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Calmio turns WhatsApp voice notes and photos into farm management records
Calmio transforms voice notes, spreadsheet photos and WhatsApp messages into records of births, milking, animal movements, income and expenses on the farm. The tool began as a way to record finances for informal businesses and shifted to livestock farming when producers themselves asked to also report productive data. Co-founder Sebastián Hinestroza said the producer can receive the information organized the same day without installing additional apps and manage the operation remotely.
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Generative AI cements its role as an ally in film pre-production
Generative AI is changing film pre-production: tasks that once took weeks of manual work by illustrators and designers, such as storyboards and visual concept design, are now completed in hours. Directors and producers use image and text generation platforms to explore settings, characters, lighting and color palettes, while deep learning algorithms analyze scripts to spot narrative patterns and plot gaps. The text also points to ethical and legal debates over copyright of training material.
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Global cybersecurity alert over AI impersonation against financial institutions
International police agencies and cybersecurity bodies issued a coordinated global alert to financial institutions about automated impersonation campaigns built with advanced artificial intelligence models. Forensic analyses found that criminal groups are using generative algorithms capable of imitating the voice and biometric traits of corporate executives to authorize fraudulent fund transfers and bypass traditional filters. Specialists recommended physical multi-factor authentication, real-time monitoring of transactional anomalies and dual cryptographic verification for large international transfers. Banking associations in Europe and the Americas confirmed a threat telemetry sharing network.
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 89 countries, with Colombia among the new markets
OpenAI added 26 markets to its advertising platform and now sells ads on ChatGPT in 89 countries, according to an announcement published on its website on October 21. The expansion is concentrated in Latin America, Africa and Asia, with Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru among the confirmed markets. The company reports more than 100,000 cumulative advertisers and more than 1.2 billion people using ChatGPT each week. Ads appear only on the Free and Go plans.
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Ninja Hubs, Chilean AI startup for warehouses, raises US$125,000 from Magical
Chilean startup Ninja Hubs developed Ninja WMS, software with artificial intelligence that decides which operator takes each order and when they receive the next one, balancing workloads and prioritizing orders by service level. The company operates with two active clients in Chile and added a US$125,000 investment from Magical, a fund and accelerator that brought it into its portfolio. It estimates that automating these functions could cut administrative workload by up to 30% and plans to reach Mexico after consolidating in Chile.
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Critical PHP vulnerabilities: governments and companies rush to update their websites
Serious security vulnerabilities in PHP, a language used by about 70% of the world's websites, pushed governments and companies in several countries to speed up updates to their sites. Some organizations installed patches while others temporarily suspended their digital services. The finding involved OpenAI AI models, which called it one of the highest-impact security issues in recent times. Dataminr did not identify confirmed successful attacks, while Cloudflare reported millions of hacking attempts.
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INVAP awards top engineering theses in Argentina amid record participation
The INVAP Foundation handed out the awards of the fourth edition of its National Engineering Thesis Contest, which received 184 theses from 248 thesis authors at 54 institutions across 22 provinces and districts. In the Undergraduate category, Lara Agostina Torletti Daniluk of the National University of Río Negro won with Gamma Tracker, a portable probe to locate tumors in laparoscopic surgeries. In the Doctorate category, Damián Leonel Corzi of the Balseiro Institute was awarded for turning digital cameras into radiation sensors for low-cost X-rays. The contest distributes 10 million pesos in prizes.
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Antenna with solar panels attributed to criminal groups found in Chihuahua
The Chihuahua State Public Security Secretariat reported the discovery of an antenna with solar panels near Chorreras, in the municipality of Aldama, allegedly used by criminal groups to communicate in remote regions. The equipment was found during a joint operation with the Mexican Army following reports of armed civilians and was disabled. State helicopters also flew over Falomir, El Chupadero and other communities. The solar panels provide energy autonomy without relying on the power grid.
TechnologyInternationalEl DiarioOct 23AI
Wired picks Bitwarden as the best password manager of 2026
A Wired ranking of password managers for 2026 places Bitwarden as the best overall option, Proton Pass as the best free one, Keeper as the best suited for sharing access and 1Password as the best paid alternative. The list is completed by Dashlane, NordPass, Enpass and KeePassXC. The article notes that Bitwarden raised its Premium plan for the first time in nearly a decade and that 1Password added US$12 a year to its Individual and Family plans on March 27, while Proton Pass Plus dropped from US$3.99 to US$1.99 a month.
TechnologyInternationalLa TerceraOct 23AI
Costa Rica's BCR warns of phishing scams posing as subscription platforms
The Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) warned about scams involving subscription platforms and services with digital payment, such as music, movies or video games. According to the entity, cybercriminals send text messages or emails posing as the providers and claim there is a problem with the payment method that must be updated. The messages include links to fraudulent pages that mimic the real sites in order to obtain personal and banking data.
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HIC ranks first in Colombia and ninth in Latin America in the World's Best Smart Hospitals 2027 ranking
The Hospital Internacional de Colombia (HIC) ranked first in Colombia and ninth in Latin America in the World's Best Smart Hospitals 2027 ranking by Newsweek and Statista, and 277th worldwide. The assessment evaluated 410 hospitals in 33 countries and their digital maturity through professional recommendations, specialized surveys and digital health certifications. HIC attributes the result to tools such as its integrated electronic health record, the HIC Portal, MOE, SAHISmart with artificial intelligence, Cerebro and a robotic pharmacy.
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Punya Mishra: "AI does not distinguish between truth and falsehood, and that will not change"
Punya Mishra, director of the Innovative Learning Futures chair at Arizona State University, argues that in education the risks of AI outweigh its benefits. According to the researcher, these systems do not distinguish between truth and falsehood and hallucinations stem from their predictive nature, so they will not disappear with new advances. He also warned about "fluency bias" and about pressure to replace teachers with virtual tutors.
TechnologyInternationalLa NaciónOct 23AI
More than 2,200 students drive science and technology projects in Colombia
During 2026, more than 2,200 students from seven Colombian departments took part in the Centers of Interest in Science and Programming, a strategy of the Ministry of National Education to strengthen scientific thinking. A total of 150 centers were implemented in Caquetá, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Norte de Santander, Putumayo and Tolima. Results were presented on October 23 in Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca. Since 2024, the process has benefited more than 50,000 students and supported the training of 4,563 teachers.
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IBM says open-weight models reach 90% of performance at 10% to 25% of the cost per token
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said during the company's financial results presentation that open-weight models reach roughly 90% of the effectiveness of the most advanced ones and cost between 10% and 25% per token of what the latter cost. Krishna compared the evolution since late 2024, when the gap was 70 points versus 20 or 30, and said many enterprise tasks can be handled with cheaper options. He did not identify specific tests to back his assessments.
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Sem Parar Corpay builds its own "AI factory" with Dell and NVIDIA
Sem Parar Corpay, an ecosystem of mobility, payment and corporate benefits solutions, developed its own artificial intelligence infrastructure together with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, running several applications based on open-source language models. The "AI factory" was created to analyze large volumes of customer service center calls and now supports five applications in production, with local data processing and costs based on dedicated capacity.
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Daytona, the cloud for AI agents, raises US$60M and reaches a US$1 billion valuation
Daytona Platforms raised US$60 million in a Series B round led by FirstMark Growth that values the company at US$1 billion, bringing its total funding to US$91 million, according to the company's announcement. The startup offers a cloud for long-running AI agents, with isolated Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU environments that start in milliseconds and can be cloned with state. Its clients include Meta, Cohere, Writer, Clay, n8n and Postman.
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Anthropic's deputy CISO warns vulnerabilities "are going to get much worse"
Jason Clinton, Anthropic's deputy chief information security officer, posted on X on October 22 that however bad things have got, they "are going to get much worse before they get better," and urged security leaders to go to their boards and ask for help with the basics, not artificial intelligence. The warning follows the disclosure of two critical PHP vulnerabilities, known as PHP2Shell and rated 9.2 out of 10, which could allow attackers to execute code without authentication.
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Cloudflare opens closed beta of its geographically restricted key manager with post-quantum cryptography
Cloudflare launched PQ GeoKey Manager in closed beta, a key manager that combines post-quantum cryptography with the data localization rules of its Data Localization Suite. A customer's decryption keys can only be opened on servers within the chosen geography, because the regional root key travels through a separate channel and is not distributed globally. It uses HPKE (RFC 9180) with ML-KEM-768 and X25519. General availability is expected in the first quarter of 2027.
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Rappallini highlights Argentina's potential amid the technological revolution at the Mendoza Business Bootcamp
UIA president Martín Rappallini took part in the 2026 Business Bootcamp at the Sheraton Mendoza Hotel, where he said artificial intelligence could transform production and expand the use of available resources. He said it is "very likely that in five or ten years we will have a totally different world" and mentioned potential effects on energy, the food industry, medicines and construction. He also pointed to knowledge and universities as an opportunity for Argentina and called for public-private coordination. Governor Alfredo Cornejo asked for clear rules for companies.
TechnologyInternationalLos AndesOct 23AI
Yelp to launch "Check for Me," an AI assistant that calls restaurants by phone
Yelp announced the launch of Check for Me, an artificial intelligence-powered tool that automates phone inquiries to dining establishments. With the feature, users will not have to call to find out availability or the estimated wait time before getting a table without a prior reservation. Users only need to enter the group size and a contact number in the app so the AI agent makes the call to the business and sends the answer to the customer's phone by text message. It will roll out gradually over the coming months to a select group of iPhone users in the United States.
TechnologyInternationalDiario del SurOct 23AI