Overview
- A university-hosted dialogue on June 30 highlighted that just 29% of digitally transforming Mexican firms use cloud services and only 2.1% deploy AI, signaling very low business adoption.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said the federal government will start a nationwide debate after the 2026 World Cup to craft rules on artificial intelligence, platform control and limits on cellphone use in schools.
- Senator Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín has filed a constitutional initiative to add a right to protection of digital identity and to ban creating or using synthetic representations without consent, with narrow exceptions for public interest and journalism.
- Experts called for a coordinated national AI strategy built on data infrastructure, better connectivity, legal certainty, international standards, incentives and specialized training so pilots move into production and deliver value.
- A UN scientific panel warned on July 1 that AI is evolving toward more autonomous systems that can reason and act, increasing risks from disinformation and automated cyber vulnerabilities and raising pressure for global evaluation standards.