M○C△ WEEKLY 7/7

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

Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• 3AC-linked wallet bought NFT for $59K due to 3-year-old offer that wasn’t canceled (CoinTelegraph)

• World’s Oldest Artwork Discovered in an Indonesian Cave (ArtNet)

• John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art (ArtNews)

• A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks (TheArtNewspaper)

Metaverse

• Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games (TechCrunch)

• Virtual reality emerges as a promising tool in depression treatment (PsyPost)

• The Future of AR Beyond the Vision Pro Is Already Brewing (CNET)

• Logging back On: Using Nostalgia to Explore the Virtual Worlds of the Past (WhitmanWire)

AI

• OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers (TechCrunch)

• AI lie detectors are better than humans at spotting lies (TechnologyReview)

• Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I. (NewYorkTimes)

• 6 Ways AI Will Change War and the World (Bloomberg)

Finance

• Over $170 billion wiped off cryptocurrencies as market tanks on Mt. Gox bitcoin payout fears (CNBC)

• Hackers Have Stolen $1.38 Billion in Crypto So Far This Year (PCMag)

• Russian regulator encourages use of crypto to counter sanctions (Reuters)

• House to revisit crypto regulation bill vetoed by Biden (Crypto.News)

Potpourri

• Pål Enger, Who Famously Stole Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Dies at 57 (ArtNews)

• US Investors Show Interest in Ethereum ETFs, Survey Finds (BeInCrypto)

• Crypto: Game Over for Memecoins? (CoinTribune)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet by OONA.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Art Disorders (2018), by Hackatao. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

On These Streets #86 (2024), by Andrea Ciulu. In collection of BlockBirdVault.

Traditional Art Banger

Tan Tan Bo (2004), by Takashi Murakami. Silkscreen, gold leaf. 26 × 40 in | 66.04 × 101.6 cm.

Quote of the Week

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

-Joyce Carol Oates

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