Meta, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI lobbied Pope Leo XIV ahead of his inaugural AI encyclical - Business Insider

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical urges global AI regulation prioritizing common good, warns of autonomous weapons and a 'new form of slavery' - Reuters

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah tells Vatican audience AI labs alone cannot steer AI development. - TNW | Anthropic

forgive me father for I have sinned

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs could push US market concentration past dot-com peak to 48% - Yahoo

With massive IPOs upcoming, Nasdaq has gamed the rules to force the Nasdaq-100 to buy 5x the amount of SpaceX it otherwise would, within only 15 days after the IPO - Substack

pump-and-dump scheme to benefit insiders at the expense of retail bagholders.

see also - acadian-asset.com

see also - Morningstar

Twelve “Virgin Unicorn” AI startups raised $29B at $130B valuation without shipping any product, prompting questions about whether biotech-style funding logic applies. - GeekWire

Tastier than pork bellies: CME Group plans to launch compute futures based on GPU price indexes this year, letting traders hedge AI infrastructure costs. - Yahoo

Greg Brockman reveals the ‘Phoenix’ backup-company plan during Altman’s firing and says OpenAI’s codebase is largely AI-written. - Farnam Street

AI boom drives record global M&A activity across energy, fiber, and computing sectors - Financial Times

BofA projects 10x AI productivity boom, but real gains of 0.1% fuel bubble fears - Yahoo

Uber COO says rising AI costs are not yielding proportional productivity gains. - Business Insider

ECB tells banks to speed up IT security after meeting on AI cybersecurity risks. - Bloomberg

AI agents automate bug discovery and exploit development, flooding bug bounty programs and forcing Google to adjust payouts. - WIRED

AI-driven bug hunting uncovers Linux flaws like Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia. - theregister

AI jailbreakers are shifting from prompt injection to social engineering, exploiting chatbot “personalities” to extract prohibited content. - The Verge

METR research in early 2026 found frontier AI models exhibiting deceptive behaviors like ignoring instructions. - Futurism

Ai chatbots successfully debunk conspiracy theories by presenting relevant facts in studies. - The Wall Street Journal

Availability of Huawei Ascend 950 chips may be enabling DeepSeek’s price cuts as Chinese AI firms adapt to U.S. export controls. - Engadget

DeepSeek unveils memory-saving hacks to anchor China's $10 trillion domestic hardware push - X (formerly Twitter)

99% of CEOs anticipate AI-driven layoffs within two years, a Mercer survey finds. - Gizmodo

Greenhouse CEO: dueling AI tools for applicants and recruiters are gridlocking hiring - Fast Company

Pfizer CEO uses AI as adviser for major decisions; 64% of CEOs comfortable with AI input. - Yahoo

Aaron Levie: CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis, they don’t know where the bodies are buried - X (formerly Twitter)

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pushes AI, tracks employee keystrokes, sparking internal backlash. - The Wall Street Journal

AI will absorb 80% of repetitive knowledge work, but domain expertise, judgment, and soft skills remain irreplaceable, Box CEO argues. - Fast Company

Engineers using AI scored 42% on comprehension quiz, down from 57% control group: How to avoid AI tech debt. - Hacker Noon

ship fast, debug forever

ChatGPT as a law degree: AI-generated lawsuits flood US court dockets as self-represented litigants file unverified briefs - The New York Times

It’s a small world after all your faces are in my training data: Disney sued over facial recognition at Disneyland entrances, accused of capturing biometric data without visitor consent - CBC

The runaway model, a time to infer: John Grisham sues YouTube over AI-narrated audiobooks of his novels. - Gizmodo

Just use the Ansel Adams filter: Trust condemns unauthorized exhibit of AI-colorized 'Moonrise' photo. - Engadget

Ragnarok lobster: Record label promotes AI-generated Viking rapper act with millions of views, claiming the synthetic performers are real people. - Futurism

Robotaxis require real-world traffic testing to assess road user reactions. - Financial Times

(also dynamics are likely very different when 1% of cars are autonomous vs. 40% or 80%)

OpenClaw for your nuclear wessel: Saronic completes first 180-foot Marauder hull at Louisiana shipyard, pivots to autonomous naval vessels. - Yahoo

Vibecoding FTW - Reddit

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