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Pope Leo XIV releases landmark AI encyclical with Anthropic's Chris Olah responding at the Vatican. Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash achieves near-flagship performance at a fraction of the cost. The US considers new permit requirements for NVIDIA and AMD AI chip exports. Plus: OpenAI's Altman on the jobs future, Google's AI-powered Search overhaul, Jensen Huang on education, and a breakthrough in photonic AI chips.

ClickUp's mass layoff signals a new phase of AI workforce replacement as the startup swaps hundreds of employees for thousands of AI agents. Meanwhile, SpaceX's IPO filing reveals over $500 million set aside for Grok-related litigation, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical warning about AI and concentrated tech power, and Microsoft Research's Webwright web agent nearly doubles GPT-5.4's benchmark score. We also cover the US government's $2 billion quantum computing investment, OpenAI's global reputation push, and NVIDIA's latest linear attention breakthrough.

A federal jury dismisses Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, clearing the path for its IPO. Pope Leo XIV publishes his first encyclical 'Magnifica humanitas' on AI and human dignity. Anthropic launches a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services company with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs. Plus: OpenAI unveils its Deployment Company, AI reshapes consulting pricing models, and Singapore's economy surges 6% on AI chip demand.

Pope Leo releases a landmark encyclical on human dignity and AI alongside an Anthropic co-founder at the Vatican. BofA's Hartnett warns the AI stock rally is nearing historic extremes, calling it the biggest bubble since railroads. Trump cancels the AI executive order on model oversight after industry pushback. Plus: Google launches new AI models and personal agents, NVIDIA expands open model families, and Anthropic and OpenAI enter India's IT services market.

Trump signs a heavily industry-favored AI executive order after big tech lobbying. Zoom's Anthropic investment pays off with a $1 billion windfall. DeepSeek announces a permanent 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model. Plus: Nvidia's Jensen Huang signals a major pivot, Meta reshuffles 7,000 staff into AI, and Apple prepares a Gen AI website ahead of WWDC.

OpenAI confidentially files for its long-awaited IPO while Anthropic surges toward profitability at $10.9B quarterly revenue. Google's I/O 2026 reshapes search with Gemini Omni and AI agents. Plus: Karpathy jumps to Anthropic, AI tokenmaxxing sparks cost crisis, and California issues landmark AI workforce order.