Four New AI Signals: Multimodal Design, Realistic Avatars, Faster Ads, and Easier Agents

Four New AI Signals: Multimodal Design, Realistic Avatars, Faster Ads, and Easier Agents

Meta’s Muse Spark: A Game-Changer for Multimodal Design This morning I dug into Meta’s latest release – Muse Spark from Meta Superintelligence Labs (source). It’s pretty exciting to see a tech giant re-entering the AI race with a model that handles voice, text, and images. As UX designers, it’s inspiring to see how a multimodal approach could someday streamline prototyping...

AI Policy, New Toolkits, and the Next Leap in Digital Design

AI Policy, New Toolkits, and the Next Leap in Digital Design

OpenAI’s Bold New Social Contract This morning I kicked off my day reading about Sam Altman’s latest high-stakes vision in AI policy. OpenAI’s 13-page policy document (read it here) outlines a radical “social contract” for an AI-driven future. Altman suggests the U.S. government should tax robot labour, establish a national wealth fund (a concept that harks back to Alaska’s model),...

How Secure Supply Chains and AI Tooling Are Shaping the Next UX Workflow

How Secure Supply Chains and AI Tooling Are Shaping the Next UX Workflow

Secure Code Supply Chains and Sandboxing I’ve been reading up on news from the past day and it looks like the importance of security in our digital workflows has never been clearer. One notable incident came from Axios—a widely used package manager component with 100M weekly installs was recently compromised due to a hijacked GitHub account (source here). This got...