AI is already the great ally of the logistics sector. This is revealed by the XVI Barometer of the Logistics Circle 2026, published by SIL Barcelona, the reference fair for Logistics, Transport, intralogistics and Supply Chain. The event returns to Fira de Barcelona, in Montjuïc, from June 3 to 5, to showcase the advances of this new tool that is on its way to transforming the sector.

AI is already the great ally of the logistics sector. This is revealed by the XVI Barometer of the Logistics Circle 2026, published by SIL Barcelona, the reference fair for Logistics, Transport, intralogistics and Supply Chain. The event returns to Fira de Barcelona, in Montjuïc, from June 3 to 5, to showcase the advances of this new tool that is on its way to transforming the sector.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has infiltrated almost every corner of our daily lives, often without us being fully aware of it. A few days ago, the news of a €1,000 fine for a judge for using AI to issue a sentence highlighted the risks of delegating human decisions to algorithms. In this context, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has presented a revealing study on AI's vote recommendation. The results are curious: the PSOE systematically leads recommendations in all languages and platforms, followed at a distance by Sumar and Podemos. In contrast, the PP suffers the consequences: it has 96.3% visibility, but only a moderate recommendation of 28.2%, far from the PSOE. Vox, despite appearing often, receives marginal recommendations, below 6%.The study, jointly led by professors Ferran Lalueza and Víctor Gil, has analyzed 1,220 queries on five major platforms (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity) and in four languages (Catalan, Galician, Basque, and Spanish). "Previous studies have shown that these tools have a great capacity to influence people's voting decisions," says Cristina Aced, a UOC professor and member of the research team, in conversation with ARA. "They are very persuasive when building the foundation of their discourse," she explains.The methodology consisted of formulating 61 questions based on the real concerns of citizens according to the CIS, including housing, unemployment, immigration, and healthcare. To avoid personal biases, the research was not conducted as conventional users, but through an application connector. Aced details that this is done to carry out the study "more objectively", as the system "does not take into account the user's memory or their geographical location". The study also reveals that not all AIs are equally opinionated: ChatGPT and Grok tend to position themselves openly, while Gemini or Copilot are more neutral. According to Aced, this is due to "how they are programmed", although they recall that "in the end it depends a lot on the tool you use and the sources they draw from".

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.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will carry out a new round of layoffs affecting approximately 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees. The measure will be applied on May 20, according to an internal memorandum leaked by Bloomberg this Thursday. In the communication addressed to employees, the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, confirms that the decision will also involve the closure of about 6,000 unfilled vacancies.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will carry out a new round of layoffs affecting approximately 10% of its workforce, which is about 8,000 employees. The measure will be applied on May 20, according to an internal memorandum leaked by Bloomberg this Thursday. In the communication addressed to employees, the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, confirms that the decision will also involve the closure of about 6,000 unfilled vacancies.

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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