🧠 FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: AI RESURRECTION IN ARIZONA COURTROOM: In a sci-fi meets courtroom drama twist, an Arizona man murdered in a road rage shooting spoke to his killer through artificial intelligence—a posthumous testimony unlike any seen before. The voice and likeness of U.S. Army veteran Chris Pelkey echoed through the courtroom three and a half years after his death, built by his family from fragmented tech tools to deliver one final message: forgiveness.
—> A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT... FROM THE DEAD: Pelkey’s sister and tech-savvy friends crafted a “Frankenstein of love,” combining AI voice profiling, image generation, and custom scripting. The result? A chillingly human AI message delivered in Pelkey’s own voice: “In another life, we probably could’ve been friends.” The judge and family were visibly moved. So was the courtroom. The killer received 13 years.
—> THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE? This is believed to be the first time an AI-generated victim has testified in court. Legal experts are bracing for what's next: AI resurrections in trials, wills, sentencing, maybe even cross-examinations. What started as a tribute could spark a new frontier of digital justice—and moral dilemma.
Source: Fox 10 Phoenix
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CRYPTO
🪙 ARIZONA SAYS NO TO BITCOIN BANKING: The governor just blocked a bill that would've let the state invest up to 10% of public funds in Bitcoin.
—> WHAT JUST HAPPENED: Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed SB1025, calling crypto an “untested investment” and saying Arizona’s retirement system isn’t the place to experiment. The bill would’ve made Arizona the first U.S. state to launch an official Bitcoin reserve. A companion bill (SB1373), which deals more with managing seized digital assets than investing, is still sitting on her desk.
—> WHAT’S GOING ON IN OTHER STATES: Crypto is having a statehouse moment. Over 20 states are debating digital asset reserve bills, but most are running into resistance. Arizona now joins Montana, the Dakotas, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming in rejecting Bitcoin reserve proposals. Meanwhile, national interest is growing — with Trump himself pushing a federal Bitcoin reserve.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: State crypto bills are the new front line in the regulation war. These aren’t just culture war stunts — they could decide how (or if) public institutions interact with decentralized tech. It’s the slow-motion merge between crypto and the traditional financial system. Will it happen top-down from the feds or bottom-up through the states?
Source: PYMNTS, Decrypt, CoinDesk
SPACE
🛰️ THE MOON NEEDS A WATCH: Congress just greenlit the first step to creating lunar time. A new bill — the Celestial Time Standardization Act — would force NASA to design a Moon-based time system for future bases, spaceports, and missions. Because here’s the thing: clocks don’t work the same in lower gravity — and on the Moon, a single “day” drags on for weeks.
—> HOW MANY HOURS IN A LUNAR DAY? One lunar day lasts 708 Earth hours — that’s 29.5 Earth days of sunlight followed by 29.5 days of night. Try planning a coffee break in that.
I love this… send me to the moon…
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: NASA is now tasked with designing Lunar Time Coordinated (LTC) — a system synced to Earth’s clocks, but adjusted for the Moon’s weaker gravity, which makes time pass 58.7 microseconds faster per day. It’ll need to work without Earth contact and serve as the model for future Mars clocks too.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: You can’t run space traffic control, resupply drops, or astronaut comms without a shared clock. Lunar time isn’t just sci-fi—it’s survival. Artemis missions, Moon bases, and future Martian outposts will all need to know when they are, not just where.
—> THE BROADER TREND: This bill is one piece of the Artemis-era buildout — a bipartisan rush to establish permanent U.S. presence on the Moon before China does. Timekeeping is now space infrastructure. No time zone = no civilization.
Source: Space.com
GLASS HALF-EMPTY: Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant, via The Guardian.
GLASS HALF-FULL: I Smoked for 30 Years. AI Helped Save My Life (Exclusive), via People magazine.
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🌀 OPENAI STAYS NONPROFIT—FOR NOW. OpenAI just pulled a U-turn on plans to become a full for-profit company. CEO Sam Altman said the nonprofit board will remain in control, citing feedback from civic leaders and attorneys general in California and Delaware.
—> BUT MONEY STILL TALKS. OpenAI isn’t ditching profit entirely. Its current for-profit arm will morph into a “public benefit corporation”—letting it raise capital while being legally bound to consider mission, not just margins. Think: Wall Street with a conscience… maybe.
—> MUSK’S LAWSUIT STILL LOOMING. Elon Musk’s lawsuit—alleging OpenAI betrayed its founding ideals—was partially dismissed but heads to trial next year. Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s user base keeps climbing (400M weekly), and OpenAI’s valuation is holding strong at $300 billion.
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ONE MORE THING
🧠 POPE FRANCIS: THE AI MORAL COMPASS. Long before Silicon Valley asked what AI can do, Pope Francis was asking what AI should do. As the Brookings Institution reflects on his legacy, it wasn’t just climate or capitalism where the Pope broke ground — it was algorithms. He warned against replacing human purpose with machine logic, urging developers to center dignity, not disruption.
—> A FUTURE WITHOUT WORK? Francis saw tech’s threat to jobs not as a sci-fi dilemma, but a moral crisis. He believed AI should be a “bicycle for the mind” — helping workers grow, not disappear. In his speeches, he called out the “technocratic paradigm” and challenged Silicon Valley’s AGI dreams, arguing that human labor is sacred — a source of meaning, not inefficiency.
—> WHY THIS MATTERS NOW: With companies racing toward automation, Pope Francis offered a counterweight: human-first innovation. At the Vatican’s AI summit, Brookings’ Molly Kinder recalled his charge to uplift “the least of our brothers and sisters” through AI — turning the tools of disruption into tools of justice.
Source: Brookings Institution
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Kev
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