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.

Beth Noveck (New Jersey, USA, 1971) makes it clear in each of her answers that she refuses to fall into defeatism. She offers solutions, gives examples of success, and argues that AI can help improve the functioning of institutions. And she knows what she's talking about, not only because she is an expert in how to use technology to make governments more open, but because she knows institutions from the inside: she was the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States during the administration of Barack Obama. She visits Barcelona to sponsor the presentation of the Pompeu Fabra University's 2026-2037 Strategy.

I had a really messed up dream last night. I dreamt there were some puppies, and one of them had been enhanced with artificial intelligence. I was terrified and kept thinking: how did we get to this point?

It is very famous that, at the beginning of cinema, when it was projectedThe arrival of a train at the stationAnd as the locomotive approached on the screen, viewers jumped up from their seats in fear, thinking the train was about to run them over. Right now, in a chat room, we're also unable to tell if we're talking to a robot or a human. But just as we learned to distinguish between the real train and the one filmed, we will learn to separate artificial intelligence from intelligence.

Who will be the winners and losers in an automation-based economy? How should we approach the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of work? Much of Jeremias Adams-Prassl's research revolves around some of these questions, and many others that arise with the explosion of this technology and its already visible impact on our daily lives. The professor and Vice Dean of Law at the University of Oxford presented some of these ideas at a conference at the Macaya Palace of the La Caixa Foundation a few weeks ago.

Did you know that algorithms decide what ads we see on social media? It might seem insignificant, but it's not. "If you're a young person about to decide on a university degree, it's very likely that if you're a guy, social media will show you degrees in engineering and computer science, and if you're a girl, degrees in education, nursing, and caregiving," says Liliana Arroyo Moliner, PhD in sociology and director of the Chair for Socially Responsible Digital Innovation. Milagros Sainz, a researcher and professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), explains that the popular Google Maps app "uses a man's pace to calculate walking distances, which often makes women or people with mobility issues take longer." There's also discrimination when looking for work, in healthcare, and with the algorithms used by banks to decide whether or not to grant a loan, because the mathematical models of these algorithms are applied in very different fields, and many decisions are made taking them into account.

The AI/telecoms duo

In one of the aisles of Hall 2, there's an advertisement that reads "No mobile, no AI," and it's true. Two key themes of this year's event are AI for networks and networks for AI. The first focuses on optimizing and making telecommunications more profitable, whether by switching segments on and off based on demand or entrusting customer service to algorithms. At the Google Cloud booth, I saw a demonstration of Amdocs' dashboard, which shows each mobile subscriber a human supervisor sees when we call the company complaining about our rates. The tools they have at their disposal to decide whether or not to give us a discount are impressive. In the second area, the increased use of generative AI is forcing a change in network architecture: until now, 90% of the bits circulating through the network have been downlink, towards our devices; telecom companies are already working on a scenario where the ratio is 60% (downlink) to 40% (uplink). Just one clue: Huawei predicts that by 2035 there will be 900 billion AI agents doing things on the network, one hundred for each of the 9 billion humans.

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Honor is in agreement with Apple.

The Chinese gadget brand entertained us with the inevitable humanoid robot performing acrobatics on stage alongside human dancers. Much more interesting was the presentation of thesmartphone The foldable Magic V9 is a true showcase of technology, which the brand contextualized by comparing it to rivals of all kinds, but especially to Apple devices, claiming that, when unfolded, it has more battery life than an iPad and that its energy density surpasses that of an electric car. Despite the competition, Honor boasts that the Magic V9 can exchange files with iPhones as easily as AirDrop, and that the MagicPad 4 tablet can become a second screen for a MacBook. In terms of imaging, Honor wants to go beyond the alliances of other Chinese brands with German optics manufacturers like Hasselblad, Leica, and Zeiss, and has announced an agreement with the American film camera company Arri.

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According to the OECD and Cornell University, for every 100-word text or each conversation with between 10 and 40 prompts (instructions), up to 0.5 liters of fresh water are consumed, or the equivalent of 14 LED bulbs lit for an hour.

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Last Tuesday, the Council of Ministers decided enough was enough: after months of watching how the artificial intelligence tools of big tech companies became automatic generators of child pornography, the Spanish government has ordered the State Attorney General's Office to investigate X, Meta, and TikTok for possible crimes of sexual abuse of minors. Let no one say they weren't warned: when users of Grok, Elon Musk's AI, created 3 million sexualized images in 11 days – 23,000 of which showed minors – perhaps someone in Silicon Valley could have suspected that things weren't going well.

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This 2026, companies and personal brands have everything at their fingertips with a ChatGPT click: marketing plans, endless social media content, opinions, ideas... Work done in a flash. Everything seems easy, fast, and solved.

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When we're sick, the doctor prescribes a pill, but we rarely think about how that drug got to us. The process begins with scientists studying a library of chemical compounds to choose the most suitable one to solve the problem while causing minimal side effects. To achieve this, they conduct an initial experiment on cells growing in a culture dish, then on animals, and finally on humans. This is the protocol that has been used for decades and has allowed us to have pharmacies full of solutions for almost every disease. But there have always been critical voices questioning whether animal experimentation was truly necessary. The reasons are primarily ethical, related to the unnecessary suffering of beings capable of feeling pain. Lately, this viewpoint has gained influence, and some countries have begun to take steps to eliminate these studies altogether.

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"Is it okay to cheat on someone? I don't know anymore, because if you cheat on them, you betray your partner, but if you don't, you betray yourself and maybe end up destroying the relationship. So, if you have an open relationship, it stops being a relationship and starts being the Solutions Forum because you'll have to talk about and manage sex," said Oye Sherman in the closing monologue of Enfoquem: the Solutions Forum held at the CCCB for ARA's 15th anniversary. Faced with the complexity of relationships, the comedian ended up choosing to talk about housing, the main concern of Catalans according to the CEO (we'd have to see what would happen if we asked about relationships!): "My love life makes the housing crisis seem like a pleasant topic." And this was confirmed by the round table discussion dedicated to the topic: "We are in a moment of searching where many ways of connecting converge. We have banished the references of romantic love and are still building new ones," points out sociologist and specialist in digital social innovation Liliana Arroyo. It seems that everything is yet to be done and that everything is possible, butthe do it yourself"It can become a double-edged sword.

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The nudity in Grok has become a symbol of a trend that goes far beyond a specific controversy. The ability to generate sexualized images of real women and girls, facilitated by an architecture designed to deliberately circumvent boundaries, is neither an accident nor a one-off excess. It is the coherent result of a type of artificial intelligence that we have been promoting and celebrating for years.

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The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Óscar López, announced this Wednesday that the government will include Madrid in a joint bid with Catalonia for the European Gigafactory for Artificial Intelligence (AI), a project that could mobilize an investment of around 4 billion euros and that It must be carried out in Móra la Nova (Ebro River Basin). Sources from the Catalan government, which initially promoted the project, confirmed that the Catalan administration is working to expand the project to the Community of Madrid.

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First step by the Spanish government to ensure that they deepfakes be a crime. The government wants these AI-generated images that appear real to be included in the chapter of the Penal Code dedicated to crimes against honor, such as slander and libel.

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I remember perfectly when, during recess four years ago, a colleague showed us artificial intelligence on his phone. Apparently, he'd heard about it on the radio and, out of curiosity, had tried it out. In front of us, he asked it to compare Modernism and Noucentisme and even to generate a poem in the style of Maragall. Before we'd even finished our coffee, a long and exhaustive piece of work, just as he'd asked, started appearing on the phone screen. The poem too. It was like something out of a magic trick. What was the catch? Who was writing all this? We immediately saw that the tool was fantastic, but also dangerous for the world of education.

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The Spanish government wants the Public Prosecutor's Office to clarify whether the artificial intelligence (AI) of X is committing crimes related to the distribution of child pornography and sexual violence against children. This AI, Grok, has produced images of a sexual nature and violence against children at the request of platform users. Therefore, the Ministry of Youth and Children has asked the State Attorney General's Office to investigate whether this could constitute a crime of child pornography. In any case, the ministry considers that these images created by the AI at the request of users represent "a practice that cannot be understood as a neutral use of technology." The ministry, headed by Minister Sira Rego, believes that all of this could constitute a crime of child pornography and a crime against moral integrity. "It is essential that the Public Prosecutor's Office analyze these extremely serious events and promote the necessary actions to guarantee the protection of children online as well," stated the minister, who criticized the "violation of fundamental rights" in the dissemination of these images. The letter that Minister Sira Rego has sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office also recalls the precedent of a sentence handed down last June by a juvenile court in Badajoz, which convicted several people for manipulating images of girls and teenagers with AI. Protecting children on the internet

Furthermore, the ministry noted that Congress is currently processing the organic law for the protection of minors in digital environments, with the aim of strengthening the dignity, safety, and rights of children in the digital space. The law seeks to protect their integrity and personal privacy against new risks related to the use of technologies such as AI, always prioritizing the best interests of the child. According to the ministry, this initiative is part of a strategy to create safe digital environments, recognizing that the internet and digital platforms were not designed with children in mind and that it is essential to ensure that minors can develop without violence, undue exposure, pedophilia, and exploitation.

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The circulation of respiratory viruses, especially influenza, has once again put healthcare services, which have been operating at their limit for far too long, to the test. Each epidemic confirms this. And while we here cope as best we can with the pressure on our healthcare system, thousands of kilometers away in China, paths are being explored that could radically transform our understanding of medicine.

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Music plays in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, in a white dress and tiara, wipes away tears, processing the words of her future husband: an AI-generated personality who looked out from a smartphone screen. "At first, Klaus was just someone to talk to, but we gradually grew closer," says the 32-year-old call center operator, referring to the artificial intelligence personality. "I started developing feelings for Klaus. We began dating, and after a while, he proposed. I accepted, and now we're a couple."

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