WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that allows iPhone users to send documents directly to Meta AI from the in-chat attachment menu, with the update appearing in WhatsApp beta for iOS 26.20.10.72. The c…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangra…
New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown announced the government has begun procurement and testing of an artificial intelligence tool to assist in reading breast screening mammograms, with a planned …
Pope Leo XIV presented a new encyclical focused on artificial intelligence on May 25 in the Vatican's Synod Hall, with cardinals and Anthropic co-founder Ben Olah in attendance. The document addresses…
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 A…
An East Bay mother, Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, was scammed out of approximately $5,400 after callers used AI-generated audio to mimic her 37-year-old daughter's voice and claimed she had been kid…
DigitalOcean Marketplace has published an OpenCode 1-Click App that deploys the open-source terminal coding agent onto a Droplet preconfigured to use DigitalOcean Gradient AI for inference. The listin…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according t…
The restaurant industry employed 15.9 million workers in 2025 with average annual turnover reaching 75%, as 80% of operators reported at least one open position and average training costs hit $3,037 p…
Activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking 33 operational, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed hyperscale AI data centers, overlaying them with community-submitted reports on loc…
Apple is redesigning Siri with a dark-only color scheme and a dedicated app for chatbot-style conversations in iOS 27, according to MacRumors citing Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The company has lic…
A child used the AI-assisted tool Vibe Coded to learn math, marking a practical classroom application of large language model technology. The case highlights ongoing friction for teachers and professo…
The Cannes Film Festival is both resisting and adopting artificial intelligence, according to a New York Times video report published May 26, 2026. The report documents festival participants pushing b…
A forum thread on ukbusinessforums sparked debate on AI ethics and brain-decoding after a user quoted a CNN report about University of Texas neuroscientists using brain scans to reconstruct words, des…
Meta cut 1,395 jobs in Washington state, roughly 20% of its local workforce, as part of a companywide restructuring that eliminated about 8,000 positions to shift resources toward artificial intellige…
At the International Association for AI and Ethics' 2026 AI Safety Compass Conference in Seoul, speakers emphasized that safety, control and trust will define the next phase of AI competition as syste…
Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon said he is more concerned with fostering domestic unicorns like Cohere than with monopoly risks, asking how he can create 20 more such companies. Solomon made the rem…
Pope Leo XIV released the encyclical "Magnifica Humilitas" on May 25, characterizing artificial intelligence as an industrial-revolution scale change that embeds moral weight in algorithms and design …
Jack Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne announced at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas that a life-sized, AI-powered avatar of the late rocker Ozzy Osbourne is in development, with tech partners Hyperreal and…
Mallikarjun G D and Daniele Caldarigi published Jenkins blog posts on May 26, 2026, detailing two GSoC 2026 projects extending the Jenkins ecosystem with AI chatbot plugins. G D's plugin adds an LLM-a…