A viral AI-generated video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has SAG-AFTRA furious — and genuinely scared (Los Angeles Times). Google’s AI overviews, not to be outdone, have graduated from hallucinating facts to actively directing people toward phone scammers (Wired). And a new piece on the “zombie internet” asks what happens when the web goes fully human-free (Fast Company). Tracey Emin’s advice to young artists cuts right through it: keep a diary, buy a camera, send a letter. “Everything in your phone belongs to someone else” (The Guardian).
PEN America finally has new leadership after its Gaza-related implosion. The new team describes current threats to free expression as “existential” (The New York Times). At the University of North Texas, an art show with anti-ICE content was shut down — the artist found out when students told him the gallery windows had been covered and the door locked (The New York Times). And murals of a murdered Ukrainian refugee are appearing on buildings across the country, funded by Elon Musk as political messaging in the skin of public art (Chicago Sun-Times).
Road crews digging a bypass in Britain found Roman pottery and a 200-million-year-old ichthyosaur snout (BBC). All of our stories below.
All of today’s stories below.
