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May 24, 2026, 1:05 AM

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Reuters:
Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder  —  The European Central Bank warned European Union finance ministers on Friday that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins …
Jack Jenkins / RNS:
How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI  —  (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down  —  Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter  —  Dell Technologies Inc. said it added 1,000 customers for a key AI product line in the past quarter as the company tries …
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Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing  —  Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world's most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it.
Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal:
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions  —  The company has less need for middle managers, operations jobs and other ‘measuring’ positions.
Sophia Cai / Politico:
A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary  —  The draft also includes language aimed at bad actors.  It directs the attorney general to enforce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and …

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