Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker

Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah has been invited as a guest speaker.<br /> The article Pope Leo XIV pre [...]

Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate

Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the [...]

At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was invited to speak at the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" and used the stage to claim AI models show evidence of intros [...]

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving [...]

Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 review: Incrementally better than its predecessor...again

We called 2023’s Galaxy Watch 6 a “modest upgrade” from the Galaxy Watch 5, which itself also got described as “very similar” to its predecessor, the Watch 4. So it’s perhaps not surprisin [...]

Delta picks Amazon Leo for in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2028

In-flight Wi-Fi on Delta flights will be provided by Amazon Leo beginning in 2028, the two companies have announced. In a blow to Elon Musk’s Starlink, Amazon’s deal with Delta will see its satell [...]

Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology

The 24 hours since Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, have produced something unusual: a papal document being read in earnest by financial and policy capitals as a piece [...]

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of nation [...]

How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]