Spain's record runs through its public services — Madrid's hospitals read prostate and breast scans with AI, and judges may use only official AI tools — backed by the €1.5 billion AI Strategy 2024.
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Services 68.4% · Industry 19.6% · Agriculture 2.7% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
Spain's judiciary restricts judges to AI tools supplied by the justice administrations.
Spain6 Oct 2026Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) — The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) warned two city councils over AI image analysis in planned video surveillance, testing Spain AI regulation. One scheme includes facial detection or recognition, the other searching people by appearance. Under these AI surveillance rules, owning a technology does not justify using it.
Spain1 Oct 2026Ministerio de la Presidencia, Justicia y Relaciones con las Cortes; Tribunal Supremo — Spain's Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts deployed AI in the Supreme Court, letting First (Civil) Chamber legal teams extract parties, issues, cited provisions and arguments from appeals in seconds. The chamber logged 7,279 new cases in the first half of 2026; 100-plus staff trained in July. This AI case analysis runs on isolated, state-owned open-source systems.
Spain21 Sep 2026Government of Spain — Spain AI policy now follows the IA360 Plan, a 12-month programme of concrete steps Pedro Sánchez unveiled to capture economic gains while putting safety, trust and protection of children and other vulnerable groups first. Measures span compute and new models, cybersecurity, schooling, jobs, data centres and oversight, plus an AI voucher for SMEs and freelancers. The national AI plan wants over half of companies using the technology by 2030.
Spain17 Sep 2026Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Real — Spain's Ciudad Real City Council will buy a Municipal Artificial Intelligence Platform through a 447,700 euro, four-month contract. Staff are to apply AI for local government to resident enquiries, e-office casework and building permits, with the supplier configuring and linking these municipal AI tools.
Spain13 Aug 2026Ministerio de la Presidencia, Justicia y Relaciones con las Cortes — Spain's Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts reports saving over one million hours through AI in courts and robotic process automation, which completed 350,000 administrative tasks and handled procedures worth more than €700 million. Court automation tools span automatic transcription, data anonymisation, summarisation, document classification, case-file information extraction and AI-powered translation for citizen services.
Spain21 Jul 2026Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) — The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has issued Spain AI regulation guidance: a technical note on data accuracy, suitability and quality where Artificial Intelligence processes personal data. This AI regulatory guidance examines how GDPR accuracy and minimisation principles bear on AI systems, and recommends steps to secure data quality for AI training and operations.
Spain26 May 2026Government of Spain, Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service — The Council of Ministers forwarded the draft Organic Law for the Good Use and Governance of Artificial Intelligence to the Congress of Deputies, aligning Spain AI regulation with the EU AI Regulation. Penalties climb to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover; AESIA, AEPD and CGPJ oversee compliance; a national AI sandbox, a public-body AI catalogue and a public-sector AI delegate follow. By September 2026 this AI legislation remained before parliament, unpassed.
Spain28 Apr 2026Comunidad de Madrid — SOL, a new AI public services chatbot from Madrid's Consejería de Digitalización, now serves 7 million residents around the clock. Built on Microsoft Foundry with Azure OpenAI Service, it answers voice and text queries in Spanish, English and Romanian, using over 70,000 official URLs from the regional government and transport authority. Atos, Bravent and T-Systems helped build the digital assistant.
Spain27 Apr 2026Consejo General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ) — Comisión Disciplinaria — Spain's CGPJ has imposed a 1,000-euro penalty on a provincial judge who wrote a draft ruling with ChatGPT, the country's first disciplinary action over judicial AI misuse. Colleagues spotted leftover prompts in the document. The Consejo General del Poder Judicial classed it a grave offence under article 418.8 of the LOPJ, declining the harsher charge since the software supported rather than replaced his adjudication.
Spain5 Apr 2026Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (AEAT) — Spain's AEAT tax authority deploys AI forensic analysis tax agency tools, rolling out 500 licences of Cellebrite Pathfinder to sift unstructured digital evidence—emails, images, videos—in open cases. The tool flags patterns and anomalies in seized data without replacing human judgement, an AI-powered digital evidence review layered atop inspectors' work. AEAT paid roughly €326,000 for the software in 2023; fiscal law experts warn its reach may extend beyond verifying income to mapping a taxpayer's social and family circle.
Spain28 Jan 2026General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) — Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) approved Instruction 2/2026 on 28 January 2026, setting AI rules for judges and magistrates, generative AI included. Judges may use only AI systems from the competent justice administrations or the CGPJ, and AI may never replace them in deciding cases. The Official State Gazette (BOE) then published it.
Spain28 Jan 2026Consejo General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ) — Spanish courts face binding curbs on AI use by judges under Instruction 2/2026 from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), published in the BOE on 30 January 2026. Algorithmic tools must stay under human command, autonomous rulings are barred, and only CGPJ-vetted software may be deployed. Profiling, behavioural forecasting and specially protected personal data via judicial artificial intelligence tools stay off-limits.
Spain16 Dec 2025Spanish AI Supervisory Agency (AESIA) — Sixteen guides now anchor Spain's EU AI Act compliance push, issued on 16 December 2025 by the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) to steer organisations through obligations for high-risk systems under the AI Regulation. Built from findings inside the Spanish AI sandbox, the set opens with an introduction to the framework, adds thirteen technical documents tackling risk management alongside data governance, transparency and cybersecurity duties, and closes with a checklist. None of this AI Regulation compliance guidance is legally binding, though each document aligns its advice with what regulators expect.
Spain7 Nov 2025Consejo General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ) — Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has released KENDOJ, an AI in judicial administration package built by the Centro de Documentación Judicial (CENDOJ), for nationwide court use. This AI toolkit for judges auto-drafts case summaries and offers a chat-style tool for real-time legal queries. CGPJ states the system runs inside a protected, compliant setup.
Spain2 Apr 2025Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia — Galicia's Ley 2/2025 stands as the regional AI law Spain now counts as its first, a single rulebook steering how artificial intelligence gets built and used by government bodies and businesses alike within the community. Under this AI governance framework Galicia now requires civil servants and ordinary residents to receive training in understanding AI systems. The statute folds an older blueprint, the Estrategia gallega de inteligencia artificial 2030, into enforceable legislation.
Spain11 Mar 2025Government of Spain — Spain's government greenlit an AI governance bill aligning domestic policy with the EU AI Act, promoting ethical, inclusive and beneficial use of artificial intelligence. New digital rights let authorities pull AI systems from the Spanish market after a serious incident, backed by fines from €7.5M to €35M for banned practices. This marks an early step toward a broader AI regulation framework.
Spain12 Jul 2024European Parliament and Council of the European Union — Spain AI regulation now runs on Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, adopted 13 June 2024 by the European Parliament and the Council and printed in the EU Official Journal, applying automatically with no domestic transposition step. Outright bans hit unacceptable AI practices, high-risk systems face fresh duties, and each member state must appoint a watchdog — AESIA got that job in Spain. A single bloc-wide text thus decides deployment rules under this risk-tiered EU AI Act.
Spain14 May 2024Government of Spain, Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service — 1.5 billion euros: Spain has pledged that much behind the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, adopted 14 May to refresh the older 2020 ENIA plan for faster-moving generative AI. One pillar builds capacity through supercomputing, the ALIA language models and talent pipelines; a second drives uptake via GobTechLab, Kit Consulting and Kit Digital; a third anchors ethics and oversight under the Spanish AI Supervisory Agency (AESIA). This is the backbone of Spain's AI strategy, ratified by the Council of Ministers, running through 2024-2025.
Spain8 Nov 2023Government of Spain, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation — Spain claims the European Union's first AI regulatory sandbox, created via Royal Decree 817/2023 (8 November 2023), where companies—chiefly SMEs and startups—pilot high-risk systems against draft EU AI Regulation demands ahead of enforcement. Working jointly with the European Commission, the project delivered 16 compliance guides through AESIA by December 2025, giving businesses practical AI compliance testing rather than theoretical guidance.
Spain22 Aug 2023Government of Spain, Council of Ministers — Spanish AI regulation gained a dedicated authority when Spain's Council of Ministers signed Royal Decree 729/2023, forming AESIA (Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence) under a Statute effective 3 September 2023. As designated EU AI Act enforcer, AESIA certifies systems, fosters ethical conduct, connects with European institutions, and watches deployments spanning government and industry, cementing artificial intelligence governance beneath one roof.
Spain2 Dec 2020Government of Spain, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation — Spain adopted ENIA, its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, directing public funds toward AI in public administration and industry between 2021 and 2023. Sitting under Component 16 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the scheme forms part of the broader España Digital 2025 push. It rests on six pillars: strengthening research, growing digital talent, scaling data infrastructure, embedding AI within value chains, extending it into government agencies, and establishing an ethical and regulatory framework. These figures come from the Spanish government's own stated commitment, not an independently audited result.
Spain13 Feb 2020Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) — The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) issued a guide on Spain AI regulation titled 'Una aproximación para la adecuación al RGPD de tratamientos que incorporan Inteligencia Artificial' (An approach to GDPR compliance for processing that incorporates Artificial Intelligence). The guide covers privacy risks when regulating AI, plus key GDPR points for AI products and services: transparency, lawfulness of processing, risk management and automated decision-making.
Madrid's public hospitals use AI to read MRI scans where prostate cancer is suspected.
Spain10 Sep 2026Comunidad de Madrid — Comunidad de Madrid will use AI in chronic disease monitoring for close to 2 million patients through CRON-IA, a system flagging early warning signs in their records. Personaliz@ extends remote monitoring for hospital patients recovering at home via continuous assessment and clinical alerts, while PREVEN-IA builds digital twins from genomic, analytical, imaging and clinical data to forecast outcomes, an AI-based patient monitoring approach across three tools. Ayuso outlined the plan at the Madrid Assembly; none of the systems is installed yet, and these remain commitments rather than deployments.
Spain4 May 2026Comunidad de Madrid — Spain's Comunidad de Madrid has installed AI cancer diagnosis tools in several public hospitals to spot suspected prostate and breast cancer faster and more accurately, and to follow detected cases. For prostate cancer they help radiologists read MRI and review a patient's whole imaging history together; for breast cancer, systems reading 2D mammograms and 3D tomosynthesis flag suspicious lesions and score how likely malignancy is. Clinicians will test them on diagnosed cases in coming months, with phased installation from summer.
Spain2025-09Hospital del Mar, Barcelona — Barcelona's Hospital del Mar has introduced an AI voice agent for COPD monitoring after patients go home, using LOLA, Tucuvi's clinically validated system, to phone them daily and catch trouble early during the critical first 30 days post-discharge. Rather than waiting for a crisis, LOLA tracks whether patients keep up with prescribed treatment, watches for red flags and pings clinicians the moment an exacerbation looks likely, following profiles that pneumology staff built for the tool. The aim is simple: keep people out of hospital beds through consistent remote patient monitoring.
Spain24 Jul 2025Conselleria de Sanidad de la Generalitat Valenciana — AI X-ray analysis now covers every hospital and primary care site in Spain's Valencian Community, spanning chest, bone and breast imaging, per Marciano Gómez. Over 300,000 chest and bone studies plus roughly 100,000 mammograms have gone through the software, delivering results within five minutes at a negative predictive value nearing 100%. The AI radiology diagnostics tool aids clinicians without overriding judgement.
Spain21 Jul 2025Government of Aragón (Servicio Aragonés de Salud) — Servicio Aragonés de Salud now runs Salud-GPT, Aragón's Government's first corporate AI diagnosis tool for health professionals. Workers enter symptoms and get back conditions ranked by likelihood, built to spot rare diseases sooner via the electronic health record. Joaquín Velilla, Digital Health director general, calls this AI clinical decision support tool a guide, not a replacement, for professional judgement.
Spain24 Jun 2025Hospital Clínico San Carlos — A global first: Hospital Clínico San Carlos, a public hospital in Madrid, steered a coronary catheter via augmented reality and AI into an 89-year-old with several clogged arteries. AI in percutaneous coronary interventions blends AI-read CT scans with live X-rays mid-operation — AI-assisted cardiac catheterisation merging two imaging streams at once.
Spain28 Apr 2025Hospital de Bellvitge — AIINANE, an AI preoperative risk assessment tool built entirely by Hospital de Bellvitge's own anaesthesiology team, is now in clinical trial. It mines electronic health records plus a patient-completed digital questionnaire, flagging complex cases for clinician attention while sparing lower-risk patients extra pre-surgery appointments. Testing began with breast cancer day-surgery patients, with wider use across ambulatory procedures targeted for mid-2026 — part of a broader push toward AI-driven surgical risk prediction.
Spain10 Apr 2025Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora del Rosario — Spain's first AI-based coronary diagnosis centre is Madrid's Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora del Rosario, now using DeepVesselFFR, built with Kanbai Tech, to read CT scan data via 3D-modelling and gauge coronary blood flow without catheterisation. It cuts unnecessary invasive procedures by up to 70%, delivering results in six hours. This non-invasive coronary artery evaluation relies on a developer-reported figure, not independent audit.
Spain30 Jul 2026Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Canarias — Sala de lo Penal — The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Canarias has penalised an advocate 840 euros, a sanction for AI-invented case law after judges traced at least 25 bogus citations credited to the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. Automated tools never excuse skipping checks, the chamber said, referring the unrepentant lawyer to the Lanzarote bar. In February the same bench imposed 420 euros over 48 fake authorities.
Spain23 Jun 2026Broseta — Broseta has adopted Harvey as generative AI for legal work across its everyday practice, covering contract checks, regulatory analysis, precedent searches and drafting. Lawyers retain the legal judgement. Manuel Broseta, the firm's president, and managing partner Rosa Vidal frame the platform as a lever for efficiency and extra client value.
Spain13 Apr 2026Consejo General de la Abogacía Española (CGAE) — The Consejo General de la Abogacía Española has adopted a circular on AI-drafted filings, warning that unchecked machine mistakes can make advocates answerable. Software may assist only with people overseeing it, and practitioners should log each use and purpose. Breach crystallises once a flawed brief is lodged, though a prompt correction can avert it; this is the third ethics circular from the Abogacía.
Spain7 Jan 2026PwC Tax & Legal (Spain) — PwC Tax & Legal in Spain has woven legal and tax AI through client work, operations and training, head Joaquín Latorre told Cinco Días. Microsoft and Harvey are allies, and an in-house environment lets the firm build tailored AI solutions for companies.
Spain9 Nov 2025Consejo General del Poder Judicial — KENDOJ, the judicial software suite run by Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), now offers AI for judges via two additions: an automatic summary generator and a conversational assistant. The Centre for Judicial Documentation (CENDOJ) built both tools to run in a secure environment, turning court rulings into structured digests and letting magistrates query case files in plain language instead of manual searches. This cuts review time, part of a wider shift toward AI-assisted judicial document analysis in Spain.
Spain15 Oct 2025Repsol — Repsol runs a new multi-agent AI platform, built with Accenture, spreading autonomous AI agents — more than 20 of them — across three teams in its Digitalisation and Services division of roughly 700 staff. Over 50 employees supervise these self-organising bots as they coordinate and finish jobs, drawing on knowledge bases made solely for the Spanish energy firm. A custom interface fits large language models to this workplace after a four-month trial.
Spain20 Aug 2025Endesa — Endesa now applies AI in energy operations spanning Generation, Distribution, Commercialisation, Tax, Human Resources and Customer Service. Predictive maintenance and automatic image diagnosis back power generation; drones, sensors, fraud detection and grid monitoring cover distribution. Generative AI drafts personalised energy-saving proposals and reads customer emotions live, while virtual assistants handle tax and HR work.
Spain9 Jul 2025Renault Group — Renault Group's Plant Connect at the Palencia plant in Spain crunches 5 billion data points daily across 110 square metres, driving AI manufacturing decisions. Its 24 stations use 120 microphones for acoustic faults, 3D scanners for shape mapping, and vision-based defect detectors flagging flaws to 0.6mm in battery connectors. Output: 555 cars daily.
Madrid says it will add AI tools for teachers to EducaMadrid, trialled first in five schools.
Spain8 Jan 2026Comunidad de Madrid (Regional Ministry of Digitalisation) — Spain's Community of Madrid says it will add AI tools for teachers to its EducaMadrid schools platform: first an email assistant that drafts, reviews and polishes, then one designing personalised pupil content automatically. Five schools will trial the features first; each teacher could save about 40 routine hours a year, it estimates.
Spain18 Jun 2025Universitat Politècnica de València — Universitat Politècnica de València built PoliGPT, an AI chatbot for higher education, using only internal staff. Live since spring 2024, it answers campus queries and handles subtitling, transcription and translation for UPV Media and VideoApuntes, plus natural-language search. This reflects rising university AI adoption in Spain via homegrown systems.
Spain9 Jul 2025CaixaBank — Card holders using CaixaBank's mobile app can query a generative AI agent for product exploration, comparing options and recommending a match. Google Cloud supplies the technology; 200,000 customers gained access in the initial card-products phase, with this AI-based financial product recommendation tool anchoring the bank's 2025-2027 Strategic Plan for generative AI.
Spain14 Feb 2025BBVA — Blue, BBVA's AI banking assistant built on OpenAI's technology, reached 10,000 users first, then all customers within two months, handling account and card tasks through conversational AI in retail banking across roughly 120 functions. BBVA also gave 100 managers the tool, linked to 30,000 documents on products and processes.
Telefónica has built call transcription and AI summaries into its Spanish business phone lines.
Spain8 Oct 2026Orange Spain — Orange Spain employees created over 1,000 bespoke agents on Gemini Enterprise, scaling AI agents in customer care. Teams use the agents to settle customer requests sooner and to identify, categorise and route technical faults, showing agentic AI for telecom staff.
Spain12 Aug 2026Telefónica — Telefónica has built generative AI into its business voice services in Spain as 'Centrex AI', across corporate mobile lines and Centrex IP and Centrex 365 virtual PBX products. Features include speaker-labelled, near real-time call transcripts, AI summaries and virtual agents that check records and book appointments, in 100-plus languages. Spanish firms and public administrations come first.
Spain12 Nov 2025Correos Express — Correos Express deployed an AI digital twin, built on Neurored TMS & SCM, to sharpen transport network optimisation between Spain and Portugal. Real-time monitoring now spans 70 depots and 550 daily feeder routes, catching congestion points, delays and capacity limits from historical patterns. A future phase will add demand forecasting and automated route optimisation suggestions.
Spain19 Feb 2025Renfe — Renfe fitted 415 Cercanías stations in Spain with AI video surveillance, completing phase one of the RS3 (Renfe Smart Security Station) project. Algorithms flag fires, vandalism, overcrowding, unauthorised access and falls onto tracks, pushing live alerts to a 24-hour Renfe security centre. Of a budget exceeding 32 million euros, phase one cost 25.8 million euros; another 6.5 million will extend AI camera monitoring to 182 more stations.
Spain30 Sep 2026Mercadona — Mercadona has over 500 engineers on Atenea, an in-house platform of agentic AI for software development. Specialised AI coding agents draw on Mercadona's quality standards, tools, processes and knowledge.
Spain25 Sep 2025Metrovacesa — Metrovacesa built MiA, an AI agent for real estate sales, atop Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Response times fell 38%, and early contact handling drove a potential €90.7 million pipeline, with 77% of buyers scoring the multilingual assistant 8.75 out of 10. This AI-powered property sales assistant now runs Spain's top homebuilder's qualification and commercial workflows.
Spain14 Sep 2026Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) — Spain's AEPD, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, has logged a first AI agent data breach: an autonomous attacker built on a widely known language model altered personal records and opened invoices. After probing generic files and signing in, the agent explored the application unaided until exploitable flaws surfaced. Neither victim nor model is identified, and details rest solely on the affected organisation's report, pending analysis of this agentic AI cyberattack.
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