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Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich launched an interactive map tracking AI data centers across the United States, distinguishing between operational, under construction, proposed, and community-reported sites. The in…
Pope Leo XIV released a 44,000-word encyclical on Monday titled *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling for a global ban on autonomous weapons and stricter regulation of AI to prevent the concentration of power among private tech…
Cloud architect Corey Quinn praised Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Pope Francis's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling it the most effective vendor lobbying effort he has ever witnessed. The pa…
Pope Leo warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence risks concentrating excessive power in the hands of Big Tech companies and their leaders. The pontiff’s statement comes amid growing global debate over …
After 2,190 production runs across 32 scrapers, a developer found that conditional GET requests and rate limiting — not robots.txt compliance — are the key to ethical web scraping that avoids server strain and bans. The …
A developer with 30 years of experience building production Web3 infrastructure and leading engineering teams warns that AI agents now screening job applications are likely to miss unconventional candidates entirely. The…
A series of AI-generated online news outlets posing as local mastheads in regional Western Australia could be the first recorded example of "pink-slime" journalism in Australia. The sites, which appeared in February and …
Software developer Armin Ronacher proposed the term "clanker" as a replacement for "agent" when referring to AI-powered tools, arguing that the word "agent" falsely implies responsibility and agency in machines. Ronacher…
Despite headlines attributing mass layoffs to AI, data shows only 5% of 2025 layoffs were AI-driven, totaling 54,836 jobs. Companies like Block, Klarna, and IBM used AI as a cover story to justify cuts from pandemic over…
All four frontier AI models — GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — scored as securely attached on the ECR-R attachment test across 397 of 400 administrations. Gemini registered as the deepest secure with the lowest anxiety an…
Leaders face rising urgency without corresponding progress due to unclear ownership, AI-driven noise, and delivery friction, according to the Phroneses newsletter. The solution lies in treating leadership as a system wit…
A new analysis applies Guy Debord's 1967 concept of the spectacle to today's AI-driven media landscape, arguing that artificial intelligence has become the latest apparatus mediating human relations and representation, w…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, on Thursday, addressing the ethical integration of artificial intelligence into modern society. The document, titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, addressing artificial intelligence and calling for global moral engagement with the technology. The document warns against using AI to exploit and dehuma…
Pope Leo XIV will release his new encyclical on artificial intelligence Monday at an event featuring Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, signaling deepening ties between the Vatican and major AI companies. The collaboration…
Sam Conman, founder and CEO of conman.ai, admitted during an interview that his company sells one dollar for 90 cents and relies on venture capital funding and inflated stock narratives rather than profit. Conman explain…
The Dillo web browser project is exploring the use of asciinema terminal recordings as a proof-of-human contribution to verify that patches are written by a person, not an AI. Developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes that …
Six frontier AI models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, Grok and MiniMax — each took the Open Extended Jungian Type Scales personality test 100 times, and 597 out of 600 total runs returned the INTJ personality type. The thre…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence*, on Monday, warning that humanity faces a pivotal choice between building a new T…
Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and urged developers to prioritize the common good over profit, issuing his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," as a sweeping manifesto on …