Our AI & Creativity Summit is booting up 🤖
📰 News Roundup
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 – Runway
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 – Meow Wolf
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 Maldonado – Create Labs
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.
Dani Van de Sande, Founder of Artist and the Machine
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 partnerships@artistandthemachine.com 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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Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.