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Montevideo, May 17th 2026 - 22:10 UTC

Tag: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Friday, May 1st 2026 - 12:12 UTC

    Pentagon seals artificial intelligence agreements with seven tech giants

    The Pentagon noted in a statement that these alliances “accelerate the transformation toward establishing United States Armed Forces with AI at the center of their way of war”

    The United States Department of War announced the signing of agreements with seven leading technology companies to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools into classified operational environments. The contracts, which include SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, seek to consolidate Washington's military technological leadership.

  • Monday, April 27th 2026 - 12:59 UTC

    Palantir manifesto draws global criticism over 'technofascist' and militarist vision of the West

    The publication has been described as “technofascism,” and as “technofeudalism”

    A 22-point manifesto published by Palantir Technologies on social media platform X has triggered a wave of international criticism over its ultranationalist and militarist tone, at a moment when the US data analytics firm for military and intelligence use has consolidated its position as one of the Pentagon's leading contractors. The document, posted on April 19, has accumulated more than 32 million views and condenses the thesis of the book The Technological Republic, written by the company's chief executive Alex Karp and head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska.

  • Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

    Cambridge Dictionary names AI related 'parasocial' as the Word of the Year 2025

    Simone Schnall, Professor of Experimental Social Psychology at Cambridge, said: “Parasocial is the perfect Word of the Year. (Pic Cambridge University)

    The word is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc, or an artificial intelligence’.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 19:10 UTC

    Uruguay signs Council of Europe’s Global AI Treaty

    The treaty was signed in Strasbourg by Montevideo's Ambassador to Paris, Enrique Emilio Loedel Soca

    Uruguay signed the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring that the use of AI systems is fully consistent with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.