Inside the Room on May 14

Summit

We're just weeks away from gathering at The Lighthouse in Brooklyn, with the agenda set, speaker lineup stacked, and Bloomberg Media on board as our official media partner.

Voices taking the stage span the full range of AI & Creativity. From Kathleen Grace, Chief AI Officer of Lionsgate, and Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, to Academy Award winner and Co-Founder of Magnopus Alex Henning, BAFTA winner Habib Zargarpour, and world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels. Over the course of the day, we'll move from the practical to the philosophical – what AI means for workflows today and what it means for craft over the long term. We will ask meaningful questions and continue the conversation, together, in the room, on May 14.

Sponsor

Bria gives creative and technical teams the tools to generate, edit, and automate visual content at scale. Bria is the visual AI platform built for production. Controllable, IP-safe, and built on 100% licensed data. No prompt roulette, just deterministic outputs that integrate into any workflow, from first prototype to full production.

Named No. 8 on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2026, Bria joins the sponsor lineup for our AI & Creativity Summit in NY this May, where they'll announce a new way for artists to tame the machine, and have it work for them.

Session

Epidemic Sound comes to life this May with “The Sonic Lab: Better, Faster Studio!” Attendees will be able to join leaders from Epidemic Sound for a behind-the-scenes look at their new Studio feature to see how video and sound finally become one, leaving temp tracks and "close enough" audio in the past. Create bespoke, high-fidelity audio from a single prompt and step into the future of sound. If you’re coming to Summit, save the activation on our agenda so you don’t miss it.

Pulse

• Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model: Anthropic found that Claude forms internal patterns that resemble emotions, and these seem to influence how it behaves. That could help researchers design AI systems that are more stable and predictable over time.

• Character.ai Launches AI-Powered ‘Books’ Feature: Allowing users to step inside and interact with classic works of literature such as Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby.

• The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants: Black Forest Labs has signed deals with Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft, and now has its sights set on powering robots and smart glasses.

We hope to see you in NY on May 14, 2026, where we will continue these conversations on the forefront of AI & Creativity:

If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at [email protected].

Til next time,

Artist and the Machine.

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