Month: January 2025

The AI ​​fires Microsoft’s income at the expense of huge investments. And now China threatens its strategy

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Microsoft has presented Its quarterly resultsand thanks to them we already know what he won in 2024 thanks to the AI: 13,000 million dollars. Of course, it is also investing 22.6 billion dollars in infrastructure … each quarter. As if that were not enough, you also have to deal with the threat of Chinese innovation. Why is it important. The figures leave a clear reading: the Financial Equation of AI remains very complex. Generating interesting income – the current ones are already, grow 175% year -on -year – requires huge infrastructure investments. And now Chinese innovation threatens to leave a part of that investment obsolete. The context. Microsoft dominates the business market thanks to its early alliance with Openai, but Deepseek’s irruptionwhich has developed more efficient and cheap models, and open source, has caused a small earthquake in the sector. Microsoft is in a race against time: it needs to monetize its great investment in AI as soon as possible, but now it receives increasing competitive pressure from China. The figures: 13,000 million dollars (annualized) in revenue per year. 22.6 billion dollars invested per quarter in infrastructure. 31% Azure growth, below expectations. 24,110 million dollars of quarterly net profit, 10% more interannual. Exceeded expectations. Marking Agenda. The consolidation of Microsoft as a leader in corporate AI is thanks to Copilot, its Microsoft 365 assistantwhich already has more than 160,000 companies using it … and have created more than 400,000 custom agents, according to the figures published by the company. Microsoft is in full transition to a model where AI is integrated into all its business lines: Windows will incorporate AI capacities in 15% of high -end laptops. LinkedIn uses AI to improve its hiring platform. Xbox Cloud Gaming continues to break records with 140 million hours transmitted. Github co -ilot It has more than 150 million active developers. And the AI ​​stars in a striking contrast in the company’s accounts: while Azure’s income, the great winner of the Nadella era, are growing slower than expected, new business lines based on AI are growing explosively: 157%. Deepen. One of the questions that leave these results is whether Microsoft will be able to maintain this level of investment if Chinese efficiency advances force a price war in AI services. Microsoft defends its strategy arguing that the demand for AI will continue to grow exponentially as the costs are reduced, thus compensating the current investments. The question is whether investors share that optimism. Outstanding image | Microsoft In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem

NASA ends up announcing that this large asteroid has a 1% chance of impacting with the earth. That is not normal

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At the end of March last year, NASA launched a very special statement. The agency came to say that the biggest object that will happen near the earth will be An asteroid that will approximate 32,000 kilometers And it can be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. A few hours ago, NASA has given another “those” news. They have found a meteorite distinct To all we know. YR4: Impact risk. As we said, NASA has issued a statement About an asteroid called as 2024 YR4 Discovered at the end of December 2024 by the Atlas system in Chile. This object has drawn attention because it presents a probability of impact superior to all recent meteorites: 1% for December 22, 2032which makes it one of the asteroids with the greatest potential risk of collision registered to date. With everything and as we usually say in these cases, this estimate will possibly change as new observations are made, with expectations that the probability of impact decreases. Classification and risk. The asteroid has an estimated size of between 40 and 91 meters in diameter, similar to that of the object that caused the Tunguska event in 1908. Therefore, currently It is classified at level 3 of the Torino scaleindicating a real probability of impact that merits monitoring, although, again, its level is expected to be reduced as more data will be obtained. This scale, used to evaluate the risk of asteroid impact, goes from 0 (without danger) to 10 (catastrophic collision). In any case and for us to get an idea, before this finding there was no recorded asteroid with a score greater than 0 on the Torino scale. Closeness and probabilities of impact. The closest step of 2024 YR4 is estimated at 0.00001 Astronomical Units (AU) of the Earth, which is equivalent to 1,500 kilometers away, that is, closer than many satellites in terrestrial orbit. At the moment, The impact probability is 1 in 83 (Approximately 1.2%), which has generated that concern in the scientific community. However, and although we look repetitive, it is important to underline that the experience with similar asteroids indicates that these probabilities usually decrease after more analysis. Precedents There have been cases of asteroids that have reached higher levels on the Torino scale and were subsequently discarded as threats. An example is 99942 apophis, which in 2004 reached level 4 due to a probability of 1.6% impact in 2029, Although subsequent studies eliminated any risk In 2029, 2036 and 2068. Therefore, it is feasible to think that asteroid 2024 YR4 in the future is reclassified at level 0 As their orbital calculations are related. Possible consequences and monitoring. To put ourselves in the worst of the stage, with a possible impact, 2024 YR4 would not represent a global extinction event, but could cause significant damage if impacting a populated area, similar to the famous Tunguska event that swept a vast region in Siberia. Therefore, NASA and other space agencies will continue to track their trajectory and refine the calculations to confirm their destination. Although The American agency has emphasized its statement that the probability of impact is still low (about 1%) and that this type of initial evaluations tend to be corrected over time, also ends up underlining that it will adjust its predictions ensuring that any potential risk is properly evaluated and, if necessary, addressed With planetary defense strategies. Image | POT In Xataka | The biggest object that will happen near Earth is an asteroid that will approximate 32,000 km and can be seen with the naked eye In Xataka | The last asteroid located by NASA, giving up “close” of the Earth: a mole of the size of the giza pyramid

The microwave method to disinfect sponges has its advantages. And an important risk to consider

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Kitchen hygiene can avoid the occasional health problem. Kitchens are propitious areas for The appearance of microorganismssome of them with the ability to cause us infections. Keeping the kitchen clean is therefore important but sometimes the solution to this problem hides a similar threat. In our kitchens, rags and cloths that we use to clean can hide new microorganisms that reduce our effectiveness when cleaning. To avoid this problem, it is advisable to change this type of cleaning utensils, utensils such as sponges with which we scrub the dishes. This is undoubtedly the best way to ensure that our cleaning utensils are found Perfectly disinfectedbut most likely that, by economy or by disgust, we end up stretching the useful life of these objects more than the account. So it can also be useful to know ways to keep germs at bay in our sponges and in similar objects. Cleaning products such as bleach are used in many homes to fulfill the function of disinfecting cloths and rags. Although this solution is generally effective, we must be cautious to avoid the possible mixture between cleaning products, which could imply other types of risks. In the case of sponges, there is an alternative: Use heat To sterilize them. The “microwave trick” It consists of soaking the sponges and introducing them for a minute in the microwave. This system is effective to eliminate some pathogenic microorganisms, but there are some aspects to take into account so that this trick does not imply more risks than advantages. The first thing we should ask is, is it something? The answer is that yes, heating our sponges with a microwave can end some of the microorganisms that proliferate inside. But not with everyone. In the case of sponges, there is an alternative: use heat to sterilize them. The “microwave trick” It is effective To eliminate some pathogenic microorganisms, but there are some aspects to take into account so that this trick does not imply more risks than advantages. The first thing we should ask is, is it something? The answer is that yes, heat our sponges with a microwave You can end some of the microorganisms that proliferate inside. But not with everyone. A study conducted by researchers from the University of Florida and published in 2006 in the magazine Journal of Environmental Health He tested the method. The team He immersed a sponge in waters contaminated by a variety of pathogens, including different types of bacteria, viruses and parasitic organisms. They observed that two minutes at maximum power served to eliminate 99% of these. Subsequent studies validated this analysis. For example, in One published in 2009 In the magazine Food Controlit was observed that a minute of microwave action generated a greater reduction in the number of pathogens in the sponge than a disinfectant chemical treatment. Double -edged sword Using the microwave can be an effective way to inactivate hidden pathogens in our sponges but also presents an important risk that may be dissuasive: The fire. The sponges, heated in the microwave, They can burn. This will not only prevent us from fulfilling our goal of extending the useful life of this object, it can also mean a important risk if the fire extends. That is why those who propose the use of microwave as a disinfectant tool to emphasize Some precautions to take: The first is not to introduce sponges containing adhered metal elements. Second, the sponge must be soaked before being introduced to the microwave. Thirdly, we must take into account that with a minute at maximum power, it should be sufficient to achieve our goal and, in any case, not have the microwave on for more than two minutes. Finally, it will be better to let the sponge cool before removing it, not because of the risk of fire but to avoid burns. There are other alternatives if we want to avoid the risk of seeing our sponge to burn. We have already pointed out the possibility of cleaning them with a chemical disinfectant such as bleach (sodium hypochlorite) in water solution. The 2009 study Posted in Food Control He pointed out Another alterative also effective: To wash the sponges in the dishwasher (if we have one of these devices, of course). According to the study, method can be as effective as that of the microwave and more than the use of chemical disinfectants such as those in our homes. In Xataka | Should you change clothes when you get home? What science says Image | Xataka with Gemini

Georgina Rodríguez’s trick to sculpt his face in 3 touches and other secrets of his makeup

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Cover skin? Yes please. And our guide will be Georgina and her looks. Although you have to recognize the merit of its trusted makeup artist, Sergio Antón, who puts into practice all these tricks for an impeccable face. His last viral trick has been the way with just a makeup product, he sculpts all the face with lifting effect. He has done it with the cream contour Hollywood Contour Light Wandof the brand Charlotte Tilbury And it has revolutionized the Internet. The firm has Georgina among its ranks of best ambassadors and has taught in networks such as With only 3 light touches on the face, he manages to raise it visually. “I always start with a light line above the cheekbone to lift it,” says. Next, it shows how another small line traces on the temple and another in the mandibular bone. And if there is an easy product to use it is this, considered the magic wand of Hollywood for its formula, with which the skin is illuminated thanks to the effect Soft Focus and its applicator, a sponge fantasy that blurs perfectly. The perfect smoked If there is something that Georgina is attesting, it is that to enlarge and tear a look there is nothing like a good smoked and blurred in ascending and diagonal direction. A classic that does not fail: tear and inner area in light tones and even brushing the white shadows and a very well blurred transition in the center of the eye that turns towards a dark toast at the outer end of the eye. The key: clean the blur well when the tone passes to the final area of ​​the eyebrow. As? It permeates a baston with micellar water and follows a straight and diagonal line up. Postizas eyelashes, for infarction looks It is another of the keys to their makeup: either in smoked techniques or in more ‘Clean’ makeup, Georgina does not fail its post -fitting eyelashes that increase the density from inside out of the eye, that is, shorter in the inner part of the eye and more elongated and dense from the center to the outside of the eye. In addition, to integrate them better, do not hesitate to delineate through the water line and between the tabs, for a much more organic result. The trick to give more volume to the lips It is the favorite not only of Gio, but of many more Celebrities: The brown profiler. Many have already confessed that they cannot live without him. And it is that the immediate volume effect it has is impressive. Combined with a Glossthe result is some juicy and fleshy lips In seconds. In Tiktok, Georgina is a muse. There is no influencer that you have not tried to recreate any of your looks. And the tricks have caught him well. For example, another Tip which remembers the Tiktoker @beautyBasicsalon, is to use makeup palettes only in warm tones, the most used by Georgina. And with them, not only shows how to make a good blur (also attending to the area below the eyebrow arch) but another trick: use the same shadow in a neutral warm tone to create definition at the beginning of the nose bone . This spring, marcate one of its most iconic looks. The tricks already have them … (Tagstotranslate) Beauty

Never before 10 in the morning or later than five

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One of Jeff Bezos’ great obsessions throughout his career has been optimize time that, by obligation, should use in meetings. Definitely, the founder of Amazon part of the base that a meeting It is a loss of timeso he tries to make the most of the time dedicated to receiving the information to make the appropriate decisions. Yeah The two pizzas system It became very popular, like the reading of Memorandos with all the information that is going to be treated at the meeting to avoid wandering and loss of time. However, it is not the only rule imposed by the millionaire when it comes to gathering: nothing of Meetings before 10 in the morningnor beyond five in the afternoon. Rest is the first Although his hobbies to optimize the time he dedicated to meetings has won the reputation of being an incredibly productive person, the millionaire himself was responsible for dismantling that myth in the Lex Fridman podcast. During the interview, Bezos confessed a lot in the morning and practice what he calls “The one -hour rule“.” First, I wake up and lazy for a while. I am not as productive as one might think that I am, “Bezos confessed in the interview. During that first hour after awakeningJeff Bezos tries not to use any screen. He progressively increases his activity, having breakfast with his fiancee Lauren Sánchez and reading the newspaper, as she herself confirmed in An interview for People. Then, Bezos does some exercise in the gym, and then start his workday. Never program one Meeting before 10 in the morning Because, in this way, it leaves the margin of enough time to your brain to fully activate and thus pay full attention and energy to solve problems. Research From the University of California published in Nature, they have confirmed that the routine that Bezos uses to begin the day really helps improve cognitive performance and decision making. Too tired to decide In An intervention in The Economic Club of Washington In 2018, the millionaire commented on the importance of having adequate break when making important decisions. For that reason, Bezos avoided at all costs to have meetings Beyond five in the afternoon. “Anything that is really challenging for the mind, that is a meeting at 10 o’clock. Because at five in the afternoon I think: ‘I can’t think of that today. Let’s try this again tomorrow at 10,” said the millionaire Founder of Amazon. Become aware of the state of mental exhaustion and Its impact In productivity you can make the difference between taking appropriate decisions Or, don’t do it for suffer cognitive deterioration of tiredness and stress accumulated throughout the day. According to A study Drawing by Microsoft, the human brain needs frequent breaks to achieve optimal performance. Programming meetings at the end of the day makes the Capacity for concentration Do not arrive at your best and, therefore, you run the risk of making more mistakes In decision -making, especially if these are strategic like the ones Jeff Bezos takes in Amazon or in Blue Origin. In Xataka | Equate Fortuna Jeff Bezos is difficult, but not impossible: working for 45 years winning 2.1 million at the time Image | Unspash (2h average), Wikimedia Commons (Adrian Cadiz)

SoftBank plans to invest up to $ 25,000 million in Sam Altman’s company

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SoftBank is discussing something important: they plan to invest up to 25,000 million dollars in Openai. That would make the Japanese company the greatest financial support of Chatgpt. The movement also occurs at a very significant moment. Stargate. The good relationship between both companies has recently been strengthened with the announcement of the Project Stargate, the initiative that states that several companies (including Openai and Softbank) invest 500,000 million dollars to create a large infrastructure of AI data centers in the AI ​​data centers Joined. And then there is the hardware project with Jony Ive. We knew that Sam Altman and Jony Ive had gathered to talk about jointly developing a hardware device with AI. Later it was learned that Softbank was too very interested in the project and had invested in it, although since then There have been barely details About those efforts. The relationship with Microsoft cools. But it is also that in recent months we have seen how the alliance between Openai and Microsoft also lost strength. The Colossal Microsoft investment In early 2023 seemed to unite them forever, but nothing is further from reality. A year later Microsoft began looking Your plan b for stop depending on itand soon it was clear that this was a relationship dated Cacudity. Microsoft is A clear rival of OpenAi, and the non-dilio between them is already teaching seams. SoftBank as a new girlfriend. All this seems to make Softbank come right in time to become the new OpenAi wealthy girlfriend. According to Financial Times The Japanese company plans to invest between 15,000 and 25,000 million dollars in Openai, but attention: that departs from the approximately $ 15,000 million that will contribute to Stargate. OpenAi Manirrota. Sam Altman’s company continues burning money as if there were no tomorrow. The October 2024 round with which he managed to lift 6,600 million dollars It would fall very short next to the one Openai. Many other AI startups are receiving important rounds, but the OpenAi company with SoftBank would be a new record. And then there is arm. There is another important element of this potential new alliance. ARM, Absolute Pilar of the development of mobile chips for years, also wants to become a company that offers powerful AI chips, and that could be an important element of the alliance and perhaps its implementation in Stargate. Image | Wikimedia |Wikimedia In Xataka | Stargate impossible accounts: the challenge of finding 500,000 million dollars for the largest IA project

An nonconformist Barça led by Lamine is left without the icing after drawing with the Atalanta

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Irrevencia was not enough to undo the trade. Barça touched the European crown in this first phase but the Atalanta prevented it from adjusting it without that supposed … (Tagstotranslate) Sports/Soccer/Champions-League (T) Sports (T) FC Barcelona (T) Atalanta BC (T) Champions League (T) Champions League

What is High-Flyer, the Chinese fund that drives Deepseek and has been using AI for years to make investment decisions

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Deepseek is the fashionable artificial intelligence (AI) company. Your most recent language models They have challenged Openai’s leadership and have caused a real earthquake in the technology industry. These days we have known that It was founded in May 2023 and that has developed its products with a fraction of the computing capacity of some of its main western rivals. But what else is known? Let’s see it. The promising present of Deepseek is the result of years of investigation that began long before its official constitution. Its origin is found in High-Flyer, a quantitative investment fund created in 2015 by the Electronic Engineering student Liang Wenfeng with two classmates. As they count on their websitethe idea was that the algorithms became the heart of their business by allowing real -time operations. A company focused on the Chinese stock market High-Flyer completed its first stock market assisted by AI in October 2016, a movement that triggered an unstoppable effort to continue working in that regard. The company formed software and hardware research and development teams. And apparently it was the appropriate decision. In 2017 I already applied AI In almost all its strategies of quantitative investment, but to continue advancing I needed to break some barriers. They discovered that complex models training tasks required a huge calculation power. This did not discourage them and in 2019 they launched a dedicated division called High-Flyer ai to address the challenge. The group built started working with 500 GPU, then built a 1,100 GPU supercomputer A100 of NVIDIA And in 2022 he spent 140 million dollars to raise the number up to 10,000 GPU, before the entry into force of the export controls of the United States. High-Flyer was completely focused on developing its algorithmic trading business. He had his own deep learning training platform and a Outstanding computer infrastructure. Meanwhile, in the United States there was a company called Openai that bet on the generative AI and that He had surprised many with the benefits of his GPT-3 language model. As China Talk collectsLiang wanted to go beyond finance. For a long time he had been convinced that AI would change the world, and had found the opportunity to bring his effort to the next level. In 2023, High-Flyer announced that it would lay the foundations of a new organization to advance the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI). Thus Deepseek was born, with an injection of capital of high-flyer. Deepseek is a product of High-Flyer work and has obviously drunk this company. Both signatures share offices in the same building, although they seem to use different computing resources. The AI ​​startup says it has H20 chips, that are sold as donuts in Chinaand NVIDIA H800, and that has used only 2,048 GPU of this latest model to train its most recent models, an affirmation that some have questioned. Images | High-flyer | Deepseek In Xataka | “They are brilliant researchers under the control of an authoritarian government.” Anthropic’s CEO has spoken about Depseek

NASA has found molecules linked to life in Bennu samples

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It was left The famous stuck screw In the Bennu Asteroid sampling container. NASA scientists have just published the results of their analysis and are as exciting as the asteroid of 4.5 billion years promised. Osiris-Rex and Asteroid Bennu. Threw in 2016, Osiris-Rex completed one of NASA’s most ambitious missions in recent years. The probe reached an asteroid near the land called Bennu in 2018. He spent several months by making it and analyzing it closely and, finally, descended to touch its surface. Osiris-Rex collected 121.6 grams of Bennu samples in 2020. He then undertook his return trip and, in September 2023, managed to release them successfully on Earth. Is less than expected And, yet, the greatest number of samples brought from another celestial body other than the moon. In addition to a true time capsule due to the age of the asteroid: 4.5 billion years, almost as many as those that the solar system has. What is in Bennu’s samples. Two studies published on Tuesday in Nature and Nature Astronomy They detail the results of the analysis. We can say that the wait has been worth it because those 121.6 grams that Osiris-Rex brought from asteroid bennu They contain essential molecules for lifeas well as the trail of a salty environment that could promote its formation: Amino acids and nucleobases. 14 of the 20 amino acids used by living beings to make proteins, and the five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA, the genetic codification of life on earth Ammonia and formaldehyde. Ammonia is essential in chemical reactions that generate complex molecules, and formaldehyde can lead to amino acids when combined with ammoniac Salts and salt water. Minerals formed by the evaporation of water with brine, an environment that could be the ideal broth for prebiotic chemistry in the body from which Bennu comes What this finding means. The discovery of all these molecules reinforces the hypothesis that the basic ingredients for life could have spread throughout the solar system at an early age. It is known that the asteroids brought water to the earth, and nothing prevents They will also deliver other essential blocks for life or microbial life itself. Perhaps the conducive conditions for life in many other parts of the solar system will be given. The material from Bennu contains a combination of salts (calcite, halita, trona and silvita) that had only been seen incompletely in some meteorites. It is a clue that the body from which Bennu comes originally Water could contain with the necessary conditions for the development of organic compounds. What this finding does not mean. That the “father” of Asteroid Bennu could have the necessary conditions for life forms to arise does not mean that scientists have discovered life in a body outside the earth. Samples do not contain evidence of living organisms, nor do they confirm in any way the existence of extraterrestrial life. The material, which was formed in a cold region of the solar system beyond Jupiter’s orbit, does not end up solving, but throws some light on the big question: if there are scenarios conducive to life beyond the earth. And no, samples do not have land pollution, as happened with those of the asteroid Ryugu that the Japanese brought in the Hayabusa mission 2. To other asteroids. The laboratories of the Earth are for now the best we have, so none of this would have been possible without a complex sampling recovery mission. Osiris-Rex is the third, after the Japanese Missions Hayabusa. Soon we will see also Tianwen-2, the Chinese mission that will travel to the asteroid 2016 HO3 KAMOʻOALEWA. Images | POT In Xataka | The ship that picked the samples of Bennu now flies towards Apofis, the asteroid that will pass only 38,000 km from the earth

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