First screen, captured .
323 points by coloneltcb | 68 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art released high-definition 3D scans of 140 famous art objects, including sarcophagi, paintings and sculptures.
349 points by bookofjoe | 165 comments
Open Culture article about Michelangelo's first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, made when he was 12 or 13 years old.
569 points by perihelions | 139 comments
Open Culture article about the USDA's 1886-era commissioned collection of 7,500 watercolor paintings of fruit, now downloadable in high resolution.
386 points by ColinWright | 97 comments
Open Culture article announcing that the medieval illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells has been digitized and made freely viewable online.
690 points by rvz | 463 comments
Reuters article reporting that a US appeals court ruled AI-generated art without a human creator cannot be copyrighted.
32 points by jbegley | 31 comments
New York Times article reporting that OpenAI will not release its newest AI model, reportedly called Astra, due to safety concerns; the page showed a bot-block screen.
352 points by throw0101a | 153 comments
Artnet News opinion piece by Ben Davis on being targeted by painter Devon Rodriguez's followers after a critical review, and on 'parasocial aesthetics'.
339 points by maille | 140 comments
GitHub issue on openai/codex reporting GPT-5.5 reasoning-token counts clustering at 516/1034/1552, possibly degrading performance on complex tasks.
555 points by kgwgk | 200 comments
Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.
501 points by DamnInteresting | 254 comments
The Conversation article on OpenAI removing 'safely' from its mission statement and how its new corporate structure tests whether AI serves society or shareholders.