Inside the Room on May 14
The Lighthouse, Brooklyn
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
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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.
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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.
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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 community@artistandthemachine.com.
Til next time,
Artist and the Machine.
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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.