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AI at Notre Dame
Notre Dame Experts Respond to Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical
Notre Dame’s leadership and faculty have warmly embraced the Vatican's new encyclical on AI, Magnifica humanitas, which calls for safeguarding human dignity in a highly technological age. Local experts note this aligns perfectly with ND's RISE AI initiative, reinforcing our campus-wide mission to ensure that automated tools are developed and deployed ethically.
Notre Dame Convenes Roundtable on AI-Ready Education
The Data, AI, and Computing Initiative recently brought together over 40 industry leaders and faculty to discuss how generative tools are fundamentally restructuring modern work. This collaborative brain trust is helping shape ND's curriculum to empower students as empathetic, curious collaborators with AI rather than competitors.
Vatican AI Research Group Hosts Workshop at ND’s Washington Office
Notre Dame scholars recently teamed up with Vatican representatives in Washington, D.C., to tackle the question of how to protect human agency as autonomous agents flood the workplace and school systems. The panel marked the launch of two new books investigating the moral and educational future of our increasingly automated world.
Webinar: Cooling the AI Revolution with Sustainable Data Centers(Registration Required)
If you are wondering about the carbon footprint of massive AI model queries, register for this upcoming June 23 webinar hosted by ND’s Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH). Experts will share how blending advanced physics modeling and automated cooling operations can make global AI infrastructure far more sustainable. Register ahead of time!
Tools and Features
Share Your Gemini Chats and Canvases Securely via Google Drive
You can now share snapshots of your chats, generated media, and even simple vibe-coded apps from Gemini using the familiar Google Drive sharing menu. This lets you collaborate on AI outputs while automatically inheriting your team's existing Drive security policies.
Save and Run Your Favorite Prompts as One-Click Skills in Chrome
To stop you from re-typing or copy-pasting the exact same prompts every day, Google is introducing "skills" for eligible Workspace users in Chrome. You can now save your best-performing prompt templates and run them with a single click in the browser sidebar on any web page or document.
Organize Your Documents in ChatGPT’s New Workspace "Library"
OpenAI is introducing a dedicated "Library" for Enterprise and Edu workspaces, providing a secure, central location to save, search, and reuse files you upload to ChatGPT. Once stored, you can choose whether the AI automatically references these files during conversations, keeping your research materials safe and right at your fingertips.
Elsewhere in AI…
US Government Suspends Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos Models
In a wild turn of events, Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5—which introduced advanced cybersecurity and autonomous agent capabilities—was abruptly suspended under an export control directive from the U.S. government. This swift regulation underscores the intense national security debates swirling around modern AI power and the relationships between AI companies and governments.
Anthropic and OpenAI Spark the Race for the First Trillion-Dollar AI IPO
Anthropic and OpenAI have both filed confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, kicking off a historic race to bring the world's first trillion-dollar AI start-ups to the stock market. While neither company has set a public launch date, the filings signal a massive push to secure the public capital needed to fund the eye-watering (and water-consuming) compute costs of next-generation models.
Apple Pulls Back the Curtain on "Siri AI" at WWDC 2026
Apple has unveiled "Siri AI," a major upgrade to its virtual assistant powered by its next-generation, highly private Apple Intelligence framework. Siri can now draw on your personal context to search across your photos, emails, and notes, giving you a significantly smarter but delightfully brief assistant starting this fall.