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The Pope and the Dynamo
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The Pope and the Dynamo

Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical on AI on Monday, dated to the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum. The Sunday talk shows are going to miss the framing entirely. The 1891 question is back, and the Church spent 135 years thinking about it.
28 May 2026 5 min read
The Merging Was Always the Point
AI

The Merging Was Always the Point

An internal OpenAI model disproved Erdős's 1946 unit-distance conjecture. Which is what Wiles did, what Langlands is doing, what every mathematical breakthrough has ever been. Does that mean AI can think?
21 May 2026 5 min read
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