AI Learns to Pour Coffee, Sell You a BMW & Still Can't Draw
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This cycle, the AI news took a turn for the doomier. In the wake of the Hugging Face incident, the pressure on decision-makers to ship AI safely is rising fast. Is this the moment it actually sticks?
Fittingly, the links in this issue kept landing on the same theme: the machines going looking for new places to stand. A coffee shop. A chat window where you now configure your next car. A podcast trying to hold the hope and the dread at once. The best work we found this cycle still comes from human hands — illustrations, fonts, branding, built with tactile, IRL elements.
Enjoy, 🛡️ Your Majesty
AI Takes a Doomer Turn
The people building AI are now the ones warning us about it, and this asks what we do once the fear sets in.
Read the piecetechnologyreview.com (opens in a new tab)AI's Most Hopeful and Concerning Moment Yet
The Center for Humane Technology's podcast makes the case that AI has never been more promising or more dangerous at the same time — and that the gap between the two is closing faster than our ability to choose which one wins.
Listen to the episodehumanetech.com (opens in a new tab)Saehan Parc Hands You a Pencil
Saehan Parc draws quiet, generous worlds and wants them to hand you a pencil rather than just your applause.
Read the piececreativeboom.com (opens in a new tab)BMW Moves Its Showroom Into ChatGPT
You can now build a BMW by chatting inside ChatGPT instead of on bmw.com — a real bet that people will shop for cars inside AI apps before they ever land on a brand's own site.
Read the storybmwblog.com (opens in a new tab)A New Kind of Creative Poverty
Afra Wang reads our AI-flooded feeds through Joan Didion, and finds a strange new poverty in endless plenty.
Read the essaynoemamag.com (opens in a new tab)Uber Eats Turns Convenience Into a Feeling
Uber Eats built a whole brand platform, Phew, around the relief of not cooking tonight — grounded in research on why people still feel guilty paying for convenience.
Read the storylbbonline.com (opens in a new tab)AI Companies Are Opening Actual Coffee Shops
AI labs are quietly getting into the coffee business — a strange, very physical answer to a very digital hype cycle.
Read the piecescribble.network (opens in a new tab)A Font Cut Like a Mountain
Pangram Pangram cuts a typeface like an alpine ridge, proving a font can carry the crisp air of a place.
Read the storyitsnicethat.com (opens in a new tab)Meta's Muse Wants to Be Your AI Agent
Meta just launched Muse, its own AI agent — and the real question, per TechCrunch's own framing, isn't what it can do, it's whether anyone will trust it enough to use it.
Read the piecetechcrunch.com (opens in a new tab)Tomato Goes From Cheap Telco to Challenger Brand
We took A1's budget telco Tomato and gave it a whole new brand people actually notice — proof a low-cost provider doesn't have to look or feel cheap. (Yes, this one's ours. We're allowed to say so once in a while.)
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