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Lovable and Cerebras Announce Inference Partnership

Lovable and Cerebras Systems announced a partnership to run Lovable’s latency-sensitive inference workloads on Cerebras’ high-performance inference infrastructure. Lovable — which says more than 50 million projects have been built on its platform since its November 2024 launch — will use dedicated Cerebras capacity to reduce response times and enable more interactive, multi-step software creation workflows. Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine is highlighted as keeping an entire model’s weights on a single wafer to deliver greater memory bandwidth and faster token generation than GPU-based systems. Both companies said they will jointly explore new product experiences enabled by faster inference; technical results and availability details will be shared later.

Shopify: AI Search Boosts Traffic and Sales, Not Replacing Google

Shopify said AI-driven search is acting as a complement to traditional search and has materially increased traffic and orders for merchants. On its Q2 earnings call, President Harley Finkelstein said AI-referred traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year-over-year, and that traditional search remains a large and growing source of buyer traffic. Shopify reported Q2 revenue up 36% year-over-year to $3.6 billion and gross operating profit up 31% to $1.71 billion, beating analyst expectations. The company noted half of AI-referred sessions land directly on product pages (2.5x traditional search) and that 75% of AI-attributed purchases occurred outside its top 100 categories. Shopify also built connectors to multiple AI tools and agents to support merchant integrations.

Creative Technologists Move From Margin to Center

The article argues that the role of the Creative Technologist—an interdisciplinary practitioner who treats technology as a medium—has shifted from niche agency and art contexts into core product teams as AI accelerates the need for rapid experimentation and meaning-making. Drawing on practitioner accounts (notably Tina Tarighian at Google Creative Lab) and a historical timeline from Bell Labs collaborations to the Media Lab and creative-coding communities, the piece traces how the title splintered into product-focused variants (Design Technologist, Design Engineer) and why the AI era is reviving the original, exploratory disposition. The author suggests the attitude of ‘writing the first draft of what a technology means’ is becoming more common across roles, even when titles remain different.