Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, addressing the moral and social implications of artificial intelligence. The 42,300-word document calls for safeguards to protect human dignit…
A Mercer survey of 12,000 workers, including 825 executives, found 99% of C-suite leaders expect artificial intelligence to trigger layoffs within two years. The share of employees classified as "thriving" dropped from 6…
Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther warned that quantum AI will accelerate capabilities beyond current generative systems and urged leaders to invest in human agency now. Investment in quantum technologies exceeded…
A Thai police sergeant admitted that a viral image of officers in sparkly dresses during a drug raid was AI-generated, not a real photograph. The picture, which spread globally and was reported as genuine by major media …
Enju is a new workflow system that treats humans, AI agents, and deterministic compute as peers on a single directed acyclic graph (DAG). The system allows any of these "citizens" to claim and execute tasks such as answe…
China has expanded travel restrictions to include top AI researchers and executives at private firms, requiring government approval before they can leave the country. The measures, which intensified after Beijing blocked…
A French social housing AI agent called PIERRE eliminated its entire RAG stack—including vector databases, embedding models, rerankers, and multiple cloud GPU services—replacing them with a single SQLite file and a harne…
Current large language models cannot safely modify real software systems despite impressive code-generation demos, because they rely on pattern matching rather than causal reasoning. The fundamental gap lies in the disti…
South Korean retail investors have poured nearly $13.2 billion into SK Hynix, driving the memory chipmaker's market capitalization past $1 trillion as surging demand for AI-powered high-bandwidth memory fuels a stock ral…
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, defends human imperfection as a source of dignity and warns against outsourcing human capabilities to artificial intelligence. The document argues that human limitati…
IREN shares rose in postmarket trading Tuesday after the data company secured a $1.6 billion agreement with Dell for air-cooled Blackwell systems, supporting its AI cloud contract with Nvidia. The deal is expected to boo…
Amazon Web Services is licensing its generative AI retail technology to third-party retailers, with Tapestry Inc., parent company of Coach and Kate Spade New York, as an early adopter. Tapestry has deployed nearly 20 AWS…
Henry Farell argued at a Blavatnik School of Government talk that AI should be understood as a "lossy information aggregation tool," comparing it to historical systems like state bureaucracies and markets. Farell critici…
Robinhood has opened its trading platform to AI agents, allowing autonomous software programs to execute trades on behalf of users. The move marks a significant expansion of automated trading capabilities for retail inve…
A new Cornell University study found that leading AI language models, when asked to write a story, overwhelmingly default to a narrow set of characters and settings, including lighthouse keepers, clockmakers, and fisherm…
Bondu, a $300 stuffed dinosaur equipped with an AI chatbot that speaks 27 languages, plays games, and helps with homework, is being marketed as a screen-free alternative to tablets and phones for children. The toy, which…
Anthropic released a security-guidance plugin for its Claude Code tool that automatically reviews code changes for vulnerabilities such as injection flaws and unsafe deserialization during development sessions. The plugi…
SSMS Copilot is providing incorrect answers to SQL Server queries because Microsoft's tool is altering user prompts before sending them to large language models, according to database expert Brent Ozar. Ozar demonstrated…
Frontman, a frontend development tool, has published a workflow-based framework for selecting AI coding agents, arguing that the best tool depends on the specific frontend task rather than a universal ranking. The framew…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated four-term U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff, making Cornyn the first Texas GOP senator to lose a renomination bid. President Donald Trump endorsed Pax…