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A personal account of how algorithmic personalization can lead to a creeping blandness and a "corporation-centered” experience.

A helpful glossary of fundamental AI terms from The Verge.

Oliver Reichenstein shares strategies for using AI to elevate your writing instead of handing the job entirely to the robots.

Is this an example of tech leveling the playing field, or part of an AI-weaponized red-tape arms race that no one can win?

Execs feel pressure to move on AI, even though most admit they don’t have confidence in how to use it.

John Gruber shares an under-reported tidbit from Apple’s many “Apple Intelligence” reveals.

This Google project uses AI to generate NPR-style podcast conversations from academic papers.

Has breathless AI mania primed you for a ragey rant about overhyped technology and huckster pitchmen? Nikhil Suresh has you covered.

In a powerful and historically grounded essay, Jeremy Wagstaff asks that we not abdicate the vision for AI solely to the companies who stand to gain from it.

Design legend John Maeda discovers some old gold from Big Medium’s Josh Clark.

This is fine.

What do we do with this thing? Benedict Evans writes that our imaginations haven’t quite caught up with truly useful applications for LLMs.

A survey of Figma users indicates that AI is making its way into most companies’ product pipelines, but the solutions they’re shipping are… uninspired.

Will you use AI to get better/faster at things you already do, or will you invent new ways to do things that weren’t previously possible?

Designers have an opportunity to expand their roles and perspective in AI strategy, interaction design, and model design. How will we respond to the new problems and emerging interaction models that AI invites us to address and explore?

Writer and programmer James Somers shares his personal journey discovering just how good AI is at writing code—and what this might mean both individually and for the industry.