In a rare moment where the language of faith and the language of technology seem to point at the same danger, Pope Francis has renewed calls for restraint in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. The message is moral, urgent,…
Markets are learning to live with ambiguity again. After a period when artificial intelligence (AI) optimism seemed to steamroll most other narratives, investors are now treating AI less like a single directional bet and more like a variable that interacts…
Consulting has always been a business built on scale: large teams to staff projects, repeatable delivery playbooks to move quickly across industries, and deep benches of specialists to cover everything from strategy to implementation. For decades, that model favored the…
KPMG is reportedly casting a wide net across Silicon Valley’s AI startup ecosystem, looking for companies that could reshape how professional services are delivered—and, crucially, deciding early whether to partner with them, invest in them, or simply watch their trajectory…
China is quietly but decisively reshaping one of the world’s most extensive surveillance ecosystems, according to reporting that local police forces are modernising ageing infrastructure with more capable tracking systems—upgrades that are increasingly described as incorporating advanced AI. The story…
Pope Leo XIV’s newest encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, has quickly become the center of a very modern kind of controversy: not about what the document says, but about how it might have been written. A new analysis shared…
Google’s I/O 2026 reveal didn’t just change what people see when they search—it changed what they expect search to do. In the months since the company began rolling out its new AI-first experience, early user sentiment has hardened into something…
Roundhill’s Memory ETF—traded under the ticker DRAM—has become one of the fastest-growing exchange-traded products in recent history, reaching a $10bn valuation in just 50 days after its April launch. The speed of that milestone is the story investors are talking…
OpenRouter’s latest funding round is being framed as a straightforward valuation milestone, but the deeper story is about how quickly the “AI stack” is evolving from a single-model bet into a routing problem. The company has raised a $113 million…
A UK court has issued a sharp reminder that artificial intelligence may assist legal work, but it cannot be allowed to quietly take over the parts of practice that courts rely on most: accurate research, sound reasoning, and—above all—human responsibility.…
Human Archive is taking a bet that the next wave of robotics progress won’t come only from better algorithms or more expensive lab setups, but from a new kind of data pipeline—one that borrows the scale and flexibility of the…
Universal Music Group has renewed its agreement with TikTok to tackle a problem that’s been getting louder—and more complicated—over the past couple of years: unauthorized music being generated, reused, or otherwise circulated through AI-driven workflows without the proper rights. On…