The State Reform minister told MPs that LicencIA, an AI layer over councils' planning systems, should cut licensing times by 60 to 70 percent. Coimbra is among the pilot councils; no list, budget or launch date has been published.
Meta's new Commercial Terms would let it send crawlers and test logins to the websites of any business that runs a Page, an ad account or a business profile. WAN-IFRA asked for a pause for news publishers, and says Meta has pushed the start date back three weeks.
Portugal's education ministry has put draft guidance on AI in schools out for 30 days of comment. It keeps AI tools away from preschoolers, asks parental consent below 13 and bars AI detectors as sole proof of cheating.
At the Game Changers Forum the former US president warned of tribalism, took veiled aim at Donald Trump and called Portugal one of his favourite countries. President Seguro received him at Belém.
EuroHPC opened the call on 30 July and closes it at 16:00 on 12 November. Portugal's Sines bid has the cables, the deep-water port and the power. The head of the Luso-German Chamber told ECO this weekend that what worries German investors is the bureaucracy.
Tuesday's Council of Ministers resolution approves a second phase for AMALIA, aimed at building tools that can sit inside public services rather than behind a chat window. Separately, the government says it will approach media companies for access to their recent archives.
The Council of Ministers approved a €200 million public investment to reinforce Portugal's joint bid with Spain for one of the European Union's AI gigafactories, a EuroHPC project led on the Portuguese side by the Banco Português de Fomento and centred on a computing pole at Sines.
