// daily-digest · mon 25 may 2026 · morning refresh · last 72h focus
Pope Leo XIV published "Magnifica Humanitas," a 42,000-word AI encyclical, alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah; Bloomberg reported Anthropic will close more than $30 billion in new financing as soon as next week; the Pentagon confirmed it is testing models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI as alternatives to Claude; Anthropic shipped MCP tunnels and self-hosted sandboxes for Claude Managed Agents; CoreWeave closed a $3.1 billion loan facility pushing its 2026 capital raise past $20 billion; Primer raised $100 million to expand AI payment orchestration in the US; Ruby 4.0.5 patched a security vulnerability affecting 4.0.0 through 4.0.4; Noah Smith's weekly roundup covered US crime trends, AI job anxiety, and OpenAI's math breakthrough; researchers published details on 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece; and deep-sea biologists named a tiny blue octopus from the Galápagos as a new species.
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Pope Leo XIV published "Magnifica Humanitas," a 42,000-word encyclical calling for robust AI regulation, presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah.
Sequoia, Dragoneer, Altimeter, and Greenoaks are set to co-lead a round that would put Anthropic's valuation above $900 billion.
The Defense Department is evaluating models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI after cutting Anthropic over its refusal to remove safety guardrails.
Anthropic added MCP tunnels for private server access and self-hosted code sandboxes in public beta to its Managed Agents platform.
CoreWeave's first publicly syndicated HPC infrastructure-backed loan brings total year-to-date capital raised above $20 billion.
London payment orchestration startup Primer raised $100 million led by Sofina to expand AI-driven infrastructure and US market share.
Ruby 4.0.5 patches a use-after-free race condition in the getaddrinfo timeout handler affecting Ruby 4.0.0 through 4.0.4.
A Greek excavation yielded two wooden hand-tools dated 430,000 years old, the oldest known hand-held tools found anywhere on Earth.
Noah Smith covers sharp US violent crime declines, rising AI job anxiety in China, and OpenAI's solution to an 80-year-old geometry problem.
Micro CT scans confirmed a golf-ball-sized blue specimen from 1,773 meters depth as a new species, Microeledone galapagensis.