Since Trump began his second term, the world seems to be living in a state of both shock and fascination. We never imagined that, in such a short time, someone could destroy an international order created with such effort, could annihilate respect for the institutions that seemed most solid to us, could demonstrate so clearly that his whim is law. Every day a shock, a surprise, a new attack on coexistence manages to keep us on edge, hanging on Trump's every word.

In a world of ever-expanding digital infrastructure, addiction, confusion, distortion, and disorientation are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. With each passing day, it becomes harder to distinguish what is true or real from what is false or synthetic. This can also be expressed another way: we are progressively accepting more artificial components in our lives. However, the most thorny central confusion lies in trying to understand what artificial intelligence (AI) represents. Since the universe of consciousness is still a mystery, there are two opposing schools of thought regarding AI and the role it can play in our society.

The GAFAM companies have become the emperors of the new world. Each of the initials stands for Google (also known as Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, and Microsoft, in that order. They are the American tech giants, where they have grown under the protection of successive governments, particularly those of Donald Trump. In fact, across the Atlantic, they are referred to as the "magnificent seven," a list that includes Nvidia and Tesla. Their power extends beyond the economic sphere—as was evident at Trump's inauguration in 2025—something that has not gone unnoticed by some governments, including Spain's. Indeed, Pedro Sánchez began the year speaking of a "tech elite" and urging the European Union to "stand up to it." He initiated a challenge to the major tech companies, a challenge he has revived eleven months later.

Cloudfare is a company that hosts websites and provides traffic monitoring services. Its CEO has announced that they have developed an application capable of blocking artificial intelligence bots that crawl the internet. If one of their clients so chooses, their original content will not be used to train Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and their families. The question, of course, is whether the media will dare to take that step.

A few weeks ago, at an institutional event in Brussels, a digital policy expert celebrated that Europe's commitment to defense opened a window of opportunity for European artificial intelligence. But he warned: "We will need a lot more data than we have now." No one in the room seemed to have any problem. No one mentioned that one of the most important principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is precisely that of limiting data collection to what is strictly necessary.

Catalonia is once again the autonomous community with the largest number of technological and innovative companies in Spain, according to theRegional report of tech and innovative companies 2025 published by Ecosistema Startup, one of the databases of start-ups and greater investment. Currently, with data updated to May 2025, Catalonia has 2,351 active technology companies, ahead of the Community of Madrid (2,189), and registers significant growth compared to the same period in 2024, when 2,064 companies were recorded.

Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it was imposed fifty years ago. Its great advantage was its marked departure from classical liberalism: although it deferred to liberal thinkers, it shared neither their method nor their idea of the market. Today we are on the verge of another equally profound ideological innovation.

Nvidia, the artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant, expects to lose $5.5 billion (more than €4.8 billion) in the first quarter of this year due to the Trump administration's decision to require a license to export chips integrated into H2 to China. This move against China also affects Hong Kong and Macau.