GEMA's CEO called it "a verdict of global significance." A German court has decided that an AI music company training in the US still needs a European licence when the model lands in Europe — and Suno is appealing.
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No chat, no voice, no text. In Triantafyllidis's world you get somewhere by physically merging with strangers into towers, wheels, and spiders. The sculpture at Regent's Park in October is the way in.
Getting an audio model running locally usually means a Python environment, a CUDA version argument, and an afternoon. A single C++ binary that loads a GGUF file is a different proposition — and downloads jumped 42% overnight.
Our daily Hugging Face tracker flagged the ComfyUI repack of Mage-Flow climbing 35% in downloads overnight. The model behind it is small, fast, permissively licensed, and aimed squarely at people who generate images for a living.
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Whether or not you buy the premise, Dataland is a real test case for a question every AI-adjacent artist eventually runs into: where did the data come from, and who agreed to that?
Read the story →One is a university museum show with a five-month run. The other is a 6,500-square-meter building built around the work permanently. Different scales, same underlying practice.
No cloud connection, no laptop tether — just a chip, a screen, and an infinite non-repeating number doing the creative work.
Research Made Simple
Converting a 3D scene into accurate 2D line art has been unreliable and slow for years. This year's award-winning approach fixes it by changing which math problem it's solving.
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What to install this week
Creative Coding
Browser-based livecoding video synth, now with WebGPU-backed rendering. Watch: Olivia Jack (Hydra’s creator) on live coding visuals.
AI & Creative Tools
Community node graphs for chained image-to-video generation workflows. Watch: a step-by-step ComfyUI walkthrough for beginners.
Creative Coding
Friendly machine-learning library for p5.js sketches, rebuilt on TensorFlow.js. Watch: The Coding Train’s beginner’s guide to ml5.js.
XR / Spatial Computing
Latest build adds native spatial output for Vision Pro and Quest. Watch: TouchDesigner for beginners in one hour.
Music Technology
Esoteric livecoding sequencer for procedural sequencers and mangled MIDI. Watch: a guided tour of ORCA’s rhythm and math.
Interactive Art
VJ and projection-mapping software for real-time visual performance. Watch: a beginner’s quick-start guide to VJing with Resolume.
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