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AI and its implications on society are top of mind for a lot of people, including Pope Leo XIV.The first-ever American pope addressed AI leaders in an X post on Friday, about a week after he wrote a message to those attending the Builders AI Forum 2025. The forum is dedicated to fostering a community that supports the development of AI products aligned with the Catholic Church’s mission.”Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity,” Pope Leo XIV…
A rough week for tech stocks might signal a loss of investor confidence in artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 3% — making this its worst week since President Donald Trump announced his sweeping tariff plan in April. Tech companies that have otherwise performed well this year were among those hardest hit, with Palantir’s stock price falling 11% this week, Oracle declining by 9%, and Nvidia losing 7%. These drops also come after earnings reports in which Meta and Microsoft indicated that they plan to continue spending heavily on AI (both companies…
If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.” That terse message — placed right below a note that “animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety” — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI. And just in case the disclaimer wasn’t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for “Breaking Bad”) was even more emphatic in a Variety feature story…
It’s like F1 but on water.Seventy-five years ago, race drivers ripped across the asphalt in Formula 1’s first Grand Prix, marking the beginning of a lavish global competition.Now, a Rolodex of celebrities and renowned athletes is helping usher in a new version, this time featuring eco-conscious electric speed boats.It’s called E1.If you happened to be in Jeddah in January or Lagos last month, you may have seen the brightly colored boats — called RaceBirds — slicing through open water at almost 60 mph.”When you step in these boats, you feel like you’re in a spaceship,” Dani Clos, a pilot for…
A recent letter from OpenAI reveals more details about how the company is hoping the federal government can support the company’s ambitious plans for data center construction. The letter — from OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane and addressed to the White House’s director of science and technology policy Michael Kratsios — argued that the government should consider expanding the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (AMIC) beyond semiconductor fabrication to cover electrical grid components, AI servers, and AI data centers. The AMIC is a 35% tax credit that was included in the Biden administration’s Chips Act. “Broadening coverage of the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guy Diedrich, Cisco’s global innovation officer, based in Austin. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I began my career as a programmer. I started my own software company right out of college, did a master’s and Ph.D., and then came back and joined academia.During my time in academia, we began to see a decline in the humanities. Students wanted to take engineering, the sciences, or anything STEM. I found that a bit alarming. I left academia in 2014, but there’s been a 24% drop in interest in the humanities…
What’s the future of the internet going to look like?Alexis Ohanian, one of the cofounders of Reddit, thinks there’s an opportunity for a new generation of apps to shake up how we’re connecting online.”The most potent form of social today is basically in group chats, which is obviously not new technology, but what it’s highlighting is the fact that that’s a trusted group of people who you actually know, who are verifiably human,” Ohanian told Business Insider in a recent interview. “This next wave of apps — Airbuds is a great example — is going to be about that.”Airbuds, a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This school year, students in elementary, middle and high schools in some states will get a new lesson on safety: what to do if they find a firearm.Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah are the first states to enact laws that require public schools to teach children as young as 5 the basics of gun safety and how to properly store guns in the home. Only Utah’s law allows students to opt out of the lesson if requested by parents or guardians.A similar law in Arizona was vetoed by the Democratic governor, and lawmakers in at least five…
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Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care. In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours. In the chat logs — which were viewed by TechCrunch — Shamblin explicitly stated multiple times that he had written suicide notes, put a bullet in his gun, and intended to…