1. OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device
OpenAI’s high-stakes partnership with design legend Jony Ive is hitting critical snags as they attempt to birth a screen-less, palm-sized AI assistant that “remembers” context through always-on sensors—revealing how the lofty ideals of seamless human-machine intimacy bump against real-world constraints of compute, personality design, and privacy.
“Major obstacles remain, particularly with software development, determining the assistant’s personality, privacy concerns, and the vast computing power needed to run OpenAI’s models efficiently.” (ft.com)
2. Before it’s too late: Why a world of interacting AI agents demands new safeguards
As the “agentic” tide rises—AI systems autonomously collaborating with one another—so too do risks of misaligned goals, cascading cyber-incidents, and emergent behaviors beyond any single creator’s control; this urgent essay calls for sandboxes, shared protocols, and even a “social contract” among AI agents to prevent catastrophic coordination failures.
“The window of opportunity for effectively ensuring that these systems are deployed in responsible ways may soon close.” (sipri.org)
3. Can AI design a typeface?
Monotype’s 2025 Type Trends report maps the fraught interplay between generative lettering and systematic font design, revealing that while AI can produce spectacular one-off glyphs, turning them into coherent, reusable typefaces demands a designer’s eye to impose structure, ownership clarity, and real-world usability.
“Some of the letterforms being created are truly spectacular—but they remain static presentations, not parametric, recombinable fonts fit for design systems.” (transformmagazine.net)
4. Replicants and robots: what can the ancient Greeks teach us?
Adrienne Mayor excavates myths of Medea’s rejuvenating cauldron, Hephaestus’s bronze automata, and Talos’s singular artery to show how classical “bio-techne” anticipated modern anxieties about cloning, cyborg soldiers, and autonomous machines—reminding us that every age’s dreams of overcoming mortality carries its own moral and existential crucible.
“When remembered as enquiries into what ancient Greeks called bio-techne, the ‘science fictions’ of antiquity take on eerie contemporary significance.” (aeon.co)
5. From Chatbots to Co-Pilots: The Rise of Agentic AI in 2025
In this hands-on primer, Mehmet Turgay AKALIN shows how 2025 is the year AI moves from reactive helper to proactive digital teammate—illustrating step-by-step how to build a mini agent that reads your inbox, extracts tasks, suggests calendar blocks, and asks permission before acting, all while balancing initiative with indispensable control checks.
“Agentic AI = Chatbot + Initiative… It doesn’t just tell you what to do — it does the boring part.” (medium.com)