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AI and the pontificating Pontiff (1/2) - what humanity - and our political and techno masters - must learn about morality

Pope Leo XIV - the American Pope - staged a dramatic, if lengthy and at times dense, intervention in the debate around AI ethics and morality yesterday with the publication of Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), a 42,000 words encyclical to Catholic bishops that also took some hefty pot shots

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Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run”

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, and says GPT-5.5 is the leader at 70%

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Stop Calling It an AI Assistant. It’s Already Managing Your Company

The next enterprise AI risk is not that a chatbot writes a bad email. It is that an AI agent quietly enters the operational layer of the company and starts ranking priorities, routing approvals, classifying risk, delaying purchases, escalating tickets, flagging customers, and shaping managerial decisions before anyone calls it

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Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and the $299 a01 display glasses with micro OLED displays, 50° FOV, and 62g weight, set for July release in the US

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.

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10 products that launched at Microsoft Build — and what happened to them

Microsoft Build has been running annually since 2011, and in that time it has grown into the most consequential event in the Microsoft developer calendar. Across 15 editions, it has served as the venue where the company signals what it wants developers to build on next, sometimes through finished products