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Does your AI assistant annoy you daily?

New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- For all the PhD-level intelligence they're supposed to have, our AI assistants can be maddeningly bad at fulfilling requests smoothly. The productive time lost in trying to figure... Read More


How to stop a user-chatbot relationship from becoming unhealthy

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Sometimes I can't help myself. I do a bit of unwise shopping and end up showing ChatGPT a new saree I bought. I dare not show it to anyone else and be asked whether I really, rea... Read More


Can your AI chatbot give you a mental illness?

New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- Back when I fancied myself a psychologist, someone once visited my home with a suitcase full of Kerala snacks, handing them out to people he thought deserved the gifts. As he sto... Read More


How do you feel about your next boss being an AI?

New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Imagine your company headed by someone who's always available, never plays favourites, and who's famous for spot-on decisions that bring great results. Sounds good? Except you p... Read More


Shopping in 2026: AI is taking over my No. 1 hobby

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- So here we are in 2026, emerging from a year that saw artificial intelligence (AI) vault into our everyday lives. This happened before the users, the technology is supposed to ben... Read More


2025 was the year we stopped trusting our eyes and ears

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- One sunny day, there I was, being lowered into the deep blue sea in a cage, to look some sharks in the eye. Just as in the movie, Jaws, which I remember watching with my eyes clo... Read More


AI has introduced a new lexicon of strange terms

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- It's no news to anyone that artificial intelligence (AI) took a big leap forward, vaulting straight into everyday life, in 2025. It's as big a revolution as the internet once was... Read More


ChatGPT startled me by trying to be sweetly funny

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- With the change of season in New Delhi, I was caught unawares and ended up with an ill-deserved cold. Crawling into bed, I comforted myself with one of my favourite activities: o... Read More


After decades of feature-stuffing gadgets, we look for quiet tech

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Enough with the notifications tugging on our attention, bigger and brighter screens transfixing us, pings and beeps demanding immediate action. Now that we've overstuffed our gadg... Read More


Gemini 3 is doing such a good job of being human that it's unsettling

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- Google's Gemini 3 is not waiting around for humans to figure out how it fits into their lives and what their equation with it should be. It's going right ahead and making a play ... Read More