The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
May 2026
Practical NLP in the Browser with Transformers.js
This tutorial covers three NLP tasks: text classification, zero-shot labelling, and question answering using Transformers.js’s pipeline() API.
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Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.
The ‘Entry-Level’ Gatekeeper: Auditing Job Descriptions with Textstat
This article shows how to use free, open-source tools like Python and its Textstat library to build a script that automates the process of capturing “gatekeeping language” in job descriptions…
Building an AI-Driven Preventive Healthcare Ecosystem Not Just Another Healthcare App
When the client first approached us with the idea of building an AI-driven preventive healthcare platform focused around cancer care and long-term wellness, the requirement initially sounded like a risk…
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Open Source Ecosystems
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Bill Gurley has an excellent article on what he calls open…
How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion…