Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical argues artificial intelligence must serve all of humanity rather than concentrate power and wealth in a few hands, and calls for robust regulation — warning that some autonomous weapons have already slipped beyond meaningful human control.
An Epoch AI breakdown finds memory now accounts for nearly two-thirds of an AI accelerator's component cost, overtaking logic — driven by the enormous HBM demands of training and inference.
Tyler Cowen unpacks Bezos's claim that the US has the world's most progressive tax system, arguing that the economists rushing to dunk on him end up conceding his underlying point about who actually pays.
A new arXiv paper shows LLM coding agents reliably degrade on back-end generation as task constraints accumulate, quietly dropping requirements as context grows — a structural fragility rather than a prompting problem.