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Opinion

ChatGPT startled me by trying to be sweetly funny

At some point, humour can conceal motives to steer you toward outcomes favouring a company or third party.

At some point, humour can conceal motives to steer you toward outcomes favouring a company or third party.

4 min read . 07:00 am IST Mala Bhargava

Rajat Gupta was born in Kolkata in 1948. (AFP)

Fallen titan: Re-examining Rajat Gupta’s tainted legacy

4 min read . 07:00 am IST

RBI wasn’t too concerned when the rupee recently stumbled past 90 to the dollar. (Bloomberg)

The Indian rupee’s slide—and why this isn’t a replay of 2013

4 min read . 12 Dec 2025

The IndiGo disaster is a textbook example of what happens when a firm builds its operations around assumptions rather than institutions. (HT)

IndiGo crisis: If wishes were horses, everyone would fly

4 min read . 12 Dec 2025

Airlines treat all seats in a class as identical for fare displays, yet present seat selection as a paid-for service.

Fly economy, pay premium: How seat sees became legal extortion

3 min read . 12 Dec 2025

India could nudge the Global South to invest in carbon markets, deepen them and promote avenues for credit creation that could be turned into earnings. (istockphoto)

Who’s afraid of a carbon market? It offers benefits that India must seize

2 min read . 12 Dec 2025

Paramount’s “hostility” is good for WBD’s stock owners, who might benefit from a bidding war with the two rival suitors vying for their votes. (REUTERS)

Mint Quick Edit | Paramount vs Netflix: A hostile bid is good for shareholders

1 min read . 12 Dec 2025

In India, convenience comes bundled with a loss of privilege. (AFP)

The IndiGo lesson: The corporation has started turning into the state

3 min read . 11 Dec 2025

Chinese firms can gain from deals struck with Western pharma majors. (istockphoto)

Big Pharma’s 'patent cliff' is here—and China may be its unlikely saviour

3 min read . 11 Dec 2025

Tesla's chief Elon Musk recently made radical predictions about the future of work. (REUTERS)

How seriously can we take Musk’s vision of a leisure society created by AI?

4 min read . 11 Dec 2025

Over 6 million workers, almost all of them women, are in state employment as anganwadi workers, mid-day-meal workers, ASHA workers and so on. (PTI)

Labour codes: The state must show commitment by doing its workers justice first

4 min read . 11 Dec 2025

US Fed chair Jerome Powell. On 10 December 2025, Fed officials delivered a third consecutive interest-rate reduction and maintained their outlook for just one cut in 2026. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Domestic factors to guide RBI policy, rupee even as Fed cut lifts sentiment

3 min read . 11 Dec 2025

Learning from the kindness of strangers is among the most precious things running can give. (istockphoto)

The kindness of strangers is one of the great unexpected rewards of running

4 min read . 11 Dec 2025

China's yuan has risen 3% against the dollar since the start of 2025. (Pixabay)

China should let the yuan rise to fix its economy and calm the world

2 min read . 11 Dec 2025

US-based Amazon promised to invest $35 billion by 2030 to expand its operations in India. (REUTERS)

Mint Quick Edit | FDI is looking up as Big Tech bets billions on India

1 min read . 11 Dec 2025

Firms can improve emission measurement via partnerships with research institutions and agricultural centres.

Our food sector awaits climate action: Can businesses lead Green Revolution 2.0?

3 min read . 10 Dec 2025

Meta’s chief seems bullish on the concept but needs to please Wall Street.

Meta’s Zuckerberg isn’t giving up on the metaverse, just slashing its budget

3 min read . 10 Dec 2025

The vision of Viksit Bharat requires a financing architecture capable of supporting large-scale infrastructure.

Amitabh Kant: We could unlock trillions for Viksit Bharat with REITs and InvITs

4 min read . 10 Dec 2025

Given that a US Supreme Court ruling could come any day, India’s government may want to bide its time a bit more and wait for the dust to settle before it acts. (AP)

Beyond tariffs: What India must guard against in trade talks with the US

4 min read . 10 Dec 2025

At the heart of this month's fiasco lies IndiGo’s alleged procrastination. (HT_PRINT)

IndiGo debacle: Consider antitrust action, says former CCI chairman

4 min read . 10 Dec 2025