1. Salesforce deepens AI ties with OpenAI and Anthropic to power Agentforce platform
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, an all-in-one enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents, now integrating OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude to bring generative AI into ChatGPT, Slack, and Salesforce’s own apps—marking a strategic leap toward the “Agentic Enterprise” vision. (reuters.com)
2. Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
Deepak Varuvel Dennison reveals how generative AI’s reliance on an English-centric, institutionally dominated digital corpus perpetuates epistemic hierarchies—threatening to erase oral traditions, Indigenous know-how, and low-resource languages—and calls for urgent stewardship to preserve the diversity of human knowledge. (aeon.co)
“I don’t know if my dad’s herbal concoctions worked. But I’m learning that acknowledging that I don’t know might be the most honest place to start.”
3. AI isn’t design’s biggest problem
Jarrett Fuller argues that the real threat to graphic design is not AI itself but the industry’s decades-long drift toward standardized, systematized workflows that already “design like AI”—and sees this moment as an invitation to reclaim surprise, craft, and human judgment in design practice. (fastcompany.com)
“Like an essay written by ChatGPT, most of the results of AI design look very similar: the averaging of everything else.”
4. Reflecting on a Design Leader Who Inspires Me: Jony Ive
Sreya Roy offers a personal meditation on Jony Ive’s ethos—where simplicity derives from empathic understanding and design becomes a strategic force—and explores how his quiet leadership, attention to ritual, and insistence on purposeful minimalism continue to shape her own journey as a future design leader. (medium.com)
“Design is not just what something looks like — it’s how it works.”
5. The Photographer Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See and Critique like Photographers
Daiqing Qi et al. introduce PhotoCritique, a dataset of expert photographic feedback, and PhotoEye, a novel multimodal model that bridges the gap between factual image understanding and aesthetic critique—demonstrating clear gains in professional-level photographic analysis and setting a new benchmark for aesthetic visual intelligence. (arxiv.org)