Monday, 25 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Monday, 25 May 2026.
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Pope XIV announces partnership with Anthropic to address the ethical and moral implications of advanced AI · Digg
The Pope formally accepted Anthropic's invitation to collaborate
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Read moreSakana AI urges Japan to combine foreign frontier models with domestic tech to protect national data sovereignty · Digg
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hosted the deep-tech strategy roundtable.
Read moreY Combinator's Paul Graham warns that AI-generated emails from startup founders lose all impact once detected · Digg
Graham noted a telltale journalistic tone exposes these drafts
Read moreTanishq Mathew Abraham, SophontAI founder, explains how his Ph.D. in deep learning-based virtual staining supports his medical AI workflow · Digg
He completed his UC Davis Ph.D. at age 19.
Read moreAndy Masley finds ChatGPT's water usage is 50 to 250 times lower than the viral 'bottle of water' claim · Digg
Simon Willison urges OpenAI to release retired GPT-4 specs.
Read moreLeonardo.AI co-founder Ethan Smith warns that 10x training speedup claims in recent diffusion papers may rely on flawed metrics · Digg
Prior studies confirm similar speedup overestimations in Transformer pre-training
Read moreGitHub - manaflow-ai/cmux: Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents
Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents - manaflow-ai/cmux
Read moreEveryone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google
We're in the transition period -- all of us.
Read moreI tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
Read moreGoogle DeepMind's LLM-Lean agent loop resolves 9 open Erdős math problems and proves 44 OEIS conjectures · Digg
Each proof cost a few hundred dollars to generate
Read moreIndustry
Google's take on openclaw
it's Anthropic's time for the mandate of heaven
Read moreCan I get my agents on the phone?
I haven’t used OpenClaw in weeks
Read moreResearch & Products
Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
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