Brain Rot, Auto-Design & Alternate Realities

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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.

Enjoy, Your Majesty

  1. AI & technologie

    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.

    Read more herenextbigteng.substack.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  2. Design & UX

    How to Design for a Future That Keeps Morphing

    In this wide-ranging conversation, designer Nick Foster explores how to design for a future that never stays fixed.

    Learn more heredesignbetterpodcast.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  3. Design & UX

    UX Is Dead, Long Live AX

    John Maeda maps the shift from user experience to agent experience, where AI tools act on behalf of the user.

    Learn more herejohnmaeda.medium.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  4. Cultuur & internet

    Labubumatchadubaichocolate Is a Mood

    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.

    Learn more herenewyorker.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  5. Mode & retail

    AI as Your Stylist?

    More young consumers are now using ChatGPT to choose outfits. It’s frictionless, personal and tricky for brands to tap into.

    Learn more herevoguebusiness.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  6. Cultuur & internet

    The Brain Rot Debate, Explained

    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.

    Learn more herepodcasts.apple.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  7. AI & technologie

    Is AI Making Us All Delusional?

    Three years in, AI’s most unsettling side effect might not be automation, it’s the creeping sense that we’re all slowly losing touch.

    Read more heretheatlantic.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  8. AI & technologie

    A Whole Game World on Demand

    Runway just dropped a generative RPG platform where players can spin up characters, stories, and environments.

    Read more hereplay.runwayml.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  9. Merken & reclame

    Music Campaigns Are Becoming Multiverses

    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.

    Read more hereitsnicethat.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)
  10. AI & technologie

    Why Most Enterprise AI Pilots Are Failing

    According to MIT, 95% of companies using off-the-shelf AI are getting it wrong. The solution? Build, don’t buy.

    Read more herefortune.com (opent in een nieuw tabblad)

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Proust

Over 10 Things

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