Vatican Infrastructure & Tech: Pope Leo XIV marked his 71st birthday by visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library and signing orders to build a new, modern facility to expand both the Library and Archives—citing growing holdings and “modern architectural and technological principles”—and he also repealed Pope Francis’s 2021 COVID-era salary cuts for Vatican employees. AI Ethics & Governance: Georgetown hosted a dialogue on “AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s Invitation to Dialogue,” grounding discussion in Leo XIV’s May encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the idea that AI’s future must be tackled together. AI Safety at the Top: Across the Atlantic, King Charles convened major AI leaders in Scotland as calls for a slowdown intensify, with Vatican AI adviser Paolo Benanti expected to attend. Sustainability & Human Development: Villanova University named Cardinal Michael Czerny the inaugural recipient of the Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal, linking integral human development with care for creation. Digital Culture & Memory: The Vatican Library unveiled JR’s “DILUVIUM” for the “AQVA, Catastrophe and Wonder” exhibition, using a water-themed installation to spotlight how disasters threaten cultural memory. Church Communications: A new book, Truth Heals, urges the Church to treat crisis communication as core safeguarding, not a public-relations afterthought. Security & Society: OSV News reports coordinated antisemitic attacks targeting biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, tied to anti-Israel social media campaigns.