Pope Leo XIV has issued a sweeping first major teaching document of his papacy, an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), calling for urgent global restraint in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence. Framing AI as one of the defining moral challenges of the modern era, he warned that without stronger oversight, humanity risks deepening inequality, accelerating conflict, and eroding human dignity at scale. At the core of his message

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a major confrontation between the United States government and one of the world’s leading AI companies. Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, is now locked in a legal and political battle with the Pentagon after the Department of Defense labeled the company a “supply chain risk.” The conflict has brought renewed attention to how artificial intelligence should be used in warfare, surveillance, and national securi

Nvidia is signaling it may be done writing ever-larger equity checks to the AI startups it supplies, even as it remains the primary company selling the chips that make their ambitions possible. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco on March 4, CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both companies, arguing that once they go public, the window for private investing

OpenAI is attempting to steady itself after a swiftly arranged deal with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) sparked intense public backlash, internal dissent, and renewed debate over artificial intelligence in military operations. The controversy began when OpenAI stepped in to secure a Pentagon contract almost immediately after its rival, Anthropic, was dropped. Anthropic had refused to loosen safeguards preventing its AI model, Claude, from being used for mass domestic survei

The U.S. Army is advancing its defense technology by deploying AI-powered "robot dogs" armed with high-powered rifles, which could...