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The internet is joking that Anthropic hired Pope Leo XIV after the Vatican invited Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah to help unveil the Pope's letter on AI and the Pope publicly thanked him. The memes are not true, but the…
Norway's National Library is using 2 petabytes of Huawei OceanStor Dorado flash storage to develop a large language model (LLM) trained specifically on Norwegian language and cultural data, as no commercial LLM provider …
Microsoft executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi, after 35 years at the company, is doubling down on pushing artificial intelligence deeper into Windows 11 during his final months, pled…
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah addressed the Vatican on Monday, May 25, 2026, during the presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" on artificial intelligence. Olah stated that AI labs operate under…
Pope Leo issued the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence must be "disarmed" and condemning the risk of "new digital slaveries" that could normalize exploitation. The encyclica…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," released Monday, addresses AI-related monopolies, employment concerns, and ethics across 245 paragraphs. Tech investor and former White House AI czar David Sacks, A…
On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published "Magnifica Humanitas," a 235-page encyclical addressing AI's impact on human dignity, labor, warfare, and concentrated power, co-presented with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Ola…
Researchers bypassed safety guardrails on Meta and Google's AI models within minutes, exposing vulnerabilities that allow the generation of harmful content. The findings raise concerns about the effectiveness of current …
Confluent Cloud introduces new capabilities for building secure, compliant Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures in regulated industries and the public sector, addressing data residency, PII leakage, halluci…
The California State University system has entered a $17 million no-bid contract with OpenAI to become the nation's first AI-powered university system, renewing the deal for an additional $13 million annually. However, a…
Tech layoffs have surpassed 100,000 in 2026, with Meta cutting 8,000 employees and Cloudflare laying off 1,100 workers in its first mass layoff. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated the cuts targeted "measurers" includin…
Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," warning that AI and a "culture of power" threaten human dignity. The document, add…
Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical Monday, calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and denouncing the technology as an "instrument of domination, exclusion and death" when driven by profit and powe…
India's legal framework, built on statutes enacted before the AI era, is struggling to keep pace with technologies that can generate art, clone voices, and create convincing deepfakes. With no dedicated AI or deepfake le…
China has deployed its first official human-robot enforcement team in Shanghai's Pudong district, where drones, humanoid robots, and human officers work together to patrol for permit violations and explain regulations to…
David Ohnstad outlined strategies for product teams to build user trust through transparency, ethical data practices, and privacy protections in AI-driven development. The approach emphasizes clear communication about da…
A new analysis of artificial intelligence's potential trajectories identifies three distinct future scenarios—long timelines, optimistic short timelines, and pessimistic short timelines—each requiring different strategic…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical titled “Magnifica humanitas” on Tuesday, warning that artificial intelligence controlled by a handful of powerful technology companies risks creating “new forms of dehumanization.” The…
A stabbing in San Francisco's Mission District on Sunday afternoon left one person critically injured, with a suspect in custody. The attack occurred near 19th and Mission streets around 3:15 p.m., after the Carnaval par…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, on Monday, using artificial intelligence as a framing device to address what he described as older, more pervasive problems including inequality, war, t…