The Crit is back with discussions about Salone del Mobile, the shocking findings of the Bartlett investigations, and the claimed sentience of Google’s LaMDA chat bot.

Here comes the Design Line, featuring news from 3 Days of Design, the story of the scandal rocking The Bartlett, and the discovery of worms that eat plastic waste.

This week on The Design Line, the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity launches, a SCI-Arc panel goes wrong, The Bartlett gets a new director, Dyson raises eyebrows with its invention, a row over biopiracy at the UN, and three new museums for Doha.