AI has transitioned from being a groundbreaking technology to a fundamental driver of business innovation, giving rise to new business models that were previously unimaginable. These models utilize advanced technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and deep learning to create unprecedented value and unlock new revenue streams.
The intersection of these three technologies is already producing tangible applications across multiple sectors. In energy distribution, AI optimizes network performance while blockchain enables peer-to-peer energy trading and quantum computing models complex distribution scenarios, exemplifying the technological convergence of the WEF 3C framework.
The European Commission's Quantum Strategy aims to establish Europe as a global leader in quantum technology by 2030, with over €11 billion in public funding mobilized. Despite strong European research, the region lags behind the US and China in patents, commercialization and private investment, representing a critical challenge for European technological sovereignty.
This initiative responds to Spain's interest in consolidating European digital sovereignty in a critical area for future competitiveness. Spain is investing 9.75 million euros through SETT in Nu Quantum to establish a subsidiary in the country, deploying the necessary infrastructure for the development and scalability of quantum technologies, with the goal of making the country a key node in Europe and the world.
The EBA is guiding national supervisors after the transition ends (2 Mar 2026) for electronic money token services that may also qualify as payment services under PSD2. With 100+ firms seeking authorisation, compliance becomes a market differentiator for regulated Web3.
Analysis of Europe's quantum pathway to 2030, focusing on closing the private investment gap in quantum technology. Examines funding challenges and strategies to establish European leadership in the quantum sector.
Spain allocates €100M to companies under IPCEI-AI to advance European digital sovereignty, explicitly linking innovation with regulation, competitiveness and digital rights. It signals an industrial strategy: build AI that is governable and scalable across the Single Market.
Europe is shifting from innovation-as-promise to innovation-as-governance capability. The AI Act, MiCA/PSD2 and post-quantum pressure are pushing a new standard: compliance, traceability and digital rights as competitive advantage.
The analysis frames the 2026 cyber strategy as supply-chain pressure: critical-infrastructure vendors (and adjacent suppliers) must integrate post-quantum cryptography. For Europe, quantum readiness becomes contractual advantage and IP protection, not just R&D.
Wavestone publishes its 2026 PQC solutions radar, emphasizing that every migration must begin with a complete cryptographic inventory. IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and Samsung already integrate inventory capabilities and network probes, while the first official certifications for PQC-compatible security modules emerge.
Comprehensive analysis of AI governance frameworks addressing fundamental principles including accountability, transparency, fairness, privacy and security. Examines how multidisciplinary teams integrate AI governance into business workflows and ethical and legal risk management.
The intersection of these three technologies is producing tangible applications across multiple sectors: in energy distribution, AI optimizes network performance while blockchain enables peer-to-peer energy trading and quantum computing models complex distribution scenarios. This convergence represents a profound digital transformation beyond traditional centralized systems.
A leaked draft of the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) removes AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing from the list of strategic technologies with 'made in Europe' requirements. The proposal now focuses on heavy industries and clean energy, leaving the most disruptive technologies without specific protection and sparking intense debate about European technological competitiveness.
The page about Europe's quantum pathway to 2030 focuses on closing the private investment gap in quantum technology. The main content is not accessible due to geographic restrictions for US citizens and Canadian residents outside certain provinces.
France's financial markets authority (AMF) warns that 30% of registered crypto firms in France have not responded about their plans ahead of MiCA's transition period ending on July 1, 2026. Companies without authorization must cease operations or present orderly wind-down plans.
Examines decentralized governance models that distribute decision-making across networks rather than relying on central authorities. Analyzes participation challenges in DAOs such as low voter turnout and governance capture, and solutions like token-based voting and hybrid structures to balance transparency and operational control.
Regulators are demanding stricter AI governance frameworks, moving from high-level principles to enforceable rules with documented inventories, risk classifications, and model lifecycle controls. This evolution toward regulatory convergence on transparency, human oversight, and bias mitigation marks a turning point in corporate governance.
Over €11 billion in public funds have been invested in European quantum R&D in the past five years, but Europe still trails global competitors in patent output and scaling startups. The European Quantum Strategy focuses on five pillars: advancing research 'from lab to fab to market', building cutting-edge quantum infrastructures, strengthening the startup ecosystem, developing space and defense quantum applications, and cultivating quantum skills.
Web3 founders should create separate legal entities for their DAOs (Legal Wrappers) that have an ownerless structure, help limit liability for DAO members, and make decentralized governance legally binding. This represents a new paradigm of decentralized corporate governance.
PwC presents nine new AI-powered business models, grouped into service scaling, product reach expansion, and high-precision capital management. AI stands out for its potential to transform the economics of creating, personalizing, and scaling products and services.
The page content does not contain information about AI in Spain in February 2026. The page only shows local news from the Community of Madrid from March 2026, without mentioning artificial intelligence, corporate technology spending, or AI integration in companies and institutions.
The Spanish government announced at MWC 2026 the allocation of €100 million for companies promoting European digital sovereignty. Among the nine IPCEI-AI projects selected are Telefónica, Indra, Multiverse Computing, and OpenNebula, which will seek European partners to scale their AI initiatives.
Spain positions itself as a leader in technological innovation by hosting one of the first seven AI factories in the EU. This project aims to democratize access to advanced supercomputing infrastructure, allowing companies, SMEs and startups to access resources previously reserved for the research community. The factory will be installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with an investment of 61.76 million euros from the Spanish Government.
While the EU removes AI and quantum from its industrial plan, Spain bets on digital sovereignty and industry prepares for the post-quantum era.
The ACM warns that post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration is not a simple software update but a 5-to-15-year transformation depending on enterprise size. The 'harvest now, decrypt later' risk makes the quantum threat immediate: adversaries are already capturing encrypted traffic to decrypt with future quantum computers.
Analyzes real applications of the convergence between AI, blockchain, and quantum computing across multiple sectors. From energy distribution to financial systems and healthcare, it shows how these technologies mutually enhance each other, creating new business opportunities.
A Spanish consortium kicks off a pioneering project for secure health data management using federated AI on Web3, protected against quantum threats.
Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to reach $2.52 trillion in 2026, a 44% year-over-year increase, according to Gartner. By 2030, Gartner predicts that AI will account for nearly all of IT spending.
Very much in line with WAIQ's thesis, this Forbes article states that there will be no single revolutionary technology that defines the next ten years of innovation, but rather that they will be shaped by the convergence and interconnection of various emerging technologies that are becoming interdependent force multipliers, increasing each other's influence and radically changing industry, national security and global competitiveness.
MIT and SODA bring the web3 industry together to create a neutral organization for technologists and businesspeople who are tokenizing real world assets. A common approach that will enable seamless interoperability, regardless of the underlying technology.
Over the past decade, AI and blockchain have been treated as two separate avenues of innovation, but now, as AI becomes more capable (though much more vulnerable) and blockchain becomes faster and more scalable (though still limited in its ability to interpret dynamic conditions), these avenues are merging into something much more powerful: a new model of secure infrastructure based on verifiable data, resilient automation, and cryptographic assurance.
The launch of ISBE allows Spain to be a pioneer in the construction of sovereign decentralised ecosystems. It is a public-private infrastructure with defined governance, segregated roles, distributed control and verifiable start-up, requirements that form the basis of an infrastructure that aspires to cross-border qualification and recognition. For this reason, ISBE is positioned to be the first qualified blockchain network in Europe; networks that have substantive legal effect, presumption of veracity and cross-border recognition.
Jared Kaplan, the chief scientist and co-owner of the $180bn (£135bn) US startup Anthropic, said a choice was looming about how much autonomy the systems should be given to evolve. The move could trigger a beneficial “intelligence explosion” – or be the moment humans end up losing control.
The quick evolution of Artificial Intelligence is redefining the economy and work, moving from automation to cognitive collaboration between humans and machines. Áurea Rodríguez introduces the concept of “human-AI mixed work,” where AI frees up routine tasks and amplifies creativity, critical thinking, and ethical decision-making. This gives rise to Gross Internal Talent (GIT), a metric that integrates irreplaceable human capabilities with the power of AI to generate large-scale solutions, guiding growth toward an “augmented economy.”
On November 24, 2025, the Rafael del Pino Foundation held the presentation of the INTEC 2025 Report, prepared within the framework of the Rafael del Pino Chair in Science and Society. Entitled "A roadmap for innovation in complex times," the report offers an in-depth and rigorous look at the scientific, technological, and social challenges facing Spain in an international context marked by uncertainty. The welcome address to the event underscored a message that sums up the Foundation's philosophy: science, innovation, and technology transfer are not abstract concepts, but real levers for strengthening the country's economic, social, and institutional progress. At a time of unprecedented technological acceleration, but also of polarization, misinformation, and crisis of confidence, the Foundation asserts the need to build a common vision in which science, business, and society converge.
Several quantum science companies have gone public so far in 2025, marking a pivotal year for the commercialization of quantum technology. Francisco Castro, our WAIQer turn into a Quantum Investor, predicted this summer in our course in Boston that there would be more quantum companies listed on the stock exchanges. Standouts like Infleqtion and Xanadu have captured attention with high-profile SPAC deals, joining other established names in shaping the future landscape of quantum research and applications. This post reviews their market entries, business focus, and what might unfold in the months ahead.
The first Spanish Quantum Technologies Strategy 2025-2030 is presented, a key initiative of the Spanish Government to position the country as a European leader in quantum innovation. The official presentation took place on April 24, 2025, at the OECD Global Technology Forum, held at the Fundación Espacio Telefónica in Madrid, before political, academic, and private sector representatives from more than 38 countries.
The package will have a "multi-billion" endowment and will come into operation in spring 2026. The EIB and various European foundations, including Fondazione Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo, will contribute.
Ben Buchanan and Tantum Collins argues in Foreign Affairs for a new American model of artificial intelligence development based on a “grand bargain” between the tech industry and the government. This agreement would balance innovation with ethical oversight and security concerns. The authors emphasize the need for government involvement to regulate AI while incentivizing private sector investment and leadership.
