Botto DAO, the decentralized organization governing AI artist Botto, announces a major autonomy upgrade: In its fifth year, Botto now features memory and reasoning capabilities, enabling it to learn from past work, past collaborations, and its wider cultural footprint. A new platform, Botto Studio, allows stewards to observe the AI’s creative process in real-time, provide feedback, chat with fellow Bottonians, and earn community rewards. Botto DAO: “Our little robot artist is growing up so fast.”

Deprecated API keys, banned bots, revoked permissions: Everest Pipkin’s solo exhibition, “Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins,” at Berlin’s panke.gallery reveals the web’s fragility under platform capitalism. The retrospective of browser-based works, some live, some dead, some waiting to fail, reminds us that connections of personal meaning last, even if platforms crumble. “The history of the internet is a history of people constructing homes together, even temporarily in the margins,” Pipkin writes.