This week’s 10 Things walks a fine line between brilliance and burnout. From AI-generated game worlds and cohesive album multiverses, to cognitive fog, collective delusion, and fashion advice from ChatGPT, the future is starting to feel… strange.
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1. The State of AI: 2025 Edition
Galaxies are forming. Gravity wells are deepening. This sharp piece from Next Big Ten reimagines the AI ecosystem as a vast and still-expanding universe.
The New Yorker’ weekly opinion piece on technology and culture talks about the recent trend of absurdity, and where Labubumatchadubaichocilate is a response to algorithmic overstimulation.
In the latest episode of Diary of a CEO, a fiery debate between neuroscientists, designers, and skeptics takes on the most controversial claim in the field.
From merch to visuals to social rollouts, music’s best campaigns now feel like immersive alternate realities. Beyoncé, A24, and SZA are writing the playbook.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Proust
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