One of the fashion companies, Anthropic, reported this Monday that it confidentially filed its initial public offering (IPO) prospectus with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), laying the groundwork for a possible historic stock sale aimed at investors willing to bet on artificial intelligence (AI). This could happen this coming fall.
“We are at a decisive moment. We must go further than autonomy, and instead move towards sovereignty.” This was expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, on the occasion of the first day of the Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia. According to Albares, “Europeans must guarantee security in a broad sense, and for that a federal leap is needed. It is not ideas that we lack, but the will to put them into practice. We must remove the obstacles in the internal market, particularly the capital market, and ensure it finances innovation in Europe, so that it is not in the hands of foreign companies.”
The Ministry of Finance has set to work to begin holding bilateral meetings with the autonomous communities (and cities) to address the reform of regional financing. The department has reported that this Monday it sent letters to the ministries of the common regime communities, as well as Ceuta and Melilla, with the aim of arranging dates.
President Salvador Illa has put on the table 3.3 billion euros in infrastructure investments at the start of the 41st edition of the Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia, which began this afternoon in Barcelona. The investment will be through a public-private collaboration mechanism, the president explained at the inauguration of the traditional sessions that were previously held on the Costa Brava and now in Barcelona. Last February, the Government already said it would survey the market to see if there was interest in recovering concessions for road networks and metro stations.
The Barcelona-based company Openchip, dedicated to designing very high-performance chips for artificial intelligence and supercomputing, is facing major strategic changes. Among them, its financial strengthening and the search for a new partner with economic muscle,…
Electric car sales are soaring worldwide, but the one that truly benefits from this growth is China. Chinese producers supplied 60% of the electric cars sold globally in 2025, while European and North American manufacturers were each responsible for approximately 15% of global sales, according to a report on the global electric vehicle market by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This market share distribution occurs as global electric car sales grew by 20%, reaching 22 million units. A quarter of all new cars sold worldwide last year were electric.
Imagine eight two-lane roads where cars travel at high speed. When traffic increases, traffic jams eventually form. Suddenly, now there is the possibility of switching to a single 16-lane superhighway. Although vehicles may go a little slower, the number of cars that can move at the same time is immensely greater. And also, with greater energy savings.
In October 2023, Isak Andic turned 70, the minimum age to join the VESP group (Veteran Entrepreneurs Well Prepared), created in Barcelona by Juan Echevarría Puig. They met regularly and each meeting was organized by a club member. On February 20, 2024, the president of Mango attended his second meeting at the Mutua Universal headquarters.
The investigation against José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a socialist figurehead, has sparked a bitter controversy over whether it is an operation by the State apparatus – judges, prosecutors, and police – to bring down Pedro Sánchez’s Government or the result of the normal…
Beyond the criminal implications, the investigation into former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is raising questions these days among professionals who operate in the busy border between public and private interests. A senior official with political experience was surprised that the appearance of the governor of the Bank of Spain, José Luis Escrivá, is being requested in Congress just because a meeting with Zapatero is mentioned in Judge José Luis Calama’s order, when this type of meeting is common. A former consultant wondered how much a former politician should be paid for a report or advisory work and recalled that at the beginning of the century a former U.S. vice president earned more than $150,000 for speaking for ten minutes at a forum with Spanish businessmen. These are examples that the boundary is blurred. And it tends to widen because the number of former politicians with business activities is increasing.