22 May 2026
Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
When news broke last week that Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical focused on artificial intelligence would be releasing on Monday (May 25), a wave of debate swept through Catholic and tech circles alike. According to Brian Green, it wasn’t the encyclical itself, which has been rumored for months, that sparked a “scattering of unease,” but details about how it will be unveiled: at an event, planned to…
22 May 2026
Cedric Clark departing Walmart as EVP of store operations amid executive reshuffle
Cedric Clark , the executive vice president of store operations for Walmart U.S. , is departing the retail giant as part of a significant leadership reshuffle under newly installed CEO John Furner . The departure, confirmed by multiple sources on May 22, 2026 , marks a major shift in Walmart’s operational leadership structure at a time when the company is consolidating its corporate footprint and…
22 May 2026
AI in financial services moves beyond pilots to profits
18 ways AI is rewriting the future of financial services: Key insights from the AWS Financial Services Symposium AI in financial services has stopped being just another technology tool and started becoming a measure of operational readiness. In 2025, 45% of IT decision-makers ranked generative AI tools as their top budget priority. By 2026, nearly 100% of financial services respondents said their…
22 May 2026
SpaceX Faces A Crucial Launch Test Ahead Of Its IPO
Starship ready for launch Getty Images Why SpaceX needs Starship. A new kind of origami. Sam Altman’s longevity startup raises more money. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up here . S paceX filed its long awaited IPO on Wednesday , and there’s a lot to talk about.
22 May 2026
Google, Japanese firm ship 1,000 robots in automation push
Google has joined hands with Japanese robotics giant FANUC America Corporation to advance Physical AI in industrial robots, amid rising demand for smarter automation systems capable of handling more complex factory tasks.
22 May 2026
End of manual labor: China surprises the world with revelation that it may have 24 million humanoid robots, more than the population of SP and Rio combined, to…
Study by British bank Barclays projects that China could have 24 million humanoid robots installed by 2035 to compensate for the projected reduction of 37 million workers, a result of the accelerated aging of the population and the historic decline in the country’s birth rate.
22 May 2026
Project Glasswing: An initial update
Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it.
22 May 2026
10 Cheap AI Stocks to Buy According to Analysts
On May 15, Alex Guiliano, CIO of Resonate Wealth Partners, joined BNN Bloomberg to suggest that valuations internationally look like an opportunity for investors to take advantage of.
22 May 2026
Exclusive | Vatican taps 'atheist' Anthropic cofounder to speak at AI event as tensions with Trump White House rise
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence is slated for a Vatican event next week that will include Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah – a self-described “atheist” who has written snarky blog posts that criticized religions including Catholicism, The Post has learned.
