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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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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…
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Investigations into Corporations, We are bombarding America s forests Roundup, and more.
Investigations into Corporations, Politics, and the Environment this week: Mother Jones reports that glyphosate spraying in US forests, particularly on public and private timberland in; and The Modern Ag Alliance, a coalition claiming to…
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Long-Reads on Society, Culture, and, How David Frum Danielle, and more.
Long-Reads on Society, Culture, and Personal Journeys this week: Public figures using personal tragedy for narrative control; signals shifting boundaries between memoir and public; and An oral history of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge!
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Inside the Media Industry’s Shifts, podcast bringing together MAHA, and more.
Inside the Media Industry’s Shifts and Scandals this week: The podcast ‘Why Should I Trust You?