenA,I and there are two options to choose from

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Perplexity could be in a tricky situation after being called out for accessing websites that don't want to be accessed by AI tools

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Yes, it's August and there are still no signs of GPT-5... but it will be here soon with some major features.

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Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a terms of service disagreement.

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Apple is looking to compete in the world of AI with a new team working on a ChatGPT alternative.

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ChatGPT has plenty of tricks up its sleeve. Some of the best come when you take an unconventional approach.

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AI is getting a bit emotional — but is that a good or bad thing?

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Perplexity Comet is here to take on Google Chrome, offering a more intuitive search function. And I've been testing it out.

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Claude AI is a fantastic chatbot, and this is the method I use to prompt for it

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is almost here, and the hints are coming out thick and fast in terms of a release date.

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The AI job war is quickly approaching

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Sora 2 could be here soon — so what features should you expect from it?

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A firm warning from OpenAI as the AI space gets smarter and more complicated

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The privacy-focused rival to Google Chrome has dropped a new feature that lets users filter out AI images.

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AI video has improved drastically in recent years, and Netflix is looking to capitalize

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GPT-5 is likely going to be more powerful than its competitors, and that's why it'll become my top choice of chatbot.

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OpenAI has a big announcement to make. Could it be a new agentic AI browser? Could it even be ChatGPT-5?

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Some potentially bad news for users of ChatGPT free.

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ChatGPT has been around for years, treat it like the newer version, not the old

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Grok's newest feature includes an AI girlfriend and a weird Red Panda to chat with.

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AI just might be better than your closest friends and therapist at understanding the cues of emotional intelligence

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Apparently artificial intelligence has a tendency to match human behaviour when challenged.
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