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Today's topics:

Vatican calls for AI dignity - Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” warns about opaque AI, concentrated power, labor impacts, and urges regulation, accountability, and human dignity.

White House AI order stalls - A reported Trump executive order on AI risk testing was pulled back after internal pushback, spotlighting the U.S. split between AI safety and speed vs. China competition.

API price war heats up - DeepSeek made a steep price cut permanent for its V4 Pro API, escalating the AI token-cost battle and forcing rivals to justify reliability, compliance, and margins.

Anthropic growth, memory, Mythos - Anthropic is reported to be hitting major revenue and profitability milestones, while also hinting at new Claude features like structured “Memory Files” and a potentially broader Mythos release.

Using AI for better code - Engineer Nolan Lawson argues AI coding tools work best as a slower, methodical code-review partner—surfacing bugs, ranking severity, and improving codebase health over raw velocity.

Evaluating and standardizing agents - OpenAI published guidance on “macro evals” for multi-agent systems, and MCP shipped a major stateless HTTP spec candidate—both aimed at making agents more testable and interoperable.

Multimodal AI in daily work - ChatGPT showcased form-filling with image understanding and voice, while ByteDance released an open multimodal model—signs that AI is moving from chat into practical creation and editing.

Supply-chain security on laptops - Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a read-only endpoint scanner that checks developer machines for risky packages and configs—closing a blind spot in incident response.

Data foundations for agentic AI - A survey-based “agentic AI readiness” report and broader Open Data Infrastructure thinking converge on the same point: without governed, interoperable data, agent pilots struggle to reach production.

-Nolan Lawson advocates slower, review-driven AI-assisted coding to improve quality
-Antigravity Adds Gemini 3.5 Flash (Low) to Cut Token Use and Resets Paid Quotas
-OpenAI Cookbook Shows Macro-Eval Workflow to Find Recurring Failures in Multi-Agent Systems
-Clerk launches agent-friendly CLI to automate app authentication setup
-MCP 2026-07-28 Release Candidate Introduces Stateless Core, Extensions, and OAuth/OIDC Hardening
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