<span>STORY: Could Meta rival Nvidia? And what the Pope thinks about artificial intelligence. </span><span>:: AI Weekly</span><span>This is AI Weekly. </span><span>Meta Platforms is in talks with Google to spend billions of dollars on the company’s chips for use in its data centers starting from 2027.</span><span>That’s according to The Information.</span><span>If confirmed it could pitch Google as a serious rival to semiconductor giant Nvidia.</span><span>The report said talks also involve Meta renting chips from Google Cloud as early as next year.</span><span>:: File</span><span>U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated AI platform.</span><span>It’s to harness federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies.</span><span>The effort is called the Genesis Mission.</span><span>It aims to transform research and speed discoveries by using massive government scientific datasets.</span><span>:: File</span><span>Trump directed the U.S. Energy Department and U.S. National Laboratories to, quote, “unite America’s brightest minds and most powerful computers.”</span><span>:: File</span><span>The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t use AI tools himself, but officials who work for him do.</span><span>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added the Kremlin used AI tools to help sort through citizens’ questions during Putin’s annual question-and-answer event.</span><span>:: File</span><span>Putin last week called for a national task force to coordinate Russia’s work on homegrown generative AI models.</span><span>He said they were vital to preserving Russian sovereignty.</span><span>Alphabet is on track to hit a historic $4 trillion market valuation.</span><span>It’s been powered by an impressive year-long rally fueled by the Google parent’s sharpened focus on AI tools.</span><span>The firm joins an elite club of Big Tech companies racing to dominate the booming technology as AI continues to attract Wall Street this year.</span><span>Leo, the first U.S. pope, discussed AI with 15,000 of the country’s youth via a video call.</span><span>It came during a live transmission from the Vatican to a national Catholic youth conference in Indiana.</span><span>Leo told the young viewers AI is “becoming one of the defining features of our time.”</span><span>But he cautioned it must be used responsibly.</span><span>“In your education. Make the most of this time. A.I. can process information quickly, but it cannot replace human intelligence and don’t ask it to do your homework for you. It cannot offer real wisdom. It misses a very important human element. A.I. will not judge between what is truly right and wrong.”</span>
