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Claude Mythos: Autonomous Cyber Intelligence, Structural Risk, and the Battle for European Access

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The Model That Crossed the Line There is a threshold concept in AI safety literature — the idea that a model can cross a point where its general capabilities become dangerous in a specific domain not because it was designed to be, but because general intelligence, at sufficient scale and reasoning depth, naturally maps onto formally structured domains like software. Claude Mythos is the first publicly acknowledged general-purpose AI to have crossed that threshold in cybersecurity. It can autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened production systems, generate working exploits, and chain multiple flaws into full compromise paths — not as a specialised penetration-testing tool, but as a side effect of being very good at reasoning about formal systems in general. This is not a marketing claim. It is a documented, third-party-verified operational result with a growing field record: over 10,000 high and critical severity vulnerabilities found across partner deployme...

Barcelona's Bet on the Immune System: How the CaixaResearch Institute Is Building the AI-Powered Future of Biomedicine

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Barcelona’s New Scientific Infrastructure Is Also an AI Infrastructure Barcelona has added a new institution to its growing scientific and technological ecosystem: the CaixaResearch Institute, inaugurated in April 2026 by the Fundació “la Caixa” at the foot of the Collserola Natural Park, directly opposite the CosmoCaixa Science Museum. With an investment of around 100 million euros, the campus is designed as a large-scale translational immunology center integrating biomedical research, advanced data infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. For years, Barcelona has tried to position itself as more than a conference city or startup showcase. The city already hosts the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer , the annual Mobile World Congress , a growing AI startup ecosystem, and major pharmaceutical and biomedical initiatives. The CaixaResearch Institute expands that trajectory into one of the most strategically important domains of the next decade: AI-driven immunology. This matters be...

Barcelona in 2026: Where Architectural Heritage Meets AI Ambition

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Barcelona’s 2026 story is not about hype. It is about a city that continues to build in public, while also trying to shape the future of technology on its own terms. A City of Two Timelines Barcelona has always lived with at least two timelines at once. One is visible in stone, streets, and public space: Roman layers, medieval quarters, modernist facades, industrial relics, and a skyline still shaped by ambitious urban planning. The other runs through the city’s present-day role as a European hub for innovation, research, and digital policy. In 2026, those timelines converge in a way that feels unusually clear. On one side is the architectural calendar: the World Capital of Architecture year, the Gaudí centenary, and the continuing transformation of the Sagrada Família from a long-running construction site into a completed landmark. On the other is the emergence of Catalonia as a serious participant in the AI conversation, not just as a user of imported platforms but as a region...

OpenClaw: The Open-Source AI Agent That Took the World by Storm

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One Hour, One Idea, One Hundred Thousand Stars One evening in November 2025, an Austrian developer sat down and connected a messaging app to Claude Code. The idea was simple: what if an AI assistant could not just answer questions, but actually do things — read files, run commands, send messages, browse the web — all from a chat interface on your phone? It took him about an hour to build the first working version. He thought it was so obvious that the major AI labs would ship something similar within days. They did not. So he kept going. That developer was Peter Steinberger. The project he built — originally called Clawdbot, then briefly Moltbot, and finally OpenClaw — became one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, accumulating over 247,000 stars and nearly 48,000 forks within weeks of going viral. It generated a feature in Lex Fridman's podcast, coverage in Fortune, TechCrunch, and dozens of technology outlets worldwide, and eventually a job o...

MWC 2026: AI+ and Compute Sovereignty — Who Controls the Intelligence Layer?

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AI+ and Compute Sovereignty: Who Controls the Intelligence Layer? At MWC 2026, the conversation has quietly shifted. Last year, the spotlight was on networks becoming AI-native. This year, under the broader AI+ theme, the real question is no longer how infrastructure adapts to artificial intelligence. It is who controls it. AI is no longer an application running on top of networks. It is becoming the organizing logic of the digital economy. Models decide. Agents act. Systems optimize autonomously. The intelligence layer is emerging as a strategic asset. And whoever owns that layer owns leverage over industry, institutions, and markets. This is where compute sovereignty enters the debate. From Connectivity to Control Telecommunications once revolved around bandwidth, latency, and coverage. Today, those metrics remain necessary but insufficient. Intelligence now sits above connectivity. Large-scale models process data, generate decisions, and increasingly orchestrate other sy...

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