THE VATICAN'S POSITION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Vatican and artificial intelligence: the first encyclical on the digital age. When Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, the Holy See was not me…
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AlphaFold: The Silent Revolution That Changed Biology Forever
“The structure of more than 241 million proteins has been predicted, a catalog that would have taken hundreds of millions of years of experimental work to assemble.” At s…
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Peter Thiel: Architect of the Digital Future and His Influence on the Modern World
Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal, Silicon Valley investor and an influential thinker in the technological and political arenas, is a polarizing figure who has left an ind…
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The Cognitive Frontier: Palantir, Generative AI and Zero Hour for Assisted Thinking
A narrative chronicle of a leap that blurs the line between asking and executing. The rumor began, like almost everything in Silicon Valley, with a closed-door demo. A ti…
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Geoffrey Hinton, Father of AI, Warns of Its Three Major Dangers: “They will be very interested in creating killer robots.”
Known as the “Godfather of Artificial Intelligence,” Geoffrey Hinton fears that his creation may surpass human intelligence and explains why “killer robots” are a real an…
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How MIT Experts Are Seeking to Boost the Body’s Defenses Against Cancer
Scientists are analyzing why some tumors block the immune system’s action and how to reverse that process to improve treatments for cancers such as lung and ovarian tumor…
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The Invasion of Domestic Humanoid Robots
Dozens of companies are manufacturing robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and plans to test it soon in people’s homes One recen…
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Anatoli Brouchkov, the Russian cryogeologist who injected himself with a million-year-old bacterium to extend life “tenfold or a hundredfold”:
“There are some positive results” Dr. Brouchkov began his research with the Bacillus F bacterium more than a decade ago but is moving “step by step” due to a lack of staf…
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China Has an Ace Up Its Sleeve to Win the AI Race:Thousands and Thousands of Chinese Studying at Universities
China’s elite universities are going to prioritize degrees tied to the country’s strategic needs. Even primary and secondary schools will begin training their students in…
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Series: The Pioneers of Artificial IntelligenceDario Amodei: The Father of “Claude” and Anthropic
Birth and Academic Background:Dario Amodei was born in 1983 in San Francisco, United States, into a family of Italian descent. From a young age, he showed interest in sci…
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A woman manages to ‘speak’ in real time after 20 years of silence by connecting her brain to a machine
An AI-trained interface records her brain activity when she tries to say words and reproduces them using the patient’s synthesized voice, who suffered a stroke. Collabora…
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Techno-Feudalism: Definition and Key Characteristics
Techno-feudalism is a theoretical concept that describes an emerging socioeconomic system in the digital age, where large technology corporations (Big Tech) exercise a do…
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The Singularity of Artificial Intelligence and the End of Moore's Law: The Rise of Self-Learning Machines
Singularity of artificial intelligence and superintelligence. Contributed by Dr. Assad Abbas. Moore's Law was the gold standard for predicting technological progress for …
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Google Plans to Invest $75 Billion This Year in AI Development
The company claims its new experimental models surpass those of China’s DeepSeek The tech giant Google announced this Tuesday that it plans to invest $75 billion in capit…
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Two of the World’s Leading AI Experts Sound the Alarm: “We Could Be in Trouble”
Max Tegmark and Yoshua Bengio warn that AI systems smarter than humans with the ability to act autonomously could be dangerous due to the lack of clear controls General a…
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Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft Ignore DeepSeek: They Will Maintain Their Billion-Dollar Investments in Artificial Intelligence
• The tech giants ignore DeepSeek and its investors: they will spend nearly 290 billion euros on artificial intelligence in 2025.• During their recent quarterly earnings …
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Training in new skills requires more innovative funding models. The 7 initiatives in operation
New technologies are transforming people’s work lives worldwide, either by changing their jobs or replacing functions Adapting to this monumental change will require fund…
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A report from the World Economic Forum outlined the impacts that technological advances will have on the global job market
By 2030, 59% of the workforce will need to retrain to maintain their jobs What will be the main challenges in the market?The report highlighted that the skills mismatch w…
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Biden Signed an Executive Order to Expand Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure in the United States
The American president’s decision seeks to ensure the necessary infrastructure for advanced AI operations United States President Joseph Biden signed an ambitious executi…
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“We need to reclaim our digital sovereignty”: a letter by intellectuals denounces tech companies’ pressure on Brazil
Piketty, Varoufakis, and Acemoglu warn that the contest between the social network X and Brasilia is yet another chapter in the “alarming” global effort by large companie…
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Amazon, Tesla, and Meta among the leading companies in the world undermining democracy, according to a report
Companies like ExxonMobil and Blackstone are also major funders of the climate crisis, according to a new union report. Some of the world’s largest companies have been ac…
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Neuralink is making rapid progress in brain engineering. In the short term, hope; in the medium term, a concern
Neuralink has already received the first approval to test its brain implants on humans. The company began in 2022 the process with the pharmaceutical regulator to conduct…
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Elon Musk’s transhumanist company receives the green light to test brain implants on humans
Neuralink, one of Elon Musk’s companies, received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for brain implant experimentation on humans, a matter that, for…
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Artificial Intelligence XV Roundtable of El Confidencial – Work
THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. CAN AUTOMATION REDEFINE THE LABOR MARKET WITHOUT LEAVING ANYONE BEHIND? Experts believe that AI will partially automate the affected …
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Artificial Intelligence XIV: A Philosophical Vision
A PHILOSOPHICAL VISION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. “WEAK DEMOCRACIES, CAPITALISM, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE A DANGEROUS COMBINATION” Mark Coeckelbergh: “Weak democr…
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Artificial Intelligence XIII China Regulation Laboratory
THE SWIFT REGULATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA The draft regulation as a mix of sensible restrictions on the risks of AI and a continua…
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Pausing AI developments is not enough. We need to shut it all down. Yudkowsky is a U.S. decision theorist and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institut…
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How should the world respond to the Artificial Intelligence Revolution?
Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large of TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, and of GZERO Media, a company focu…
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Artificial Intelligence IX – Brazilian Regulation
Bill on Artificial Intelligence Regulation of the Chamber of Deputies of the Federative Republic of Brazil. For most members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Federative …
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Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Legislation EU VIII
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation Law The European Union, after listening to the opinions of various organizations, has developed the so-called Arti…
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Artificial Intelligence VII: A Note from OpenAI
Should artificial intelligence be regulated? The creators and developers of ChatGPT believe the new superintelligence could surpass human experts in most disciplines with…
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NEW FINE FOR META IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
The imperative need to comply with the rules and protect user data. Once again, Mr. Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, faces problems with European regulatory authorities regarding…
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