culture
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LACMA has been offered more than 200 digital artworks, including an example of Robert Alice’s paintings of Bitcoin’s original code, as museums expand their technology collections.
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Strive bought 3,311 bitcoin for roughly $280 million, lifting its corporate Bitcoin treasury to 32,773 BTC as of October 9, 2026.
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Bitcoin Core has merged the foundational BIP 352 Silent Payments logic for address encoding, payment derivation and scanning, while full wallet support still remains future work.
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Trezor is reducing its authorized reseller network as a preventive supply-chain security measure after recent hardware-wallet tampering incidents.
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BitcoinVersus.Tech ranks the 21 most influential Bitcoin figures of 2026, based on documented work in protocol development, mining, Lightning, capital markets, policy and adoption through October 13.
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Australia’s recording industry is pushing back against calls to rewrite copyright law for artificial intelligence, arguing that music companies and AI developers are already building a licensing market without a new broad exception for model training. In an October 13 statement, the Australian Recording Industry Association and Phonographic Performance Company of Australia said they reject…
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Independent music distributor Symphonic has updated its approach to generative AI, saying fully AI-generated releases should come from models that appropriately license or authorize the material used to train and operate them. In an October 12 policy update, Symphonic said creators may be required to disclose whether music is AI-generated or AI-assisted, identify the tools…
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Smart glasses are colliding with privacy rules as Norway prepares temporary restrictions and New York courts already ban camera- and microphone-equipped eyewear.
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Paramount Skydance has completed its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, creating a media giant spanning film, streaming, television and news.
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YouTube Music is expanding Ask Music into a conversational AI layer across 300M+ songs and podcasts, while adding an AI-powered weekly Podcast Lineup.
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Spotify’s Muse integration lets listeners use Meta’s AI agent to play audio, save songs, build playlists, find podcasts and audiobooks, and schedule playback from conversation.
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Instagram’s new Edits Assistant analyzes a creator’s own Reels performance, audience signals and platform trends before suggesting hooks, captions, audio and future video ideas.
