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42% of Colombian workers fear AI will replace their jobs
According to the Ipsos AI Monitor 2026, 42% of workers in Colombia consider it likely that artificial intelligence will replace their job in the next five years, and 48% say they feel nervous about products and services that use AI. The concern also covers the loss of value of the knowledge and experience they have acquired. Experts speak of 'algorithmic anxiety', a concept they describe as an explanatory category and not a clinical diagnosis.
TechnologyColombiaEl DiarioOct 24AI
Alice, the Brazilian healthtech, raises US$40 million in Series D led by the IFC
Brazilian healthtech Alice closed a US$40 million Series D round, announced on October 19, 2026 and led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm. DEG and Finnfund participated alongside existing shareholders Canary, Next Billion Ventures, Thorntree Capital and Kaszek Ventures. It is the company's first return to capital markets since its US$127 million Series C led by SoftBank in 2021. The company reported record annualized recurring revenue of R$1.2 billion and more than 100,000 members.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 24AI
New York proposes curbing "endless loops" in automated customer service
The city of New York proposed new rules for automated customer service systems, from AI chatbots to voice response calls. The rule, pushed by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), would require companies to disclose when a user is interacting with a technology and to offer a one-step path to reach a person. If enacted, the city would become the first U.S. municipality to apply this type of consumer protection, according to the agency. Fines could reach USD 3,500.
TechnologyInternationalInfobaeOct 24AI
Instinct raises $1 billion Series C, cementing messaging-based AI agents
Instinct, a San Francisco startup founded by Noah Shinn, announced on September 28, 2026 a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation, according to reports from Yahoo Finance and PYMNTS. The figure quadruples the $2.5 billion valuation of its $250 million Series B. The company runs AI agents over SMS, iMessage, RCS and WhatsApp, a segment where Ask Proxy, Caddy, Comma, Meta's Muse and Wajo also compete.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 24AI
Juan Ignacio Cirac: "AI is collapsing the scientific career as we have known it"
Spanish physicist Juan Ignacio Cirac, director of the theoretical division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics since 2001, warned that artificial intelligence is driving a paradigm shift in the scientific career, especially among younger researchers. Cirac, a pioneer in quantum computing, took part in the Passion for Knowledge festival in San Sebastián, organized by the Donostia International Physics Center, where he discussed the field's challenges and the leap of the past three or four years. He also noted that someone could be using quantum computers to decipher messages without it being noticed.
TechnologyInternationalelDiario.esOct 24AI
The mega boring machine drilling rock at 9 meters a day for New York's new rail tunnel
Beneath New Jersey, a 1,680-ton, 150-meter-long tunnel boring machine is drilling through the hard rock of the Palisades cliffs at a planned rate of nine meters per day. The machine, with an 8.7-meter-diameter cutterhead, began digging on October 8 in North Bergen and will open a gallery of about 1.6 kilometers. It is part of the Palisades project, the first drilling phase of a $16 billion megaproject that envisions a new rail connection under the Hudson River and the rehabilitation of the existing tunnel.
TechnologyInternationalEl ConfidencialOct 24AI
INCIBE-CERT warns of two critical PHP flaws allowing remote code execution affecting QNAP, Synology, Mitel and Palo Alto Networks
INCIBE-CERT published advisory INCIBE-2026-778 on two critical PHP vulnerabilities, grouped as PHP2Shell, that allow remote code execution by an unauthenticated attacker. The flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, carry a severity of 5 out of 5 and affect products from QNAP, Synology, Mitel, Tenable and Palo Alto Networks. QNAP has not yet announced fixed versions; the advisory calls for applying updates when available and, in the meantime, containment measures.
TechnologyInternationalMONCLOA.COMOct 24AI
Gerardo Araújo, general manager of El Universal, presents the keys to its digital transformation at the SIP
Gerardo Araujo Perdomo, general manager of El Universal of Cartagena, presented the newspaper's digital transformation with the support of Google News Initiative at the 82nd General Assembly of the Inter American Press Association (SIP), held in Bogotá from October 22 to 25, 2026. Araujo said that since 2020 the paper faced falling print advertising and sought to grow audiences and new revenue sources, and that success lies not in implementing a project but in learning to keep transforming.
TechnologyColombiaEluniversal.com.coOct 24AI
Musician sentenced to 18 months in prison for using bots to inflate plays of AI-generated songs
Musician Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison by federal judge John G. Koeltl of New York for using artificial intelligence and bots to obtain more than 8 million euros. According to the report, his AI-generated songs accumulated more than 80 million plays on YouTube, with up to 600,000 automated daily listens through thousands of fake emails and fraudulently obtained debit cards. He was charged in September 2024 with wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. He was also given two years of supervised release and forfeiture of the money.
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Dream Labs exits stealth with US$90M seed and an API to control robots
Dream Labs, based in San Francisco and founded in 2026 by former leaders of NVIDIA's GR00T research team, exited stealth with US$90M in seed funding led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures. Alongside the round it launched Dream-1, a World Action Model available through a public API that controls bimanual robots with parallel grippers without fine-tuning or prior demonstrations of that robot. Pricing is US$3 per hour for Dream-1 and US$2 per hour for Dream-1-flash.
TechnologyInternationalEl Ecosistema StartupOct 24AI
Pennsylvania requires labeling of AI-generated ads
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, which requires any ad "significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to carry a label. The rule covers images, video, audio and text, and the notice must appear in the same format as the piece. It applies to large and small advertisers and reaches campaigns produced outside the state that air in Pennsylvania. The law exempts parody, satire, commentary or criticism and "evidently fictitious" content.
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A novel awarded in Spain and Mexico is flagged as 99% AI-written, opening debate on publishing filters
The detector Pangram concluded that 'Donde el agua trabaja', by David Silva Rojas, is 99% AI-written, according to EL PAÍS. The novel won the first Almadía Ventosa-Arrufat International Short Novel Prize, worth 20,000 euros, and had been published in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. The Madrid presentation and the Spanish tour were suspended. Publisher Almadía recalled that the prize rules ban the use of artificial intelligence and announced a detailed review before publishing conclusions.
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NTT Data launches a think tank in Spain warning of the urgency to adapt government to AI
NTT Data has launched the Future Government Center in Spain, a think tank on public management in the age of artificial intelligence. Its director, Paloma Baena Olabe, warns of "a very large gap" between what is technologically possible and the institutions' capacity to incorporate AI and govern its impact. The center, with an unpaid advisory board chaired by Andoni Orduzar, argues in its first report that decisions taken in the coming years will determine whether administrations strengthen their role or cede relevance to platforms and AI agents.
TechnologyInternationalExpansiónOct 24AI
Changan unveils 360 virtual showroom with AI assistant at Caracas Autofest
Changan, official sponsor of the 15th edition of Autofest Caracas, presented its Virtual Showroom, a 360 interactive experience to explore the brand's vehicles available in Venezuela from a mobile device. The platform includes PANDi IA, a virtual assistant that answers technical questions and specifications via web and WhatsApp. The vehicles were captured with XGRIDS PortalCam cameras and turned into 3D scenes using Gaussian Splat technology. XGRIDS certified the Venezuelan team at The Creative Computing as the first in the world to achieve a successful commercial case of Gaussian Splat in the automotive sector.
TechnologyInternationalBanca y NegociosOct 24AI
Moroccan media track Spain's "Atlas 26" drone drills in Huelva
Moroccan media have followed the "Atlas 26" drills by Spain's Armed Forces and Security Forces in Huelva, aimed at testing the detection and neutralization of drone attacks. The exercise involves the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Space Force, along with the Civil Guard and the National Police. The scenario simulates protecting a Spanish brigade on a fictitious Atlantic island against a hybrid conflict with air attacks, drones and missiles. The outlets link the exercise to the detection of a Moroccan drone on September 9.
TechnologyInternationalLa RazónOct 24AI
UPV/EHU Faculty of Education triples weight of oral defense in final thesis over AI challenge
The Faculty of Education at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) changed its final degree project evaluation this academic year: the oral defense before the panel rises from 10% to 30% of the grade, with the remaining 70% tied to continuous tutoring. Dean Joserra Díez says the aim is to safeguard authorship of the projects given the possibility that an AI generator writes the written report. The faculty also set up a committee on artificial intelligence to diagnose how these platforms are used across courses.
TechnologyInternationalDeiaOct 24AI
Kaspersky: DDoS cyberattacks are sold on the dark web from $30
A Kaspersky analysis found that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are sold on the dark web for between $30 and $2,000, depending on the service purchased, and that tools are also available through subscriptions starting at one dollar. The research reviewed more than 256,000 posts and identified 148 actors in this "cybercrime-as-a-service" market, which lowers technical barriers to launching attacks and affects the availability of companies' and organizations' platforms.
TechnologyInternationalEl EconomistaOct 24AI
Waymo comes to Madrid with four software recalls in its U.S. track record
Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, will begin testing in Madrid, Alcobendas and Getafe with DGT authorization, without passengers. The company makes more than 150,000 paid trips per week and reported 1,052 incident reports to NHTSA between July 2025 and June 2026. Since February 2024 it has accumulated four voluntary software recalls: the collision with a tow truck in Phoenix (444 vehicles), the crash into a pole (672), collisions with chains and barriers (1,212) and the flooding incident in San Antonio (3,800).
TechnologyInternationalcarwow.esOct 24AI
Rajesh Rao expects everyday brain-computer interfaces within less than 10 years
Neuroscientist Rajesh Rao, of the University of Washington and co-director of its Center for Neurotechnology, believes brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could have everyday applications, such as controlling a phone with thoughts, within the next decade. Rao presented these views at the fifth International Conference on Active Inference (IWAI). The advance would open possibilities in health, such as helping people with paralysis communicate or control prostheses, but it also raises challenges around medical safety, privacy of brain signals and ethical limits.
TechnologyInternationalPulzoOct 24AI
AZAK puts motor, battery and electronics inside each wheel: its Stoat robot reaches the US Army in Germany
US company AZAK, based in Denver, developed a system that packs motor, battery, brakes and electronics inside each wheel. Its S26 Stoat ground robot has begun joining US Army units in Germany: the 2nd Cavalry Regiment received the first three units of an order for 26 and tested it in a tactical exercise at Grafenwöhr, where soldiers evacuated a simulated casualty on a platform mounted on the vehicle.
TechnologyInternationalLa RazónOct 24AI