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The AI conversation is colliding with itself today. Refik Anadol’s Dataland — billed as the world’s first AI art museum — got a June opening date inside Frank Gehry’s Grand L.A. complex (Artnet). Meanwhile, a new Google DeepMind paper argues large language models will never be conscious, demonstrating the gap between AI marketing and rigorous science (404 Media). And a dissection of Sora’s stalled adoption asks why creative AI keeps drawing initial crowds and then bleeding them (The Conversation). The shift is from what AI can do to what it can sustain — and who pays for the institutional bets placed before the answer is in.
Elsewhere: Venice’s La Fenice abruptly fired Beatrice Venezi as incoming music director after she trash-talked the opera house and its audience to an Argentine paper (The Guardian). And Chicago arts leaders say openly they no longer count on federal funding as a reliable line item (Crain’s Chicago Business).
A 6th-century New Testament text long thought irretrievable from re-used parchment has been recovered through “ghost imaging” (Artnet). Medieval monks broke the book up. The technology of 2026 put it back together.
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