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A mystery buyer paid $875,000 for 11 Hunter Biden paintings

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Hunter Biden and Joe Biden
Hunter Biden sold artwork to Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a Democratic donor who was appointed to a prestigious federal commission, according to a person directly familiar with Hunter Biden's account. The transaction raises questions about the "absolute wall" between President Joe Biden's administration and his family members' business deals.

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Exclusive: Hunter Biden's gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor 'friend' who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission

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Hunter Biden and Joe Biden
Hunter Biden sold artwork to Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a Democratic donor who was appointed to a prestigious federal commission, according to three people directly familiar with Hunter Biden's account. The transaction raises questions about President Joe Biden's pledge of an "absolute wall" separating his administration from his family members' business deals.

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I tried Runway, a buzzy generative AI platform that lets you transform images and videos with text. The results were not what I expected.

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I asked Runway to generate a portrait of me. The result looked eerily like Johnny Depp.

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An artist who won an award at a world-renowned photography competition says the winning image was actually generated by AI

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Boris Eldagsen with DALL-E 2. Courtesy Photo Edition Berlin

AI image generators' latest challenge? Depicting unicycles.

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An AI-generated image of Angel Reese riding a unicycle
AI image generators struggle with unicycles. When prompted, Stable Diffusion 2 made this image of basketball player Angel Reese riding a "unicycle."

Stable Diffusion 2

Renaissance artists da Vinci and Botticelli may have used egg yolk in their masterpieces, new study finds

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ. Found in the collection of Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Botticelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ — one of the artworks found by the study to have egg yolk in the paint.

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  • Renaissance artists may have used egg yolk to protect and alter their paintings, scientists find. 

How to use DALL·E 2 and Craiyon, the AI art tools that can generate images from any text prompt

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A picture created by DALL·E mini using the prompt “A crowd of robots staring at a painting in a museum.”
DALL·E 2 is an impressive leap forward from previous image generation programs.

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Here's why one gram of pure Tyrian purple pigment costs almost $3,000

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A woman used ChatGPT to make strange crochet animals that went viral on TikTok. Viewers seized on them as an example of AI's failings.

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Alexandra Woolner and a crochet narwhal made from an AI-generated pattern.

Alexandra Woolner

Someone donated $400,000 to save an apartment that an artist spent 33 years filling with bizarre works including a lion's head fireplace

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The lion's head fireplace, with large teeth
Ron Gittins spent 33 years transforming his apartment into a bizarre fantasy world.

Saving Ron's Place

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