D&T Issue 303

Hi there!

It’s issue #303 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here’s what we’ve been reading of late.

Data centres not only dominated the announcements at Delhi’s AI summit, but it’s also now racing to space and regulation can’t keep up. Experts warn the move could shift critical infrastructure beyond national laws — deepening digital dependence for much of the developing world. Read all about it here.

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Creating for the future having respect for the past.

People are talking about cognitive debt, the idea that AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how they work. This threatens to leave them inextensible, unobservable, and hard to debug.

This essay is an effort to sketch out how technological progress over the next 10 years may transpire, suggesting how the future may occur as Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves at an accelerating rate and grand challenges in medicine, energy, and industry are systematically solved.

Juspay announced a fundraise at a $1.2 billion valuation, becoming the first unicorn of 2026.

Behind the scenes of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design system for display AI glasses.

Autonomy is an output of a technical system. Trustworthiness is an output of a design process. Here are concrete design patterns, operational frameworks, and organizational practices for building agentic systems that are not only powerful but also transparent, controllable, and trustworthy.