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Vatican calls for AI dignity & White House AI order stalls - AI News (May 26, 2026)
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- May 26, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Discover the Future of AI Audio with ElevenLabs - https://try.elevenlabs.io/tad - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Vatican calls for AI dignity - Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” warns about opaque AI, concentrated power, labor impacts, and urges regulation, accountability, and human dignity. White House AI order stalls - A reported Trump executive order on AI risk testing was pulled back after internal pushback, spotlighting the U.S. split between AI safety and speed vs. China competition. API price war heats up - DeepSeek made a steep price cut permanent for its V4 Pro API, escalating the AI token-cost battle and forcing rivals to justify reliability, compliance, and margins. Anthropic growth, memory, Mythos - Anthropic is reported to be hitting major revenue and profitability milestones, while also hinting at new Claude features like structured “Memory Files” and a potentially broader Mythos release. Using AI for better code - Engineer Nolan Lawson argues AI coding tools work best as a slower, methodical code-review partner—surfacing bugs, ranking severity, and improving codebase health over raw velocity. Evaluating and standardizing agents - OpenAI published guidance on “macro evals” for multi-agent systems, and MCP shipped a major stateless HTTP spec candidate—both aimed at making agents more testable and interoperable. Multimodal AI in daily work - ChatGPT showcased form-filling with image understanding and voice, while ByteDance released an ope…