Seeing is believing.

Welcome to NY.

The place to be.

Apple is suing OpenAI over a device nobody's seen yet, and the smoking gun is a text message that just says "LOL, I found out I can access the network storage, so funny." A former Apple engineer allegedly kept his old company's files open like a browser tab he forgot to close, then

Two Shanghai auction house executives just got 14 and 12 years for running a bidding war that existed only for one collector's benefit, planted associates raising paddles against each other over antiques that were fake or wildly overpriced. He spent nearly 74 million dollars applauding a perfor

A driver in Queensland got fined over 1,200 dollars because an AI traffic camera decided her phone resting face-down on her lap counted as using it, even though both her hands never left the wheel. The photo the government sent her as proof is the same photo that proves she's innocent. That sta

An entire continent just legislated honesty. The EU's AI Act made it official this week: any chatbot, deepfake tool, or emotion-reading app operating in Europe now has to tell you it isn't human before you can be fooled into forgetting. Companies spent the final weeks racing lawyers to get

The New York Times and a group of publishers just asked a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for lying to the court. For two years the company claimed searching its own training data and chat logs for stolen articles was too burdensome to attempt, then a deposition revealed engineers had already run

Two men paid admission like ordinary tourists, walked into a French museum in broad daylight, and smashed the case holding a 2,500-year-old gold collar buried with a Celtic princess since 500 BC. The museum had spent 150,000 euros over two years reinforcing security after two failed nighttime break

Kelly Reemtsen is suing David Salle, alleging his AI-generated painting Hatchet copied the pose, the striped dress, and the raised weapon straight out of two of her own works. Salle made the piece using a generative model trained on his own past paintings, and somewhere in that training data her si

Archaeologists just opened three New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara sealed for more than 3,300 years, and the walls still name the men buried inside, Mentuhotep, Bar-em-Waya, Nehsy, each one listing every title he ever held like it still mattered. The inscriptions are already rewriting what historians th

The Philadelphia Museum of Art just posted a ten million dollar deficit on top of last year's, and the plan on the table is mostly hope: the CEO says he wants to be "within shouting distance" of balanced in three years, with no actual plan yet. An institution built to hold things foreve

The V&A keeps its galleries at the exact humidity a centuries-old tapestry needs to survive, and staff say they aren't allowed to carry water while standing guard beside it through a heatwave. Three hundred workers are now voting to strike over conditions the objects in the room will never

Economists just started measuring the economy in something nobody can touch, spend, or see: AI tokens. They ran the math on 380 trillion of them and found the companies most exposed to AI use, airlines, banks, even waste management, are already earning bigger returns. The kilowatt-hour took a centu

The Buffalo AKG just split its top job in two for the first time in its 164-year history, promoting its chief curator to run the art and its deputy director to run the money, because apparently no single person can hold both anymore. Two women who climbed the ranks together since the mid-2010s now

A museum in Orléans just launched a wanted-poster campaign for 424 paintings the Nazis looted from its walls in 1940, printing the missing Chardin portrait in yellow all-caps like a fugitive from an old western. After two years of quiet investigation, the museum is now convinced these works were ne

At math's biggest conference this month, Terence Tao asked what mathematics is even for, once machines can generate proofs no human can actually read. He's calling it a shift from proof scarcity to proof abundance, one that might break the field's culture before it improves it. The smar

Nvidia is about to guarantee something like $250 billion so OpenAI can lease a data center going up on the old Portsmouth uranium enrichment site in Ohio, ground that spent the Cold War making weapons-grade fuel for the same government now betting the future on chatbots. The whole campus could run