M○C△ WEEKLY 5/26

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Is This the Start of a New NFT Boom? (ArtNet)

• When Art and Blockchain intersect: What If Women Ruled the World? At World-Renowned Artist’s Judy Chicago’s Exhibition at Serpentine, powered by Tezos Blockchain (XTZ)

• NFT Community Splits Over Claire Silver’s Royalty Reform Call (NFTPlazas)

• What the NFT Phenomenon Tells Us About the Monetary and Creative Value of Art (LitHub)

Metaverse

• How Secure Is The Metaverse? (A Look At Cyber Threats And Defenses (Forbes)

• Meta is discontinuing Workplace to focus on AI and metaverse (FastCompany)

• Wales becomes first UK nation to join metaverse (SkyNews)

• Walmart’s 3D e-commerce platform Realm is the retailer’s latest metaverse bet (ModernRetail)

AI

• Elon says AI will ‘do everything better than you,’ make employment obsolete (CoinTelegraph)

• Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI (TheAtlantic)

• US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent (AP)

• Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, such as saying former President Obama is Muslim (CNBC)

Finance

• SEC approves rule change to allow creation of ether ETFs (CNBC)

• JPMorgan expects spot Ethereum ETFs to begin trading 'well-ahead of November' (TheBlock)

• Supreme Court rules against Coinbase in dogecoin case, handing consumers a win (Axios)

• Bipartisan support of cryptocurrency is resurging in Congress. Here’s why (Fortune)

Potpourri

• Damien Hirst’s “The Currency” Project Under Scrutiny for Misleading Dates (NFTNow)

• The history of NFTs you didn’t know you needed: A review of ‘Token Supremacy’ (Blockworks)

• Kabosu, the face of cryptocurrency Dogecoin, dies at 18, owner says (YahooFinance)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from ROBNESS.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Singularity #74 (2021), by Hideki Tsukamoto.

Art in the Wild

Chromie Cube by Erick Snowfro - CryptoCube#13 #1/1 (2024), by Han and Erick Snowfro.

Traditional Art Banger

Laocoön and his Sons ( ~42-20BC), by three likely-Greek sulptors named Athenodoros, Agesander, and Polydorus (gauging by an insciption on the sculpture’s base). Marble. 6 ft 10 in × 5 ft 4 in × 3 ft 8 in. Held in the Vatican Museum.

Quote of the Week

“Either move or be moved.”

-Ezra Pound

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