Samsung workers avert strike, secure bonus deal after AI profit surge

Samsung union members on Wednesday signed a deal securing massive annual bonuses – averting a major strike in South Korea where Samsung Electronics alone accounts for around 12.5 percent of gross domestic product. Global demand for the memory chips that power AI data centres has turbocharged Samsung’s earnings in recent months.

Pope Leo takes aim at AI in encyclical

FRANCE 24’s François Picard welcomes David Gibson, journalist and director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. On Monday, Pope Leo XIV set out his sweeping vision for AI and humanity. His first encyclical – a special papal letter that’s sent to bishops in the Roman Catholic Church – was presented alongside Anthropic’s Chris Olah, an attempt to demonstrate the possible dialogue between AI scientists and the rest of the world. Analysts are already comparing Leo’s document to Pope Francis’s 2015 climate encyclical that sparked global political debate.

Pourquoi tant de jeunes Américains haïssent l’IA

Ces dernières semaines, des étudiants accueillent par des huées des discours sur la révolution de l’intelligence artificielle. La génération la plus exposée à cette technologie est aussi celle qui la rejette le plus, observe Michelle Goldberg, chroniqueuse progressiste du quotidien américain “The New York Times”.