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has ended with closed stores, fights and tear gas

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

In 2026 it is no longer strange see long lines of people who spend the night outside the stores of a certain brand waiting for the launch of one of their products. What is not so common is to see them at the doors of a youth watch store to a watch that costs 400 euros. Triple that of the average of their watches. The launch that occurred this weekend was not just any launch, what all that people who were waiting patiently at the doors of the shops I longed for the Swatch Royal Popa watch that emerged from the alliance between Swatch and Audemars Piguet, a Swiss firm whose royal oak from which this model is inspired, starts at 20,000 euros. Such a fuss has been made to achieve this, that even the police have had to use tear gas in some stores. Luxury watchmaking for generation Z Swatch has been partnering with luxury Swiss watch brands for years to bring haute horlogerie to a generation Z more familiar with smartwatches than with traditional mechanical watches. From there collaborations such as the MoonSwatch with Omega in 2022, with Blancpain and now with the prestigious Swiss manufacturer Audemars Piguet. According to published the medium of fashion and trends #Legendthe MoonSwatch series created by Omega for Swatch sold more than one million units in its first year and generated around $275 million in revenue. Given such success, the Swiss brand wanted to replicate the recipe with the Royal Pop by Audemars Piguetand get a “luxury” watch adapted to the taste of generation Z. The Royal Pop transfers that haute horlogerie aesthetic to eight pocket models with Swatch’s characteristic colors, at a price between 385 and 400 euros. A seemingly simple and affordable proposal to wear a luxury piece on your wrist that, however, has exceeded the capacity of Swatch stores from all over the world, to the point that the brand had to make a call for calm from their social networks. MoonSwatch with developed by Swatch and Omega Going for a 400 euro watch that already costs 2,500 on Wallapop The collection was put on sale with a restriction of one watch per person per day. That limitation, far from slowing down demand, triggered it. In Barcelona, hundreds of people had been camping for days in front of the store and the Mossos d’Esquadra they had to intervene and order the closure of the premises. In Paris, the police used tear gas to control about 300 people, and in Milan there were fights between clients and security. The local press from Seville said that long queues also formed in the center of the city. According what was published by The Wall Street Journal, Most stores sold out in a matter of minutes and Swatch preemptively closed stores in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. A few hours after the launch, Royal Pop was already appeared on Wallapop for a resale price of between 600 and 2,500 euros, and on eBay some pieces were ordered for 17,000 euros. The dynamics of this second hand massive sale has been identical to that of the launches of limited edition sneakers or other exclusive products: buyers with knowledge of the market grabbed the first places in the queue days before their launch and bought and resold immediately, taking advantage of the shortage in the first units. According to collected Reason Whysome of those who were legitimately interested in the watch complained about the way in which Swatch had organized the launch: “What happened in the stores in Madrid is a shame. Zero security control, mafias sneaking people by the dozens into the first positions and zero concern for those truly interested in the watch and not in resale. It’s time to sell the collection and never touch a Swatch again,” declared one of the people waiting in line at a store in the capital. A success as a product, a failure as a brand The Royal Pop chaos is a case of success and failure at the same time. If you look up the definition of “dying successful” in a dictionary, a Swatch logo will appear. The collection created together with Audemars Piguet has been a resounding success and shows that Swatch’s recipe to try to attract generation Z to the world of luxury watchmaking is the right one. As and as they point out in Marketing InteractiveWith this strategy, both brands win because Swatch ensures large sales in the present, while Audemars Piguet positions itself as an aspirational brand for a new generation of potential. buyers in the future. The problem is that the management at the Swatch points of sale has been a disaster lacking any foresight, to the point of requiring the intervention of the police to avoid greater evils. This lack of foresight in such a strategic launch makes the customer feel reluctant to participate in the next campaign because they do not want to have to spend days camped in front of the store to get their unit, even more so when the product is targeted to an audience who, in the near future, aspires to wear an Omega, Audemars Piguet or Blancpain watch on his wrist. In Xataka | Some OT contestants did not know how to read a clock hands. Science has clues as to why it is becoming more common Image | Swatch

The Tartessian civilization is one of the great enigmas of the peninsula. Now he is revealing himself from a town in Badajoz

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Guareña is a town in Vegas Altas del Guadiana, Badajoz, with just over 6,600 inhabitants. Historians have long known that there, not far from the mouth of the Burdalo Riverit hides an archaeological sitebut its scope was not clear until just over a decade ago. After a first survey, in 2014researchers began to recover pieces and unearth structures that 12 years later have become a fascinating window to one of the most enigmatic peoples who inhabited the southwest of the peninsula: the Tartessians. Since then they have not stopped exploring the deposit (known as Casas de Turuñuelo) in search of treasures like the one that has just surfaced now, during its eighth campaign. What has happened? That we just found a new test (the umpteenth) of the enormous archaeological wealth of Turuñuelo Housesthe Tartessian site located in Guareña, province of Badajoz. Although the eighth exploration campaign started in late April and will not be completed until the end of May, the researchers have found a discovery that has captured the interest of media such as RTVE or Extremadura Channel. In recent days, both media have reported on the discovery of an altar in the shape of a bull’s skin, a characteristic piece of the Tartessian culture that joins another of the same style located during a previous excavation. The structure appeared in a hallway attached to what is known as ‘room 100’ of the site. When analyzing it in detail, the researchers verified that it still has remains of ashes from the sacrificed animals on it. Why is it important? For several reasons. One, it allows us to better understand how the Casas del Turuñuelo site was structured. Two, it confirms its enormous archaeological wealth and (most importantly) its usefulness for knowing the tartessiansthe civilization that prospered in the surroundings of what are now the provinces of Huelva, Seville, Cádiz and Badajoz between approximately the 9th and 5th centuries BC From the Guareña City Council remember In fact, the site is part of the Tartessian culture of the 5th century before our era and “stands out for being one of the most relevant enclaves of said civilization in the Iberian Peninsula.” Proof of its importance is that among the ruins of Casas del Turuñuelo they have been recovered the first reliefs of human faces from Tartessos, which among other things confirms that this ancient culture was not aniconic. Are they your only findings? No. Since surveys began in the area in 2014, the Guareña site has not ceased to amaze us, becoming a real box of surprises… and an archaeological treasure. This explains, among other things, that from the Institute of Archeology (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura) they will consider the creation of a work team with specialists from different disciplines and successive campaigns will be promoted. Only the first three allowed part of a majestic building with two floors, a patio and three rooms to be recovered. And what did they find? In one of these rooms (‘100’), a room of around 70 square metersthe first altar was located in the shape of a bull skin and a bathtub or sarcophagus located at the southern end, attached to the wall. Not only that. Archaeologists have rescued bone and ivory tableware and plates that once decorated a now-lost wooden box. Another area full of surprises is the interior patio, 125 m2, rectangular in plan and connected with a three-meter-high staircase. There archaeologists discovered remains of dozens and dozens of animals, probably related to sacrifices: at least 52 horses, four cows, four pigs and a dog. Bronze weights, unguent jars, remains of a Greek sculpture and bowls were also recovered in the same area. Is it a deposit further? The answer is again ‘no’. And not only for the enormous fascination that generates Tartessos. In just eight campaigns, archaeologists have obtained authentic historical jewels in Casas de Turuñuelo, such as the two ritual altars in the shape of bull skin or the sculptures of faces, “the first human representations of the Tartessian culture”, remember from the CSIC. The site also reserved for us an engraving with combat scenes on a slate plate, an alphabet from 2,500 years ago and the marble altar oldest Greek (at least among those known to date) from the western Mediterranean. Are there more surprises? Yes. As if that were not enough, the structures of the site also keep some secrets that make them unique. For example, part of the stairs that connect to the interior patio are made up of steps made from lime mortar ashlars. It may seem like a minor detail until you discover what it represents. the oldest example known throughout the Iberian Peninsula for “manufacturing lime in an anthropic manner”. The big question now is what treasures remain to surface in Casas del Turuñuelo. Images | Building Tartessus, Junta of Extremadura and CSIC In Xataka | Almost 2,000 years ago a Celtiberian soldier visited the most remote frontier of the Roman Empire. Then he returned to Soria with a souvenir

one where Google, Amazon and Microsoft pay a toll so that we all have internet

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

In March 2024, several countries in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia began experiencing strange internet outages and massive slowdowns in digital services. The origin was not in a cyber attack or an electrical blackout, it was on a ship reached during an attack in the Red Sea that had accidentally dragged its anchor onto the seabed and damaged several undersea cables essential for global communications. Iran’s plan B. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was seen as the great bottleneck energy of the planet, the route through which much of the world’s oil circulates. It happens that the war with the United States and Israel has made Iran discover something much more important: the Internet also circulates under those waters. As? Apparently, CNN told that Tehran has understood that the submarine cables that connect Europe, Asia and the Gulf are an infrastructure as strategic as oil tankers, and it wants to convert that geographical position into a new source of power. The idea that begins to emerge in Iranian discourse is very clear: if the world needs to pass data under Hormuz, large technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Meta should accept some kind of tolllicense or submission to Iranian rules. In other words, Hormuz would no longer be just a lever about global energybut also about the digital economy. The invisible cables. The great Iranian strategic discovery is born from an inconspicuous reality: almost all global traffic data depends on physical cables laid on the seabed. Banking payments, cloud services, military communications, streaming platforms, stock market operations and much of the artificial intelligence infrastructure pass through them. Some of these cables cross areas near Iranian waters, especially in the Persian Gulf. Although many of the international routes were designed to directly avoid Iranian territory, Tehran understands that proximity is enough to put pressure. The regime has understood that interrupting or threatening these corridors could generate enormous economic and psychological damage, even without firing a missile. The threat of submarine warfare. At this point it should be noted that Iran has not promised to sabotage cables directly, but it has launched deliberately ambiguous messages about possible interruptions or damages. Precisely this ambiguity is part of the strategy. The country has underwater drones, mini-submarines and capable naval forces to operate in the Gulfwhile its regional allies have already accidentally demonstrated in the Red Sea the enormous impact that a simple underwater incident. The real Western fear is not, therefore, a total internet blackout, but rather a chain of disruptions: financial delays, problems in data centers, degradation of business networks or difficulties in repairing critical infrastructure in the middle of a military crisis. In a world completely dependent on data, touching these cables means little less than touching the global economy. The inspiration of the Suez Canal. Tehran clearly looks to the Suez Canal as a model. Egypt has been monetizing for decades its strategic position by charging tolls and taking advantage of the passage of submarine cables between Europe and Asia. Iran wants to partially replicate that logic, although applied to a much more hostile and militarized environment. In fact, the media linked to the Revolutionary Guard they already talk about compulsory licenses, passage fees and exclusive rights for Iranian companies in charge of maintenance. Legally the scenario is complex and many operators will probably ignore the threats while US sanctions are in place, but the simple fact that Iran is openly raising this idea demonstrates how it has changed his strategic vision on Hormuz. The new discovered power. In short, and as we have already seen with crude oil, what is truly important is not whether Iran will one day manage to collect money from the big Western technology companies, but rather that it has discovered a new form of pressure global. For years, Tehran believed that its greatest weapon it was oil. Now you have understood that the world depends even more on invisible data flows that happen under the sea. That is possibly the great geopolitical transformation that Hormuz is currently revealing: a classic maritime strait is also becoming a critical point for the global digital economy. And that means that future international tensions will no longer revolve solely around the control of energy, that too, but also the control of the infrastructure that supports nothing more and nothing less than the internet. Image | Nara, Wikimedia, Collinpetty In Xataka | The war in Iran is doing something that not even Ryanair imagined: making 20 euro flights a relic of the past In Xataka | Dubai has come to the same conclusion as Russia. To protect your oil from drones there is something better than missiles: giant cages

Nvidia and Samsung are the names of AI. Quietly, someone is eating up the server processor market

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Artificial intelligence is about to enter a new era. After plunder the internet and drink all human knowledgetraining is no longer the obsession of the big AI companies and the inference is about to take the baton. That inference will reach its climax with the explosion of AI agents and that implies a change in balance: GPUs will continue to be key, but CPUs will take on a greater role. Inference requires other types of resources other than training and that is why Nvidia is preparing with its platform Vera Rubinbut also the rest of the industry. Intel has already said that is moving its production lines towards the Xeon, the server processors, while ARM It is seeing green numbers because a few months ago it presented a powerful processor for AI. The one that is also seeing the ‘stonks’ grow is AMD. Although its name sounds less than that of Nvidia, AMD is very present in the AI race. It has secured the best memory for its new platform, it has a GPU for training and also the processors EPYC for servers. These are precisely the ones that are giving you joy. AMD EPYCo record According to analysts Mercury Researchboth ARM and AMD have had a spectacular quarter. Both have continued to eat market share from Intel (which is why it seeks to respond) and, in the case of AMD, in the first quarter of this year they have reached a record 46.2% revenue share in x86 CPUs for servers and 30% of the CPU segment. Here are two numbers to keep in mind. The first is that AMD was already coming from a fairly comfortable position, with a 41.3% revenue share in servers in the last quarter of 2025. Thus, it seems that this growth to 46.2% is not too big, but the second number that must be taken into account is the one that allows us to see the company’s leap in this segment. It is estimated that the company It had only between 1% and 2% CPU share for servers in 2018. Since then, AMD has been doing things very well both in consumer computers with their Ryzen as in servers with its EPYC, which has allowed it to eat Intel’s share by leaps and bounds. And just as important as the quota are the company’s results, not because they interest us in terms of money, but because it gives us an idea (just like what is happening with Nvidia, SamsungSK Hynix or Micron) of how far we are from being able to see competitive prices again in the consumer market. Because it is estimated that this part of the business focused on data centers left 5.8 billion dollars in AMD, an increase of 57% year-on-year. It surpasses Intel (5.1 billion), being the first time this has happened in the data center sector and, in addition, AMD projects a growth of more than 70% year-on-year in the data center segment. In this particular battle, we have already commented that Intel is not sitting idle and has new processors for data centers, a great projection being the great american foundry and we will have to wait to see the efforts to reconvert their production lines to return to the Xeon. What is evident, according to estimates, is that the server processor market is experiencing an impressive increase due to this new generation of AI and is wait that goes beyond 30,000 million in 2025 up to 170 billion dollars by 2030. Landing this for us, the users, this implies one thing: if it was already expensive to build a PC due to RAM and SSDnow other components such as processors or motherboardswho are also reorienting the business. In Xataka | The US confesses its worst nightmare: if China invades Taiwan and controls TSMC, the US economy will collapse

LG, Xiaomi, Philips TVs and more at outlet prices until tomorrow

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

MediaMarkt is celebrating its traditional VAT-Free Day until tomorrow at 9am. If you are thinking about renew some TV in your housethese are the five best deals that we have found in this famous campaign of this store. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510 4K QLED Smart TV – 75 Inch Screen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C by 98.34 euros: 24 inches and with Google TV. Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 2026 by 131.40 euros: 32 inches and with Google TV. Haier H50S80FUX by 296.69 euros: QLED, 50 inches and with Google TV. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 by 685.12 euros: 75-inch QLED and with Titan OS. LG OLED55B56LA by 759.50 euros: 55-inch OLED and with webOS. PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C We start our compilation with one of the TVs that is always a hit every time it is on sale. This is this PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C 24 inchesperfect for the kitchen, bedroom or even a second home. Its price now is 98.34 euros. Peaq is MediaMarkt’s own brand and, for its price, it stands out for operating under the Google TV operating system. Additionally, it is compatible with HDR10 and Dolby Audio. Additionally, with a 12V connection, this TV can be used in a caravan or truck and can be powered via USB-C cable. 24″ LED TV – PEAQ PTV 24GH-5025C, HD Ready, Google TV, Dolby Audio, DVB-T2, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 2026 If you are looking for a slightly larger TV (although not much), this 32 inch QLED from Xiaomi is a good option for you. Before it cost 159 euros, but now you can take it, during the Day without VAT, for 131.40 euros. This Xiaomi TV A Pro 32 is compatible with HDR10+, Dolby Audio and DTS:X. It works under the Google TV operating system and is also compatible with Apple AirPlayso you can send content directly from your iPhone or iPad. XIAOMI QLED 32″ A Pro 2026 UltraHD 4K Dolby Audio Google TV The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Haier H50S80FUX Another TV with good value for money that is worth it on MediaMarkt’s VAT-Free Day is this one 50 inch QLED from the Haier firm belonging to the S80F Series. Its previous price was 359 euros, but now you can get it for 296.69 euros. It offers 4K resolution and is compatible with formats such as HDR10 and Dolby Audio. The operating system that comes standard is Google TV and it also offers a refresh rate of 120 Hz, making it a good option for gaming. QLED TV 50″ – Haier S80 Series H50S80FUX, QLED 4K HDR10, Google TV, Gaming 120Hz, Dolby Audio, Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 If you like try the Ambilight experience and on a big screen, this television model is for you. The Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510/12 mounts a panel 75 inch QLED and now it costs 685.12 euros. In addition, you get a refund of 100 euros and six months of free Movistar Plus. This TV works under the operating system Titan OS and its Ambilight lighting system is its hallmark. It supports Dolby Vision and HDR10, as well as voice assistants Alexa and Google Assistant. Philips Ambilight 75PUS8510 4K QLED Smart TV – 75 Inch Screen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED55B56LA Finally, if you want to have an OLED TV, now thanks to this MediaMarkt campaign you will not have to pay the average 1,000 euros for the cheapest models of this type. This from the LG firm It is now on sale and you can buy it for 759.50 euros. Your dashboard 55 inch OLED It is perfect for watching movies and series in the dark, for example. The brain of this television is the α8 Gen2 processor and it is a TV that works under the operating system webOS. LG OLED55B56LA – TV 55″, OLED 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links

“If you have time, use it to learn more about AI”

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

The arrival of artificial intelligence to our life It is no longer the stuff of science fiction movies. The young people of generation Z are going to have to deal with the different forms of integration of this technology in the world of work. One of the main pieces of advice from millionaire and investor Mark Cuban to generation Z, who are beginning to join the labor marketis understanding that mastering this technology is not an option, it’s a necessity. Mark Cuban’s advice. Millionaire investor Mark Cuban, co-founder of the video portal Broadcast.com and former owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, assured last year at the SXSW conference that throughout his life he had tried his luck in all kinds of businesses. ELON MUSK VS JEFF BEZOS: STAR WARS However, the millionaire acknowledged that, if he were to become a young man with an entire career ahead of him, he would dedicate all his time to one thing: “If I were 16, 18, 20 or 21 years old from today, I would dedicate every minute of the day to learning about AI. Even while I was sleeping, I would listen to podcasts about AI.” AI is the future and they must prepare for it. In his speech, Cuban emphasized that AI not only will automate tasksbut will also create new employment opportunities and transform existing industries. So the young people who are now entering the labor market are going to have to deal with AI-based tools or, what is even better, create them. According to Cuban, the key is not to be afraid of AI, but to embrace it and learn to work with it. This involves acquiring skills in areas such as machine learning, data analysis, and algorithm development. “Those people who dedicated the necessary time will achieve it,” insisted the businessman and investor, whose fortune it is estimated about $6 billion according to Forbes. Skills beyond AI. The millionaire highlighted that the domain of AI is not limited to computer engineers or data scientists who train AI models. In fact, businessmen consider that those who can combine AI skills with knowledge in other fields, such as marketing, finance or design, will be the more in demand in the future since the main task of generation Z will be to integrate AI into business processes. The businessman stressed that the jobs of the future They will require some type of AI-related skill. Therefore, investing time and effort in learning about AI is an investment in your professional future. The next billionaire will be thanks to AI. Since speaking at SXSW last year, Cuban has continued to insist on numerous occasions on the importance of AI. Among other things, has predicted that the first billionaire (“trillionaire” in English) will be thanks to AI and that it could perfectly well be a guy in a basement. A foundation on which to undertake. Until last year, Cuban was one of the protagonists of the television program Shark Tank from the North American ABC, in which entrepreneurs must captivate investors to put their money into their ideas. That’s why Cuban not only invites young people to learn everything they can about AI to guarantee a good job. The millionaire assures that knowing how AI works can open new avenues of entrepreneurship for young people and generate new successful companies, in the same way that today’s great technological millionaires did. a decade ago. “AI is never the solution. It is a tool,” Cuban highlighted in his speech during the conference for entrepreneurs. In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future In Xataka | AI promises to boost the productivity of companies: the problem is that we are not measuring it well Image | Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) A previous version of this topic was published in 2025. We have updated the topic with new statements from Mark Cuban

Actigraph, the Brazilian bracelet that traveled to the Moon to monitor the sleep of NASA astronauts and that you can also use

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Rodrigo Trevisan Okamoto, the Brazilian engineer and founding partner of the company Condor Instruments, knew that it was very important for the Artemis scientists to monitor the sleep of their astronauts. He also knew that NASA had acquired several activity bracelets marketed by his company years ago, whose objective is precisely to analyze users’ sleep patterns in an exhaustive way. Still, the news he received on April 1 was a shock and a surprise. Shortly after the Artemis mission took off successfully towards the Moon, received an email stating that some of its astronauts were wearing one of its bracelets. A bracelet to monitor your sleep. Nowadays there are many watches and bracelets that analyze users’ sleep. However, that of Condor Instrumentscalled Actigraph, has a key difference, since it is capable of detecting different wavelengths of light and establishing patterns with sleep. Not all colors of light influence our sleep the same way.. Blue light is the one that inhibits our melatonin levels the most and therefore prevents us from sleeping. On the other hand, in the absence of ideal darkness, warm light is a better option when we go to sleep. That’s what this bracelet that the Artemis II crew worked with throughout the mission does. More information. The bracelet has 10 sensors in total to detect light at different wavelengths. As for sleep and rest patterns, they are analyzed using sensors that detect movement in the arms. Stillness is interpreted as rest and movement as wakefulness. However, we will all agree that this alone is not a good parameter. We can be very still, but awake. However, it also measures other parameters, such as body temperature, which does tend to drop when we are asleep. Everything is analyzed together. Both in heaven and on Earth. The Actigraph is useful for any type of person. You don’t have to be an astronaut to use an activity bracelet. However, this particular one is especially useful for astronauts because their light-dark cycles are not the same as here on Earth. For example, a night on the Moon lasts around two weeks. On the International Space Station, however, there are several sunrises and sunsets in a single day. For this reason, it is especially interesting to confront sleep patterns with light patterns. A history with NASA. It is well known that space is not the best place to fall asleep. Not only because of the light issue. Also because it is a very stressful situation and because, in general, there is not much room for intimacy. In addition, it appears that microgravity also affects sleep, although the exact causes have not yet been determined. For all this, in 2023 NASA decided to buy several Actigraph. The Artemis missions were just beginning and they wanted to start looking for ways to analyze astronauts’ sleep for when the first manned voyage took place. They even met with Okamoto several times. However, at no time was it confirmed that his watches were going to be used. There was a possibility, but he only received confirmation immediately after takeoff. It must have been a high almost as high as the one the astronauts experienced. Okay, maybe I’ve gone too far with the comparison, but surely news like this will feel good to anyone. Image | NASA/Condor Instruments In Xataka | The far side of the Moon hid an icy secret. We finally know why it is so different from what we see

The sector already invoices 80,000 million a year, but OpenAI and Anthropic take 89% of the income

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

Everyone wants to get a piece of the AI pie, but the reality is that the pie today belongs to two companies: OpenAI and Anthropic. This confirms it an analysis from The Information in which the income of the 34 most relevant companies in the market today has been analyzed. The accounts are beginning to be striking, but so is the reality of this new technological duopoly. The sector doubles income as a whole. According to the data collected by this means, these 34 companies have an annualized income of 80,000 million dollars, about 6,600 million dollars per month. That represents 112% more than six months ago, which means that these companies have grown more than double in that period of time. The most relevant fact is not in fact that. But in reality Anthropic and OpenAI are the ones thatthey win. That figure would be promising if it weren’t for the other major conclusion of the study: 89% of that income goes to just two companies: Anthropic and OpenAI. The other 32 share “the crumbs”, because almost 9 out of every 10 dollars in income goes to the accounts of these two new technological giants. This is generative AI. The analysis published by The Information includes the 34 main companies in the generative AI sector. Therefore, hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) or other large technology companies that participate in other areas of the industry. The report is therefore especially striking when it comes to verifying how much these companies are earning, and the reality is clear: they have grown very, very quickly. But (I). We have two big buts. The first: although both Anthropic and OpenAI are growing significantly in revenue, it must be taken into account that not all of them are for these companies. Anthropic has to give up some of that revenue to both Amazon and Google because they resell their services. OpenAI must also share 20% of its revenue with Microsoft until 2030, which means that this year it will have to pay about $6 billion. Companies have turned to AI, and the big winners are both OpenAI and Anthropic, which has accelerated exceptionally in 2026. Source: VisualCapitalist. But (II). The second but is even more important, and is that of a reality that continues to be overwhelming: these companies continue to spend much more money than they earn. OpenAI itself has estimated an expense of 600 billion dollars in computing capacity until 2030, and only in 2026 are their losses expected to triple to 14 billion dollars. It doesn’t matter if you win a lot: you keep losing even more. With Anthropic there is no recent spending estimate data, but the company itself has a projection of a cash flow of $17 billion in 2028. That is not the same as profits but it is a clear indication of when it expects to stop losing money. The important thing here is that this is an estimate. It could be fulfilled, but it could also not be fulfilled. The little ones grow. Three of the best-known AI startups have crossed the barrier of 500 million annual revenues since December and they now join Cursor, which achieved it last summer. These are Perplexity, ElevenLabs and Cognition, which demonstrate that they are already capturing part of a market that does not stop growing… and spending. But the big ones don’t stop distancing themselves. Although all of these startups already have an important dimension, Anthropic and OpenAI are at another level. Both have grown exceptionally and in recent times we have seen the takeover from Anthropic to OpenAI, which already has managed to achieve in market valuation. The creators of Claude were valued at 380 billion in February, but the success of Claude Code and his models in business environments has caused its price to skyrocket. The company plans to raise tens of billions of dollars this summer to reach a valuation of nearly a billion dollars. Stock market IPOs in sight. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing their respective IPOs, and in both cases they hope to lift each about 60 billion dollars from investors to become companies right off the bat with market capitalizations that could be around a trillion dollars. It is an extraordinary figure, especially considering that at this time only 13 companies around the world they exceed that figure. In Xataka | Google and Amazon Just Invested Billions in Anthropic: It’s the Biggest Clue About Who’s Winning in AI

The mission is to teach them to work in real life

May 18, 2026 by usatoday24

For a long time, the big conversation about artificial intelligence has revolved around models capable of summarizing, programming or generating images. But when we take that ambition to the physical world, everything changes. A robot does not learn to work just by reading instructions: it needs to observe, repeat, fail and accumulate data on real movements. That is why the next frontier of robotics is not only in manufacturing more agile bodies or more precise hands, but in building the entire system necessary to teach them to act outside the laboratory. This system is beginning to take shape in Fujian, where the province’s first large data collection factory has been launched in a test phase. According to CCTVthe facility is located in Area D of Fuzhou Software Park and has been created by Fujian Jufu Technology. There, almost 30 robots follow the instructions of different operators, described by Chinese sources as “teachers”, to practice tasks such as cleaning tables, sorting fruits and vegetables or disposing of parcel boxes. The mechanics of that “school” are relatively easy to imagine, but very demanding underneath. Operators wear virtual reality devices and operate controls to guide the robot during each exercise. When the operator raises his arm, the machine reproduces the gesture and, for example, grab a paper cup to place it on top of another. The important thing is not only that it completes the action, but that each movement, joint angle and clamp pressure is recorded by cameras and sensors. The school where robots learn with real data One of the least showy parts is also one of the most decisive. The tasks we see in the video, such as cleaning a table or picking up a glass, seem simple because we do them almost without thinking. For a humanoid, on the other hand, each gesture requires a specific sequence of physical decisions. Data collection engineer Jiao Shiwei explained to Fuzhou News that even the smallest movements need to be learned through data, and that each action must be designed according to the characteristics of the robot itself to find the most suitable trajectory. The key word here is “generalization.” That is, the ability to apply what has been learned when the environment is no longer identical to the training environment. Shiwei summed it up with two very basic actions: pick up a glass and clean a table. If the object, surface and stain do not change, the robot has it relatively easy. But in a house, a factory or a service space, almost nothing is repeated the same. Hence, data collection workers introduce variations in glasses, tablecloths and tables to expand the scope for learning. The bottom line is that robots are also entering their own race for data. In other areas of AI, much of the progress was based on digital material already available. In robotics, on the other hand, many of the examples must be generated from scratch, with real machines, real objects and movements repeated over and over again. Xinhua puts the problem in these terms: the bottleneck of humanoids is no longer concentrated only in the hardware, but in how to continue perfecting their “brain” through training in application scenarios. The industrial reading of the project helps to understand why these small tasks can end up becoming infrastructure. Chen Yishi, CEO of Jufu Technology, told Fuzhou News that these types of factories provide support for end-to-end models and implementation in vertical scenarios. The idea is that an AI robot does not function as a traditional machine limited to a fixed sequence, but as a guided system capable of make decisions on the body from real training. The company is also recent. Jufu Technology was founded in September 2025 and presents its activity as a combination of data factory and self-development. Its objective is not limited to accumulating examples of movement, but to create around that base a local ecosystem of algorithmic talent, data and collaboration with the industrial chain. Yishi, for his part, pointed out that its future products aim at industrial manufacturing, safety inspection, research and education, although sources present it as a roadmap, not as an already consolidated deployment. Images | Jufu Technology | Xinhua In Xataka | The ‘Chinese Netflix’ has designed a plan for AI to generate the majority of its content within five years. It sounds risky

have measured for the first time how its disappearance makes us poorer and malnourished

May 17, 2026 by usatoday24

We have been hearing warnings for years about the global collapse of populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Until now, the debate had often focused on the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, but now a new and pioneering study has just shown that this ecological crisis goes much further by pointing out that the decline of insects It is already directly affecting human nutritionbecoming a very important food safety issue. It is being analyzed. Although some people may wish that these insects would end up disappearing because they disgust them, the reality is that it is not the best of ideas. Here the key piece of this new alert is a study published in Nature that quantified the real and tangible impact that the lack of pollinators has on the environment. What has been seen? The team here analyzed the daily life of 10 agricultural villages in Nepal for a year and cross-referenced data on the abundance and diversity of pollinating insects in the area, the exact yields of their crops and, most importantly, the nutritional status of the inhabitants. Once all this information was cross-referenced, the results indicated that pollinators are directly responsible for approximately 44% of the agricultural income of these communities. But the most critical data is in the diet, since insects guarantee more than 20% of the intake of vitamin A, E and folate. And, by decreasing pollination, Harvests of fruits, vegetables and seeds rich in these micronutrients fall drastically, leaving communities exposed to nutritional deficiencies. A great crisis. To understand the magnitude of this finding, we must look at the global trend, often dubbed in the scientific community and in the media as the “insect apocalypse.” In this case, in 2019 a study set off alarm bells by estimating that 40% of species of insects worldwide is in decline. And the data pointed to massive drops in the number of flying insects in parts of Germany and also in the forest of Puerto Rico. And logically, this global disappearance has consequences, since insects are the basis of countless food webs and essential for nutrient recycling and pollination. Globally, it is estimated that approximately three-quarters of the world’s food crops depend to some extent on animal pollination. Why do they disappear? science is clear that intensive land use and climate change are very important factors when it comes to explaining why these insects are declining. And the regions that suffer the worst declines in insect abundance and diversity are, paradoxically, those with intensive agriculture and little remaining natural habitat, aggravated by rising temperatures. In the end, we are facing a true vicious circle, since the habitat of insects is destroyed and pesticides are also used massively to produce more food, but in doing so we annihilate the very pollinators on which the profitability and quality of those same crops depends. Is there a solution? Here the escape route specified by the research points to the need to plant strips of native flowers around the crops to ensure constant food for pollinators. Furthermore, transitioning towards agricultural models that do not indiscriminately poison our allies is also essential. Images | wirestock at Magnific In Xataka | We have a serious problem with the extinction of bees. The United Kingdom wants to solve it with bricks

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