Add it to the absurdly long list of things that AI can do: product development. This week, Arcade, a creation of Minted founder Mariam Naficy , unveiled an update that allows users to go back and forth with a chatbot to design (and purchase) AI-generated textiles, ceramics, rugs , lampshades and more.

“It’s a great tool for the very design-conscious consumer who wants to own exactly what she wants to own,” says Naficy, who has raised $42 million from a broad range of investors ( Kelly Wearstler and Colin Kaepernick are on the cap table alongside blue-chip VC firms) to get Arcade off the ground. “Instead of shopping through pages and pages of home sites looking for the perfect chocolate brown pillow, it would save a huge amount of time to be able to describe what you’re looking for a

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