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Sotheby’s prepares to auction off a work created by an AI robot as human artists protest against AI companies training on their work

Sotheby’s prepares to auction off a work created by an AI robot as human artists protest against AI companies training on their work

By Press Room30 June 2026

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s edition…The embrace (and protest) of AI art reaches a new level;…

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun buys million banana—and plans to eat it unless Elon Musk wants to send it to space

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun buys $6 million banana—and plans to eat it unless Elon Musk wants to send it to space

By Press Room21 November 2024

In the same week in which Sotheby’s auction house sold a $65 million Claude Monet piece, it was a multi-million-dollar…

Russian billionaire who sued Sotheby’s for helping dupe him out of over 0m for da Vinci’s ‘Lost Leonardo’ and other paintings loses art fraud case

Russian billionaire who sued Sotheby’s for helping dupe him out of over $160m for da Vinci’s ‘Lost Leonardo’ and other paintings loses art fraud case

By Press Room31 January 2024

A New York federal jury deliberated for a few hours before reaching a decision in Dmitry Rybolovlev’s case against Sotheby’s, The…

‘8 years ago, nobody was looking at watches on Instagram’: Sotheby’s sees generational shift in luxury sales up 40% since the pandemic

‘8 years ago, nobody was looking at watches on Instagram’: Sotheby’s sees generational shift in luxury sales up 40% since the pandemic

By Press Room29 January 2024

Buoyed by the pandemic, the $1.6 trillion luxury market is having a moment—and Gen Z and millennial buyers are pushing…