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AI ReadyDaily Brief · May 26, 2026
The Pope, Starbucks, and the AI bill that lands on the platform team
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Starbucks' quiet retirement, and the org-design problem AI just made expensive.
Pope Leo XIV published a 42,000-word encyclical on AI yesterday and invited Anthropic's Chris Olah to the Vatican. The same week, Starbucks quietly retired an AI tool it had run across 11,000 stores for nine months because it couldn't tell oat milk from whole milk. Today's issue is the read on what both stories have in common, and why the bill from your AI deployments is landing somewhere you're probably not looking. In today’s issue: Main story: The Pope just made your AI governance a board problem AI Headlines since Friday Yesterday, Pope Leo XIV published a 42,000-word encyclical on AI titled Magnifica humanitas , addressed to the Catholic Church's 1.4 billion members. He warned that "no…
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