artificial intelligence

Companies, Markets 11th August 2026

Nvidia announces strategic agreements to secure funding of over $500,000 M for AI development

Reported by Norbolsa Nvidia has announced a partnership with six major financial institutions to create new financing platforms aimed at mobilising more than $500,000 million in private capital for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The company could provide up to $125,000 million, equivalent to 25 per cent of the potential volume of the transactions. The agreement includes Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Corporation, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The aim is…

In the World 10th August 2026

World Bank sees AI as opportunity for developing countries to accelerate growth by decades

The technology could significantly boost productivity by 2030, but this requires closing gaps in energy, connectivity, skills and institutional quality. Consejeros Editorial Team Artificial intelligence (AI) could enable developing countries to achieve in a decade what might otherwise take a century, according to the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence, produced by the World Bank Group. The institution believes that the technology offers an opportunity to boost…

In Spain 12th June 2026

AI could result in net loss of 400,000 jobs in Spain between 2025 and 2035

The OECD estimates that 27.4% of jobs in Spain are potentially at risk of task automation — a figure slightly higher than the OECD average (26%) — although the proportion of jobs at high risk of actual automation remains much lower, standing at 5.9%. By Francisco Rodríguez Fernández According to the article by Francisco Rodríguez Fernández, director of the Funcas Finance and Technology Observatory, ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Market…

Opinion 21st May 2026

AI costs drop by 99.9%: the token deflation nobody is talking about

Whilst everyone fears AI inflation, Payden & Rygel sees exactly the opposite. The cost of using AI equivalent to GPT-4 has fallen from $60 to $0.05 in two years. The asset manager warns that this “token deflation” could become a deflationary factor in the global economy. By Payden & Rygel With the deluge of inflation data published this month, we continue to hear inflationary fears related to data centre construction:…

Opinion 13th May 2026

Tech-obsessed and deranged

By Julia Pastor In February, Anthropic, a start-up specialising in generative AI, refused, on ethical grounds, to grant the Pentagon unlimited access to its AI model, Claude. The firm insisted on a number of red lines being respected regarding the use of its technology for mass surveillance of US citizens and autonomous weapons. As well as branding it “radical left” and “woke”, Donald Trump ordered the cancellation of all its…

In the World 28th January 2025

DeepSeek pricks the AI bubble

Juan Pedro Marín Arrese | A humble start-up company has dispelled the myth that AI development requires a substantial upfront investment. Spending only $5 million, it has achieved a better product than the leading semiconductor giants. Their shares sharply plummeted as investors realised that pouring so much money into their business proved too risky. A thorough reassessment of the expected returns has wreaked havoc on NVIDIA and other mega firms….

In Europe 16th March 2024

Europe becomes first region to set AI regulatory standards

Banca March: The European Parliament approves the first regulatory standards for Artificial Intelligence. Europe becomes the first region to set fundamental rights and security standards for the dark side of this type of technology. It is expected to enter into force in May, although it is not thought it well be implemented until 2026. The regulation contemplates the classification of applications according to risk, in order to assign a series…

Companies, In the World 24th March 2023

Alphabet launches “Bart” AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT

Banca March | The search engine Google has announced the launch of Bart, an artificial intelligence chatbot to compete with Open-AI’s popular ChatGPT. For the time being, the US multinational communications services company has opened access to the intelligent assistant to a limited number of users in the United States and the United Kingdom, in order to detect possible failures. Like ChatGPT, Bart is a chatbot that can be conversed…

Spanish economy 15th December 2021

The First Map Of AI In Spain Detects 209 Key Players In Business Digitisation

Iberinform | Who will drive the digitalisation of the Spanish economy? That is the question that the Map of Artificial Intelligence in Spain prepared by Iberinform, in collaboration with AI-Network and BigData Magazine, tries to answer. The result is a business and educational ecosystem made up of 209 key players that will have a multiplier effect on the digitisation of our business network. According to the results, 161 Spanish companies…

World economy 17th May 2020

How AI Is Being Used To Tackle Covid-19

Chris Gannatti (WisdomTree) |Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proliferating more widely than ever before, having the potential to influence many aspects of daily life. Crisis periods, like we have seen with the Covid-19 pandemic, are often catalysts for the deployment of new innovations and technologies more quickly. The power of AI is being harnessed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, whether that be to better understand the rate of infection or by tracing and quickly identifying infections.

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