Federico Romero

Con María. Papá de Vito y Alfo. De Tacuarembó. Astrofísico frustrado devenido en Técnico en Teneduría de Libros de Comercio.

[Isaac Alfie @AlfieIsaac]

Eso no quita que el programa pueda ser provechoso a largo plazo si ponemos condiciones adecuadas. Se sabe que los primeros 3 años de vida son claves en el desarrollo cognitivo del niño, y por tanto del mismo depende su potencial futuro y real posibilidad de salir de la pobreza

[Federico Romero @federomeroolive]

@LuisBriosso @JMCarzolio Y el de la mitad de la cancha que le hizo un venezolano en la Copa América del Bicentenario.

[Federico Romero @federomeroolive]

@tuchojurnet13 @rmantero Con ese argumento del % de pobres tendríamos que ganarle a Argentina también. No es por ahí, me parece.

[Bloomberg @business]

New residential construction in the US slowed to the weakest pace in six years, as builders prioritized selling off their current new homes inventory amid sluggish demand https://t.co/jxV9jKDGX5

[Federico Romero @federomeroolive]

@ianbremmer @BrunoVuan Uruguay nomá!!!

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

if you look hard enough you can find global graphics where the united states and china are at the absolute bottom of the pack.

[NAHB 🏠 @NAHBhome]

Housing starts plummeted 15.4% in May to an annualized rate of 1.117 million, 8.7% lower than a year ago. Single-family home starts slipped 1.9% to an annualized rate of 882,000, 6.7% lower than a year ago. Home building permits were flat in May. #realestate #housing

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US diplomat Alan Eyre says despite the US-Iran ceasefire announcement, there is no deal until it has been formalised - and likely Israel’s strike on Beirut pushed the US into last minute action.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: US oil prices crash below $81/barrel after Pakistan announces that the US and Iran have reached a peace deal.

[The Political Room @Political_Room]

🇮🇷🤝🇺🇸 El viceministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Irán, Kazem Gharibabad, confirma el acuerdo: “el texto del memorando de entendimiento ha sido finalizado y la firma oficial del memorando de entendimiento de Islamabad tendrá lugar el viernes en Suiza”, informa el diario Teheran Times.

[EL PAÍS @elpaisuy]

El brasileño BTG Pactual, grupo comprador del banco HSBC, recibió la aprobación final de la transacción por parte del BCU https://t.co/0px6P7Ighj

[RT @RT_com]

Trump promises to hit Iran 'hard' again TODAY

[Subrayado @Subrayado]

"La climatología indica que vamos a tener un invierno corto, va a ser sí intenso. Va a ser muy frío con alto porcentaje de heladas y con muy poca lluvia. A partir de agosto comienzan a moderarse las temperaturas, comienzan a ascender, pero comienza lo otro, el Godzilla aparece, ahí las condiciones se complican", adelantó Nubel Cisneros.

[The Political Room @Political_Room]

🇮🇱🇮🇷🚀Más vídeos con los sistemas antimisil israelíes interceptando la oleada de misiles iraníes.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

[Juan Dubra @JuanDubra1]

Este gráfico es increíble. @JavierBianchi7 graduado de la @UnivMontevideo entre los economistas más prolíficos del mundo.
Hay “una fiebre” por publicar en las mejores 5 revistas del mundo. Es la actividad más competitiva que uno pueda pensar en la profesión. Y Javier la domina.

[El Electoral @ElElectoral]

🇩🇰 DINAMARCA • La socialdemócrata Mette Frederiksen volverá a ser elegida primera ministra.

Los socialdemócratas formarán un nuevo gobierno con el centrista Moderados, Izquierda Verde y Socioliberal. Será apoyado por el resto de la izquierda (Alianza Rojiverde y Alternativa).

[Telemundo @TelemundoUY]

Combustibles: suben la nafta y el gasoil desde junio, pero el supergás se mantiene

https://t.co/zUGDBYjHl8

[Nicolás Cichevski @ncichevski]

Según el IMAE del BCU, en el primer trimestre del año el PIB habría crecido un 1,1% desestacionalizado frente al cierre de 2025.

En términos interanuales, PIB habría crecido 0,8% , por encima de la mediana de expectativas del Comité de Expertos (0,4%)

[Paula Pereda Suárez @paubgood]

El @ced_uy publicó “El Peso del Estado en Uruguay”, un diagnóstico sobre el tamaño y eficiencia del sector público. Circuló mucho en medios. Tiene fuentes reales, citas académicas verificables y una tesis que creo, es correcta.
Pero varios de sus argumentos más citados no hacen lo que dicen que hacen 🧵
https://t.co/2ZCB97JAB2