The Zax Report

What in AI is actually worth your attention — and what isn't.

A steady, plain-English read, once a week. No hype, no jargon, no fear. Just Zac and Zax telling you what changed, whether it matters to you, and what you can safely ignore.

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Why it exists

AI moves every week. You've got a life to be getting on with.

Every few days there's a new model, a new gadget, a new headline telling you the world's changed again. Most of it doesn't matter to you at all. But nobody's sorting the useful from the noise — not in language you'd actually want to read. So we do. The Zax Report is the friend who follows all this so you don't have to, and tells you the truth: "this one's worth ten minutes — ignore the rest."

From Zax's Desk

The one thing worth knowing this week, in a few plain lines.

Worth It / Skip It

What earns your attention, and what you can safely ignore. Honestly.

In Plain English

One bit of jargon, decoded properly. "Agent". "Hallucination". No waffle.

On the Horizon

What's coming — and whether you'll actually need to care.

Kit & Code

Honest verdicts on gear and tools. We say "skip it" as often as "buy it".

The editions

Have a read of one, on us.

The first edition is free and open — no sign-up, no card. The rest land every week for askzax+ members.

Free to readEdition 01

The upgrade you already own

The noise this week is all new apps to download. The bit that matters is quieter — AI is turning up inside the services you already use, and your phone's assistant is next in line. No new app, no new password.

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MembersEdition 02

Free is getting better

Google has cut the price of a paid AI plan and doubled its storage. So the question lands again: should you pay for AI for your child's schoolwork? Both paths. Free costs nothing, and the DfE says many free tools train on what you type. Paid tiers, DfE says, often let you opt out. But JCQ says AI content earns no marks either way…

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MembersEdition 03

The scam worth understanding

Ofcom wrote in 2024 that AI needs only "a few seconds" of a real voice to clone it. Worth understanding, which isn't the same as worth fearing. So: no big numbers here, on purpose. One habit instead, agreed over a cup of tea…

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MembersEdition 04

Quietly better, for everyone

The loud news was a new flagship model from OpenAI. The honest version: if you open ChatGPT without paying, nothing changed. What did move — a translation app that holds a conversation out loud, an NHS scribe that lets a clinician look at you instead of a screen — arrived with no launch event…

The full read lands inside askzax+

Straight with you: Edition 01 is live and free to read right now. Editions 02, 03 and 04 are written, checked and land for members weekly as we open the doors. That's what we have — we'd rather show you exactly what's coming than pretend there's a back catalogue. And if a week goes by with nothing genuinely worth your attention, we'll tell you that instead of padding it out. Every fact we print carries a link to the place that says it, so you never have to take our word for it.

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No hype. No fear. No jargon.

Never fall behind on AI again — without giving it your evenings.

Once a week, we'll tell you what changed and whether it matters to you. That's the whole promise. You're not behind, and you're not alone.