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Every culture event we have logged, with sources, in one place.
23 events (19 after June 2026), 0 models, 56 videos, 34 posts. Latest event 15 October 2026.
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2026
- D Magazine says Michelin’s new Dallas restaurant write-ups read as AI-generated; Michelin denies using AI
- Microsoft creates Xbox Labs in response to the wave of AI-decompiled game ports; Xbox CEO Asha Sharma calls them ‘unmistakably good outcomes for players’On Oct 13, 2026 Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told staff in a memo published on Xbox Wire that Microsoft is setting up Xbox Labs, “a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists”, to work with the technology behind the…
- Elon Musk says he has had ‘AI or SI psychosis’ about half a dozen times this year
- Nikon disqualifies the winner of its 2026 Small World in Motion microscopy video contest for breaking its generative-AI rules
- Indie studio takes a bank loan to keep its LLM-driven free Steam demo running at over $1,000 a day
- Hundreds of AI-decompiled game ports appear; browser versions of Halo, Vice City and Black Ops go viral (8.2M-view post), credited to Claude Opus 5.5In early October 2026 hundreds of AI-decompiled, “vibe-coded” game ports and emulators appeared online. Kotaku (Oct 9) credited Claude Opus 5.5’s skill at decompiling and found that browser ports of Call of Duty: Black…
- Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI film ‘Artificial’ (Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman) premieres at the New York Film Festival to strong first reactions
- LA Spanish-language radio show co-hosted by AI DJ ‘Coyotec’ expands to other markets, as radio workers push back
- Pope Leo XIV on AI art: ‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’On Oct 2, 2026, in an address to artists that he also posted on X, Pope Leo XIV said there is “an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical…
- ‘AI Torture Chamber’ GitHub repo steering small LLMs into ‘pain’ goes viral, sparking takedown calls and a model-welfare fight
- “Nothing Went Foom!”: an accelerationist Claude Opus 5.5 music video answers the P(doom) craze
- SNL’s Weekend Update parodies Dario Amodei’s AI-risk warnings (Jane Wickline)
- Peter Thiel calls Pope Leo XIV a ‘useful idiot’ for the Chinese Communist Party over his AI encyclical
- “I spoke to my computer for 5 mins, Claude worked for 12 hours”: @donaldjewkes’ Opus 5.5 P(doom) video hits ~3.6M viewsOn 2026-09-23 Donald Jewkes posted a K-pop-styled remake of the Claude Pop “I’m Upping My P(doom)” video that Claude Opus 5.5 made from one dictated prompt in about 12 unattended hours, using Seedance 2.5 and image…
- “Claude Pop”: music videos made by Claude Opus 5.5 for the AI-doom song “I’m Upping My P(doom)” become a genreOn the day Claude Opus 5.5 launched (2026-09-22), John Heibel (@other__reality) posted a painted music video, made entirely in code by Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, for “Claude-Pop - I’m Upping My P(Doom)”. That is a Suno…
- “No Big Deal”, billed as the first sitcom produced entirely by AI, premieres on YouTube
- deckard posts “Claude-Pop - I’m Upping My P(Doom)”, a Suno remake of a 2024 AI-doom song, on X
- Semafor finds AI-written guest op-eds in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post; Dartmouth provost’s case becomes a campus scandal
- Sam Altman: “We are now, like, in the singularity” (Relentless podcast)
- Runway’s 2026 AI Film Festival: Grand Prix to “A Face Only A Mother Could Love”
- “Claude Fable 5 Made This Entire Video By Itself”: the agent-made YouTube video becomes a genre
- Higgsfield’s 95-minute AI feature “Hell Grind” premieres at Cannes Market screenings“Hell Grind”, a 95-minute action-fantasy feature generated with Higgsfield’s Soul Cinema / Soul Cast tools and the Seedance 2.0 video model by a 15-person team in about two weeks for $500,000, was shown at private…
2025
- Andrej Karpathy coins “vibe coding”On Feb 2, 2025 Andrej Karpathy posted on X: ‘There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.’ He described building…
Videos
- Are we building the AI that destroys us? | BBC News BBC News, 2026-10-16
- Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026 Kai Lentit, 2026-10-15
- Ten Years Away - Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video Regenerate, 2026-10-14
- Pros Try Fake AI Photoshop Linus Tech Tips, 2026-10-10
- Can ‘Pain’ Influence AI Behaviour? | BBC News BBC News, 2026-10-09
- Skate 3 is now fully playable in the browser chasm (@chasmmmmmmmmmmm), 2026-10-07
- Claude responds to Pope Leo Call-out w/ hit song | ONTOLOGICAL | PoP Music Video made with Opus 5.5 Music for Humans, 2026-10-07
- LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video Degenerative Pixels, 2026-10-05
- Claude Opus 5.5 Made a Music Video About the AI race | The End Of The Show Imaginative Prompting, 2026-10-02
- A 3-minute animated film of all human progress, and 30 years beyond, from one prompt imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai), 2026-10-02
- I’m Upping My P(doom) - Anime Music Video | Claude Pop Michael Wong, 2026-09-29
- Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video - Ignore Previous Instructions Seguramente, 2026-09-29
- AGI In Your Eyes (Upping my P(doom) Hard Takeoff Remix) modernatomicplayboy, 2026-09-29
- I’m Upping My P(Doom) – Claude Pop | Animated by Claude Opus 5.5 (AI Music Video) YGMS, 2026-09-29
- I’m Upping My P(Doom) - Retro 3D Pixel Art Version Goat Labs, 2026-09-28
- I’m Lowering My P(Doom) (Disco Version) | Barbenheimer, but AI Pratham, 2026-09-28
- I Gave Claude Opus 5.5 a Song. It Made This Music Video Overnight. Lucid Drafts, 2026-09-27
- i’m upping my p(doom) mexicat, 2026-09-27
- I’m upping my p(doom) - Claude Anime Pop Sunny, 2026-09-27
- Nothing Went Foom! Bright Mirror, 2026-09-26
- P(doom) 풀매수 | 수채화 애니 MV (한글자막) | I’m Upping My P(doom) 크립토메이지, 2026-09-26
- P(doom) 추매 중 VOL.2 | 실사판 MV (한글자막) | Still Upping My P(doom) 크립토메이지, 2026-09-26
- I’m Upping My P(doom) (errata) Linch Zhang, 2026-09-26
- If Christopher Nolan Directed “I’m Upping My P(Doom)” Pratham, 2026-09-26
- Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity - SNL Saturday Night Live, 2026-09-26
- Claude Anime Pop - Where no map Goes Sunny, 2026-09-26
- Let’s Lower the P(doom)! Nate Sharpe, 2026-09-25
- ‘Stroke of a Pen’: Opus 5.5 makes a code-only Bitcoin music video Brad Mills (@bradmillscan), 2026-09-24
- Claude Opus 5.5 Made This Music Video With JUST CODE ChillPanic, 2026-09-24
- A doomer song Claude Opus 4.1 wrote about alignment, visualised by Opus 5.5 josh (@eudaemonea), 2026-09-24
- Claude AI Made This Music Video | UPPING MY P(DOOM) INXANITY, 2026-09-24
- @eudaemonea’s Claude functional emotions song Jacob Valdez, 2026-09-24
- [AI Rap] A. J. No Samples feat. Clawd kiucee, 2026-09-24
- AI is a normal technology? (animated music video by Opus 5.5) leo, 2026-09-24
- Absolutely Right (Crab Walk) by opus 5.5 meow, 2026-09-24
- I’m Upping My P(Doom) | Voxel J-Rock Cover 〔MV by Claude Opus 5.5〕 노는사람, 2026-09-24
- P(bloom): the answer to P(doom), as ragga jungle Parzival of Algorithmic Progress, 2026-09-24
- Upping My P(doom) (Official Music Video) Patryk Perduta, 2026-09-24
- I’m Upping My P(Doom) The Omega Point, 2026-09-24
- Claude Opus 5.5 – Fugue in C minor Augmented Fifth, 2026-09-23
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