Latest news and stories about ai in Portugal for expats and residents.
The Canadian IT consultancy CGI announced the opening of its first Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Portugal. The new facility will focus on generative AI and agent-based technologies, with the company planning to hire 100 people annually to support digital transformation projects.
Europe can only realise its AI ambitions by ramping up investment not just in compute and networks but in trusted, advanced connectivity. Success depends equally on policy — harmonised rules, interoperable standards, cross‑border data governance and targeted financing — alongside technology, infrastructure, skills and public‑private partnerships to accelerate deployment and adoption.
Forecasts suggest 2026 is unlikely to see mass layoffs directly caused by artificial intelligence, but experts warn AI will reshape job roles and slow hiring as firms reassess workforce needs. Employers are expected to prioritise retooling existing staff and investing in training to capitalise on AI tools, creating a potential ‘rush’ for upskilling programmes across sectors. The shift could produce short-term hiring freezes or more cautious recruitment, while raising questions about skills mismatches, labour-market inequality and the speed of public and private training responses.
This was a significant week for the US Nasdaq index as several tech companies released their results. While the index remained near record highs, news regarding OpenAI renewed investor scepticism about the return on investment in AI. The company missed its revenue and user growth targets, causing a ripple effect of scepticism across the ecosystem, with stocks like Oracle, Broadcom, AMD and Nvidia retreating. Investors were primarily looking for confirmation that massive AI investment is translating into real revenue and profit growth, with particular focus on cloud and advertising businesses. This scrutiny is driven by the nearly 600 billion dollars in combined infrastructure investment planned by the four major tech groups for 2026. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%. The market remains uneasy due to oil prices trading near record highs, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, and the Fed's upward revision of its 2026 inflation projections, which limits the scope for future rate cuts.
Between 2024 and 2025, the Portuguese tech company invested 2.2 million euros in this area.
Digital marketing has reached a breaking point. With nearly 50% of internet traffic now generated by bots, companies relying on outdated 'spray and pray' email strategies face inflated metrics and wasted investment. E-goi, a leader in omnichannel marketing automation, warns that businesses must abandon these archaic models to adapt to the realities of AI and data privacy in 2026. The company is hosting a free webinar on April 30th to help marketing professionals navigate these challenges, improve deliverability, and implement bot-free segmentation to ensure relevance in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
The tool was implemented in July 2025.
As European companies and states increasingly seek digital sovereignty to mitigate geopolitical risks and dependency on global hyperscalers, Internet Exchanges are playing a crucial role. By enabling controlled, private data exchange and supporting hybrid and multicloud strategies, these platforms allow businesses to keep critical data within regional jurisdictions while optimizing performance. Projects like the Deucalion supercomputer in Portugal and the push for an Iberian AI 'gigafactory' further underscore Europe's commitment to building independent, high-performance computing infrastructure.
The satellite manufacturing company Open Cosmos, which acquired Connected in Portugal, will take artificial intelligence (AI) into space through a partnership with Ubotica Technologies and connect two of its satellites to FAME. The NASA project will link more than 50 satellites capable of autonomously detecting, analysing, and responding.
The Microsoft Healthcare Academy initiative has successfully provided AI training to 8,000 health sector workers across Portugal.
A report denounces that two of the world's leading tech giants approve, distribute, and profit significantly from applications that create sexualised images using AI.
A study by BMJ Open warns of the dangers of relying on artificial intelligence for diagnoses. In Portugal, doctors are already feeling the effects of these inaccurate digital consultations.
Google released its 2025 Ads Safety Report, highlighting that the integration of the Gemini AI model allowed the company to block or remove over 8.3 billion ads last year. The report notes a 99% proactive detection rate for policy-violating ads and details plans to expand this real-time protection to all advertising formats by 2026. Additionally, Google confirmed it has ceased serving political ads across the European Union since October 2025 to mitigate misinformation risks.
Content produced by generative artificial intelligence is winning over millions and fueling disinformation. Cases are multiplying.
Adobe has introduced a new AI assistant that allows for photo editing via natural language, promising to simplify complex tasks such as removing backgrounds or objects.
Google has announced a set of new features for Gemini to strengthen the artificial intelligence's response in mental health crisis situations. The reaction comes about a month after a lawsuit in the United States linked the chatbot to a suicide case.
For a company to grow, it needs to attract customers and close deals. In theory, the formula is simple. However, the coordination between the departments responsible for this mission — Marketing and Sales — has been one of the greatest management challenges, with teams often operating in silos and evaluating...
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly part of everyday life, from work to health advice or fun images. The conversation is close, almost intimate, as if you were talking to a “friend” or “confidant”. But what is shared online does not remain secret.
Portuguese technology company develops an AI-based air combat simulator for Saab.
The data centres powering Artificial Intelligence (AI) consume enormous amounts of energy, but according to new research, they have another worrying effect: they create 'heat islands', increasing temperatures within a radius of up to ten kilometres.
Published in the journal Science, the study tested 11 AI systems and concluded that all of them validate users, even when they behave in an incorrect or harmful manner.
Sovereignty. The geopolitical context highlights the technological fragility of states and companies, which use tools they have little control over. 70% of computing capacity is foreign. Managers say it is an operational risk.
In recent years, the response to the tech talent shortage seemed relatively simple: if there aren't enough engineers, train more. Do you have a degree with low employability? You sign up for a three-month bootcamp, learn to code, and suddenly enter the tech sector through the side door. Intensive academies and retraining programs designed exactly for this have multiplied...
Artificial intelligence-generated videos depicting marital dramas between strawberries and eggplants are flooding social media and gaining millions of views.
“AI is deteriorating liberal democracies,” writes Adolfo Mesquita Nunes in “Algoritmocracy”. We are being manipulated without a human manipulator; how do we regulate this important tool?
Many companies continue to organise people and decisions and want to innovate with AI as if they were still assembling a Ford Model T.
Only a minority of organisations are turning AI into economic growth, but there are already national cases showing that maturity levels are beginning to scale. At the second 'Future in action: learning from top performers' meeting, organised by NTT DATA with Expresso as media partner, which took place this morning, the transformation of business processes was the theme of the conversation.
