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  • Bill Gates’ TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor | TechCrunch

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow of an aging coal power plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s permit is the first to be issued by the NRC in nearly a decade. The startup — founded by Bill Gates in 2015 and backed by read more

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    Bill Gates’ TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor | TechCrunch

  • Christie’s Nabs $450 M. S.I. Newhouse Cache, Led by Pollock, Picasso, and Brancusi Masterworks

    Treasures priced at $100 million by 20th-century masters Jackson Pollock and Constantin Brancusi will lead Christie’s New York’s marquee May art sales, coming from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, Artnet News has revealed. While Christie’s has yet to confirm Artnet’s report, those two estimates, if met, would far exceed those artists’ current read more

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    Christie’s Nabs 0 M. S.I. Newhouse Cache, Led by Pollock, Picasso, and Brancusi Masterworks

  • Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers | TechCrunch

    Enterprises and startups that use Anthropic Claude through Microsoft and Google products need not fear that the model will be ripped from their reach, Microsoft and Google confirmed to TechCrunch. AWS customers and partners can also reportedly continue to use Claude for their non-defense associated workloads. Microsoft was the first big tech company to offer read more

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    Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers | TechCrunch

  • Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

    Pedro Friedeberg, an artist affiliated with the Mexican offshoot of the Surrealist movement and who is now best known for his absurdist designs, including the iconic Hand-Chair, died on Thursday in San Miguel de Allende. He was 90, according to his New York gallery, Ruiz-Healy Art. Friedeberg’s diverse practice included paintings dense with dreamy imagery read more

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    Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

  • Now in Its 45th Edition, Arco Madrid Follows Its Own Measured Tempo

    The 45th edition ofArco Madrid, which runs until Sunday, March 8,opened under an unseasonably cloudy Madrileño sky—an atmospheric departure for a fair more often associated with early spring brightness. InsideIFEMA Madrid, the city’s sprawling exhibition and convention complex, a second surprise awaited. Despite bringing together 211 galleries from 30 countries, the fair floor did not read more

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    Now in Its 45th Edition, Arco Madrid Follows Its Own Measured Tempo

  • Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth

    Art Review Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence. Installation view of Petrit Halilaj: An Opera Out of Time at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (© Petrit Halilaj, 2025 / mennour, Paris, ChertLüdde, Berlin and kurimanzutto, New York and Mexico City; photo Staatliche read more

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    Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth

  • Lebanese Ministry of Culture Urges UNESCO to Grant Enhanced Protections to Cultural Property

    Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders. According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to intervene on Lebanon’s read more

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    Lebanese Ministry of Culture Urges UNESCO to Grant Enhanced Protections to Cultural Property

  • Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

    News The US Supreme Court declines to hear a years-long case on the matter, leaving one famous AI art crusader out in the cold. “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” is the AI-generated image at the center of this legal battle. ( DABUS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons_ Computer scientist Stephen Thaler struck out once again read more

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    Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

  • India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade | TechCrunch

    India’s PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, surpassing the surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic as millions of first-time buyers who purchased laptops during lockdowns began upgrading their devices. Shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in India rose 10.2% year-over-year to 15.9 million units in 2025, according to analysts at read more

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    India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade | TechCrunch

  • Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

    This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million). The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last read more

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    Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets 5 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

  • Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike

    Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings. The White City is a complex of read more

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    Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike

  • Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

    Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $218,000). As part of the award, Muholi will receive a solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in read more

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    Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

  • Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

    A senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been arrested in Poland at the request of Ukrainian authorities, according to The Art Newspaper, who are seeking his extradition over alleged illegal excavations carried out in Crimea. Alexander Butyagin, who heads the Hermitage’s department focused on ancient archaeology of the northern Black read more

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    Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

  • India's Karnataka signals intent to ban social media for under-16s | TechCrunch

    Indian state Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, plans to ban children under 16 from using social media, joining a growing global movement that aims to curb young people’s access to online platforms despite questions over enforcement and effectiveness. Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah announced the decision during the state’s budget speech on Friday. read more

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    India's Karnataka signals intent to ban social media for under-16s | TechCrunch

  • After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil | TechCrunch

    Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe. Earlier this week, Brazil’s antitrust regulator CADE ruled against Meta and rejected its appeal to block an earlier order to suspend its policy read more

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    After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil | TechCrunch

  • Indonesia outlines plan to limit under-16s' access to social media | TechCrunch

    Indonesia will soon become the latest country to pass laws restricting children from accessing social media, following in the footsteps of Australia and its neighbor Malaysia. But unlike Australia, which has banned users under 16 from social media altogether, Indonesia is taking a more age-gated approach to its restrictions. Indonesia’s communication and digital ministry said read more

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    Indonesia outlines plan to limit under-16s' access to social media | TechCrunch

  • TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch

    Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people’s personal and health information was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year. The tech company, owned by multinational conglomerate Cognizant, serves around 200 million people across 875,000 healthcare providers throughout the U.S., according to its read more

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    TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch

  • 'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms

    Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a trade that read more

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    'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms

  • Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch

    Meta is facing a new class action lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet. Meta claimed it was blurring read more

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    Meta sued over AI smart glasses' privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage | TechCrunch

  • Nigeria: NCDMB, Radisson, Edison Sign Management Deal for Yenagoa Hotel

    The management agreement was signed in Durban, South Africa by the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Felix Omatsola Ogbe, Executive Chairman of Edison Corporation, Mr Vivian Reedy and Director of Radisson, Mr Garnier Erwan. The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Monday signed an international management agreement (IMA) with Radisson Hospitality Belgium, and Edison read more

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    Nigeria: NCDMB, Radisson, Edison Sign Management Deal for Yenagoa Hotel