The Pope Wrote an AI Encyclical, and Anthropic Sat in the Front Row
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical takes on AI and labour, and frames algorithmic displacement as the central moral question of the era. The Vatican picked Anthropic, not OpenAI or Google, as the lab whose vocabulary shaped the text. The choice is the story.
Read full story →Bob, Frank and Gary: 24 Hours Inside a Livestreamed Robot Demo, and the Demo It Did Not Show
Figure AI's three humanoid robots sorted 28,000 packages over a full day without intervention, and viewers named them. A simultaneous Daily Kos essay drawing on the Asian Leadership Conference explains why the household version of this is still 20 to 30 years away.
Read full story →The IMF Puts a Number on It: 40 Percent of Irish Jobs, 15 Percent of Singaporeans Feeling Safe
An IMF Article IV warning, a Robert Walters survey from Singapore, and a candid RTE analysis from Dublin converge in the same week. The official "AI will create more jobs than it destroys" line is still alive, but the data and the rhetoric are no longer giving anyone permission to wait and see.
Read full story →Four Arms, No Legs: A Zurich Startup Quietly Argues the Humanoid Robot Is the Wrong Shape
Orbit Robotics built Helios for space stations, where legs are useless and astronaut time costs $140,000 an hour. The four-armed, tendon-driven design is also a quiet critique of every Earthbound humanoid programme that started from the form rather than the environment.
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