Sam Altman, Iran, Messy UI Reality, and Artemis II
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
🤦♂️ Sam Altman
📺 Iran
🤝 AI Productivity
Messy UI Reality
🌘 Artemis II
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
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
While there doesn’t seem to be a single smoking gun for Sam Altman (and why he was fired from OpenAI in 2023), the accumulation of evidence is that he can’t and shouldn’t be trusted.
Altman’s role entrusted him with the future of humanity, but he could not be trusted.
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
When you have to fight stupidity and AI slop, why not turn to stupidity and AI slop? Which is what Iran has done with its series of Lego videos about Trump. We may live in the dumbest timeline.
The regime’s posting game seemed to live rent-free in Trump’s head, with the president posting on Truth Social on Friday morning, “The Iranians are better at handling the Fake News Media, and ‘Public Relations,’ than they are at fighting!”
In the workforce, AI is having the opposite effect it was supposed to, UC Berkeley researchers warn
The promise of AI is that it will reduce our workload and allow humans to better focus on the important things. But it may be having the opposite effect. Just like appliances increased the workload of women.
Yet, as employees’ productivity increased, so did the amount of work they took on, in part because AI made it easy to begin tasks. Soon, some workers were using up what previously had been natural breaks during the day to prompt AI, eventually filling most of their time at the office with tasks.
The Messy, Magnificent Reality of AI for UX Design in 2026
The tools that work, work surprisingly well in narrow lanes. The tools that promise to do everything tend to do nothing particularly well. And the teams getting the most out of AI aren’t the ones that have replaced the most humans — they’re the ones that have gotten most honest about where human judgment is irreplaceable, and most strategic about offloading everything else.
Other Interesting Finds
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Eclipses Record for Farthest Human Spaceflight
Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight around the Moon made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. At its farthest point, crew inside the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about 252,756 miles, before looping back toward our home planet, setting the new record for human spaceflight.
