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Who is Diella? Albania appoints AI minister, how does it work? Details here
DNA India
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September 12, 2025
Diella, which means "sun" in Albanian, will handle and award all public tenders. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that she is the first cabinet member who isn’t physically present, but is virtually created by AI. Politicians from across the...
Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
KFGO - North Dakota
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September 11, 2025
PRISTINA (Reuters) -A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who...
Albania appoints AI minister to fight corruption
Ynet
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September 11, 2025
A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favor. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his...
Diella: Albania Becomes First Country in World To Appoint AI-Powered Virtual Minister Overseeing Public Procurement, Says Report
Latestly
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September 12, 2025
Albania has reportedly appointed Diella, the world’s first AI-powered virtual minister. It is not a minister for AI, but is said to be a fully virtual figure created with artificial intelligence. As per a report of Politico, Diella, which means...
Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister
Politico Europe
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September 11, 2025
At the Socialist Party assembly in Tirana on Thursday, where Rama announced which ministers would get the chop and which would stay on for another mandate, he also introduced Diella, the only non-human member of the government. “Diella is the...
Albania Appoints 'Diella' the Bot as Minister to Tackle Corruption
Asharq Al-Awsat
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September 11, 2025
The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and gravity known to science. Researchers have now gotten their best look yet at such an event based on the detection of...
Albania names virtual AI procurement minister
Gazeta Tema
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September 11, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 11 (TemA) — Albania says it will be the first country to appoint a non-physical artificial intelligence as a government minister, as Prime Minister Edi Rama announced a new cabinet that includes an AI named “Diella” as minister of...
Reuters: Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption
Gazeta Tema
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September 12, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 12 (TemA) – Albania has named an artificial intelligence robot to its cabinet to manage public procurement, making it the first “minister” immune to bribes or intimidation, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Edi Rama, preparing for a...
Albania Digs Up a Roman Noble’s Tomb–the First of its Kind Ever Found in the Country
Good News Network
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September 11, 2025
First Roman-Era Tomb found in Albania – Photo courtesy of Blendi Gonxhja Once a byword for backward and mafiosos, Albania is experiencing a tourist boom, and sure to help the effort is the recent discovery of a Roman noble’s mausoleum. Part of the...
Albania’s Public Broadcaster Struggling With ‘Catastrophic’ Debts, Head Says
Balkan Insight
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September 11, 2025
Eni Vasili (middle), the new head of Albania’s public Bbroadcaster. Photo: Eni Vasili/Instagram. After two contributors to Albania’s public broadcaster criticised delays in payments and a lack of information – and after others confirmed to BIRN...
Can an AI Bot Fight Corruption in Albania?
Greek Reporter
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September 12, 2025
Artificial Intelligence concept. Credits: Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Albania’s new minister of public procurement, responsible for fighting corruption, isn’t a person but an AI bot named Diella. Prime Minister...
Will robots run governments? Albania has an ‘AI minister’ of public procurement
Firstpost
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September 12, 2025
A new minister in Albania charged with handling public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin...
Albania suicide rate below EU average
Gazeta Tema
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September 11, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 11 (TemA) — Albania records about 200 suicides a year. The toll is steady. The risk is real. INSTAT lists 192 suicides in 2022 and 199 in 2024. On the revised population base, that’s about 8 per 100,000 people — below the EU’s 10.6....
World's First AI-made 'Minister' Takes Charge in Albania to Tackle Corruption
Times Now
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September 12, 2025
Diella is dressed in a traditional Albanian costume on the e-Albania portal. A digital assistant that advises users on navigating government services online has been made an 'AI cabinet minister' in Albania, as the government seeks to cut down on...
World’s first AI ‘minister’ Diella takes charge in Albania to combat corruption
Hindustan Times
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September 12, 2025
Artificial intelligence, which is rapidly spreading across every sector, has now entered politics. Albania has become the first nation to appoint an AI-generated “minister” tasked with tackling corruption. Diella is the first (government) member...
Police hunt Polish fans over Skanderbeg attack
Gazeta Tema
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September 14, 2025
TIRANA, Sept 14 (TemA) — Two weeks after Polish Jagiellonia fans allegedly defaced the Skanderbeg monument in central Tirana, Albanian police have opened a criminal probe and are hunting the perpetrators. The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest note...
अल्बानिया ने नियुक्त की दुनिया की पहली AI मंत्री Diella, सौंपी भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी मंत्रालय की कमान
The CSR Journal
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September 14, 2025
Albania appointed an AI minister named Diella to fight corruption. A bold, forward thinking move worth trying. In many places corruption is deeply embedded, and standard reforms often fail because of human incentives. But if there’s no...
Albania’s Ambitious Push to Become World’s First Cashless Society by 2030
WebProNews
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September 10, 2025
Albania’s ambitious push to eliminate cash by 2030 marks a bold experiment in digital transformation for a nation still grappling with economic informality and widespread distrust of banks. Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a recent announcement,...
Durres, Minor Drowns in the Sea
Albanian Daily News
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A minor, 16-year-old drowned this Wednesday in Durres beach. Police confirmed that the victim is the citizen E.V. resident of Durres. He was in the sea when drowned and unfortunately no one could helped him. An investigation started over the case.
Albania lost 31% of pupils in a decade, opposition warns
Gazeta Tema
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September 10, 2025
TIRANA, Sep. 10 (TemA) — Democratic Party MP Jorida Tabaku said Albania has lost nearly a third of its schoolchildren in ten years, calling it a national crisis driven by failed policies. She said 61,000 fewer children are in classrooms compared...