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A federal judge barred construction of the 250-foot arch President Trump wants at Memorial Circle, by Arlington National Cemetery, less than two hours after a planning commission approved it 8–4 (NPR). Work is on hold for 14 days; the government had planned to start digging at once.
The New York Times is negotiating to buy Letterboxd, the film-lovers’ social network, for $330 million, more than 20 times its projected earnings (IndieWire). Its owner bought a majority stake in 2023 at a $50 million valuation.
Philippe Jaenada won France’s Prix Goncourt on Tuesday and told radio he used ChatGPT three times in the novel, including one sentence he revealed only to the jurors (The Guardian). In September the prize dropped another author’s debut over suspected AI use.
The Boston Symphony premiered “already and not yet,” a score by Tod Machover, the MIT Media Lab composer, in which AI answers the players (Los Angeles Times). Critic Mark Swed says it works because it treats the AI as stupid and the musicians as creative.
A Georgia O’Keeffe painting known only from a 1931 photograph turned up behind fur coats in a late aunt’s closet (Artnet). Bought for $3,800 in 1963, it is estimated at $3 million at Christie’s on November 17.
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