Pope Leo XIV released a major document on May 25, warning about the dangers of AI, from autonomous weapons to what he claims is its relation to “new forms of slavery” arising from the industry. An unexpected attendee of the pope’s Vatican event announcing the document’s release was Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, a presence that signals the AI developer’s relationship with the Catholic Church as it seeks to bolster its image as an AI company concerned with ethics.

When Nvidia quietly wrote a US$2 billion check to Marvell Technology earlier this year, it was less a financial bet than a strategic maneuver — one that converted a potential rival into a committed partner. Now, for the first time since that deal was struck, the two companies’ CEOs will share a stage.

As the global semiconductor industry pivots toward chiplet-based designs — where multiple smaller chips are packaged together rather than built as a single monolithic die — the specialized intellectual property that makes those chips communicate reliably has become critical infrastructure. InPsytech, a Taiwanese IP design firm and subsidiary of Egis Technology, has staked its business on exactly that.