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Sapa transfers 6.98% of Indra's capital from Deutsche Bank to ING

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A third of Facebook Marketplace ads are scams, according to TSB

The British subsidiary of Banco Sabadell warns that 73% of the cases of fraudulent purchases reported by its clients come from the platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Warnings from UK banking entities against cases of fraud on Facebook Marketplace , the commercial platform of the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg, are growing. Santander UK started a campaign to raise awareness in December

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"Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown": Instead of princesses, princes are now kidnapped

It was these buttery-smooth animations that Amir Fassihi simply couldn’t get enough of in 1989. At that time, the Jump ‘n’ Run Prince of Persia had just been released on the Apple II. “I fell in love with the game, with the game mechanics,” says Fassihi, who was born in Tehran. Today he works in Vancouver as a game developer – because Prince of Persia inspired him to develop games. Now, 35 years after the original, the new game in the series is released, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (PC, Switch, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series). And Fassihi is really looking forward to it: because for the first time the protagonist speaks his native language.

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ING Bank gains a stake of almost 7% in Indra

It is made up of 1.814% in direct shares and 5.166% through financial derivatives.

The Dutch bank ING Bank has acquired a 6.98% stake in Indra ‘s share capital, according to the records of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

The current market value of ING’s position in Indra, made up of 1.814% in direct shares and 5.166% through financial derivatives , stands at almost 193 million euros , with the Spanish firm’s price at 15 .64 euros shortly before the close of trading this Wednesday.

In this sense, the fact that the majority of ING’s participation is made up of financial derivatives (5.166% of the total 6.98%) points to the possibility that the financial entity is building a position in Indra for a third party.

Europa Press has contacted Indra about this matter and the company has indicated that they do not know the nature of the operation carried out by ING Bank.

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Brussels rejects that Orange and MásMóvil transfer clients to Zegona

Eamonn O’Hare, President of Zegona.

The buyer of Vodafone had demanded that the European Commission transfer a customer base from its rivals to it.

The European Commission will not force MásMóvil and Orange to sell a mobile telephone and fixed broadband customer base to Vodafone Spain, as requested by Zegona, the British financial group that has agreed to acquire the Spanish subsidiary of Voda

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Artificial intelligence: Experts recommend using AI in primary schools

From the perspective of educational experts, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with programs such as ChatGPT in schools has great potential. However, there are many prerequisites and conditions for the responsible use of these instruments to promote learning, the Standing Scientific Commission (SWK) of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs announced in a paper.

The committee recommended a short-term transition phase for systematic testing of such AI tools “with an open culture of errors.”

The SWK also pointed out risks and hurdles. “AI can and should support the teaching and learning process, the final decision or evaluation and responsibility for the end product must lie with people.” Teachers would have to be qualified and further training opportunities would have to be expanded quickly.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human. The principle behind this is that they estimate, word by word, how a sentence should continue. The models are trained with enormous amounts of information. The release of ChatGPT at the end of last year sparked a worldwide hype around artificial intelligence . According to the developer company OpenAI, around 100 million users worldwide access ChatGPT every week.

For older students and colleges

According to the commission , text-creating AI tools such as ChatGPT should be completely avoided in primary school and largely avoided in the first years of secondary school. The focus here must be on children’s acquisition of reading and writing skills. From the eighth grade onwards, regular use as writing support can take place, while texts should continue to be created without these aids. The use of AI must be closely monitored.

According to SWK, the AI programs can provide support “if learners have high technical, writing, reading and digital skills”. They should therefore be used by older students as well as in universities. It’s about the “productive use” of this technology. The development of reading and writing skills in the first years of school should take place without so-called large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT and Co.

According to the Commission, current estimates assume that at least 20 percent of students in Germany already use ChatGPT as a source of information, for text production and translation. The education experts also see many, often underestimated, opportunities for teachers: for example, for lesson planning, creating knowledge tests with different levels of difficulty or even developing teaching material, differentiated according to the students’ ability. However, AI cannot replace the didactic expertise of a teacher.

SWK also sees risks

Chatbots react to voice input and create texts that contain made-up facts and errors, but still sound plausible. The students must be able to evaluate content in terms of quality, correctness and trustworthiness and to take control of the process through their language input, as the committee writes. Critical, analytical thinking and technical knowledge are required. These skills could not be expected, especially for weaker learners.

Skilled use of AI instruments by students should be practiced and tested as a new learning goal. Teachers must be qualified accordingly. “The dynamic development of the tools places particular demands on teachers.” According to the recommendation, responsibility for using AI – for example for creating tasks or assessing performance – should lie with teachers.

There are currently uncertainties with regard to exam formats, and the exam culture needs to be further developed. In audits, the Commission advises distinguishing between parts without aids and those in which AI tools may be used. If such instruments are used, “not only the final text, but also the students’ reflected engagement with its creation and the result should be the subject of assessment.” It can be assumed that skilled “coactivity” with ChatGPT and Co. will represent an important future competence.

To-do list for education policy

The SWK paper also points to “technological, ethical and legal problems” that question its legal use in schools. The use of commercial tools is subject to market economic interests; they were not made for schools. Education policy has the task of integrating AI instruments into suitable learning platforms. “A particularly big challenge currently lies in designing tools for use in educational contexts and in special subjects,” writes the director of the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media, Ulrike Cress.

According to the committee, all learners and teachers should be given free or low-cost access to these tools. The President of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, Saarland’s Education Minister Christine Streichert-Clivot (SPD), said: “Technological progress must not lead to greater social inequality, but opportunities must be accessible to everyone.”

From the perspective of educational experts, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with programs such as ChatGPT in schools has great potential. However, there are many prerequisites and conditions for the responsible use of these instruments to promote learning, the Standing Scientific Commission (SWK) of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs announced in a paper.

The committee recommended a short-term transition phase for systematic testing of such AI tools “with an open culture of errors.”

The SWK also pointed out risks and hurdles. “AI can and should support the teaching and learning process, the final decision or evaluation and responsibility for the end product must lie with people.” Teachers would have to be qualified and further training opportunities would have to be expanded quickly.

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Samsung Galaxy S24: The first AI phone does not come from Apple

Modesty is rarely the order of the day when it comes to smartphone introductions. Each device is always the best, fastest, most innovative, with the most beautiful images and never-before-seen features. Samsung has even gone one better with its new Galaxy S24 smartphones. A little modesty might be in order: According to analysts, Apple recently overtook Samsung in terms of sales figures; for the past 13 years, Samsung had been ahead of the US company. The pressure for the S24 to become a bestseller and catapult Samsung forward again is probably great.

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The Brazilian Delfos Energy moves to Barcelona and raises 6.3 million

Samuel Lima and Guilherme Studart, co-founders of Delfos Energy, in Barcelona. EXPANSION

The emerging software company for renewable facilities closes a round with Contrarian Ventures and Headline funds with the aim of growing in Europe, Latin America and the US.

Delfos Energy , a software company operating in the energy sector, has closed a €6.3 million seed financing round aimed at boosting its virtual engineering platform for renewable assets. The operation has been li

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Ericsson, Nokia and Mavenir fight for Movistar's 5G core

Telefónica Spain’s 5G networks will no longer have Huawei technology in the future. DREAMSTIME EXPANSION

Ericsson, Nokia and the American Mavenir are the favorites to replace Huawei technology in Movistar’s 5G core in Spain.

In the coming days , Telefónica Spain will launch the request for offers or Request for Quotation (RFQ) to the market to award the most important part of the core (the heart or core of the system, where the intelligence and functions reside) of its network.

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Google highlights Spain's leadership in promoting Artificial Intelligence

The presence in Malaga of the new Security Engineering Center (GSEC), the results of the European presidency or the coding and research work in Madrid and Barcelona place Spain in a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the technology giant Google.

“Spain and its president Pedro Sánchez have become leaders when it comes to AI, its AI environment and, of course, the European presidency that made the commitment on artificial intelligence (agreed last December) possible,” he said in a meeting with Efe, Kent Walker, director of Global Affairs of the multinational.

In the interview, granted within the framework of the Davos Economic Forum, the Google manager also highlighted the presence in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga, where a commitment of 10 million dollars (about 9.2 million euros) was recently announced. ) to train students in cybersecurity in Europe.

In fact, a study published today by Google highlights that 62% of Spaniards consider that “society as a whole” will benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), with significant changes in employment, where 91% consider that it will change some jobs or industries.

Walker, who is expected to hold a meeting with Pedro Sánchez in Davos tomorrow, Wednesday, assured that it is a technology ready to change everything: “I have never seen such enthusiasm as last year about the potential of this new technology as a tool for science. We talk about AI changing everything, from the everyday to the extraordinary.”

In this sense, they hope to be able to show their progress in Google tools for users, so that they serve to “make things easier for people in their work, as well as for scientists and doctors,” he points out.

Google “has an advantage” in the AI race

Walker believes that, despite the enormous competition, Google “has many years of experience in understanding how to work with AI and, therefore, we have been able to incorporate it into many products. We have an advantage when it comes to thinking about the tools for the new generation and how to improve them in the future”, reinforcing values such as transparency, security or privacy, he said.

In this sense, he considers that AI will be very important when it comes to controlling cybercrime: “We believe that, ultimately, AI will be a benefit for cybersecurity. Although in the short term it helps attackers find new ways of finding vulnerabilities, in the long term it will help us identify vulnerabilities in our systems,” he highlighted.

Regarding geopolitical leadership in this field, he has not wanted to commit to a winner. In the race for AI there is “a very open competition that, we hope, benefits everyone. We are seeing great advances in the American continent, but also in Europe and China,” he noted.

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