Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks on an artificial intelligence panel during Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on in San Francisco, Sept. 4, 2025. Chance Yeh | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Hello, this is Katie Foley writing to you from London. Welcome to today’s edition of the Daily Open …
<!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp rhetorical attack against Pope Leo XIV and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson following their recent meeting in Rome, suggesting that Vatican officials should have cautioned the pontiff against hosting the Democratic leader, whom he labelled as …
U.S. President Donald Trump (C-L) speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Hello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from London. Welcome to today’s edition of the Daily Open newsletter. In some ways, we end the …
The Catholic Church has survived over two millennia of collapsing empires, plagues, schisms, and televangelists, so it probably says something about the current state of technology that Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the defining subject of his first encyclical, the formal papal teaching document intended to shape long-term Catholic doctrine. Released this month …
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened a new front Tuesday in the Trump administration’s public feud with the Vatican, dismissing Pope Leo XIV’s warning about artificial intelligence as the White House resists new guardrails on the rapidly evolving technology. “I didn’t know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being pope,” Burgum said in …
Pope Leo XIV has invoked one of the Bible’s most famous stories, the Tower of Babel, while warning about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. In recent remarks about AI ethics and global technological power, the pontiff compared the modern AI race to the ancient biblical tale of humanity attempting to build a tower reaching …
Pope Leo XIV on Monday issued the strongest acknowledgement yet from the Catholic Church over the Vatican’s historic role in legitimising slavery. He apologised for centuries of silence and church-backed systems that allowed the enslavement of non-Christians during the colonial era. In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), the first US-born pope described the …
Pope Leo XIV on Monday presented his vision for preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence by issuing his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” or “Magnificent Humanity.”The document, presented at the Vatican alongside Christopher Olah, a founder of Anthropic, highlights how the Catholic Church continues to use one of its oldest forms of communication …
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter “Magnifica Humanitas” focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images) Alberto Pizzoli | Afp | Getty Images Pope Leo urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development …
While exploring the White Mountains, or Lefka Ori, in the western part of the Greek island of Crete, researchers came across a striking moth that looked distinctive enough to warrant closer study. The species was later described as Pyralis papaleonei, named after Pope Leo XIV. The naming choice was intended to carry both scientific and …