News of artificial intelligence

Argentina gets taste of global data-centre boom

Today 06:53 Argentina has 67 registered data centres, including 13 announced projects, with 52 operational; Government eyes billions in digital infrastructure investment but concerns mount over energy use, water consumption and job creation.

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Milei presses Malvinas claim, slams 'useless' United Nations in speech

23-09-2026 12:44 President Javier Milei describes United Nations as a "useless organisation" that feeds a "caste of parasites" in General Assembly speech; Pressing Malvinas sovereignty claim before world, he threatens oil firms with exclusion from Vaca Muerta and declares Argentina will be at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence revolution.

AS I SEE IT

The eve of destruction, perhaps

19-09-2026 00:25 If the tech bros are right about what their research teams have devised, it is already too late to do anything to put AI back in a far more restrictive “sand box” than the ones from which it has managed to make a Houdini-like escape…

by James Neilson

ANALYSIS

AI’s Covid moment

19-09-2026 00:14 The AI 'end game' scenarios are fascinating and quite realistic, but that doesn’t mean they are imminent or inevitable.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

AS I SEE IT

Creator and destroyer

29-08-2026 06:30 Many involved in AI say they want to press the pause button to give governments more time in which to come up with regulations. They must know that nothing like this is going to happen.

by James Neilson

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Milei’s ethics

27-06-2026 00:48 Milei has a militant and narrow world view that he’s tied to a vision that integrates AI and tech billionaires. Those same players have a global agenda that they will pursue, and Argentina will only be part of that plan for as long as it is useful for them.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Editorial

Artificial Intelligence and natural stupidity

13-06-2026 05:30 Capitulation to robots is always going to be a hard sell.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Milei defends unregulated AI push after warning from historian Yuval Noah Harari

09-06-2026 14:32 Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari takes issue with President Milei's proposal to grant legal personhood to corporations operated by AI, writing it could be dangerous.

ANALYSIS – POLITICS & TECHNOLOGY

A robot oasis and billionaire’s playground in Argentina?

06-06-2026 07:02 Milei’s self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarianism seems totally aligned with the idea of generating a robot oasis and a billionaire’s playground in Argentina.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Milei promises tech firms new laws and ‘unregulated’ AI in Argentina

04-06-2026 13:18 President makes bold pitch in 'Financial Times' op-ed, promising to keep AI free from regulation in Argentina; Op-ed is latest in series of moves promoting Argentina as nation friendly to Artificial Intelligence.

TRACKING INVESTMENT

Chau GPT? No trace of mega-billion-dollar AI project announced before elections

28-05-2026 15:59 In October 2025, a fortnight before Argentina's midterm elections, US tech company OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, signed a letter of intent to build a massive artificial intelligence data centre in Argentina’s Patagonia region. More than six months on, the project has not even been presented to the government.

by Agustina Bordigoni

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Deep into the era of the algorithm

23-05-2026 05:51 Artificial Intelligence has turbo-charged an era of exponential change and cycles of innovation are now occurring in spans of months, even weeks. There’s a new generation of tech oligarchs that came with it.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Latam-GPT: a Latin American AI to combat US-centric bias

10-02-2026 07:39 Chile set to launch Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to combat biases built by the primarily US-centric industry.

As I see it

Under the shadow of Artificial Intelligence

31-01-2026 06:27 Could AI start programming itself in a malevolent way? Can it be coaxed into taking a philanthropic approach to the problems it is asked to solve? How can you make a machine with a 10-figure IQ obey you?

by James Neilson

Analysis

Investment or political marketing? Analysing OpenAI’s Argentina announcement

11-10-2025 09:36 Announcement by President Javier Mileil’s government of plans to create a mega AI data centre in Patagonia raises questions about its feasibility and geopolitical aims.

TECH & INVESTMENT

OpenAI, Sur Energy to build massive AI data centre in Patagonia

10-10-2025 16:07 US tech firm OpenAI and Argentine firm Sur Energy sign letter of intent for US$25-billion investment in artificial intelligence; Companies plan joint venture to develop Stargate Argentina, a massive AI infrastructure project that will include a data centre in Patagonia.

Crime & Security

Trial confirmed for 19-year-old accused of creating AI porn of schoolmates

24-09-2025 12:57 Former student who used Artificial Intelligence to create fake porn images and videos of schoolmates will stand trial, confirms Córdoba court; If convicted, the defendant could receive prison sentence of between three and 20 years in jail.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Poll finds public turning to AI bots for news updates

16-06-2025 20:39 People are increasingly turning to generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT to follow day-to-day news.

TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY

AI chatbot helps victims of digital sexual violence in Latin America

12-03-2025 18:29 Two digital sexual violence survivors band together and leverage AI to create a new platform – OlimpIA – to support other women in similar situations.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

“LatAmGPT”: Latin America to have its own AI model in 2025

14-02-2025 17:00 Data recognising the multicultural diversity of Latin America is being incorporated into the region's new artificial intelligence model, with experts calling for technological independence.

As I see it

The quest for the new philosopher’s stone

01-02-2025 09:07 For good or ill, Artificial Intelligence is the philosopher’s stone of the age we are living in.

by James Neilson

Digital Learning

UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate

28-01-2025 12:39 Computers are teaching core curriculum subjects to students at David Game College in an artificial intelligence pilot as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledges to make Britain an "AI superpower."

Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek, Chinese AI startup roiling US tech giants

28-01-2025 11:25 Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street, following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a "wake-up call" for Silicon Valley.