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

The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding
The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding

The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months…

McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches
McKinsey built a free AI tool so candidates stop paying $500/hour interview coaches

McKinsey launched a free AI practice tool in April that gives candidates unlimited attempts at the quantitative case study they will face in their interview. The tool is available globally to applicants for entry-level business analyst and associate ro…

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here
The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature flags and references to an unreleased model codenamed…

The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.
The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.

The US government has a problem it cannot publicly resolve. The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat. The NSA is using Anthropic’s AI anyway because there is no alternative. White House chief of staff…

The Apple Watch is 11 years old and losing momentum. Screenless rivals are winning the next phase.
The Apple Watch is 11 years old and losing momentum. Screenless rivals are winning the next phase.

The Apple Watch generated an estimated $100 billion in lifetime sales and transformed the smartwatch market. Eleven years after launch, innovation has slowed and the lineup is losing momentum. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple risks falling be…

Ubisoft reportedly testing generative AI in Far Cry 7, insider says it ‘looks like sh*t’ — company recently posted a record €1.3 billion loss

Ubisoft is using an early build of its unannounced Far Cry 7 as a testbed for generative AI tools, according to Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming.

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have

Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The …

AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.
AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.

In 1985, the best computer a reasonably affluent American could buy was the IBM PC AT, which cost $19,400 in today’s money. Today, a Tecno Spark Go costs $30 in a Nairobi market stall and runs a processor billions of times faster. No other good in hist…

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro model. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire on 31 May. The Chinese AI startup’s pricing now ranges from $0.003625 to $0.87 per million tokens, down from $0.0145 to $3…