If you're going to a glitzy Hollywood party soon, beware: The only thing anyone in Tinseltown can talk is AI, noted Vanity Fair magazine recently. Some look upon the technology with dismay. Others, like "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky, "have embraced AI almost as a kind of realpolitik," added the magazine. It may be a matter of survival: Visual effects have largely been farmed out to shops around the world. The sooner Hollywood embraces AI, the more it can turn it into a homegrown industry with local jobs, says one insider. That's one of the stories we spotlight in today's roundup of art, opinion and reporting from across the internet.

Anyone who follows this page knows that I love books. All kinds of books. Home-made flip books. Scrappy zines done on copiers running out of toner. Art books. Design books. Photo books. One-off artists books. Stands to reason, being that DART exists solely because of two very special books, American Illustration and American Photography, which have been celebrating the best in design arts for publication for going on half a century. This new DART Book Prize contest is my way of th...