Arm launches new generation of mobile chip designs geared for AI. Arm’s unveiling of its “Lumex” portfolio marks a watershed in mobile computing: four variants of AI-optimized cores, from low-power wearables to high-performance smartphone chips, promise on-device execution of large models without cloud reliance. Designed on TSMC’s 3 nm process, Lumex brings privacy (data stays local), reduced latency, and energy savings, meeting a new user expectation for seamless AI interaction. Chris Bergey, Arm’s SVP, notes, “AI is becoming pretty fundamental to what’s happening…we’re just seeing [AI] become kind of this expectation.” The launch underscores Arm’s strategy to integrate complete compute subsystems and invest in its own chip designs, holding a debut event in China to court leading handset makers beyond Apple and Samsung (reuters.com).
Can we design machines to make ethical decisions?. This 2,800-word essay by Tom Chatfield interrogates the moral dimensions of automation, contrasting our “automatic” emotional responses with “manual” reasoned deliberation, and explores how algorithmic decision-making might embed or transcend human values. Drawing on Paul Virilio’s view that each invention brings its accident—“an inverted miracle”—it argues for transparency and societal debate over embedded priorities, especially in safety-critical systems like autonomous cars. Chatfield reflects on the necessity of making trade-offs explicit (“If my self-driving car is prepared to sacrifice my life…”), warning that codified ethics in AI entails potential “accidents on our horizon” that could challenge human flourishing (aeon.co).
Experimenting with Film: A Photo Essay by Cami Turpin. Cami Turpin’s visual narrative celebrates analogue uncertainty through experimental techniques like EBS (exposing both sides of the film), yielding kaleidoscopic images awash in color shifts and light leaks. Turpin writes, “One of the things I love most about film is the uncertainty—that little bit of unknown that goes into every image,” capturing the medium’s serendipity and tactile engagement. Each frame invites viewers to embrace imperfections—light flares, grain textures, unexpected color casts—underscoring film’s capacity to surprise and foster creative risk (shootitwithfilm.com).
Reflecting on a Design Leader Who Inspires Me: Jony Ive. Sreya Roy’s 7-minute essay distills Ive’s ethos: design as “not just what something looks like—it’s how it works.” Through case studies—the edge curves of iPhones, the Apple Watch’s material choices—Roy highlights Ive’s “essentialist” approach and his calm, precise communication that reframes aesthetic debates into tactile experiences. The piece also explores his stakeholder-bridging during product development and extrapolates leadership lessons—integrity, strategic storytelling, cross-disciplinary empathy—that aspiring designers can adopt to elevate design from mere output to cultural force (medium.com).
AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK. Yasemin Saplakoglu’s Quanta feature examines the divergent evolutionary paths of biological nervous systems and artificial neural networks. Highlighting the brain’s “astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity,” the article argues that AI need not mimic biology to advance intelligence, and that computational simplicity can yield powerful new architectures. Experts like Christof Koch note that while neurons inspired early AI, current models disregard rich neurobiology—yet this divergence opens fresh routes to innovation and mutual insights between neuroscience and machine learning (quantamagazine.org).