The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.
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The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
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PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a box on the roof of the tractor, a camera looking at the field, an AI deciding which […]This story continues at The Next Web
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India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million
IBM India’s Sandip Patel says the country can become the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic of getting there is harder than the headline number suggests. ndia has roughly six hundred million workers, and on a recent Bengaluru morning, the head of IBM’s India business put a number on how many of them […]This story continues at The Next Web
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Eurostat published last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their business, up from 13.5 per cent the year before. A jump of six and a half […]This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: into the kind of non-technical roles that, in earlier waves of enterprise software, would have waited years […]This story continues at The Next Web
From the Vatican stage, Anthropic’s Chris Olah says AI cannot be steered by AI labs alone
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head of its interpretability research, used his seat at the Vatican on Monday to make an argument that no leader of […]This story continues at The Next Web
Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in Rome on Monday, to call for the disarmament of artificial intelligence. The 245-paragraph document, titled Magnifica humanitas, frames AI […]This story continues at The Next Web
Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history
The 71,000-square-metre Hagastaden campus, signed with Atrium Ljungberg and Castellum, ends more than two decades in the suburb once branded Sweden’s Silicon Valley. Ericsson is moving its global headquarters out of Kista. The Swedish telecoms-equipment maker said on Monday that, starting in 2028, it will gradually relocate its Stockholm operations, including the HQ, R&D functions, […]This story continues at The Next Web
UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds
GlobalData’s count puts the country well clear of the rest of Europe and inside the global top five, but more than 40% of the total came from just three companies: Nscale, Wayve, and Ineffable Intelligence. UK-domiciled companies raised $10.5bn of venture capital between January and April 2026, roughly double the figure for the same period […]This story continues at The Next Web
Blue Origin commits another $600m to its Florida campus
Project Horizon adds an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage factory at Cape Canaveral, weeks before SpaceX’s record IPO and a month after the April New Glenn payload mishap. Blue Origin will spend $600m on a new upper-stage manufacturing facility at its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced on Friday. The building, branded Project […]This story continues at The Next Web
Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre business to outgrow the rest of the company
On a base of 1.5 gigawatts of installed capacity and a national plan to reach six to eight, the French infrastructure group sees its India unit becoming its single biggest business within five years. Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre business to grow faster than the rest of the company, and faster than the core […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk plans a lawsuit against a US representative who called him ‘Nazi’
Elon Musk has announced his intention to file a lawsuit against former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who called him a “thief” and a “Nazi” during a live TV appearance on CNN. Elon Musk leaves from the ...
'Squad' Dem Ayanna Pressley trashes Elon Musk, calling him a 'Nazi nepo baby'
Rep. Ayanna Pressley trashed business tycoon Elon Musk, calling him a "Nazi nepo baby," and a "godless, lawless billionaire." ...
NAACP sues Elon Musk's xAI, says data center's gas turbines put communities at risk
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Elon Musk, Ashley St. Clair and what her tell-all posts really mean
Ashley St. Clair is sharing intimate details of her relationship with Elon Musk on TikTok. Here's what it really means.
‘He Knows the Flaws Because He Knows the Man’: Why Elon Musk’s OpenAI Attack Is Really About xAI
Rashaad Bilal of Earn Your Leisure distilled the Musk-versus-Altman saga down to one sharp line: “He knows the flaws because he knows the man.” That framing reorients how investors should read every ...
Trump, Musk go viral with 'Trump dance' to YMCA at New Year's party
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk were seen in a viral video doing the signature Trump dance to "YMCA" as they celebrated bringing in 2025.