Tech’s power struggles, ambitions and anxieties are converging fast. In California, OpenAI and Sam Altman secured a major courtroom win as a federal jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims that the company had abandoned its founding mission, though an appeal is expected. At the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV is preparing to elevate AI from a business and policy issue to a moral one, launching his first encyclical on artificial intelligence alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, with human dignity and the use of AI in warfare at the center. In the corporate world, Shein’s reported $100 million acquisition of Everlane signals how aggressively fast-fashion giants are hunting Western brands and credibility. And in media, new BBC director-general Matt Brittin, arriving from Google, is already warning staff that reinvention and painful savings will go hand in hand as public service broadcasting adapts to the digital age.