The Council of Ministers has launched this Tuesday the major investment announced of 13 billion euros in Spanish airports until 2031 after making a Solomon-like decision regarding one of the most controversial elements, that of the review of the fees paid by each traveler to cover the infrastructure costs.
The artificial intelligence gigafactory will be built in Móra la Nova regardless of whether it receives support from the European Union or not. This morning, the project’s executive director, Francesc Fajula, assured that the initiative will move forward without any conditions. “The project will go ahead even if we don’t win in Brussels, the important thing really is to be sovereign,” he said in his appearance at the Forward congress, held today at the Foment del Treball headquarters in Barcelona,
According to the Future of Jobs Report 2025, prepared by the World Economic Forum, nearly 40% of the skills that workers use today will change before the end of the decade, and six out of ten professionals will need to update their competencies before 2030. With this data in hand, the question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will transform employment, but how we can prepare to remain relevant in a rapidly evolving labor market.
A bad August awaiting a September that will likely be worse. The data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) this morning confirmed that prices soared last month to 4.3%, the highest rate since February 2023.
Fear of the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence is spreading after a summer of rumors about out-of-control experiments. Programs that would have escaped the laboratory to enter other computer circuits, bypassing all security barriers. Rumors from August that in September have turned into a solemn call from the three main private operators in the United States in favor of a pause and international regulation of AI. President Donald Trump responded angrily, calling them “traitors,” a term that is becoming fashionable this tumultuous season.
Will Rinehart (Springfield, Illinois, 1985) is a senior researcher at the think tank American Enterprise Institute specializing in the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the business world and the labor market. This week he is in Barcelona for the Forward summit held by the employers’ association Foment del Treball. In a meeting with La Vanguardia, Rinehart takes the opportunity to analyze the industry landscape in light of recent announcements advocating for slowing down technological advances.
Convulsion in the markets. Doubts about whether it would be appropriate to halt the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) given its growing power and influence, combined with the surge in oil prices near $110 due to disruptions in the Arabian Peninsula, along with speculation that the Federal Reserve (Fed) might be forced to raise interest rates this week, have shaken trading this Monday, first in Europe, then on Wall Street.
Puig buys from Esteve the 50% it did not control in Isdin for 1.2 billion euros. The operation takes place after the merger with Estée Lauder fell through. According to the company chaired by Marc Puig, which informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the total purchase price will be paid “900 million euros on the closing date of the operation” and “300 million euros as fixed deferred payment, to be paid in the first quarter of 2029.”
Calls to halt the advance of artificial intelligence from within the sector itself due to fears that AI could end humanity and OpenAI’s decision – owner of ChatGPT – to postpone its IPO are resulting in stock market declines in the sector this Monday. Technology companies in Europe, the U.S., and Asia are heading for a day of trading in the red, from SoftBank to Nvidia, including ASML, amid fears of a slowdown in business for the main players and their suppliers.
The drastic adjustment program undertaken by Oliver Blume, CEO of Volkswagen, has shaken Catalan and Spanish politics and economy due to its possible effects on the historic Seat. As veterans of the Spanish automotive company recall, there has been no adjustment in…
