/Dispatch #97
Pope Leo XIV released a 40,000-word encyclical calling for AI to be disarmed from monopolistic control, warning against autonomous weapons and neo-colonial data collection. Presented alongside Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah, the document updates Catholic social teaching for the AI era.

Cisco tested 15 flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI, revealing multi-turn attack success rates between 7.9% and 88.3%. Even Claude showed vulnerability under iterative pressure, climbing from 2.2% to 16.2%.



YouTube is deploying automatic detection systems that flag photorealistic AI videos even when creators fail to disclose AI usage, addressing concerns as models like Veo and Gemini Omni make synthetic content increasingly difficult to distinguish from reality.




+19AI coding startup Cognition raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Its flagship product Devin now writes more than 90% of Cognition's internal code, with annualized revenue growing from $37 million to $492 million in 12 months.



