Phil Collins, Iron Maiden, Billy Idol, Queen Latifah, Oasis, Sade and Joy Division/New Order will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, along with first-time nominees Wu-Tang Clan and the late Luther Vandross. The list was revealed on Monday night’s airing of “American Idol.” (Kennedy, AP News)
Read MoreLegalization has led to much more use. Surveys suggest that about 18 million people in the United States have used marijuana almost daily (or about five times a week) in recent years. That was up from around six million in 2012 and less than one million in 1992. More Americans now use marijuana daily than alcohol. (The New York Times)
Read MoreUsers of the platform can join video calls with an avatar of Jesus generated by artificial intelligence. Like other religious AI tools on the market, it offers words of prayer and encouragement in various languages. With the occasional glitch, it remembers previous conversations and speaks through not-quite-synced lips. (Fauria & Wardarski, AP News)
Read MoreIn the eight decades following World War II, the country carved a unique path among the nations of the former Soviet bloc as the one country that has endured—largely in the same mold in which it was first fashioned under state founder Kim Il Sung. (Cheng, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreAnthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how the chatbot should respond to users who are grieving loved ones and whether Claude could be considered a “child of God.” (De Vynck & Tiku, The Washington Post)
Read MoreWhen Pope Leo XIV embarks on Monday on a 10-day tour of Africa, he will visit a continent that both represents the demographic future of the Roman Catholic Church and bears some of its deepest ideological fault lines. (Rich, The New York Times)
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