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AI’s ‘magical’ future: A productivity boom for CEOs, a pink slip for you?

Many often frame AI’s rapid ascent as “magical” or “transformative,” as it promises a surge in productivity unlike anything we’ve seen.

Newslaundry · Apr 14

You can rebook an Indigo flight. You can’t rebook your lungs

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious – Percival Everett, Erasure.I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moodsI contain multitudes– Bob Dylan, I contain multitudes. On December 6, I wrote a piece for Newslaundry explaining why India has been held hostage by a single airline: IndiGo. It went viral…

Newslaundry · Dec 9, 2025

Hafta 552: Online gaming ban, Trump’s 50 per cent tariff on India

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by economist and author Vivek Kaul and sports journalist Sharda Ugra. 

Newslaundry · Aug 30, 2025