It's issue #272 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
A new type of deal structure has emerged in AI as an alternative to acquisitions and hiring. It involves hiring the core team from a startup and gaining a non-exclusive license to the startup's intellectual property in exchange for substantial licensing fees, which are distributed as dividends out to investors and employees. It's called the HALO Effect. Read about it here.
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"The best start-ups are built on brand, so designers should have a stake"
In early-stage ventures, distinctiveness is the key to having a real edge. But the people who create that edge still don’t share in the value they help generate. Anders Frostenson says it’s time that changed.
Why development leaders are investing in design
An IDC study shows just how central design has become to development leaders.
Luke Miles, founder of brand experience agency NewTerritory, on design and leadership
Luke Miles is the founder of brand experience agency NewTerritory. It specialises in the transport sector, working with clients like LATAM Airlines, Delta Air Lines, HS2 and Ford.
AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database
Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'.
Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs
Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems.
Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time
Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’.
✨ Product find of the week
Adaline: The single platform to iterate, evaluate, deploy, and monitor LLMs
You can test prompts across datasets, compare models, and ship with built-in versioning, diffing, and rollback. It auto-generates evals, debugs failures, and gives you visibility into real-world performance. Designed to plug into your stack and scale with production, without breaking things.
📰 In other news
C The Signs: Rewrite the future of cancer with AI
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Build your personal AI copilot
Special mentions this week
AI comes up with bizarre Physics experiments
Human coder beats AI in epic 10-hour showdown: 'Humanity prevails, for now'
Why Japan made me rethink Design
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