AI
Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Calls for 'Disarming' AI
Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, casts AI as this era's industrial revolution — a tool to be governed, humanized, and 'disarmed,' not feared or worshipped.
Policy
Healthcare IT
HIPAA Security Rule Update Likely to Miss Its May 2026 Target
OCR's May 2026 target for finalizing the HIPAA Security Rule update is on track to slip — but the agency is enforcing the existing rule aggressively. Here's where the proposed rule stands, what OCR is actually doing today, and what healthcare organizations need to have in place either way.
AI
Connecticut Passed a Sweeping AI Law (SB 5). Here's What It Does.
Connecticut's AI Responsibility and Transparency Act is on the governor's desk. The lead sponsor represents my district. Here's what's in it, who carries the burden, and where it collides with the federal preemption push.
Education
Speedrunning a Bachelor's: Affordable Access or Diluted Diploma?
A North Carolina HR executive earned a bachelor's in three months and a master's in five weeks at UMaine Presque Isle's YourPace program. Accreditors are raising eyebrows. For the 43 million Americans with unfinished college credits, the math still looks pretty good.
AI
NSA Is Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite the Pentagon Blacklist
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model — the one Anthropic says can find zero-days autonomously — despite the Pentagon formally labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Here's what Mythos is, who else has access, and why the operational need is winning.
AI
Stanford's 2026 AI Index: Twelve Months, One Jagged Line
Stanford's 2026 AI Index has the receipts for what this year felt like: agents jumped from 12% to 66% on real computer tasks, the US–China gap narrowed to 2.7%, and the best coding models still can't read an analog clock.
AI
The AI Layoff Trap: Why Knowing Better Isn't Enough
A new economics paper argues AI layoffs are a prisoner's dilemma with one escape — a Pigouvian tax on automation. Every other fix economists reach for (UBI, profit-sharing, retraining, wage cuts) leaves the trap intact.
Healthcare IT
CMS Killed the Fax Machine. Sort Of.
CMS finalized a rule to eliminate faxing for claims attachments, but the workflows that keep radiology groups sending tens of thousands of faxes a month are untouched.
Technology
FCC Bans Foreign Routers. Almost None Are Made Here.
The FCC added all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, banning new models from sale in the US. The problem: virtually no consumer routers are manufactured domestically.
Opinion
Anthropic Sues the Pentagon. Here's What Matters.
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits today challenging the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation. The legal arguments are stronger than the politics suggest.