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Anthropic arrives in Spain with a former Google executive: "Slowing down AI gives us the chance to get it right"

Original title, in Spanish: “Anthropic desembarca en España con una exdirectiva de Google: “Ralentizar la IA nos da la oportunidad de hacerlo bien””

Publication
El País (Spain) · subscribers only
Author
Santiago Millán
Published on
16 September 2026 · read in the page structured data

Summary

Anthropic is establishing itself in Spain, with Madrid as a strategic hub for the Iberian Peninsula, southern Europe and Spanish-speaking markets, according to its head Cristina Pitarch, a former Google executive. The standfirst states that groups such as Santander, CaixaBank, BBVA, Telefónica and Indra already use its artificial intelligence.

Summary based on the article's title and standfirst, as the text is not accessible.

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Classification

Country
Spain
Company size
Large companies
Industries
Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
Companies
Indra (deploys AI), Telefónica (deploys AI), Santander (deploys AI), CaixaBank (deploys AI), BBVA (deploys AI), Anthropic (supplier)
Keywords
anthropic, expansion in Spain, large companies, finance, telecoms, generative artificial intelligence

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to El País and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.