Artists

Generative art is proving Web3’s creative anchor in the traditional art world. Last month, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made headlines by acquiring Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations” (2022) alongside an edition from last year’s “3FACE” project by Ian Cheng. These two ...

YouTube, the video streaming social platform, released new community guidelines relating to the disclosure of artificial intelligence (AI) used in content. The platform published a blog on Nov. 14 saying that the updates will have creators on its platform inform their viewers if the c ...

The Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA concluded its strike on Nov. 9 after 118 days of picketing with new deals on various proposed stipulations including artificial intelligence (AI) usage. Since then, the union has released a summary of its final deal with studios, which inclu ...

The Web3 industry has experienced massive growth over the last many years, from a niche that saw the glimpses of the future of the internet, to a reality building that future with the brightest minds and makers. The space has also received support from a number of influential people, ...

The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) into the public sector has proven to be one of the biggest developments of the year on a global scale. Major industries have been turned upside down with AI now on the scene. In the creative sectors, the music industry in particular, ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be pervasive in global industries, the music industry has been receptive to its transformative capabilities while remaining cautious about the risks to artists. In a recent survey released by the private music studio house Pirate, 53% ...

Universal Music Group (UMG), Concord Publishing and ABKCO Music & Records have filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic on accusations of the latter committing copyright infringement in training its AI chatbot Claude.The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 18 an ...

A viral track from the anonymous producer “Ghostwriter” using an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated vocal track of the rapper Drake has been submitted for consideration for a Grammy award, according to a Sept. 5 New York Times report.The track “Heart on My Sleeve&rdqu ...

Base network’s “Onchain Summer” promotion in August resulted in over 700,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) minted by over 268,000 unique wallets, according to a Sept. 6 announcement from the team.Coinbase launched Base, its Ethereum layer-2, on Aug. 9. To spur adoption, the network’s team imp ...

On Sep. 7, the blockchain-centric music tech platform anotherblock and the co- producer of the track Andreas Schuller, also known as Axident, will drop the track “Company” as an NFT with only 2,000 available. The global pop icon Justin Beiber will have one of his hit songs turned into a no ...

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) released details of its proposal for striking actors and writers on Aug.22, which included standards for the entertainment industry surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) and data transparency. Under the proposed condi ...

This month, Los Angeles-based nonfungible token (NFT) artist Ellie Pritts is celebrating “In the Screen I am Everything,” her first solo show in New York City — and her first time taking over pioneering net art gallery Bitforms. Eight animations from the technicolor exhibition are ava ...

Sotheby’s auction house has sold a piece of digital artwork from the collection of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) for more than $6 million.According to auction records updated June 15, Dmitri Cherniak’s artwork ‘The Goose’ sold for roughly $5 ...