Arts & Entertainment

Those who ventured beyond the main halls of Art Basel to explore Zero10, the mega’s digital art initiative presented this year for the first time at its Swiss flagship edition, likely paused to take in one particularly museum-like display featuring works ranging from vintage-look prints to code-generated abstracts displayed on screens. Titled “From Code to […]

“What happens if you have a ping-pong table that is not straight, that has a curve?” Designer Ron Arad never runs out of ideas that push through existing forms, shapes and concepts. “I never follow instructions. If you can have a career that doesn’t rely on you following conventions or instructions, you are very lucky.

A.I.’s biggest power players are not waiting for governments to decide how the technology’s risks and rewards should be managed. Through their philanthropy, the same founders and investors accelerating the industry are spending billions to shape its social impact, from preventing catastrophic failures and cushioning economic disruption to expanding access to A.I.-driven advances in science,

It’s been more than three and a half years since ChatGPT was launched, and now nearly every company has an A.I. policy, an enterprise A.I. subscription and increasingly strong opinions about models, tokens, token budgets and how A.I. should be deployed internally. If you go by the headlines, you’d think A.I. is going to replace

A central element of the debate around A.I. concerns the fear that artificially intelligent machines could develop a form of consciousness, even emotions. Whether they might rebel against their human creators is a scenario many Western sci-fi works have explored, reinforcing both the conflictual nature of the human-machine dichotomy and the fear that has long

When several hundred of the most powerful people alive gathered in Idaho this month for the Allen & Company conference—the invitation-only retreat the press calls summer camp for billionaires, held July 7 through 11—the tech founders who now outnumber the media moguls arrived dressed to a man in the same costume, with nary a suit

As a full-time painter and educator, I can say with certainty that technology has completely changed the art world. I am passionate about it and use it every day in my practice. Not only to paint—today, artists like myself also use it to teach students from all over the world and make art more accessible.

When ARTERNAL founder Sean Green, whose background is in computer science and software engineering, wanted to make inroads into the art world, he started by simply talking with its people. He never stopped. Today, you’ll often find him at art fairs around the world, now deeply familiar with the industry’s machinations but still reaching for

Putting data centers in space has moved from science fiction to procurement. SpaceX, Meta and Google are all pursuing the concept, and for sound reasons: orbit offers near-continuous solar power and the natural cooling of space, sidestepping the energy, permitting and cooling constraints currently throttling data center construction on Earth. In April, Meta announced that

Entrepreneur Sébastien Borget found his way to art and collecting via a parallel but perceptually faraway universe: gaming and Web3. “My background is more in technology, an industry where I’ve been for over 20 years,” he told Observer during a conversation in the office above his latest venture, ArtVerse, a Paris gallery dedicated to the