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Montevideo, May 30th 2026 - 16:24 UTC

Tag: Artificial Intelligence

  • Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 14:21 UTC

    Leo XIV calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence in first encyclical, links it to historical slavery

    He condemned the development of autonomous weapons and the growing delegation of human control over arms, arguing that it reduces the possibilities of qualifying a war as “just”

    Pope Leo XIV on Monday published the first major doctrinal document of his pontificate, an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas in which he calls for “disarming” artificial intelligence, warns of its risks to humanity, and delivers one of the most complete and firm apologies from the Vatican for the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery. “The word is strong, I know, but it has been chosen deliberately because this moment demands words capable of capturing attention,” the pontiff said during the presentation of the text at the Vatican, as reported by the BBC.

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  • Tuesday, May 19th 2026 - 02:06 UTC

    Musk loses USD 150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

    The decision clears the way for OpenAI's stock market debut, an operation expected to rank among the largest in financial market history, with a valuation close to one trillion dollars

    A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday unanimously rejected the lawsuit that magnate Elon Musk had filed against OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and the company's president, Greg Brockman, in which he sought USD 150 billion in damages and the reversal of the artificial intelligence firm's transformation into a for-profit entity. The verdict, reached by all nine jurors, found that the lawsuit is barred by the statute of limitations and amounts to a sharp setback for the founder of Tesla, who has already announced his intention to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

    Bukele bets on Google to build “world's best health system” as medical sector decries layoffs

    “The 30,000 daily appointments are human doctors treating patients with AI support. But AI agents will be doing this separately and in parallel,” he specified.

    El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday in a national broadcast the launch of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that incorporates artificial intelligence based on the Gemini model to detect, diagnose and monitor patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney conditions.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 13:45 UTC

    Uruguayan faculty warns students score top grades with AI's help

    Udelar authorities are reviewing the validity of these tests with highly unusual grades

    Teachers at the University of the Republic's (Udelar) School of Psychology in Montevideo raised concerns about students using AI tools, like ChatGPT, in virtual tests, achieving perfect scores in just three minutes. In addition, over 75% of correct answers were recorded when compared to in-person exams.

  • Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:15 UTC

    Falklands present at BOTs and UK Speakers’ conference on using AI in Legislatures

    BOT Speakers with Sir Lindsay Hoyle in center second row, and Keith Biles JP from Falklands Legislative Assembly to the right, second row

    Hosted by the Speaker of the UK House of Commons, Honorable Sir Lindsay Hoyle, MP, the 4th Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) took place in London from May 13 to 16, 2025.

  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 07:48 UTC

    UK to boost R&D in several areas with long term (over 10-year) funding to attract private investment

    Science Minister, Lord Vallance said, “research and innovation, from computing and AI to health breakthroughs need stability of funding.”

    British Science Minister Lord Vallance unveiled on Monday a more robust R&D criteria policy exploring innovation in areas as diverse as human health and cutting-edge computing, but particularly with a much-needed long-term certainty.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

    Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

    The two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets,” it was explained

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

  • Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Council of Europe adopts first international treaty on artificial intelligence

    The convention is the outcome of two years' work by an intergovernmental body, the Committee on Artificial Intelligence, CAI.

    The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring the respect of human rights, the rule of law and democracy legal standards in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 14:12 UTC

    Using a new AI tool to track the life cycle of icebergs in Antarctica

    Icebergs in the Southern Ocean have calved off the Antarctica Ice Sheet. They can take decades to melt into the ocean.

    Researchers are using a new AI tool to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean. This is the first step towards scientists being able to track the complete life cycle of most icebergs across Antarctica from satellite data. The study published in the journal Remote Sensing of the Environment points out a report from the British Antarctic Survey.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 21:06 UTC

    AI becomes Collins publisher Word of the Year 2023

    “Considered to be the next great technological revolution, AI has seen rapid development and has been much talked about in 2023,” a blog post from Collins said

    The contraction of artificial intelligence — AI — has been named as Collins' Word of the Year for 2023, the dictionary publisher announced this week.
    “Considered to be the next great technological revolution, AI has seen rapid development and has been much talked about in 2023,” a blog post from the publisher said.

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