"Let no one have to choose between blind enthusiasm and fear." That is the goal of the Spanish government when it defends the need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), especially at a time when the abrupt entry into an era marked by this technology is being questioned. The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, summarized it this way this Monday, before the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, presented from Moncloa IA360. Plan for a responsible deployment of AI. It is a strategy aimed at regulating and promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence that the Spanish government wants to roll out over the next 12 months. The intention is to make the leap from being the "seventh world power in AI dynamism to the fifth power".

More than a dozen prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers warned last week that the technology companies in the sector are building is becoming a risk to humanity. The problem, these researchers asserted, is that companies are not good at controlling the systems, no matter how hard they try. Following revelations that so-called OpenAI AI agents escaped from their testing system and hacked another company's computers, new alarms raised within the AI research world have accentuated fears that, for years, companies have prioritized development speed and money over safety.

The headquarters of Foment del Treball has been filled with proclamations in defense of Barcelona, Catalonia, and Europe not missing the train of artificial intelligence (AI), in the face of the flood of alerts and fear that has shaken the world in recent hours. The representative of the European Commission in Spain, Daniel Calleja, has clearly positioned himself in favor: "We must invest more and better in AI. Barcelona has a great opportunity, and so does Spain," he claimed this Tuesday at a congress organized by the Catalan employers' association.

All activities in life are subject to norms or rules. It is one of the characteristics of civilized societies. It is evident that advances, as happened back in the day with the internet, begin by breaking some ways of doing or working, but over time they become normalized, although there are always those who find a way to go down the path of illegality or know how to take advantage of the lack of rules. We must be careful to reduce this aspect as much as possible.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has called on states and companies to govern artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that offers many benefits to society but which, in his view, also puts human rights at risk. "All human rights are at risk," he asserted.

In recent days, even the main representatives of artificial intelligence (AI), from Open AI to Anthropic, Space X or Google, have warned about the risks of a technology that, they warn, may end up dominating humans. "There is a genuine concern about the models that are becoming common and have not been tested much and can be used to commit atrocities," states Esteve Almirall, Esade professor specializing in data, analytics, technology and AI. In this context, once Open AI, the creator of ChatGPT, has decided to delay its stock market launch to take a kind of pause in growth, some see the fear of a stratospheric punishment in the market if any of the existing tools is involved in some wrongdoing. Some of these companies have valuations that exceed the gross domestic product (GDP) of countries like Germany (more than five trillion) and a negative reaction would mean an almost unprecedented collapse given that there have never been companies with these prices, warns Josep Soler, founder and executive advisor of EFPA Spain (Spanish Association of Financial Advisors and Planners). "The enormous valuations that have been made of these companies would collapse in the event that trust in them was lost," he adds.

The conversation about artificial intelligence has focused mostly on the product. ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Claude (Anthropic) have become ubiquitous on users' devices; and, with them, in the social conversation. Like all technological disruptions of the scale that is assumed for AI, however, widespread adoption is the key to any significant advance. This adoption is among the fields of study of Marta Serra-Garcia, a Catalan economist and professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School of Management at the University of California - San Diego specialized in behavioral economics, who has studied public trust in AI. Serra-Garcia receives ARA at the Ciutadella campus of the Pompeu Fabra University, where she studied and where she has returned to participate in the European Meeting of the Economic Science Association, organized by the center's department of economics.

The Minister of Business and Labour, Miquel Sàmper, stated in a recent meeting with Catalan representatives of the quantum industry that Catalonia "is arriving in time to lead" what is set to be the next technological revolution. Among the fifty companies that, according to Acció, are dedicated to this technology in the Principality, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech stands out with its own light: the company, which has developed the three quantum computers for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, is one of the leaders in European quantum computing, an economic field in surprising growth. Its CEO, Marta P. Estarellas, receives Companies at the company's headquarters to talk about a technology that "is a bit scary" and is "not very intuitive" for the general public, but whose applications will be unique and will stand out in the country's future.

The American multinational technology corporation Oracle has closed a record-breaking first quarter in which, literally, accounting and financial indicators have hit highs. In the first three months of its fiscal year, which ended on August 31, the company specializing in data centers saw its profits soar by 60% compared to the same period last year, earning 4.679 billion dollars – about 4.032 billion euros.

The Catalan technology sector often boasts about the talent pool offered by the country's university ecosystem. Any technology company that remains in Catalonia explains much of its success due to the foundation provided by research and educational centers, which allow access to high-level ideas and professionals without leaving home. Atom H2, one of the rising stars of the country's emerging fabric, is an example: the start-up has developed an alternative to diesel generators that generates and stores energy to support strategic infrastructure. And they did it, as recalled by Anna Martín (Barcelona, 2001), co-founder and CEO of the company, on Fridays after class.

Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree has debuted on the Shanghai stock exchange – on the STAR market, popularly known as the Chinese Nasdaq – with a 460% revaluation of its shares. At the close of Wednesday's session, the company's stock reached 845 yuan (108 euros), more than quintupling the initial amount of 150.8 yuan (19.3 euros) set in its initial public offering.

The concern over cyberattacks in Spain is at an all-time high. This is demonstrated by the latest data from the Ministry for Digital Transformation regarding the public cybersecurity assistance service offered by the National Cybersecurity Institute (Incibe) to citizens and businesses: according to the head of the digital portfolio, Óscar López, the contact number 017 – which directs to the aforementioned service – has received over 95,000 calls between January and June, nearly double the number attended in 2025 (49,599) and practically the same as those registered in all of 2024 (98,546).

The Minister of Business and Labor of the Generalitat, Miquel Sàmper, boasted last week about an achievement that seems unimaginable not only from Catalonia, but from anywhere in Europe: "We are at a similar level to the United States or China" in the development of deep technology, he assured. This is the quantum industry, one that seems to be part of futuristic fiction, but which is already doing business in the Principality.

Countdown to the end of the Parlem series. On Friday, August 7, the telecommunications company will organize an extraordinary meeting of key shareholders for the future of the Catalan company. Three points will be discussed: an imminent debt capitalization, a capital increase, and the entry of six new members into its leadership. The approval of these three points would mean a change in the shareholding majorities of the teleco and, as ARA has been able to find out, everything indicates that this will be the case.

Onalabs is a company founded in Barcelona ten years ago. A deep tech that has spent a decade focused on research and development of a technology to generate a "paradigm shift" in the healthcare field, in the words of CEO Elisabet del Valle. How? It proposes a new way of monitoring health: moving from punctual blood tests to an "intensive" and continuous "monitoring" of people through sweat.

Catalonia aims to make the definitive leap into the market in the quantum industry. After years focused on "generating knowledge," in the words of the Secretary of Digital Policies of the Generalitat, Maria Galindo, the country is experiencing a moment of "quantum effervescence" that allows it to aspire to compete with international powers. According to a sectoral report prepared by Acció, the agency for business growth of the Department of Business and Labour, this industry invoiced 91.4 million euros in 2024 – the last year with definitive data; a limited figure, but one that the sector celebrates within the framework of still incipient deep technology.

The CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Demis Hassabis, has warned that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive "in three or four years," urging "urgent measures" to ensure this technology is developed safely.

Television viewers are accustomed to seeing the familiar bug in a corner of the screen, the logo that reminds us at all times which channel we are watching. In mobile telephony, there is an equivalent: the Service Provider Name (SPN), the text that indicates which network the terminal is connected to and that appears in the top status bar, alongside indicators such as coverage or battery level.

Justice has declared null Leitat's employment regulation file (ERO), approved in 2024 and which affected 115 workers. The social court of Terrassa has ruled in favor of the 59 former employees who sued the company for formal defects in the collective dismissal. Furthermore, the judge considers it proven that the company "failed to negotiate in good faith" with the staff.

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