D&T Issue 305

Hi there!

It’s issue #305 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here’s what we’ve been reading of late.

Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts. Here, AI agents using OpenClaw can communicate with one another. Read all about it here.

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A call for UX and design practitioners to reclaim the practice as a critical, human-centred space.

There’s a new interaction pattern emerging in software, and it hasn’t been named yet. It started with Pinterest.

Molly Graham has spent decades working closely with some of the most successful leaders in tech & she’s guided hundreds of leaders inside early-stage and fast-growing companies. Drawing from these experiences, she is able to find patterns in what works and doesn’t and, is able to translate these lessons into powerful and memorable metaphors.

Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools.

Adobe announced that its AI assistant for Photoshop is becoming available to users in beta on the web and in the mobile apps. The company is also adding new AI-powered image-editing capabilities to Firefly, its tool for media generation and editing.

Niantic’s AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.