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The Eval Problem: How Do You Benchmark What Can't Be Scored?
AI benchmarks work when there's a right answer. But creativity, emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity, taste—the domains where AI is increasingly deployed—don't have right answers. We need new approaches.
November 25, 2025
Read ArticleBuild, Buy, Partner: How to Navigate GenAI Without Getting Stuck
As teams move quickly to deliver real GenAI experiences, tough decisions emerge around control, ownership, and velocity. Here's how to navigate when to build, when to partner, and how to move with intention.
Aug 25, 2025
Inheriting the Weird: What AI Innovation Actually Demands
Building with AI today means navigating between quick experimentation and slow, deliberate engineering. Here's how to manage this tension and master the unique complexity of AI innovation.
Jun 25, 2025
Ask Amina: Can a Synthetic Persona Speak for the Displaced?
At the UN workshop on AI agents, Amina—a digital Sudanese refugee—took the mic. But what did she actually say, and who really got to speak through her?
May 19, 2025
Image-1 API: The Moment AI Design Grows Up
OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 turns image generation from novelty into a production-grade asset pipeline. Steer styles with simple --srefs and push from concept to critique—all in code.
Apr 24, 2025
Beyond the Map: Creativity in the AI Workshop
Exploring how creative organizations can actively engage with generative AI, transforming their process into a dynamic 'Hatter's Workshop' of experimentation and adaptation.
Apr 10, 2025
AI Engineering Conference: AI Leadership & The Path to Real-World Impact
Day one of the AI Engineering Conference explored the organizational and strategic shifts needed for AI to move beyond experimentation into production.
Mar 10, 2025
Agency Interrupted: Navigating the Human Side of AI Transformation
Inside the uncertain middle-ground of creative work reshaped by AI—where teams grapple with shifting roles, uneasy questions, and real-time lessons.
Feb 12, 2025
AI at a Crossroads: Safety, Ethics, and the Future of Governance
Key themes from the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI Conference (IASEAI25), where experts from academia, industry, and policy discussed AI safety, multi-agent dynamics, alignment challenges, and the urgent need for integrated, culturally aware governance.
Feb 10, 2025
Scaling Synthetic Personae: Memory, Bias, and the Future of AI-Driven Data Creation
AI-generated identities must evolve from zero-shot models to augmented, memory-driven agents that respect cultural contexts, mitigate bias, and scale synthetic data creation.
Feb 1, 2025
Demystifying AI in Medicine: From Bootcamps to Bedside - A Deep Dive into the Mount Sinai Workshop
From automated diagnostics to personalized treatments, explore how AI is revolutionizing healthcare – and the critical questions we must answer as it does. Dive into the Mount Sinai AI in Medicine workshop, where experts and medical students confronted the promises and perils of this rapidly evolving field.
Apr 29, 2024
Introducing Agentcy: A New Approach to Creative Collaboration - Exploring Augmentation through Automation
Agentcy is an experimental platform that explores new creative workflows. Learn how we're building an autonomous, collaborative team of creative agents to investigate the intersection of design and technology, moving beyond simple automation to explore human-AI augmentation.
Mar 18, 2024