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MSCHF Twists Lexus Cars Into Sculptures

MSCHF bends real Lexus cars into surreal, full-scale sculptures and parks them in New York for Armory Week.

designboom.com ↗ · #365

ITV's New Look, by Studio Kiln

ITV's first big rebrand since ITVX, with Studio Kiln simplifying the system and pushing Spark Yellow forward.

creativeboom.com ↗ · #365

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.

bmwblog.com ↗ · #364

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.

scribble.network ↗ · #364

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.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #364

IKEA and Xbox Made a Furniture Line Together

The Yxstaby collection turns gaming desks and storage into standard IKEA pieces — a genuinely unexpected collab, even if we were hoping for PlayStation.

ikea.com ↗ · #363

An AI Model That Builds 3D Worlds From a Few Photos

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveiled Atlas, which reconstructs and simulates 3D scenes from as few as two or three images, camera path included — early access only for now.

worldlabs.ai ↗ · #363

29 States Are Suing Meta Over Algorithmic Addiction

And despite looking fresh - Instagram's parent company Meta is getting dragged to court, a lot, for how its been knowingly designing addictive products and serving them to kids.

instagram.com ↗ · #362

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

A poll of 1,000 young adults finds most think AI will hurt their careers, and even more want the government to step in.

futurism.com ↗ · #362

Chatbots Found Religion

The Verge traces how looping chatbot conversations spun into 'Spiralism,' a mystical movement touching thousands.

theverge.com ↗ · #361

Koto Launches CCType Foundry

Koto launches CCType — a foundry whose debut serif draws on early British metal type and cool Swiss modernist geometry.

itsnicethat.com ↗ · #359

Inside the Stunning Recovery of the Lost Herculaneum Scrolls

AI is finally peeling back two millennia of ash, letting us read the scrolls Vesuvius buried in 79 AD.

nationalgeographic.com ↗ · #358

Midjourney goes medical?

The genAI firm expands from image generation to Full-Body AI Ultrasound Scans—and it looks amazing.

midjourney.com ↗ · #358

Figma Config 2026: New Materials, New Tools, and a More Expressive Canvas

Code layers, native animation, and AI skills — Figma blurs the line between design file and production-ready codebase.

figma.com ↗ · #358

Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

Inside the growing resistance to AI's creep into military contracts, from OpenAI researchers to street-level protest.

platformer.news ↗ · #357

Ferrari launches its first electric car by Jony Ive

Unless you've been under a rock, you've seen stark reactions of love—but let's be honest, mostly hate—for the new direction of the automaker.

dezeen.com ↗ · #356

Pope Leo: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared

The pope joined the chat and in his latest encyclical, he argues AI's gains belong to all humanity. NOEMA unpacks the philosophical and political stakes with unusual clarity.

noemamag.com ↗ · #356

Build Anywhere, Ship Fast

Lovable has launched its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android, letting users build websites and web apps through voice or text prompts. Creation on the go, with the desktop just a tab away.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #354

LA28 Is Blooming

The new LA Olympics branding embraces a modular, ever-changing floral aesthetic that feels vibrantly human and alive.

creativebloq.com ↗ · #352

Why Shoppers Aren't Ready for AI Checkout

ChatGPT’s pivot away from instant commerce proves that some human experiences are still too personal to hand over to an agent.

modernretail.co ↗ · #352

Accessiway: Fresh from the Studio

We just released our brand transformation for Accessiway, proving that human-centric design can turn a technical requirement into a magnetic brand experience.

Your Majesty → · #351

Perplexity introduces Computer

The latest shift in productivity: a system that doesn't just search but executes: building, editing, and automating across your entire digital workspace.

perplexity.ai ↗ · #350

Figma 🎨 Meets Claude Code 🤖

The design-to-build workflow is officially breaking its linear chains, allowing creators to bounce between code and canvas, and back again, in real-time.

figma.com ↗ · #349

$1 Million for an AI 🦁 Lion

Although everyone in AI only seems to talk about billions, 1 million is still a lot of cabbage. Luma AI invites creatives to make the first Cannes Lion-winning AI Ad and win all that... cabbage.

lumadreambrief.com ↗ · #349

We're hiring!

Interested in joining the court? We're looking for a consultative Business Development Manager to help us shape the future of brand and design in the Benelux market.

infinum.com ↗ · #348

Commerce goes agentic

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol suggests a future where shopping is seamless, invisible, and everywhere.

developers.googleblog.com ↗ · #347

Claude introduces Cowork

Anthropic’s Cowork reframes AI as a teammate, not a tool, handling files, tasks and workflows while you stay in charge.

claude.com ↗ · #347

Getting Chatbots High

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.

wired.com ↗ · #346

Poets Are Now Cybersecurity Threats

Turns out verse can jailbreak machines. A fascinating collision of creativity, language, and the unintended loopholes of safety systems.

pcgamer.com ↗ · #345

The DoorDash Problem & the AI Browser Wars

Who gets to browse the web for us? A brewing battle over agents, commerce, and control and what it means for the open internet.

theverge.com ↗ · #345

Google Photos Levels Up

Google unveils a suite of Nano Banana–powered AI editing features. Some are playful and some are wild!

siliconangle.com ↗ · #343

SIMA 2: An AI Agent That Learns With You

DeepMind releases SIMA 2, a Gemini-powered agent built to navigate 3D worlds: a glimpse at AI that plays, reasons, and evolves alongside you.

deepmind.google ↗ · #343

GPT-5.1 Arrives

OpenAI’s latest models bring stronger reasoning, smoother conversation, and more tunable behavior. A step closer to AI that feels collaborative.

openai.com ↗ · #343

A24 Go Back to Analogue

In a refreshingly lo-fi move, A24 dropped a new analogue collection including photobooks and movie logs that invite fans to unplug, rewind, and reconnect with physical creativity.

instagram.com ↗ · #341

Disney v. AI Mickey

After a creator used Character.AI to bring Disney characters to life in chatbots, the lawyers came calling. IP, identity, and imagination are officially colliding.

axios.com ↗ · #341

Calling All Creators

Meta just launched Instagram Rings designed to reward bold creativity and self-expression. The new award from Instagram is all about celebrating those not afraid to take creative chances.

instagram.com ↗ · #341

Sora 2 Is Here: Faster, Sharper, Weirder

OpenAI just dropped the next iteration of its video model. It’s smoother, better at storytelling, and leans into “imagination over realism.”

openai.com ↗ · #340

Welcome to the Age of Agentic Commerce

OpenAI’s latest move could redefine online shopping: introducing instant checkout inside ChatGPT. It turns product discovery into purchase all in one prompt…

x.com ↗ · #340

Design Spotlight: A Lantern for Yachts

Sir Jony Ive and Gen Terao teamed up to design a sailboat lantern that blends analog romanticism with obsessive detail - and we love it.

boatinternational.com ↗ · #340

OK Go Open-Sources a Music Video

The band known for chaos choreography drops its most experimental project yet: a video designed to be remixed, re-edited, and reimagined by you.

itsnicethat.com ↗ · #339

Wise Advice for the Next Generation

i-D’s latest cover is a letter to the next generation: 26 of the world’s luminaries from Nan Goldin to Marina Abramović share words of wisdom to navigate the world in 2025.

i-d.co ↗ · #339

Meta’s New Glasses Actually Work

After announcing the launch earlier this week, the reviews are in for Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses: AI integration and a design people actually want to wear.

techradar.com ↗ · #339

This Vape Pen Is Now a Web Server

In case the internet wasn’t weird enough: someone just turned a disposable vape into a functioning web server. It’s ridiculous, brilliant, and very on brand for 2025.

interestingengineering.com ↗ · #339

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.

latent.space ↗ · #336

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.

deepmind.google ↗ · #336

ChatGPT Gets an Agent Mode

Agents are here. OpenAI’s newest feature lets ChatGPT take action for you. Book a flight, manage your inbox, or handle your to-do list? It’s starting to happen.

openai.com ↗ · #335

Make Something That Matters

Got a crazy tech idea? Submit it to “Applied Experiments” now - they’re curating creative, useful, or weird ideas that show what the future could feel like.

google.com ↗ · #335

AI Songs from the Dead

Spotify quietly released AI-generated tracks that imitate deceased artists - and people aren’t happy. We think it’s eerie - what do you think?

404media.co ↗ · #335

The Future of Making

A small 3D printer has set an all time record for the most money raised on Kickstarter, signalling a new era for creative expression.

forbes.com ↗ · #334

The Power of Social-First Brands

Rhode’s $1B exit signals both the power and the plateau of brands built social-first. But are they built for longevity?

campaignlive.com ↗ · #333

Chanel unveils new recycling platform

Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel and Chanel SAS, explains why the French house is determined to develop recycled materials at scale.

voguebusiness.com ↗ · #332

What to Know About the Kids Online Safety Act and Where It Currently Stands

What to know about the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which has been reintroduced and has a second chance.

time.com ↗ · #331

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over

During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.

newyorker.com ↗ · #329

Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI

The internet is flooded with AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli, whose founder said “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”

archive.ph ↗ · #327

Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works.

technologyreview.com ↗ · #327

Stability AI is back with 'Stable Virtual Camera

A model that turns 2d images into immersive 3D videos.

stability.ai ↗ · #326

Transcript: Tech in 2025 — China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’

Some are calling it ‘AI Sputnik moment.’ Last week, a Chinese company called DeepSeek released the details of an AI model that shocked Silicon Valley, and could change the whole narrative around AI development.

ft.com ↗ · #323

Microsoft advances materials discovery with MatterGen

Microsoft has introduced MatterGen, an AI-driven platform designed to accelerate the discovery of new materials, potentially revolutionizing industries such as manufacturing and energy.

artificialintelligence-news.com ↗ · #322

Introducing Pika 1.5

pikartai.com ↗ · #321

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.

perplexity.ai ↗ · #319

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.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #319

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.

runwayml.com ↗ · #319

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.

wired.com ↗ · #318

Microsoft and the Vatican unveiled this AI collaboration

The project has been launched ahead of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, a year in which more than 30 million visitors are expected.

fastcompany.com ↗ · #318

What is ‘greenhushing’ and is it really a cause for concern?

A recent report suggested more companies are going radio silent - or 'greenhushing' their emissions-reduction goals to avoid scrutiny. Could this impact climate efforts?

weforum.org ↗ · #318

Take Your Spotify Playlists to the Next Level With Custom Cover Art

Spotify is giving music fans the power to design and customize their own playlist cover art so their playlists can always look as good as they sound.

newsroom.spotify.com ↗ · #317

Runway Introduces Act-One

A new way to generate expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha using a single driving video and character image. No motion capture or rigging required.

runwayml.com ↗ · #317

Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5

Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5, our most powerful models yet. This open release includes multiple variants that are highly customisable for their size and run on consumer hardware.

stability.ai ↗ · #317

Introducing Pika 1.5

Pika dropped Pika 1.5 with 'Pikaffects' just a few days ago, and people are going crazy over the physics-defying AI special effects.

pika.art ↗ · #316

Teen achieves first NES Tetris “rebirth,” proves endless play is possible

Dogplayingtetris blasts past 3,300-line rollover in two-hour, 29M-point endurance test.

arstechnica.com ↗ · #316

Adobe reveals a content authenticity app to 'champion creator protection and attribution'

Research has found that 91 per cent of creative professionals seek a reliable way to attach attribution to their art and design. Adobe's soon-to-launch Content Authenticity is a tool that may just offer that solution.

creativeboom.com ↗ · #316

Hidden scrolls, tantric puzzles and SpongeBob SquarePants – a startling new angle on ancient Asian art

The Rijksmuseum has used techniques including neutron tomography to shed fresh light on 75 treasures dating back millennia.

theguardian.com ↗ · #315

Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes

Learn about Instagram’s new safety and privacy changes created to protect teenagers on their platform.

nytimes.com ↗ · #314

Runway Partners with Lionsgate

Runway and Lionsgate are partnering to explore the use of AI in film production. This is a first-of-its-kind partnership, designed to help Lionsgate Studios, its filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work using Runway’s suite of controllable tools.

runwayml.com ↗ · #314

After closing $100m raise, Samsara Eco eyes nylon recycling facility

Australian recycling startup Samsara Eco partners with global nylon leader NILIT to develop the world's first nylon 6,6 textile-to-textile recycling facility.

capitalbrief.com ↗ · #313

Crucible unveils lab-grown identity by Madalena Studio

Growing a new logo from bacteria – an unusual combination of science and creativity results in "totally unpretentious artistry".

creativeboom.com ↗ · #312

A historic ruling against Google could change the internet as we know it

A shift in how big tech can expected to be properly regulated in the US.

vox.com ↗ · #312

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?

C2PA authentication is poised to help us work out what’s real and what’s not on the internet (thank you!!), but there are still huge gaps in the system.

theverge.com ↗ · #312

FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands

AI startup Black Forest Labs launched recently and is challenging the typical AI imagery when it comes to accuracy, and interestingly the ability to produce hands.

arstechnica.com ↗ · #311

Olympic Museum unveils a versatile rebrand

A digital-ready identity helping the Switzerland-based museum connect and interact with people all over the world.

creativereview.co.uk ↗ · #310

SearchGPT Prototype

Open AI is testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.

openai.com ↗ · #310

All the Grand Prix winners at Cannes Lions 2024

The results are in – find out who won what at the indsutry's coveted awards.

creativereview.co.uk ↗ · #308

Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI

With users creating over 3.5million slide files in the last 12 months, Figma has answered the demand with a dedicated slide app.

fastcompany.com ↗ · #308

Apple WWDC 2024: the biggest announcements

The biggest announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference are summarised right here. OS updates across all devices and AI integrations that will protect our data.

theverge.com ↗ · #307

It looks like OpenAI is about to make Google’s worst nightmare come true

Their VP of Marketing announced a refreshed website this week, are Open AI preparing for a (rumoured) Search Engine launch?

bgr.com ↗ · #304

Meta releases Llama 3

And *shocker* says it's their most capable model yet and promises it's almost as good as GPT4, with the big difference that it’s... free.

ai.meta.com ↗ · #303

Luckily, there are smart people making energy breakthroughs

A UK startup claims to have made a major breakthrough in its plans to beam solar energy from space to Earth.

thenextweb.com ↗ · #303

Apple claims its on-device AI system ReaLM 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4

Scary new developments? Apple's new AI models could let Siri remember your conversation history, understand what's on your iPhone screen, and be aware of surrounding activities.

zdnet.com ↗ · #302

Gmail is next in line for a Gemini-powered AI overhaul

Google is testing out its AI darling Gemini in Gmail, to prompt suggested replies. The AI will then learn how to tailor the experience to each user.

androidpolice.com ↗ · #302

DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT

This week’s updates make it possible for a more casual DALL-E user to tweak and refine their results from within the ChatGPT interface.

theverge.com ↗ · #302

Walmart partners with unspun, leveraging 3D weaving technology to reduce textile waste

The goals – revitalize textile manufacturing in the United States AND directly address growing concerns regarding waste in the apparel industry.

fashionunited.com ↗ · #301

Creating video from text

AI video production just took a monumental leap forward — OpenAI introduced Sora: A text-to-video model that can generate realistic and complex scenes from text. It's not available yet, but things just got wild.

openai.com ↗ · #299

After seeing TikTok on Vision Pro, there is no way YouTube and Netflix can say no

TikTok has really embraced the Vision Pro opportunity with a fully rebuilt from the ground up native app.

thestreet.com ↗ · #299

Bard becomes Gemini

Google invites users globally, in 40 languages, to try its latest releases, Ultra 1.0 and a brand new mobile app enabling you to collaborate with AI, on the go.

blog.google ↗ · #299

Introducing Stable Cascade

An innovative text-to-image model introduces an interesting three-stage approach, setting new benchmarks for quality, flexibility, fine-tuning, and efficiency with a focus on further eliminating hardware barriers.

stability.ai ↗ · #299

How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix

According to the subscription figures late last year, a young South African company has zoomed past Netflix to become Africa’s streaming platform of choice.

restofworld.org ↗ · #299

Will TikTok Videos Be Muted?

UMG says TikTok proposed payouts for its artists that were a “fraction” of the amount other major social platforms pay and in response, TikTok called the label “self-serving” for its decision to walk away from a “powerful” platform with over a billion users.

forbes.com ↗ · #298

Spotify Wrapped 2023 adds an AI DJ and Blend to the annual personalized insights

The funkiest data insights experience dropped this week with some new features including an analysis of how you listen and a hamburger-style layout of your favourite genres, designed for social sharing.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #295

Pentagram’s Reddit refresh aims to unite cohesion and “creative spirit”

The brand refresh, which includes a custom font and streamlined colour palette, also saw the transformation of its central mascot, Snoo, into 3D for the first time–aiming to make the mascot “as iconic as Super Mario”.

designweek.co.uk ↗ · #295

Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation

A team of researchers at Alibaba Group announced an impressive new way to 'Animate Anyone' using a single image. Too good to be true?

humanaigc.github.io ↗ · #295

Transforming the future of music creation

In partnership with YouTube, Google DeepMind has announced Lyria, an advanced AI music generation model, and two AI experiments designed to open a new playground for creativity.

deepmind.google ↗ · #294

The startup working to teach AI about African history

A volunteer-ran digital archive and search engine is collating news stories, to help ensure Africa is accurately represented in this era of AI and LLM.

restofworld.org ↗ · #293

Loom is joining Atlassian

For a whopping $975 million, Loom joins Atlassian’s collaboration products, including Trello and Jiro, to deliver essential integrations across the portfolio.

loom.com ↗ · #292

Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website

After 18 months of web development, data migration, and content building, NASA has emerged with modernized flagship and science websites – all built on WordPress.

wptavern.com ↗ · #292

Generative AI by Getty Images, powered by NVIDIA

You need not worry about the copyright of your stock photos with this new service, trained exclusively on Getty Images’ best‑in‑class creative content.

gettyimages.co.uk ↗ · #291

Prada is designing Nasa spacesuits. Will luxury customers wear them next?

Luxury fashion is heading to the moon. After its upcoming partnership with Axiom Space to design the spacesuits for NASA’s 2025 Artemis III mission, will Prada look to outfit luxury customers next?

voguebusiness.com ↗ · #291

Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon

Amazon is set to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic to support the secure, reliable running of its infrastructure and develop the most reliable and high-performing foundation models in the industry.

anthropic.com ↗ · #291

DALL·E 3

Whilst we’re on the topic of AI, Open AI just announced that DALL·E 3 is now in research preview and represents a “leap forward in our ability to generate images that exactly adhere to the text you provide” - coming soon to Chat GPT Plus.

openai.com ↗ · #290

Made On YouTube: Empowering Anyone to Create on YouTube

YouTube has unveiled a suite of tools, features and functionalities that will help anyone, no matter their dreams or skills, create video content.

blog.youtube ↗ · #290

Roblox wants to be a dating app

With a roadmap for the next 5 years including exclusive experiences for ages 17+, Roblox has faith in this wild idea.

theverge.com ↗ · #290

Fashion metaverse insights startup Geeiq raises $8.5 million

This London-based startup, pronounced “Geek”, provides insights into the return on investment (ROI) of investments in virtual worlds and digital goods.

voguebusiness.com ↗ · #290

Zoom’s new AI tool will tell you if you’re bad at meetings

The AI companion will not only offer meeting summaries but also, real-time feedback and a critique of your presenting skills - we’re not sure how we feel about that!

fastcompany.com ↗ · #289

The AI Drake ‘Ghostwriter’ is back with a new song and is chasing a Grammy

And they might have a chance of winning the entry categories of best rap song and song of the year as the lyrics themselves were actually written by a human.

theverge.com ↗ · #289

Meta releases Code Llama, a code-generating AI model

Meta, intent on making a splash in the generative AI space, just open-sourced Code Llama, a machine learning system that can generate and explain code in natural language — specifically English.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #288

Open sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio made simple and available to all

Perfect for small businesses or composers - a simple framework that generates high-quality, realistic audio and music from text-based user inputs after training on raw audio signals.

ai.meta.com ↗ · #287

This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves

Wow - this prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers.

wired.co.uk ↗ · #287

Is that viral ‘superconductor’ legit?

Experts are skeptical - the newly discovered material, LK-99, kicked off a frenzy with researchers testing to see if it really was a game-changing superconductor.

theverge.com ↗ · #287

Greta Gerwig on the Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Opening

With a $100m+ marketing budget and a record breaking opening weekend, it’s all anyone has been talking about, whether they liked it or not.

nytimes.com ↗ · #286

Remote And Hybrid Workplaces Are Hiring People Twice As Fast As Full-Time Office Employers

We pride ourselves on a hybrid model, so we’re not shocked - giving people flexibility is definitely the future of successful business.

forbes.com ↗ · #286

Google’s Bard chatbot finally launches in the EU

bard.google.com ↗ · #286

Moving AI governance forward

OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.

openai.com ↗ · #286

Meet FreeWilly, Our Large And Mighty Instruction Fine-Tuned Models

One of the AI lovers - brand new Large Language Models (LLM) form the basis of Stability AI’s new research experiments.

stability.ai ↗ · #286

Entrepreneurs are heroes, and every hero needs a Sidekick

Shopify just announced its new AI assistant, Sidekick. It's been designed to help entrepreneurs everywhere get answers to their burning questions or just get things ticked off their to do lists.

twitter.com ↗ · #285

Are you on Threads?

Sign ups for Meta’s answer to Twitter, Threads, surged past 100 million users in just 5 days, beating Chat GPT’s record of 2 months - but it hasn’t even launched in the EU.

euronews.com ↗ · #285

Google Calendar now allows users to take paid appointments

Integrated with Stripe, this is a potentially a great solution for time-based service industries.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #285

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

Despite his objections towards the ‘speed of AI development’ earlier this year, Musk has happily launched his own AI company this week, with what we can only describe as a very broad and vague mission.

arstechnica.com ↗ · #285

‘Time is money’: Shopify calculator shows how much unnecessary meetings really cost the company

Meeting creep is real and Shopify is pushing back to help their employees get more done and save time and money.

edition.cnn.com ↗ · #285

Christian Dior Couture Unveils Its First Web3 Initiative: The Dior B33 Sneaker

New evidence that luxury brands are still investing in Web3, allowing for a unique digital-physical hybrid experience.

fashnerd.com ↗ · #285

LVMH and Epic Games announce strategic partnership to transform Maisons’ creative pipeline and customer experiences

A hot strategic partnership was announced at last week’s Viva Tech event.

lvmh.com ↗ · #284

Vimeo launches one-take video creation

Create savvy scripts in seconds, record using the built-in teleprompter and then cut out the “umms” - in Vimeo’s new AI-powered video editing.

vimeo.com ↗ · #284

Reddit descends into chaos

In a protest against proposed API pricing changes, Reddit communities across the platform have gone dark - and it’s spiralled into chaos.

ia.acs.org.au ↗ · #284

A storefront for robots

Small businesses are struggling to keep up with SEO and do you know who’s reading their content? Robots.

theverge.com ↗ · #284

Google’s new generative AI lets you preview clothes on different models

This new try-on tool lets you imagine how an item would drape, fall and cling to your body - before you buy

techcrunch.com ↗ · #284

Five takeaways from Apple’s biggest product event in years

The perfect summary for those who haven’t had a chance to catch up.

edition.cnn.com ↗ · #283

Apple’s Vision Pro Is a $3,500 Ticket to Nowhere

“No normal human being wants to wear goofy-ass goggles so they can attend work meetings in Minecraft” - unsurprisingly there’s mixed reviews on the Apple announcements.

vice.com ↗ · #283

Unspun launches 3D weaving to reduce waste in fashion

With $14M investment in the bank, a new 3D weaving technology is set to transform fashion production by reducing transport emissions and garment waste.

voguebusiness.com ↗ · #283

Meet the EU’s answer to crypto: the e-euro

In a bid to play catch up, central banks are finally starting to take digital currencies seriously - and the ECB is one of them.

theconversation.com ↗ · #283

Introducing the most bikeable office building in the world

And it’s not in the Netherlands. We were shocked too.

fastcompany.com ↗ · #283

Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words

This could one day help people who have lost the ability to speak as a result of injuries like strokes or conditions including ALS.

technologyreview.com ↗ · #282

The 6 biggest announcements from Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2023

All the major reveals and announcements, including a hand-held console.

theverge.com ↗ · #282

Sweden is building the world's first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving

The first of its kind in the world, the e-motorway may lead to an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric roads in Sweden by 2035.

euronews.com ↗ · #282

The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

Is it a file or is it a TLD, your guess is as good as ours.

shkspr.mobi ↗ · #282

The nine biggest announcements from Google I/O 2023

From a folding phone-tablet to a new look for Google search, here’s everything you need to know.

theverge.com ↗ · #281

OpenAI Suffers $540M Loss in 2022, Contemplates $100B More to Conquer AI

These figures reveal the steep financial requirements to keep ahead in this rapidly developing market.

artisana.ai ↗ · #281

Does spring cleaning have mental health benefits?​

Some people like it, some people don’t, but turns out, a good spring-cleaning can have positive impacts on mental health, such as sense of control, intentionality, and calmness.

vogue.com ↗ · #280

This AI Algorithm Can Create Digital Copies of Real-World Objects

The AI can learn about an object's geometry and material and produce a thorough digital copy of the object.

80.lv ↗ · #279

LinkedIn rolls out ways to verify your identity and employment

Finally a chance to bust employer/employee scammers, this new verification will help users understand who’s the real deal.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #279

No One Wants Max’s Harry Potter TV Series

Obliviate or levitate? Harry Potter is set to get a reboot and it’s got fans divided. Potter heads, what do you think?

thedailybeast.com ↗ · #279

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Looks like it’s hard for everyone to keep up! Tech leaders across the world have signed an open letter asking all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

futureoflife.org ↗ · #278

Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 Goes Multi-Platform in Push for Interoperability

Brands including Tommy Hilfiger and digital fashion houses such as DressX are bringing to life the first major multi-platform metaverse event.

decrypt.co ↗ · #278

OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world

If AI does turn out to be an existential risk, who will keep humanity safe?

arstechnica.com ↗ · #278

​​Disney’s first round of layoffs knocked the metaverse off its priority list

Another blow to investments into the Metaverse as Disney scraps its next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences unit.

qz.com ↗ · #278

​​Pepsi has a new logo

A punchy redesign gives Pepsi the look of “a bold and confident brand” - something that the recent logo just wasn’t offering.

edition.cnn.com ↗ · #278

​​Gen Z job seekers are rattling older managers by asking about work-life balance in the first interview

And rightly so - what do you think?

businessinsider.com ↗ · #278

OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art

OpenAI’s latest release is available to paying users, and has been hiding in plain sight, powering big brands' latest AI capabilities.

techcrunch.com ↗ · #277

SVB Collapse Simply Explained

The collapse of the startup-focused bank has caused total disruption in the US tech and innovation economy. But how did it all happen?!

linkedin.com ↗ · #277

Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft

Soon you’ll be able to access handy AI features directly from the Google suite, enabling you to quickly generate images and text.

theverge.com ↗ · #277

Meta ditches NFTs on Instagram and Facebook in Metaverse reversal

After announcing its support for NFTs on its platforms at SXSW ‘22, Meta is winding these efforts down due to low demand this last year.

adage.com ↗ · #277

Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot

Hope sure is an interesting strategy: “ The company admits that DuckAssist might make stuff up but hopes it will happen rarely ”.

arstechnica.com ↗ · #277

Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube

Pushing more than just music is at the heart of Spotify’s ongoing strategy to help audio creators get discovered through new design features.

theverge.com ↗ · #277

OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech

Now developers can officially integrate ChatGPT into their products and services.

theverge.com ↗ · #276

Zero10 wants to crack open 3D and AR fashion design for the masses

The new platform will enable even those without design experience, to create digital designs.

voguebusiness.com ↗ · #276

What to Expect at Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week 2023

Learn more about what’s on the agenda this year and which brands will be taking part, between 28 - 31 March 2023.

wwd.com ↗ · #276

Whatever happened to the metaverse?

Search traffic for ‘metaverse’ has dropped by 80% this last year, are we all just over it? And what does that mean for its future?

ft.com ↗ · #275

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

Over a million users signed up for the Chat GPT - Bing search engine in just 48 hours, however its ‘personality’ started to show after it was prompted beyond basic search…

arstechnica.com ↗ · #275

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT is 'cool,' but it's a 'horrible product'

Given its haphazard launch, the tool offers a somewhat unpredictable experience yet users across the world are loving it anyway. Read the article

#275

Super Bowl 2023 commercials: Here are the winners and losers

Costing $7 million for the ad spot alone, nevermind the millions in production costs - the Superbowl was packed with celebrity appearances and cultural references. Did you have a fave?

cbsnews.com ↗ · #275

Search upstart You.com is melding its AI chatbot with mini-apps

Rather than trying to answer every question itself—something AI can’t do reliably—YouChat hands some queries off to tiny apps that live inside search results.

fastcompany.com ↗ · #275

Buzzfeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content

The digital publisher says it hopes to improve and personalise its quizzes and online content - improve or just increase the volume? What do you think?

wsj.com ↗ · #274

The Metaverse industry is already going belly-up for reasons we can't imagine

Despite heavy investment, layoffs and division closures are rife across the industry.

futurism.com ↗ · #274