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AI Revolutionizes Digital Ad Strategy
AI Revolutionizes Digital Ad Strategy AI Revolutionizes Digital Ad Strategy: this defining shift is redrawing the boundaries of how businesses engage customers online. From automated ad creation to precise targeting and real-time optimization,...

AI Agents Take Over Company Operations
AI Agents Take Over Company Operations AI Agents Take Over Company Operations a headline that captures attention and paints a picture of the future we are rapidly moving toward. Businesses today are constantly seeking solutions that improve...

Art and design graduates get the spotlight in diverse exhibition
Works by art and design graduates from the Chinese National Academy of Arts are on show at the Chinese Traditional Cultural Museum in Beijing. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese paintings, calligraphy works, seal engraving, oils,...

AI plays key role for new start-up businesses
HÀ NỘI — The combination of e-commerce and artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important tool to help start-ups optimise sales processes and improve the customer experience. AI is not just a support tool, but also a key driver in optimising...

Art x NW: A bold and beloved Seattle performance festival returns
For 36 years, the Northwest New Works festival could be counted on to showcase dance, theater and musical performances ranging from strange to funny to sublime. With 2020 and all its accompanying woes, the showcase ended. But after a five-year...
Culture Friday: Crisis of conviction
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 13th of June. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World...

Art Lander’s Outdoors: Vultures, often found scavenging on KY roads, provide valuable service
Kentuckians have a conflicted relationship with vultures, a.k.a. buzzards. They are most often observed feasting on road kill deer, raccoons, squirrels, groundhogs, rabbits, even skunks. They gather in rowdy groups on the pavement, or in road side...

AI chatbots need more books to learn from, so more libraries are opening their stacks
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks. Nearly one million books published as early as...

Culturama Festival in Sofia attracts visitors with Garden of Musical Delights
Culturama is a festival that has been offering unique encounters with cultures and styles for several years and constantly surprises with the interesting locations of the events. The guest musicians are not only popular, but also unconventional in...

Istanbul Digital Art Festival opens at AKM
ISTANBUL The fifth Istanbul Digital Art Festival (IDAF) opened its doors to art lovers at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM). The festival brings together leading names in digital art from both Türkiye and around the world. IDAF, which held its...

Türk Telekom launches 5G-powered art experience at AKM
ISTANBUL Türk Telekom has launched a new initiative combining art and technology at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), where it serves as the main sponsor. The 5G-enabled cultural hub now offers visitors seamless access to performances through an...

People's Artist E. Amartuvshin Named One of the World's Top Five Opera Singers
Ulaanbaatar, June 13, 2025 /MONTSAME/. People’s Artist and Cultural Envoy Amartuvshin Enkhbat has been ranked fourth on the list of the world’s top opera singers by the international platform “Opera World”. Opera singers from the Russian...

Art, jazz, history intersect at Nelson-Atkins Juneteenth celebration
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The ninth annual Juneteenth celebration kicked off Thursday at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where organizers say art tells a story. It takes a deeper look at Kansas City’s rich jazz legacy and what it reveals about...

'I Don't Want to Take That Away From Them': Look Back Anime Director 'Totally Fine' With AI for True Creative Art
Artificial intelligence is a topic of heated debate within the animation community, particularly among professional artists who fear that their jobs will eventually be replaced by AI technology. In the midst of this controversy, Kiyotaka Oshiyama...

90th Birthday Anniversary of Bulgarian-Born Pioneering Artist Christo
Pioneering installation artist Christo was born in Bulgaria 90 years ago Friday. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their...

Sam Altman just dropped a big AI prediction for 2026; experts are skeptical
Sam Altman AI prediction for 2026 In a fresh thought-provoking article entitled "The Gentle Singularity," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has again moved in with a daring prediction: by 2026, artificial intelligence systems will be able to make "novel...

When AI ate my copywriter
Highlights Sam Balsara, chairman of Madison World, emphasizes the necessity of combining AI with human ingenuity in advertising, stating that resisting AI to save jobs is a misguided approach. Siddharth Shakdher, chief marketing officer of Paytm,...

Why did modern, state-of-the-art jet crash just seconds after take-off? The theories explained
Technical faults and bird strike probed after ‘powerplant on wheels’ disaster Firefighters work at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's north-western city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state yesterday. Photo: AP ©Telegraph Media Group...

Your AI is only as good as the knowledge base it ingested
Will your AI confidently deliver the right answers or stumble through outdated knowledge while your customers grow increasingly frustrated? Artificial intelligence (AI) may be changing how businesses interact with customers but there's a critical...

How NYU Abu Dhabi fine art graduates find clarity in ambiguity
For the fine arts graduates at NYU Abu Dhabi who are showcasing their work, art is an act of placemaking – a wrestling with materials in search of meaning. Titled Unstable Grounds, the exhibition running at 421 Arts Campus until September is...