Month: June 2025

An existential threat looms over several US chips companies. And China is just one of its problems

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Several US companies involved directly in the integrated circuit industry are suffering. Some of them, in fact, They are flirting with bankruptcy. In this context it is inevitable not to think of Intel and The difficult stage that crosses Currently, but from the company Led by Lip-Bu Tan We have spoken a lot in recent months. The companies in which we are going to investigate in this article are smaller, but, even so, they play a very important role in the US chips industry. The worst is happening is, without a doubt, Wolfspeed. And this company of Durham (North Carolina) It has officially declared in bankruptcy. Its specialty is the development and manufacture of silicon carbide (sic) and gallium nitride (GAN) semiconductors for high -power electronics applications, which positions them as extraordinarily attractive integrated circuits for the electric car industries, renewable energy, data centers, fast -charged infrastructure and aerospace and military industries. Robert Feurle, the general director of Wolfspeed, has declared That “after evaluating the options available to strengthen our balance and adjust our capital structure we have decided to take this strategic step (declare in bankruptcy and look for new financing routes) because we believe that it will place Wolfspeed in the best possible position for the future.” An interesting note before moving forward: Spain has launched The Godic project with the purpose of contributing to the independence of Europe of silicon carbide semiconductors from China and the US. China is not the only cause of the problems of American companies Wolfspeed is not at all the only company in the US chips industry that is in difficulties from a financial point of view. The American subsidiary of the Israeli company Tower Semiconductor, Globalfoundries, on semiconductor, Skywater Technology or Ayar Labs are some of the companies that are also facing economic difficulties. The competition from China is subjecting them to a pressure that does not cease to increase, but the competitiveness of Chinese companies is not the only factor that is putting in trouble some US chips companies. The competitiveness of Chinese companies is not the only factor that is putting in trouble some US chips companies Tariffs linked to Imports from China which has deployed US administration seeks to protect the business of US companies within your market. However, most of the companies that I have mentioned in the previous paragraph also sells their semiconductors outside the US. And the competitiveness of Chinese companies in other markets is very high due mainly to two crucial factors: their prices are moderate thanks to contained production costs and the quality of their products is comparable to that of their western and Asian competitors. In any case, the economic problems faced by some designers and manufacturers of American chips do not have their origin solely in China’s competition. Wolfspeed is at a very delicate moment because, beyond the pressure exerted on it, its Chinese competitors, The global demand of the high -power semiconductors it produces has fallen. In addition, during the last five years He has borrowed To be able to build new integrated circuit factories, and currently you cannot assume this economic burden. The panorama of other US companies that are dedicated to chips is not very different to the context with which Wolfspeed is dealingso it is possible that in the short or medium term other companies also enter in bankruptcy. Image | Xataka More information | GLOBALDATA In Xataka | The US is willing to do anything for advanced chips not to reach China. And Malaysia is an obstacle

The Tesla Robotaxi has been in the street for less than 72 hours. Is already being investigated for security problems

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On Sunday, June 22, Tesla will begin publicly in the Robotaxi race. The company put, for the first time, its completely autonomous cars on the street. Since then, they operate with a handful of vehicles to a group of people previously chosen. In less than three days, they are already being investigated. June 22. It was the first day that Tesla’s robotaxis started walking through the streets of Austin. And although the promises in recent years had been grandiloquent, they did it within the regulations. That is: a handful of cars, a handful of chosen people and a handful of travel. Although something like that could be expected, the company’s first steps in the sector are still far from the Cybercab Promised, artifacts without flyers or pedals that should act as a kind of ships with wheels that take you anywhere inside a city. Let’s not forget that Elon Musk promised that we would see this in 2026. Under investigation. In less than three days, the NHTSSAthe agency in charge of security in the United States has opened an investigation to make sure that these vehicles are safe, they explain in Bloomberg. The reason is the slightly erratic behavior of some cars. At the moment they are only preliminary reports, they point out from the economic environment, but the NHTSA already warns in their response that they will take measures if they consider that the safety of passengers and the rest of the traffic agents are being endangered. Moment in which Tesla Robotaxi circulates in the opposite direction. Click on the image to go to the original tweet In the opposite direction. One of the reasons that has led NHTSA to the work table has arrived with a video published on social networks in which a Tesla is seen that doubts when taking a left output, to which it is bound at the intersection by the previously chosen lane. After hesitating, it moves to the right and enters a lane where cars circulate in the opposite direction. Subsequently, a double continuous line is skipped to return correctly. The entire incident can be seen in the Tweet published by Rob Maurer in which he shows without cuts a trip of more than 20 minutes aboard one of the robotaxis of Tesla. Specifically, Tesla’s doubts and erratic behavior are found in the 7th and 15th minutes of the recording. Many lights and some shadow. Except for this incident, in the rest of the video you can see how the car behaves with a lot of ease between traffic and that does not usually hesitate to take a way out or in which lane should be positioned. Nor does it give the feeling of circulating at an abnormally low speed or hindering the rest of the road agents. Despite this, we must bear in mind that the trips that have been made are very few and with very chosen people. In fact, Maurer himself is known for having had a podcast focused exclusively on the company. Sawyer Merritt, who looks in his biography of X that he is Tesla’s investor, He also published a video in which the car is seen exceeding the maximum allowed speed in a street after exceeding a signal that reduced the limit to 30 mph. Zero error. Actually, the two incidents have not put anyone at risk but NHTSA research gives an idea of ​​strict security measures that regulators want to demand from companies that put their cars on the street. Hence the Waymo and Cruise developments They were extended for years and that the tests are limited in space or in time. Keep in mind that a small mistake with a car can generate important damage to a person and that we ask the autonomous car that is much safer than the human driver. In fact, the company itself assured in the presentation of Tesla Cybercab that “Mobility stinks” because, among other things, “it is not sure”. That firm control of regulators is the one that forces Tesla to breach their own promises. That is, they have to circulate with humans and cars with flyers and pedals. But also that the area of ​​use is very limited and that the service between six in the morning and midnight. Question of time. The publication of the news made Tesla’s actions slightly down. The same ones that had risen since Sunday after the finding that the robotaxis service was launched. However, this fluctuating movement is relatively absurd since it is a matter of time that a company robotaxi is immersed in an accidenteither because of yours or for an unexpected movement of any other traffic agent. It is something that all companies of this type have to deal with but the problems They took Cruise ahead and Xiaomi and the rest of the manufacturers They were attracted attention by the institutions after Three passengers died aboard an Xiaomi Su7 which seemed to be working with activated driving aid systems. The NHTSSA and TESLA. Nor is it the first time that the NHTSA and Tesla look at the faces. The company has been accused of “Delivery advertising”together with other manufacturers, because the name of Autopilot overalls the real capacities that their cars can offer to the general public. But Tesla has also gone through the NHTSA scrutiny due The autonomous driving system was deactivated not to leave a trace of its involvement in shocks. The company has also always played to the limit of legality in some aspects, such as using your own customers like Beta Testers In the streets before making officers the updates of your Autopilot. Photo | Tesla In Xataka | Tesla’s economic future goes through autonomous driving. At the moment everything is problems

Now they have decided to kill her and bring her closer to Netflix

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The face washing that Mediaset has given to its streaming platform, until now known as mitele, and what is called Mediaset Infinityit has been spectacular. A considerable reformulation in the visual, technical streaming With their same weapons. The new Mediaset Infinity. Announced at the end of May, this change equals the Mediaset Spain website with that of the Italian matrix of the group. Among the web sections are both live and letter emissions, with exclusive content derived from linear programs and even in the style of what Atresmedia does, original productions for this digital environment. Access to all contents becomes completely free, something that was limited in Mitele. There will also be a premium part, heiress of Mitele Plus in which there will be no advertising interruptions and there will be the possibility of starting a direct from its beginning and downloading content. A family air. It is inevitable to think of a clear inspiration for this redesign: Netflix and the rest of the platforms of streaming that have gone in their shadow (at least the netflix prior to last and much discussed redesign, openly thought to imitate the style of social networks as Tiktok). In Mediaset Infinity we have categories that follow each other horizontally and extend vertically, with visual and very recognizable icons, and organization for seasons and chapters within each program. The influence is even evident in the highlights of the Homeand it is not a bad idea: any spectator has already become accustomed to the use of these menus and organization almost intuitively. Technical improvement. The guts of this new Mitele incarnation have also improved, with an optimized search system, a better organized user area and, above all, an important leap in terms of speed and accessibility. A year and a half of joint work between Mediaset Spain and Mediaset Italy that has set in a remarkable jump for the platform: now the content search is much faster and, above all, moving through the platform is as effective as in any other streaming platform, without the need for unnecessary waiting for seeking programs or hidden chapters. The reorganization of the page works perfectly. Blur and new account. Since its creation in 2011, Mitele has experienced abundant problems, especially technical type: access difficulties that demanded to resalrate the application, Poor performance even with good connections, limited compatibility with Many devices (especially with certain Smart TV models), reproduction errors and availability … a series of problems that were the reflection of an app that had been outdated and that had not been able to evolve at the same rate as the connections and user devices. All the same. It is not an exclusive problem, yes, by Mitele: traditional television have always had problems adapting to Smart TV and consumption on demand. The motives have been varied, from technical and hardware limitations (by compatibility of new televisions with apps) to changes in the business model (to traditional chains, accustomed to a linear model, they have a hard time facing a model that requires flexibility, investment in technology and new forms of monetization, apart from negotiating new emission rights and adapting content), passing through a fierce competition of the streaming platforms, which they They have an advantage because they are native. Inherit users. What Infinity is going to be found are Mitele users: 3.7 million unique users in January, A growth of 16% With respect to the previous year, in addition to almost 2 million viewers on average a day on the platform. Undoubtedly, this growth has played in favor of encouraging Mediaset to make the leap towards the transformation into the new platform, no matter how and a half of development a relevant investment may have needed. A push for Telecinco. Thanks to the huge impulse that the latest edition of ‘The Island of Temptations’ is giving to all platform programsto ‘late’ seems to work Better without his alma mater since, on the other hand, the 1 does not seem to settle completely or in its disastrous afternoons nor in the Competition with ‘El Hormiguero‘, Tele5 has found a break. Vespertine bets such as ‘Jorge’s newspaper’ are consolidating themselves as some of the most value for Telecinco, which he needed from the output of ‘Save Me’ from his grill programs that provided him with solidity. This new platform is another step in a proposal of greater modernity for the group, as well as more ease of access to its programs. Something that undoubtedly their spectators will appreciate, knowing how the contents of both spaces are contaminated. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | The last edition of ‘The island of temptations’ has not only been a viral phenomenon: it has saved the month of Telecinco

Novo Nordisk has been made gold with Ozempic but knows that it will not last forever. So you already have two substitutes

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The slimming drug market does not stop enlarging but the competition for taking the largest portion in this growing “cake” It is fierce. The American pharmaceutical Ozempic. Now the European company tries to recover its advantage. And he does it with a double ad. Roadmap. Little by little Let’s get to know more details About the drugs that Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk wants to give relief to Ozempic and Wegovy, their star treatments based on semaglutida. Different compounds, different analogues. Semaglutida is the active compound on which medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy are based. This formula, initially devised as diabetes treatment, works by serving as analogous to the GLP-1 hormone (peptide similar to type 1 glucagon), it is what is known as an agonist of hormone receptors. LPG-1 is a hormone that fulfills two functions in our body by transmitting the message that we have fed on the pancreas, activating insulin production; and to the brain, unleashing the feeling of satiety. This second function is the one that has led to the success of Ozempic and similar drugs transforming into weight loss treatments and thus achieving its present success. The new Danish pharmaceutical formulas are based on compounds that act similarly to the semaglutida, but with characteristics that make them own and, at least in principle, superior. Cagrisema Of the formulas proposed by Novo Nordis, Cagrisema is perhaps the one in a more advanced state of development. The drug is based on the semaglutida and the Cagrilintidaa compound that serves as an analogue of amiline And also of the Calcitoninacting as agonist of some of the receptors of these hormones. Amiline is a hormone similar to insulin, also segregated by the pancreas and also used for glycemic control in our body. Cagrisema therefore works as a double (or triple) analogous, however The first results They were not as positive as some expected. New data. Now we have the remaining data of the essays by the company to derter the efficacy of the drug. According to Explain Reutersthe study data showed a weight reduction of about 23% in overweight adults after 68 weeks; and 16% weight loss among people with diabetes. Those responsible for the company gave data on moderate adverse effects, which affected 79.6% of the participants; and serious, which affected 9.8% (with 6% of patients abandoning the trial). Those responsible expect the arrival of Cagrisema to the market towards the beginning of 2027. Amicretin. Last week Novo Nordisk He also announced The implementation of phase 3 tests of amicretin, one of the compounds designed to contain the legacy of the semaglutida. According to the company itself, this compound is a unimolecular agonist of prolonged action of the GLP-1 receptors and those of the amiline. One of the great novelties is that this formula is being tested not only to evaluate its subcutaneous administration but also its consumption orally. Phase 3 of clinical trials usually seeks to complete and complement the information obtained in previous trials in addition to studying additional issues such as dosage or efficiency compared to other formulas. The other novelty of Novo. In addition to the new formulas, Ozempic has also monopolized attention in the last week. He did it since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) I went on to recommend this drug as treatment for peripheral arterial disease, In Xataka | Generic medications have been trying to site Ozempic for years. And now they have found a shortcut in Canada Image | Chemist4u / News Oresund

Mediumkt leaves this 55 -inch Philips Smart TV Smart TV with Ambilight and perfect for gaming

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Mediamarkt is celebrating its’Gaming Web Week‘Until July 1 at 9 in the morning. With numerous lower devices, there is one that I can not stop recommending and more being a user of a TV with Ambilight. This is Philips 55mled920/12a TV model with very good features and now you can buy it with more than 150 euros discount. Before it cost almost 900 euros but now you take it for 729 euros. Philips Ambilight 55mled920 ‘The Xtra’ Mini LED 4K Smart TV * Some price may have changed from the last review A TV with very top features to enjoy series, movies and video games at home This Philips Smart TV mounts a 55 -inch qled panel with mini LED and the Ambilight rear lighting system (which is typical of the brand). UHD 4K resolution offers and is compatible with formats such as Dolby Vision and HDR10+. In the audio section, it integrates four speakers with a total RMS of 40 W and compatible with Dolby Atmos and DTS: X. As far as connectivity is concerned, it comes with four ports HDMI (one of them 2.1) and 2 USB ports, in addition to having Wifi and Bluetooth. Its 120 Hz refresh rate and its HDMI 2.1 make it a TV Ideal also for gaming and that allows you to enjoy VRR of 144 Hz through HDMI. It is compatible with AirPlay Apple and also with Alexa, so you can control it by voice commands. Finally, it should be mentioned that it works under the Titan OS operating system. Other welds with Ambilight that may interest you PHILIPS AMBILIGHT 55OLED819 * Some price may have changed from the last review Philips Ambilight 65pus8109 Smart TV 4K LED * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Philips In Xataka | Better televisions in quality price: which to buy and 10 smart TV 4K recommended In Xataka | Guide not to lose you with the new televisions and panel technologies that will arrive this year

If the question is “How to make a good prompt for AI”, Anthropic has just given us his guide

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Anthropic, the creator of Claude, has published its definitive guide of Prompt Engineering. A free Bible that synthesizes years of research in practical techniques to get the most out of Claude. Why is it important. The majority of users barely scratch on the surface of what the generative AI can do, leaving below even what could benefit in their day to day, even if they are not engineering uses. The panoramic. The guide covers from the foundations to the most sophisticated. From how to be clear and direct in a request to advanced techniques such as Multishot Prompting or the chains of thought. Culminates with strategies such as the chain of Prompts complex And all enlightened with real examples of Claude. In detail. The nine central techniques of this guide function as a ladder: Clarity and direction. Say exactly what you want. Prompts Vagos produce vague results. Various examples. It shows Claude how to think with several cases of use. Thought chains. Ask Claude to think step by step before answering. XML Tags. Structure the answers with greater precision. System roles. The classic “You are a lawyer”, “You are a data analyst”, etc. To change the chatbot perspective. Prellenate of answers. Guide the tone and format starting the answer. The context. Anthropic explains that many of the problems with generative AI are solved with better Promptsnot necessarily with more powerful models. This is an attempt to democratize techniques that they only knew somewhat more advanced developers. Open the guts of what they know it works. For example. The guide includes concrete examples: Instead of ‘Create a Dashboard’, he writes ‘creates a complete analytical analytical dashboard with interactive graphics and filters’. For code Frontendadds specific modifiers: “Includes soft transitions, micro -interctions and visual effects that demonstrate advanced web development capabilities.” And for complex tasks, the guide recommends using XML labels as to structure Claude’s thought. The difference is in specificity: say exactly what you want produces much better than vague instructions. The AI ​​returns you what you give. Yes, but. There is an important nuance: this guide assumes that you already have clear success criteria and ways to evaluate results. Without that base, even the best Prompt It is a shot in the air. And now what. For developers, this is gold. For the user something else casual, It is worth dominating at least the first techniques for minimizing hallucinations and improving the results. He Prompt Engineeringthat some time ago it seemed a kind of black magic to invoke in a mystical way, it is every time a skill that can be learned, measured and better perfect. Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio In Xataka | Chatgpt has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it will be something else: a relationship

The oil market is so broken that Spain already prepares its great weapon to fix it: remove oil via decree

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They do not run easy times for the olive oil market. Or rather, they run paradoxical times. In recent years, farmers had to deal with bad harvests that raised prices and They punished consumption. Now they enjoy a good campaign that will overcome the 1.4 million tonsbut things are not much better. The prices they charge They have fallen so much that they have left them in a committed situation, with a Great hole In your income. Given that scenario, the government has decided to move and endow A ‘Nuclear button’ That, if necessary, it will allow you to stabilize the market in the 2025-2026 campaign. As? Removing oil if the harvest is very abundant. What happened? That the Ministry of Agriculture wants to anticipate a possible imbalance in the extra virgin olive oil sector. In view of The good prospects Of the 2024-2025 campaign and the fear that this abundance of fruit ends up impacting the Spanish market, the government has launched its administrative machinery to have a tool that allows it to re-may be rebuilt. As? Basically removing oil from the oil mills. Remove olive oil? Exact. The community regulations allow states to activate a “marketing standard” for the olive oil sector that “improves and stabilizes” its market. That general framework moved to Spain with the Royal Decree 84/2021which in turn contemplates that “when the conditions justify it” it is withdrawn as a result of the markets, reserving it for the next campaign or even dedicating it to a different use to that of food. The process, yes, is somewhat more complex and requires that the autonomies and organizations representing the sector be consulted before. And that is precisely what the Ministry of Agriculture has just done: open A public consultation so that those who want to comment on their order for the 2025/2026 campaign can do so. The observations can be sent until next Wednesday. And why do you do it? For the data that arrive from the olive sector itself. Although the crops of 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 were rather Parcas (666,000 and 854,500 tons, respectively), which contributed to the price of olive oil to be triggered in the stores, the current panorama is quite different. It is estimated that the current campaign, which started in October and will end in September, will leave More than 1.4 million of tons. In March the Minister of the Branch, Luis Planas, even He spoke of 1.42 million. There are who is even More optimistic and talks about major figures for the next campaign. And how do prices respond? If in 2023 and 2024, coinciding with the bad harvests, the price of olive oil came to be around nine euros per kilo in the case of the Aove, now, with a generous campaign, that value has been reduced to 3.59 euros. And so It is a problem For farmers. Juan Luis Ávila, from COAG, warned In May that while the consumer pays about six euros for the liter of oil, the producers receive less than 3.5 euros for the AVE, which would be below the cost of production in the olive groves. What is that fall? The million dollar question. Especially since farmers ensure that market prices are not those that should in current circumstances. “The data is overwhelming and alarming, since there is an unjustified lag of more than two euros per kilo between the real price at the origin of olive oil and the value it should have,” He warned in May Miguel Padilla, of the Coordinator of Agriculture and Livestock Organizations, COAG. To reinforce its position, the collective even presented A report which estimated that the Aove should quote 5.55-6.14 euros per kilo in the current campaign, far from what the olivicultores perceive. “Speculation Campa at ease”, regrets UPA General Secretary, Cristóbal Cano, who believes that there should be “a different pricaries in the market, according to the law of supply and demand.” What will the new standard be for? With its new order for the 2025-2026 campaign, the government wants to be prepared to “stabilize” the market with a clear strategy: withdrawing product. From the Ministry they advance, yes, that will only happen “if high production estimates are found that can generate imbalances.” I would be The first time That the Planas department activates the mandatory oil withdrawal mechanism to rebalance the market. What does the sector think? The EFE agency has spoken with several organizations, such as ASAJA, COAG, UPA, UDU or agro-food cooperatives, which the initiative see with good entrance. “It is absolutely essential to have all the prepared machinery. Until now we had not needed, but before a predictable good harvest we have seen the convenience of activating it, as simple as possible, to avoid the sinking of prices,” comment In DCoop. Not everyone is equally optimistic. In Murcia there are producers who They are suspicious that the oil withdrawal from the market to control prices is the effective solution. Images | Government of Castilla-La Mancha (Flickr) and Deoleo In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico

A list of the best paid CEOs leaves us a figure of how the salary of managers has risen since 1978: 1,085%

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The Wall Street Journal publishedThe list of the best paid CEOs of 2024. The list itself already presented some curiosities. For example, the fact that, surprisingly, CEO of great technology that accumulate stock capitations Superior to the GDP of some countries, they are not found in the top positions of this list. However, its publication has put the table on the table Huge salary difference which exists between the figure of the company’s executive director and the average salary of its employees. A study of Economic Policy Institute He has investigated The evolution of this difference and has discovered that, since 1978, CEO wages have increased 1,085%. He Salary of its employeeson the other hand, it has only done so by a fraction of that percentage. The CEO who won the most in 2024. According to the list published by The Wall Street Journal Based on public remuneration data of the companies of the S&P 500, the best paid executive in 2024 was Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprise that bases their business on the manufacture of electricity weapons of defense or taser. Smith received no less than 164.53 million dollars in 2023. Just behind, we find some old acquaintances of this type of listings. Lawrence Cup, as CEO of General Electric pocketed 88.95 million, or Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone that received a bonus of 84 million dollars. To find What some of the technological CEOs chargedwe must go down to the fourth place that Tim Cook occupies after receiving a salary bonus of 74.61 million dollars. Rico worker, poor worker. Beyond the salary that each company wants assign its managers For the achievements, there is the background of the salary gap between the managers of those companies and their employees. In this case we are not talking about a senior manager should charge the same as its employees, but, proportionally, the remuneration of managers have increased to a greater extent among members of the board of directors than among their workers. In your report, The researchersof the Economic Policy Institute They point out that between 1978 and 2023, the executive directors of the main companies of the S&P500 have increased their remuneration by 1089%, while the average salary of their employees has done so in 24%. Exponential growth from 90s. The data reflects that the increase in these remuneration to managers has not been linear and progressive, but shot between 90 and 2000, remaining at those levels since then. Putting the focus between the salary of the CEO and the salary average of its employees, between 1964 and 1978 an executive director charged between 15.4 and 23 times the salary of its employees. On the other hand, between 1978 and 1990 that figure amounted up to 44.9 times and, from 1995, that figure is triggered until reaching levels of 398 times the salary of its employees reached in 2000. Since then, the successive economic and financial crises have made me make that That figure oscillates between 330.2 times and 190.6 times higher than the average salary of its employees. The elite inside the elite. This increase has not only occurred among the general labor mass of the workforce, but the CEOs have become a kind of elite among the elite. The study analyzes the evolution of CEO remuneration With respect to salaries of 0.1% that charges the most in companies, and here they have also marked differences following the same pattern as with the rest of the workforce. Between 1964 and 1990, the CEO charged between 2.6 and 3.1 times more than 0.1% of better paid employees of its workforce. However, from the 90s that difference is triggered until reaching 9.2 times in the 2000s, and reaching 9.4 times the salary of the best paid employees registered in 2021. What counts is your influence. The authors of the study suggest that the astronomical salary increase of the CEO is not due to their worth making business decisions, but responds to a consideration for the weight of the manager on the Board of Directors. How much greater is its influence And power at that board is its salary. “There should be meetings of the Board of Directors where people ask: ‘Can we afford to pay less to our executive director?’ assuredto The Washington PostDean Baker, co -founder of the Institute in charge of the report. An example: Elon Musk in Tesla and his enormous capacity to influence a board of directors formed by personal friends, former collaborators and even his brother Kimbal. Thanks to this ability to influence the Board of Directors, the CEO can negotiate more generous remuneration than when they submit to the scrutiny of people without direct linking. According to the authors of the study, this capacity for influence may have made the CEO establish salary increases for faster managers, “concentrating income in the highest and leaving less profits for common workers.” A salary detached from the results. At this point, it is easy to think that this increase is due to the fact that the CEO of those companies They have been geniuses that have taken companies to their best historical dimensions and that is why they are rewarded. However, the data They tell us something else And the researchers confirm “the salary increase of executive directors does not reflect an increase in the value of skills or in the contributions to the productivity of companies,” says the EPI report. In 2024, for example, the best paid manager was Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, with 161.74 million dollars. The Board of Directors justified its salary bonus because the company had managed to double its stock market value. However, Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman, executive director of Enfase Energy, received compensation of $ 19.52 million while his company left 50.1% of its value. Bag balls. To try to correct that dynamic, from the end of the 90s and 2000, many companies assigned company shares As part of the salary of its managers. The study data reveal that, in … Read more

The Telegram CEO believes that it has 100 “children.” And it will distribute its 13,000 million dollars among them

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What does it mean to be someone’s son? If you ask Pavel Durov, the Telegram CEOThe answer is not only limited to the six “officers” children he has with three different women. In fact, it includes more than 100 people around the world. “How is it possible that a man who has never married and prefers to live only has so many children?” Hardov He asked rhetorically in his Telegram channel in 2024. 25 Telegram tricks to make the most The answer is simple: by sperm donation. During the last 15 years, Durav has frequently donated sperm, convinced that it was his “civic responsibility.” However, unlike many, Durov considers that all children conceived through their sperm are theirs, even if they are not present in their lives or know who they are. The latter is important since according to Durav, all their children have the same rights. An inheritance issue. Durov shared his opinion about the family in an interview with LE POINTwhere he comments that his will recently finished. From there comes the importance of how many children does the Telegram chief have, whose estimated fortune is around the € 13,000 million. “I want to emphasize that I do not make distinctions between my children who were conceived naturally and those who were conceived through donations of my sperm,” said Durov. “Everyone is my children and everyone will have the same rights.” A donation. That Durov have more children than a football team It is no surprise. Himself He told it in 2024explaining that it all started 15 years ago when a friend of his asked for a sperm donation. “I was leaving my ass before realizing that my friend said it seriously,” said Durov. The friend and his wife had fertility problems and needed help to form a family. Durov agreed, but the story did not end there. More than 100 children. “They just told me that I have more than 100 biological children,” he said in a post on his telegram channel last summer. “(When I made my first donation) the clinic head told me that there was a shortage of high quality donations and that it was my civic responsibility to donate more sperm anonymously to help other couples.” According to Dorav, his donations over the years have helped more than 100 couples in 12 countries. He added that at least one clinic still has its frozen sperm and available as anonymous donation. Pavel Durov (left) and Jakob Burda in 2016. The children: an obsession of the billionaires. Certainly, Dorav’s dedication to help others have children is not unusual among millionaires. In recent years, people like Elon MuskMarc Andresen or Peter Thiel have dedicated themselves to sounding the alarm on the “risk” of the low birth rate to humanity. The Tesla CEO has classified the low birth rate as the “most important humanity risk of today.” In fact, on a personal level, Musk seems to be committed to the idea to have all the children I can. The billionaire currently has at least 14 children of 4 different womenalthough there is the possibility of having more. Andresen, on the other hand, has declared that the planet suffers from a “Dramatic depopulation.” States that in an ideal future, the Earth will house 50,000 million (there are currently 8.2 billion). And what about poverty? According to Andresen, the markets will be responsible for financing social welfare programs. Although Durov is not as vocal on the subject as Musk and Andresen, it is clear that he takes it seriously. In fact, last year, paid fertility treatmentwhich is around $ 5,000, women who agreed to use their sperm in Russia. Distributing the inheritance. So what happens to that inheritance of € 13,000 million? I’m sorry to tell you that, although your parents suddenly say that Telegram’s CEO did have a role at your birth, you will have to wait a long time before seeing a cent of their money. Specifically, three decades from this year. “I want my children to live as normal people, who are worth them, to learn to trust themselves, that they can create something for themselves,” said Durov. “I don’t want them to depend on a bank account.” How can I know if I am a son of Durav? After all, the tycoon made sperm donations anonymously. Well, don’t worry: Dad Durov has thought of everything. “I plan to put my DNA in Open Source so that my biological children can find themselves more easily,” said Durov in 2024. “Of course there are risks, but I do not regret having been a donor.” Images | Techcrunch | Hubert Burda Media In Xataka | Change WhatsApp and Telegram for a European alternative: how to do it and what you should take into account

To carry out its greatest attack on Russian soil Ukraine used a tool as old as wars: bribery

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On June 1, what seemed several mobile houses located at various strategic points of Russia were revealed as what They were really: camouflaged trucks with an army of drones prepared for covert operation. The so -called Spiderweb began, the greatest Ukrainian offensive on Russian soil, a devastating attack on the fleet of Moscow bombers. Now, almost a month after the attack, Ukraine has responded to one of the great unknowns: how the hell swarms entered into Russian territory. Redefining modern war. For more than eighteen months, Ukrainian intelligence services They designed meticulously an operation that culminated in an unprecedented attack on thousands of kilometers of its borders: An army of camouflaged drones in those prefabricated mobile houses, which were transported across international borders until they reach Russian strategic air bases. Now, Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Ukraine Security Service (SBU), has revealed the details of the operation in an extensive Interview with Washington Post where he assures that the attack destroyed at least 12 Russian aircraft, including Tu-95 bombersand damaged a total of 41 devices, some of them located More than 3,400 kilometers east of Ukraine, in Siberia. The satellite images analyzed by the post confirmed Partial destructionalthough some visual tests were limited by weather conditions, which suggests that part of the remains could have been removed by Moscow before being captured. How it was created. Maliuk explained That the design of the operation began in November 2023, in response to a new wave of Russian bombings on Ukrainian cities. The idea was to hide drones inside those houses Mobiles that simulate being standard housing units. These structures had to have autonomous energy systems (Solar panels and batteries special) to keep the vehicles unmanned loaded, even in extreme winter temperatures, waiting for the final order. Russian restrictions on the importation of technological components made a tactic as old as the wars themselves: The briberyin this case to customs agents to introduce the materials. No one knows (almost) nothing. Secretism, apparently, was total: each group worked with compartmentalized informationthe engineers who manufactured the drones ignored their real purpose, as well as those who assembled the prefabricated houses they did not know that they housed weapons. In Maliuk’s wordsit was “a tactical symphony” with multiple critical but autonomous parts. Surgical precision. Thus, the morning of the attack, 117 modified FPV drones with double explosive load They were activated from the mobile roofs of the camouflaged houses. Each artifact was directed by A selected operator Among the best in the country, who was assigned A specific objective: A specific plane, whose location and environment were studied with detailed models. Loads They were designed To penetrate the fuselage first and then detonate inside, maximizing damage to key points such as fuel deposits, missile launchers and electronic systems that Russia cannot easily replace. Although Maliuk avoided detailing the communication systems used to The remote guidanceconfirmed that they were multiple and sophisticatedspecially designed to avoid interference and guarantee success. Strategic consequences. The Spiderweb Operation It was just the first blow. Two days later, Ukraine He executed another offensive of wingspan against the Kerch bridge, symbol of the Russian occupation of Crimea, using submarine explosives of 1,000 kilos. Although traffic was restored, the coup had a clear symbolic and strategic effect. Russia replied With a massive wave of drones and missiles that reached civil areas of kyiv, leaving dozens of victims. Far from causing a decalized, the Ukrainian action confirmed A new level In the technological war and demonstrated kyiv’s ability to achieve very much within the enemy territory. According to MaliukSpiderweb is just a sample of the potential of Ukrainian intelligence to alter the rules of the conflict, and represents a logistics, technical and human effort “unified in a single structure.” The future of wars. It We have slipped On other occasions. In full Russian offensive, and given the constant pressure on Ukrainian cities, the Spiderweb operation Mark a milestone In the modern war. Not only because of the depth of scope (from bases in Ukraine to Russian facilities in Siberia), but also for The operational model: Fragmentation of knowledge between operators, bribes, use of civil camouflage, innovation in light armament and ability to launch high precision attacks without resorting to large conventional platforms. In words of Maliuk himselfthis is just “the tip of the iceberg” regarding the work of your agency with drones, networks of agents and undercover operations. In a conflict that is increasingly freed with bits and algorithms than with armored divisions, the offensive showed that the 21st century war is defined by who dominates the stealth, well above the brute force. Image | UKRAINE’S 93RD MEChanized Brigade In Xataka | We suspected that Ukraine drones attack had been destructive. Space images have revealed how much In Xataka | In 2024, Ukrainian trucks disguised as “house” entered Russia. Now they have dynamited their main air bases

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