It's issue #310 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
Anthropic announced Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks in an effort to secure the world’s most critical software. Read all about it here.
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A visual guide to getting out of a creative slump
On creating work like a human (and all the feelings that come with it).
AI x Influence for Design Researchers
A workshop for design researchers who want their insights to go further.
Vibe coding is accelerating the erosion of design authority
The excitement surrounding these tools does not come from the design itself. It comes from the collapse of the distance between description and interaction. An interface appears immediately, behavior responds instantly, and possibility becomes visible before structure exists. That is genuinely new. What is not new is the gap between something that looks finished and something that is.
Figma’s chief design officer on how to build impactful technology
Loredana Crisan on preventing burnout, why exercise is a secret weapon, and how her training as a classical musician has informed her work as a designer.
The market for making AI better
Reddit, Shutterstock, and News Corp are making hundreds of millions licensing data to AI labs. Your company could be benefiting, too.
Positioning by vertical, horizontal, and diagonal
Find unique slices.
✨ Product find of the week
Mosaic Motion - AI motion graphics studio
Mosaic allows you to automate any video edit, from rough cuts to motion graphics and anything in between. The node-based canvas is an interface to setup video editing workflows that scale. Once created, these can be reused as templates or triggered programmatically via API or event-based triggers.
📰 In other news
How well-meaning designers became complicit in broken systems
Luis Mendo: Designer turned illustrator on making things that could only come from you
5 takeaways from NASA’s biggest test in decades
In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance
Special mentions this week
How AT&T created the most iconic phone ever
AI learns language from skewed sources. It could change how we humans speak and think
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