AI assistants
What personal AI assistants really are: what they know about you, what they decide alone, and what they should never do unasked.
10 articles
Language models often struggle with days of the week and relative dates. Learn about their most common mistakes and how to spot them in good time.
Delegating drafts to AI saves time on routine tasks, but in negotiations or apologies it can backfire. Here is where to draw the line.
They nearly all promise the same thing. These six questions separate the tools that fix your day from the ones that just add another screen.
If the first thing you do in the morning is open Gmail, someone else has already planned your day. A briefing that arrives before the inbox changes the rules.
An AI assistant that does not read your email cannot help with your day. What matters is not whether it reads, but what it stores and for how long.
A 40-millimetre screen has no room for a summary. It has room for one sentence, and that sentence has to be the right one.
Most of the things you forget are not on your task list: they are buried in a paragraph you read on Tuesday.
Memory with an expiry date, field-level encryption and a working forget button: three things that should be mandatory and almost never are.
Emptying the inbox is not the goal. The goal is for the inbox to stop deciding how you spend your morning.
The difference between a useful assistant and an unsettling one is not how much it knows, but how many decisions it makes without asking.