M○C△ WEEKLY 11/10

*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

• Florida Jury Finds Cocreator of UndeadApes NFTs Guilty of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering (ArtNews)

• The First Work by A.I. Robot to Sell at Auction Nets a Whopping $1 Million (ArtNet)

Metaverse

• Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson on the ‘metaverse stock price’ (VentureBeat)

• Alibaba reportedly cuts dozens from metaverse unit (CoinTelegraph)

• Samsung is developing a competitor to the Apple Vision Pro. (GlassAlmanac)

AI

• Could A.I. Solve Some of the Major Issues Facing Museums? (ArtNet)

• Microsoft added AI to software it has barely touched since 1985. The results are astonishing (CNN)

• AI is powerful, dangerous, and controversial. What will Donald Trump do with it? (Vox)

• OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now (Reuters)

Finance

• Crypto won the 2024 elections. Now comes the easy part. (Politico)

• Jack Dorsey dramatically scales back crypto ambitions for Block (CNBC)

• Gary Gensler’s SEC war on crypto is over, ex-SEC official says (DLNews)

• Crypto community reacts to reports of Wall St. lawyer up for SEC chair role (CoinTelegraph)

Potpourri

• Ubisoft Just Quietly Launched a Full-Blown NFT Game (IGN)

• ZachXBT’s NFT accidentally becomes a $15 million meme coin on Base (CryptoBriefing)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from 0xStarseed.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Bitchcoin #13.019 (2024), by Sarah Meyohas. In collection of the Museum of Crypto Art.

Art in the Wild

Little Mermaid #25 🧡 (2024), by C H R I S T I N. Currently for sale on Tezos.

Traditional Art Banger

Blah Blah Blah (2022), Mel Bochner. Oil on velvet. 68-1/2 x 48 inches. Held by the Fraenkel Gallery.

Quote of the Week

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

-Edith Wharton

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