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How Pope Leo's Encyclical Rejects Trump's AI Strategy

Over the past year, Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump have clashed several times in the press, including on the Iran War, nuclear weapons, and immigration. On Monday, Leo potentially opened a new front: AI.

Your Agent Dashboard is Green. The Run Underneath It is Where the Work Actually Broke.

A Cursor agent deleted a software company’s production database and its volume-level backups in nine seconds.

Executive Briefing: Your AI vendor contract isn't built for a capacity crunch. 3 prompts to fix it before your budget meeting

Microsoft plans to spend roughly $190 billion this year and still expects to run short on capacity. And Microsoft is not alone: across the four biggest hyperscalers, combined 2026 capital spending is on track to approach $700 billion, nearly double what they spent in 2025.

AI Made Your App Teams 10x Faster. Nobody Gave Your Platform Team 10x the Headcount.

Nobody meant to break anything. A user asked for something routine, an agent found a path through the system, and a Kafka cluster went down. That’s the part that doesn’t show up in productivity dashboards.

One person's best AI session vanishes the second they close the tab. Grab the 3 prompts that make it your team's.

5,938 Shopify employees worked alongside the same AI agent in a single month, all of it in public. When those numbers surfaced this spring, everyone fixated on the scale. The scale is not the interesting part.

YouTube is putting AI labels where you'll actually see them

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Google's CEO had notes when shown 'opinionated' AI Search results

When asked whether he thought a specific Search experience was good, Sundar Pichai said it was "probably more opinionated than it should be."

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

Robinhood will let users create a separate account with pre-loaded balance that an agent use to trade

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis," Box CEO Aaron Levie opines. Maybe that explains the almost religious belief in AI productivity gains.

Biohub builds AI atlas of proteins

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's nonprofit pushes deeper into AI biology.

The Pope Isn’t AGI-Pilled

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The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

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