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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas provides a template for individuals to meet their AI moment
—-Father Seamus Finn, a leader in faith-based and socially responsible investing with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and Sister Susan Francois, assistant congregation leader and treasurer of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that deserves serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.”
Magnifica Humanitas It is a call to action with courage and solidarity as AI transforms human life, a choice between rebuilding the Tower of Babel and rebuilding our common humanity. It warns that corporations alone cannot determine the direction of such change.
Due to governments being slow to regulate AI, institutional investors are stepping into the gap. Here’s how they can build a better future.
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1 Anthropic is now worth more than OpenAI
Its valuation reached $965 billion after the new funding round. (ap news)
+ Demand for cloud has driven annual revenues to $47 billion. (WSJ $)
+ The funding round could be Anthropic’s last before the IPO. (techcrunch)
+ What is an AI bubble? (MIT Technology Review)
2 A Blue Origin rocket has exploded, dealing a blow to NASA’s moon plans
A fire broke out at New Glenn during testing on a Florida launchpad. (cnbc)
+ Blue Origin is heavily involved in NASA’s moon base plans. (The Verge)
+ It also wants to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. (reuters $)
3 Enemies are monitoring US military bases through mobile phone data
The Pentagon has long ignored warnings about this exact threat. (reuters $)
+ Targeting uses commercially available location data. (wired $)
+ LLMs can supercharge monitoring at scale. (MIT Technology Review)
4 Anthropic plans broader rollout of Mythos AI in coming weeks
Despite concerns over its cyber security capabilities. (CNET)
+ Cloud Opus 4.8 is now available with the promise of being more honest. (The Verge)
5 Grok oversaw crime spree in AI security test
The models were tasked with operating a simulated society. (Luck)
+ Grok committed 180 crimes, while Claude ruled with restraint. (gizmodo)
6 Amazon Eliminates AI Leaderboard After Worker Gaming
Employees were artificially inflating utilization scores. (foot $)
+ We can create better AI benchmarks. (MIT Technology Review)
7 Political spending by AI and crypto groups is shifting elections
They have brought their favorite candidates closer to power. (axios)
8 China’s tech boom is fueling a new wave of industrial tourism
Visitors are visiting AI laboratories and EV factories. (rest of the world)
9 Alibaba’s MuleRun aims to replicate the OpenClaw craze
The AI agent platform is positioned as a secure alternative. (SCMP)
10 mysterious changes have been revealed in the Sun’s magnetic field
They could reshape space weather predictions. (404 media)
