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Germany's Chancellor Is Reading the Pope's AI Encyclical on Holiday
Friedrich Merz packed a papal document on artificial intelligence for his summer break. Here's what that document says, and why a struggling world leader might find comfort in it.

Two-thirds of people think ChatGPT is conscious. A philosopher says we've been fooling ourselves for decades.
A new survey finds most people attribute some form of feeling to AI chatbots. One scholar argues we've had the wrong idea about minds and bodies long before the first chatbot appeared.

Two Thousand AI Bills and Still No Long-Term Plan: The Case for a National Regulator
States, Congress and the White House have flooded the zone with AI proposals. A former Nasdaq CEO argues that every single one fixes today's problem while leaving tomorrow's wide open.

Researchers Found Hundreds of Ways to Break AI Safety Rules, and It Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
A safety nonprofit ran an automated tool against seven leading AI models. Two failed badly. The price tag to make them misbehave? As low as $58.

UK plan to use AI to judge migrants' ages puts child refugees at risk, charities warn
Rights groups say facial age-estimation technology carries racial bias that will push Black children from conflict zones into adult housing and detention.

Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. Here's what changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.

Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.

Meet the Seven People Deciding America's AI Policy Right Now
A senior White House official told Wired it is 'an argument with ten sides'. Here is who is pulling the strings on US AI rules, what each one wants, and what it means for the rest of us.

AI Is a Human Product, Not a Magic Force. A New Book Wants You to Know the Difference.
Ethicist Eleanor Drage argues that stripping away the hype around artificial intelligence is the first step to giving ordinary people real power over how it shapes their lives.

US and China agree: open-source AI needs strong security, not a free-for-all
Twenty-one Pacific-rim economies signed a joint statement backing open AI models built with government-grade security checks. It is the first time ministers from the US and China have agreed on open-source AI at all.

Why Chinese AI keeps sending Silicon Valley into a spin
Moonshot AI's Kimi model touched off another weekend of panic in the tech industry. The real story is less about the model and more about who benefits from the fear.

29 Countries Just Signed a China-Led Global AI Treaty. Here's What It Does
A new intergovernmental organisation called WAICO launched in Shanghai on 16 July 2026, with nearly three dozen countries signing on. The big question: will it actually change how AI is governed, or is it a talking shop?

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.

Congress Wants a Kill Switch for Runaway AI. Here Is What the Bill Actually Says.
Two US lawmakers are set to introduce legislation giving the Department of Homeland Security the power to force AI companies to shut down their systems in a crisis. The trigger conditions are tighter than they sound.

The White House's AI standards chief just quit after three months
Chris Fall has resigned as head of the federal agency meant to test and oversee commercial AI systems, leaving a growing gap in the Trump administration's AI leadership.