Exclusive: Yuga Labs’ Chief Creative Officer Talks Otherside Preview

Yuga Labs, the company behind several of the Web3 space’s most successful and well-known NFT brands, previewed its latest Otherwise metaverse developments to a small group of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside community members on July 27 in Studio City, California. The group, which consisted of 40 Voyagers, got a chance to check out…

If AI Image Generators Are So Smart, Why Do They Struggle to Write and Count?

Generative AI tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 have astounded us with their ability to produce remarkable images in a matter of seconds. Despite their achievements, however, there remains a puzzling disparity between what AI image generators can produce and what we can. For instance, these tools often won’t deliver satisfactory results…

Beatport Debuts New Marketplace, First Digital Collectible Series

Beatport, an online music platform dedicated to electronic and dance music DJs, producers, and fans, has announced its new marketplace, Beatport.io. This platform aims to act as a Web3 space where artists and labels can share their music and art in new, collectible formats. Web3 venture builder Define Creative collaborated with the company to build…

Next Up: Mumbot’s ‘Cool, Cute, and Creepy’ World of Phygital Art

In Web3, it’s become almost a rarity for an artist to focus exclusively on one single medium. Perhaps because the crypto-art sector itself takes a variety of skills to enter, the vast majority of creatives that call the blockchain their home usually dabble in an assortment of disciplines. From illustration to digital painting, sculpting, animation,…

Mastercard, Billboard to Drop 5 New Artist Singles as NFTs

Mastercard and Billboard are poised to unveil a brand new showcase on Thursday, July 27 at 3 pm ET, dropping five new singles as NFTs through the culminating release of its trailblazing Web3 music initiative, The Mastercard Artist Accelerator. The Accelerator, which was announced earlier this year and officially kicked off in April, was initially…

Unchecked AI Could Create Bioweapons, Leaders Tell Congress

In a congressional hearing on July 25, leading researchers in the artificial intelligence (AI) community voiced their concerns about the rapid pace of AI development, cautioning that it could be weaponized by rogue states or terrorists to create bioweapons in the near future. Yoshua Bengio, a renowned AI professor from the University of Montreal and…