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Last week, we noted a papal encyclical on artificial intelligence was coming. On Monday, Pope Leo delivered, likening unrestrained AI to a “new Tower of Babel.” According to the New York times, the 42,300 word encyclical emphasizes that A.I. policy should focus on regulating private developers, supporting displaced workers, promoting critical education, protecting children from harmful AI-generated content, and ensuring human accountability in weapons decisions.

Alongside Pope Leo during the presentation of his encyclical, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah argued that artificial intelligence should receive “greater oversight from religious leaders, governments and civil society.” According to Olah, this outside accountability is due to the fact that "[e]very frontier AI lab ... operates ⁠inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing."

OpenAI founding member and former Tesla director of AI Andrej Karpathy (who we often cite in our presentations as coining the term "vibe coding") announced that he has joined Anthropic. Karpathy will start on the company's pre-training team, which handles the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge. Karpathy's next task will be to help launch and lead a brand-new sub-team at the company. This specialized group will focus entirely on recursive self-learning, utilizing Claude itself to accelerate and automate parts of Anthropic's pre-training research and AI development.

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Studio by Spotify Labs is Spotify's answer to NotebookLM. It connects your email, calendar, and notes, then turns them into a personal podcast. Ask it for "a daily brief for my road trip through Italy" and it'll pull your schedule, your bookings, and even a dinner recommendation into one audio rundown. The podcasts save to your Spotify library, stay private, and sync across your devices. It's an early research preview in 20+ markets right now – so expect a few mistakes – but turning your own inbox into a morning show is a neat idea worth watching.

There are few things Professor Snider loves more than claw machines. So we had to try out this Gemini sample prompt in the new Images tab.

The Rundown shared a prompt to use to check in with Claude (this would work for other LLMs as well) to see what it has in its memory about you. I used this in Claude, and I was able to clear up some things Claude falsely believed about me. Read the link above for full instructions, or start with this prompt and continue the conversation to update any false memories: Audit your context and memory assumptions about me. Put them in a table with what you believe, why you believe it, your confidence level, and whether each item is confirmed. Cover my role, priorities, KPIs, tools,