China is preparing the most powerful and rare exascale supercomputer on the planet. No GPU: only Chinese CPUs

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An exascale supercomputer is one capable of performing at least 1 exaflop (10¹⁸) of floating point operations per second. These machines are the most powerful currently available if we stick to classic computers and leave aside the prototypes of quantum computers. The classification TOP500 identifies the most capable supercomputers on the planetand, as expected, four exascale machines appear at the top of this list: The Captain, FrontierAurora and Jupiter. The first three reside in the United States and the fourth in Germany. Curiously, no Chinese supercomputer appears in the top ten positions of this classification, although we know that some of its most powerful machines are not officially reported to the TOP500 for geopolitical reasons. Be that as it may, the Government led by Xi Jinping is determined to change this scenario. And the Shenzhen National Supercomputing Center has announced that is going to build a supercomputer called Lingshen that, according to this institution, will have a sustained performance of more than 2 exaflops and will integrate only components designed and manufactured in China. Lingshen supercomputer architecture is very unusual The supercomputer ‘The Captain’ from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) is a real beast. This machine exceeds 1.8 exaflops, making it currently the most powerful on the planet. The APUs are responsible for its brute force. Instinct MI300A from AMD, which work hand in hand with the EPYC 9005 processors. However, the most surprising thing is that it brings together no less than 11,340,000 cores and delivers 1,809 PFlops/s Rmax and 2,821.10 PFlops/s Rpeak. Lingshen will bring together 47,000 processors of Chinese origin that will be distributed in Huawei Kunpeng servers The architecture of ‘El Capitan’ is very similar to that of the other supercomputers in the TOP500 classification, but the machine being prepared by the Shenzhen National Supercomputing Center is going to take different paths. And it is that according to Lu Yutongthe director of this center, the Lingshen supercomputer will use only general purpose processors (CPU), and will not use GPU. Not a single one. It is a very unusual decision, and it is surprising that in theory it will exceed 2 exaflops only with this type of chips. Be that as it may, this is not the only thing we know. Lingshen will bring together 47,000 processors of Chinese origin that will be distributed in servers Huawei Kunpeng equipped with Taishan cores with ARM architecture. Lu Yutong has also confirmed that this machine will have 650PB of storage and a million-port interconnection. Everything that the Shenzhen National Supercomputing Center has announced sounds great, but this project also leaves us with some very reasonable doubts. The most obvious is that Lingshen is just a project at the moment. It has not yet been built, so its theoretical maximum performance comes from an estimate and not from a measurement provided by a real test bench. On the other hand, it is very surprising that the Shenzhen National Supercomputing Center has chosen to integrate only CPU. Huawei, Moore Threads and Cambricon Technologies are three of the chinese companies which have domestically made GPUs that could presumably fit into this machine. In any case, it is worth keeping track of this project to see if Lingshen finally lives up to the expectations it has raised. Image | TOP500.org More information | Shenzhen National Supercomputing Center In Xataka | The Frontier supercomputer is the second most powerful exascale machine on the planet. And it has a mission: nuclear fusion

20 years ago someone believed they had the key to decongesting Madrid. Today it is gaining strength again with a name: M-70

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In 2005, someone put on the table that, perhaps, the time has come to decongest Madrid from transit trips. That is, those that start outside Madrid and end outside Madrid. The idea is not new by any means. The M-30 or the M-40 They were born with the clear objective of keeping cars away from the city center. More kilometers for the driver but with the promise of taking much less time to reach our destination. The problem is that the municipalities and neighborhoods adjacent to the M-40 are enormous in Madrid. Some even merge with the city itself. As a result of this problem, the M-50. The highway finished being consolidated in the early 2000s. It has a total length of 85 kilometers and with it you can go from Las Rozas on the A-6 to San Sebastián de los Reyes, already on the A-1, surrounding Madrid on its southern side. It serves as a connection to the entire southern belt of the city, passing next to Móstoles, Leganés or Getafe but also next to Pozuelo, San Fernando de Henares or Barajas. The connection, however, is not closed in the north. That is, there is no direct connection A-1 and A-6 or vice versa, it is necessary to surround the entire southern framework because right now no highway crosses that space. The closest is the M-40 which, as we say, is next to the capital. But what if we go further? What if we try to eliminate traffic in Madrid with a radial highway that links all the provincial capitals that surround Madrid and without having to go through this autonomous community? This is what was proposed more than 20 years ago and now they want to recover. The M-70, an old Castilian desire Although it sounds utopian, the truth is that carrying out the Pentagon Project or the M-70, as the idea has been known since 2005, this idea has been raised more or less seriously. In fact, that year it was included in the Strategic Infrastructure Plan for Madrid just as they collected in 20Minutes and was considered of General Interest of the State as it was part of the Strategic Infrastructure and Transportation Plan (PEIT) 2008. The crisis, however, wiped out any reference to the project. That name of “Project Pentagon” It is because its construction would create a road network with this shape by joining Segovia, Ávila, Toledo and Guadalajara, passing through other municipalities of considerable size such as Ocaña, Maqueda or Tarancón. The name M-70 would not exist as such at the moment because, really, the objective would be to connect highways between said capitals in a kind of Frankenstein that would allow movement between all the radial roads near Madrid but without the need to enter said autonomous community. The last consistent reference to the project is a statement by Emiliano García-Page in 2024 who made reference to the fact that the connection of Cuenca with the A-5 through an extension of the A-40 would make the latter the M-70 of the city. And at the time of projecting that future M-70, it was already projected that the A-40 would be the road that would largely structure the project. This road, the A-40 It is a connection that aims to unite Ávila with Teruel. At the moment, on the west side, the road has been passable since 2012 between Maqueda (on the A-5) to Mocejón (past Toledo). At that point the highway is cut off as it passes through Aranjuez (the only point where it touches the Community of Madrid) and extends again from Ocaña to Cuenca. At the moment, that Madrid section and the connection from Maqueda to Ávila is in the study phase. And to finish this old dream of the Castiles, it would be necessary to extend the highway to Teruel from Cuenca, whose preliminary project has already been completed and approved. The concept of M-70, however, would be realized with the existing connection between Ávila and Segovia and, most complicated, the connection of the latter with Guadalajara. The “simplest” thing (yes, in many quotes) would be to create a connection between Segovia and the A-1 and reuse the latter in the direction of Madrid to unfold the possible ring road taking advantage of the route of the N-320. The latter connects the A-1 highway with Cuenca passing through Guadalajara. However, this Segovia-Guadalajara connection seems really complicated given the geographical accidents along the way. Despite this, as we said, a hypothetical M-70 ring road It would be an amalgamation of different highways or linked highways, not the construction of an entire ring road. It would, however, be a possibility to alleviate some traffic on the east-west and west-east routes without passing through Madrid. The A-40 wants to be that solution in the south but there were already those who dreamed 20 years ago of carrying it out also in the north. Photo | Command on Wikimedia and Google Maps In Xataka | The great artery between Madrid and Valencia had been awaiting renovation for years: 500 million euros will end the wait

The ocean fooled scientists with this “alien egg.” Almost three years later, we have the answer

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Although we try to learn a lot of information about the space that surrounds us, the reality is that there is still a lot to know here on Earth. This is what we evidenced in August 2023 when the Seascape Alaska 5 expedition, at more than 3,200 meters deep in the Gulf of Alaska, found a shiny golden hemisphere and with a hole in the center. And the question was clear: how did he get there? Many questions. When these findings were seen live, the researchers themselves joked that it looked like the beginning of a horror movie, and social networks did not hesitate to dub it the “alien egg.” The problem here is that the scientific community had no idea what that artifact was doing attached to a rock on the seabed. But three years later this mystery has been solved. It’s not alien. After being extracted from the seabed, the enigmatic specimen was sent to the laboratories of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where a research team set to work to determine what it was. And to the disappointment of many, it is not a specimen that came from outside our planet. The results, published a few days agorelate how the researchers decided to extract and sequence the mitochondrial DNA from the tissue and, from this, they crossed it with the large databases of genomes that are already known and in this way they ruled out that it was not a marine sponge, a bacterial biofilm and it was not an egg either. What was it? Here the genetic code pointed directly to a species that was cataloged in 2006 as Relicanthus daphneae and of which, if we look for a photograph, we will be surprised to see a kind of giant anemone of the depths with tentacles that can measure more than two meters. And this makes us wonder: why did the Alaskan specimen look like a smooth, golden sphere? And here the research team points out that the golden orb found in the deep sea was not an animal itself, but a “cuticular relic.” What exactly is it? In other words, these are the remains of the base or “foot” that this anemone uses to anchor itself to the rocks of the seabed, resisting the strong abyssal currents. In this way, when the anemone dies, it detaches or moves; this fleshy and resistant base is left behind. And the hole? This was a point that greatly worried researchers in 2023, but the reality is that it was not the hatching mark of a creature, but rather it is simply a natural tear in this residual tissue. The curious thing here is that this find also fits with another similar specimen collected in 2021, confirming that this golden “mold” is a common trace of the species after its death. Images | NOAA In Xataka | We have drilled the seabed at a depth of 2,500 meters. And we have found things we didn’t think were possible

Two tourists from the US decided to free the lobsters from a bar in Italy. Environmentalists think it was a bad decision.

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In theory it was going to be a nice gesture, a kind of performance improvised idea with which to give an emotional touch to a holiday in the Mediterranean, but it has ended up becoming a blunder. A few days ago, while eating at a restaurant in Campania (Italy), two American tourists decided to rescue the dozen lobsters that were swimming in the local aquarium. They paid for them. They put them in a basin. They got into a taxi. And they traveled to a Tyrrhenian beach, where they released the crustaceans. Everything was fantastic if it weren’t for one small detail: what they did could be an environmental crime. Now they risk paying a considerable fine. The saying goes that hell is paved with good intentions. In the waters of the Tyrrhenian, Italy, good intentions have caused something else: a illegal release of lobsters. The event occurred a few days ago, when two tourists from Texas (mother and daughter) decided to crown their vacation in Naples with something that at first seemed an altruistic gesture: Pay for a dozen crustaceans condemned to die in a kitchen and then release them into the sea. Altruistic gesture or environmental crime? To understand the story you have to travel to the Mercato Pompeiano restaurant, in Campania, where a few days ago two Americans decided to try the local cuisine. So far nothing strange. The surprise came when they asked the waiter to sell them the dozen lobsters that were swimming in the aquarium, the typical display where customers can choose the seafood they want to be cooked for them. Their intention was not to feast on crustaceans, but to put the animals in a basin to release them into the sea. It was the daughter herself who was in charge of ‘fishing’ them out of the pond with a small net. Then, to the astonishment of the restaurant owners, the two tourists got into a taxi and traveled to the nearby beach of Castellammare di Stabia. Once there, the daughter rolled up her sleeves, approached the coastline where the waves were breaking, and went releasing one by one the lobsters that until recently looked at the diners of the Mercato Pompeiano with tongs held with ribbons. You don’t have to imagine it. The scene can be seen because the tourists themselves were in charge of recording everything in a video that has ended up going viral. In it you can see the daughter with the water up to her ankles, releasing the lobsters, while the mother immortalizes the scene with her cell phone. Some Italian media they need who were accompanied by a guide. “We want to take this memory to the United States. It has been beautiful, we are happy,” explains the mother, proud. The couple even sent a message to the restaurant owner. “Even if they only live a few more days, it was worth it. My mother has always wanted to do this when we saw lobsters in restaurants, but until now it has never been possible.” The video of the release soon spread like wildfire on social networks, where it provoked opposing reactions. There are those who applaud the gesture for its altruism. And there are those who consider it a nonsense with serious environmental consequences. @la.repubblica Have bought all the things that were in the restaurant’s aquarium. Salvandololi from the death and from the destiny indicated by the end of the meals in the menu. Due to Texan tourists arriving at Pompei from Texas, they are very happy to join the spiaggia of Castellammare di Stabia and have not been liberated in the sea. Terminata la missione salvezza hanno sent a message in English to the owner of the ristorante: “Grazie per avercelo permesso, se anche vivranno qualche giorno in più ne è valsa la pena. Mia mamma avrebbe semper voluto farlo quando abbiamo viewed le aragoste nei ristoranti, ma non è stato mai possibile.” Il fuoriprogramma nato quasi percaso, quanto le due Americane touriste hanno gli glistici nuotare nell’acquario accanto al tavolo dove era sedute a mangiare. This is the time to turn on one at a time with the light used in the chambers of the premises, fishing from the aquarium with per insertion in safety. Tutto ripreso con il cellulare dalla mamma: “Vogliamo porre a casa negli Usa il ricordo di questo avvenimento. È stato bello, siamo felici. Abbiamo regalato loro una ultima possibilità.” by Mariella Parmendola ♬ original audio – la.repubblica The reason? To the untrained eye, perhaps all lobsters look the same, but that is not the case. In the recording it can be seen that the lobsters that the tourists released into the waters of the Tyrrhenian are of the species Homarus americanus (American or Canadian), native to the northwest Atlantic and characterized by the brown tones of its shell, very different from the bluish color that usually identifies the European lobster. It is no surprise because the American variety is usually the one used by restaurants in the region. That small detail is important because in practice the Homarus americanus is considered an invasive species in the Mediterranean. Not only that. Animal releases, even if only a dozen specimens, as occurred in Castellammare di Stabia, require studies and careful prior planning. First because introducing species can alter the balance of ecosystems. Second, because it is not unusual for loose specimens to carry parasites or diseases that are lethal to the native fauna. As if the above were not enough, there are experts who warn that the lobsters released by the American tourists probably did not live much longer than they would have lasted in the restaurant’s aquarium. The reason? The water in the pond was probably kept at a lower temperature than that found on the beach of Castellammare di Stabia, so it is not unreasonable that they suffered. a lethal thermal shock. The worst of all is not that both tourists have found themselves involved in a bitter … Read more

people who go to live in Valladolid and return to work by train

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For a simple work issue, for decades Many pucelanos had no choice but to pack their bags and move to Madrid. The companies are there. And good job prospects. Today things are different, as suggested the data of the Valladolid City Council. The expansion of teleworking and the improved communications It has allowed quite a few people to return to the Castilian-Leonese city without giving up their jobs in the capital and even turn the tables: Valladolid is the one that grows at the expense of Madrid. The data are certainly eloquent. What do the figures say? That for years the Castilian-Leonese city endured a clearly negative migratory balance with the capital. Many more people from Pucelanos went to Madrid than people from Madrid arrived to Valladolid. If you follow the historical series The census shows that this imbalance favorable to Madrid dates back to at least 1997, with years in which the difference was brutal. In 2014, for example, Valladolid recorded 736 casualties of Pucelanos who packed their bags to move to Madrid; The reverse route (from Valladolid to Madrid) was done by 305 people. And is it still like this? No. We know the change thanks to an analysis published in 2025 by The Confidentialwho has had access to the records of the Valladolid City Council. They show how between 2022 and 2023 the migratory balance between the cities of Valladolid and Madrid experienced a change: if in 2022 the Pucelana city registered 799 departures of residents bound for Madrid compared to 617 registrations in the opposite direction, in 2023 the “photo” was the opposite: 765 registrations and 566 cancellations. From the red numbers it went to a positive balance of 199 people. The trend was confirmed in 2024 with a new positive migration balance. That year, the Pucelano City Council recorded 796 new arrivals from Madrid compared to 504 new arrivals from residents who moved to the state capital. Again a positive balance, 292 people. In a matter of two years, Valladolid therefore went from dragging a historic deficit in population exchange with Madrid to “gaining” 491 new registered residents at the expense of its southern neighbor. This trend has coincided with the general growth of the Valladolid registry, which has been gaining population for several years and is now located at 303,843 inhabitants according to the municipal censusthat doesn’t always match with that of the INE. Is there more recent data? The last ones indicators published by the Statistical Institute of the Community of Madrid and the Junta of Castilla y León They are from 2024, but a quick Google search comes to find articles with testimonials recent of people who live in Valladolid and work in the capital. Even from other parts of Castilla y León even further away from Madrid. “Right now, whatever station you go to, Zamora, Salamanca, Segovia, Palencia or León, they are packed. Before you saw the train half empty,” explained a few weeks ago Carlos Perfecto, promoter of the Association of AVE Users in Castilla y León, told RTVE. “We are talking about the fact that between Valladolid and Segovia alone, 7,000 direct families go to work in Madrid every day.” Does it only affect cities? The “picture” can be completed with more brushstrokes that help understand the change. The change in the migratory flow has also been observed in the entire Madrid region, not only in its capital. After decades in the “red numbers” (in demographic terms), in 2023 Valladolid registered more registrations of new residents arriving from the Madrid community than registrations of Pucelanos who had moved to municipalities such as Móstoles, Alcalá, Leganés, Fuenlabrada, Getafe or Madrid itself. Between 2023 and 2024, in this sense, it accumulated a positive balance of 758 new registered. At the end of 2024 The North of Castile the change was already pointed out trend citing INE statistics, although in his article he handled data until 2023 and at the provincial level, not exclusively from the municipality of Valladolid. What did they show? Something similar to what is reflected in the register of the Pucelano City Council. In 2023, 1,785 people arrived in Valladolid from the Community of Madrid, while 1,270 people left the province to settle somewhere in Madrid. Result: 515 more people for the Valladolid census. Not bad if you take into account that the previous year (2022) the province had lost 115 people to the Community of Madrid. Last December The North of Castile updated analysis with provincial data from 2024 and verified that the trend continues. That year 1,744 people left the Community of Madrid to settle somewhere in Valladolid while 1,232 made the reverse move. Once again the figures favor the Castilian-Leonese demographic with a balance of 512 people. And what is the reason? Rather, we should talk about reasons, in the plural. When analyzing the change in trend, there are those who talk about the expansion of teleworking after the pandemic or the attractiveness of the Valladolid real estate market compared to that of Madrid, which makes buying a home much more acceptable there than in Madrid. According to Idealista, the m2 costs in Valladolid €2,029 while in Madrid it is located in 5,960. Something similar happens in the rental market: in the city of Pucelana, the m2 is rented to €9.7 in front of the 23.2 from Madrid. But… Why this abrupt change? Although it is true that COVID-19 marked a before and after in the implementation of teleworking in Spain and that the real estate market has not stopped tense In recent years, both trends do not fully explain why the population flow between Valladolid and Madrid has experienced such a sudden change in such a short time. Nor why it has become more pronounced in 2023. Hence, when looking for explanations, analyzes of the phenomenon add another determining factor: the improvement of transportation. At the end of 2007 the line was launched Madrid-Segovia-Valladolid high-speed train, which made it possible to get from … Read more

The 6 best televisions that I recommend to watch the 2026 World Cup

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He Soccer World Cup 2026 It’s just around the corner. If there is something that defines this tournament (from a technological point of view we are talking about) it is the need for a good TV with extreme brightness (especially for matches that are held during the day), impeccable movement management (so that the moving ball does not get lost on the screen) and large inches, to enjoy the matches to the fullest. If you are thinking of buying a new TV to watch this year’s World Cup with the best qualitythese are some of the best TVs that I can recommend to you right now. TCL 65C8K 65 Inch QD-Mini LED Television The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED evo G6 by 1,247.46 euros: 55 inches and with 165 Hz refresh rate. Sony Bravia 9 QLED by 2,999 euros: 75 inches and with Mini-LED. TCL C8K QD-MiniLED by 1,149 euros: 65 inches and with 5,000 nits of maximum brightness. Hisense RGB MiniLED evo by 1,199 euros: 55 inches and with RGB MiniLED technology. Hisense 116UX RGB MiniLED by 17,999 euros: 116 inches and with a 6.2.2 channel audio system. LG OLED evo G6: the queen of contrast If you’re looking for the cleanest image on the market, the LG OLED evo G6 series is the answer. In your 55 inch versionyou can get it now, at the LG outlet on its website, for 1,247.46 eurosthus achieving a 48% discount on its recommended RRP (2,399 euros). Your technology Reflection Free Premium It is ideal for football, as it will allow you to watch a game at four in the afternoon, with the blinds up, so that you will not see a single reflection in your living room. Furthermore, by having 165 Hz refresh rate You can enjoy totally fluid movement. Smart TV LG OLED evo AI G5 55 inches 4K 2025 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sony Bravia 9 QLED: a TV with good processing 75 inches and ideal for watching big games, now you can get this Sony Bravia 9 at a discount at MediaMarkt. Its usual price is 75 inches, but you can get it now with 300 euros discountby 2,999 euros. If there is something that can be highlighted about this TV QLED Sony is its technology MiniLED backlight as well as algorithm XR Motion Claritywho is very good at managing ball movement. Furthermore, thanks to Acoustic Multi-Audioits speakers simulate the ambient sound of the stadium. 75″ QLED TV – Sony Bravia 9, XR | Mini LED, 4K HDR The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL C8K QD-MiniLED: a giant at a knockdown price If you are looking for a good TV but without having to break the bank, this is TCL C8K 65 inch It is a good option to watch the Soccer World Cup with excellent quality. You can take it, in its 65-inch version, for 1,149 euros. Its QD-MiniLED panel reaches a maximum brightness up to 5,000 nits. It has a refresh rate of 144 Hz and its audio system is signed by Bang & Olufsen. It supports Dolby Atmos, comes with Google TV as an operating system and a wide connectivity section. TCL 65C8K 65 Inch QD-Mini LED Television The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense RGB MiniLED evo: a technological surprise Although it is not on sale yet, you can pre-purchase it for 1,199 euros and receive it at home from May 19, this Hisense 55UR8S TV aims to be a technological revolution (just as has happened with the new Samsung TVs for this year), thanks to RGB MiniLED panelwhich uses a much more precise light structure. This is a TV with very good value for money and its AI assisted sports mode automatically detects when the game starts and adjusts the saturation and image smoothing, without you having to touch anything on the controller. It supports Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10+. Hisense 55UR8S – RGB MiniLED Smart TV 55 Inch The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense 116UX RGB MiniLED: a 116-inch beast And if you are not worried about the budget and want to set up your own VIP box at home to watch the 2026 World Cup, this gigantic Hisense from 116 inches It is one of the top on the market. Of course, don’t be scared by its price; costs 17,999 euros. This TV also debuts the technology RGB-MiniLEDwhich replaces the traditional standard blue LEDs with red, green and blue, which will allow you to enjoy greater color purity. It reaches 8,000 nits of brightness and has 165 Hz refresh rate and a 6.2.2 channel sound systemso you will hear the game as if you were in the stadium. 116″ RGB Mini LED TV – Hisense 116UXQ, UHD 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Hisense, LG, TCL and Sony In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

Amazon took zero seconds to appear

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The waters have stirred a lot in less than 48 hours for OpenAI, Microsoft and Amazon. And Sam Altman’s company has renegotiated its agreement with Microsoft, the AGI clause has been removed and has launched a new alliance with AWS. Exclusives don’t rule in the age of AI, technology does. circular financing. Another twist. For years, Microsoft has been practically the only way for other companies to access OpenAI technology in the cloud. That ended this week through a deep renegotiation of the agreement between both companies. The next day, OpenAI It was already on Amazon Web Services and the move marks the beginning of a new stage in which OpenAI wants to be everywhere, not just in Azure. How we got here. It is worth breaking down this pifostio to get the general picture of how things are now: 2019:Microsoft invested 1 billion dollars initials in OpenAI and became its exclusive computing provider. Over time, the total investment would exceed 13 billion. 2023: The launch of ChatGPT made OpenAI the benchmark for AI. With that new scale Frictions also camebecause if he wanted to meet demand he needed more computing than Microsoft could or wanted to provide. 2025: OpenAI restructured its legal form to become a for-profit company. Microsoft gave its approval, but the deal remained tense. According to informed According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI even considered going to antitrust regulators to get out of the contract. What’s now: New agreement. End of exclusivity. Arrival at AWS. The new terms of the agreement. Both companies have decided turn your relationship into an open marriage: Licenses: Microsoft retains access to OpenAI models until 2032, but no longer exclusively. Any other provider can access them as well. Revenue sharing: OpenAI will continue to pay a portion of its revenue to Microsoft until 2030, with a maximum limit. Microsoft stops paying a portion of its revenue to OpenAI. Cloud Priority: Azure remains the first destination for OpenAI products, unless Microsoft is unable or unwilling to support it. From there, OpenAI can go to any provider. AGI clause removed: The mechanism that conditioned the agreement on reaching the “general artificial intelligence“. In this way, if at any point this goal is declared as achieved, there will no longer be contractual consequences between both companies. The AGI thing, yes that. The original agreement between both companies included a clause that determined what would happen if OpenAI achieved the so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), a concept without a consensus definition in the industry that refers to the state in which systems end up being as capable as the human brain, so that we understand each other. Under the previous terms of the agreement, that milestone could have modified the agreement or interrupted payments. According to counted WSJ, the debate over when and how to declare that condition has been a source of tension for months between both sides. With the new agreement, that language disappears completely: payments will continue until 2030 “regardless of OpenAI’s technological progress,” in words from Microsoft. Arrival on Amazon. Just one day after the announcement with Microsoft, OpenAI presented with Amazon your expansion to AWS. OpenAI models (including GPT-5.5) will be available through Amazon Bedrock, Amazon’s AI application development service. They also arrive Codexthe OpenAI scheduling agent, and a new service called Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, designed to create enterprise autonomous AI agents. “This is what our clients have been asking us for a long time,” counted Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, at the launch event in San Francisco. Sam Altman joined the same act through a recorded video, and it makes sense: he was across the bay, in Oakland, where it began the trial that pits OpenAI against Elon Muskco-founder of the company. Circular financing. The agreement with AWS does not come out of nowhere. Last November, OpenAI announced a $38 billion commitment with Amazon Web Services. Three months later, Amazon announced an investment of 50 billion in OpenAIwhich in return committed to spending $100 billion on AWS over the next eight years and using Amazon’s Trainium chips to train its models. The renegotiation with Microsoft was, in that context, a knot waiting to be untied. And according to counted Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, said in an internal memo that the relationship with Microsoft had been key but had also “limited OpenAI’s ability to reach businesses where they are.” The move also benefits Amazon. So far, AWS depended mainly on Anthropic to offer competitive models. Having full access to OpenAI products significantly expands your catalog. According to ReutersAWS AI services already generate more than $15 billion in annualized revenue. What Microsoft wins. The Redmond company does not lose out from the new agreement, although it does give ground. It retains access to OpenAI models until 2032, remains a relevant shareholder in the startup and obtains greater certainty about the income it will receive until 2030. In addition, Microsoft has been building its own technological independence for some time: it has developed its own models, and according to TechCrunch, works at an agent based in ClaudeAnthropic’s model and direct rival to OpenAI. What’s coming now. OpenAI prepares its IPOexpectedly this year. To do this, it needs to show that it can grow in the business market, and that means being present in the infrastructures that large companies already use. Azure is one of them; AWS, another. Opening up to Google (which is also a candidate as a new cloud partner) could be the next step. Cover image | TechCrunch In Xataka | The European Union has taken a look at Android’s AI assistant and didn’t like it at all, but nothing, what it has seen

The fuel crisis is putting airlines in check. And Ryanair already knows where to start cutting: Spain

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Your flight has been cancelled. Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran for the first time two months ago, fear of a new oil crisis has skyrocketed. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has put fuel supplies in check since then and the aviation sector has been one of the most affected. Among the consequences, we have seen a serious increase in the cost of flights but also cancellations. Ryanair is clear about where it will cut flights from if necessary. What has happened? The CEO of Ryanair has launched a new threat: “if the situation continues, the first place we have in mind are the Spanish regional airports.” The words are from Eddie Wilson and have been collected by the newspaper ABC. That “if the situation continues” refers, of course, to the oil blockades in the Strait of Hormuz. And the company has once again raised its threats against the Government of Spain. Coinciding with the day in which Aena has distributed dividends among its partners, Ryanair has taken the opportunity to confirm that it will cut 1.2 million places this summer available at Spanish airports. And asked about how they face a possible fuel shortage, Wilson has once again taken the opportunity to question the viability of their activities at Spanish regional airports. What has been confirmed? Ryanair has been warning for months that it was going to cut operations this summer at Spanish airports if the Government did not reverse the increase in Aena airport taxes in the 2027-2031 cycle. Last Monday, the airline was ratified although it did not make it clear which airports will be the most punished. They do point out that with the extension of these cuts, in 18 months they have stopped offering three million places in our country (once the summer cut is consolidated). On the contrary, Morocco and Italy will grow by 11% and 9%, respectively. Of course, it is true that Regional airports are suffering with the departure of Ryanair but the size of the cut is misleading because, at the same time, its commitment to larger airports has been maintained or even expanded. And the new threat? The new threat is the possibility of scrapping more flights if Ryanair runs out of fuel. It seems logical that when prioritizing fuel, the company opts for larger airports where the flight occupancy rate will be higher or there is a greater chance of this being the case. In the month of April we have seen many cancellations from both American companies and United either Delta even the Asian ones like Air New Zealandpassing through the entire European framework as SAS or the Lufthansa Group, Wizz Air and easyJet (among others). And the CEO of easyJet already publicly warned that the situation in Europe could become seriously complicated starting in mid-May. How much real threat and imposted threat is there in Wilson’s words? It is difficult to know because it is impossible to know how much fuel Ryanair has or to what extent the company is willing to pay for kerosene before losing money. (or not earning what they consider enough). Because? The air sector is one of the most affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The increase in fuel prices losses are skyrocketing and Lufthansa will cancel more than 20,000 flights according to Financial Times to patch the rise in prices. The result, as we see, is fewer flights, more expensive flights or airlines that take advantage of the reduction in supply to tighten the nuts more for the passengers. They are the consequences of moving with a type of fuel that very little stock is handled in warehouses. The kerosene used by airplanes is delicate to store because it can quickly lose its properties. And International Air Transport Association (IATA), already warned that rebuild damaged refining capacity in the Middle East will take months. The forecasts for summer are not good. And it is clear that, if cuts have to be made, they will be cut where the least benefit is obtained. Photo | Ryanair and Gabriele Merlino In Xataka | Airlines have found in the fuel crisis the best argument to cut your benefits as a passenger

now generate Excel files, PDFs and much more directly

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Generative artificial intelligence has changed many things, but it has not eliminated a very everyday scene: asking the chatbot for something, receiving a useful response and ending up taking it by hand to another document. A proposal that ends up in Word, a table that ends up in Excel, some ideas that someone later converts into slides or a summary that must be left clean to send. That middle layer is still time-consuming, even if it seems small. Google just pointed right there with Gemini: less copy and paste, and more converting a request into a file that we can use directly. The novelty. The update announced by Google seeks to put that idea into practice within the Gemini application itself. According to the company, The assistant can now create PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides files, and other formats directly from the chat with a simple request. Sundar Pichai pointed out in a publication that the function is now available to all users of the Gemini app globally. More formats. The complete list helps to understand the scope of the function, but the underlying idea is simpler: Gemini is not locked into the Google ecosystem. The company includes Workspace files, Microsoft Office formats and options such as CSV, TXT, RTF, Markdown or LaTeX, more common in data, documentation or structured content tasks. This allows the assistant to fit better into very different routines. The key is that Gemini can not only receive an order, but also context. For example, we could upload several notes to the chatbot and ask for a study guide in PDF, with structure, visual elements and equations if we want a more complete result. That’s the kind of scenario where novelty gains meaning. A scenario where we can also work with our own materials and with tailored instructions to obtain a specific output. Time to create (and review). We are facing a function that promises, especially because it attacks one of those small wastes of time that are repeated every day without us paying too much attention to them. Now, just because Gemini can create a file doesn’t mean that file will be ready to send, publish, or present without looking at it calmly. As with any AI-generated output, we should spend time reviewing the data, including tone, structure, and format. Images | Google In Xataka | The “freemium” model of AI is dying: GitHub Copilot and Claude are putting more and more fees and costs

Taxis have always had four seats. With robotaxis that no longer makes sense.

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When Tesla taught the Cybercabthere was a detail that was obvious even before talking about autonomy, sensors or commercial deployment: I only had two seats. It was not a minor decision. For decades we have associated the taxi with a car capable of carrying four passengers, with its driver in front and a back seat designed for almost everything. That’s why that model without a steering wheel or pedals seemed, at the very least, a rarity. Now, seeing what we have seen later, that image begins to have another reading. The interesting thing is not only that we are talking about driverless cars, but about vehicles that can be thought of differently from the first moment. The traditional taxi took advantage of a well-known architecture: four or five seats, a driving position and a body prepared for very varied uses. On the other hand, a robotaxi designed for a fleet can ask a more precise and specific question: what do most journeys require? The answer appears when we look at how these services are used. Some time ago, Lucid’s Marc Winterhoff and Uber’s Andrew Macdonald, they pointed out that more than 90% of the journeys Uber offers only one or two passengers. This proportion helps to understand why two-seater robotaxis are beginning to appear in more projects. It is not advisable to turn this information into a universal rule, because each city, service and use case has its nuances. In that context, Tesla’s proposal fits better. The Cybercab is not planned as a conventional car to which autonomous driving is simply added, but as a vehicle designed to operate, if Tesla manages to deploy it as promised, within a transportation network without a human driver. Hence it dispenses with a steering wheel and pedals, and reduces the cabin to two occupants. The firm led by Elon Musk presents it as a specific piece for safe point-to-point travel. Tesla is not the only one who has reached a similar conclusion. Lucid showed in March 2026 Lunara two-seater robotaxi concept without steering wheel or pedals, although it should be stressed that we are talking about a conceptual proposal and not a product ready to hit the streets. Verne, the Croatian company linked to Mate Rimac, also previously presented a two-seater electric autonomous vehicle. Lucid Lunar The logic behind these designs is not only spatial, it is also economic. A smaller vehicle may require fewer materials, move less weight and consume less energy per trip, something especially relevant when we talk about fleets that should circulate many hours a day. Lucid, for example, presents Lunar as a vehicle designed to be as efficient and cheap as possible for fleet operators. The company projects an efficiency of 8.9–9.7 km per kWh in typical use, although these are figures from a conceptual proposal and not from an already deployed fleet. Furthermore, the change is not limited to the size of each vehicle. It also affects the way we imagine fleets. A study by Boesch, Ciari and Axhausenlinked to ETH Zurich, modeled a specific scenario in Zurich and concluded that, if waiting times of up to 10 minutes were accepted and adoption was sufficiently wide, a fleet of shared autonomous vehicles could very significantly reduce the total number of cars needed, even up to 90% in certain conditions. It is not a universal recipe, but it is an important clue: the robotaxi not only rethinks the seat, but also the scale of the system. So we could say that the four-seater taxi will continue to make sense for many uses, and the fleets of the future will probably need to combine different vehicles. The novelty is that the robotaxi allows each need to be better separated. For individual or two-person trips, a smaller model may be sufficient, more efficient and easier to justify within an on-demand network. What a few years ago seemed like a strange decision begins to fit with another way of looking at mobility: not always designing for the maximum possible, but for what happens most of the time. Images | JavyGo | Maxim In Xataka | Xiaomi CEO has a message for the world: the “cheap electric car” may never arrive

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