AI at Paris Fashion Week 📟, Prada's spacesuit 👩🚀, a future AI phone 📱, and much more! ✨
#59
Holaaaaaa! Welcome back to Augmented Rarity 👽, your weekly source on emerging tech and future trends 📡
By the way, I'm thinking about getting rid of the sections (AI, XR, Space, etc.), so of course I put a poll at the end of the newsletter to get your opinion, dear reader 😗
🖼️ Today's cover: my placeholder for Prada’s spacesuits until we finally get to see them.
Let’s begin! 👇
💫 My top 3
One thing that's always bothered me about technology is how masculine it's always been, buuuuut things are changing. Naomi Campbell (iconic 90s supermodel) opened Coperni's runway at Paris Fashion Week with Humane's AI pin on her jacket. I guess most people didn't even get to see it... but it's great to see Coperni using tech on the catwalk, again. In case you're wondering wth this Ai Pin is, it's this gadget from this startup founded by ex-Apple executives that attempts to replace traditional phones with projectors, cameras and AI tech so it can be like a personal AI assistant. No phone is the new luxury.
Image: Coperni It's been 51 years since humanity last set foot on the moon, so out of respect for our amazing satellite, Nasa and Axiom have teamed up with Prada to get those spacesuits designed 👩🚀. I want one. Whatever Prada does, I want it. One of my first AI art prompts was exactly this heh.
Image: My abandoned Instagram page, I swear I'll be back, one day
If placing eye-scanning orbs around the globe wasn't enough, Sam Altan, OpenAI's CEO, is teaming up with Jony Ive, former Apple Senior VP of Industrial Design and Chief Design Officer, to work on a smartphone. We'll definitely keep tabs on that.
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🤓 More interesting stuff
But hey, Sam Altman not any tech villain - he's opening up some highly paid residency programs 📚 at their San Francisco headquarters to help researchers with backgrounds in fields like math, physics, or neuroscience to make the switch to AI.
By the way, Meta's new AI stickers are going rogue 🥸 since creators are obviously trying to work around the banned words to get some wild results.
Image: Gizmodo Remember Dalle? Well, version 3 is now available for free on Bing Chat 🔎. Bing what? Yes, Bing, the search engine that, according to Microsoft, is used by 1.1 billion people every month. I mean...pull your socks up, Google?
Image: Microsoft
That's it for today! Hope you enjoyed the picks 🤓. If you're a paid subscriber, you'll get the resources section in a few minutes 🗃️.
Sooo, what do you think of the new structure?
See you on Sunday with an essay on ‘guard robots at American campuses 🚨’.
Best,
Martina ✨