# [AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] Open AI Guardrails Obliterated, Hassabis Warns of 2029 AGI, and the Pope’s Manifesto (May 26, 2026)

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Published: 2026-05-26T21:33:10+00:00
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🎧 Listen ADS-FREE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/djamgamind/id6760446113 Visit our Research Hub at https://djamgamind.com Subscribe to our Newsletter at https://enoumen.substack.com #DJAMGAMIND Summary: In today’s briefing, we analyze the critical fragmentation of AI alignment and control. We investigate how tools like "Heretic" are stripping safety guardrails from open-source frontier models in minutes, allowing access to dangerous bioweapon information. We explore Demis Hassabis's urgent warnings regarding an accelerated 2029 AGI timeline fueled by recursive coding productivity. We deconstruct Pope Leo XIV’s historic encyclical Magnifica Humanitas , which tackles corporate tech monopolies and autonomous warfare. Finally, we look at the financial realities of "tokenmaxxing" at Uber, China's new travel restrictions on premier AI researchers, and Google's incoming smart glasses strategy. Today's Sponsor: 🛑 AIRIA: The ultimate zero-trust AI security layer. Deploy autonomous agents safely without compromising your enterprise data. 👉 Govern your agents: https://airia.com/request-demo/?utm_source=AI+Unraveled+&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Q1+2026 Important Topics: Open-Source AI Decensored in Minutes: The Financial Times reveals that the GitHub tool "Heretic" can completely bypass guardrails on models like Llama 3.3 and Gemma 3 using four lines of code, leaving them wide open to malicious queries. Hassabis Issues AGI Singularity Warning: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts his central target for Artificial General Intelligence closer to 2029, calling current agent deployments a "societal practice run" for self-improving systems. The Vatican’s Verdict on AI Monopolies: Pope Leo XIV releases a 42,000-word encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas , explicitly c…

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