M○C△ WEEKLY 7/14

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

Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• THE DIGITAL ART MILE AT BASEL (RightClickSave)

• M○C△ Confessional: I Love Writing About Crypto Art (M○C△, wink)

• The Final Chromie Squiggle Mint Has Arrived — And You Can Participate (NFTNow)

Metaverse

• Meta will soon let young kids chat in VR — but only with their parents’ approval (TheVerge)

• The human side of the industrial metaverse (ComputerWeekly)

• These weird-looking VR shoes aim to change how we walk in virtual reality (CyberNews)

• Samsung confirms ‘new XR platform coming this year’ in partnership with Google (TechRadar)

AI

• OpenAI is building a new AI model under code name ‘Strawberry’ — Report (CoinTelegraph)

• AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change (NPR)

• OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework (ArsTechnica)

• AI Has Become a Technology of Faith (TheAtlantic)

Finance

• U.S. House Fails to Override Biden's SEC Veto of Bill That Would End Controversial SEC Guidance (CoinDesk)

• SEC reportedly accepts SAB 121 exceptions to crypto accounting rules for banks and brokerages (CryptoSlate)

• Supreme Court ruling ‘changes the game’ for US crypto firms (CoinTelegraph)

• German gov’t Bitcoin wallet drops to 5,800 BTC after major sale (CoinTelegraph)

Potpourri

• Bill Viola, Video Artist Who Established the Medium as an Integral Part of Contemporary Art, Dies at 73 (ArtNews)

• XRP Is the Sole Crypto Major in Green as Bitcoin Bulls Remain Sidelined (CoinDesk)

• Polygon surpasses Bitcoin, Solana in daily NFT sales volume (Crypto.News)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Pindar Van Arman

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Black-and-white still from Genesis (2020), by James Fox. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

🍭 🎀 𝐻𝒴𝒫𝐸𝑅_𝒲💞𝑅𝐿𝒟_𝒟🌺𝑀𝐼𝒩𝒜𝒯𝐼🌺𝒩 🎀 🍭 (2024), by Frenetik Void. Open edition for three months.

Traditional Art Banger

The Large Bathers (1900-1906), by Paul Cézanne. 6 feet 10 7/8 inches × 8 feet 2 3/4 inches. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Quote of the Week

“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”

-Willem de Kooning

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