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AI News Briefing — May 26, 2026

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Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calling for AI to be disarmed and subjected to rigorous ethical constraints.

  • Anthropic co-founder appeared alongside the pope in Rome, signaling Vatican engagement with frontier labs
  • The 40,000-word text condemns autonomous weapons, data colonialism, and patent hoarding
  • The pope linked the digital economy to new forms of slavery and apologized for church delays on historical slavery
  • The Guardian editorial drew parallels to Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum on industrial labor

On the infrastructure side, agentic and serving tooling continued to mature:

  • Together AI open-sourced OSCAR, an attention-aware 2-bit KV cache quantization system enabling INT2 compression compatible with paged KV-cache serving
  • WorkOS released auth.md, an OAuth-based open protocol for AI agent registration to replace insecure API key workarounds
  • MCP SDK downloads reached 97 million monthly, with Anthropic donating the protocol to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation

Additional coverage included a WIRED report on AI-driven vulnerability discovery arms races and a Louisiana ethics investigation tied to Meta's Hyperion datacenter land deals.

Key Themes

AI Ethics and Policy · 3Agentic Infrastructure · 3LLM Serving Efficiency · 1AI Datacenters and Local Impact · 1AI Cybersecurity · 1

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News Ars Technica - All content May 25

Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

By Nate Anderson

78 score
AI Analysis

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calling for AI to be disarmed and freed from logics of domination. Anthropic co-founder appeared alongside him in Rome, signaling deep engagement between the Vatican and frontier AI labs.

With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical—his first—called "Magnifica Humanitas” ("Magnificent Humanity"). It calls for AI to be "disarmed" in service of the common good. "The word is strong," Leo admits, but he chose the language of "disarmament" deliberately "because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity." AI today must be "freed from logics that tu
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News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian May 25

Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI

By Angela Giuffrida in Rome

72 score
AI Analysis

Pope Leo's encyclical denounces the culture of power driving AI's rise and calls for rigorous ethical constraints. He linked AI's digital economy harms to new forms of slavery while apologizing for the church's historical delay on slavery.

Pontiff calls for ‘disarming’ of artificial intelligence and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slavery Pope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid rise of artificial intelligence while warning that the technology must be subject to the “most rigorous” ethical constraints as it infiltrates everything from work to war.In his encyclical – the first major text on safeguarding humankind of his papacy – he also apologised for the Catholic church’s long delay in condemning
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News MarkTechPost May 25

Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR: An Attention-Aware 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization System for Long-Context LLM Serving

By Asif Razzaq

70 score
AI Analysis

Together AI open-sourced OSCAR, an attention-aware 2-bit KV cache quantization system for long-context LLM serving. It enables INT2 compression while remaining compatible with paged KV-cache systems, addressing a key cost bottleneck.

Long-context inference makes the KV cache one of the main costs of serving LLMs. During autoregressive decoding, the cache grows with context length, batch size, and model depth. At high batch sizes and long contexts with 100K tokens across dozens of concurrent requests the KV cache consumes a large fraction of GPU memory. Compressing it is a direct way to increase batch size and reduce memory traffic. The obvious approach is quantization. But pushing KV caches to INT2 (2-bit) precision has b
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News Feed: Artificial Intelligence Latest May 25

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

By Lily Hay Newman

62 score
AI Analysis

WIRED reports that AI is accelerating both vulnerability discovery and exploit development, creating a cybersecurity arms race. Defenders and attackers are racing to deploy AI-powered tools for finding software flaws.

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.
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News MarkTechPost May 25

WorkOS Releases auth.md: An Open Agent Registration Protocol Built on OAuth Standards

By Asif Razzaq

62 score
AI Analysis

WorkOS released auth.md, an open protocol for AI agent registration built on OAuth standards. It addresses the gap where agents currently rely on unscoped API keys that are hard to audit and revoke.

For years, authentication on the web followed one design assumption: a human sits behind a browser. Click a button. Fill out a form. Verify an email. Copy an API key and paste it somewhere else. That model does not work when the user is delegating work to an agent. Agents are already writing code, opening pull requests, triaging tickets, querying systems, and updating records. But most products still have no real way for an agent to register. The workaround — giving an agent a raw API key or
Agentic AIAuthenticationOpen Standards
News MarkTechPost May 25

Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026

By Asif Razzaq

60 score
AI Analysis

MarkTechPost surveys authentication platforms for AI agents and MCP servers in 2026. Notes MCP's rapid adoption with 97 million monthly SDK downloads and Anthropic's December 2025 donation to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation.

The Model Context Protocol has moved from Anthropic’s internal experiment to a de facto industry standard at a speed few integration protocols have matched. Since its launch in November 2024, MCP has grown explosively: OpenAI adopted it in March 2025, Microsoft announced support in Copilot Studio in March 2025, and by late 2025 combined Python and TypeScript SDK downloads had crossed 97 million monthly. In December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Fo
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News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian May 25

A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it

By Garrett Hazelwood

58 score
AI Analysis

Investigation reveals Louisiana state senator Jay Morris helped secure Meta's massive Hyperion datacenter then sold adjacent land, raising ethics concerns. Highlights tensions around AI infrastructure buildout and local political dynamics.

Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenterThis story is from Floodlight, a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate actionFor more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of the world’s largest datacenters, called Hyperion, in Richland Parish. Continue reading...
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News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian May 25

The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial

By Editorial

55 score
AI Analysis

Guardian editorial supports Pope Leo XIV's encyclical drawing parallels to Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum on industrial labor. Frames the pope's intervention as essential to the AI ethics debate.

In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debateWhen the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time. In the 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), Pope Leo XIII analysed the social forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution, and outlined principles for a just sett
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