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15 Oct 2026

A Giant Spec Is Just a Pretty Excuse to Do Nothing

Sprawling technical specifications rarely turn into real products — here's why starting small beats building a grand system on paper.

14 Oct 2026

Google Bundles AI Agent Skills Into a Single Repository

Google has published a GitHub repository bundling ready-made skills that help AI agents work with Google Cloud, Ads, Analytics, and other Google products. The catalog ranges from narrow tasks like cost analysis to full workflows like cloud architecture design.

13 Oct 2026

REA: This AI Agent Can Reverse-Engineer How Any Finished App Actually Works

REA is an open-source MCP tool that lets AI agents like Codex and Claude Code reverse-engineer how finished applications actually work, even without access to their source code.

08 Oct 2026

Not Everything That Can Be Automated Should Be Automated

AI is excellent at removing routine, but it can just as easily remove the friction through which skill, taste, and judgment grow. This piece makes the case for a personal 'Skill Gate' to decide what's safe to automate — and what should stay human.

07 Oct 2026

OpenAI to Merge Chat, Work, and Codex Into One Environment

OpenAI is merging its Chat, Work, and Codex tools into one unified environment, raising questions about how usage limits and quotas will work once conversation and task execution share the same space.

06 Oct 2026

Memory Is Becoming Humanity's Most Valuable Asset

As AI models become commoditized, personal context and accumulated experience are emerging as the real differentiator — making your working memory one of the most valuable assets you own.

01 Oct 2026

How to Build Your First Team of AI Agents

A practical walkthrough for assembling a five-agent AI team — covering lead generation, content, sales, delivery, and finance — built on Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes, and connected through a shared workspace into a self-improving review loop.

30 Sept 2026

Waiting for OpenAI DevDay Like I Once Waited for Steve Jobs' Keynotes

Ahead of OpenAI DevDay, the author reflects on a rare spark of genuine excitement for a tech keynote and previews what's coming for Codex, agents, and the future of AI-powered workflows.

29 Sept 2026

Hugging Face for Beginners: What It Is and How to Use It

A practical, no-fluff walkthrough of Hugging Face's core sections -- Models, Datasets, Spaces, and Collections -- with step-by-step scenarios for testing speech recognition, image generation, and text summarization before you commit to any tool.

24 Sept 2026

AI Isn't the Future — It's Already in Your Pocket

AI is no longer a distant future concept — it's a practical tool already in your hands. The real shift happens when you stop treating it like a search engine and start building automated systems with it.

23 Sept 2026

Context Files for AI Agents: AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, DESIGN.md

A practical breakdown of the context files coding agents rely on — AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, tool-specific configs, and DESIGN.md — with a reference template and a maintenance checklist.

22 Sept 2026

TryCloudflare: Share Your Localhost Site With a Single Link

TryCloudflare (Quick Tunnels) lets you expose a local web server via a public HTTPS link in seconds, with no account, domain, or router configuration required — perfect for quick demos and webhook testing.

17 Sept 2026

30 Phrases That Make ChatGPT's Answers Stronger

A practical collection of 30 phrases that sharpen ChatGPT's responses, from demanding maximum quality to running self-checks and searching for stronger alternatives.

17 Sept 2026

Axil Accountants: Building a Connected Website for an Accounting Business

How AImpress brought accounting services, an academy and client contact journeys together with modern web technology, CRM integrations, analytics and dashboards.

17 Sept 2026

Website and CRM Integration for Accountants: A Practical Guide

Plan the journey from website enquiry to follow-up: what to connect, which data to capture and how to make CRM, analytics and dashboards useful for an accounting firm.

16 Sept 2026

Voice Control in ChatGPT and Codex: Tasks, Apps, and Agents

A practical guide to using voice in ChatGPT and Codex to manage tasks, apps, and agents — covering setup, twelve real-world scenarios, usage limits, and a personal workflow connecting Codex to another bot.

10 Sept 2026

How to Run Your Own LLM and Connect It to Codex

A step-by-step guide to running a local LLM with Ollama and Open WebUI, then connecting it to Codex CLI, Codex App, and IDE extensions for private, offline-capable coding work.

09 Sept 2026

ChatGPT Work Now Learns to Write in Your Voice

ChatGPT Work can now learn your personal writing style by analyzing your Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and SharePoint content. Here's where to enable it and what to check before granting access.

08 Sept 2026

Switched to Astra? Update Your Codex Instructions in Four Steps

A practical four-step workflow with ready-made prompts for reviewing and updating your Codex project instructions after switching to a new model like Astra.

03 Sept 2026

Cursor: The AI Code Editor Built for Agentic Development

Cursor is a VS Code-based AI editor built around agentic coding, featuring its own Composer model alongside Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Here's how it works, how it compares to OpenAI's Codex, and what it costs.

02 Sept 2026

ChatGPT Desktop's Built-In Browser Is Turning Into a Workspace

OpenAI has added media tabs and recent-page suggestions to ChatGPT Desktop's built-in browser, turning it from a simple page viewer into a genuine workspace hub for email, calendars, and messaging.

01 Sept 2026

ChatGPT Work: Everything One Chat Window Can Now Do

ChatGPT Work combines a cloud computer, plugins, document editing, website building, multi-agent task splitting, and background automation into a single chat interface. Here's a concise overview of what the mode can actually do.

27 Aug 2026

HyperFrames by HeyGen: Video as Code for AI Agents and Codex

HyperFrames by HeyGen is an open-source framework that lets AI agents build MP4 videos from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript instead of a timeline editor, with deep integration into Codex and other coding agents.

26 Aug 2026

Notion Rolls Out Team-Wide Skills for AI Agents

Notion has launched Skills for teams, letting organizations turn their best work into reusable agent skills that, thanks to MCP, work across Notion, Codex, and Claude Code alike.

25 Aug 2026

codex app-server: How to Embed Codex Into Your Own Application

A practical guide to codex app-server, the bidirectional JSON-RPC interface behind the Codex VS Code extension, covering transports, threads, turns, action approvals, and secure remote access for developers building their own Codex integrations.

20 Aug 2026

Models Got Smarter — Stop Spelling Everything Out

As AI models become more capable, giving them a clear goal instead of a detailed instruction manual often produces better results and reshapes the human's role from task-setter to goal-setter.

19 Aug 2026

Gemini Notebook Adds Collections — Tidy Organization Without Folders

Gemini Notebook now lets users organize notebooks into flexible Collections, similar to playlists, where a single notebook can belong to multiple groups at once instead of being locked into one folder.

18 Aug 2026

Mem0 Is Now an Official Claude Connector — AI Memory in Just a Couple of Clicks

Mem0 has joined Claude's official connector directory, letting users add persistent AI memory in a couple of clicks instead of wrestling with terminal setups.

13 Aug 2026

Codex Skills That Make Websites Look Expensive

A five-skill combo for Codex — Figma, Product Design, Taste-Skill, GSAP, and Impeccable — that takes front-end output from templated to polished.

12 Aug 2026

Ollama vs LM Studio: Which One Should You Pick to Start Running Local AI Models

A practical comparison of Ollama and LM Studio for anyone starting out with local AI models — covering what they have in common, how they differ, and which one fits your workflow best.

11 Aug 2026

LM Studio Launches Bionic: A New Agent for Open Models

LM Studio has released Bionic, a work-and-coding agent for open models that can run locally on your own device, complete with document editing, voice input, and on-demand access to frontier models in the cloud.

06 Aug 2026

Let Codex Rewrite Your Skill Based on Your Own Past Sessions

A practical prompt for auditing an AI agent's skill file against your actual task history in Codex Desktop — surfacing exactly where the written instructions have drifted from how you really work.

05 Aug 2026

NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook — And It Just Got Its Own Cloud Computer

Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and added a built-in cloud compute environment that runs real code against your sources, plus sync with the Gemini app and upcoming Search integration.

04 Aug 2026

GSAP: The Animation Library Powering Modern Web Interfaces

GSAP is a free, battle-tested JavaScript animation library covering tweens, timelines, ScrollTrigger, and React integration — and it now pairs neatly with AI-driven site builders.

29 Jul 2026

Kimi K3: Moonshot AI Releases a Model With a Million-Token Context Window

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a roughly 3-trillion-parameter model with a million-token context window and a multi-agent "swarm" mode, positioned as a lower-cost alternative to flagship models like GPT-5.6.

28 Jul 2026

Migrating AGENTS.md for GPT-5.6 Sol Without Losing Control

A case study on rebuilding a bloated AGENTS.md file into a compact core plus topic-specific modules for GPT-5.6 Sol — cutting size by 75% while proving, through a real verification matrix across two machines, that safety and control weren't lost in the process.

23 Jul 2026

Vibe Island and Its Open-Source Rivals: Notch Dashboards for Your Coding Agents

A look at Vibe Island and three open-source alternatives (Open Island, CodeIsland, Ping Island): native macOS notch dashboards that let developers monitor and control multiple coding agents without constant window-switching.

22 Jul 2026

Mem0: A Memory Layer for AI Agents and Applications

Mem0 is a memory layer that gives AI agents persistent context across sessions, available as open source or a managed cloud service with a generous free tier.

21 Jul 2026

How to Actually Design With AI

Designing with AI doesn't mean outsourcing creativity — it means keeping the idea, direction, and taste for yourself while letting AI handle execution, whether through design skills, component-by-component building, or curated inspiration boards.

16 Jul 2026

Your Mac Is Choking on a Dozen AI Agents: How to Find and Clear the Ballast

When a Mac running multiple AI coding agents starts to crawl, the culprit usually isn't the models, it's months of accumulated background clutter. Here's a safe, dry-run audit prompt to find and clear it.

15 Jul 2026

Plaud MCP: When a Conversation Becomes the Entry Point Into Your Project Pipeline

Plaud's new official MCP server turns voice recordings into live project context for AI agents like ChatGPT and Codex — no more manual transcript copying or unofficial sync workarounds.

15 Jul 2026

How to Build a Self-Updating Knowledge Base with LLM Agents

A translated breakdown of Ben Holmes's system for turning raw Markdown notes into a self-maintaining knowledge base, using AI agent skills for tagging, sourcing, wiki-building, and live visualizations.

15 Jul 2026

Shumiland: Building a Digital Platform for a Family Entertainment Park

Inside the Shumiland project: a visitor website, CMS, ticketing and business integrations, supported by CRM, marketing analytics and operational dashboards.

14 Jul 2026

LocalWhisper: Private, Local-First Transcription for macOS

Inside LocalWhisper, AImpress's native macOS product for local transcription, speaker-aware transcripts and privacy-conscious audio workflows.

09 Jul 2026

AImpress Learning: Building a Practical AI Training Platform

How AImpress designed a trilingual learning platform around practical AI courses, progress, assessment, certificates and paid enrolment.

07 Jul 2026

How We Built a Human-Approved AI Content Pipeline with n8n

Inside AImpress's content workflow: scraping, translation, media preparation, Telegram approval and guarded publishing to the blog and social channels.

02 Jul 2026

What a Modern Website for a Family Attraction Needs

A practical website checklist for parks, museums and family attractions: content management, ticketing, group enquiries, CRM integrations, analytics and dashboards.

30 Jun 2026

Why AI Automations Fail After the Demo

The production problems hidden by polished demonstrations: messy inputs, partial failures, duplicates, changing APIs and missing ownership.

25 Jun 2026

How to Monitor a Production Business Automation

What to log, measure and alert on so a business workflow does not fail silently after a successful launch.

23 Jun 2026

Marketing Automation Without Becoming Spam

How to use automation for timely, relevant marketing while preserving consent, frequency control and human judgement.

18 Jun 2026

Cloud vs Self-Hosted AI for Small Businesses

A practical comparison of cloud and self-hosted AI covering capability, privacy, cost, maintenance and operational responsibility.

16 Jun 2026

UK GDPR Checklist for AI Automation Projects

Practical questions for UK businesses handling personal data in AI-enabled workflows.

11 Jun 2026

Where Human Approval Belongs in an AI Workflow

How to place human review where it controls real risk without turning automation into a slower version of the original process.

09 Jun 2026

AI Chatbots for UK Small Businesses: Where They Help and Where They Do Not

A practical guide to deploying an AI chatbot with approved knowledge, human escalation and measurable service outcomes.

04 Jun 2026

Document Processing Automation: From Inbox to Verified Data

How SMEs can automate document intake and extraction while retaining validation, auditability and human handling of exceptions.

02 Jun 2026

How to Automate Lead Follow-Up Without Losing the Human Touch

A reliable lead workflow from form validation and attribution to routing, reminders, CRM updates and personal follow-up.

28 May 2026

n8n vs Zapier vs Make: Which Automation Platform Fits a UK SME?

A practical comparison of n8n, Zapier and Make based on ownership, complexity, integrations, operating effort and business risk.

26 May 2026

AI Automation Readiness Checklist for Small Businesses

A readiness checklist covering process clarity, data, integrations, ownership, security and measurement before an AI automation project begins.

21 May 2026

How Long Does an AI Automation Project Take?

What determines an automation delivery timeline, why discovery and testing matter, and how an SME can reach production without an endless transformation programme.

19 May 2026

AI Automation Agency vs In-House: Which Is Right for Your Business?

A balanced comparison of agency, in-house and hybrid approaches to building and maintaining AI automation.

14 May 2026

How to Calculate the ROI of AI Automation

A practical ROI model for AI automation that includes labour, errors, delays, implementation, usage and ongoing maintenance.

12 May 2026

How Much Does Business Automation Cost in the UK?

A clear framework for estimating the real cost of business automation, from integrations and AI usage to testing, monitoring and ongoing support.

07 May 2026

Which Business Processes Should You Automate First?

A prioritisation method for finding the first automation project that will deliver visible value without exposing the business to unnecessary risk.

05 May 2026

AI Automation for Small Businesses in the UK: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to choosing, costing and implementing AI automation in a UK small business without turning a useful project into an expensive experiment.