Pope Compares AI Threat to Tower of Babel
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.0 | Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion |
| 0:07.7 | dollar swings. |
| 0:09.0 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:11.4 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:13.5 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:25.5 | The U.S. and Iran trade attacks as peace talks bogged down. |
| 0:31.6 | Plus, Decision Day in Texas, as Republican Senate runoff tests the power of President Trump's endorsement, and Pope Leo adds his voice to a growing backlash against AI. |
| 0:36.3 | Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. |
| 0:41.5 | The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen |
| 0:45.2 | because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, |
| 0:49.6 | awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Tuesday, May 26th. I'm Lou Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. |
| 1:06.7 | The U.S. has conducted what are being described as defensive strikes against targets in Iran. After tit-for-tat attacks yesterday saw the U.S. sink a pair of the U.S. has conducted what are being described as defensive strikes against targets in Iran. |
| 1:12.1 | After tit for tat attacks yesterday, saw the U.S. sink a pair of mine-laying boats and Iran fire |
| 1:17.7 | surface-to-air missiles at American warplanes. Despite the flare-up, American officials say the U.S. |
| 1:23.1 | continues to observe a ceasefire in place since early April, and that talks to end the war are ongoing. |
| 1:30.1 | Diplomatic progress appears to be slowing, however, as the two sides dug in yesterday over references to Iran's nuclear program and financial relief for Tehran. |
| 1:39.9 | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio updated reporters today on where talks stand. With something like this, it's going to take a couple days to settle on, even down to the |
| 1:50.0 | disagreements over a word, sentence. So we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be |
| 1:56.0 | a deal, we're going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it's either going to be |
| 2:00.0 | a good deal or there isn't going to be one. The slowdown in talks follows a weekend that began with President Trump |
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