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Invisible Inputs. Massive Impact. Here’s How to Design for That.

Your AI Briefing for 18th April - 25th April 2025

Friends,

Your weekly AI briefing is here—designed to help you respond to AI, not react to the hype. No curveballs. No chaos. Just clarity.

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🔥 URGENT PRIORITIES
A quite week.

✅ No fires to fight
✅ MCP server issues resolved
✅ Your AI roadmap remains stable

enjoy the win.

🎯 STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS
No major shifts. But here’s your reminder:

If you’re already...

✅ Training your organisation to use AI tools
✅ Developing your AI tech stack
✅ Working from a clear AI strategy

...you’re outpacing 95% of your peers.

For Product Teams:
This week’s viral GPT trend—deducing location, time, and context from a single photo—should be a wake-up call. Your product’s surface area is bigger than you think. Every image, every interaction, every breadcrumb can now be interpreted by AI agents.

So what?
Design with inference in mind. Treat every product element as an input signal for agents, not just humans. This changes how you build metadata, accessibility, and even your visual design language.

🤓 GEEK OUT

🔬 A Periodic Table for AI Discovery
MIT researchers just unveiled a machine-learning-based “periodic table” that could turbocharge scientific discovery across disciplines.

Why it matters:
AI isn’t plateauing—it’s compounding. The tools that build better tools are now arriving. Expect acceleration.

🕵️ Reverse Engineering Reality with a Photo
The latest viral GPT trend? Uploading a photo and having an agent deduce where and when it was taken—using weather, shadows, and Google Street View. It’s wild.

Why it matters:
AI can now learn a lot from very little. Privacy, security, and inference design all need fresh thinking.

🎨 Weekend Playground: Try Loveable 2.0
Loveable just dropped v2.0 of their creative AI studio—and it’s a delight. It’s like Figma meets ChatGPT, with a huge imagination.

Try this:

✅ Craft your portfolio site
✅ Design a product launch page
✅ Build a vision board for your next big idea

It’s fast, joyful, and teaches you a lot about design collaboration with agents.

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Have a great week,
Hugo & Ben