Tech News, Insights, and Opinions for SME Leaders
If you run a small or medium-sized business, you don’t have time to keep up with every tech headline. So I do it for you each week, and pick out what’s worth knowing. Alongside that, you’ll find my opinions on the bigger trends and hands-on insights from the work I do with businesses like yours.
Tech News
Tech News for SMEs - 12 Oct 2026
Tech News for SMEs is a weekly round-up of the technology news that matters to small and medium-sized businesses. Each story explains what happened, what it means for your business, and what to do next, in plain English. This is the edition for the week of 12 October 2026.
Opinion
The Future of AI is Small, Cheap, and Boring
Everyone has a theory about where AI is heading. Here’s mine: the hype fades within a year, and the AI that sticks around won’t look like the giant models we use today. Plus a simple test for where AI actually fits in your business.
Insights
LLM in the Loop
How do you use AI to accelerate your thinking and writing without producing generic sounding AI slop? Invert the "Human in the Loop" principle and let the AI critique the human.