AI Companions, Beautiful Words & the Rise of Vibe Coding10 Things

1. The Visual Culture of Women’s Sport

Following the success of the Lionesses at the Women’s Euros, the creative industry is finally treating women’s sport as a rich & complex culture worth showing up for.
 

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2. How to Write Better Code with AI

Less hype, more habit: Sajal Sharma offers a tight framework for actually using AI tools to think through your code. 
 

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3. 52 Beautiful Words Worth Saving

From “susurrus” to “petrichor,” designer Thomas Moes celebrates a year of gorgeous, underused words. A small act of linguistic preservation.
 

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4. When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field

This oral history of computational linguistics post-GPT is funny, tragic, and slightly unhinged. A must-read for anyone tracking AI’s ripple effects.
 

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5. The Street View That Sees Feelings

This interactive from The Pudding uses AI to guess the emotional tone of neighborhoods based on Google Street View — and lets you explore cities by mood, not map.
 

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6. I Know When You’re Vibe Coding

A beautifully written reflection on how coding can feel - when it flows, when it stumbles, when it vibes. More poetry than tutorial.
 

Stop vibing, start caring

7. GPT-5: First Impressions, Mixed Emotions

Latent Space’s in-depth review of the highly-anticipated GPT-5 doesn’t just test benchmarks but questions what we’re benchmarking for.
 

GPT-5 beyond the graphs

8. AI That Builds Entire Worlds

Google Deepmind have just launched Genie 3, a leap in world simulation. Trained on video, it generates playable, interactive environments from scratch.
 

Unleash the Genie

9. Are AI Companions Listening to Our Kids?

They’re comforting, clever, and increasingly common, but AI companions may also be shaping children’s emotional memories in ways we don’t yet understand.
 

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10. When artworks could speak

Using AI, Jonathan Talmi built a “living museum” - a personal, experimental space blending performance, memory, and web design. Then it went viral. Here's his reflection.
 

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