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Safer Agentic AI: Read an excerpt from Nell Watson’s book on guardrails

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:28 PM IST

Frankenstein, Skynet, Ultron: Sentient machines in pop culture

In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the supercomputer HAL prioritises mission objectives over the lives of crew members.

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:22 PM IST

Earlier machines replaced labour; these replace thought: AI ethicist Nell Watson

A still from Her (2013). Even assuming AI never crosses over into sentience, we must prepare for the illusion of it; and for the fallout of that ‘deception’.

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:18 PM IST

Mirror, mirror...: What to worry about when you worry about AI

(HT illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 5:37 PM IST

Railsong: Read an excerpt from the new novel by award-winning Rahul Bhattacharya

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 2:59 PM IST

Heart on the line: Wknd interviews Rahul Bhattacharya, author of Railsong

(HT Photo: Satish Bate)

Updated on Oct 24, 2025, 2:55 PM IST

In sickness, in health, in law: Simran Mangharam on loving your spouse’s family

A still from The Flintstones. Don’t be primitive. Give things time. Let your partner find their own ways of turning mutual respect into affection, and eventually into kinship.

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:04 PM IST

Built to last: 30 years on, the legacy of Catan

The boardgame requires players to strategise but also collaborate, in order to make the most of their resources, as they build new settlements.

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:03 PM IST

Zebras crossing: Why life-sized animal puppets are ‘stampeding’ around the world

The Herds at the Jostedal Glacier in Norway. (Image: The Walk Productions / Vegard Aasen)

Updated on Oct 18, 2025, 7:00 PM IST

Big bang theory: The intriguing history of fireworks

A depiction of early experiments in China. First it was discovered that air pockets in the bamboo stalk explode with heat. When gunpowder was invented, the two were then combined. Paper wrapping came much later. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 10:47 PM IST

Twists of fete: Around the world in unusual festivals

Theyyam combines ancestor worship, fertility rites and myth, and is believed to have originated among indigenous tribes in the Malabar region of present-day Kerala. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 7:30 PM IST

Welcome to the party: This Diwali, a look at the ancient history of celebration

A painting dated to the 1700s shows Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah watching a fireworks display. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 7:21 PM IST

Foam improvement: Swetha Sivakumar on the history of toothpaste

The Dentist (1629), a satirical painting by Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer. In pre-industrialised Europe, there was no anaesthetic yet, and treatment was largely limited to gouging and tugging extractions performed by medicine men. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:46 PM IST

In neo-punk, rage finds an unlikely ally: Hope, says Sanjoy Narayan

Cover art for the album Love Like Snow by Candy.

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:38 PM IST

Tough acts to follow: Do footballers’ kids make good players?

Marcus Thuram of Inter Milan and his brother Khephren Thuram of Juventus during a Serie A game in February. (Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:31 PM IST

Our Brains, Our Selves:An excerpt from the award-winning book by Dr Masud Husain

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:29 PM IST

How does the brain do it all? Dr Masud Husain chats with Wknd about his new book

(Photo by Oliver Mayhall)

Updated on Oct 17, 2025, 4:30 PM IST

Read ’em and leap: Charles Assisi on the shift from non-fiction to fiction

Free your mind: At the Jedi Archives, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), a set inspired by the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 12:59 PM IST

A wild muse chase: Sanjoy Narayan on the kinship of jazz and hip-hop

The Get Down (2016) on Netflix, starring Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr, Skylan Brooks and Jaden Smith, reminded us of what the Bronx in the 1970s really was: a crucible.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 12:47 PM IST

Banishing acts: What is cancel-culture insurance and why does it exist?

(HT Illustration: Rahul Pakarath)

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 5:07 PM IST

Are you seeing what I’m seeing?: Deepanjana Pal writes on Homebound

Homebound, starring Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa as the friends Shoaib and Chandan, is earnest and evocative. But why are poverty and marginalisation the two mens’ only identity?

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 11:47 AM IST

Tide and prejudice: In coastal Kerala, a play is a prayer for drowning villages

Sailaja Jayanthan, a daily-wage labourer, holds up a jar from her kitchen as she talks about the damage done to her home.

Updated on Oct 11, 2025, 11:38 AM IST

Beyond our orbit: The strangest planets we have uncovered so far

HD 189733 b sits 64 light years away and looks quite Earth-like. But its blue comes from an atmosphere so hot, it has turned the silica in its air into glass. (NASA / JPL-CALTECH)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:11 PM IST

We scan and we will: A brief history of our efforts to listen for alien life

The planet factory in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy film (2005). Assuming there is intelligent life out there (a reasonable assumption), what might it look like? Where would we sit on the scale of such intelligence? Our search for answers continues.

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:04 PM IST

Mirror worlds: Planets we’ve uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:01 PM IST

Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life planet

Stills from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Martian (2015) and Interstellar (2014). A NASA rendering of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068; an image of the Curiosity lander on Mars; and a rendering of the Trappist 1 system. (Images: NASA / CXC / SAO / J Schmidt and N Wolk; NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 5:56 PM IST

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: An excerpt from Steven Pinker’s book

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 5:53 PM IST

What I know you know...: Steven Pinker on how common knowledge shapes our world

Photo by Eric Haynes

Updated on Oct 10, 2025, 6:17 PM IST

Insider exclusive: Poonam Saxena on Ba***ds of Bollywood and films about films

Helen and a group of dancers practise their moves on the keys of a giant red typewriter, in Bombay Talkie (1970).

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:18 PM IST

In photos: More snapshots from government offices around the world

In Shibam district, Yemen, Mohammed Hamid Azein works with the water department. (Jan Banning)

Updated on Oct 4, 2025, 4:16 PM IST

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