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Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?, a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday.

According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture "shows OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.”

One of the co-creators of the piece, a man in his “late 30s” who gave his name as “Kevin,” said that he and members of the Berkeley-based Odd Friend Studio spent the last five days working to build What Iceberg? out of papier mâché, cardboard, paint—and a repurposed table.

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Accusations of Antisemitism Hit a Star of the French Far Right

Jordan Bardella, the 31-year-old protégé of Marine Le Pen, is said to have made antisemitic statements as a teenage activist. He denies it.

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s main far-right party, National Rally, in Paris this month.

Late Night Doesn’t Buy That Xi Was Impressed by Trump’s Helipad

“Pretty sure he’s not blown away by ‘carved rock in shape of circle,’” Jon Stewart said, noting that China has its own “fully autonomous magnetic levitation train.”

Kehinde Wiley Wants to Buy His Embassy Painting Back From Trump

Administration officials mocked his work, then removed it from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, suggesting they would auction it. Wiley offered to buy it back.

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The artist Kehinde Wiley.

German Art Institutions Prepare for a Fight as Far Right Looks to Take Power

As the Alternative for Germany party seeks to control a state government for the first time, its push for “patriotic” art has drawn comparisons with Nazi policies.

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The main building of the former Bauhaus design school, now home to the Bauhaus foundation, in Dessau, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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