Meta & Microsoft’s AI Infrastructure Push This morning I was reading up on some really impressive AI news, and I couldn’t help but think about what these massive shifts mean for our design world. Meta is making serious waves with its new Meta Compute initiative – a plan to add tens of gigawatts of capacity in the coming decade (source)....

Revamping Siri with AI Good morning, fellow designers! One of the most exciting developments in AI today comes from the tech giants themselves. Apple and Google have officially joined forces, with Apple confirming that Gemini will power the long-awaited revamp for Siri. This multi-year partnership (read more on Google’s blog) means that Siri’s AI will soon use one of the...

Rethinking Humanising AI I’ve been mulling over the latest insights from NN/g’s newsletter, and one article really got my attention: “Humanizing AI Is a Trap” by Caleb Sponheim. It sparked some thoughts on how we design AI tools to seem more “human” than they really are. In the article (read more here), Caleb draws a clear distinction between anthropomorphisation (our...

The Shifting Technical Landscape Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been mulling over some exciting insights on AI tools and their impact on our design work. Nick Potkalitsky’s recent deep dive reminds us that while large language models (LLMs) are undeniably brilliant, they’re still in an “intermediate stage.” It’s an interesting moment—one where AI is both a marvel and a...