Anthropic invited roughly 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and business to a two-day summit at the end of March. According to the Washington Post, the $380 billion startup was looking for guidance on how to handle the moral and spiritual behavior of its chatbot Claude. Topics ranged from how to respond to grieving or at-risk users to whether an AI could be considered a "child of God."
Participants like Silicon Valley-based Catholic priest Brendan McGuire and Notre Dame professor Meghan Sullivan said they were convinced the company's interest was genuine. "They’re growing something that they don’t fully know what it’s going to turn out as," said McGuire.
Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks
US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.
Molotov suspect who attacked Sam Altman's home was likely a Pause AI follower with AI extinction fears
A man threw a firebomb at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home in the middle of the night. The suspect apparently followed the “Pause AI” movement and wrote online about AI driving humanity to extinction.
Google's Gemma 4 puts free agentic AI on your phone and no data ever leaves the device
Google’s new open-source model, Gemma 4, processes text, images, and audio completely on-device. Using agent skills, the AI can independently tap into tools like Wikipedia or interactive maps; no cloud required.
AI startup Overworld has released Waypoint-1.5, an update to its real-time world simulation system that generates interactive 3D worlds on consumer hardware. The software now runs on Mac and Windows for the first time, with two model tiers: 720p at 60 frames per second for high-performance systems, and 360p for a broader range of gaming PCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards and eventually Apple Silicon.
Compared to the earlier Waypoint 1.0 and 1.1 releases, the new version delivers noticeably better visual quality, improved efficiency, and stronger system performance, all while being half the size. Overworld says the model was trained on roughly 100 times more data than the original version.
Comparison between Waypoint 1.1 and 1.5. The visual quality has increased significantly with better efficiency. | Image: Overworld
