Theresa Payton ✪

CEO @FortaliceLLC | Former White House Chief Info Officer | KPA Speaker Mgmt | Advisor to Boards and C-Suite

[Bloomberg @business]

US technology companies announced the most job cuts in nearly two years as they ramp up spending on AI https://t.co/laakL0GuBO

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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says AI models are too expensive https://t.co/MGR3eiCtGL

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Educating people about the use of AI, then, involves teaching them to decide when
and for what purpose it ought not to be used. The speed and ease with which
answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask
questions, which is a process that bears fruit only over time.

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from the ENCYCLICAL LETTER
MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV
ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON
IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

An educational alliance for the digital age
139. In an era when truth is often distorted in order to serve particular interests
and communication strategies, the field of education assmes decisive importance.

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140. Education, by contrast, is a long journey requiring patience, and therefore
needs time for development and for engagement with reality beyond appearances.
This is a fundamental issue because every technology shapes those who use it.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Trump administration to ask US AI firms to voluntarily submit models for cybersecurity tests https://t.co/8V4kgbNAql https://t.co/8V4kgbNAql

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Top AI executives are joining security experts in calling for Congress to protect against biological threats posed by the technology https://t.co/DS6ixKygL4

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

At the Wednesday general audience at the Vatican on June 3, Pope Leo XIV called Catholics to be open to an “encounter with God by rediscovering the signs and symbols of the sacred liturgy.”

“We need to let ourselves be educated by the rites of the liturgy, tending to the beauty of our celebrations with a delicate hand and without arbitrariness,” Leo said to the faithful.

Leoʼs remarks were part of his catechesis on the liturgy, focusing on the Second Vatican Councilʼs document Sacrosanctum Concilium. In his remarks, the pope explained the councilʼs teaching about participation in the liturgy through its signs and symbols.

“In the liturgy, we are invited to participate — body, mind, and heart — and enter into a dimension inhabited by the Holy Spirit. In order to enter into this dimension, the liturgy is woven with signs and symbols that have a performative and transformative dimension,” Leo said.

He also called on Catholics to recall the meaning of the various gestures associated with the liturgy, such as the sign of peace and kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament. He explained that these symbols and signs are not arbitrary gestures, but are important for helping Catholics experience “the presence of God through Jesus Christ.”

“The rites of the Christian liturgy are not an outward covering of the sacramental mystery or a set of arbitrary ceremonies,” Leo said. “Rather, they are the ecclesial mediation through which the divine gift reaches us. Through the sacred rite, we are thus formed in listening to the Word of God, in thanksgiving and adoration, in fraternal sharing, and in ecclesial communion.”

In an appeal at the end of the general audience, Leo invited Catholics to bear public witness to the mystery of the Eucharist during the upcoming eucharistic processions for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

“The processions with the Blessed Sacrament that take place in the streets of many towns are an expression of popular eucharistic piety; in this regard, I encourage you to keep alive this beautiful manifestation of public witness to the faith,” Leo said.

He also gave a special greeting to priests serving in the Middle East amid continuing armed conflicts in the region.

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"In a lot of ways, companies are losing more money today implementing this technology than they were two years ago," said Goldman Sachs' head of global equity research, Jim Covello. https://t.co/VgSWejB84i

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Experts meeting at the Vatican call for stronger ethical governance and greater fairness in the collection, use, and sharing of health data and biological samples. The discussions contribute to the ongoing revision of the Declaration of Taipei, with a focus on inclusion, justice, and equitable access to the benefits of medical research.
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EU Parliament to switch to French search engine from Google in tech sovereignty push https://t.co/X2Awjt5ifA https://t.co/X2Awjt5ifA

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In a first for modern popes, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his highly anticipated encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” at the Vatican and made history by changing a few aspects of its presentation to the world, including the participation of outsiders in the dialogue, culminating in an expected promise.

Watch the full story: https://t.co/BsoAAZwj83

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV emphasizes the importance of the rite, signs and symbols of the liturgy to draw us closer to God, during his weekly General Audience catechesis reflecting on Vatican II's 1963 Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium.
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Sam Altman said AI budgeting has recently become a "huge issue" for some companies, something that "never came up" earlier this year. https://t.co/P2zODBNmDp

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Big tech may be soaring high in the US, but the UK debate is starting on how much freedom to give them, with Google getting a rebuke by UK regulators. Get the Readout with Allegra Stratton. https://t.co/RQZnYDmJTJ

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Paolo Benanti, a priest who has advised the Vatican, writes that as AI reshapes how information is received, the Church is discovering a new mission: teaching people what deserves to be believed. 🔗 https://t.co/VUmC2pdqcN

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Gospel of the Day (Mark 12,18-27)

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him,
saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If someone's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.'
Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.
So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise.
And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died.
At the resurrection (when they arise) whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them, "Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God?
When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.
As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, 'I am the God of Abraham, (the) God of Isaac, and (the) God of Jacob'?
He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled."

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New York officially has become the first US state to mandate disclosures for AI-generated people in commercial advertisements, effective June 9, per ABC

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JUST IN: Sam Altman says AI budgeting has suddenly become a “huge issue” for companies.