AI Is Dogshit at Design
AI design tools in early 2026 remain fundamentally bad at design, producing uncanny valley outputs that lack intent and reasoning, according to a professional designer. While useful for generating rough approximations an…
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AI design tools in early 2026 remain fundamentally bad at design, producing uncanny valley outputs that lack intent and reasoning, according to a professional designer. While useful for generating rough approximations an…
Stanford University's BurgerAI system, trained on 2,216 recipes, designed burgers that beat the Big Mac in a blind taste test of 101 diners in San Francisco. Two AI-generated recipes scored higher on flavor and overall l…
Target developed a generative AI-based system that uses embeddings and large language models to semantically match new marketing campaigns with similar historical ones, improving forecasting accuracy and reducing manual …
Mneme, a new open-source tool, governs AI-generated code by enforcing project decisions before the model writes a line. It reads existing architectural decisions and checks tasks against them, preventing architectural dr…
China Airlines launched a generative-AI powered cargo customer service platform on its website and mobile app, becoming the first air cargo operator in Taiwan to deploy such technology. The system, which integrates with …
A freelance React Native developer reports cutting MVP delivery from 4 weeks to 1 week using an AI app builder called RapidNative. The tool automates pre-kickoff scaffolding, generates working Expo projects from client b…
WorkBoard Inc. launched an AI-native Strategic Portfolio Management solution and Portfolio Analyst Agents, extending its strategy execution platform to help enterprises manage portfolios and outcomes at the speed of AI. …
Millennium Management, a $70B+ multi-strategy hedge fund, is establishing an AI laboratory to enhance technology development and deployment. The firm has hired Gideon Mann as Global Head of AI and Vaibhava Goel as Head o…
Booz Allen Hamilton, the largest AI services provider to the US federal government, partnered with OpenAI to develop AI solutions for national security and critical infrastructure. The collaboration aims to leverage gene…
Gusto CTO Eddie Kim and a team of four built a new AI product, Gusto Cofounder, from scratch in 10 weeks using Claude Code and a radical process that eliminated Figma, Jira, and documentation. The team relied on a two-to…
AI coding platforms are shifting from unlimited plans to token-, credit-, and quota-based subscriptions. Five plans—MiniMax Token Plan, MiMo Token Plan, GLM Coding Plan, and others—offer developers flexible usage at comp…
Google's Gemini AI can help users create custom browser extensions in minutes, enabling them to modify web interfaces and improve productivity without coding expertise. The process involves describing the desired extensi…
Finnish Hollywood director Renny Harlin, known for 'Die Hard 2' and 'Cliffhanger', credits his six-year stint in China during its pre-pandemic film boom for enriching his storytelling, and embraces AI as a tool to benefi…
Enterprises are making a costly mistake by prioritizing custom large language models over grounding infrastructure, according to a product manager with years of AI experience. As model costs collapse by over 90% by 2030,…
SeventeenLabs launches an early-access production workflow platform for AI filmmakers, offering script-to-scene planning, character and continuity management, and generation briefs to reduce random retries. The tool aims…
An open-source benchmark for prompt-injection detectors has been released, measuring both attack catch rate and false positives on real traffic in a threshold-agnostic way. The benchmark evaluates ten detectors across fo…
Julian Engel argues that AI travel planning should be built for personal agents rather than as standalone consumer apps, framing travel as a capability within a broader personal operating layer. Engel, who runs growth at…
The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM launched watsonx AI-powered features on the Wimbledon app and website, including a Key Moments tool and an enhanced Match Chat assistant. The Key Moments tool expands the existing…
Berlin-based Peec AI is raising new funding at a $200M pre-money valuation, double its worth eight months ago, as it bets on generative engine optimization (GEO) replacing traditional SEO. The startup tracks brand visibi…
OpenAI's head of Codex, Andrew Ambrosino, said AI still struggles with creative design because taste and judgment are harder to measure than code. Figma CEO Dylan Field echoed that AI models produce average designs, maki…