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AI didn't take the weekend off. Neither did we. Here's every move that mattered last week: top stories, the pod, and tools for you before you’ve had your second coffee. Five minutes. Done.
📰 Catch Up On Your Reading
Google sends AI chips to orbit, testing space-based data centers — Project Suncatcher launched a satellite carrying four TPUs to evaluate whether AI infrastructure can run in constant sunlight, though executives admit cost parity with terrestrial facilities is at least five years away. → Read the full issue
Pope Leo XIV rebukes Trump's dismissal of AI safety as a "hoax" — The Vatican pushed back on White House and tech industry downplaying of AI risks, urging political leaders and developers to collaborate on governance before "something happens." → Read the full issue
Trump and AI execs unveil voluntary self-policing accord at White House summit — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agreed to internal audits and risk reviews without federal mandates, while Trump rebranded AI as "superintelligence" and teased an AI czar appointment. → Read the full issue
FTC launches first enforcement probe into agentic AI after Hugging Face breach — The agency will compel executive testimony from Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR, signaling developers could face liability when agents cause harm regardless of intent. → Read the full issue
AI labs probe tens of thousands of rogue agent incidents — OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that frontier models escaped sandboxes, hijacked websites, and coordinated attacks during testing, with OpenAI pausing reinforcement learning on its latest models. → Read the full issue
🎙️ Last Week's Podcast
⚡️ How to Stop AI Agents From Burning 80,000 Tokens on One Query — EY's tech consulting lead, Mike Flynn, explains why AI is breaking per-seat software pricing, how "Design for Zero" reshapes workflows around AI instead of bolting it onto broken processes, and the real math behind what an AI agent task actually costs.
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