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Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Calls AI 'Moral Test' of the Age
Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, warning AI risks fueling warfare, inequality, and erosion of human dignity.
xAI Launches Grok Skills: Persistent Expertise Across Every Chat
Grok Skills lets users teach Grok once and have it remembered across every chat, while shipping native document, deck, and spreadsheet generation.
KPMG Deploys Claude to 276,000 Employees in Anthropic Alliance
KPMG embeds Claude into its Digital Gateway and rolls out Anthropic's AI to its entire 276K-person global workforce in a sweeping Big Four alliance.
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Reassigns 7,000 to Four New AI Units
Meta is laying off 10% of staff while moving 7,000 employees into four new AI-native organizations as it ramps capex toward $145B.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Computer-Use Agents Hit General Availability
Microsoft's computer-use agents in Copilot Studio are now GA — enabling agents to click through any UI, no API required, with full Purview audit trails.
Jensen Huang Lands in Taiwan to Lock In Vera Rubin Production
Nvidia's CEO meets TSMC to secure capacity for Vera Rubin, calling it the largest product ramp in Taiwan's history ahead of his Computex keynote.
Gemini Adds Adobe, Canva, CapCut: A Creative Studio in a Chat Window
Google's Gemini app is pulling Adobe Firefly, Canva, and CapCut inside the chat — turning conversational AI into a full creative production hub.
Jack Clark at Oxford: 60% Chance of an Intelligence Explosion by 2028
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's Oxford lecture warns recursive self-improvement is now an official Anthropic forecast, not theory.
Leaked Audio: Meta Trained AI on Employees Before Firing 8,000
A leaked Zuckerberg all-hands clip reveals Meta's MCI program tracked employee Gmail, GChat and VS Code activity to train AI — days before mass layoffs.
UPDATE: OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 With SEC, Eyes $1T IPO
OpenAI submitted its confidential S-1 to the SEC on Friday, kicking off a path toward a September 2026 listing at an $852B-$1T valuation.
Socket Hits $1B Valuation With $60M Series C for AI Code Security
Socket raised $60M Series C at a $1B valuation to protect enterprises from malicious open-source packages flooding in via AI coding tools.
Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash and Spark Agent at I/O 2026
Google's I/O 2026 keynote landed Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.50/$9 per million tokens and Spark, a 24/7 personal agent that runs on Google Cloud VMs.
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Personal AI Hardware
Brett Adcock's stealth AI hardware startup Hark closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all participating.
OpenAI Model Disproves 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture in Geometry
An OpenAI reasoning model produced an original proof disproving Paul Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture, verified by external mathematicians.
OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year-Old Erdős Geometry Conjecture
An OpenAI reasoning model autonomously disproved a 1946 Erdős conjecture, with Fields Medalist Tim Gowers endorsing the proof for publication.
OpenAI Model Disproves 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture in Geometry
An OpenAI reasoning model cracked a planar unit distance conjecture open since 1946 — the first major math problem solved by a general-purpose AI.
SpaceX S-1 Reveals Anthropic Will Pay $1.25B/Month for Colossus
SpaceX's IPO filing disclosed a $45B Anthropic compute deal running through 2029 — the largest single-customer AI infrastructure contract on record.
Trump Delays AI Executive Order on 90-Day Model Disclosure Rule
Trump's planned AI oversight order, requiring labs to share frontier models 90 days early, is delayed as tech CEOs and the White House negotiate.
Trump Pulls AI Executive Order Hours Before Signing Ceremony
Trump scrapped the planned signing of a landmark AI oversight order, saying the draft text could blunt US competitiveness against China.
Trump Postpones AI Executive Order Signing Hours Before Ceremony
Trump shelved a planned AI oversight order on May 21, telling reporters he 'didn't like certain aspects' and worried it would slow US AI leadership.
UPDATE: Gemini Omni Launches at I/O — Now Live for Subscribers
Google officially unveiled Gemini Omni at I/O 2026, fusing Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie into a single video-generation model rolling out today.
Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 Personal AI Agent That Keeps Working After You Log Off
At I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini Spark, an always-on personal agent with Gmail, Workspace, Canva, OpenTable and Instacart integrations.
Google Intelligent Eyewear Arrives: Gemini Glasses Ship This Fall With Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster
Google's new intelligent eyewear, built with Samsung and fashion partners Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, will ship audio glasses this fall.
Google Universal Cart Launches — One Cart Across the Entire Web
Google's new Universal Cart spans Search, Gemini, YouTube and Gmail, tracking prices and stock across Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair, Nike, and Target.