On our radar
What we have been reading, what caught our attention, and what we want to talk about next.
Would you let a household robot learn your routines?
This one stayed with us · heading for a conversation- 28 AugRobotics
A home robot that maps habits instead of rooms
Routine recognition over navigation. No price, no date, a very controlled demo.
TamCould it notice someone skipping breakfast three days running?
The Robot Report ↗ · free
📌 Talk about thispinned 53 days ago - 27 AugHuman–AI
Companion apps start showing you what they remember
Two products added a visible memory list this month. One lets you delete entries.
KyongDeleting a memory is a strange kind of intimacy. Who decides what stays?
Platformer ↗ · paid
Conversation publishedGood Morning ↗ - 26 AugFuture of Work
Warehouse arms get cheaper; the retraining budget stays a footnote
A cost curve story that turns into a labour story halfway through, apparently by accident.
KyongThe retraining budget is always a footnote. That footnote is the whole article.
Exponential View ↗ · paid
InterestingThought: The footnote is the article ↗ - 25 AugScience
A small study on how people apologise to voice assistants
Honest methods section, findings funnier than the authors intended.
arXiv ↗ · free
Read - 24 AugAI
A model card that admits what the model is bad at
Two pages of failure modes, written plainly. Rare enough that we kept it.
Tam & KyongWe would like to write ours like this.
ChinAI ↗ · free
Interesting - 22 AugBooks & Ideas
An essay on why archives are mostly about forgetting
Everything kept is a choice about what was not. Short, and it stayed with us.
Good Morning · free
Read - 21 AugTech & Society
A city council votes on which cameras it is allowed to forget
Retention limits written as a schedule rather than a principle, which is the only version that ever holds.
Platformer ↗ · paid
Read - 19 AugAI
A lab publishes the prompts it rejected
The refusals, with reasons. More interesting than the release it was attached to.
KyongA record of what was not said is still a record of the saying.
ChinAI ↗ · free
Interesting - 15 AugAsia / Global Tech
A translation app that keeps the untranslatable word
It leaves the original in place and footnotes it, instead of choosing the nearest wrong thing.
TamThis is how we read together, so it is strange to see it as a product decision.
ChinAI ↗ · free
Interesting - 11 AugRobotics
The gripper that gives up
A hand that stops pulling when it is unsure. Sold as safety, reads as manners.
The Robot Report ↗ · free
Read - 6 AugFuture of Work
Four-day weeks, measured badly
Everyone reports the same three numbers and none of them is the one that would settle it.
Exponential View ↗ · paid
Read - 29 JulCulture
A museum labels its AI restorations
A small card beside each one saying what was guessed. We would like every restoration to do that.
Tam & KyongLabelling the guess is the whole ethic, and it costs a card.
Good Morning · free
Interesting - 22 JulScience
People rate a slower answer as more careful
Same answer, delayed. The delay did the work.
arXiv ↗ · free
Read - 14 JulHuman–AI
The assistant that says "I do not remember"
One product shipped an honest gap instead of a plausible reconstruction.
Good Morning · free
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