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February 2024

Galicia Votes
Might the PP lose power in the region, affecting Feijóo's national leadership?
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Matthew Bennett

January 2024

AI + Journalism + Future
Have truth and reality and facts lost?
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Matthew Bennett
How should Spain deal with more migrant arrivals, especially to the Canary Islands?
Migrant boats on southern Spanish coasts has been a story for the last 340 years but last year’s surge in arrivals, especially to the Canary Islands…
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Matthew Bennett
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WEEKLY ANALYSIS: Spain and AI
A quick search of the parties and party leaders on Twitter to see if they are storming ahead on AI in Spain shows…not much. Sánchez chatted about it…
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Matthew Bennett
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Spain Notes, Jan 19: Israel + Puigdemont + Vox + Cerro Muriano
A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Zuckerberg is spending $15-18 billion on 600,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs ($30,000 each) or equivalents to do even bigger AI…
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Matthew Bennett
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QUICK TAKE: AI is a paradigm shift
13 million jobs at risk when global AI tsunami hits Spain This is not to do with Spain so much, although Spain will be hit by it, or will be able to…
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Matthew Bennett
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QUICK TAKE: 13 million jobs at risk when global AI tsunami hits Spain
How are all the AI refugees supposed to pay for real life?
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Matthew Bennett
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SPAIN NOTES, Jan 15: energy policy + Catalonia + nationalisms + pellets + party conferences
A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Chinese AI chat bots are already censoring ideological questions. 2/ In the US, the Iowa caucuses, the first act in…
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Matthew Bennett
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WEEKLY ANALYSIS: Two Kings' Speeches 2023
Charles III delivered a short Christmas message about Christmas values. Felipe VI gave a 1,500 word political lecture with a Christmas tree in the…
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Matthew Bennett
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SPAIN NOTES, Jan 12: immigration, identity and power with Catalan separatists
A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Israel defended itself against the South African accusation of genocide in Gaza at the ICJ in the Hague, which was…
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Matthew Bennett
QUICK TAKE: What will Catalan separatists do with immigration policy?
Sánchez has agreed to transfer immigration policy to Catalonia because Puigdemont’s party, Junts, demanded he do so at the last minute for their seven…
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