Month: July 2026

Tenerife has recorded more than 1,600 earthquakes in two days. Volcano experts keep saying the same thing: tranquility

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During the night of Wednesday, July 22, to Thursday, July 23, Tenerife trembled due to the effect of hundreds of small earthquakes. In a few hours, the automatic detectors captured more than 500 earthquakes, although manually, under review by seismologists, the figure was reduced to 100. In total, since then, around 1,500 very low magnitude earthquakes have been reported, many of them hybrid. This means that they are produced both by the breakdown of rock and by the underground movement of fluids. In volcanic territories, such as Tenerife, this is especially worrying, since this fluid could be the magma of a volcano awakening from its slumber. Even so, experts call for calm. Earthquake swarms They are normal in these areas and would have to be more intense to really represent the preamble to an eruption. It is something that, according to what they say from The Countryalready happened in 2004, but even then it turned out to be a false alarm. 750 small earthquakes. The majority of earthquakes in this swarm of Tenerife earthquakes have a magnitude of between 1 and 2. This is a very low intensity to cause concern to the population. Although there were some before and have continued to happen after, most of these tremors took place between 2 and 5 in the morning, at depths of 10 to 15 kilometers. Yes, it could be due to the movement of magma, as has happened with other recent swarms. Since February, about 10 similar episodes have been recorded. In all cases they have been hybrid earthquakes, but of low magnitude. Some have been slightly more intense than these and still nothing has happened. That is the reason why there is a call for calm. Active, inactive or extinct. A volcano is considered active when it has erupted on recent geological scales. Normally 10,000 years are used as a reference figure, although it may vary depending on the source. An example is Mount Etna in Italy.. Dormant volcanoes are those that have not erupted for many thousands of years, but still have the potential to do so, as there is still a source of magma available. This is the case of the Mount Omuro volcano, in Japan. Finally, extinct volcanoes are those that can no longer erupt, because they have lost connection with their magma source, which may have diverted, solidified, or disappeared completely. In Spain, the Cabo de Gata volcanoes in Almería are in this state. In the case of the volcanoes of Tenerifeare considered active, since it has been just over a century since their last eruption. Even so, that does not mean that there will be another one imminently. The latest eruptions. There have been no eruptions in Tenerife since November 1909, when the Chinyero eruption. This was preceded by intense seismic activity, which began in March 1908, more than a year earlier. However, they were much more intense tremors than those happening now. There was even a strong emission of fumaroles in the Teide crater. Other sources suggest that the tremors began a little later, but in any case more than 6 months before the eruption and always of great intensity. It is true that, since they occurred so long ago, there is no record of the magnitude of those earthquakes. However, there are many testimonies from neighbors who felt them, while those that are happening in Tenerife now are of such a low magnitude that it is very difficult for the population to notice them. Magma on the surface. In addition to fumaroles, the movement of magma on the surface is one of the signs that a volcanic eruption is close. It is another reason why geologists insist that this seismic swarm does not predict an eruption in the short or medium term. With the earthquakes of 2004 there was more concern, because yes they were felt by the populationalthough they did not have a magnitude either very high. In addition, magma was detected very close to the surface. Even so, the systems for detecting and monitoring earthquakes and possible volcanic eruptions were not as good as those today. Today the preambles of a volcano eruption are much better known and, with what is currently happening, there is nothing to fear. Images | Wikimedia Commons/IGN In Xataka | The last time Mount Fuji erupted was 318 years ago. The Japanese government has turned to AI in case it happens again

Your new 2K camera with night vision and this wireless peephole are now official

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Connected home security takes a leap in resolution without having to pay exorbitant prices. The Ring firm has made its latest two additions official in Spain: the Ring Outdoor Camera 2K (2nd generation) and the Ring Peephole Camera 2K. These are two proposals designed for completely different housing profiles, but they share a clear philosophy: installation within everyone’s reach, integration with Alexa system and high definition image quality. Ring Outdoor Camera 2K, Outdoor camera The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ring Peephole Camera 2K (latest gen.) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ring Outdoor Camera (2nd generation): versatility for perimeter surveillance This surveillance camera It is ideal for gardens, patios, terraces and main entrances. The second generation of Ring’s outdoor camera arrives with 2K resolution (Retinal) as a great asset, allowing a higher level of detail when identifying faces or distant objects thanks to its six-fold digital zoom. If there is something for which it stands out, it is for presenting a flexible feeding systemadapting to any need, since you can connect it via a rechargeable battery, power outlet or solar panel. The night vision has been improved in this new version and maintains color interpretation in low light situations and automatically switches to black and white in total darkness, so you don’t miss any details. It can also be noted that it incorporates active safety elements such as an integrated deterrent siren, zoned motion detection and two-way audio, so you can talk to whoever is on the other side. This model of outdoor surveillance camera is available for pre-sale and will be on the market next August 12 by 99.99 euros. Ring Outdoor Camera 2K, Outdoor camera The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ring Peephole Camera 2K: the ideal connected peephole for rental apartments Designed for replace the traditional peephole In a matter of minutes, this Ring Peephole Camera 2K avoids the use of cables, construction or drilling, thus becoming a perfect option for apartments (both owned and rented). It has 2K resolution and adds a field of view in vertical format (to see the entire body of whoever is in front). Its installation is simple and fits directly into the existing peephole hole. It offers integration with Alexa, so you can see, in real time, who is at the door through a EchoShow or the brand’s app. In addition, it should also be noted that it works with a removable rechargeable battery easy maintenance. As for this extension for the home peephole, it will go on sale on August 19 and can now be pre-purchased for 99.99 euros. Ring Peephole Camera 2K (latest gen.) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links You may also be interested Ring Intercom Audio | Make your intercom smarter The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ring Battery Video Doorbell (Latest Gen.) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Ring In Xataka | Security home automation for when you are not at home: cameras, sensors, kits and more to monitor and control your home on vacation In Xataka | I’m going to automate my entire house and the first step is very clear: goodbye Google Home, hello Alexa

“Mythos is a total weapon. You should need a weapons license to use it”

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Anthropic and OpenAI are racing towards what is already known in Silicon Valley as the IPO (Initial Public Offering or initial public offering) of the artificial intelligence (IA), with valuations that are around 965,000 million and one trillion dollars respectively. In this scenario, the general director of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has granted an interview to Bloomberg in which he reflects on his career in this industry and about the price that must be paid to maintain one’s values ​​when the business pushes in the opposite direction. When asked about the decision to go for enterprise tools, such as Claude Code or Claude Cowork, instead of pursuing more popular consumer applications, Amodei was blunt: “Either you betray your values ​​or you become irrelevant.” And, according to this executive, choosing a business model that clashes head-on with a company’s values ​​ends up forcing that dilemma sooner or later. However, Amodei’s warning is not limited to the business sphere. In this same interview he alerts us to a much more shocking and worrying phenomenon: the possibility that in the coming years skyrocketed GDP growth and very high unemployment will coexist, especially among entry-level office jobs. The paradox that worries Amodei The diagnosis that Anthropic’s CEO has been repeating for more than a year is the following: AI could eliminate half of entry-level office jobs within one to five years. Amodei insists that this headline is often taken out of context and that its real message has never been purely catastrophic. According to him, it is a call to anticipate with specific macroeconomic policies, such as taxes on the use of tokens or the redesign of templates together with companies. The mechanism he describes is simple, although it is also disturbing. When 90% of a job is automated, the remaining 10% becomes much more productive thanks to that leverage. The problem comes when automation is approaching 100% and there is no task left to cling to. Within Anthropic itself, he maintains, they are already experiencing this transition: AI today writes practically all of the code, although for the moment it continues to make engineers more productive. It does not replace them completely. When 90% of a job is automated, the remaining 10% becomes much more productive thanks to that leverage This alert has earned him criticism from both sides. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, has accused him of confusing tasks with jobs, while other voices speak directly of a “marketing of the apocalypse” that would benefit Anthropic. Amodei responds by recalling that in his essay “The adolescence of technology” He dedicated several pages to that same distinction and to a list of possible solutions, from private philanthropy to state intervention. This is not the only front on which Amodei has chosen to put limits on its own technology. In the same interview he reveals that Anthropic retained Mythosits most advanced model for cybersecurity, because it is capable of autonomously going through the entire chain of a computer attack and finding exploitable vulnerabilities on its own. The companies that tested it in the early phase directly asked him to I won’t publish it. “Mythos is a total weapon. You should need a weapons license to use it,” he admits. Amodei acknowledges that this decision has cost him dearly in commercial terms, although he insists that publishing it before the rest of the network is patched would be much more dangerous. Amodei himself frames this insistence within the same logic that he applied to his business model: he prefers to sound the alarm even if it is uncomfortable than to sweeten the diagnosis so as not to harm the valuation of his company on the way to its IPO. No one yet knows which side will win this race between productivity and unemployment. Amodei, at least, has already made clear which alternative he rejects. Image | Wikimedia More information | Bloomberg In Xataka | China has a plan to win the AI ​​war against the US. And DeepSeek is its champion In Xataka | Anthropic is one step away from being worth as much as Samsung. And what the market is buying is not Claude

Spain has just fined Ibai and Jordi Wild for it

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The National Markets and Competition Commission has just hired a Portuguese company to track covert advertising on social networks. The three fines that he has managed to impose with this newly released surveillance add up, now with the discounts for prompt payment and other mitigating factors, to 2,877.91 euros between Ibai Llanos, Jordi Wild and Nachter. They are just crumbs in the context of how much these people earn. influencers with their activity. Three reasons. Ibai Llanos, Jordi Wild and Nachter have been sanctioned for different breaches of the General Law of Audiovisual Communication: unidentified advertising, content without protection of minors and irregular promotion of medicines. It cost Ibai Llanos 710 euros, reduced to 568 for advance payment, not to point out that several videos published in The Evening They showed a beverage brand without differentiating it from the editorial content through the optical, acoustic or spatial mechanisms required by the standard. Jordi Wild has paid 1,543.44 euros, reduced to 1,241.95, to broadcast extreme fighting matches from the Dogfight Wild Tournament on YouTube without age ratings or the minor restriction mechanisms offered by the platform. Nachter has received the highest fine: 1,779.94 euros, reduced to 1,067.96 after acknowledging responsibility, for promoting anti-flu drugs on networks without complying with the requirements that the law imposes on the advertising of medicines. The three are equated due to their special relevance with traditional television providers, by exceeding certain thresholds of income, audience and activity. The comparison. These are low fines in general terms, but they are even more surprising if we compare them with what a pharmaceutical company pays for similar errors. The Supreme Court confirmed in March 2025 a fine of 90,001 euros to a laboratory that omitted the price of a medicine in a communication addressed only to doctors and pharmacists, not even to the general public. Months earlier, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid had ratified another fine of 90,000 euros to a pharmaceutical company for advertising in the press a prescription drug. Nachter promoted over-the-counter flu medicines directly to millions of followers on social networks, without health professionals involved, and has ended up paying eighty-odd times less than those two companies for an infringement aimed at the general public, not health professionals. New surveillance. On July 14, the CNMC formalized three contracts with the Portuguese company Primetag for 32,800 euros to analyze for twelve months the content published by particularly relevant users of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube in search of unidentified commercial communications. Until now, this surveillance was manual and sporadic. The order arrived weeks after the CNMC required—without sanctioning— to Sofía Suescun, Tamara Gorro, Peldanyos, Samantha Vallejo-Nágera and Lola Lolita for unidentified advertising, after separate complaints from the Association of Communication Users. The organization opted for the requirement and not the fine in those cases because those publications were prior to the interpretative criteria that the CNMC itself established in June 2025. In the case of Lola Lolita, in addition, it was established for the future that content can be considered advertising even if there is no direct payment. But this surveillance of influencers is not new. History of a crawl. For example, In 2022 the CNMC proposed equating streamers with televisionone year later Spain approved its own streamer registry and in 2024 a law of influencers that it was said that would only affect 5% of creators. In between, a consumer study detected that 77.75% of the profiles analyzed failed to comply with the obligation to identify their ads. Twitch, the platform where Ibai Llanos concentrates a good part of his audience, It doesn’t even have its own parental control system. beyond the possibility of closing accounts of minors under 13 years of age. Covert advertising on networks. It is not a new phenomenon nor exclusive to these three cases. There are the aforementioned 77.75% of the reviewed publications that failed to comply with the obligation to indicate advertising content. There were creators with more than ten million followers and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs warned that, under the Unfair Competition Law, fines could exceed 100,000 euros. That came at a time when streamers like Ibai, More fines. There is room for those fines to increase. For serious infractions committed by large providers, the law contemplates sanctions of up to 5% of annual turnover with a limit of 750,000 euros, far from the 2,877.91 euros of this week’s fines. The Evening of the Year, the event that organizes Ibai Llanos alone Since it broke its partnership with Gerard Piqué, it generated in its fifth edition, in 2025, income over eight million euros: about five million in ticket sales, about three in sponsorships, and around an additional million from subscriptions and advertising on Twitch. Jordi Wild, for his part, is already billing more than two million euros a year through its production company, with a net profit of around one and a half million and which in 2024 grew by 40% compared to the previous year. That is to say, we can describe these fines as merely symbolic and even dangerous: if they are nothing more than a trifle for those who receive them, they can almost be interpreted as a declaration of unofficial impunity. In Xataka | The El Xokas and Burger King controversy proves something: brands need streamers but they do not tolerate what they really are

Play Station Network is down: the service is giving an error and does not allow you to log in

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Friday in the middle of summer, with unbearable heat, seems like a good time to play some games on your PlayStation. Not so fast… If you were planning to play an online game, forget about it because the PlayStation Network service is down and failing all over the world. What is happening. When the service tries to log in, the message “Something went wrong” appears. According to Downdetectorthe problems started today, Friday, July 24, around 12:45 noon and at this time reports are still coming in. The curious thing is that on the PlayStation status page It says that all its services are operating normally. Clearly this is not the case. something went wrong. This is the message that appears when the service tries to log in. This is not a total failure and you will still be able to play locally, but it is not possible to play online titles such as Fortnite, Call of Duty and others. You also cannot download games from the PlayStation Store nor can you see your friends’ activity on the platform. In development…

Spain has more and more forests and fewer resources to prevent fires. Their solution: fire donkeys

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Over the last decades, the fight against fires has been reinforced thanks to the use of drones, satellites and AI camerasbut in some regions of Spain they are proving that there is a simpler and more effective tool: “firefighter donkeys”. As the fire becomes a major problem, devastating hectares of forest and populated areasmore and more areas of the country see herds of horses as a valuable ally against llamas. Nothing our ancestors didn’t know. Fire donkeys? As is. It is not about using chicks to carry water drums, shovels or hoses, but rather taking advantage of the skills of these animals to keep the forests cared for, clear the undergrowth and, in this way, prevent forest fires from advancing uncontrollably. Its role is so important that there are those who already use that expression directly: “firefighter donkeys”a graphic and powerful way to claim its function. What exactly do they do? Pasture. Give free rein to your voracious and insatiable appetite. It may not seem like a big deal, but when we talk about groups of dozens and dozens of donkeys that advance in packs along hectares of forest, feeding on grasses and bushes, their effect is crucial. Their ‘crews’ help keep the fields clean, which, in the event of a fire, makes it difficult for the flames to find fuel to feed them and help them spread. As they advance, the donkeys create firebreaks in areas that are not always easy to access with machinery. What’s more, they do it so well that they are already being used to maintain firewalls. And where are they used? One of the clearest examples is found in Catalonia. Over there six years ago Joan Cedó Sans laid the foundations for what it is today Tivissa Donkey Firefightersa non-profit organization that pursues a double objective: to give abused or abandoned horses a chance and, at the same time, take advantage of their voracious appetite to keep the mountains cleared. A textbook “win-win” that guarantees the animals a peaceful existence, care and good nutrition and, in the process, prevents you from mounting them (every time most affected due to depopulation) become flammable traps. How did it start? The Catalan initiative started in 2020 with a bunch of donkeysalready had 28 animals in 2022 and is now around 60 individuals, a large herd that moves through the mountains of the region cleaning public and private lands. The headquarters of the organization is in Tivissa, Tarragona. “The 2013 Tivissa fire happened very close to where I have the horses and I thought the animals could help clear the undergrowth and prevent fires,” explained Joan Cedó a few years ago Diary of Tarragonawhere he remembered how the project began with only three horses from a Swiss couple who wanted to return to their country and did not know what to do with the animals. Does it only apply in Catalonia? No. In fact, Donkey Firefighters It was not even the first initiative of that type in Spain. Years before they had started doing something similar in Andalusia, where since 2014 a group of horses from the association The Happy Burrito is dedicated to carrying out a similar work in the surroundings of the Doñana National Park: they graze, devouring dry brush, grass, weeds… elements that at first glance may seem harmless but that, in the event of a forest fire breaking out, represent food for the flames. In Galicia either The Basque Country It is also possible to find similar initiatives. It’s not surprising at all. More and more organizations are demanding the role of herding and the cattle to keep areas that have been affected by depopulation clean. In 2022 Barcelona itself activated an experiment with more than 200 sheep, goats and lambs to keep the Collserola undergrowth at bay and reduce the risk of fires. Nothing they haven’t already tried in Portugal. Why donkeys? That’s the million dollar question. Beyond the value of giving abused or abandoned chicks a second chance, why turn to these animals and not other smaller ones, such as sheep or goats? Cedó makes it clear on CNN: “The work that donkeys do, neither goats nor sheep can do.” Not only do they weigh more than sheep, which allows them to crush and compact the dry grass in their path, equids are also characterized by their insatiable appetite. They move slowly, but constantly and they do not dislike the dry grass that becomes so dangerous with fires. Images | Julio Romero (Flickr) and Gabriel Fdez (Flickr) In Xataka | The mere existence of donkeys has been a mystery of natural history for decades. One we have solved

The US is accusing China of plagiarizing Anthropic models. We have three problems with that accusation.

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Michael Kratsios, assistant to the president of the United States, did not bite his tongue this week when claimed that “We have information indicating that Moonshoot AI distilled Fable from Anthropic for the development of its K3 model.” Or in other words, they accuse China of plagiarizing the American company’s advanced AI model. There are several fundamental problems with that accusation. Let’s see them. Fear of Kimi K3. This model has just burst onto the AI ​​scene with overwhelming force. Benchmarks show that Kimi K3 is one of the best AI models in the worldwith performance close to Fable 5 and GPT-5.6, the best public models from Anthropic and OpenAI. This milestone has triggered its popularity among users and companies, and also the alarms in Washington. The immediate consequence has in fact been political, because since the Trump Administration there is now open talk of sanctions for “theft of technology” if the accusation is confirmed. The accusation. In his text, Kratsios explains the supposed mechanism used by Moonshot AI to copy his model. It states that the Chinese startup would have built an internal platform to make mass queries to US models, changing access methods to avoid detection and then transferring its capabilities to Kimi K3. He also adds that the company has managed to access servers with Nvidia GB300 chips in countries outside China to avoid export restrictions. Where is the evidence? The first problem we have with that speech is that a key piece of that speech is missing from the start: Kratsios does not support this accusation with technical evidence. It does not provide usage records, it does not provide examples of prompts and responses, nor query patterns. Nor does it provide independent analyzes that any researcher could review. What we have right now is an official story and accusation, not a proven “infringement.” The controversy over distillation. The key word in that speech is “distillation.” In AI, distill a model It means training a new one using the responses of another. The “master” model answers thousands or millions of questions, and the “student” model learns to imitate its reasoning patterns at lower cost and size. The industry itself describes distillation as a legitimate and standard technique when applied to permitted or proprietary models. The red line appears when it is applied to third-party models, on a large scale and without permission, which according to the US Government is theft of intellectual property. But crime, what is called crime, is not. The second problem is that the statement and the accusation are not supported by any clear and defined legal framework. Neither the US nor China currently have a specific law that says under what conditions distilling a rival model is an intellectual property crime. You may violate an API’s terms of service or even end up obtaining sensitive information from companies, but there is no jurisprudence about it. In fact, until recently the debate in the US was about regulating US frontier models like Mythos, which were considered too dangerous. Suddenly the debate is now on sanctioning the distillation of models. Everything is moving too quickly, once again, to adapt the legislation. Hypocrisy made in USA. The third big problem we have with that accusation is that the big American models—including those at Anthropic—have been trained on massive data sets that mix websites, books, code, newspaper articles, and other materials of which a notable portion is protected by copyright. own Anthropic reached an agreement with justice these days for that reason, Meta has already discovered it stealing terabytes of copyrighted books to train your models. Double yardstick. In the US, AI companies defend themselves by arguing that That falls under “fair use” of the content, but the authors neither gave their permission nor charged for it. That same industry and that same Government that have made it normal to train models on other people’s content complain that a Chinese startup uses the outputs of its models to train its own. They are not identical practices, but the double standard is difficult to ignore. AI, once again, as a weapon. The Trump administration is taking this issue to another scale. By accusing Moonshot AI of using restricted chips and developing Kimi K3 by distilling Fable 5, he places distillation in the same box as industrial espionage or the theft of military secrets. AI is no longer a software product and becomes a strategic technological weapon. And there it is not so important to provide evidence or be technically precise: it is important that what China has done is an attack on its (former?) technological hegemony. If this type of accusation sounds familiar to you, you have a good memory. In Xataka | An AI model did not have access to the internet. So he thought it was better to have it and decided to hack something along the way

Mistral is very far in the AI ​​race. Samsung doesn’t care about that and plans to invest a fortune in it

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Mistral is in fashion. It doesn’t matter that their AI models are not among the bestbecause it is enough for the French startup to defend the discourse of European and sovereign AI that has become so relevant in recent months. That has caused its valuation to rise, but it could do so even more with the arrival of a surprising actor to its shareholding: Samsung. betting big. The South Korean giant is having conversations to invest hundreds of millions of euros in Mistral. It would do so as part of a new round of financing that would make the valuation of the French startup reach 20 billion euros. According to sources close to the operation, Samsung – which had previously invested in Mistral through its venture capital division – could contribute around 1 billion euros in this new round. Now the important thing is “to be trustworthy”. The interest in Mistral is not coincidental. These talks come after the Trump administration temporarily blocked access to the latest AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI. That has triggered a wave of interest in what It is now known as the “sovereign AI”that is, AI models that no government or foreign country can disconnect suddenly. Since its foundation, Mistral has betting precisely by open models that any customer can customize and control on their own, without political decisions in country The money doesn’t stop coming in. The current round comes less than a year after Mistral was valued at €12 billion in a deal led by ASML, the Dutch chipmaking equipment giant. In September 2025 raised 1.7 billion eurosmost of them coming from the aforementioned ASML, which uses Mistral models to develop its advanced semiconductor manufacturing machines. At the beginning of the year he managed another 830 million euros in its first debt financing, and now, in addition to Samsung, the Scaleup Europe fund, from the Swedish EQT, is also considering entering the round. Samsung and Mistral love each other more and more. Both companies have been strengthening their alliance for months. In April several media reported that both companies had been negotiating a collaboration in the field of memories for AI chips. Samsung is the largest memory manufacturer in the world, and has seen its revenue and profits skyrocket thanks to demand for AI. Investing in Mistral gives it a direct relationship with the European startup with the most projection just at a time when the entire industry is fighting for access to the supply of chips and memory. It’s a more than reasonable move. Each sheep with its partner. This alliance is reflected in other similar movements in recent weeks and months. In June, the memory maker Micron invested in Anthropic as part of a broader alliance that includes a long-term memory supply agreement. This same week, Mistral already closed an expansion of its alliance with Microsoftwhich has committed to a “multi-million dollar” investment to use the French startup’s computing infrastructure. Mistral models will also be available through Azure. Mistral Medium 3.5, the most powerful model of the French startup, is very far from open Chinese models such as GLM-5.2 or Kimi K3, and certainly from frontier models from Google, OpenAI or Anthropic. Source: Artificial Analysis. But. Despite all this interest, Mistral’s open models face a very stark reality: they are far from the capacity of the latest Chinese open models. They have recently demonstrated it both GLM-5.2 as especially Kimi K3the Moonshot AI model that already almost competes with Fable 5 and GPT-5.6. They are good, pretty and cheap, and at the moment the only advantage of Mistral is being European. We’ll see if that continues to work. Ascending trajectory. Founded just three years ago, Mistral has become the most valuable AI startup in Europe. Its CEO, Arthur Mensch, assured in the Financial Times in February that the company’s annual recurring revenue will exceed $1 billion before the end of the year. The total focus is on the drive to win business customers, and although the promise is striking, it will be necessary for Mistral to also accelerate the capacity of some models that according to benchmarks They are falling behind. Image | Babak Habibi | Mistral In Xataka | “Only two years”: Mistral CEO warns Europe that time is running out to build its own AI infrastructure

“The less complex the car, the easier it will be to manufacture and the cheaper it will sell”

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The year 1914 had just begun when Henry Ford dropped the bomb: would share half of the profits achieved in one year among all its workers. The figure, it was expected, would amount to about 10 million dollars at the time. The next day, his factory had collapsed due to the number of people waiting to enter the assembly line. The move was as bold as it was essential for the company. In those years the factories had a serious problem with absenteeism and Henry Ford was very clear about his ideas. He knew that mass production would make the production of his cars cheaper, but he needed a lot of sustained labor. It is what we know as the Fordismfrom which large-scale chain production emerged, with the consequent cost savings. And the more copies of the same product are sold, the cheaper it is because the faster the fixed costs are amortized. That is why Henry Ford did not complicate things in the slightest: “Any customer can have a car painted any color they want as long as it is black.” once said about the Ford T. The phrase was more sly than anything else but it explained well what he wanted to do with his cars. However, Ford left many other phrases related to his method of producing cars that were just as interesting. Some of them, in fact, can be applied today although, curiously, part of the original philosophy of that production process that made the Ford T the first mass car has to be adapted. From Ford T to the future electric car And when it comes to winning the market, Henry Ford was very clear that you had to pay attention to what was important: “the less complex an article is, the easier it will be to manufacture and the cheaper it will be sold”, as stated in the book My life and work of Henry Ford himself. He aim is different, the simplification of the product facilitates simpler production and reduces productive times. Therefore, it can be manufactured faster and cheaper so you can play with the price when selling the product on the street. This is exactly what according to some expertsthey have obtained from China. BYD and Tesla are simplifying their products as much as possible to save on production costs and thus be able to compete against the extremely well-oiled and efficient machinery that is Toyota. The problem for this last company is that This way of working completely rethinks your own quality standards but, above all, it forces you to rethink your entire production system. And an electric car is not manufactured the same as a combustion car. That is why there are consulting companies that have pointed out to Toyota that it is not acting correctly if it simply thinks of both technologies in a very similar way. At Ford they have been thinking about this idea for a long time. The company has acknowledged that Chinese cars have been taken to their facilities to dismantle them and understand what makes them different. Ford’s fascination with vehicles from this Asian country is such that Jim Farley, CEO of the company, He has admitted that he did not want to get off his Xiaomi SU7. To catch up, at Ford they have joined that trend that says that an electric car cannot be produced like a combustion car. With this we will escape from the single line, from the path on which the Fordism but the final goal is the same: reduce production costs. Follow the maxim of making the product the simplest possible object because that, in practice, makes production cheaper and allows you to sell cheaper. They do it by opting for tree manufacturing, which they have called “Ford’s new universal production system for electric cars”. Instead of assembling the car on a single line, Ford has devised another system that is based on three subassemblies that end up joining together almost at the end of the production process when the car should already be very close to leaving the assembly line. Thus, we have three individualized spaces: one for the front of the car, another for the rear and a last one that includes the battery, seats and console. According to the company, the new system allows them to produce their electric vehicles 40% faster at the Louisville Assembly Plant factory where the company has invested almost 2 billion dollars to renew it in depth and remove its “medium-sized electric trucks” from there. That is, electric pick-up and large SUVs that in Europe you would consider large. With this new system, they assure, it’s easier to be efficient in the design of the electronics and the installation of the cables, which represents a saving in weight and, above all, in money that must be invested in wiring. A maxim that we have already seen in other models on the market such as the BMW iX3. According to Ford data, they will need 50% fewer electrical connections, 50% fewer cooling installations and 20% fewer parts. In addition to all this, the plant will have WiFi-7 and a private 5G system for sending data which, according to Ford, will allow them to carry out more exhaustive quality controls at any point in the production process. This means finding any type of defect sooner and remedying it as soon as possible. That is to say, the company’s intention is to reinvent itself for the future but following the premises that its creator already set for them more than 100 years ago. Via | L’Automobile Photo | Wikipedia and Bram Van Oost In Xataka | Ford has been slow to adapt to the electric car, so it is going to start manufacturing batteries for… data centers

The Spanish anthem has no lyrics, so we have sung another one that has nothing to do with football: Nino Bravo’s

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The Spanish anthem or Marcha Real is a rarity: it does not have official lyrics (although there are those who have tried to compose it, from José María Pemán to Sabina or Marta Sánchez), which gives it a solemn aura, but prevents the participation of the masses in festive environments. Like when you win a Soccer World Cup, except that people become helpless “lo lo lo lo.” However, the fans I needed a letter for chant and celebrate the champions and found it within a melodic 1972 song milestone that doesn’t mention football once. When did it start? ‘A kiss and a flower’ by Nino Bravo already played in stadiums in the United States and Mexico throughout the tournament, and ended chanted in unison by players and fans after the whistle that put an end to the same. At the airport, hours later, the public address system made it sound while relatives from both teams shared a terminal on the way home. The verse that circulated the most on networks was the one that opens the song: “When parting, a kiss and a flower, an ‘I love you’, a caress and goodbye.” The original. It was composed by José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero in 1972, with arrangements by Maryní Callejo, and it was number one on Los 40 Principales that same year, four weeks in a row. Its interpreter, Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis, better known as Nino Bravo, died in a traffic accident in 1973, when he was only 28 years old. This video clip that was filmed in the Balearic Islands For the Ministry of Information and Tourism it is the only color material that is preserved from him. Before this song, Nino Bravo had already triumphed outside of Spain: between 1969 and 1970 he recorded some sixty songs and his voice especially resonated in Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile and Colombia, markets where he shared the bill with Raphael without the divo overshadowing him in the slightest. That his repertoire (especially this one and ‘Libre’) is still alive half a century later in the stands and the streets is proof of how it has deeply permeated Spanish popular culture. What the lyrics are really talking about. The more extended reading He links it to the economic emigration of Franco’s regime: the years in which thousands of young people left “with the cardboard suitcase” for Germany, Switzerland or France in search of a salary that they could not find here (“I will leave my land for you, I will leave my fields and I will go, far from here”). That is why the song serves today, far from Spain, as an anthem of another exodus: in Cuba it is still associated with those who have had to leave the island in recent decades. The long relationship with football. In fact, Nino Bravo’s melody has been around for decades sneaking into Latin American standsalthough with the lyrics completely replaced. The fans of Barcelona SC, in Ecuador, adapted it to sing about his yellow uniform; Colombian Deportivo Cali did something similarand there is also a version for Independiente Medellín. In those cases the lyrics vary to encourage the team and the fans and launch the corresponding jabs at the rival. The Spanish case is special: there is no new or modified letter. The original is sung, which promises a return as the only very slight and common link with the circumstances of the competition. And be careful, the original letter does not distinguish flags. In fact, a curious phenomenon has occurred with it: despite its international significance, it has been chanted en bloc among Spanish players and fans because it has been judged in an intuitive and unspoken way that it is a genuinely Spanish anthem and that it represents us. Like the sun every morning. In Xataka | Argentina is clear that Argentina had to give away Argentina’s fourth World Cup. And no one in Argentina is very clear why.

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