Weekly summary: the definitive leap towards agentic artificial intelligence

Source: CritpoTendencia Original Title: Weekly Summary: The Final Leap Toward Artificial Intelligence as an Agent Original Link: This week, artificial intelligence ceased to be a promise and established itself as a concrete force of execution and real operational autonomy.

Through strategic alliances and new launches, the main players in the sector outlined a clear roadmap: to transfer innovation from laboratories to solving critical problems, from healthcare in Africa to labor protection and cyber resilience in the Southern Cone.

Microsoft and Mutual de Seguridad elevate their alliance toward future labor protection

In Chile, Microsoft and Mutual de Seguridad announced the consolidation of a new phase in their strategic alliance to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and transform occupational prevention processes.

The agreement will focus on critical prevention processes, operational management, and modernization of internal work, strengthening capabilities in data, automation, and generative AI to offer more innovative, efficient, and secure services.

Felipe Bunster, General Manager of Mutual de Seguridad, stated that every development, every technological alliance, and every tool we implement responds to a clear purpose: to facilitate preventive management for companies, improve their access to critical information, and support them in decisions that directly impact the safety of their workers.

For his part, Andrés Roepke, Microsoft Chile country manager, affirmed: this alliance reflects a shared vision: to use technology responsibly to support workers, companies, and citizens in this new stage of the world of work, where innovation makes sense when it generates a positive impact on people’s lives.

Bill Gates and OpenAI join forces for Africa

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI will allocate $50 million to help African countries use artificial intelligence to strengthen their healthcare systems.

According to Gates, the use of AI aims to mitigate the severe shortage of medical professionals on the continent while improving healthcare infrastructure overall. In practice, these tools help reduce administrative burdens and free up time for healthcare staff to focus on direct patient care.

Rwanda will be the first country to receive support from the Horizon 1000 program. Currently, the country has only one healthcare professional per 1,000 inhabitants, well below the recommended approximately four.

In this scenario, Health Minister Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana announced the creation of an AI-assisted health center in Kigali, where limited resources will be optimized.

According to Gates, the strategy involves introducing AI systems in hospitals, clinics, communities, and homes. However, he emphasized that these tools are designed to assist medical personnel, not replace them.

OpenAI launches its new integrated translation tool in ChatGPT

OpenAI introduced a new feature integrated into ChatGPT: a proprietary translator that aims to go beyond simple text conversion between languages. The tool targets one of the most used internet services over the past two decades and offers an AI-based alternative capable of understanding context, tone, and style.

While ChatGPT already allowed translations from its early versions, the company took an additional step by launching a dedicated tool with a dedicated interface and functions aimed at improving user experience.

Unlike traditional translators, the system analyzes the full context of the message. This allows, for example, adapting a professional email from English to Spanish while maintaining appropriate courtesy formulas, or translating literary texts while respecting the rhythm and metaphors of the original author.

The service supports over 90 languages and allows requesting regional variants, such as Spanish from Spain, Mexico, or Argentina, with a single click.

Indra presents its new cyber resilient AI in Chile and Peru

IndraMind was presented in Chile and the region during the Future Congress 2026, considered Latin America’s largest gathering of science, technology, and innovation.

IndraMind is an AI platform aimed at optimizing strategic decision-making, providing deterrence capacity against threats, and managing hybrid conflicts with a high degree of autonomy. All from a comprehensive security and defense perspective, reinforcing cyber resilience to ensure operational continuity even in complex scenarios.

Vicente Huertas, General Director of Indra Group for the Southern Cone and Peru, explained that in a world facing previously unthinkable threats, with critical infrastructures exposed to disruptive and hard-to-predict risks, this platform emerges as a cognitive brain to respond and anticipate complex scenarios with a new strategic capacity, designed for challenges that are no longer future issues but present ones.

Microsoft presents Copilot Checkout, the next step in AI as an agent

Microsoft announced new AI as an agent solutions aimed at automating every stage of the purchasing process, from planning to customer service.

Copilot Checkout allows merchants to complete purchases directly within Copilot, without redirecting users to external sites. In this way, conversations turn into conversions immediately, reducing friction. The solution has partners like PayPal, Shopify, and Stripe, as well as brands like Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Ashley Furniture, and e-commerce platform vendors.

Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Global Industry, stated: retailers who thrive will be those who integrate their business with intelligence throughout the entire value chain. With Microsoft’s AI as an agent, they can automate tasks that hinder growth, enhance their strengths, make faster decisions, and build lasting customer relationships.

Finally, a quote from Marvin Minsky: no computer has ever been designed to be aware of what it is doing, but most of the time, neither are we.