People think creativity is spontaneous — a flash of brilliance from nowhere. But much of it is really systematic recombination: placing known mechanisms into new contexts. A lot of genuine “new” ideas are just things we hadn’t tried yet, even

This week, I take a look at the surprisingly strong state of Google, Meta gets a new chief AI researcher, and more. If you haven't already, be sure to check out this week's Decoder episode about deepfakes and where they are headed. Also, do