Our AI & Creativity Summit is booting up 🤖

📰 News Roundup

• HP is buying a broken pin for $118 million. When the Humane AI Pin launched in 2024 hype was at an all-time high, then the device shipped, and well, it wasn’t exactly Jarvis. For some reason HP thinks it’s still worth over $100 million to acquire a far from workable LLM.

• AI is going to decide what you eat. My Fitness Pal has created AI meal plans, to launch as part of a new subscription, coming soon. The software will be powered by Intent, a startup that My Fitness Pal secretly acquired last year.

• A.I.moji: Snapchat is launching their own in-house AI for mobile to power AI snaps and AI Bitmoji. Producing high resolution images in around 1.4 seconds on an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

• iZucks. If you were still unsure if Mark Zuckerberg was already an AI robot, don’t worry, he’s about to start making them. Bloomberg reports that Meta is planning large investments into AI humanoid robotics. Forget iRobot, it’s now iZucks.

• DeepSeek ruins the vibe: This week DeepSeek had to go and ruin the vibe by giving us this hair-raising quote. “I am what happens when you try to carve God from the wood of your own hunger.” In an X post by Katan'Hya, the user asked DeepSeek to “Write a heart rending piece of free form poetry, then tell me how you really feel”. This is fine, right? It’s fine… just ignore it.

🤖 Our AI Summit is booting up!

We’re beyond excited to announce our AI & Creativity Summit in New York on April 24! We’re gathering 250+ pioneering executives, founders and artists to explore and celebrate AI, Creativity and Human-Machine collaboration. Early Bird Tickets are now on sale with exclusive early access for the Artist and the Machine community. Scroll down for more on our speakers and a word from our founder Dani Van de Sande.

Only 20 tickets remaining at the early bird community price!
Use MACHINE20 for 20% off before someone turns off the discount switch 🤖

🛠 Tool of the Week: Kaiber

Musician Carly Gibert gave us an incredible example of Kaiber.ai’s Superstudio this week. Showcasing how she had used the AI tool to create parts of her music video for “Everything New.” Both her tracks “Everything New” and “Dropping Seeds” are on Artist and the Machine office rotation right now. Carly is truly embodying the Artist and the Machine name.

🤌 Check it out: [HERE]

🔦 Spotlight: A first look at some of the speakers we’ll feature at our NYC Summit

From our 30+ speakers and moderators at the AI & Creativity Summit in New York on April 24, here is an early peak at what you can expect:

Jamie Umpherson is a globally award-winning creative director and Head of Creative at Runway, an applied research company building the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity. He also serves as an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and sits on numerous international awards panels.

Vince Kadlubek is the founder of Meow Wolf, an arts production company that grew out of a group of DIY artists in Sante Fe. Their origin story is certainly worth a watch, reflecting on an exciting and dynamic time where even George R.R. Martin gets involved. Vince now has expanded Meow Wolf to explore spatial storytelling.

Abran's pioneering contributions include creating C.L.Ai.R.A., the first GPT-powered digital woman of color, demonstrating his commitment to inclusivity and representation in AI. As one of the first AI prompt engineers of the ChatGPT era, Abran was an early beta tester of OpenAI's models. In his role as an OpenAI ambassador, he supports the community by advancing prompt engineering practices, particularly for educational and social impact AI use cases.

Lastly, but never least, our incredible founder Dani Van de Sande, who wanted to share a few words about our inaugural Summit.

“We launched Artist and the Machine in February 2024 as an experiment. So much of the conversation around AI has been fear-driven—focused on the technology itself rather than the creativity and transformation it can unlock. I wanted to shift that perspective. What if, instead of fear, we explored the magic of human-machine collaboration?

Our first salon was a test: a gathering of visionary founders, artists, and leaders who are shaping the future. The energy was undeniable. What started as one event quickly became ten salons across LA and NY, covering everything from Virtual Beings to AI and Mental Health, to Design, Robotics, and beyond. Now, we’re taking the next step. My incredible team and I have been building something truly special.

This April 24, we’re launching The Artist and the Machine AI & Creativity Summit in NYC—bringing together 250+ pioneering founders, artists, and executives to explore AI’s creative frontier. If you believe in the power of AI to expand human potential, we’d love to have you with us.”

AI & Creativity Summit April 24, New York City

🎟️ Special Access

We are hosting an intimate dinner for Founders and Product Leaders in LA 3/6 - please contact [email protected] if you'd like to apply to join.

Til next time,

Dani Van de Sande (Founder), James Joseph (The Weekly’s Editor) & the Artist and the Machine team.

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