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(Source: SuPatMaN/Shutterstock) Artificial intelligence has been moving faster than anyone could regulate it. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be keen to catch up. In one of its most aggressive moves yet, the agency has launched a formal investigation into seven major tech companies — including Google, Meta, and OpenAI — demanding detailed records about how their AI tools are developed, marketed, and deployed. The FTC wants to dig into how these systems work, what users are told, and what risks are being overlooked — especially when minors are involved. Chatbots that imitate conversation and emotion are now under…

There hasn’t been much news about the much-anticipated Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Samo Lives since the film was first announced in January 2022. (Filming was supposed to have begun that fall.) But earlier this week, New York blog EV Grieve noted signs alerting neighbors that filming has begun around the East Village’s Tompkins Square Park.Samo Lives is directed by Julius Onah, whose credits include The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) and Luce (2019), and stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Basquiat. No other actors have been announced yet, though based on EV Grieve’s grainy photos, someone has been cast to play Basquiat’s friend and frequent collaborator, Andy…

Engineers behind the viral Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 have unveiled the deep science behind its training.Upon its release in January, the open-source model developed by Hangzhou-based AI start-up DeepSeek sent shock waves through the industry when it became a challenger to US-based OpenAI’s industry-leading o1 model.Now, the DeepSeek AI team has revealed how they used rewards to train their R1 model to solve problems, allowing them to bypass some of the costly computational and scaling barriers to teaching AI models to reason like humans.“General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence,” the team said…

China has reportedly ordered some of its biggest tech companies to stop buying artificial intelligence (AI) chips from Nvidia. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s main internet regulator, instructed firms including ByteDance and Alibaba to halt both the buying and testing of the RTX Pro 6000D, reports Financial Times. Notably, these processors were developed by Nvidia specifically for the Chinese market in order to comply with US export restrictions. According to the report, companies that had already placed orders for the chip were asked to cancel them. Actually, China’s latest decision is said to be linked with concerns around…

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has launched a digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app developed by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The guide brings together information on more than 200 member galleries across the United States, including exhibition listings, public programs, and archival material. Users can browse an interactive map, find weekly openings, and access interviews and historical content tied to the association. Bloomberg Connects already hosts guides from more than 1,100 cultural organizations worldwide, including major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Storm King Art Center, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.…

Cambridge, UK, 17th September 2025: Hiverge, a start-up launched by former Google DeepMind research leaders, has secured $5 million in seed funding for its “algorithm factor,”, aiming to discover algorithms that help organisations improve their operations at scale. Flying Fish Ventures led the round, with Ahren Innovation Capital and Jeff Dean among the other investors. Hiverge aims to provide businesses access to tailored and efficient algorithms that continually adapt to changing environments. Unlike traditional software engineering and trends such as vibe coding, which build front-end applications and websites, Hiverge’s technology uses program synthesis to create an algorithm factory: automatically writing and optimising code tailored specifically…

Anthropic and OpenAI this week released some of the most in-depth reports to date on global AI usage, adding fresh data to the worldwide debate over the technology’s economic impact and testing the companies’ own predictions.A chart showing how people make use of ChatGPT.Computer and mathematical tasks, like coding assistance, dominate Claude’s usage at 36%, while that accounts for less than 8% of total ChatGPT usage. OpenAI’s models, meanwhile, act most prominently as a Google search engine, with 18% of queries involving users seeking specific information. Teaching and writing help are also common on ChatGPT— tasks gaining popularity for Claude…

The Museum of Modern Art’s Wifredo Lam retrospective, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” one of the more hotly anticipated fall exhibitions, will not feature artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. According to a recent report in the New York Times, MoMa failed to secure the loan as the Havana museum worried that any artworks entering the United States could be seized by a US court “as part of claims by Cuban exiles and others seeking compensation for property confiscated in the revolution.” “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” is set to feature 150 artworks from…

“An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of the Twin Peaks–affiliated book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, wrote, “the details around the property speak of Dad and his amazing eye.” Lynch and her three siblings wish they could keep it, she wrote, but evidently David Lynch included a stipulation in his will: “Immediately sell the compound as a single property and…

An artwork by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez that decorated a crosswalk in Coral Gables, Florida, has been removed according to a new directive issued by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) that prohibits public artwork “associated with social, political, or ideological messages or images.” The statewide memo issued June 30 by the FDOT targeted “pavement or surface art – or any markings not directly supporting traffic control or public safety – on crosswalks and travel lanes, including pavement surface art.” Related Articles In 2017, during that year’s Art Basel art fair, Cruz-Diez presented a public artwork in Coral Gables titled…