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Congratulations to our friends at NODE on the landmark Beeple exhibition. NODE is the first major physical home for digital art in Silicon Valley, and what they've built matters for every organization beginning to think seriously about how display environments carry culture. Beeple has become a defining voice of his generation. What looked like an overnight success with a $69M sale that legitimized digital art within traditional institutions, was twenty years in the making. One artwork, every day, for two decades. That discipline is what built the work: the command of color, composition, and form that only comes from. As technology evolved, so did his process. He taught himself new tools, expanded his capabilities, and kept making. For years, he gave his work away for free because the making mattered more than the market. That choice built something money can't buy: a real audience. Over the last five years, his work has drawn directly from his personal life and the world around him - sharp, satirical, and unmistakably his own. Beauty and provocation in the same frame. HUMAN ONE is unlike anything else - a kinetic sculpture with four 16K screens, governed by smart contracts that allow Beeple to update the work remotely for as long as he lives. It is a living object, changing as the world does. This fundamentally redefines the relationship between artist and collector. It is also one of the clearest demonstrations of why digital art operates by its own logic and it own relationship to meaning. That power was visible in the line that stretched two city blocks. Students, families, children, they were all draw to the work and the innovative new space. For organizations on the leading edge, this is the signal: digital art doesn't decorate space, it creates the conditions for engagement, sentiment, and genuine cultural resonance. "The goal isn't to make something that lasts forever; it's to make something that matters right now. If it matters enough right now, history will take care of the 'forever' part." Beeple

While the world builds for AI we're building for humans. Last Friday was World "Lift Off" in San Francisco. 700+ people piled into an overhauled concert venue while we live streamed to the world what’s next for the real human network: new partnerships, new integrations and new World ID 4.0 making the internet more human. Onstage it introduced: Zoom integrating to protect against deepfakes in your meetings. Docusign integrating to help ensure the right human signs. Okta + Vercel + World AgentKit ensuring agents can be human-backed. Tinder expanding into the US with their World ID integration helping ensure you're chatting with a real human. And finally: to bring musicians closer to fans and fans closer to the musicians they love we announced World Concert Kit, ensuring artists can offer humans only tickets for live shows and keep bad bots from swopping them up. And we launched it with a surprise Humans Only Concert that night, all you needed for tickets was your World ID. Eight hours and a frenzy later over 1000 people showed up for the show. What a time. A massive thank you to the incredible partners who joined onstage and in the audience to discuss, lead, announce and celebrate. And a huge thank you and congratulations to the incredibly talented and creative humans at Tools for Humanity, World Foundation, World and all the partners who helped make it all happen.

Anonymous Proof of Human: Essential Infrastructure for the AI Era We’re entering a world where AI agents generate content, sustain conversations, and act online in ways indistinguishable from humans. The question is no longer “is this content real?” but “is this participant real?” Without a way to verify unique humanness at scale, we face existential risks: mass disinformation, election manipulation, scalable fraud, and the erosion of democratic discourse. A single actor with enough compute can manufacture the appearance of millions of people flooding platforms, distorting polls, and drowning out authentic human voices. Why does Proof of Human matter now? AI capabilities are advancing faster than our defense against bad behavior. Open models can now produce convincing text, images, and video at scale. Traditional signals, content provenance, watermarking, detection algorithms, help at the margins but fail to address the core problem: how many independent humans are actually participating? Doesn’t Proof of Human create a surveillance risk? Counterintuitively, a well-implemented Proof of Human (PoH) system doesn’t enable surveillance, it protects against it. Without PoH, platforms resort to invasive tracking: behavioral monitoring, device fingerprinting, cross-service correlation. With PoH, you prove humanness once, privately, and never need to be tracked. How does Anonymous Proof of Human work? • Purpose-built hardware (like the Orb) captures high-entropy biometric signals (iris) that can distinguish between billions of humans with extreme accuracy • Zero-knowledge proofs let you prove you’re a unique human without revealing who you are. Secure multi-party computation (SMPC) ensures no single entity holds all the data • Credentials are self-custodied on your device, not in a central database What can Proof of Human enable? • Limit scalable deception, make it economically infeasible to manufacture fake consensus • Protect public discourse, ensure policy input and online debate reflect real humans • Enable agent-on-behalf-of-human, let AI act for you without impersonating you • Preserve privacy, prove humanness without surveillance Who’s building this today? World ID already integrates these measures: hardware-backed verification, SMPC for uniqueness checks, ZKPs for private authentication. Over 38M people have World App, and 17M+ are verified as unique humans through the Orb. But adoption needs to accelerate. PoH isn’t just an anti-bot tool, it’s foundational infrastructure for human coordination in an AI-driven world. The alternative is a future where influence scales with compute, not people.

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AKQA is a team and a culture I’ve long admired. Grateful to everyone who’s been part of the journey that led here. Excited for this latest chapter. https://lnkd.in/eyJtEvrc

👋 Die Berliner Kreativagentur THE GOODWINS will ihre Design-Kompetenz ausbauen und richtet dafür eine neue Führungsposition ein: Aryanti Ingenillem übernimmt ab sofort die Rolle der Design Directorin - eine für sie maßgeschneiderte Stelle. Ihren neuen Arbeitgeber kennt sie bereits recht gut: https://lnkd.in/e4mxTmG8

Thirty years ago my girlfriend gave me a TB-303 bass synth software emulator. I was hooked. I loved the acid bassline sound of the 90s rave era. Sitting in my bedroom, messing around with it on my mac, felt like discovering a new language. Simple patterns. Squirming basslines. Endless possibilities. Fast forward 30 years, AI has moved so quickly that someone like me can now build a TB303 emulator app as a weekend hobby. It’s basic and quite rough around the edges. But making it brought back the same feeling I had back then. That sense that the right tool can open up a lot of creative possibility. I know I should probably be spending more time thinking strategically about using AI for productivity and monetisation. But building this reminded me of something else. Sometimes the real value is just curiosity. Making something because you want to see what happens. That’s probably why I became a creative in the first place. If you’re into this kind of thing, check it out here -https://lnkd.in/gKeBwfVy

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🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 ArtMeta is looking forward to bring a major digital art exhibition to Basel this year! "Digital Masterpieces. From code to canon" spanning 70 years of digital art history. June 15 - 21, 2026, Basel, Switzerland (during Art Basel) Looking forward to see you in Basel this year! It will be very special this time.