AI now designs physical office junk
Also Google finally admits who the AI Boss is

The Product Team’s Generative Oopsie Has Shipped

We have achieved Peak Generative AI; everything since this moment is just a footnote. A developer released a store this week called Anycrap.shop that takes any user prompt and generates a physical, purchasable product from it. The company claims this system, which uses large language models and other tools, highlights the absurd relationship between digital creation and the physical supply chain.

Essentially, the whole project is the tech industry’s internal monologue made manifest. It is a proof of concept that proves when you give a machine infinite creative power, the result is still just a bunch of random, low-margin merchandise. It is like the executive team asked for a ground-breaking innovation, and the junior dev submitted a t-shirt that reads “My Boss Went to CES and All I Got Was This Generative Adversarial Network.”

Geedge’s Internal HR Docs Now Publicly Available

The corporate equivalent of accidentally hitting "Reply All" on a highly confidential email is now playing out on a geopolitical scale. The GFW Report has published an analysis of the Geedge and MESA document leak, an incident that exposed thousands of internal files related to surveillance infrastructure.

This incident proves that even the most advanced and opaque systems still rely on a middle manager who puts the sensitive documents in a folder named "Definitely Not Important." The files reportedly detail the internal workings of the Great Firewall of China, which is apparently held together by the same level of password security as a shared Netflix account. We have to assume someone is currently being told to rewrite the entire company’s threat model in PowerPoint.

Google’s Gemini AI is Apparently Not Self-Aware Enough to Do Its Own HR Paperwork

The promise of Artificial General Intelligence is taking another detour through the Human Resources department. Google is currently facing scrutiny because its Gemini AI is being trained by a global network of contract workers who are overworked and underpaid. The system is not simply learning the complexities of human language; it is being constantly micromanaged by people on temporary contracts who are correcting its grammar.

It turns out that the road to singularity is not paved with algorithms, but with the crushed spirits of low-wage data labelers. The true intelligence behind the chatbot is not the billion-parameter model; it is the exhausted human worker who has to manually tell the system what is considered an appropriate response to "Why is my life meaningless." This is the tech industry’s version of the Wizard of Oz: a massive, flashy machine, and a small, anonymous person furiously pulling levers behind a curtain.

Briefs

• Minimalism Reaches Terminal Velocity: A designer created a font that is only two pixels tall. This is the font you use when your budget is zero and you do not actually want your customers to read the terms and conditions.
• Geohot Discovers AI Codes: Tech personality George Hotz wrote a blog post about using AI for coding. The entire post can be summarized as: AI writes bad code, but sometimes the bad code is slightly less effort than writing the bad code yourself.
• Hobbyists Ship An Entire Operating System: The SkiftOS team has built a new OS from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V architectures. This is the OS you download when your Sysadmin friend asks you to "just try it out for a weekend."