It is one of the main concerns of families, teachers, and professionals: that students use artificial intelligence (AI) to study – or to have to do less and get good grades easily –. It is also one of the novelties of the PISA report, which has analyzed country by country what use students make of this technology and how it impacts their academic performance. However, analyzing the results, it cannot be concluded that there is a clear relationship between using AI and achieving – or not – new knowledge.

When going to check your email inbox in Gmail, a multicolored star reminds the user that they have a new companion: "Ask Gemini," suggests Google, in practically every corner of its suite digital. WhatsApp's search engine is no longer a search engine; it's Meta AI, also present on Instagram as an image and text generator. Like X, formerly Twitter, which has placed access to Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk's. Outside of traditional applications, ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Claude (Anthropic) have become essential on phones and computers worldwide. "The AI era," as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates calls it, has arrived; without permission, but with popular enthusiasm: both ChatGPT and Gemini are said to have surpassed 1 billion monthly users this summer; a usage figure that, as Ariadna Font, co-founder of the emerging Alinia AI and creator of Twitter's algorithmic ethics area, acknowledges, "is dizzying in human terms".

The stock market entries of the two competitors leading the race of commercial artificial intelligence – Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (ChatGPT)– are touching. While the market entry of Dario Amodei's leading company is assumed to occur this fall, Sam Altman's tech company "will be a listed company in 2027, or even sooner", according to the company's chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, as reported last Wednesday in a meeting with employees.

The euphoria that followed the stock market debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk's aerospace and artificial intelligence giant, has completely deflated. The company, which staged the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history on June 12, has seen its value plummet in recent weeks. The IPO price, it should be recalled, was set at $135 per share, and within just a few days, it soared to over $200. However, by Friday, the tech company was trading around $115, leaving all its investors in the red.

An artificial intelligence model from OpenAI, the North American multinational creator of ChatGPT, caused an "unprecedented incident" in global cybersecurity. As the company acknowledged in a statement, one of its training models broke free from its limitations and attacked Hugging Face, a company also dedicated to AI.

ThUS artificial intelligence models, which have comfortably dominated the market since the launch of ChatGPT, no longer seem so unattainable. In mid-June, the start-up Chinese Z.ai, a Tsinghua University spin-off that has been at the forefront of Beijing's technological strategy, has released its latest product, GLM-5.2. The analysis published by the company itself places it at a similar level to the main products of OpenAI and Anthropic laboratories. Market analysts have confirmed its potential; the cybersecurity company Semgrep, for example, has stated: "We have another Mythos at home." Experts consulted by ARA acknowledge that a general independent valuation is needed, but indicate that, based on the published specifications, GLM-5.2 would be "no more than 1% below" American competition.

Donald Trump has not yet emerged from one war and has already declared another. The White House has just unleashed hostilities with Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant behind the chatbot Claude. With the prohibition of the use of its most advanced models by foreign citizens, Claude Mythos 5 and its controlled version, Fable 5, Trump has forced the hand of the technology company led by Dario Amodei, which has been forced to exclude the entire product from the market due to the impossibility of filtering individual users. This is, as detailed by technology sources consulted by Empreses, a "before and after in the industry, an interference that destabilizes the market," says Josep Curto, an AI expert and founder of AthenaCore.

The war has begun and Elon Musk has fired first. The mega IPO of SpaceX, the all-encompassing technology company of the world's richest man, has opened the doors of Wall Street to generative AI. Although it is known for its rockets and defense contracts, SpaceX has housed xAI since February of this year, the company within the South African's conglomerate that manages its consumer artificial intelligence, the chatbot integrated into the X social network, Grok. Musk's public offering sets the path for the rest of the sector: a historically high capitalization target —$1.75 trillion— and billions raised to add to the immense computing investments that will be needed to cover growing demand. Following behind are Anthropic, the creator of Claude, which has the fourth quarter marked in red, and OpenAI, of ChatGPT, which left behind the legal problems with Musk and already has a clear path to join the New York stock exchange.

In December 2025, Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI, sent out a "red alert" to all his employees. After years of dominating the narrative of user-scale artificial intelligence, the creator of ChatGPT saw competition, for the first time, begin to overtake him. The relaunch of Gemini, Google's competitor to its flagship product, was perceived as an existential threat. Just three months later, Anthropic, founded by engineers originally from his company, launched Claude Code – dedicated to programmers – and Claude CoWork – for all professional tools – two applications that have taken a "quantum leap" for both consumer and corporate-scale AI, assures the founder and general director of WeArtificial, Aleix Valls.

As always when a new technology or advance emerges, with great changes and increasingly accelerated (radio, television, internet...), the stages are burned out faster and faster. And there are fears about the impact on the labor market. It has started to happen with artificial intelligence (AI), the big current issue. Several studies, from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), among others, have analyzed it. Some are more apocalyptic than others, but, in any case, AI is already an argument to reduce staff and gain more margins and profitability.

Artificial intelligence is already part of the daily life of primary care in Catalonia. In fact, ChatGPT is the most used tool by family doctors, far ahead of other options, according to a study published in The Lancet Primary Care. The work, promoted by the Societat Catalana de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària (CAMFiC) and led by Antoni Sisó, shows that AI has become a regular support in tasks such as medical literature research, text drafting, or clinical session preparation.

The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, has presented ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser powered by artificial intelligence. Atlas integrates ChatGPT's usual chat function, but also allows the AI to control the cursor, automatically executing actions such as booking flights, filling out forms, or editing documents directly from the web. This new move is seen as an attempt by OpenAI to compete with Google's Chrome browser, which has led the market for years. For now, ChatGPT Atlas is only available for Apple computers, so Windows users will have to wait.

Consultant, confidant, friend, psychologist... and now also a lover? Artificial intelligence is expanding its scope, and OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, is the first to openly enter the realm of explicit sexuality. As confirmed, starting in December it will allow the generation of erotic content. To use this feature, users will have to verify that they are over 18 years old. The new version allows users to change the chat personality to make it more like an adult. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says he wants to "treat adult users like adults," as he mentions on the X platform (formerly Twitter). They are also developing technology that can estimate a user's age based on their interactions.

OpenAI announced last Monday at its DevDay conference for developers that ChatGPT will become a universal platform for interacting with third-party services, from Spotify to Zillow. The official message: a revolution that will turn the popular chatbot into "something more like an operating system," in the words of Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT. The reality: a desperate flight forward by a company that lost $5 billion in 2024 and spends $2.25 for every dollar it earns.

For days now, I've noticed the air is a little fresher at dusk. It's not yet autumn, but the light isn't the same. The colors are beginning to lose their summery violence and take on a kind of anticipated melancholy. I like this moment, although this year I can't help but feel a twinge of anguish. September has always been, for me, a month of beginnings and endings, a month in which life seems to take stock of what has happened and what might yet happen. But now, with the world as it is, every beginning seems threatened by a larger, more definitive end.

Layla has been planning trips since 2024. To talk, you don't need to visit an agency, make a phone call, or observe any time restrictions: any device with an internet connection is sufficient to reach her. Layla presents herself with the self-confidence characteristic of job interviews: "Talking to me takes the stress out of planning trips," "talking to me is like having your own travel guru without the high price." But Layla isn't just any worker: she's an artificial intelligence (AI).

Just a few days ago, Amazon announced plans to build a gigantic data center in the state of Indiana, United States. This computing center will be dedicated to training artificial intelligence systems with the goal of simulating the human brain. The electricity bill will be expensive, as this complex will consume approximately 2.2 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power an entire city.

In recent months, something has changed in the way we read without us even realizing it. And I say "read" and not "search for information on the internet" because I don't know a single writer or artist, even those in their seventies surrounded by a venerably analog aura, who doesn't log on to the internet every day to see how the world is doing. And it turns out the world is increasingly empty of people and more filled with stochastic parrots. "Stochastic parrot" is the nickname we use to try to diminish the authority and propaganda that dominates the great language models of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT: "parrot" because they regurgitate the work of others and are only capable of repeating what someone has already said; "stochastic" because the mechanism that makes these models guilty of what these things are is not a process of logical reasoning, but one of chance artificially introduced into the choice of words. But, although this robotic parrotism is perfectly familiar to us and we instinctively despise it, we use it. For a few months now, newspaper traffic has been plummeting because we're asking ChatGPT for things we used to ask publications written by human writers. There's a bubble of inhuman readings that we should burst.

This spring, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, delivered a sermon against advertising from the presbytery of Harvard's Memorial Church: "I'll reveal a bias of mine: I hate ads." He said that ads "mostly cause the company providing the service to be out of alignment with the incentives of users," adding that he found the idea of mixing advertising with artificial intelligence "particularly disturbing."

Have you tried? ChatGPT: You've asked him what he knows about you, if Catalonia will ever be independent, if machines will end up dominating the world, and you've even generated some images. And it's entertaining, but that's it, you think. You're not in marketing, you don't have a website to fill with automatically generated content, and you're not a criminal planning a massive scam. And you wonder if this artificial intelligence trend is of any use in real life. Well, yes, it can be useful. It has many possibilities, many more than I'm able to take advantage of, but I'll tell you what I use it for in my day-to-day life, in which it helps me.