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Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence is unusual in its intense focus on a single new technology. The document draws parallels to previous times of cultural and technological upheaval, all the way back to the Tower of Babel, but consistently conveys the sense that AI is something new — an unprecedented challenge to human dignity and spirituality. Pope Leo frequently returns to the theme of uniformity versus communion, stressing that the quest for uniformity is sterile, mechanistic, and prone to tyrannical abuse, while communion is voluntary and joyous, bringing…

The corruption probe into former Socialist Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appears set to expand as police have seized hundreds of thousands in cash and jewellery, while reports have emerged indicating that authorities believe the alleged influence peddling extended to oil and gold projects in Venezuela. Zapatero, who led the country from 2004 to 2011, embroiled his Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) successor’s government in a scandal earlier this month after being indicted for allegedly running an influence peddling and money laundering scheme surrounding the €53 million ($57.2 million) coronavirus-era bailout of the Plus Ultra airliner, of which €1.95 million…

U.S. businesses expect sales to keep growing briskly over the next year, even as payrolls rise much more slowly, according to new data from the Atlanta Fed. The Atlanta Fed’s Survey of Business Uncertainty showed firms expected sales revenue to rise 5.1 percent over the next 12 months in May, based on the survey’s smoothed index. That was down slightly from April’s 5.3 percent but remained historically strong. The smoothed indexes are designed to filter out month-to-month survey noise, while the unsmoothed figures show the raw monthly readings. Expected employment growth was much lower. Firms said they expected employment to…

Billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer said he fully supports transgender-identifying males playing on females’ high school sports teams — despite concerns over women’s safety and fairness in athletics. Steyer, who is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), made the comment during an interview on the I’ve Had It podcast with far-left host Jennifer Welch, which was released Sunday. “You talked about trans people. I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school,” Steyer said. “I think when you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, and you understand that almost half of…

Five nuclear firms, including one tied to the US energy secretary, have been chosen for a possible fuel production scheme The US Department of Energy has selected a number of private companies as potential recipients of weapons-grade plutonium, including one where Energy Secretary Chris Wright served on the board before joining the admimistration of President Donald Trump.The US government holds roughly 50 metric tons of fissile material recovered from dismantled nuclear weapons at highly secure sites. The Trump administration said last year that it intended to expand the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program by allowing private companies to manufacture energy-dense fuel…

Multiple senior Iranian officials issued statements to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday in which they encouraged other Muslim countries to embrace “unity” with the repressive terror state, a proposition complicated by months of Iran bombing neighboring Muslim states. Muslims around the world are marking Eid al-Adha on Wednesday, the culmination of the hajj. The hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that all Muslims are obligated to make once in their lifetimes if physically able to, which lasts about a week. This year, Saudi officials documented 1.7 million people participating in the hajj, an increase from 2025, despite…

Two of the leading figures in the AI industry, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, have walked back dire predictions about AI eliminating white-collar jobs, acknowledging their earlier forecasts were incorrect as both firms prepare for potential IPOs. Fortune reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have both reversed their previous warnings about artificial intelligence causing widespread job losses in white-collar sectors. The admissions come as both companies reportedly prepare for IPOs this year, with each estimated to carry a valuation of approximately $1 trillion. During an interview with Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn on Tuesday,…

WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday during the latest Task Force to Eliminate Fraud roundtable that the federal government will work with state attorneys general to combat fraud. Vance hosted representatives from 15 attorneys general offices from around the country in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “One of the things we’ve realized in combating fraud is that the resources of the federal government, while vast, can be supplemented and aided by a lot of the people who know best what’s happening in their states, which is the attorneys general represented here today,” he said. “They have a lot of…

Iman Nabhan told RT he was held in an iron container for 15 days after refusing to become an Israeli informant A Palestinian man has told RT that Israeli forces locked him in a coffin-like box for over two weeks after he refused to become an informant, amid mounting allegations of abuse in Israeli detention facilities.Iman Nabhan said he was held in “an iron container with a wooden box inside it,” where his hands and feet were tied. He claimed that during his detention, Israeli personnel fed him through a hole and let him out for just one minute whenever…

Conservatives continued to press for reforms during the latest negotiations to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 is a surveillance authority meant to be used to spy on foreign adversaries. However, Americans’ private communications incidentally get surveilled without a warrant — contrary to the Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance. The surveillance authority is set to expire on June 12, giving Congress just a few weeks to come to a solution — or potentially face another short-term extension. A source familiar told Breitbart News that many conservatives continue to push for amendments that would…