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Samsung's 2025 65-inch The Frame TV is discounted to $898, a $600 cut that marks its lowest price yet. The art-style TV uses a matte, anti-reflective screen to make displayed artwork look less like a glowing screen and more like a framed print. Samsung's newer model, The Frame Pro (2026), is also discounted but at a smaller markdown.
Spotify has expanded its Music Quiz feature, allowing Premium subscribers to test their knowledge across more than 2,000 artists through questions about music, album covers, and audio previews. The quizzes are accessible via the Now Playing view and are initially available in multiple countries, with plans to add more languages and artists later.
Pope Leo XIV posted on X that there is an 'ontological difference' between human-made art and images generated by machines through statistical calculation on existing works. The statement follows a May encyclical in which he stressed human dignity amid growing automation, and comes after reports that Anthropic has lobbied the Vatican on questions of non-human consciousness.
A developer built a system where AI language models, including Opus 5.5, produce paintings by writing programs that control a physics-based simulation of oil paint on linen, including bristle brushes, wet paint, drying and layered glazes. No image-generation model is used; most models paint in the style of Caspar David Friedrich based only on written research rather than seeing his actual artwork. Of 75 paintings produced, 46 were created incrementally at a simulated easel, with the model working passage by passage and periodically stepping back to assess progress.
A 2008 blog post presented a series of parody images that riff on the exaggerated, often misleading cover art used for Atari 2600 video games. The post included reader reactions praising the blog's humor, sourced from Popcrunch.com and a commenter named Jenn.
Members of Berkeley's Odd Friend Studio placed a 5-foot papier mâché and cardboard installation called 'What Iceberg?' at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco. The piece depicts OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship while others are left behind, and took five days to build from repurposed materials including an old table.
A hobbyist coder wrote a simple algorithm to reproduce the phyllotaxis pattern—the spiral arrangement seen in sunflowers and succulents—by placing points along a rotating radial line using the golden ratio. They then Voronoi-tessellated the resulting point cloud and used CadQuery, a Python-based CAD library, to convert the cell edges into 3D-printable geometry, building a physical LED matrix with an individually addressable RGB LED in each cell.
UK Games Expo, the UK's largest tabletop convention, issued a new policy prohibiting exhibitors from displaying or selling games, art, text or related products created completely or mostly by AI tools. Exhibitors who refuse to remove such items risk having their booth shut down and being barred from future events. The policy allows only minor AI use, such as spell-checking or accessibility aids.
Lofi Cities is a free website at loficities.com that displays animated pixel-art nighttime scenes of 16 cities, including Paris, Tokyo and New York, paired with ambient sounds and lofi music generated live in the browser using the Web Audio API rather than samples. Users can switch musical vibes, toggle weather and seasons, and set the app to auto-tour cities based on time of day, all without downloads, accounts or pop-ups.
Dutch painter Han van Meegeren spent over a decade forging paintings attributed to Jan Vermeer, deceiving art critics, collectors and even Nazi official Hermann Göring. After liberation, authorities traced one of these forgeries back to van Meegeren and charged him with collaborating with the Nazis by selling national treasures, a crime punishable by death. To prove his innocence, he was allowed to paint a new forgery under supervision of court-appointed witnesses.
Research lab Ink & Switch has redesigned its homepage into an interactive art piece called 'Tenfold' to mark the studio's tenth anniversary. The piece, built using technology from the lab's own research, invites visitors to click and drag across the page to explore it.
Artist Doaly has created a minimalist poster inspired by 'Avengers: Infinity War,' built around Thanos's line 'Everything.' The design plays on the villain's famous cost-of-power exchange with Gamora from the film.