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US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI… · Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

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    Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

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    Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for May 27, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search TechCrunch
  2. Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation Wired
  3. What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI Wired
  4. 3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild Ars Technica
  5. This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots TechCrunch
  6. Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music TechCrunch
  7. Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web The Verge
  9. Nobody wants to tell me why they only listen to their own Suno slop The Verge
  10. The Download: puncturing the AI jobs panic MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. Thermal Cameras and AI Help Ships Steer Clear of Gray Whales IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  12. AI warfare is already here The Verge
  13. AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened Wired
  14. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  16. Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. AI with Model-Based Design: Virtual Sensor Modeling IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  18. Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right Hugging Face
  19. Radar Can Tell the Difference Between Insect Species IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models Hugging Face
  21. Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook Hugging Face
  22. OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models Hugging Face
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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