M○C△ WEEKLY 10/27
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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up
Crypto Art
Bridging Worlds | Digital Art Beyond Borders (RightClickSave)
Exclusive: XCOPY Unpacks His “Cope Salada” Collection on Shape (NFTNow)
Metaverse
FINRA says rules still apply in the metaverse (CoinTelegraph)
Epic wants people to make more games. It’s creating–and owning–the marketplace. (TubeFilter)
Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or in stagnation (GameDeveloper)
AI
Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence (TheArtNewspaper)
OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December (TheVerge)
An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges (AP)
New Biden policy takes a big swing at AI — and sets political traps (Politico)
Finance
Majority of Americans aren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency (PewResearch)
Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated (ForeignPolicy)
Unsubstantiated Tether investigation report shakes crypto market (CoinTelegraph)
U.S. will be ‘more pro-crypto’ after this election, no matter who wins, says Ripple CEO Garlinghouse (CNBC)
Potpourri
MetaBirkins NFT creator, Hermes square off in US trademark appeal (Reuters)
Maurizio Cattelan’s Infamous Banana Will Be Sold at Sotheby’s. The Estimate: $1 Million (ArtNet)
For the First Time Ever, a Humanoid Robot Is Selling Art at Sotheby’s (ArtNet)
Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as ‘speculative’ millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds (TheArtNewspaper)
Tweet of the Week
Art From M○C△’s Collection
Art in the Wild
Traditional Art Banger
Quote of the Week
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
-Edgar Degas
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