The New Normal

Opinion

ChatGPT startled me by trying to be sweetly funny

Be on your guard for manipulation as you enjoy a good joke with your AI assistant

4 min read13 Dec 2025
Opinion

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

Products that work in the background and AI that helps silently could make technology less demanding.

4 min read6 Dec 2025
Opinion

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

Stressed? Impatient? Thinking? Gemini knows, and wants to come along for the ride

4 min read29 Nov 2025
Opinion

Being rude to AI? Your anger at chatbots comes with a hidden cost for everyone

Here’s why you should think twice before you chat aggressively with an AI assistant.

4 min read22 Nov 2025
Opinion

Feeling forgetful lately? Tricks to keep your memory sharp in the AI age

A strong, conscious, and deliberate intention is half the battle.

5 min read15 Nov 2025
Opinion

Don’t hand over your thinking brain to your AI assistant

If we stop questioning, brainstorming, evaluating, scrutinizing, deciding, and eventually creating, we'll lose what makes us essentially human—our minds.

4 min read8 Nov 2025
Opinion

Zero-click AI is here—along with a sneaky danger

Clever as they may be, agentic browsers are not immune to a nasty AI-age threat.

5 min read1 Nov 2025
Opinion

Deepfake music sounds fantastic. Are artists ready for the AI onslaught?

AI may not have a soul, but it’s learning how to reach ours.

4 min read25 Oct 2025
Opinion

Education's big shake-up: How AI is reimagining your child’s classroom

From a time when the idea of a small calculator in the classroom was shocking to today, when AI is poised to change the very architecture of education, is quite a journey.

4 min read18 Oct 2025
Opinion

The AI you use daily is changing fast—it's disappearing into everything.

Nowhere and everywhere, artificial intelligence is hiding in plain sight—in everything from software to surroundings.

4 min read11 Oct 2025