Overview
- Catalonia’s cybersecurity agency reports that 82.6% of emails containing malicious links now use generative tools, making phishing more automated and harder to spot.
- Authorities cite roughly 300 cyberfraud complaints per day in Catalonia and a 160% jump in credential theft in 2024, alongside increased public and corporate investment in cyber resilience.
- Spain’s judicial council approved rules requiring constant, effective human control over AI in courts as the national bar issued a white paper, following cases of AI‑fabricated jurisprudence cited in legal filings.
- Mexico’s SEP survey—over 1.5 million student responses and about 170,000 from faculty—finds 77% of students and 78% of teachers use AI to write academic texts, while about 71% report no known institutional policy.
- The SEP identifies welfare concerns with about 10% of students and 9% of faculty using AI for emotional support and urges a shift in university teaching toward debate, complex reasoning and critical reflection.