M○C△ WEEKLY 10/13

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• The Lumen Prize | Yuqian Sun (RightClickSave)

• Frieze London 2024 roundup: Digital and crypto art take center stage in London this week (Crypto.News)

• NFT holders sue art gallery, alleging it broke metaverse promise (CoinTelegraph)

• From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance (TheArtNewspaper)

Metaverse

• Zuckerberg’s metaverse is finally showing signs of life, but it’s not from VR (CNBC)

• Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone? (Wired)

• Epic wants Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox to become interoperable metaverse (CoinTelegraph)

• Meta Orion hands-on: if this is a prototype the finished product is going to be incredible (TechRadar)

AI

• With AI warning, Nobel winner joins ranks of laureates who’ve cautioned about the risks of their own work (CNN)

• Google's new antitrust defense is AI (YahooFinance)

• I Launched the AI Safety Clock. Here’s What It Tells Us About Existential Risks (Time)

• The ‘strawberrry’ problem: How to overcome AI’s limitations (VentureBeat)

Finance

• ZachXBT claims there is an uptick in thieves targeting crypto traders offline (CoinTelegraph)

• Crypto Billionaires Could Flip the Senate to the GOP. Here’s What They Want. (TheIntercept)

• Almost Half of Traditional Hedge Funds Are Dabbling in Crypto (Bloomberg)

• Crypto.com Sues SEC Amid Threat of Enforcement Action (Pymnts)

Potpourri

• US School District to Lease Transfr VR Headsets (XRToday)

• FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation (TheHackerNews)

• Manhunt underway for accused crypto fraudster Jicha after he skips bond in $150 million case (CNBC)

Tweet of the Week

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Art From M○C△’s Collection

Paul (2021), by Matt Griffin (GriffCrypto). In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection

Art in the Wild

No Signal (2024), by Axstone. Currently for sale on SuperRare

Traditional Art Banger

My Bed (1998), by Tracey Emin. Box frame, mattress, linens, pillows and various objects. In collection of Tate Modern, London.

Quote of the Week

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

-Le Corbusier

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