In this 10Things issue, whether shaping our shopping experience, inspiring a passion for history, or redefining credit in design, these stories celebrate creativity, technology, and making savvy choices this Black Friday.
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1. Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
Might AI yet prove a useful ally? Positive News unpick how it's aiding conservation efforts for forests and food, and in conservation on land and at sea.
2. Perplexity launch a new AI-powered shopping assistant
This new product promises to do everything you need to buy a product, in one place. Ask for help on what to buy and receive advice advice alongside recommended products.
3. Family's homemade stop-motion Christmas film gets global streaming release
Steal The Naughty List is the four-year labour of love of an engineering dad and homeschooled teens from Mississippi. Could this be the unexpected hit of the holiday season?
4. OpenAI's Sora video generator appears to have leaked
A group of artists appears to have leaked access to OpenAI's video generator, Sora, in a bid to make OpenAi more open and artist friendly. So they truly support the artists as opposed to using them for PR stunts.
5. AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry
According to a study, participants were unable to say what poetry was AI-generated what had been written by well-known human poets. And they were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems.
7. Age of Empires II at 25: the strategy game that inspired a generation of historians
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in.
8. Runway launch a new model for their image generation tool
The new model, Frames, promises more stylistic control and visual fidelity: it can establish a specific look and feel and reliably generate variations within it.
9. Elizabeth Goodspeed on untangling credit in design
As Athletic Greens’ meteoric rise shows, a brand’s success often depends on its identity system. But who gets recognition for the work when multiple studios shape a brand over time?
10. The World Is Drowning In Plastic Pollution. Can a Global Treaty Fix It?
As world leaders gather to finalize the first Global Plastics Treaty, communities living on the frontline of the plastics crisis make clear why it is so crucial.
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
—George Lois
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