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Spain unveils new AI plan as Sánchez warns unregulated technology could have ‘devastating’ consequences

News Desk21st September 202628th September 2026

21st September 202628th September 20261749

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies and countries could have...

EU proposes social media ban for under-13s as Sánchez says Europe is standing up to ‘techno-oligarchs’

News Desk16th September 202621st September 2026

16th September 202621st September 20261094

The European Union has unveiled plans to prevent children under 13 from using social media and introduce progressively tighter safeguards for teenagers, in what would...

Calls for an AI slowdown: conscience, politics, or cold feet?

Ben Giddings16th September 202618th September 2026

16th September 202618th September 20261300

This week Dario Amodei (left, main image), CEO of Anthropic, the creators of the Claude AI assistant, published an essay warning that AI is moving...

Court hears challenge to mass dismissal of more than 2,000 Meta content moderators in Barcelona

News Desk16th September 202621st September 2026

16th September 202621st September 20261267

The Catalan High Court (TSJC) has heard a legal challenge to the mass dismissal of more than 2,000 content moderators in Barcelona who worked on...

EU, Meta and TikTok join forces after deadly mass rush to Spain’s Ceuta border

News Desk11th August 202616th August 2026

11th August 202616th August 20261029

Over 100 people were killed after tens of thousands of would-be migrants attempted to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco late last month,...

EU hits Google with €890m fine over search and app store practices

News Desk23rd July 202627th July 2026

23rd July 202627th July 20261841

The European Union has imposed fines totalling €890 million on Google for breaching the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the largest penalties handed to...

Spotlight: social media bans – imperfect steps in the right direction

Ben Giddings29th June 20262nd July 2026

29th June 20262nd July 20262753

On 15 June 2026, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that children under 16 will be banned from social media. Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,...

Spain seeks leading role in European AI push with €719m investment

News Desk18th June 202622nd June 2026

18th June 202622nd June 20262698

Spain has approved a €719 million investment in a planned artificial intelligence (AI) gigafactory as part of a wider effort to strengthen technological sovereignty, boost...

Business Spotlight: Your website exists. But does anyone know?

Ben Giddings14th May 202628th May 2026

14th May 202628th May 20262342

You have a website. You paid someone good money to build it. Or maybe you spent your own valuable time painstakingly putting it together. And...

Business Spotlight: Spain is a digital powerhouse. Is your business keeping up?

Ben Giddings7th April 202628th May 2026

7th April 202628th May 20262990

The country’s digital economy is growing faster than almost anywhere else in Europe, and that changes the rules for every small business operating here. Anyone...

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