Month: October 2025

In 1995 some researchers discovered the “peaceful gene” of our body. Today their finding has earned them a Nobel

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The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm has done it again. He has rewarded one of those investigations that, for years, seemed like a page note in textbooks, but today are the basis of revolutionary treatments. He Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine of 2025 He has been granted jointly to Japanese Shimon Sakaguchi and Americans Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell for “their discoveries about Regulatory T cells And the role of Foxp3 gene In the immune function “ The beginning. Already in the previous decade, Sakaguchi had identified a subset of T lymphocytes that did not attack, but did the opposite: they suppressed the activity of other T lymphocytes. They were pacifying cells, a kind of riot police of the immune system. In 1995, He published a job Key that characterized these cells, today known as regulatory T cells (TREGS). The finding was transcendental. Sakaguchi showed that without these tregs, The immune system went crazy and began to attack the tissues of the body itself, causing devastating autoimmune diseases. He had discovered the natural mechanism of the body to maintain tolerance and avoid self -destruction. But the key piece of the puzzle was missing: what made a T cell become a peacemaker and not a soldier? Brunkow and Ramsdell. Although this discovery was transcendental, the reality is that there was a lot of skeptic that he did not believe in his theory. But the answer to the big question that stayed in the air came in 2001 (still far from the year 2025 and the delivery of this award). Here, on the one hand, Mary E. Brunkow’s team investigated a rare and deadly disease Autoimmune in children called IPEX syndrome. The investigation pointed to a gene as a cause of this disease: Foxp3. On the other hand, Fred Ramsdell’s team was studying a mouse model with very similar symptoms and reached the same conclusion: The defective gene was Foxp3. The connection. The connection was immediate and explosive: Foxp3 was the “master switch”. It is the gene that, when activated in a T lymphocyte, gives you the instructions to become a TREG. Without functional FOXP3, there are no regulatory T cells, and the immune system is uncontrolled. Sakaguchi’s discovery finally found his genetic explanation and already gave him enough weight so that the scientific community saw that he had sat a great precedent. A revolution. This double discovery, Sakaguchi’s cell phone and Brunkow and Ramsdell’s genetic, has completely changed the immunology paradigm and has opened two great therapeutic pathways with immense potential. On the one hand, the door opens up to the fight against autoimmune diseases since with the lack of tregs the body attacks itself. The solution in this case is to increase this type of cells, and there are already different clinical trials to extract patient T cells, “convert” them into the laboratory and re -inject them to the patient. Something we now know as ‘immunotherapy’. But it also serves for the fight against cancer. In these cases it has been seen how tumors are ‘intelligent’ and surround themselves with tregs to protect themselves to the immune system that tries to end these cells. These pacifying cells prevent “soldier” T lymphocytes from attacking cancer. The new immunotherapies seek precisely to temporarily deactivate these tregs or block the action of Foxp3 in the tumor environment, eliminating the protective coat of cancer so that the immune system can destroy it. This has been especially promising in tumors such as lymphoma. Time has passed. The most surprising of all this is the large amount of time between the initial discovery and recognition with a Nobel. If it is true that it has been expected to have a crucial relevance within the clinical aspect, with trials that give very good results for diseases that are really serious. Images | Wikipedia (2, 3) In Xataka | A Spanish team has taken a giant step in a hopeful cancer treatment: chemoinmunotherapy

It is the bartering of despair

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Openai has just announced that you will buy 6 AMD GPUS gigawatts. Not with cash, but with Warrants: AMD issues Openai the right to buy up to 160 million of its shares if it meets staggered purchase milestones. A company that loses 2.5 billion every six months has just committed to a massive infrastructure deployment. And it will, at least for the moment, without releasing a hard. OpenAi has titled The statement of this blog operation like a ‘Strategic ParnerTeship ‘but rather it is A barter of mutual survival disguised as business alliance. AMD desperately needs to exist as a credible alternative to Nvidia. Although that means selling its own capital instead of only chips. OpenAi needs to escape Its total dependence on a single supplier that already has too much negotiation power. None can afford what is promising in traditional terms. But Both need the market to believe that they can. The story tells the structure of the Warrantsthat are unlocked by sections: The first, with the initial deployment of a gigavatio. The following, as scale to the sixth. But there is more: the VARING (Acquisition of rights) is also linked to AMD reach “certain objectives of action prices” since OpenAi achieves “necessary technical and commercial milestones.” Translation: They only work if both companies grow exponentially. Both have just become hostages of mutual success. He Timing It is no accident: two weeks ago Openai signed 100,000 million with Nvidia. Now this. AMD values ​​it in “tens of billions of dollars in revenue” counting drag effect. A billion dollars in infrastructure commitments in fifteen days. By a company with negative cash flow. The joke is counted alone. The innocent spectator will see this news and assume that it is only a diversification of suppliers. He who sees beyond his noses will understand that andStán accumulating promises that cannot pay but that the market values ​​as if they were real effective. AMD has risen more than 30% in the stock market after the announcement. A climb that does not come from more chips sold, but of marketing: the chatgpt manufacturer has validated its product. And as always, what they don’t say is as important as what they say. The first Gigavatio does not reach the second half of 2026. One year. The agreement is “definitive” but the milestones are “flexible”, conditioned to technical, commercial and stock market objectives. No one signs rigid calendars in this industry because nobody knows if there will continue to exist to the current rate of spending. And above all: no press release clarifies how Openai will finance this without issuing more debt or dilute more capital. We are seeing an industry financing itself with optionality and future: Nvidia finances OpenAi to buy Nvidia chips. AMD gives him Warrants A OpenAI to buy AMD chips. OpenAI becomes a potential shareholder of its suppliers. Suppliers are revalued because Openai buys them. OpenAi can only exercise those Warrants If suppliers grow while complying with huge orders. Meanwhile, The only real money entry is chatgpt subscriptions. That do not reach to cover current operating costs, much less for a billion infrastructure. AMD has just exchanged certainty for optionality. Openai has just exchange liquidity that does not have the possibility of having part of its supply chain. Both bet in the same box: that the exponential growth of the demand for AI will make economic fundamentals irrelevant. It is an understandable, but very high bet. They may be right. Or that in five years this agreement appears in business schools as a case study on Chow an entire industry decided that mathematics were optional. The market, meanwhile, rises 30%. Because nothing says “solid foundations” how to finance yourself selling shares of yourself to buy things that you cannot pay. In Xataka | The engineer who does not need spotlights: smooth his AMD at the edge of bankruptcy and ten years later has made her an empire Outstanding image | Xataka

Before the incursions of Russian drones, Ryanair has its own alternative to the European wall

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“Why are we not shooting these drones?” The question is from Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair. The mandamás of the Air Company verbalized its doubts about the performance of the European Union in an interview with Political. According to its point of view, Europe faces an air navigation problem derived from war in Ukraine. A problem that, according to O’Leary, should not be consent. It is not a security problem. It is a business problem, according to Ryanair CEO. To this aimed the first statements of O’Leary in which the closure of Polish airports echoed as a result of A Russian Airspace Invasion of the country. “There is a risk of continuous interruption, not security,” O’Leary said in words collected by Reuters. While Europe discussed what can be done in these cases, how to act and evaluate the danger of these incursions, from Ryanair they pointed to direct damage to their business. Hybrid war. Is The concept to define those attacks that seek the destabilization of a country and that do not necessarily have to be violent. The intention is for citizens to lose confidence in their leaders either by a feeling of helplessness or because basic services does not work. In the case of the Ukraine War, Russia has been enough to enter the Polish airspace to paralyze its airports. Danish bases They were also paralyzed. The same happened in Oslo and the last to know the effects has been the Munich airport. In addition a cyber attack left unusable or diminished for days the airports of Berlin, Brussels and London-Heathrow. A wall. The solution that has been proposed is to raise a wall in Europe. One that has no concrete or, in fact, is visible. The European Commissioner for Defense, Andrius Kubilius, opted for lift a wall of drones that protects the entire European Union. The intention is very simple: surround the entire European Union of a drone detection and inhibition system. With him we want Russian devices not attacking European space but that they cannot interfere with the daily activities of citizens. “It’s useless”. Given this idea, O’Leary has signed up for the most absolute disbelief. Of Ursula von der Leyen assured Political that “it is useless and should resign.” To recreate with a “I have no faith in European leaders, sitting there drinking tea and eating cookies.” In his day, O’Leary opted for a British permanence in the European Union but its Shocks with politicians of every sign They have been constant. The CEO of Ryanair is part of those unbelievable businessmen of politics that, in the case of the Irishman, has an invariable constant in time: If it’s bad for the business, it is criticizable. The business. According to O’Leary, the real problem of that European antidron wall is that it would not be worthless: “I don’t think a wall of drones has any effect. Do you think the Russians cannot launch a drone from within Poland?” And I set an example: “If you can’t even protect flights on France, what are the possibility of protecting us against Russia?” This criticism referred to the French strike of aerial controllers that threatens to affect more than 100,000 passengers and 600 flights Ryanair alone. And we could continue with the criticism of the Government of Spain by the Aerial rates and The fine for the collection of hand luggage. And the impact? In economic terms, there is no clear data of how much money it has been lost with Russian incursions in European airspace. What is certain is that the inconveniences of this type of activity are palpable. Only in the last sighting in Germany of drones, 23 flights to Munich have had to be divertedanother 12 have been canceled and there are more than 6,500 affected passengers. It is estimated that during the closure of the Danish and Swedish airports, Other 100 flights They also had to be canceled. And in Brussels more than 140 flights were canceled during the cyber attack of a few weeks ago. Photo | Markus Winkler and State Border Guard Service of Ukraine In Xataka | Ryanair’s paradox in Spain: while drowning small airports, he is adding 100,000 more places

The US studied what would happen if it enters war with China. Now he has started a career desperate to double missiles

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When China raised the curtain of your military parade staged much more than arms power which has. It was a clear and direct message that had its reaction a few days later, when the United States moved its new platform from missiles to Japan. It was then discovered that, if missiles, there are 3,500 pointing In the same direction. Since then, the United States has started a desperate race: to double its own missile manufacturing for what may happen. The strategic awakening. I told it in an exclusive The Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon has turned on all alarms in the face of the evidence that its missile arsenals would not reach to sustain a prolonged conflict With China. Russian Ukraine invasion and mass consumption of interceptors In Europe the fragility of the American industrial base had already made clear. However, He counted the medium What was the twelve between Israel and Iran, in which Washington launched Hundreds of high -end missiles to support their ally, which finished emptying the deposits and precipitated a shock plan. The message that circulates in the pentagon’s offices is clear: the current arsenal is not enough to defend Taiwan or the allied bases in the Pacific if a direct confrontation with Beijing explodes. The new creation. To face that reality, the Department of Defense has created an extraordinary body, the Munits Acceleration Councilpersonally directed by Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, who calls the main executives of the industry every week to demand immediate increases. The strategy seeks to duplicate, and even quadruplethe production of the twelve missiles considered critical: from the Patriot interceptorsto him Standard Missile-6the Long Range Anti-Ship Missilesthe Precision Strike and the Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missiles. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Dan Caine, They have presided Meetings with giants such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Boeing, but also with new actors such as Anduril Industries and with key component suppliers, from solid propellants to batteries. The destroyer of guided missiles USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) of the United States Navy launches an RIM-174 Standard Eram (Standard Missile-6, SM-6) The industrial bottleneck. The challenge is monumental. The complete manufacture of a missile can take up to two years. The production lines have cooled after decades of divestment, secondary suppliers have disappeared and critical pieces such as Boeing front search engines have become true bottlenecks. Expanding shifts, add square meters and form specialized personnel require billions of investment and firm purchase commitments. As Experts remembercompanies do not produce without contract: they need guarantees that the pentagon will not withdraw financing in the middle of the effort. Even so, some suppliers have taken steps in advance. Northrop Grumman, for example, has invested More than 1 billion in expanding its rocket engines capacity, with the expectation of doubling production in four years. Patriot Priority: Patriot. The most urgent case is the Patriot PAC-3whose global demand has shot himself. In September, the army gave Lockheed a contract of almost 10,000 million of dollars to manufacture 2,000 missiles in three years, but the objective of the pentagon is to reach that same figure Every twelve monthswhich means quadruple the current rhythm. To do this, Boeing has been seen forced to expand Thousands of square meters of its plant to assemble more search engines, while Lockheed studies new investments in assembly lines. The spokesmen insist that they can deliver above their declared capacity, but all claim more money and multiannual commitments that give stability to the productive jump. Precision Strike Missile New acquisition model. The pressure is such that The army announces “Massively substantive changes” in the way of buying weapons. Formulas such as licenseing technologies to third parties are explored, attract private capital or guarantee registration programs to give demand visibility to the entire supply chain. Trump administration already It allocated 25,000 million extra in five years through Big, Beautiful Billbut analysts agree that it will be necessary to multiply For several orders that figure to meet the objectives. The effort, in addition, is part of a greater debate: how to maintain an industrial base capable of sustaining high intensity wars in a world where arsenals are consumed in weeks. Background: China. The ultimate reason for this acceleration is the perspective of a War in the Pacific. A confrontation By Taiwan I would demand simultaneously American and Allied Bases, guarantee maritime runners and face a Chinese Navy increasingly equipped with hypersonic missiles and drons swarms. American superiority will depend not only on the quality of its systems, but on their ability to replace them quickly in case of prolonged conflict. Pentagon fears Discover too late that does not have the necessary volume to hold the pulse. Hence the race against clock to turn the industry into a large -scale war arsenal. The risk of the gap. The acceleration effort reveals the structural contradiction of the West: weapons every time more sophisticated and faces which are consumed at an industrial rate, in front of adversaries willing to flood the battlefield with solutions of low cost and mass production. In that sense, Ukraine’s lesson seems clear: millions of millions of dollars They can be exhausted In a matter of months, and rebuild reserves it has been. If the United States wants to maintain its deterrence against China, it must demonstrate that it can sustain not only technological innovation, but also the mass production on which the survival of its network of alliances depends. Image | Lockheed Martin, Mapn, Us Navy In Xataka | Satellite images have revealed that China has turned its oriental coast into a war zone: 3,500 missiles point to Taiwan In Xataka | After the demonstration of China’s force, the US moves a card sending its new missile platform to Japan

All to train his AI

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The Chinese company Anker, owner of the EUFY security camera brand, launched an initiative for 2024 collect robber videos of packages and cars with which to train their artificial intelligence systems. The proposal was simple: 2 dollars for each useful video. The campaign, which worked between December 2024 and February 2025, achieved more than 120 participants, according to Public comments On the program page. What Euphy asked. The company requested both real and staging videos of theft situations. On its website, Anker explained that they were looking for material that helped train their AI to better detect parcel thieves and people trying to open cars doors. They even encouraged users to simulate the situation themselves: “You can create situations pretending to be a thief and donate those videos,” the company explained. If a user managed to record a simulated theft with two cameras simultaneously and added another car opening scene, he could earn up to 80 dollars. The goal after the initiative. Eufy wanted to gather 20,000 videos of each type of robbery (packages and cars), adding more than 40,000 clips in total. Interested users only had to fill in a Google form where their videos uploaded and added their PayPal account to receive payment. The company assured that the data would be used exclusively to train their AI algorithms and for any other purpose. Why generates debate. This strategy raises questions about privacy and security, although in this specific case it is more transparent than The usual practices of the sector. Unlike many companies that collect data without explicit consent or that They track the Internet To feed his models, Eufy made it clear what he asked, what he wanted and how much he would pay. The program was voluntary and the participants knew exactly what they accessed. It is also true that Eufy’s history does not play in his favor. And is that in 2023, The Verge He revealed that the transmissions of his cameras, advertised as end -to -end encryption, were not when it was accessed through their web portal. Anker then admitted having cheated users and promised to solve him. Rewards for training their AI. Currently, EuFy actively keeps a video donation program within its application with a different rewards system. Users They can win digital medalscameras or gift cards in exchange for videos that help improve AI. The app even shows a ranking with the users who have donated the most. The first of the ranking has contributed more than 201,000 clips. For this program, EuFy only requests videos with people and reiterates that the material will not be shared with third parties. He has also requested videos recorded with his vigilabés, although in this case no economic reward is mentioned. Until security fails. Today there are many companies that are willing to reward their users as currency to obtain data that allow training their language models. However, although the company explicitly explains everything it needs and there is total transparency, the systems can fail. A recent example is Neon, a call app that offered money in exchange for recordings and transcripts, and that He had to close After discovering a security failure that exposed the data of all its users. Cover image | Alan J. Hendry In Xataka | Nvidia has control of the most powerful chips of AI: OpenAi, Broadcom and TSMC want to end their XPUS

They come out at a very good price and with insured gift

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We are starting the month of October, but it is impossible to lose sight of the end of last month that Huawei made a new batch of products. As usual, the company has renewed several lines with new devices that have a lot to say. In short, we have two new watches, a tablet and headphones. The good news? All these devices already have an offer in the brand’s official store. The Huawei Watch GT6 come with one of the best autonomies that are Let’s start with the two new watches presented by the Chinese manufacturer. These two belong to their “GT” series, watches that are aimed at monitoring physical activity and health. These two models, the Huawei Watch GT 6 and Huawei Watch Gt 6 Pro, They are similar to each other in almost all their characteristicsalthough there are differences in certain characteristics that are worth pointing. Although both several interesting attributes have, let’s start with the main course: autonomy. As Huawei explains, both the GT 6 model and its pro variant are capable of offering up to 21 days of autonomyincredible figures. This figure is much higher than that offered by other smart watches such as Apple Watch Ultra 2among others. Beyond autonomy, it is also worth noting that they come with An ultra -precise GPS. If we plan to go on a route with the bike or run through remote sites, we can come great to know our position to the millimeter. In this way, we can also plan the routes and go safer, at the same time controlling our progress. GPS does not imply that it is only designed to practice outdoor sports. In fact, it comes with 100 different sports modes, so it is very easy to find what we need every time. It also has A very advanced fall detection system (Able to issue a SOS alert) and detect parameters that we do not usually see in other watches, such as the emotional state. Everything we have commented so far is common for the two new Huawei watches, so now it is time to talk about the differences of the pro model. These focus on the materials of the sphere, Since the Watch GT 6 pro bets on titanium. We can also get a titanium strap for this model, which is exclusive to it. Let’s talk about the launch offer. The first thing we have to keep in mind is that we can use the code in our purchase A60xatakathanks to which we will have a direct discount of 60 euros. The Watch GT6, in its 46 mm version, is available by 249 euros And it comes with the Huawei Scale 3 Scale. Not only that: we will also take a gift strap with exclusive colors of the brand store. Huawei Watch GT 6 (46 mm) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links If we prefer the pro model, it goes out for 379 euros for versions that have a black fluorolastometer and brown belt compound material. In addition to these two, we have, as we have said above, the one that comes with a titanium belt that comes out of 499 euros. Although Eye: This titanium version includes an extra bucoroelastometer black strap and the Huawei Scale 3 gift (the pack is valued at 88 euros). For any of them, we can continue using the code A60xataka. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links We have new headphones and an ideal tablet to work We put aside the clocks to focus now on the rest of the new Huawei devices. The first of these devices is the new 12 X Matepad, a 12 -inch tablet that is ideal for working or helping us at the university. Its screen, in fact, uses the company’s Papermatte technology and offers Resolution 2.8 K and 144 Hz. Another interesting point of the same is that it comes with the M-Pencil Pro, an ideal pencil to take notes or draw. It has 3 different tips, which allows a very versatile tool to have. At the performance level, it also offers an important leap with respect to the previous model, as well as A 10,100 mA batteryh with sufficient autonomy to offer 14 hours of video. It is available by 649 euros. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Finally, we have the new Freebuds 7i of Huawei. These new headphones, which have a very design in the line of what the Chinese manufacturer is doing, offer A new and improved active cancellation of dynamic noise. This, in addition to activating very fast, is also able to offer a quite high depth of silence. At the design level, they also have a very comfortable gesture control system. Its autonomy is able to offer up to 35 hours without the active cancellation of activated noise. What were we running out of battery? No problem, since it is able to give up to 4 hours of listening with a minimum load of 10 minutes. We have them available for 99 eurosalthough we can reduce its price 10 euros with the coupon A10FB7ies. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links 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 | Huawei In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

Spaniards who make special effects for Hollywood tell us about AI

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We already had clear that Spain has become indisputable superpower of the comic mainstream United States. It is not only there that ours are triumphing internationally. By the Comic-with Malaga Many of those responsible for the VFX study were passed The ranch To break down its spectacular curriculum, and we had the opportunity to talk to two of its members, Isaac de la Pompa and Sofia Balestrini. With your help We take the pulse of the state of the special effects in Spain and review its trajectory: The Ranchito was founded in 2004 by Félix Bergés and since then has become a European and global leader in VFX, with more than 200 employees. Among the films and series in which they have participated are ‘The Snow Society’, ‘A monster comes to see me’, ‘Jurassic World: the fallen kingdom’, ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Stranger Things’, ‘The Mandalorian’ or ‘Westworld’. All success races have a turning point, and in the case of El Ranchito, it was ‘the impossible’ of Juan Antonio Bayona. We ask how your meeting was with the director of ‘The snow society‘: “Bayonne had already worked with Félix Bergés in’ The orphanage ‘and had him again. The effects became very Old School, With real water, and the result was so good that they came to call us no less than ilm (George Lucas’s effect company) to make a projection of the film. “ What impressed so much to the geniuses of the effects of Industrial Light & Magic? “It was shot in a Valencia pool. We bought a computer specialized in making water, waves and that type of fluids, but there is not a pixel on the screen. The only thing we retouched was the foam of the top of the waves, which is a mixture of real image and effects generated by computer.” When the film opens, it sweeps at the box office worldwide. “And above all, the Best Supporting Effects prize of the visual Effects Society in 2013 wins.” And from there, El Ranchito’s phone does not stop sounding. It is a before and after: “Before that, Felix had tried by all means to enter the American market, without getting it. An occasional interview, and nothing more. But the prize made the difference.” The prize and the price recognize: “Here we were more cheaper than those of Los Angeles. It was still a time when in Los Angeles there was labor (now everything is already democalized around the world), and it was much cheaper to take things to us.” For example, ‘Game of Thrones‘. “Chapter eight of season five, which we were not sure how to dobut we accepted because Felix had a lot of value, he accepted everything. I would not have dared. “Before, from HBO they made sure:” They made us a previous exam, they sent us a plan of season 4 in which some skeletons came out and told us ‘take, animated, compose it and others’ “. They had courage, but HBO too: “Suddenly they had to get out of their comfort zone, put aside all the American, Canadian and English companies, and have a Spanish company that had not done a project of that size.” When Ranchito had a good coil of international projects, important orders followed. ‘The Mandalorian’, without going any further: “There were effects that ILM did not give time to finish, and they called us. Above all we made ships of ships.” And he gave them chance to meet an idol: “And of course, we had call with John Knoll (Creative Director of ILM, responsible for the effects of innumerable films with the company since 1989), which is a very rare feeling, being in a videoconference with such a reference. “ The future of special effects The next question is inevitable: How do you see the future of the sector, especially with the arrival of artificial intelligence tools? “At the moment there is no total change, but tools have appeared that facilitate the work, in microtheses that simply make the artist’s life a little simpler. For example, making a mask is a laborious task that before had to make frame by frame, and now there are models that do it automatically.” Nor is the panacea at the moment, they warn: “Then you have to retouch, you have to refine, but the progress is there” “But in general,” they tell us, “there will be a paradigm shift, it is the absolute future. Some professions such as 3D modelers are going to die and they will have to convert to other things.” And yet, “there are limitations.” What kind of limitations? Techniques (“In some aspects that seem unimportant details when generating images, AI is still very green”), but above all legal and use: “Lionsgate has reached an agreement with Runway to feed with a 20,000 films of which they have rights and be able to generate new ‘legal’ productions with AI. It is insufficient, they need many more references to create something with meaning.” That is to say, The current IAS are so sophisticated because they “cheat” in that sense: “Google and other IAS are based on millions and millions of references that take without permission, and that is why the videos are so sophisticated. We cannot do that, and legally we are now in anyone’s land.” Technology exists, the intention exists, but the logical legal maze of power or not being able to use images without permission is such a caliber that we may take years to see how this tangle is faded. In Xataka | What is the work of an artist of visual effects, in the words of Carolina Jiménez (‘Marvel’, ‘El Hobbit’, ‘Cosmos’ …)

Lead the box office in cinemas

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Taylor Swift has done it again: he is accustomed to Shake the ticket offices with premieres that They go for free and that move on the tightrope between the documentary for fans and the unpublished material, but the fact is that he has crowned the box office in a weekend without memorable premieres. But still Swift’s thing is a phenomenon and predicts a reorientation of the box office to a type of film other than the traditional. The launch of a star. The film is’ The Official Release Party of a Showgirl “, the film that accompanies the new star album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, and has raised 33 million in the North American market and another 13 in the rest of the world. The film has been distributed independently as it already did with ‘The Eras Tour’, reaching an agreement with AMC and Variance (a distribution company for service), with which it has reached more of 3,700 rooms. More records. Any vazaña is Swift: never before any artist had placed in his first weekend an album and his accompaniment film in the number one of their respective lists. As Deadline remembersnor did he get it Prince With ‘Purple Rain’ (the soundtrack reached number 3), or Whitney Houston with ‘The bodyguard’ (the film stayed in 2). In addition, ‘The Life of A Showgirl’ has been the second best -selling album in history in its first weekend since digital sales are counted, with 2.7 million physical and digital copies added. No publi. The most curious thing about this success is that the film has barely had a promotion: there have been no trailers or signs in cinemas. Only street advertisements, website and social media machinery of Swift, the envy of many Majors: Direct access to the TLS of more than five hundred million users. One more example of the promotional muscle of the Fandom and the networks when turning a premiere into a success. Towards eventization. This success only confirms, beyond the overwhelming fame that Taylor Swift enjoys, that the cinema is eventizing, that is, that the great premieres are taking the form of events that go beyond the pure footage of the film, something that has almost reserved for the traditional films that circulate in streaming. The films event are premieres designed to live in the room: giant screens, immersive sound and special functions that justify a higher price and a social assistance ritual. Premium experience. While the assistance figures of film rooms are resent with continuous falls (the global collection figure 10% fell in 2024 With respect to 2023, and the change in consumption habits and the impact of strikes seem to be The great responsible), The phenomenon ‘Barbenheimer‘A couple of years ago it seems to have marked a way to consider the premieres that since then you want to repeat. Immersive experiences, films that “must be seen” in cinemas (the last phenomena in that sense were ‘WICKED‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie ‘), Sing-Along versions … The film industry crawls in search of new spectators. Paradoxically, artists completely outside Hollywood seem to have the keys to provide an oxygen ball. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

This is your asset so as not to depend so much on Nvidia

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OpenAI has announced A multiannual agreement with AMD so that the chips company supplies artificial intelligence processors that will feed part of its AI infrastructure. The pact includes the hardware deployment equivalent to 6 gigawatts of power and gives the ChatgPT creators the option to acquire up to 10% of participation in AMD. A colossal dimensions agreement. The plan contemplates that Openai begins to use the AMD Instinct Mi450 chips in the second half of 2026, with a first installation of a gigavatio. The New York Times Compare The magnitude of the total deployment (6 gigawatts) with the equivalent of electric consumption of all Massachusetts households. AMD ensures that the agreement could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual income and more than 100,000 million in four years, telling the drag effect on other customers. Beyond the economic. As part of the pact, AMD has issued a purchase option (Warrant) that allows Openai to acquire up to 160 million shares from a cent. This option is unlocked by sections as specific objectives are met, which include the first sending of MI450 chips and AMD contribution objectives that scale up to $ 600 per share. AMD’s actions shot More than 20% In operations prior to the opening of the market after the news is known, adding 80,000 million dollars to its capitalization. OpenAI diversifies suppliers. The movement arrives just weeks after Openai closed An agreement of 100,000 million dollars With Nvidia, the technological giant who has the domain of the chips of AI. With Nvidia, Openai promised to deploy hardware equivalent to 10 gigawatts. According to ReutersSam Altman has set expectations of reaching 250 gigawatts of total computing capacity by 2033, which explains this multiple suppliers strategy. The company also works with Broadcom in The development of their own processors (Xpus). AMD looks for its hole in front of Nvidia. For AMD they are great news, since the agreement represents the validation of its chips and software in a market where Nvidia prevails almost completely, controlling approximately 90% of the quota in processors for AI. “We consider this agreement certainly transformative, not only for AMD, but for the dynamics of the industry,” declared Forrest Norrod, Executive Vice President of AMD. The company has been collaborating with Openai for years, contributing ideas in the design of previous generations such as MI300X chips. Hunger of AI infrastructure. OpenAI and other great technological plan to spend More than 325,000 million dollars in data centers only this year. Unlike giants such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google, which finance these projects With your available operational cashOpenai, which according to the latest reports It has generated about 4.3 billion dollars In revenue in the first half of 2025 while burning 2.5 billion in cash, it needs to look for creative financing formulas. The agreement with AMD, like Nvidia, allows Openai to ensure more supply while aligning its strategic interests with its suppliers. In Xataka | Everything you ask the goal AI on WhatsApp or Instagram will be used to sell you things: this is the new mandatory clause

It is a tiny Caribbean island with a unique asset

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The AI ​​is A bottomless well of burning money. There is Very few companies earning money With this technological boom and the fear that everything will be A bubble about to explode The atmosphere flies over. In the midst of this uncertain panorama, an unexpected winner has emerged, a small British island located in the Caribbean Sea. Your secret? It has control of the domain .AI .AI The domain was created in 1995 specifically for Isla de Anguila. Like the .es. With the AI ​​boom, the use of domains. The boom. Perplexity.ai, x.ai, Google.AI… They are some of the AI ​​services that these domains use, but there are many more. According to This report From the Domain Technik hosting service, in 2018 there were approximately 48,000 .AI registered domains. The figure was growing over the years, but in 2023 the thing is triggered and the 354,000 domains are reached, which meant 145% growth with respect to 2022. There are currently 870,000. Taking into account that up to date an average of 1,500 domains are being recorded. Income. As reflected in the Annual Income, Expenses and Capital Report of 2024 of the Anguilla government, in 2022 the income derived from the domain registry. In the world of AI, they are ridiculous figures, but on a small island like eel, it is an important part of its income. Caution. According to the local medium Anguilla FocusJose Vanterpol, Minister of Infrastructure and Communications said that “in the years prior to the true advance of AI, income from domains. However, they are cautious. In statements A AP News Last year, Prime Minister Ellis Webster said that “we cannot predict how long this will last (…) I do not want our economy, our country and all our programs to be based solely on this.” Other cases. Anguilla is not the only case of a domain that unexpectedly becomes a gold mine for a region. He passed with Tuvalu, an archipelago between Australia and Hawaii who saw how The .TV domains became their second source of income. There has also been similar cases With the domains .ly belonging to Libya and. Me de Montenegro. Cover image | Wikipedia In Xataka | There are such monstrously high skyscrapers in China that a new job has emerged: those who take lunch to the last plants

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