🍭 Pope Leo vs AGI Speedrunners ✝️

Good morning. The Pope just joined your AI sprint review and asked where the “morality” column is in Jira.

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Pope Leo XIV steps into the AI race.

• Musk’s Grokipedia challenges Wikipedia

• OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Google, Google’s SIMA 2, and Japan’s Sakana AI

• ToolBox™

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 Ways to Build and Prototype Apps

🛠️ AutonomyAI — Fei
An autonomous “production-grade engineer” that turns tasks into working code and handles tickets, testing, and deployments.

🟣 Builder.io — Fusion
An AI agent that connects Slack, Jira, Figma, and your repo to turn ideas into shipped product features.

⚙️ Cheat Layer
Natural-language automations that build themselves end-to-end, including code execution for the tricky parts.

🎨 Magic Patterns
An AI design tool for fast prototyping, mockups, and product flows for teams that need speed without losing structure.

📦 Riff.ai
A no-code platform that builds production-ready apps and AI agents for real workplace workflows — not just demos.

Pope Leo
✝️ The Shepherd Shows Up to the Lab

The Bite: Pope Leo XIV just told the global Church to actually listen before speaking on AI — and he wants the world’s engineers to do the same.

His message isn’t anti-tech; it’s anti-sprint-to-AGI-without-a-seatbelt.

He’s pushing for a slower, human-centered path forward, one where moral debates aren’t an afterthought stapled to a product launch.

This is the Church trying not to be late to another revolution.

Snacks:

• Leo XIV says the Church should enter the AI era “with humility,” not as a scold, but as someone who’s willing to learn first.

• He insists AI companies must prioritize human dignity, not engagement metrics or leaderboards.

• He wants broad moral debate before the big leaps, especially around agency, autonomy, and who’s actually in control.

• He frames AI ethics as a global conversation, not a Vatican press release — which is basically the Pope subtweeting Silicon Valley.

• He’s signaling that the Church won’t sit out this one, and doesn’t want to repeat its “late to the printing press” moment.

Why it Bites: Tech giants race to build mind-melting models, but somehow forget to ask “Should we?” Leo XIV isn’t blocking innovation, he’s reminding labs that humans still matter.

If AI reshapes the world, someone needs to make sure the world still recognizes what a human is.

Steal This Prompt
📖 Simple Fiction Novel

A lightweight story engine that turns your rough idea into a full, simple fiction novel draft without you wrestling structure, pacing, or chapters.

Perfect for the “I swear I’ll write a book one day” crowd, or for spinning up ridiculous side characters until one of them accidentally becomes your magnum opus.

1. Click this Prompt

2. Paste into GPT

3. Replace the #’s with your characters, world, and plot seed

4. Watch it cook a full novel draft while you pretend you’re “editing”

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🧾 Germany Fines OpenAI

→ A German court ruled OpenAI violated national copyright law by training on licensed music without permission and ordered the company to pay damages.

🎤 ElevenLabs Signs Celebrity Voices

→ Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey licensed their voices to ElevenLabs, letting the startup generate official AI versions for films and other projects.

🛍️ Google Adds AI Shopping Upgrades

→ Google rolled out conversational product search, agentic checkout, and a bot that can call local stores to confirm inventory.

🎮 Google Debuts SIMA 2 Agent

→ SIMA 2 uses Gemini to reason through unseen virtual environments and learn new tasks, pushing Google’s work on general-purpose agents.

🐟 Sakana AI Raises $135M

→ Japan’s Sakana AI secured a major Series B at a $2.65B valuation to expand its locally trained models and AI research.

_{Musk’s Grokipedia}
🌐 Wikipedia Finally Has a Rival… Sort Of

The Bite: Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-written encyclopedia that looks like Wikipedia but comes with looser fact-checking and citations that wobble like a Target bookshelf.

It’s pitched as a “truth-first” alternative to Wikipedia’s famously curated pages.

The ones that get brigaded, edited, re-edited, and occasionally rewritten by people with extremely strong opinions and free time.

The idea is bold.
Let AI generate the world’s reference library. The execution? Still learning how to walk.

Snacks:

• Grokipedia copies Wikipedia’s format, but the editorial guardrails are noticeably thinner.

• PolitiFact found several pages with weak sourcing, missing citations, or claims that didn’t hold up.

• Musk says AI will write neutral, unfiltered entries, avoiding human-driven curation battles.

• Critics say the opposite: Without humans, you get confident nonsense at industrial scale.

• Wikipedia remains the internet’s most functional group project, but its own history of “truth editing” leaves room for challengers.

Why it bites: Wikipedia showed the world that online truth could be crowdsourced.

Grokipedia is Musk asking, “What if we outsource it to AI instead?” If Wikipedia is the cranky librarian guarding the stacks, Grokipedia is the overeager intern who skimmed half the book and started typing.

The future might need both:
One to preserve order, one to question it.
And hopefully neither becomes the main character in a misinformation meltdown.