Pope Leo XIV arrived in Madrid on Saturday and urged Spaniards to stop "fanning the flames of polarization," marking the first papal visit to Spain in 15 years amid political turmoil for the Socialist…
A North Carolina software engineer secured a workplace accommodation in May allowing her to avoid using artificial intelligence on religious grounds. The accommodation comes as the share of U.S. emplo…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, which warns that AI dehumanizes society, could prompt more workers to seek religious exemptions from using the technology at their jobs. One softw…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral re…
A growing backlash against artificial intelligence, including papal warnings, protests against data centers, and boos at commencement speeches, has not convinced a majority of economists that the tech…
Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist software engineer, secured a religious exemption from using AI at her tech-entertainment job in mid-May after citing environmental and ethical objections. The accom…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a $2.3 billion national AI strategy, "AI for All," on Thursday, organized around six pillars including sovereign infrastructure and job creation. The annou…
Only 4% of Australians trust AI companies with their private information, according to a new survey by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The finding places Australia among the mos…
Pope Leo XIV published a 42,300-word encyclical titled "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government r…
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical warns that AI’s current trajectory threatens human dignity, but the pontiff failed to address the most consequential question of what purpose the technology should serv…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders…
Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical urging global governments to slow AI development, as an EY survey of 23 countries ranked Australians among the least favorable toward AI. The Office of …
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to give ordinary Americans ownership…
Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah, a self-declared atheist and billionaire AI safety researcher, sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last week to warn that the tech industry cannot govern itself. Olah…
Datasette 1.0a32 was released on May 31, 2026, as a minor bugfix update. The release addresses a bug with `INSERT ... RETURNING` queries through the new `/db/-/execute-write` endpoint and resolves sev…
Anthropic defines its "run-rate revenue" by calculating consumption-based sales over the last 28 days, multiplying that figure by 13, then adding the result to its monthly subscription revenue multipl…
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical titled *Magnifica Humanitas* addressing artificial intelligence, marking the 135th anniversary of *Rerum Novarum*. The document explicitly ret…
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* warns that artificial intelligence threatens to dominate humanity and calls for regulatory tools to curb its distorting effects on society. The docu…
Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on May 25, 2026, positioning the Catholic Church's response to artificial intelligence as a parallel to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical "Reru…
The AI-detection tool Pangram has become the standard for identifying AI-generated text, leading to high-profile accusations against a major publisher's novel, articles in The New York Times, award-wi…