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✦The fastest gun in UX✦Everyone is starting over✦How employment is changing at Anthropic✦Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)✦Shared context with Figma Specs | Figma✦More control over your design systems | Figma✦Code Layers: Collaborate with code on the canvas | Figma✦Design owns coherence✦Pure UI in the Agentic Era✦The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you✦The case against JPEG XL✦We read 102 EU shop accessibility statements✦Imperfection
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The fastest gun in UX

Design teams often prioritize rapid output, but this "fastest gun" approach can hinder stakeholder alignment and prevent valuable user research from influencing product roadmaps.

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Stories from Saturday, 24 October 2026

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How employment is changing at Anthropic

Anthropic's employment has shifted, with fewer junior technical hires, a six-fold increase in AI agent hours over human hours, and a company-wide rise in per-person output. Human attention has become a bottleneck, leading employees to focus on "meta-work" and hiring managers to prioritize autonomy and judgment over technical expertise.

2 days ago·24 min read
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Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster

IBM's Granite Speech 5.0, a new speech-language model, offers improved accuracy, faster transcription, and enhanced speaker attribution for enterprise speech applications.

3 days ago·5 min read

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Must read today

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Twelve Years of Distributed SQLite

The creator of rqlite chronicles the evolution of distributed SQLite systems since 2014, highlighting early projects like rqlite and ActorDB, and later innovations such as dqlite and Litestream.

6 hours ago·5 min read
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Editor's pick

Everyone is starting over

Designers must continuously update their skills and perspectives to remain relevant in a rapidly changing industry, embracing constant reinvention over static expertise.

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Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more

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Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers

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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

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