Dataland is preparing to open in Los Angeles on June 20 as the first museum built around AI-generated art, anchored by a 'Large Nature Model' trained on imagery from sixteen rainforests.

Memory & archive: UVA Library's winter 2026 OLLMpics benchmarked four LLMs on handwritten primary sources, marking the moment manuscript archives become searchable at scale.

Body & time: Frontiers traced how AI-embodied surgical robots are pushing the OR toward autonomous assistance if regulation keeps pace, while a companion piece argued bio-inspired cognitive robotics — not disembodied foundation models — is the path to socially acceptable machines. HHMI showed the human circadian clock phase-shifts with the seasons, weaving the body's internal time into the changing light.

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