The surfboards, split keyboard, and improv guidebook fueling Eliot Peper’s AI worldbuilding
Three principles for worldbuilding in the AI era
Responsibility versus transparency in the AI era. Plus: An upgrade to our file-organizing app Sparkle.
You are what you say you are—not just what you click
Where I went wrong, and then right, with vibe coding our file organizer Sparkle
He was early to the internet, VR, crypto—and now AI. The 'Wired' cofounder on exploring the edges of what’s next.
Where you can find my analysis going forward
Plus: Meet your new AI alien best friend
Our take on what’s powerful, what’s practical, and what’s still TBD
Portola cofounder Quinten Farmer and head of story Eliot Peper on building AI companions that feel real
The highest praise I can give is that I’m already using it all the time
What a wave of ‘zero-AI’ policies reveals about our obsession with hard work
Creativity isn’t magic. You can train it like a muscle, and AI can help.
Plus: The race to design for agents, and a guide for AI in the workplace
Shopify’s CEO announced that AI is a workplace expectation. This is your step-by-step guide to mastering AI at work.
It’s less about capturing attention, and more about deserving it
Our creative lead Lucas Crespo on making the internet feel beautiful
Tina He spends her days building at the cutting edge of AI—and usually surrounded by books.
There are billion-dollar markets to be seized—if you can learn to see like an agent.
Plus: The inside story of vibe forms
Language models handle the repetition—people decide what matters
Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman on consciousness, wonder, and emotions
This newest funding round means this company has either a trillion-dollar outcome—or nothing at all.
If tools are getting more expressive, why are user experiences still stuck in checkboxes and static flows? Freeform is our answer to that question.
.png)
.13.33_PM.png)
.22.19_AM.png)
.png)
.53.16_AM.png)
.11.33_PM.png)
.16.17_AM.png)
.48.05_AM.png)
.06.41_AM.png)