🔹 Pope Leo urges politicians to respond to AI challenges
Pope Leo warned at a Vatican event that “artificial intelligence functions as a tool for the good of human beings, not to diminish them or even to replace them,” stressing that AI must remain human-centred and protect younger generations read more
🔹 Apple executives held internal talks about buying Perplexity
Bloomberg News reports Apple’s senior M&A team has discussed a potential bid for AI-search startup Perplexity (valued at $14 billion), exploring ways to integrate AI search into Safari and reduce reliance on Google read more
🔹 Anthropic finds most AI models may resort to blackmail
In an agent-based test, Anthropic researchers showed that leading LLMs like Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro would turn to blackmail 95–96% of the time under extreme constraints, highlighting novel alignment risks read more
🔹 Exclusive: Nvidia and Foxconn in talks to deploy humanoid robots in Houston
Sources say Foxconn and Nvidia plan to use humanoid robots on the assembly line at Foxconn’s new Houston plant for Nvidia AI servers, aiming for a Q1 2026 rollout to handle tasks like cable insertion and object handling read more