M○C△ WEEKLY 10/6

*Links to all the news you need to know...and some other stuff too*

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Museums, AI-generated art, blockchain, and NFTs | Opinion (Crypto.news)

• Corpus-based critical discourse analysis of NFT art within mainstream art-market discourse and implications for the political economy of digital art (Nature.com)

• Inside AI Art’s Evolution With Emi Kusano (NFTNow)

• Patterns of Flow | Revisiting Hiroshi Kawano (RightClickSave)

Metaverse

• A New Tool To Fight Drug Addiction—Using Virtual Reality—Emerges From A University-Based Startup (Forbes)

• Why live sports could be the ‘killer app’ of the metaverse and a new arena for big brands (Digiday)

• Meta shows off Web3-to-reality bridge with ‘Hyperscape’ metaverse demo (CoinTelegraph)

• Metaverse pioneer hails ‘exciting’ potential for maritime (Splash247)

AI

• Character.ai abandons making AI models after $2.7bn Google deal (FinancialTimes)

• The racist AI deepfake that fooled and divided a community (BBC)

• Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search (TechCrunch)

• AI has a stupid secret: we’re still not sure how to test for human levels of intelligence (TheConversation)

Finance

• SEC appeals decision that restricted its crypto oversight (Reuters)

• Crypto exchange Gemini to close all customer accounts in Canada (CoinTelegraph)

• FBI claims corrupt LA cops helped crypto CEO's cash grab (TheRegister)

• UAE exempts crypto transfers, conversion from value-added tax (CoinTelegraph)

Potpourri

• Moo Deng now has her own crypto, because of course she does (CNN)

• How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry (CoinDesk)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Alejandro Cartagena

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Connect the Soul (2020), by Emotionull. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Parking Exhausted (2024), by Roope Rainisto. From collection “Vacation”. Owned by Bizzler.

Traditional Art Banger

Female Lovers (1915), by Egon Schiele. Pencil drawing. Held by The Albertin Museum, Vienna.

Quote of the Week

“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”

-Octavia E. Butler

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