President Donald Trump announced that he was directing federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of” technology from AI giant Anthropic, adding there would be a “Six Month phase out period” for agencies using the company’s products.

Pope Leo XIV warned priests in a recent engagement in Rome to beware of artificial intelligence (AI) and not rely on it to prepare homilies, as AI “will never be able to share faith.

The head of the Catholic Church remarked on the matter alongside other issues critical to Catholics in an event which allowed several local priests to ask questions about how best to spread the word of Jesus and the messages of the Church. Pope Leo has prioritized granting the Church a coherent and influential voice in the expanding of technology since he took over for the late Pope Francis last year, stating shortly after that that even in choosing his papal name he had considered that he would be the steward of the Church at a time of great technological upheaval.

A 20-year-old California woman told a Los Angeles court Thursday that years of social media addiction beginning in early childhood left her struggling with anxiety, depression, and body image issues in a case testing whether tech giants can be held liable for alleged harm to young users.

The federal investigation into Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Alberto Carvalho might be linked to a contract with a failed Artificial Intelligence (AI) company.

The case involves a possible conflict of interest, Fox News reported Friday, noting that Carvalho awarded the contract to AllHere, a tech company, “despite alleged close ties with former salesperson Debra Kerr.”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated Thursday that his company “cannot in good conscience” permit the Department of War to use its AI models for all lawful purposes without restrictions, despite threats from Pentagon officials.

CNBC reports that AI startup Anthropic finds itself locked in contentious negotiations with the Pentagon over the terms of its defense contract, with discussions remaining ongoing as of Thursday. The dispute centers on Anthropic’s insistence on specific safeguards regarding how its AI models can be deployed by the military.

Loads of human remains were found buried in Mexico City near where the World Cup games will take place later this year.

The discovery of the makeshift graves comes amid an upsurge in cartel violence, with over 20 grave sites being discovered around Guadalajara since last year, per the New York Post.

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon discussed a settlement by the DOJ with a company over allegations that it used AI-generated ads excluding American workers and said that “the current federal maximum penalty for these types of offenses is under $5,000 per ad. Congress could certainly help me do my job by increasing those penalties.”

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Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” actor Morgan Freeman said President Donald Trump was leading the country “down a shithole.”

Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “How would you describe where we are now?”

Freeman said, “Can I use profanity?”

WNBA star Caitlin Clark was seen partying with Olympian Eileen Gu, an American who competed for China in both past winter Olympics, during Milan Fashion Week.

Both Clark and Gu posted photos of themselves enjoying the Prada show on their Instagram Stories on Thursday.

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an army “that’s going to be policing American streets.”

Schiff said, “We wanted to go through DHS contracting records and document just how much they’re spending to militarize this new, you know, effectively new police forces, palace guard of the presidents that is wreaking such havoc in our cities. And we found dramatic increases in spending on weapons, as you said, ICE agents will be equipped with now 3 to 4 times the amount of weapons as the previous year. Customs and Border Protection doubling their expenditure on the same.”

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump “has no role constitutionally” in administering midterm elections.

Raskin said, “Everything we’re hearing about today is an echo of what took place in 2020. Write me a memo. Explain how we can steal the election. Why? Because their policies are tremendously unpopular. They’re plummeting in the polls. So they don’t have a program of policies for the country. They’re just going to try to shrink and reduce the electorate and somehow rig the electoral result.”

The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population.