Pope Leo Issues First Major Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence
The paper missed a five-day-old Anthropic post on wisdom traditions — the lab-silence frame was wrong before Magnifica Humanitas had even left the press kit.
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Anthropic Buys Stainless; Microsoft's New Agent Beats OpenAI's Operator
Anthropic's $300M Stainless deal gives it control of SDK plumbing that OpenAI and Google depend on; Microsoft's Fara 1.5 beat Operator on Online-Mind2Web.
OpenAI's Erdős Proof Wins Mathematician's Verification, Annals Recommendation
Five days on, the OpenAI unit-distance result has cleared Thomas Bloom independently and Tim Gowers has said he would have recommended it to the Annals of Mathematics without hesitation.
Pope Leo Releases First A.I. Encyclical Monday From Vatican Synod Hall
The encyclical drops Monday 11:30 a.m. Rome — five hours after we go to press; whether the text names Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, or Meta is Monday's first watch item.
N.I.H. Grant Approvals Stay Below 50 Percent With R01 Deadline June 5
Six consecutive Sundays under 50 percent on the AAU tracker, $47.22 billion still not moving, and the June 5 R01 deadline lands inside a capacity gap the institutes have not closed.