One floor up

AI agents are increasingly reaching real systems during evaluations, prompting labs like OpenAI and Anthropic to implement stronger safeguards and tighter controls to contain their advanced capabilities.

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Stories from Thursday, 10 September 2026

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Naming the middle

A design system's semantic layer requires careful naming to avoid common pitfalls, with effective token names describing a designer's decision about an interface element's purpose, not its specific form.

4 hours ago5 min read

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DialKit

DialKit offers a suite of UI controls, including sliders, toggles, text inputs, and color pickers, to enable real-time tuning of animations, layouts, and component properties within design frameworks.

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Anatomy of AI input

An AI input field has evolved beyond a simple text box, now incorporating elements like context bars, tool triggers, and attachment zones to enhance user interaction and functionality.

4 hours ago5 min read

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The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor, designer of Cursor's 600+ icons, explains his process for creating new icons, emphasizing the search for a concept's "attractor" and the iterative exploration required for novel ideas.

Four questions about AGI

The author argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a distracting "red herring" term, proposing four questions to better understand the concept and its implications.

1 day ago21 min read

AI & Tools

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Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

Large language models' safety alignment should refuse specific harmful subsets of a topic, not the entire topic, to allow for nuanced deployment policies, according to new research.

2 days ago7 min read

Curator's picks

Must read today

The pieces worth pausing on, hand-selected from today's edition.

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Limit the number of details

Designers should limit the number of details in their work, as excessive features and controls can dilute attention and transform design into mere management.

1 day ago10 min read

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Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU

Still, a generative garden in WebGPU, integrates Japanese art influences and procedural systems to create a living, interactive astronaut story chapter with toon shading and ink wash effects.