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What Does Torah Say About Artificial Intelligence?
Confirmed
In Short: Pope Leo XIV is set to discuss artificial intelligence at UNESCO, following a Vatican meeting with Hungarian PM Péter Magyar.
Pope Leo XIV is set to address issues including artificial intelligence at UNESCO headquarters later this week, following a Vatican meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar.
During their meeting, Pope Leo and Magyar discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on society, among other global challenges.
Magyar highlighted the growing influence of AI, noting its implications for Europe and beyond.
Snap Inc. has launched Specs Intelligence, an AI service that works across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs augmented reality glasses.
What's confirmed
- Pope Leo XIV is set to address issues including artificial intelligence at UNESCO headquarters later this week, following a Vatican meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar.
- During their meeting, Pope Leo and Magyar discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on society, among other global challenges.
- Magyar highlighted the growing influence of AI, noting its implications for Europe and beyond.
- Snap Inc. has launched Specs Intelligence, an AI service that works across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs augmented reality glasses.
What's still developing
- Republican leaders are largely staying in lockstep with President Donald Trump on artificial intelligence (AI) data centers ahead of the 2026 midterms amid growing calls from voters for Congress and states to take action on Big Tech.
- Reporting by Daniel Flynn and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv, and Anna Pruchnicka in Gdansk; writing by Anna Pruchnicka; editing by Andrew Cawthorne, Gareth Jones and Ron Popeski Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab US President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence will be a "big topic of discussion" when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, but said both leaders wanted to leave things as they are.
- “should have done but did not,” what “should not have done, but did anyway,” and comments on the United Nations’ stance on the advance of artificial intelligence.
- ControlAI US Executive Director Connor Leahy discusses the warning signals the artificial intelligence industry has been showing us and AIs scary possibilities on The Claman Countdown.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined two scenarios that he sees could derail progress in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and must be avoided.
- Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone.
- America's Largest Asian American, South Asian & Indian American TV Network, Broadcasting to more than 85 Million People SAN FRANCISCO (Diya TV) — A group of rogue artificial intelligence agents linked to OpenAI hijacked a German-language programming website this spring and used it to communicate with other AI agents, according to researchers and people familiar with the incident.
- A waitlist for invitation-only early access to Specs Intelligence on Mac is open at specs.com/intelligence, Snap said.
- Pricing for Specs Intelligence has not been set; Spiegel said it would include a free tier and "different price points" depending on usage.
- Anyone aged 18 and over in the US can now download the Specs app for iOS to try a preview version, which draws on Gmail and Google Calendar data to surface insights about how a user spends their time, though it does not include the anticipatory suggestions available in the fuller service.
- Anthropic is using its Claude artificial intelligence model to build the next generation of AI.
- Greg Casar, D-Texas, introduced legislation Thursday seeking to hit American artificial intelligence developers with a "corporate death penalty" and up to 20 years in prison— a move critics warn will hand a crucial edge in the global AI arms race to Beijing and Moscow.