How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Russell Contreras / Axios: How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatican is racing to build digital defenses for the artificial intelligence era — and quietly positioning itself as a global referee of what's real.

Filing: Anthropic spent 1.6M and OpenAI 1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. 360K and 560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been 'productive and constructive'; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting (Axios)
Florida AG James Uthmeier issues criminal subpoenas to OpenAI to investigate if ChatGPT's role in planning a mass shooting constitutes criminal liability (Alex Ebert/Bloomberg Law)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-25

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