The traces tell us a lot about what AI agents tell themselves.

Who's responsible when tools have a mind of their own?

The past eighty years of stability depended on things being hard to get.

The surprising announcement from a top AI image lab

Clearly there’s a lot of money trading hands at this point.

Think you can tell what's made with AI?

This is the last regular edition of Deep Currents, at least for now.

Welcome to the June edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Tokens go in. Tokens come out. Who knows what they cost.

How can we trust our instincts when the dashboard is giving us mixed signals?

Welcome to the May edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Gen Z is currently leading a quiet, deeply unspectacular rebellion.

A short story about AI raising children.

The people building these systems are reaching for every tool they can find.

What we owe the things we create, especially when we can't be sure what they are. Part 2 of 2.

A conversation I didn't expect to have. Part 1 of 2.

Welcome to the April edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

The word "intelligence" is doing way too much work in the AI conversation right now.

What happens when an AI leader tries to please everyone

Welcome to the March edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

What happens when an AI company and its CEO stick to their principles

I stared at my laptop screen. > VM connection timeout after 60 seconds > Restarting Claude or your Mac sometimes resolves this. If it persists, share your debug logs to help us improve. Oh-kay. Here we go again. I'd been using Anthropic's new Claude Cowork for about a

Welcome to the February edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

The thing to know about quicksand is that it doesn’t swallow you immediately.

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first Deep Currents of 2026, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI. The holiday period brought another flood of releases across every category, but it also brought something else: a wave of consolidation that

Reflecting on the past year, and looking out to the year ahead.

Welcome to the final 2025 installment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories that have surfaced in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. My goal with these posts is to help you keep your head above water – hang in there, it'

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Welcome to the latest installment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories that have surfaced in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. My goal with these posts is to help you keep your head above water. November brought another deluge of releases across

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Welcome to the latest installment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and helpful articles that surfaced in the world of generative AI. These are the things that stood out as impactful to a design director in IT trying to stay on top of this rapidly

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Welcome to the latest installment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and helpful articles that have surfaced in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. These were the things that stood out to me as impactful, as a design director in IT trying to stay on

Listen to this post with the Elevenlabs AudioNative Player... I've been thinking a lot about memory lately, and more specifically memory loss. We’re living in an age of unprecedented memory augmentation: AI-powered devices can now record, transcribe, and analyze every conversation we have; search engines give

Welcome to the July edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and insightful articles that surfaced over the past month in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. These were the things that stood out to me as particularly significant, from the perspective of a design

Summer in Canada means trading screens for sunshine whenever possible, and I’ve been making the most of the warm weather with three books that explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping our world and how we need to adapt. Each offers a different lens on a fundamental question: How

Welcome to the latest instalment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and helpful articles that have surfaced in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. These were the things that stood out to me as impactful, as a design director in IT trying to stay on

Listen to this post with Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard AI being referred to as a tool over the past few months, but this oversimplification misses the point. The way we talk about artificial intelligence shapes

Welcome to the third instalment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and helpful articles that have surfaced in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. These were the things that stood out to me as impactful, as a design director in IT trying to stay on

The democratization of software development has been promised for decades. With vibe coding, we might finally be approaching that reality.

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Listen to this post with the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player. Welcome to the second instalment of Deep Currents, a monthly curated list of recent breakthroughs, product updates, and helpful articles that have surfaced recently in the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI. These are the stories that stood out

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