Narek Verdian

Weekly

Weekly

Things I read, watched, listened to, tried and discovered, gathered by week.

Week of

Read

Discovered

  • DePoly — DePoly

    Swiss technology for recycling PET and polyester into raw materials. Circularity becomes more tangible when you look at the chemistry and the industrial process.

  • Aldine — Aldine

    An early-access family-office platform built around local data, persistent context and traceable agent actions. An interesting example of AI designed around a specific operating environment.

  • Speechify — Speechify

    Turning written material into something you can listen to. Sometimes the useful improvement is changing how information reaches you.

Week of

Discovered

  • Aaru — Aaru

    Simulated populations for testing products, pricing and decisions. The important question is how well simulated behaviour predicts what real people subsequently do.

  • Onyx Security — Onyx

    A control layer for enterprise AI agents. Visibility, permissions and runtime enforcement become more important as software gains the ability to act.

  • Is Agentic — Is Agentic

    A practical look at whether agents can discover, understand and use a website. The findings underneath the score are the useful part.

  • TUMO Center for Creative Technologies — TUMO

    Creative technology education through making things. The student work is a good place to start.

  • Alpha School — Alpha School

    A school model organised around adaptive learning and time for practical skills. Worth examining both the educational design and the evidence behind its claims.

Week of

Read

Discovered

  • Glass — Ramp

    An AI workspace built around the idea that company knowledge should compound. The useful question is what the organisation remembers after an individual finishes a task.

  • Lace Lithography — Lace Lithography

    Developing chip-patterning technology using atoms instead of light. A reminder that the future of computing also depends on difficult advances in physics.

  • REA: Reverse Engineer Anything — morluto / GitHub

    Agent-assisted investigation of applications and binaries. Interesting tooling for understanding how existing software actually works.

Week of

Read

  • The Grand Disintermediation — Ozan Candogan

    A thought experiment about agents on both sides of commerce. What happens to marketplaces when finding and comparing alternatives costs almost nothing?

  • Google SynthID — Google DeepMind

    Watermarking generated content gives provenance something concrete to work with. It answers a narrower question than whether something ‘sounds like AI’.

  • The Matrix's code came from sushi recipes—but which? — WIRED

    One of cinema's most recognisable images of technology began with Japanese cookbooks and hand-painted characters. A lovely piece of design history.

Discovered

  • Giuseppe / NotCo AI — NotCo AI

    AI applied to formulation and physical product development. An interesting connection between proprietary data, scientific experimentation and commercial constraints.

Week of

Tried

  • Golpo AI — Golpo AI

    Turning a document into a whiteboard explainer. Making a video is getting easier; deciding what needs explaining still takes work.

Discovered

  • Fish Audio — Fish Audio

    Expressive speech generation and voice tools. Another part of the production process becoming accessible without a studio.

  • Starlink Roam — Starlink

    Portable satellite connectivity, and what changes when reliable internet becomes something you can carry.

Week of

Read

Watched

  • Grok Bot Galaxy: Livestream — Grok Bot

    A three-day attempt to build a company with an AI agent across planning, product, engineering, sales, support and marketing.

  • On Football — On

    On's move into football, and how a new sport creates a new expression of the brand across athletes, product, community and technology.

Week of

Read

Watched

  • What's Next for AI Agentic Workflows — Andrew Ng / AI Fund

    Why iterative reflection and tool-augmented agent loops consistently beat next-generation raw foundation models on complex reasoning.

Listened

Tried

  • Weft — API Search and Payments for AI Agents — Weft Labs

    Emerging discovery and payment primitives designed for agent-to-agent transactional systems.

  • MacWhisper — Jordi Bruin

    Local, private Apple Silicon speech-to-text that removes friction from drafting thoughts and meeting notes.