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Microsoft bets on AI in Spain with a historic investment of 2.1 billion dollars


Microsoft has just announced a historic investment of $2.1 billion in Spain over the next two years, a record figure in the almost four decades that the Redmond company has been based in our country. The objective, drive the development and adoption of “Responsible Artificial Intelligence” in Spanish territory.

The announcement came after the signing of a collaboration agreement between the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, at Moncloa.

A Cloud Region and AI tools in public administration

Moment of the public signing of the agreement, with the Minister for Digital Transformation and the Public Service, José Luis Escrivá, the president of Microsoft Spain, Alberto Granados, and the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith. Image: Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service.

Among the details that have been disclosed about this agreement is the upcoming opening in the Community of Madrid of a Cloud Regiona set of data centers strategically deployed to achieve low latency.

This infrastructure will be accompanied by a Data Center campus in Aragon, with European companies and public entities as target clients to whom to offer the full range of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence services.

According to figures published by the company citing an analysis by IDC, its data centers in Spain “could add 8.4 billion euros to the national GDP and contribute to the creation of 69,000 jobs in the period 2026-2030.”

This agreement is part of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy announced just over three years ago. Behold the introduction of tools based on Artificial Intelligence in public administrationincluding the training of officials who will use them, and the promotion of responsible use of AI.

The latter will be possible thanks to the recent AESIA (Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence), an organization created at the end of 2022 and based in A Coruña.

National cybersecurity of critical infrastructures will also benefit from this agreement. Microsoft and the National Cryptological Center, dependent on the CNI, will “jointly explore” the improvement of early warning mechanisms and the response to computer security incidents in public administrations.

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The $4.65 billion series is back, once again. The first trailer for Despicable Me 4 promises a big change and new villains


Perhaps in fiction his plans always ended up turning out differently, but in reality Despicable Me is the star, along with his charismatic Minions, of a franchise of more than 4.65 billion dollars generated in cinemas over six films, a gargantuan figure that will soon grow with Gru 4. Despicable Me. The animated film has just released its first trailer.

“After seven years, our favorite supervillain, now an agent of the Anti-Villain League, returns with a shocking and frenetic delivery of chaos in the purest Minions style in the highly anticipated new Illumination film.” With these words they sell the launch from Universal Pictures this coming July 5 from Gru 4. Despicable Me, a story where our already iconic protagonists will also have to face new and dangerous threats.

Gru’s family grows in this installment

On this occasion, Gru must face Maxime Le Mal (voiced by comedian Will Ferrell) and his sophisticated and malicious girlfriend Valentina (Sofia Vergara). Furthermore, and as anticipated in the last installment of the saga, our most beloved villain has a new son in his care who detests him, Gru Jr.

A new change in the world of Gru with which the authors of Super Mario Bros. The Movie hope to continue their love affair with the box office and demonstrate their ability to compete head to head in success with Disney and Pixar. We will see it, we repeat, starting July 5 in what promises to be the animated film of the summer, once again with Steve Carell as the main voice in the original version.