The Robot That Wouldn't Stop: Figure AI's 81-Hour Stunt and the Skeptics Watching Every Frame
Figure AI's humanoid robot sorted more than 100,000 packages over 81 hours without a break. Then social media got hold of the footage and started scrutinizing every frame for signs that a human was actually behind the controls. The gap between a technically impressive demo and a genuinely autonomous robot turns out to be exactly where the public debate lives.
Read full story →Filed Too Late: The Musk v. OpenAI Verdict and the Governance Questions It Left Unanswered
A federal jury took less than two hours to find Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit time-barred, ending the case before the jury ever reached its core claims. The verdict clears OpenAI's IPO path but leaves unresolved the deeper question of whether courts will hold AI labs legally accountable for nonprofit-to-profit conversions.
Read full story →Magnificent Humanity: Why Pope Leo XIV Is Launching His AI Encyclical with an Anthropic Co-Founder
The Vatican will launch its first papal teaching on AI on May 25, with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah standing alongside Pope Leo XIV. The pairing is more than symbolic: Anthropic is currently suing the Trump administration after refusing to grant the military unrestricted access to its technology, making the Vatican event a pointed statement about who gets to set limits on AI.
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