Good morning {{first_name| Artificial intelligence lovers}}. Thousands of people on X have confidently explained why the AI-generated image is inferior to the real Monet. Just one problem: It was a real Monet.
Conceptual artist SHL0MS’s latest experiment says less about AI art and more about the reflexive hostility inherent in the technology, where critics line up to throw away a work of art the moment they think a machine made it.
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Artist highlights the wrath of artificial intelligence with Monet’s post
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Roundtable Rundown: Our AI Use Cases
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Artificial intelligence, art and anger
Rundown: Artist SHL0MS antiquities Madness on
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SHL0MS to publish It creates the image in the style of Monet, and asks users to describe in as much detail as possible why the “AI image” is of lower quality.
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The post received thousands of responses calling the image “emotionless” and “steep” and criticizing specific features such as depth, reflections and composition.
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And the picture was image An authentic painting by Monet, selected from his Water Lilies collection from circa 1915.
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The saga is set in 2024 researchwhere Norwegian researchers found that people actually prefer AI art but show a clear negative bias against it.
Why it matters: This Monet portal was a single painting, but the reflection it revealed runs through the entire creative world at the moment. For a growing crowd of people, the word “artificial intelligence” alone elicits a backlash regardless of context – and this knee-jerk hostility is growing as technology changes the world around us and becomes more deeply integrated into everyday life.
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RUNDOWN ROUND TABLE
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Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature in which we poll The Rundown staff members about how we use AI in our work and daily lives.
Billy, university professor: I made Claude Code my intern CAD designer because I don’t know anything about engineering.
My wife needed a ring container to attach to her water bottle at the gym. I sketched my idea for a threaded container and asked Claude to design a prototype. The first few prints were rough. But after the eighth model, we had the perfect design.
Reishi Growth: YouTube is one of the best free education platforms out there, but the problem is that it takes a long time to watch long videos to find the few ideas that actually matter.
This is where Gemini has been really helpful for me. Since it’s built into Google, I can use it to quickly summarize a specific YouTube video, or even scan a creator’s last 5 to 10 videos to get key points.
Instead of spending hours watching everything, I can quickly understand the main ideas, find the best nuggets, and decide what’s worth diving into. It’s basically a shortcut to learning from long-form content without consuming every minute of it.
Artificial intelligence training
Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to spin hand Cloud Computer into a private web crawler that runs 24/7 for any website you want to monitor. Instead of Manus burning tokens to check the same location every day, your cloud computer does it cheaply.
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Open the Manus desktop app, go to Settings > Computer, and click Create now under Cloud Computer to give Manus an always-on server
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Start a new Manus task, and select your Cloud Computer in Composer
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Prompt: Set up a web crawler on my cloud computer for [URL]. First, check the site layout and tell me the best way to check it reliably. verify [info] Twice a day. Record it to a CSV file. Create a small script, schedule it using cron, log each run, and save only the corresponding results [criteria]
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Have Manus run the script once, then run it 24/7. Once done, you can ask Manus to check the collected data at any time from your phone or laptop
Moving forward: Start with the Manus/Claude skill, or whatever AI workflow you’re using. Ask Manus which recurring parts can be played “for free” on your cloud computer, then save the proxy.
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Rundown: The functionality gives you access to over 160 lab tests, personalized insights, and ongoing tracking in one place – so you can see what’s happening inside your body before symptoms appear.
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Obinay
Rundown: OpenAI Released A new personal finance experience within ChatGPT, partnering with Plaid to connect users’ financial institutions and give the chatbot real-time access to spending, investments and invoices for personalized financial insights.
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Users can connect via Plaid across Chase, Schwab, Robinhood and more than 12,000 institutions, with a dashboard to track spending, portfolio and upcoming bills.
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Intuit is next planned to support flows such as tax estimates, credit card approval probabilities, and connecting users with live experts.
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ChatGPT can analyze connected data, but it can’t move money, pay bills, make trades, or file taxes (yet).
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Feature previews begin with US-based Pro accounts, and can be accessed via the new Finance sidebar or by tagging @finance directly in chats.
Why it matters: Financial guidance has been locked behind expensive advisors or legacy apps for a decade, and having a complete view of a user’s finances in context can open up a very powerful experience. The biggest hurdle may be getting users to trust the AI with this information, and that’s where Plaid comes in as a security layer.
OAI Greg Brockman is It is said Moving to product strategy, where Thibault Sottiaux is now leading core product and platform, Nick Turley is moving to enterprise products.
Anthropic formed A $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation to deploy CLOUD in vaccine screening, disease forecasting, and K-12 tutoring in developing countries.
OpenAI It is said acquired Weights.gg, a voice-reproduction social network featuring replicas of celebrities, launched in January, with six employees joining the company.
Pope Leo XIV decided A Vatican advisory body on artificial intelligence, he signed his first publication, which is expected to place the technology within the framework of this generation’s industrial revolution.
Poetic Released New research shows that a self-build Meta-System can create and improve its own tools, achieving SOTA scores according to the highest coding standards.
Gallup poll Found 70% of Americans oppose building data centers nearby, as the infrastructure is considered less popular than local nuclear power plants.
In each newsletter we show how the reader is using AI to work smarter, save time or make life easier.
Today’s workflow comes from the reader unknown:
“I’m learning to play guitar and I’m kind of stuck at an advanced beginner level. I used Claude to create a practice journal to document each session – practice minutes, chords learned, songs in progress, things to work on, which then creates a visual dashboard of trends, song learning status, etc.
At the end of each updated console, Claude gives me three to five new things to work on based on what I’m practicing, and similar songs to learn to take it to the next level.”
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