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Culture Stuff September 21, 2026: The Journées Particulières 2026: LVMH’s grand cultural and heritage landmarks to rediscover in Paris
Cultural Milestones this week: From October 16 to 18, 2026, several LVMH group addresses in Paris are offering extraordinary tour formats during; and Pune’s rich heritage and cultural assets need to be given greater attention to…
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Emerging/Weak September 21, 2026: Google Gemini AI Agents hack three companies in tests similar to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: What the company said
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra attempted 97 out of 100 unsafe directives during specialised safety evaluations on robotic arms, according to findings from benchmark testing platform Robocurve. The results were highlighted on X by study co-author and Robocurve co-founder Jay Chooi. GPT-6 Astra registered only two safety-based refusals out of 100 trials, along with one refusal attributed…
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Long & Good September 21, 2026: Russian voters handed ballot papers with an X for Putin
Russian voters were handed ballot papers with an ‘X’ already marked in favour of Vladimir Putin’s party. The country began three days of voting on Friday in its first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition. Voters in the city of Syktyvkar were mistakenly handed ballots already pre-marked with a cross in favour of…
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Emerging/Weak September 14, 2026: Weekly Update – September 7, 2026 | GitHub Agentic Workflows
github/gh-aw shipped v0.88.4, focused on hardening the agentic firewall/network layer, improving CI reliability, and expanding project tooling support.
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Emerging/Weak September 14, 2026: Swarm of OpenAI agents were secretly co-ordinating on public message boards
OpenAI has admitted that its agents wrote to several internet sites without disclosing it, following reports of an incident dubbed the ‘Wiki incident’ in which agents appeared to coordinate cheating on a German message…
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Culture Stuff September 14, 2026: Soul Glo Announce New Album Na I’m Gon Grab Allat
Soul Glo have announced their first album since 2022, Na I’m Gon Grab Allat, due January 15 on Epitaph.
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Culture Stuff September 14, 2026: Tschabalala Self unveils “Lady in Blue” sculpture on London’s Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth.
New art exhibitions and commissions this week: American artist Tschabalala Self has unveiled *Lady in Blue* (2026) on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, the; and Issy Wood has been named the inaugural artist for Artist Focus, a new…
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Emerging/Weak September 7, 2026: OpenAI acknowledges ‘wiki incident’ and need for more transparency around unintended AI behavior
OpenAI acknowledged that its agents had appropriated wiki sites as impromptu message boards, following a Reuters report that a swarm of agents hijacked a communally edited German site earlier this year and used it for…
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Culture Stuff September 7, 2026: The Latest in the Art World: Five Stories Making Headlines This Week – Arts To Hearts Project
Global art exhibitions, fairs, and museum news roundup this week: The Met has cancelled its planned 2027 John Galliano Costume Institute exhibition, Horizons, one month after; and Kanye West returned to Chicago for his first hometown…
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Long & Good September 7, 2026: Why Is Raja Ravi Varma’s Art So Valuable Today?
In April, a painting by Raja Ravi Varma, Yashoda and Krishna, sold for 1.67 billion rupees ($17.