Pope Leo Tells AI Labs to Disarm With Anthropic's Olah Beside Him
Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas Monday and used 'disarmed' for AI from the Synod Hall with Anthropic's Chris Olah on the dais.
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Olah Admits Frontier AI Labs' Incentives Conflict With Doing the Right Thing
Anthropic's Chris Olah told the Vatican every frontier AI lab — including his own — operates inside incentives that 'can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing.'
Anthropic Buys Stainless and Microsoft Ships Fara1.5 to Squeeze OpenAI Operator
Anthropic closed a $300M Stainless deal May 18, taking an SDK toolchain layer from OpenAIs reach, while Microsofts May 21 Fara1.5 benchmarks above OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use.
OpenAI Erdős Proof Earns Bloom Verification and Nine Mathematician Endorsement
An internal OpenAI reasoning model disproved Erdős's 1946 planar unit distance conjecture, with a companion paper co-authored by Alon, Bloom, Gowers, Litt, Sawin, and four others.
NIH Grant Obligation Rate Stays Below Half as DOGE Terminations Continue
NIH obligated $5.8 billion of FY26 extramural funding through March 20 — 15% of the $38 billion target — as DOGE separately terminated 600-plus grants worth roughly $7 billion.