Including Messi in the Sports category reinforces Latin America’s presence in the awards.

On Friday, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi joined the list of Latin American personalities recognized with the Princess of Asturias Award, expanding a regional presence that now includes 45 prominent figures.

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Since 1981, Latin America has played a significant role in these awards, accumulating 64 prizes awarded to individuals and institutions from fifteen countries in the region.

Mexico leads the list with 21 awards, followed by Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, with eight each. Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Uruguay, and Puerto Rico are also represented.

Among the honored institutions are the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Caro y Cuervo Institute of Colombia, the People of Puerto Rico, and the Brazilian National Football Team.

The text reads, “Leo Messi, Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2026.”

In literature, figures such as Mexican Juan Rulfo and Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa stand out, while in communication and popular culture, the Argentine Quino, creator of Mafalda, was recognized.

The region’s political and social dimension has also been recognized, with figures such as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, distinguished for his contribution to international cooperation.

These personalities represent contributions to human rights, literature, journalism, science, politics, and art. Including Messi in the Sports category reinforces Latin America’s presence in the awards and adds one of the most influential footballers of all time.

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A proposito dei lavori della Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sulla morte di David Rossi, presieduta da Gianluca Vinci (Fratelli d’Italia), riceviamo e pubblichiamo il commento dell’avvocato Jacopo Pensa, uno dei principali del foro milanese, già difensore di Giuseppe Mussari, ex presidente di Mps

Dalla presunzione di innocenza alla presunzione di colpevolezza. Questo è il principio scaturente dalla vergognosa divulgazione da parte della Commissione d’inchiesta sul caso Rossi-Monte Paschi dei due nomi ormai noti al mondo.

La violazione dei principi costituzionali e di civiltà giuridica sono già stati ben espressi dall’Unione delle camere penali. Ma al di là delle questioni giuridiche sapientemente trattate, c’è da chiedersi sul piano del ragionevolezza e del senso comune quale può essere stata la ratio e quale l’interesse a divulgare in una conferenza stampa nome e cognome del mandante e dell’organizzatore di quella turpe missione finita così tragicamente.

Mi ha colpito in particolare l’aria serafica e compiaciuta con la quale il presidente ha pronunciato quei nomi. Aggiungendo poi, paradossalmente, una nota quasi giustificativa in favore dei rei affermando che i due avevano solo lo scopo di intimidire e non già di uccidere, suggerendo così una sorta di linea difensiva: il reato commesso è più grave di quello voluto.

I due nominati hanno così modo di consolarsi. La pena potrà essere diminuita. Con un buon avvocato, si intende.

L'articolo Caso David Rossi, dalla presunzione di innocenza alla presunzione di colpevolezza – Il commento dell’avvocato Pensa proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Il Brasile torna al voto domenica per il ballottaggio tra Lula e Flávio Bolsonaro. Hanno idee molto diverse in economia. Dovranno fare i conti con una situazione che vede disoccupazione e povertà in calo, ma redditi fermi, inflazione e tensioni con gli Usa.

L'articolo L’economia del Brasile alla vigilia della nuova presidenza proviene da Lavoce.info.

• Sundar Pichai said Google was still in the early phases of recursively self-improving AI.
• Researchers are working with AI agents to build better models, he said.
• Sergey Brin recently said Google was "starting to get onto that RSI treadmill."

Google's AI models may be helping to build their successors, but CEO Sundar Pichai says the moment of fully self-improving AI is still a while away.

Speaking on an episode of the "Big Technology Podcast" this week, Pichai said that Google researchers were using AI agents to assist them when building models, but caveated that it was still early days.

"We are pretty far from the end state of RSI," said Pichai, referring to recursive self-improvement. "The right way to describe it is, you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. I would say you almost have agents helping AI researchers, in some automated way, work together to build these models."

Pichai added that he expected that continuum to keep making progress into next year.

Earlier this month, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said the company's Flash series of models, as well as Gemini 4, were demonstrating how AI was helping to build itself, and that Google was "starting to get onto that RSI treadmill."

"And now our researchers and the model work hand in hand to make the next version of the model," he said.

Brin has been increasingly involved in Google's Gemini efforts and has leveraged his power as cofounder to shift resources to projects he deems most effective, Business Insider previously reported. This has included pushing for more focus on RSI.

A report from the firm Gladstone AI, published earlier this month, said that most researchers interviewed from companies including Anthropic and DeepMind believed RSI will start within the next three to 12 months, and possibly sooner without government intervention.

In another moment on the "Big Technology Podcast," Pichai was asked about how much AI was being used to code internally. The company said in April that 75% of new code inside Google was generated by AI.

"That number in our world today is like meaningless in the sense that every part of code we now touch is influenced by AI deeply," Pichai said. With Gemini 4 Argon, he said, people were going to tackle harder problems. He also said Google was seeing a one-third decrease in code rollbacks, where software is reverted to a previous version because of a bug or system issue.

"And so I think people are writing code more productively, and better code with it," he said of AI tools.

Pichai also uses AI to track Google's model development and internal discussions, he told the "Sources" podcast this week.

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