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Today, the Council of Ministers has given the green light to the draft bill for the proper use and governance of AI. Now, the document will be sent to the Cortes to begin its parliamentary processing and, once processed, will give rise to an organic law. And the regulation will have this rank, Óscar López, head of the portfolio for Digital Transformation and Public Function, emphasized after the Council of Ministers, “because it affects fundamental rights.”

If a mountaineering enthusiast or professional aims to climb a 7,000-meter peak, there are options to choose from. The same goes for an 8,000-meter peak. If they want to climb a 9,000-meter peak, they can fool themselves with Everest. But if they want to climb a 10,000-meter peak, simply put, they cannot: no mountain on Earth measures 10,000 meters in height.

An archaeologist based in Torredembarra (Tarragonès), with a company specialized in excavations, now retired, has spent three decades allegedly irregularly appropriating more than 300 pieces from archaeological surveys in which he himself participated. Among the pieces that the Tarragona Urban Guard has been able to recover, in collaboration with the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Tarragona Prosecutor’s Office, are items from the Roman era and a thousand coins from the Peninsular War (19th century), which were minted in Tarragona.

The Bellvitge hospital has reduced the diagnosis time for pulmonary fibrosis from two years to six months thanks to a fast track with primary care centers. This model, extendable to the entire healthcare system, prevents the deterioration of lung function and allows for more therapeutic options.

Sabrina is an Austrian paragliding pilot with 17,000 followers on Instagram and a lot, a lot of luck. Last Saturday, while paragliding in an area designated for flights in the Alps, a Cessna 172 plane ran over her paraglider — she was just meters away from the propeller hitting her body — and destroyed it. Sabrina was at the mercy of gravity and the effectiveness of her emergency parachute, which worked.

The impact of the DANA on October 29 is measured not only in mud but also in unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the disaster struck more than 54,000 companies and put the livelihood of over 190,000 workers at risk, affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10,000 shops and local businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero area demands a specialized workforce that the current market cannot supply.

This Tuesday, negotiations between the Departament de Educació and the unions resume to resolve the educational conflict in Catalunya. They do so amid a call for a series of strikes and demonstrations that, if supported by public school teachers as they have been so far, will especially pressure the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area this week. This occurs in a context of rising temperatures that will increase the initiatives of teachers throughout Catalunya to take desks and tables to the streets to highlight the lack of air conditioning in school buildings.

Reducing the number of students per classroom, one of the main demands of the teaching staff, will cost more than 5 billion euros per year and, however, will have a “limited” impact on student learning, according to a study by EsadeEPol. This conclusion contradicts the practically unanimous demand of the teaching staff and has led the Administration to develop new regulations.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed this Monday a new positive case of hantavirus in one of the Spaniards who remain in preventive quarantine at the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid. The positive case was detected during the periodic diagnostic checks carried out on the contacts under monitoring.

The Ministry of Health of Italy confirmed this Monday the activation of health surveillance, in relation to the Ebola virus outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, concerning several people who arrived from Uganda in recent hours and the hospitalization of two of those travelers with fever in Milan.