The country that asks the machine for the winning number

A preliminary analysis of 9,025 news articles published between January and September 2026 shows abundant conversation, optimistic and curiously detached from the country. When AI becomes local, it usually appears as an announcement, ban, or lottery number. Public policy almost never enters the scene.

Artificial Intelligence

What Costa Rica's digital storefront reveals

An automated measurement using artificial intelligence evaluated the websites of 338 Costa Rican public institutions. The results show a solid technical foundation, gaps concentrated in accessibility and privacy, and a weaker-than-expected relationship between transparency and digital quality.

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Policy

A warning, hundreds of mutations

How a warning from Dario Amodei kept changing as it circulated among media outlets, agencies, languages and political actors: which conditionals disappeared, when certainty increased, how attribution was lost, and what new elements were added

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Infrastructure

An entire municipality fits on a windshield

Every trip can turn into a city audit: a mobile AI detects irregular barriers, inaccessible sidewalks and missing signs, transforming the everyday landscape into actionable evidence.

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Policy

Making fantasies

Percentages let us imagine comfortably abstract futures. This experiment measures what happens when an R&D investment target turns into money, researchers, instruments, and budget decisions.

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All notes

The law that will be born obsolete

On Wednesday, September 16, Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door meeting at the Capitol and set a deadline for the U.S. Congress: "maybe a year" . A year to install guardrails on systems that…

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What Estonia Decided Not to Legislate

A software agent gains access to a corporate account. It executes a transfer, accepts the terms of another service, contracts a second system, and triggers damage. No person pressed "confirm" at that…

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The truce among AI owners

In March 2023, a letter circulated asking for a six-month halt to the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4. Tens of thousands of people signed it. Elon Musk was one of them.

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