45% of shoppers already use AI in their buying journey. Google, OpenAI, and Stripe are building the rails for machines to buy things. This changes what a product surface is, what a brand relationship means, and who you're actually designing for.
Mar 2026
What I told a room of founders and operators at Neue House NYC about where AI actually is right now: three Kubrick archetypes, seven protocol layers, and one uncomfortable inversion.
Feb 2026
Design thinking was already failing. AI accelerated the collapse. Here are three ways creative teams are responding.
Jan 2026
Seven major studies converge on the same finding: AI boosts productivity 15-30%, compresses the skill gap, and is already reshaping which jobs grow and which shrink. The research phase is over.
Dec 2025
AI benchmarks work when there's a right answer. But creativity, emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity, taste—the domains where AI is increasingly deployed—don't have right answers. We need new approaches.
Nov 2025
As teams move quickly to deliver real GenAI experiences, tough decisions emerge around control, ownership, and velocity. Here's how to navigate when to build, when to partner, and how to move with intention.
Aug 2025
Building with AI today means navigating between quick experimentation and slow, deliberate engineering. Here's how to manage this tension and master the unique complexity of AI innovation.
Jun 2025
At the UN workshop on AI agents, Amina—a digital Sudanese refugee—took the mic. But what did she actually say, and who really got to speak through her?
May 2025
OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 turns image generation from novelty into a production-grade asset pipeline. Steer styles with simple --srefs and push from concept to critique—all in code.
Apr 2025
Exploring how creative organizations can actively engage with generative AI, transforming their process into a dynamic 'Hatter's Workshop' of experimentation and adaptation.
Day one of the AI Engineering Conference explored the organizational and strategic shifts needed for AI to move beyond experimentation into production.
Mar 2025
Inside the uncertain middle-ground of creative work reshaped by AI—where teams grapple with shifting roles, uneasy questions, and real-time lessons.
Feb 2025
Key themes from the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI Conference (IASEAI25), where experts from academia, industry, and policy discussed AI safety, multi-agent dynamics, alignment challenges, and the urgent need for integrated, culturally aware governance.
LLMs can simulate personalities, but most AI-generated personas are shallow—no memory, no cultural grounding, no consistency. Here's what would need to change.
A two-day workshop at Mount Sinai brought medical students and physician-scientists together to examine what AI can actually do in healthcare—and what questions we haven't answered yet.
Apr 2024
Agentcy is an experimental platform built on AutoGen that coordinates specialized AI agents for creative work. It's open source, and we're learning as we build.
Mar 2024