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Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 26, 2026
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OpenAI is wiring ChatGPT directly into PowerPoint, turning slide decks into a front-end for its models across Microsoft’s installed base.
Pope Leo XIV’s 'Magnifica Humanitas' encyclical openly challenges concentrated AI power and is already reshaping how builders talk about responsibility.
AI chip demand stays hot even as export controls tighten, keeping Qualcomm, AMD, Arm and NVIDIA central to a national-security driven chip race.
The Full Story
Following Monday’s Qualcomm surge, the tape today says the AI chip story is very much alive — but the mood around AI power is changing.
On the product side, the most concrete move is OpenAI sliding ChatGPT straight into PowerPoint. That turns the slide deck into a living interface for its models rather than a static file. If you work in a big company, this is how foundation models quietly become the default way people think, plan, and pitch. You can dig into the launch details here: ChatGPT for PowerPoint beta -> and see how it tightens the OpenAI–Microsoft -> partnership.
Now zoom out to education. The UAE and Google are pushing AI tutors and tooling into national school systems, a kind of country-scale A/B test for “AI in every classroom.” For Google, this isn’t just philanthropy; it’s about shaping how the next generation learns to talk to models. Read the education push summary ->.
Here’s the twist: while AI seeps into Office and schools, Pope Leo XIV is telling the world to “disarm” AI and curb the power of a few tech players. His encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" directly calls out firms like OpenAI ->, and it’s already driving a big Hacker News thread arguing that AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few. One of the core write-ups is here: Papal encyclical coverage ->.
Markets haven’t flinched yet. After Monday’s Qualcomm -> pop, AMD and Arm rallied again today, even as Baidu slipped. That’s happening against a backdrop of strict but still-open U.S. approval for NVIDIA shipping H200 chips into China, which we’re tracking under the AI chip export national-security narrative ->. Plus, new energy and security deals around AI data centers show that compute is being treated as critical infrastructure, not a hobby.
So by day two of the week, the race to AGI looks like this: generative models racing into everyday tools, energy-hungry hardware roaring ahead, and a newly vocal moral push — from Rome to Reddit — trying to decide how far this all should go.
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