Papal encyclical sets moral terms as AI regulation accelerates

Pope Leo XIV calls AI ethics a religious imperative; EU, US states, and NIST advance guardrails while Anthropic books its first profit.

• Pope Leo XIV Issues First Papal Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence
• EU Extends AI Act Compliance Deadlines and Adds New Prohibitions
• More Than 25 US States Advance AI Transparency Laws
• Anthropic Reports First Operating Profit; Valuation Approaches $900 Billion
• OpenAI Prepares Confidential IPO Filing; Musk Lawsuit Dismissed
• US Government Will Pre-Test Frontier AI from Google, Microsoft, and xAI