On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, to an audience of cardinals, diplomats, and AI industry leaders in the Vatican's Synod Hall — a historically unprecedented move.…
Alibaba Cloud has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, gaining a seat on the foundation's Governing Board and a position on its Technical Advisory Committee. The Chinese cloud computing giant, which develo…
World Labs launched AgentKit on March 17, 2026, a system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove they are operated by a verified human without revealing personal identity. Coinbase released Agentic Wallets…
Developers are increasingly adopting "tokenmaxxing"—feeding entire codebases into AI models and running multi-turn agentic loops—to exponentially multiply engineering output, but concerns over rising API costs are prompt…
Formal verification of complex systems can be simplified by expanding their scope, according to a new analysis drawing on decades of engineering experience. Adding additional layers to a formally verified system paradoxi…
Shalin and Kanyes, cofounders of Hyper, launched a self-serve version of their "second brain" AI software that integrates personal context to automate tasks. The founders, who previously built robots at Matic, quit their…
AI video firm Runway announced Project Luxo on Tuesday, a research initiative debuting three short films produced by a single staff member for roughly $4,000 each, aiming to demonstrate that AI-generated media can achiev…
The rise of agentic AI software that searches, selects and initiates purchases on behalf of consumers is increasing the operational cost of rejecting legitimate payments, according to PYMNTS. Faster AI-led purchasing pla…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reported experiencing a hallucination in which he perceived a "ghost in the machine" after listening to Pope Francis speak about artificial intelligence. The incident highlights the psycho…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reported experiencing a hallucination in which he perceived a "ghost in the machine" after listening to Pope Francis speak about artificial intelligence. The incident highlights the growin…
A developer refactored core execution modules in `core/tools/buildinpublic.py` and `phases/phase4content.py`, replacing sequential log parsing with an asynchronous event-stream filter to reduce memory overhead during hig…
An analysis by Linch Zhang, posted on the forum LessWrong, found that portions of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were between 40 percent and 100 percent likely written by AI, according to the AI detector…
Korean stocks opened at a record high Wednesday, with the KOSPI surging 4.63 percent to 8,420.27, driven by a tech rally and renewed Middle East tensions. The index surpassed the 8,000-point threshold for the first time …
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a public map tracking data center development across the United States, documenting 33 operational sites, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed facilities. The map, which …
Anthropic reported that incorporating a tool allowing its AI model Claude to pause and recall its ethical commitments reduced misaligned behavior on internal evaluations, though researchers cannot determine whether the i…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which processes 15 trillion to…
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, the app users instal…
President Trump appointed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to a White House artificial intelligence advisory panel, according to a report that could not be verified through public records or official announcemen…
Tamarillo AI released theta, a Rust command-line tool that functions as a package manager for agent configuration files across multiple AI coding assistants. The tool reads a `theta.toml` manifest and can resolve, lock, …
Qualcomm shares rose after the chipmaker reached a deal to supply TikTok parent ByteDance with custom AI chips for data centers, marking the company's first major customer win in its push beyond smartphone processors. By…