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Category: Other News
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Award Announcements & Literary, Table Contents – York Review Books, and more.
Award Announcements & Literary Highlights this week: The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s ‘New Humans: Memories of the Future’ are positioned as major; and The Turner Prize 2026 shortlist has been announced, featuring four…
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Major Museum Exhibitions & Openings, Major Yoko Ono Retrospective, and more.
Major Museum Exhibitions & Openings this week: The Broad in Los Angeles opens ‘Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,’ the first major solo museum exhibition of her work in; and Consolidating disparate U.S.
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Investigations into corporations, We are bombarding America s forests Roundup, and more.
Investigations into corporations, chemicals, and public risk this week: An investigative report reveals that glyphosate, the herbicide in Roundup, is being sprayed at record levels in US; and The Modern Ag Alliance, presented as a…
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Deep-dive essays and reported features, Last Nation Play Marshall, and more.
Deep-dive essays and reported features this week: The Marshall Islands men’s national soccer team, formed from a global diaspora and players with tenuous roots to the; and Public intellectuals leveraging personal tragedy for narrative…
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Investigations into media, news, and, Your Feed Is Product, and more.
Investigations into media, news, and digital culture this week: A Vulture investigation reveals the industrial scale of ‘clipping’—a marketing practice where agencies use networks; and A long-form retrospective on Ted Turner’s founding of…
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The Institutionalization of Creator-Led IP
Traditional studios and awards bodies are shifting from a ‘pitch-and-greenlight’ model to financing proven, digital-native IP.
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AI Shifts from Tool to Cultural Co-Producer
The release of an AI model trained on a major studio’s film archive, combined with the viral success of an AI-generated music video, signals a move beyond AI as a mere productivity tool.
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Geopolitics & International Affairs, Korea’s Finance Ministry Deploys, and more.
Geopolitics & International Affairs this week: South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, under AI-focused Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun-cheol, is piloting an; and The Trump administration, which had previously dismissed AI safety…
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Major Tech Company Updates: Meta, What Elon Musk OpenAI’s High-Profile Court Case Is, and more.
Major Tech Company Updates: Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic this week: The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI opens this week, moving beyond personality clashes to a core legal dispute; and Meta is installing software called the Model Capability…
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AI Industry News & Daily Briefs, AI Data Science Daily Saturday, and more.
AI Industry News & Daily Briefs this week: OpenAI is consolidating ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API into a single unit under Greg Brockman, signaling a; and Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs committed $50M to agentic infrastructure…