It's issue #315 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here's what we've been reading of late.
Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall. Read all about it here.
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LLMs make a lot of life searchable, from meeting transcripts to iMessages to half-formed morning thoughts, but all this context only helps if you know what you want to achieve.
Drones already move groceries, blood samples. D2C brands want them to move customers too
As drones shrink delivery times and logistics costs, D2C brands are beginning to see a way around e-commerce giants.
The haves and have-nots of the AI gold rush
The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.
Field notes from the in-between
What happens when a designer stops waiting.
How to avoid (and repair) these 3 critical design blunders
Learn how to avoid some critical design blunders with the right psychology and UX principles.
Collected consciousness - AI product design for empowering human creativity
AI product design for empowering human creativity.
✨ Product find of the week
Gemini Omni - Create anything from anything from any input
Gemini Omni is where Gemini’s ability to reason meets the ability to create. It delivers a leap in world understanding, multimodality, and editing.
📰 In other news
Neuroscience, built into earbuds
The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
The fallacy of the 16-hour agent
43 years of Macintosh. 153 machines. From $9,995 Lisa to $599 MacBook Neo, visualised.
Special mentions this week
The power of print to tell studio stories
Discomorphism, inspired by Spotify's 20th anniversary logo
ChatGPT's report on consumer adoption patterns, geographic distribution, and work and non-work use
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