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From the Vatican, the debate on artificial intelligence that has erupted in the United States is being followed with great attention. It is not the style of the house to say “we had already warned,” and Leo XIV does not do so either. But within the Leonine walls, it is observed that many of the doubts raised today by the very directors and researchers of the large technology companies were already at the heart of Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of the pontificate, published last May.

The top official of China’s intelligence services has issued one of Beijing’s most detailed warnings to date about artificial intelligence, pointing out that the rapid advances of this technology could threaten political stability and critical infrastructures.

Sam Altman has not stopped expressing his concern about the evolution of AI in the last 48 hours, since a former Anthropic engineer voiced his alarm that this technology could end Humanity. One day after explaining that it would not be appropriate for his company, OpenAI, to go public now, the company’s CEO admitted on his X account serious safety concerns about artificial intelligence.

In the 2023 mountaineering season, more than 1,600 tents were set up at the Everest base camp, located on the Khumbu glacier, which is melting rapidly due to global warming. The climbers and their assistants – the sherpas – used 824 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders, 18,935 liters of kerosene, and 5,130 liters of gasoline for cooking, heating the tents, and generating electricity. This human activity released thermal energy that melted 2,500 tons of ice. With this scientific evidence in the background – the damage caused by human activity to this summit had never been quantified before – a group of scientists is calling for the camp to be relocated. If the glacier is changing and human presence is creating more pressure, why maintain the infrastructure on the ice?, they ask.

Under the motto “When the territory is the ingredient,” the event reinforces an idea increasingly valued by the food and tourism industry: gastronomic excellence is born not only from technique but also from the landscape, the product, and local identity. This year’s edition arrives with a clear narrative and a well-defined strategy. Andorra Taste is not limited to bringing together renowned chefs; it builds a discourse around high mountain gastronomy as an economic, cultural, and tourist asset. In a market where origin, authenticity, and sustainability are already consumer demands, the Andorran festival fits precisely. Its proposal connects with an audience seeking experiences with content, prestige, and a sense of territory.

The PISA 2025 report has revealed a terrifyingly dystopian fact: young people cannot understand long texts due to their difficulty in maintaining attention. The diagnosis is so serious that, according to the educational experts consulted by this newspaper, only a social pact involving families and schools can reverse it. It was done with mobile phones, removing them from educational centers. Now – they point out – it must be done with reading. Enric Prats, professor of pedagogy at UB, and Jordi Collet, professor of Sociology of Education, propose prioritizing reading in school, which is the gateway to other knowledge. And to evaluate much more. The half hour of daily reading that was introduced by law two years ago in all Primary and Secondary classes, what results has it obtained? Do schools really do it?

The CEO of Anthropic PBC, Dario Amodei, stated this Saturday in a statement that the artificial intelligence industry must slow down the pace of development of new models, due to growing concern about risks to humans.

Between 1934 and 1936, the founder of Time Inc., Henry Luce, was devising the idea of publishing a weekly magazine inspired by major European illustrated magazines such as the British London Illustrated News, the German Berliner Illustrite Zeitung, or the French Vu. A new journalistic language was born, and Time Inc. believed there was a potential market for this way of “telling stories with photos.”

Juan Roig, in addition to being one of the richest people in this country, has visionary gifts. The income statement of Mercadona, which is going like a rocket, is a good testament to his commercial instinct. But, unlike Coca-Cola, there is no secret in his business: few entrepreneurs (and…

It is 9:00 PM at night in a supermarket in Barcelona or Valencia. A group of thirteen neighbors patiently waits for the supermarket workers to take out the bags containing the leftover food of the day and place them inside some rectangular organic waste containers located at street level. Little by little, some neighbors open the bags and, in an organized manner, rummage through the food they find inside to quickly and efficiently distribute the foods that have been selected and discarded for unknown reasons.