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We’d like to hear what Americans think about the pope’s latest remarks criticizing the rapid development of AI The first American pope has made waves since taking the position. However, after his latest remarks – that AI could make civilization less human and a plea for governments globally to actively slow AI development – people in the US have been divided. Some Americans celebrated the commentary, with former New York council member Brad Lander calling it “bold moral leadership” and Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna telling her constituents on social media that she concurs with Pope Leo’s sentiments. In contrast, Doug Burgum, the US secretary of the interior, pushed back and said he didn’t “know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being Pope”; while David Sacks, the former White House AI and crypto czar, posted on X that government regulation of AI poses serious dangers. Continue reading...

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Historically “uninvestable” sectors are getting more opportunities to bring in funding, creating a rare opportunity for specialized founders and investors to disrupt trillion-dollar industrial markets with vertically integrated, AI-driven software. In this guest commentary, Thomas Cuvelier of RTP Global explains how VCs are using AI to overcome legacy barriers.

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There’s a number that keeps coming up in conversations about AI investment right now, and it’s so large it barely sounds real. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, investors poured $300 billion into roughly 6,000 startups globally (Crunchbase, April 2026). That’s not a typo. A single quarter. One 90-day window. And it eclipses the […]

Farther, the AI-native wealth management platform, has raised $150 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, bringing total capital raised to over $272 million and cementing its unicorn status. CEO and co-founder Taylor Matthews and CTO Brad Genser built the platform from scratch to replace fragmented legacy systems with a single AI-driven ecosystem, […]

ByteDance's AI investment signals a strategic shift towards tech self-reliance, impacting global AI competition and semiconductor markets. The post ByteDance plans up to $70B in capital spending for AI expansion appeared first on Crypto Briefing.