A few days ago, two well-known authors, suspicious of the creative abilities of generative artificial intelligence, put it to the test and the result was not what they expected. "We asked it to write a one-paragraph story in a baroque style with the sole premise that it had to feature a dog walker, and the story was coherent and not bad at all, but then we asked it if it could rewrite it with our particularities as authors, without giving it any other clue, and it did it even better," comments Irene Pujadas, winner of the latest Finestres prize with La intrusa (L'Altra, 2025) and one of the participants in this experiment. The other was Mariana Enriquez. "We weren't satisfied with what the AI achieved and we wanted to know how it had decided what choices it made in each case –continues Pujadas–. It replied that, in Mariana's case, it had set out to write a story with a touch of mystery that was not found in the characters, but rather related to the spaces where it took place, as she usually does in her fiction. In my case, connecting it to my literary world, the dogs in the story were taking an emotional management course and everything ended up having an absurd bureaucratic touch".

It would seem like a race to destroy humanity in which the winner is whoever raises the most money. At the same time that the company Anthropic, the creator of the chatbot Claude, asserts that artificial intelligence could pose a "catastrophic or existential" risk to humanity, and that it implies the possibility of destroying millions of jobs, this Monday its managers announced that they have filed the documentation to go public in the United States, on the Nasdaq index.

“They say it’s good, I’ve read it”. This is how Alberto Núñez Feijóo defended on Friday the mysterious community manager of the PP, who has become one of the great protagonists of the November 29th electoral pre-campaign. With a combative, ruthless, ironic, and daring style, the popular party’s posts on Instagram, TikTok, and X have gone viral rapidly and have been able to make an appearance in conventional media. The one that has had the most resonance is a video made with artificial intelligence, seen by more than two million people on X, in which Begoña Gómez, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and Santos Cerdán, among others, appear admitting to the facts for which they are being investigated. It is what is known as a deepfake. “Having a chair thanks to the fact that my husband is the president”, says Pedro Sánchez’s wife. “Hiding jewels in a safe”, expresses the former Spanish president. “Belonging to a criminal gang”, verbalizes the former number 3 of the PSOE. Leire Díez also appears, who has filed a lawsuit against the PP for the crimes of slander with publicity, attack on moral integrity, and digital identity theft.

This week, the Government will take the first step to tighten current regulations with the aim of combating health problems derived from intensive screen exposure that affects young people. On Tuesday, the Catalan executive will approve the preliminary report for the draft bill on digital well-being and the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments, which will provide a legal framework to move forward with measures such as the limitation of artificial intelligence among minors.

Since the launch of the first ChatGPT models, Catalan companies have looked at artificial intelligence with curiosity. Adoption has been, according to several studies, rapid but lacking order: according to a report prepared by OpenAI itself, creator of the famous chatbot, 96% of small and medium-sized Catalan companies already use AI in some area of their business. However, nearly 40% declare that they still do not have a formal policy for using it.

The Cold War is a distant memory and a ghost is once again haunting Europe. At least, Western Europe. That of a hot war or, at the very least, a hybrid one, which manifests itself in many ways: sabotage, drones, cyberattacks, the use of immigration as a tool of destabilization... "We have entered a new era of deterrence," predicts security and defense expert Juraj Majcin. Eighty-one years after the defeat of Nazism, the outbreak of a widespread conflict, extending beyond what is now being fought in Ukraine following the invasion by Vladimir Putin's Russia, no longer seems an improbable scenario, and this will be, precisely, one of the topics of the new edition of Enfoquem, next Monday.

A market that reached 2 billion dollars in July now exceeds 9 billion dollars. It is that of credit default swaps (CDS) linked to debt issued by the main technology companies tied to artificial intelligence (AI). These are financial derivatives that became popular during the 2008 financial crisis and which, in essence, allow for protection against possible defaults by bond issuers. They are bets against a possible downturn with the risk of losing money if the trend turns around.

The Bon Preu group is finalizing preparations to introduce a pioneering artificial intelligence assistant in the country that aims to improve users' shopping planning through its application. The new functionality, developed jointly with the Catalan start-up Shoptimus, will begin to be available over the next few weeks for the company's internal staff as a trial.

This Friday, the winning work of the first Almadía - Ventosa Arrufat International Short Novel Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, for which 2,204 manuscripts were submitted, was to be presented in Madrid. The jury, made up of three renowned authors, Cristina Rivera Garza, Selva Almada, and Mónica Ojeda, had chosen Donde el agua trabaja, the first novel by the Peruvian lawyer David Silva Rojas (Ica, 1981).

At the Davos Forum, the meeting of global economic and political elites held every January in the Swiss city, one of the main concerns on the table has long been cybersecurity. Tools are needed to combat one of the great threats to networks and technological systems. And the CEOs of large companies are aware of this and are investing in it. It is more difficult for SMEs, which have fewer capabilities and resources to deal with these threats.

The "backbone of the web" faltered yesterday. The publication of two serious vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language on which 70% of the internet's web pages are based, has shaken governments, companies, and users around the world. After administrations in multiple countries decided to halt the service of many of their pages while waiting for the update that was supposed to resolve the two problems, attempts to exploit these weaknesses have multiplied. According to the CEO of the cloud services firm Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, the announcement has triggered "millions" of cyberattack attempts exploiting the weaknesses exposed in PHP. "In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, we saw thousands of attempts to exploit them. They jumped to tens of thousands in the following 45 minutes, and now they are in the millions," explained Prince in a post on his page on the social network X.

For me, when instead of saying “a hug” they send me a circumspect baby wearing sunglasses or a kitten drinking a cocktail on WhatsApp, I really feel like pouring myself a few deciliters of rat poison in a Pompadour glass. Now in the groups of what already it is very noticeable when someone has received a new meme. Whatever you say, they send it to you to finish you off. It is like this reader we have at ARA (I love him infinitely) who, on every piece of news, whether it talks about Brad Pitt, the DANA, or the queues on the AP-7, complains about Spain by calling it “Ñ”. Well then. We were few and now the PP has appeared. Now –and I fall asleep while writing this– they have made a video with artificial intelligence (it goes without saying that the intelligence is artificial and not natural) to mock and ridicule the PSOE. Since –zzz...– Pedro Sánchez made a video playing with the double meaning of "left-handed (in Spanish, left-handed), now they have tweeted another where several PSOE members appear (using artificial intelligence), among them José Luis Ábalos praising prostitution. “If going to prostitutes is being a leftist, then I am a leftist,” they make him say.

In an autumn marked by the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence, Europe seemed far from any seat of power. Just a few weeks away from the predictable mega-IPO of Anthropic, and still with the echoes of the controversy over the technology's safety that shook the United States in September, the Twenty-Seven have moved a relevant piece for the first time in recent years. At the beginning of October, Mistral, the French benchmark for AI –the only European player mentioned in the conversation of the most advanced models– launched its latest model, Mistral Large 4, also known "very officially" as le Chonk.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we work and many other things. Among them, taxes. The tax system of countries will have to adapt. Currently, a large part of tax revenue comes from labor income (wages) through a progressive tax (the more you earn, the more you pay), which is the personal income tax (IRPF). But to the extent that AI will reduce jobs – at least during a transition period during which many jobs will disappear, be transformed, or require less personnel – public coffers will notice it.

With empty water bottles in hand, citizens of the Indonesian island of Batam stormed a data center macro-complex this week shouting "Water, water." They were all protesting because for months now, no water has flowed from the taps in their homes. Meanwhile, the data centers at the Nongsa Digital Park, located on the island, continue to have enough water for computers and systems to operate normally. Now the island's inhabitants, which is trying to become a technological hub, depend on water tankers, as reported by the BBC.

The main international economic institutions have taken good note of the alarms regarding the safety of artificial intelligence that have been unleashed during the summer. The latest to demonstrate this has been the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva. In an intervention during the annual meetings of the monetary institution and the World Bank, which are being held this week in Bangkok, Georgieva has called for regulation and oversight of the technology by the main industry players. "Without safeguards, risks may outweigh opportunities," the director stated.

An OpenAI engineer has been arrested and charged in the United States for hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room at the company's San Francisco office to intercept confidential conversations. The case came to light after the company announced on X this Wednesday that it had discovered a "sophisticated" hidden recording device and had alerted the FBI. According to the federal prosecutor's office, the 35-year-old Saudi engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, allegedly placed the device behind a television and consulted artificial intelligence tools to prepare for its installation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) affects the entire value chain of banking, and the impact is "brutal". This was stated by the director of the Department of Experimentation and Laboratory of Applied Technologies (Delta) of the Bank of Spain, which is headquartered in Barcelona. During a breakfast organized by the executive organization CEDE at the headquarters of Foment del Treball, he assured that all financial institutions are incorporating this technology, from personnel management and more basic activities to business processes, ranging from credit to risk and monetary policy. The main entities, such as BBVA, CaixaBank and Banco Sabadell, have reinforced this commitment in recent times.

Factorial, the Catalan company specializing in business management software, which ranks among the scale-ups most valuable in Europe, has completed its leap into artificial intelligence with the launch of One, an AI agent for companies dedicated to "connecting information and automating work".

On September 22nd, the first day of Milan Fashion Week, during the Vogue World fashion show at the imposing Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, there were two people visibly uncomfortable with what they were seeing. Miuccia Prada – head designer of her eponymous brand – and Alessandro Michele – creative director of Valentino – two of the heavyweights of the global fashion scene, were clearly wrinkling their noses while the rest of the attendees applauded, enthralled by the spectacle. The reason? The appearance of four humanoid robots from the Chinese company Unitree acting as acrobats among the models, presented under the title The age of intelligence. While the audience responded with enthusiasm, Prada and Michele seemed to be among the few who did not find it amusing. Perhaps because, behind the spectacle, they saw something more than four robots doing somersaults: the irruption of artificial intelligence into a world, that of fashion, which until now had made the body, hands, tradition, and human creativity its reason for being.