Pausing AI, Filtering Slop, Consuming Water, Superteams, and Soccer

Your Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI

Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:

• 📊 AI in Healthcare

• 🛑 AI Pause

• 💻 Filtering Slop

• 💧 Water Consumption

• 👩‍👧‍👧 Superteams

• 👨‍🦰 Product Management

• ⚽ Soccer

• 🧘‍♀️ Relaxing

Podcast

Harnessing AI in Healthcare: Insights from RJ Kedziora

In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle Evans interviews RJ Kedziora, co-founder of Estenda, a company specializing in custom software and data analysis for healthcare. We discuss RJ’s journey in technology and entrepreneurship, the importance of energy management over time management, and the role of AI in healthcare. RJ shares insights into the challenges and future of AI applications, the need for ethical considerations, and the potential for personalized healthcare solutions. He also offers advice to aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the industry.

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News and Useful Reads

Anthropic urges AI labs to pause, warns humans risk losing control

Anthropic is concerned that AI is advancing too quickly. While they support self-governance and want fellow companies to pause, OpenAI would apparently prefer to wait for regulations. I doubt either will happen…

Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning that the technology is improving so quickly that there’s a risk humans would lose control.

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards

When I think about how easy it would be to filter out some of the noise, like AI slop, it makes me both sad and angry that we don’t have these types of options.

It’s almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn’t have to be this way. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more have ramped up content authentication efforts over the last year, with many now automatically applying labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators.

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

It doesn’t have to be inevitable, but we’re heading to a future where AI will literally consume all the resources of everything everywhere.

The report, released this week, found that the environmental cost of AI is being “systematically mismeasured” because current assessments focus on the carbon emissions from training large language models while overlooking the tech’s broader water and land footprint. The water footprint comes from cooling and powering the data centers, and the land footprint comes from the energy infrastructure and supply chains that go into building and running them.

How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better

Good teams have amazing people, supported by leaders and a culture that allows them to get things done and continuously improve.

Among those superteams, the formula for high performance looked remarkably similar. Superteams share three key strengths: (1) They get more done by managing time, energy, and attention more efficiently; (2) their members actively make one another better; and (3) they’re constantly building new skills and improving over time.

Product Management Trends 2026: The Hard Part Was Organizational Learning

And the continued hard part is managing the tradeoffs.

Organizations want faster execution, more adaptability, and stronger product leadership. At the same time, organizations want more certainty and struggle to absorb faster ways of working.

Other Interesting Finds

‘Soccer’ is a fine term for the beautiful game – don’t let any ‘football’ snob or president tell you otherwise this World Cup

As we get ready for the World Cup, the greatest sporting event in the world, don’t let anyone tell you soccer isn’t a correct name.

To me, this disparagement of the word “soccer” is not only petty and tiresome – it is also incorrect. It ignores the roots of the sport and the development of the language of the game.

3 reasons why holidays aren’t making you more relaxed

I used to have a tendency to work into the evenings and often on weekends. Using the time to catch up on stuff or get ahead. But the more I worked, the less productive I became during the rest of the week. Actually taking time to relax and do something other than work does wonders.

So, we need to treat rest seriously. We need to be more intentional about our holidaying and our “time off” because if we don’t, we’ll wither away. And, according to the German philosopher Josef Pieper, we’ll miss the only things that matter about living in the first place.