Featured articles from: Rohit Krishnan, and Gary Marcus.
Additional reading from: Michael Andrews, Kurt Cagle & Chloe Shannon, Stanford HAI, Ship X/ TechX.
News from: Adobe, Canva, Tiny Technologies, Pantheon.
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Opinion / Analysis
Can we build a management flight simulator?
Turns out, yes
This piece is a follow-up from Rohit Krishnan’s article last month on world models, in particular enterprise world models. He has now built an experimental world model flight simulator for testing practical applications for large (and small) companies, and illustrates its use with real public data from the Enron scandal. Really interesting. (8 min)
https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/can-we-build-a-management-flight
Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
And vindication for Apple’s unfairly maligned 2025 reasoning paper
Gary Marcus celebrates a new paper from Tufts that backs up Apple’s earlier research on LLM reasoning, and a showed a neurosymbolic hybrid out-performed LLMs, including VLAs (Vision-Language-Action models) (4 min)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/even-more-good-news-for-the-future
More Reading
- How will bots see your content? via Story Needle
- DataBooks: Markdown as semantic infrastructure via The Ontologist
- The 2026 AI Index Report via Stanford HAI
- Google just proved it can break bitcoin via Ship X/ TechX
Content Technology News
Tiny Technologies debuts TinyMCE AI
TinyMCE AI gives content teams everything they need to write, refine and review conversational AI, text transformations without leaving the editor.
https://www.tiny.cloud/tinymce/
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant with new creative agent
Creators direct outcomes as the assistant orchestrates and executes multi-step workflows across Creative Cloud apps in a single conversational interface.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/04/adobe-new-creative-agent
Canva introduces Canva AI 2.0
New architecture layer spans conversational design, iterative agentic editing, layered object intelligence, and living memory, alongside six new workflows.
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-create-2026-ai/
Pantheon adds Next.js to WebOps platform
The platform for WordPress and Drupal now runs Next.js, reducing multi-vendor complexity, unifying IT, developers, and marketers around a single system.
https://pantheon.io/platform/nextjs
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