Denis Haman

When AI causes harm, who's liable? One CEO knows, and it isn't Altman

Sam Altman is happy for the world to accept some harm from AI, as long as someone else foots the bill. An unlikely voice of reason disagrees.

The AI industry has a Detroit problem and consumers will decide how it ends

Western AI's Big Three are making the same mistakes Detroit's Big Three made in the 1970s. Chinese open-weight models are cheaper, getting better, and hard to beat. Where does that leave us users?

Opinion: AI funding frenzy signals price shocks ahead for media and publishers

AI companies are racing to go public while also raising costs to consumers. Both events put content owners in a squeeze which needs action and decision.

SaaS isn't dying - but poorly built platforms face a reckoning from AI

The SaaSpocalypse is not coming for well-built software. It is coming for software that was never built to last.

UK's OBR budget leak exposes the real cost of "cheap" publishing tools

When a government body accidentally leaks market-sensitive data, the instinct is to blame human error - but what if the real culprit is the technology it has chosen? The OBR's premature publication incident reveals an uncomfortable truth about consumer-grade CMS tools being used for high-stakes communication.

Platforms vs Publishers: The Forever War

Much like Joe Haldeman's sci-fi classic, the period from 1997 to 2024 seems like a time dilation that only lasted a few years, and another round of unnecessary conflict seems upon us again.  

Big Tech ain't quite what it says it is

Reflecting on this summer's technology news leads to the conclusion that industry giants are producing a great deal more heat than light in this era

Hybrid CMS vs Headless CMS: What's the difference?

Newer CMS options with significant advantages over traditional CMS and even contemporary headless CMS can profoundly impact how businesses manage and deliver content.

It's Bard not to be impressed

Google's Bard, and ChatGPT4, both show significant improvements over ChatGPT3. The progress is rapid.

ChatGPT for journalists – what you need to know

How do you know you are not talking to a robot in disguise? Would you mind, if it said all the right things? Should journalists flag up any usage of the new AI writing service people are talking about? And are we all guinea pigs in a giant experiment? All this and more is the topic of human writer Denis Haman.

Only publishers freed from old-style tech will get the best of the cloud

Much of publishing is still trapped in a constant cycle of building, adapting, and bespoking open source content management software, wasting time, money, and opportunity according to publishing technology veteran Denis Haman.

Build a CMS or buy a CMS? There is only one winner