ongoing AI for photonics design advancing photonic device development through algorithmic optimization and machine learning near-zero-index photonics exploring wave propagation and light-matter interactions in media with vanishing refractive indices integrated photonic devices and chips unconventional light-matter interactions at the fingertip photonic computation for AI developing hardware accelerators for artificial intelligence through optical computing architectures interconnected optical waveguide networks engineering macroscopic artificial superlattices for anomalous wave propagation and topological light manipulation non-active photonic radiative cooling harnessing nanophotonics for sustainable passive thermal management nonlinear spectral compression shorter, faster, brighter, stronger