1. Google launches Gemini Enterprise AI platform for business clients
A clear-eyed look at Google’s bid to bring its most advanced models into the enterprise, enabling firms from Figma to Klarna to spin up bespoke AI agents over their own data—another signpost in the shift from chatbots to full-blown agent ecosystems. (reuters.com)
2. How empathy and creativity can re-humanise videoconferencing
An elegant meditation on the limits of today’s flat, grid-of-faces interfaces—and a call for design research to weave in psychology, anthropology and philosophy so that telepresence becomes a space for genuine human connection.
“Technology is not destiny; it’s a canvas for empathy.” (aeon.co)
3. Sparks will fly: Infatuated by celebrity, stuck in dreary work, addicted to consumerism. Only a creator culture can save us
Damien Walter’s resonant essay argues that our deepest human drive—to create—is being smothered by passive consumption, and sketches a vision of society reordered around lifelong learning, art and making as the path to rediscovering our better selves.
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history.” (aeon.co)
4. An environment designed to suit every body is better for all
Anna Leahy’s lucid treatise on universal design demonstrates how accounting for varied bodies—from kitchen peeler to built environment—yields innovations that uplift everyone, quietly revealing the power of inclusive thinking.
“Design shouldn’t hide difference; it should reveal our shared humanity.” (aeon.co)
5. Celebration of Photography 2025
Leica’s centennial festivities in Wetzlar, punctuated by the Oskar Barnack Award, become a prism through which to view the state of global photography—from Alejandro Cegarra’s intimate portraits to Serghei Duve’s bold newcomer vision—affirming the still-vital role of craft and story in a digital age. (leica-camera.com)