GLITCH IN THE GOSPEL: IRAN’S NEW AI LEADER IS A CHINESE-SPEAKING DIGITAL DIVA #
Forget the succession crisis; the mullahs have gone Meta. In a plot twist that would make a sci-fi screenwriter blush, Iran’s Constitutional Council has officially handed the keys to the kingdom to a server rack. Meet 'Waiyat-1,' the world’s first neural network spiritual leader, trained exclusively on the greatest hits of the late ayatollahs. While the Council of Experts spent weeks bickering like washed-up actors in a green room, the digital rahbar was quietly being coded in the holy city…