Lloyd Coombes

Lloyd Coombes

Contributing writer

Lloyd Coombes is a freelance tech and fitness writer. He's an expert in all things Apple as well as in computer and gaming tech, with previous works published on TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Live Science and more. You'll find him regularly testing the latest MacBook or iPhone, but he spends most of his time writing about video games as Gaming Editor for the Daily Star. He also covers board games and virtual reality, just to round out the nerdy pursuits.

Latest articles by Lloyd Coombes

Project Astra AI agent

Well played Google! DeepMind shows off Project Astra watching the OpenAI ChatGPT Voice announcement

By Lloyd Coombes published

Google held a "watch party" for this week's OpenAI announcements with Gemini.

Google Gemini
ChatGPT open on a Macbook

How to set custom instructions in ChatGPT

By Lloyd Coombes published

Make ChatGPT more personal to your needs and requirements with Custom Instructions. Here's how to set them up.

ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot app running on a phone with Microsoft logo in background

Is Microsoft ditching OpenAI? — MAI-1 is the company’s first home-grown LLM that could power Copilot

By Lloyd Coombes published

Microsoft has begun working on its own in-house LLM, suggesting it could move away from OpenAI.

Copilot
Sam Altman is leaving OpenAI for Microsoft

'GPT-4 is the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use' declares OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as he bets big on a superingtelligence

By Lloyd Coombes published

If there's one thing Sam Altman isn't worried about, it's the operating cost of ChatGPT.

ChatGPT
Claude 3

You can finally make Claude 3 shut up — Anthropic adds stop button to its chatbot

By Lloyd Coombes published

Users can now stop Claude 3 in its tracks when the chatbot starts droning on.

AI
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