TVs have not stopped growing. LG now has a range that reaches 115 inches, although the key lies elsewhere

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If anyone had doubts about where the television market is moving, just look at the size of the models that are gaining ground in stores and in catalogs. We have been seeing inches rise relentlessly for years, and the data reinforces that impression. The size of TVs in Europe has been growing at an average rate of 1.2 inches per year. Therefore, when a brand like LG now shows a 115-inch TVwhat we see is not an isolated extravagance, but the most recent expression of a very clear trend. The South Korean brand has presented its new QNED evo Mini LED 2026 range in Europe, a family with which it wants to reinforce its presence in the high-end LCD/LED televisions. We are not talking about a single eye-catching model, but rather a line designed to cover different sizes and uses within the home. So we see a movement that does not seem to be limited to a market trend, but rather to turn it into a broader product proposition. Not everything in this range revolves around size If the size is the first thing that catches your attention, the technical sheet is what really supports the discourse of this range. According to LG, the new QNED evo Mini LED 2026 are based on Dynamic QNED Color Proin Precision Dimming Ultra technology and in the Alpha 8 Gen 3 processor to elevate color, brightness and contrast, especially on large diagonals. The underlying idea is clear: that the image does not lose strength as the panel grows. The company also adds features such as AI Super Upscaling, AI Picture Pro and Dynamic Tone Mapping Pro, while the sound is in the hands of AI Sound Pro, which promises a virtual 11.1.2 channel experience from the integrated speakers. All this technical deployment is not fully understood until we bring it down to real use. LG presents this range as a proposal designed for those who want to set up a more versatile system at home, whether to watch movies, follow sports or play games. This includes features such as VRR support up to 165 Hz on the 115-inch model, AMD FreeSync Premium, ALLM and a Motion Booster that, according to the brand, can reach 330 Hz on compatible models. On paper, these are serious credentials for anyone looking for fluidity and quick response, although the final experience will depend, as always, on how these televisions perform outside of the release. LG presents this range as a proposal designed for those who want to set up a more versatile system at home, whether to watch movies, follow sports or play games. But if we have learned anything in recent years, it is that a TV no longer plays everything on the panel. It also matters, and quite a bit, what happens when we start moving through its menus, its recommendations and its day-to-day functions. This is where webOS 26 comes in, the platform with which LG accompanies this new range and on which it mounts tools such as Voice ID to recognize profiles, AI Concierge to launch contextual suggestions and functions such as Sports Portal or Sports Alert to follow matches, schedules and results without leaving the ecosystem. Add to that multi-AI capabilities powered by Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. It is also convenient to place this family in its context, because here we are not facing the highest proposal in the entire catalog of the house. Within LG, the QNED evo Mini LED 2026 line is placed in the high range of LCD/LED televisions, just one step below OLED, which continues to be its great premium showcase. That nuance matters because it helps understand what the brand is trying to do with this renewal: offer an ambitious alternative for those who want large screens, advanced functions and a clearly premium profile without necessarily entering the OLED field. Furthermore, the range is not reduced to a single format, but is deployed in various models and diagonals to adapt to different living rooms. However, there is an important part of this story that remains open. LG has said that Spanish users will be able to access this range in the coming months, but for now the new QNED evo Mini LED 2026 line It does not yet appear in the LG Spain catalog. This means that we still have no official prices and no more specific commercial date for our market. What this announcement does make clear is the direction that the South Korean firm wants to take: accompany the growth of inches with a proposal loaded with technical arguments. The rest, including their real reception, will begin to be measured when these televisions can be truly purchased. Images | LG In Xataka | Blue was the problem: how PHOLED technology can end burn-in on OLED screens

There are only 66 cases in the world and science is just beginning to understand it

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Night rest can be interrupt due to many factorssuch as the need to go to the bathroom constantly to drink water before going to sleep, but there are other cases, such as painful sleep erectionswhich right now is emerging from ignorance, and that is why every time you get to know more of this problem which, fortunately, is quite infrequent. What is it? Although you may think that this is a problem related to the penis, the truth is that it is classified as a parasomnia. And it is no wonder, because what happens to the man here is that he has multiple erections during the night while he is in the REM phase of sleep that are so painful that it makes you wake up with a jump out of bed. But the curious thing is that the problem does not lie in the penis tissue itself, but rather clinical reviews point out that this disease is closely linked to hypertonicity or contracture of the bulbocavernosus muscles of the penis and the pelvic floor. Added to this are alterations in the central nervous system, such as instability during REM sleep, a peak in activity of the sympathetic nervous system and abnormal processing of pain and hormonal stress signals. It’s a challenge. At the level of cases diagnosed with this problem, the reality is that we speak of a “phantom disease” since it barely there are 66 cases documented worldwide, and there are almost no articles in the medical literature. This is something that translates into a situation of underdiagnosis, since in daily practice specialists see very few cases throughout their career. As a result, patients suffer a medical journey that delays diagnosis for years, and in desperation, and in the absence of answers, many end up assuming erroneous self-diagnoses based on chronic stress or prostatitis. Science tries to advance. Historically, the lack of cases made it difficult to create treatment protocols with the steps that doctors had to follow to solve the patient’s problem. However, recent clinical research has shed light on highly effective therapeutic approaches. That is why right now the use of muscle relaxants such as baclofen has proven to be a turning point for patients, since by relaxing the muscles of the penis an improvement is achieved in patients with this problem. In addition, diseases that are below this problem should also be looked for, such as sleep apnea or insomnia in general, which may be related to this pathology. Although there is still much to be done to investigate this disease, which a priori is quite unknown. Images | gpointstudio on Freepik In Xataka | Before colonizing other planets, humanity must solve a problem: erections in space

This is what is now known as ‘chronoexercise’

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We have been debating for a long time about what is the best time of day to exercise in an efficient way, and the question we can ask ourselves is whether it is better to get up early and go for a run with the first rays of the sun or if it is better to take advantage of the end of the day to release accumulated stress. And here science has seen that it depends more on our genetics than we think. A revolutionary essay. This is where the era of “chronoexercise” begins, which is a discipline that does not focus on how much we train, but on how much we do in relation to whether we are ‘morning or afternoon people’. And here a recent study published in open heart has given us a lot of information about what the chronobiology I had been chasing for a long time. To determine this, researchers at the University of Lahore recruited 150 adults between 40 and 60 years old. The peculiarity is that all of these were sedentary and had cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension or diabetes. What did they do? All of these patients were evaluated to determine whether they were people who ‘function’ better in the morning or afternoon, by measuring their body temperature and through specialized questionnaires. They were then prescribed exercise routines with moderate aerobic activity, such as a simple walk for 40 minutes, five days a week, for 12 weeks. But the difference that there was here is that the group of people who trained in the part of the day that was best for them. That is, those who were morning people trained between 8 and 11 in the morning, while those who were more ‘nocturnal’ did so between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. On the other hand, the control group trained out of alignment with their own internal clock, meaning that, although they felt much more energetic first thing in the morning, they had to walk during the afternoon. The results. Although the simple act of moving improved the health of participants who started from a sedentary attitude, the truth is that those who exercised in synchrony with their biological clock obtained much greater benefits. For example, the blood pressure of the group “aligned” to their chronotype plummeted by almost 11 mmHgwhile the misaligned group dropped by half. Because. We must understand that our body does not function the same at 8 in the morning as it does at 8 in the afternoon, and it is something that anyone can see. The person responsible for this orchestration is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus, which sets our circadian rhythms, and which means that when we force the machine at a time for which our body is not metabolically or hormonally prepared, a misalignment occurs. Here science demonstrated that exercise, when done at the right time, acts as a powerful external synchronizer at the genetic level. And we can imagine that in each of our cells there are ‘clocks’ that indicate, for example, when they have to enter ‘sleep’ mode or be more active. And in these we find two ‘clock genes’ called BMAL1 and CLOCKoptimizing muscle regeneration processes, cellular repair and, ultimately, promoting longevity. Its benefits. The impact of being aligned with our internal clock goes beyond our blood pressure, since in 2024 a study from Harvard University connected directly exercise with a reduction in brain stress. This means that, when exercising, cardiovascular protection was doubled in patients with depressive symptoms. Know the chronotype. Each of us can have an idea of ​​whether we are more productive in the morning or when the sun goes down, but if not, there are different tests that promise to give us an idea of ​​knowing the point of the day when we are most productive. And this is essential for exercising because, for years, the culture of productivity has glorified early risers, forcing the so-called ‘owls’ to drag themselves to the gym first thing in the morning. But this changes radically, since each one has a specific moment that must be respected. Images | aleksandarlittlewolf on Freepik In Xataka | Waking up at 3 in the morning is totally normal: sleeping straight through is a modern invention, not an evolution

ask them to go to the field

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2025 once again confirmed that Japan is one of the main tourist destinations of the planet. If during 2024 visitors did not stop arriving to the point that the hospitality industry ran out of key products or it came to establish two price levelsthe following year the numbers they surpassed themselves. In fact, the concentration of people has been such that many locals have come to pay so that no one bothers them. And among the hordes, one nation has stood out exceedingly: the australians. Record figures for 2024. Between the months of January and November of that year, Japan received no less than 807,800 Australian touristssurpassing the 2019 record by almost 200,000, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO). This unprecedented increase reflected Australians’ growing interest in the cultural, culinary and scenic experiences that Japan has to offer. However, the massive flow was concentrated in the most famous places in the nation, mainly in three iconic destinations: Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, which generated problems of overcrowding and tourist overload in these areas to the point that the sector has made a decision. 2025 keeps the numbers at their peak. In 2025, Japan reached a historical tourism record with 42.68 million international visitors, especially highlighting the case of Australia, which exceeded one million travelers for the first time. with 1,058,300 visits15% more than in 2024, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. Furthermore, this boom was not only concentrated in classic destinations such as Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, but also extended to lesser-known regions such as Fukuoka, Gifu, Niigata and Iwate, driven by a new profile of travelers interested in more authentic experiencesnature, local culture and activities such as hiking, stays in traditional accommodation or participation in festivals. Visit the field. The “problem” of visitor saturation began after the return of large crowds once the pandemic is overa situation that has put great pressure on local communities and tourism resources. As explained by Naoki Kitazawadirector of the JNTO office in Sydney and one of the first to send the message that comes from Japan, it is crucial that travelers reconsider their itineraries, asking them to opt for destinations further away from large cities, mainly the less visited countryside and rural areas. For example, there is talk of enclaves such as Tohoku, Kanazawa and Naoshima, which offer “authentic experiences”, with attractions comparable to those of large cities, but without the disadvantages of crowds. Currency as a demand factor. As reported by the Japanese tourism sector, the tourism boom is due in part to a favorable exchange rate between the Australian dollar and the yen (or with the euro and the dollar), a rate that has kept prices accessible for travelers. Additionally, compared to costs in Australia, eating out and enjoying activities in Japan is significantly cheaper for Australians, which has further increased the destination’s appeal. In fact, the trend has led travel agencies such as Japan Holidays to temporarily suspend receiving new requests due to high demand. Explore new destinations. For all these reasons and due to saturation problems, agencies and the tourism sector in Japan have begun to redirect visitors to lesser-known areas. In this regard, Stuart McIntosha frequent traveler, noted that regions like Tohoku and Hokkaido offer temples, cherry blossoms, onsen and food at a fraction of the crowds. For its part, Josh Khochaichean architecture student with a passion for carpentry and Japanese culture, has taken this approach, including destinations like Naoshima in his itinerary and planning future visits to rural areas. Sake as an example. And here an option has emerged that has gained great strength in recent times. The pandemic forced many traditional Japanese companies, such as Sasaki Shuzo, to rethink their business model. His artisanal sakemade since 1893, faced a crisis due to the drop in sales to wholesalers during the restrictions, leading its owner, Akira Sasaki, to open the doors of your brewery to tourism. Taking advantage of its location near Nijo Castle, Sasaki implemented guided tours to showcase the family tradition of sake and encourage tourist interest in the region, a strategy replicated by many breweries in Japan. Impact and challenges of cultural heritage. Sake, whose production technique was recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, it is now promoted with the inclusion of breweries on tourist itineraries to revitalize rural communities affected by aging populations and lack of visitors. Every brewery, from urban ones like Sasaki Shuzo to rural ones like Tonoike Sake Brewery in Tochigi, adapt your visits to local conditionsoffering tours, sake tastings, and complementary activities such as visits to farmers and potters. These experiences seek to connect visitors with the history and culture of the regions they visit, promoting economic sustainability and the appreciation of regional heritage. Responsible tourism. That is the underlying idea. JNTO’s message is clear: Beyond traditional destinations like Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan has a wide range of cultural experiences, landscapes and activities to discover. Furthermore, this approach not only benefits local communities by better distributing the impact of tourism, but also enriches the traveler’s experience, allowing them to connect with the essence of authentic Japan. Careful planning and choosing less crowded routes seem to be the keys to fully enjoying the country while respecting its cultural and natural heritage. Image | Franck Michel In Xataka | Tokyo canceled Halloween to escape mass tourism. It has gone so well that he doubles his bet: goodbye to New Year’s Eve In Xataka | Overcrowding in Japan is taking its inhabitants to an extreme measure: paying so that no one speaks to them A version of this article was published in 2025. We have updated its content with everything that has happened since then.

“There are no more excuses”

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We have been seeing for some time how Europe is trying to close one of the most uncomfortable cracks on the internet: the ease with which a minor can bypass age controls that, in many cases, barely go beyond a box or a click. The discussion was not newand in recent months the European Commission had already focused on the platforms and the need to have a more solid solution. Now has presented an age verification tool to start translating that idea into real life. The advertisement. What Brussels puts on the table is not just an app in the strict sense, but a base age verification model linked to the future European Digital Wallet. This nuance matters because it helps to tell the novelty better: we are talking about a real technological solution, open source and ready to be adopted by the Member States or, as the case may be, to work individually. How will it reach the user? The experience that Von der Leyen describes is quite direct: “You download the application. You configure it with your passport or your ID. You then prove your age when accessing online services.” This sequence makes it clear that there will be an application on the user’s mobile phone, but not necessarily a single “Europe app” that is identical for everyone. What it promises. Beyond the scope of use, the Commission supports the announcement on several very specific promises. Ease, because it presents the tool as something easy to put into operation. Privacy, by ensuring that the user will be able to prove their age without exposing more personal data than necessary. Compatibility, because it will work on mobile, tablet and computer. Open source, a feature with which Brussels wants to emphasize that anyone will be able to review how it is built. The message. The most forceful phrase of the speech comes when the president of the Commission connects this tool with the responsibility of the platforms. “So there are no more excuses,” saysbefore adding that “Europe offers a free, easy-to-use solution that can protect our children from harmful and illegal content.” The underlying message is quite clear: if the EU already puts a specific way to verify age on the table, Brussels understands that companies will have less room to justify the lack of effective measures. That is why it ends with another equally explicit warning: there will be “zero tolerance” with companies that do not respect the rights of minors or protect them sufficiently. The countries that are ahead. Von der Leyen expressly cites Spain, France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Ireland as the States leading this phase. As he explains, all of them plan to integrate the tool into their national digital wallets, an important detail because it helps to understand that the next step is not just to have the technology, but to fit it into systems that citizens can then use. The challenge. The fact that the EU already has this solution does not mean, by itself, that the problem of age verification on the internet will be solved today. What does change is that Brussels can say that there is already a concrete tool on the table and demand that platforms and States take the next step. What’s coming. So several questions remain open, from its actual adoption to its effective integration in each country and its daily operation on social networks and other online services. On paper, that is the piece with which the EU wants to leave behind simple self-declaration and start building a much more serious age verification. Images | Berke Citak | Pascal Bullan In Xataka | There is already a European country that requires you to be 18 years old to watch porn on the Internet. And there are already a thousand ways to skip it

This is how you can get 20 GB in the cloud with pCloud

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More and more users are seeking independence from large US companies such as Google or Microsoft. There are real European alternatives to the services of thesewhich work like a movie and, in fact, have quite attractive prices. One of them is pCloudwhich is currently offering 20 GB of free cloud storage for new users, although their payment plans are not bad for everything they offer. 20 GB of cloud storage The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Secure, affordable European cloud storage Let’s go in parts. Companies like Google have servers all over the world, including Europe. Of course, they have to comply with the Data Protection Lawbut being a company based in the US, what is known as the CLOUD Act also comes into play. What does that mean for its users? that they are obliged to deliver the data of its users if the authorities request it. Things change with a company based in Europe, such as pCloud, which is based in Switzerland, so it operates under Swiss privacy laws and complies with the GDPR. In simpler terms: is not under the umbrella of the CLOUD Act and it does not affect it as it does with American companies. Of course, pCloud is not only secure. It is also a cloud service that is very easy to use and whose interface is very intuitive. It allows us to share links with other people and is ideal if we want to do backup of our data or even the information we have in other cloud services. In addition, it has its own video and audio player. If we try the free version and want more storage, we can upgrade to the paid plans. We have three different options (500 GB, 2 TB and 10 TB), each with their own payment methods. The 500 GB starts from the 4.99 euros per month, although we have the possibility of choosing the annual subscription for 49.99 euros. Yes indeed: We will have the maximum savings by opting for the subscription for lifewhich comes out 199 euros. One payment and you forget. Note: some of the links posted here are affiliate links and may provide a profit. Images | pCloud In Xataka | Best VPNs 2025: guide with the 17 best services to protect your online privacy In Xataka | Google Drive alternatives: the best cloud storage services for your files

Disney scraps Marvel creative team and loses many of the artists who gave visual shape to the MCU

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The character and setting designers who built the visual identity of the Marvel Universefrom the first Iron Man suit to the looks of recent villains like Killmonger, have in some cases been in the studio for more than ten years. On April 14, many of them received their dismissal letters: these tasks will be outsourced. What has happened? This April 14, in the middle of CinemaCon (a paradoxical moment, with the industry in full swing to announce films for the next two years), The Walt Disney Company executed the first big snip of the Josh D’Amaro era, your new CEO: about a thousand layoffs throughout the company. Marvel has been one of the company’s worst-hit factions: around 8% of the combined workforce of Marvel Entertainment in New York and Marvel Studios in Burbank. have suffered cuts in almost every department: film and TV production, comics, franchises, finance, legal and visual development. What the CEO says. D’Amaro, in an internal communication to those affectedacknowledges that the decision is “harsh” but clarifies that it does not reflect “his contributions or the overall strength of the company.” That is, he suggests that it is a restructuring designed before he stepped foot in the CEO’s office, inherited from the roadmap that Bob Iger left ready before leaving. It makes sense: a layoff of a thousand people is not decided overnight. Goodbye Marvel. The most symbolic blow has been suffered by the Visual Development department of Marvel Studios. Virtually all equipment has been dismantled: Only a small group of permanent employees remain to coordinate the hiring of external artists per project. This team was responsible for aspects as essential to the MCU as the costume and character design of the franchise’s films, since one of the most significant features of the MCU is the visual coherence they have maintained in thirty productions. Radical change. Now all that work is outsourced. From now on, Marvel Studios will retain a minimal team that will be responsible for hiring external artists based on each project. It is a common practice in the video game industry and in the production of visual effects (in the latter field, in fact, it had been done this way at Marvel, not without its corresponding controversies), but it represents a substantial change in model for a department that had always been integrated into the foundations of the studio. Is Marvel going bad? Not quite. It is a logical step after the latest movements that the company has made. After recognizing that under the command of Bob Chapek quantity had prevailed over qualitywhich had given rise to a certain exhaustion, after Iger’s return as CEO in 2022 there was a turnaround in the opposite direction. In 2025 there was only one MCU premiere, in 2026 we will only have ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday‘ in theaters and ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ and ‘VisionQuest’ on Disney+. This reduction in scale is what has made it evident that the staff was oversized. Layoffs in film and television production are the direct consequence of the reduction of the calendar. The numbers, in proportion. Between 2023 and 2025, the Iger era has already eliminated around 8,000 positions at Disney and generated a savings of 7.5 billion dollars. The current 1,000 layoffs represent less than 1% of the company’s 231,000 global employees, a number that in absolute terms may not seem very large. But the truth is that in the specific case of the Marvel Visual Development team it amounts to a certain erasure of the department at a critical moment: when we have to start preparing the continuation of ‘Doomsday’: ‘Secret Wars’, scheduled for release in December 2027. Other changes. Many of the layoffs affect the marketing department, unified under the sole command of the newly appointed head of that area of ​​the business, Asad Ayaz. As has been knownthe cuts reach marketing, advertising, production and corporate functions teams at ESPN, the studios and the product and technology area, in addition to the aforementioned cuts at Marvel. The decision fits the profile of D’Amaro, who has spent almost three decades at Disney, but his career is unrelated to the audiovisual content business. He was the architect of the largest theme park expansion in the company’s history, and the Experiences division he led generated, in the first quarter of 2026, about 75% of Disney’s total operating profit. In Xataka | ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, everything we know about Marvel’s next big event

Chinese companies are designing their AI for an audience the West is ignoring: retirees

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We can adapt the title of that great Cohen film to AI: there is no AI for old people. The majority of AI chatbot users are young and the older ones usually have technical knowledge. The AI ​​boom, like other technological booms, is leaving out the older onesexcept in China. Hello, grandmother. They tell it in Nikkei Asia. Large Chinese technology companies such as ByteDance and Tencent are designing chatbots and apps with AI with older users in mind. Doubao, the most popular chatbot in China, has launched advertising campaigns targeting retirees, highlighting its accessible features; It allows you to converse by voice, understands dialects and even addresses users as grandfather or grandmother. According to data from China Internet Network Information Centerthe number of AI users between 50 and 59 years old represent 10% of the total and those over 60 years old only 5%. They are still a minority, but there is a curious fact and that is that, although the adoption rate in this group is much lower, the users who start using it are more loyal and use it frequently. Everyday help. In Nikkei they tell the story of Chen Bing, a 63-year-old woman who has made AI her personal assistant. He used it to organize an event with alumni of his school, from sharing expenses to generating a video that he used in the background of a poetry workshop. It also helps you identify flowers and read fine print. According to Chen, AI gives him independence and prevents him from having to constantly ask his children for help. And health. There are other AI proposals aimed at the elderly, such as Ant Afu, a health chatbot with which users can get advice and access health services. However, it has generated criticism, first of all due to possible conflicts of interest. In the past, there was a scandal because Baidu recommended hospitals and treatments based on paid advertisements and there are doubts that this system has similar influences. On the other hand, there is the question that AI continues to fail a lot in diagnosis. The silver economy. It is what the market for products and services aimed at older people is called in China. China already has 323 million retirees and the government is promoting these types of initiatives since it sees great potential for consumption by the elderly, something they need to encourage in the midst of an economic recession. It is estimated that by 2035, the silver economy will account for 10% of the country’s entire gross domestic product Aging population. It is one of the problems facing China today. The government is trying literally everything for stimulate birth (without much successby the way) and have also raised raise the retirement age. However, the aging of the population is not something exclusive to China, it is also a problem that Europe and more countries in the northern hemisphere We have been dragging on for a long time. In the European Union there are some initiatives such as digital literacy courses for seniorsbut at the private company level, the proposals are very niche. In Xataka | China knows that its population is going to collapse but it already has a long-term plan to solve it. Of course, thanks to AI

The Seville Fair is growing so much that it is no longer just the great macro event in Andalusia: it is the ‘Coachella castiza’

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The Seville Fair wants to grow. And it is understandable. A year ago, when he announced his plans to tug to the fairgrounds, the mayor of Seville already warned that although right now the quote adds up to around a thousand booths There are many other applications waiting. Added to this enormous demand is the tourist success of the event, its ability to attract thousands and thousands of visitors and its economic potential, which translates into a trickle of million euros. There is, however, an even greater merit than Seville can boast: its fair is emerging as the largest macro event of Andalusia, a sort of traditional Coachella that grows while other fairs in the region stagnate or even decay. A ‘pure Coachella’? Yeah. The expression may seem shocking, but saving the obvious distances between the Californian event and the one in Seville, the truth is that both events share some parallels. The first and most obvious are the dates. The second. that both one and the other have become macro events referential, capable of attracting thousands of visitorsgenerate a millionaire business and above all overshadow other quotes of a similar nature. In a way, it also confirms a trend that has been taking shape in a more or less diffuse way in recent years: the festival calendar is polarizing between massive events, such as the April Fair in Seville, capable of attracting crowds and, above all, being promoted thanks to the tourismand others micro events with a much more modest, specialized and local approach. Between both categories there is an increasingly eclipsed dating ‘middle class’. Question of fairs and magnetism. Andalusia leaves a good example of the above. Although many more fairs are held in the region, such as Our Lady of Health in Córdoba (May), the Sherry horse (May), the Corpus Christi of Granada (June), the Malaga fair (August) or Saint Luke of Jaén (October), the one in Seville is probably the one that has achieved the greatest impact. And that is something that can be measured in two ways: through social networks, where it has become an viral phenomenonand in figures of both attendance and business generated. To confirm the first comes with taking a walk through Instagram or TikTok, where the fair has been gaining weight converted into a unifying and touristic event. Beyond the party, for Sevillians it is an opportunity to show their national pride. For those who live far from their cultural code, especially for visitors, it is an exotic event. Question of figures. Regarding the second, the figures are overwhelming. Last year the Seville City Council estimated in 2 billion of euros the economic impact of the fair, a figure largely justified by the high hotel occupancy (and the average price of accommodation) that Seville reaches on those days. Some sources slide This calculation also includes Holy Week, which is celebrated shortly before, but even so the figure is more than considerable. Regarding the volume of visitors, in the last few years The influx at Real de Los Remedios, the place where the fair is held, has been estimated at three million of people. As a reference, in Malaga they calculate that the shows at their fair attracted around 966,000 visitors. The event is in fact so attractive that in Madrid they have already promoted an initiative to organize its own April Fair, a macro event which aims to attract around 800,000 visitors. Fairs that grow… and fall. Aside from the visitor balances, hotel occupancy or business estimates, there is an interesting fact to understand the thrust of the Sevillian fair. Last year the City Council confirmed his plans to give it a ‘growth spurt’, providing the Real de la Feria with new streets and 220 extra booths. The reason? “Currently there are almost a thousand booths and there are another thousand applications from people waiting,” explained the first mayor, José Luis Sanz. The Seville City Council is so determined to undertake the expansion that the project has even caused a little crisis with the Government, owner of the land. The scenario contrasts with that experienced, for example, by the Córdoba Fair, which this year will feature 82 booths. This is relevant information because, as remember theDiaryare four less than in 2025 and mark a historical minimum for the event. New proof that the calendar is increasingly divided between celebrations supported by tourism and others with a more local focus. Images | Laura Liñán Jaén (Flickr) 1 and 2 In Xataka | Recording drunk people at the April Fair has become a tradition. The fines for doing so are not so fun.

Anthropic was the “don’t be evil” of AI for developers. Now he’s squeezing them all

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Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.6 sparked a golden era for developers, who found themselves with a fantastic AI agent and model for their work. Suddenly OpenAI was no longer the trendy company: Anthropic was, which users and developers fell in love and became in the pretty girl of AI. Months later we are seeing how Anthropic is making changes that are being highly criticized and that point to something that we have already seen repeatedly: platforms conquer you and inevitably then the platforms squeeze you. The trigger. On April 2, 2026, Stella Laurenzo, Senior Director in AMD’s AI group, published a text in Claude Code’s GitHub repository titled “Claude Code is useless for complex engineering tasks with February updates.” This directive included a meticulous analysis of almost 6,600 real Claude Code sessions with nearly 235,000 tool calls and about 18,000 reasoning blocks in four different projects. The conclusions were obvious to her: the performance of Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.6 had degraded. The numbers. In this analysis, two periods are shown according to Laurenzo. In the good period, from January to mid-February, the model read 6.6 files for every file it edited. In the theoretically degraded period, from March onwards, that rate had fallen to 2.0 files read. Code edits in files that Claude had not recently reviewed went from 6.2% to 33.7%: one in three changes to the code were being made “blindly.” In addition, the visibility of the reasoning was reduced, from 2,200 characters to only 600 on average, but there is something more. The costs of the process multiplied by 122 in the same period, although it is true that in that period they went from using 1-3 concurrent agents to using 5-10, which complicates the interpretation of the data. Anthropic tries to clarify what happened. Anthropic’s official response It was published by Boris Chernyresponsible for Claude Code. This engineer confirmed two actual product changes: On February 9, Opus 4.6 switched to using so-called “adaptive reasoning” by default. On March 3, the default effort level moved from high to medium, sitting at level 85, which Anthropic describes as “the best balance of intelligence, latency, and cost for most users.” Closed debate. Cherny also spoke of that suspicion that Claude was now hiding “how he thought.” He explained that the change in visible reasoning records is not a real degradation, and the detected header was simply a user interface modification that hid intermediate reasoning to reduce latency without affecting model performance. Laurenzo herself had already foreseen something like this and tried to implement solutions to avoid it, but her data confirmed this drop in performance. Cherny closed the debate as if the issue had been resolved, but it doesn’t seem like it really is. Computing capacity crisis. Thariq Shihipar of Claude Code’s team revealed in March that Anthropic was adjusting session limits to 5 hours during peak hours. That is to say: if there was a lot of demand, your Claude tokens would probably run out faster. He pointed out that the measure would actually only be noticed by 7% of users (the most intensive during those peak hours), and confessed “I know this is frustrating. We will continue to invest in scaling efficiency.” This is contradicted by a comment in the debate on Laurenzo’s post in which explained that “we do not degrade our models to better serve demand, I have said this many times before.” More degradations. They appeared other discoveries and criticismssuch as how Claude Code’s prompt cache had also been drastically reduced (from one hour to five minutes), triggering quota consumption in long programming sessions. Anthropic he indicated to VentureBeat that Team and Enterprise accounts are not affected by these session limits, but the pattern seems increasingly clear: computing is scarce and must be rationed… or at least that is what all these Anthropic measures seem to point to. What remains unclear is whether the quality of the model has actually been degraded, although there are Reddit “megathreads” that also point in that direction. “Nerfing”, nothing. When a company deliberately degrades its service, it is often called “nerfing.” on social networksand criticism in this sense was increasing in the case of Anthropic. Numerous publications of users in X and in media of technology have done reference to Laurenzo’s studio and accused Anthropic of this voluntary degradation of its models. Boris Cherny intervened in at least one case to flatly say that “That’s false” and to explain that they reported the changes and in fact gave users the option to disable it. But rationing exists. In The Wall Street Journal they confirmed that this rationing of computing is certainly occurring among AI platforms due to high demand. We have a good example of the consequences in David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool. He explained in said newspaper that although he preferred Claude Opus 4.6 to power his AI agent, he recently had to switch to the OpenAI model because “Anthropic keeps crashing all the time.” Prices change (silently). The Information indicated yesterday that Anthropic is changing the way it bills users of Enterprise plans. Instead of a subscription of $200 per month with a “flat rate” for using their AI models, what they will do is charge a base rate of $20 per user per month and to that they will add the consumption of each user with the standard price of their API. Your own updated documentation points it out (“Use is not included in the per-seat rate”) and it is estimated that the change could double or even triple the cost of using Claude for heavy users. The discounts of 10 to 15% on the API that were included in the past and that allowed companies to scale this token consumption in a more affordable way also disappear. Prices per million tokens have not changed, but we went from a “flat rate” (with usage fees) to a pay-per-use model, much more expensive for heavy users. It’s not just Anthropic. … Read more

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