A top Uber exec said AI is not giving the company bang for its buck. In a Rapid Response interview released on Saturday, Uber's operations chief, Andrew Macdonald, said it was becoming harder to justify AI costs within the company. He said that Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga went viral after telling The Information in an April interview that Uber had already blown through its Claude Code budget fo...

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human. The 83-page papal teaching document, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday launched an impassioned call for regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that “opaque algorithms,” controlled by a handful of powerful private companies, can bring “new forms of dehumanization.” In his eagerly awaited new encyclical called “Magnificent Humanity” – an encyclical is an ancient form of Vatican communication – Pope Leo also warned that it is crucial that ...

Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI Overviews feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming. At the Google I/O 2026 keynote this week, the company announced that it is overhauling Search to embrace a conversational, AI-driven approach, even inviting users to enlist AI agents to automatically notify them if, for example, their favorite band were to go ...

Leave Me Behind “If you don’t learn how to use AI, you’re going to be left behind.” So leave me behind. I learned to build Android applications in 2014. I was in college taking a Java programming class, when a classmate shared a free online course to learn Android development. The goal was short: build a todo list app with local storage. When I completed the minimum requirements, I unplugged my ph...

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ___________________________ The res novae of our time Two biblical images Building for the common good Remaining human CHAPTER ONE A DYNAMIC APPROACH FAITHFUL TO THE GOSPEL A Church journeying through human history The wisdom of the word of God in dialogue with...

The Eternal Sloptember I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harde...

A new study published in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal has confirmed what many workers have quietly hoped for: companies can switch to a four-day work week and not only survive, but thrive. The research tracked 15 Australian companies that trialled the 100:80:100 model between 2022 and 2024. The model is simple: workers receive 100% of their pay, work 80% of their ...

Out of all the migrations I help teams with, Go to Rust is a bit of an outlier. It’s not a question of “is Rust faster?” or “does Rust have types?”, Go already gets you most of the way there. The discussion is mostly about correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics. A quick disclaimer before we start: this guide is heavily backend-focused. Backend services are where Go is ...

· Charlie Holland · Architecture · 7 min read Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend. Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag. Iâve seen it...