M○C△ WEEKLY 7/28

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• M○C△ Confessional: Leave Generative Artists Out of It (M○C△)

• Next Up: Neurocolor Channels Mexico’s Vibrance Through Visual Alchemy (NFTNow)

• Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI? (TheArtNewspaper)

Metaverse

• Why smart glasses will be the death of VR headsets (LaptopMag)

• A New Round of Patents from Meta and Google have Surfaced relating to Future Smartglasses (PatentlyApple)

• Meta reins in metaverse ambitions, cuts budget by 20% (CoinGeek)

• This could be the way we watch movies in the future (NPR)

AI

• A.I. May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us (NewYorkTimes Opinion)

• OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (TheVerge)

• Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging U.S. grid can’t handle the load (CNBC)

• AI can snoop on your computer screen using signals leaking from HDMI cables — researchers develop new AI model that enables using antennas for long-range attacks (Tom’sHardware)

Finance

• There won’t be a ‘long list of crypto ETFs,’ BlackRock’s Robert Mitchnick says (TheBlock)

• Crypto market bets on solana ETF (FinancialTimes)

• Coinbase Fined $4.5 Million Over ‘High Risk’ Customers (PYMNTs)

• BlackRock leads as ether ETFs rack up $100mn on first day of US trading (FinancialTimes)

Potpourri

• Dutch Chemists Finally Work Out How Rembrandt Achieved the Golden Lustre in His ‘The Night Watch’ Painting (ArtNews)

• How I Discovered Philly’s Most Successful Cookbook Author Doesn’t Actually Exist (PhillyMag)

• Elon Musk’s Twitter removes crypto emojis, leaving community puzzled (CoinTelegraph)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Stellabelle

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Garden of Oz (2020), by Artnome. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

61.07910999519396, -149.67224888965546 (2024), by Connor Grasso. In collection of Chikai.

Traditional Art Banger

Le Déjeuner en fourrure (1936), by Meret Oppenheim. Object. Held by Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Quote of the Week

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

-Ad Reinhardt

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