Pope Leo Releases First AI Encyclical, Calls Data a Common Good and Rejects Moral Neutrality of Tech

The American pope wants to take artificial intelligence down a notch. Is he challenging the tech companies, or will tech take over the papacy?

Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 24- 30. Weekend AI News Briefs Pope Leo Will Take on AI Alongside an Anthropic Co-Founder Pope Leo XIV is set to release his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25 focused on safeguarding human dignity in the […]

Pontiff calls for ‘most rigorous’ ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slavery Pope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the “most rigorous” ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war. In his encyclical – the first major text on safeguarding humankind of his papacy – Leo, the first US-born pontiff, also apologised for the Catholic church’s long delay in condemning slavery, describing it as “a wound in Christian memory”, while warning about the “new forms of slavery” due to the digital economy. Continue reading...

The document marks a powerful foray by the leader of the Roman Catholic church into the debate about the misuse or overuse of artificial intelligence.

Pontiff says it is ‘not permissible’ to entrust lethal decisions to artificial systems

IBM has partnered with Scuderia Ferrari HP to overhaul the team’s fan app using enterprise AI, bringing the technology giant into Formula One — one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States and an increasingly competitive arena for tech companies including AWS, Oracle, and Anthropic. The partnership centres on transforming the millions of data points generated […]

There’s no denying the excitement around Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol for connecting AI assistants with external data, tools, and APIs. Since its debut by Anthropic in late 2024, thousands of MCP servers have emerged for devops, cloud, and beyond. Now that developers have integrated MCP servers into applications, and they have been battle-tested, usage patterns are emerging. For instance, supplying better context for AI is the most commonly cited primary value of using MCP, according to Zuplo’s State of MCP report released in early 2026. The Zuplo report also found that 63% of MCP users adopt MCP servers for accessing data sources such as documentation or knowledge bases. In software development, context engineering is the act of supplying AI coding agents with relevant data and capabilities to improve the accuracy and relevance of their outputs. It also involves optimizing the breadth of information to guide efficient processing. Such context can include coding style