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MediaMarkt has on its Day without VAT one of the best offers that the Google Pixel 10 Pro has received. And it comes with a gift

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MediaMarkt usually offers very varied offers that not only focus on price reductions, but also on additions through gifts. Now we have the best example in the Google Pixel 10 Pro that, for 742.97 eurosincludes a totally free 4K Google TV Streamer. And be very careful because it is a device valued in the store for 98.34 euros. Of course, the offer will only be available today at MediaMarkt, during its VAT-Free Day. Google Pixel 10 Pro (128 GB) + Google TV Streamer 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A Google Pixel that comes with a gift He Google Pixel 10 Pro is, together with the Google Pixel 10 Pro XLthe best mobile within the brand. It is perfect for those people looking for compact mobile phones, since it has a screen that has a diagonal of 6.3 inches. In addition, this screen shines because of how good it looks both indoors and outdoors and its LTPO panel offers very good fluidity at all times. The Google Tensor G5 may not be the best processor in Android phones, but it is sufficient for regular use. In addition, this mobile comes with 16GB RAM and will receive software updates for many years (six years specifically). Now, one of the most notable points of the Google Pixel 10 Pro is the photographic section, especially because it has a 5x telephoto which allows you to capture photographs taken at distant distances with a very good level of detail. In addition, the camera software is very well polished, something that we noticed especially with the main sensor that is capable of achieving very good results. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: iPhone 14 offer today ✅ THE BEST ANDl pack: Not only does it come with the mobile, which in itself has a good price, but it also includes a Google TV Streamer 4K completely free. Your photographic sectionespecially in relation to the 5x telephoto. ❌ THE WORST Storage: We are talking about an offer that has fallen in the 128 GB configuration, a very small figure if we usually save photos and videos locally. Fast charging is only 30Wa very small figure if we take into account that the competition offers much higher figures in cheaper mobile phones. 💡 BUY IT IF… You want a good phone to take photos and videos, as long as you have a cloud service to save them. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You will save the photos and videos locally. In that case, at least it is essential that we have 256 GB. You may also be interested Pixelsnap Case for Google Pixel 10 & Pixel 10 Pro – Durable Protection – Stylish Protection – Obsidian (Created by Google) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 – Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation – Bluetooth Headphones – Obsidian 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 | Alejandro AlcoleaGoogle In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros

Spain will dedicate 719 million to build an “AI Gigafactory” between Madrid and Tarragona. It will have little giga

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While the world debate about control of models like Claude Fable 5the Government of Spain has moved to try to gain positions in the race for technological sovereignty. The Council of Ministers has authorized a public investment of 719 million euros with one objective: to create an “Artificial Intelligence Gigafactory”. The investment is notable for a country like Spain, but it is a drop in an ocean absolutely dominated by large US technology companies. The political signal here is strong. The European Commission wants to mobilize 20,000 million euros to develop AI projects. That money is reserved for gigafactories, and presents these data centers as a bet so that Europe does not depend only on external actors. Here Spain not late at allbecause it already has “AI Factories” linked to the EuroHPC consortium, and the MareNostrum 5 The BSC is precisely one of those reference centers. The Spanish project “will compete with a multi-site candidacy that includes the locations of Móra la Nova, in Tarragona, and San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), to house the gigafactory,” explains the official announcement. Many unknowns. The announcement mixes things like public investment with the promise of strategic infrastructure. The problem is that it is one thing to “approve” the plan and another to build those data centers. We still need to know the final composition of the consortium that will provide the funds, the deadlines, and above all the fine print that clarifies who will have access to these data centers and who will manage them. The description of its scope is also ambiguous. There is talk of a service to the “Spanish AI ecosystem”, but it is not clear if this infrastructure will be available to end users or will be exclusive to public organizations and large companies. Perspective puts everything in its place (for the worse). In the United States, private investment in data centers is skyrocketing. Only that belonging to venture capital companies reached 45.7 billion dollars in 2025. But as we know, the capex of large technology companies, dedicated almost entirely to AI, will reach 2026. the 673 billion dollars. In China the ambition is also colossal, and the country is already preparing an investment of about 295 billion dollars in the next five years to create data centers throughout the country. China-Spain, compared. There are several ways to compare this data, and China is a good way to size this news: China is 19 times larger than Spain in surface area In addition, it is about 29 times larger in population China will invest more than 400 times Spain’s nominal investment, although it is true that the Chinese plan is five-year. In China, about 195 euros per person are invested, while in Spain about 15 euros per inhabitant are invested. China invests about 14 times more for each citizen. Chinese investment (again, five years) represents 1.5% of its GDP (0.3% per year). In Spain the figure would be close to 0.05% of GDP. Chinese investment could be considered six times higher in terms of GDP. Who will have access. To understand who will have access to this gigafactory, the best mirror to look at is MareNostrum 5, which is not “public” in the sense of free use by any citizen. This, like other centers in the EuroHPC consortium, is supposed to be available to European researchers, industry, SMEs and startups. All of them can theoretically take advantage of this infrastructure with access requests to resources. This is not like someone who connects to chatgpt.com and starts working: whoever wants to use those resources must justify it and go through a bureaucratic process. The data center is from Spain, its chips are not. Although the Government’s message is that of avoid dependency of foreign technology, the reality is obvious: those data centers may be in Tarragona and Madrid, but the chips with which the data will be processed They will be from the American company Nvidia and will be manufactured by the Taiwanese company TSMC. Europe and Spain are making efforts to try to mitigate this dependence, yes, but the reality is overwhelming: We continue to depend on these and many other companiesand it is not likely that we will stop doing so in the short or medium term. Promises and realities. The approval of the project is undoubtedly good news, but once again this is at the moment more of a promise to act than an immediate initiative. There are no estimated dates or clear details about the execution of the project, and once again in both Europe and Spain It seems to be more important to say things than to do them.. Let’s hope that this investment soon crystallizes into a real project: the intention and purpose are good. Now it remains for them to come true. In Xataka | I have decided to become independent from all US technology and embrace European technology. This is how I’m getting it

Ninja Theory closure rumors and profound changes

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In the last Xbox Games ShowcaseNinja Theory announced ‘Senua’, the third installment of ‘Hellblade’. Eight days later, according to Bloombergthe company is negotiating its closure. They are not the only ones: at least three studios under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella would be negotiating with Microsoft to avoid closure. It is just the tip of the iceberg of an environment with traces of apocalypse at Xbox: the same Monday that the news came out, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Craig Duncan, and the chief of staff, Louise O’Connor, left the company. They are hacks in the structure of the company whose origins and consequences go back a long way. Who closes? The three studios that have been leaked so far are Compulsion Games, which released ‘South of Midnight’ in April 2025, winning a Peabody; Double Fine, founded by LucasArts veteran Tim Schafer in 2000, has recently focused on small games like ‘Keeper’ and ‘Kiln’ in the last year, following a career that includes ‘Psychonauts’, ‘Brütal Legend’ and ‘Broken Age’. Ninja Theory is the studio behind the entire ‘Hellblade’ saga, and before that, high-quality blockbusters like ‘Heavenly Sword’. As other media have also confirmed, like VGCCompulsion and Double Fine are in negotiations to buy themselves and become independent (just as Toys for Bob did in 2023, after which they announced the return of Spyro). Ninja Theory has a more complicated scenario: The studio is being closed directly by Xbox, and its only alternative would be to find an external buyer to acquire it. And in any case, independence is not an easy way out: even if the studios manage to buy themselves, they will lose many employees in the process. Who are these people. Regarding departures from the management team, Craig Duncan arrived at Xbox in 2011 and directed Rare for more than 13 years, a period in which ‘Sea of ​​Thieves’ was released and the Kinect peripheral was developed. He assumed leadership of Xbox Game Studios in October 2024, when under that umbrella there were studios such as Halo Studios, The Coalition, Playground Games, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games, Double Fine and a dozen more. His duties will be temporarily assumed by Matt Booty. Louise O’Connor also came to Xbox through Rare, where she joined in 1999 as an animator. This is her second discharge: she obtained the position of chief of staff in September 2025, shortly after leaving Rare following the cancellation of ‘Everwild’. These two simultaneous departures, in the positions that mediate between the CEO and the studios, point to internal turbulence. “This cannot continue.” Less than a week ago, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Matt Booty published a internal memo that was also made public in which they described the situation in the company with considerable crudeness. The fiscal year that ends June 30 will leave Xbox with a profit margin of around 3%. The division spent $20 billion on studio investments over the past five years (not counting, of course, the purchase of Activision Blizzard for 69,000 million) while its annual income fell almost 500 million in the same period. Not everything is bad management, but a situation, in general, very complicated for the sector: the company currently pays four times more for hardware components than last fall (as they all do), and that cost is expected to rise even more heading into Christmas 2027. The memo called the studio system “overextended” and admitted that Xbox had tried to “balance too many different strategies” without funding its studios enough to be competitive. “This cannot continue,” they even said. What is coming. It is expected that Xbox will announce things after the close of the fiscal year, on June 30 (the same day of the memo, in a coincidence that is difficult to see as coincidental, Bloomberg advanced that the company is going to suffer massive layoffs). Sharma said that the new Xbox will prioritize “the biggest franchises”, that is, ‘Halo’, ‘Gears of War’, ‘Fable’ or ‘The Elder Scrolls’. It is possible to think that studies with lower IPs or that minimally deviate from the mainstream They are left out of the plans. What undoubtedly increases the feeling of unleashed chaos and profound earthquakes within the company is the timing: This all takes place right after the Summer Game Fest, when Xbox presented a showcase on June 7 with very precise and careful plans, which included Ninja Theory’s own ‘Senua’, the return of ‘Fable’, the long-awaited new ‘Gears of War’… A week later, one of the studios that starred in that showcase He is negotiating his survival. In Xataka | Xbox lowers Game Pass and backs down with Call of Duty: the bet of “Everything on subscriptions” has not turned out as Microsoft expected

We sensed that the peace agreement had been expensive for the US. What we did not imagine is the crazy amount that is going to be paid to Iran

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Exactly 10 years ago, the image of an airplane downloading 400 million of dollars in cash in Iran became one of the most controversial symbols of Barack Obama’s foreign policy. In fact, Trump spent years using that episode as proof that Washington had “paid” for peace. Ten years later, history repeats itself… but with many more zeros. The peace bill. The truth is that it was sensed from the first moment that the cease-fire between the United States and Iran was not exactly going to come free for Washington. What no one imagined was the magnitude of the price: up to 300,000 million of dollars in the form of a reconstruction and investment fund to relaunch the Iranian economy. The figure is so enormous that it completely transforms the narrative of the war. What began as a campaign of maximum pressure and bombings on nuclear facilities has ended up mutating into something much more uncomfortable for the White House: an agreement where the supposedly punished person can leave with a historic financial injection if it complies. Kharg Island From punishing to financing. The paradox could not be more brutal for Donald Trump. For years he built a good part of his speech attacking the Barack Obama nuclear pactdenouncing that he had filled Tehran with “pallets of money.” Now his administration is promoting something that potentially multiplies that concession on another scale. The argument is that the money will not come directly from the US Government, but from Western and Asian companies that would enter Iran if sanctions are lifted. But the geopolitical effect is the same: Iran’s economic survival becomes guaranteed by a deal that Washington desperately needed to close. Hormuz, the key. It we were counting yesterday. The real trigger for the turn was not nuclear, but economic. When Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, it left more than a fifth of the world’s oil and gas trade up in the air. The market held out for a few days, but the pressure began to be unbearable. More than 500 ships were trapped, maritime traffic plummeted and the world’s largest shipping companies began to warn that reopening the route would not be immediate. Everything changed there. The war ceased to be a regional issue and became a direct threat to the global economy and, above all, to the pockets of the American consumer. Washington chose oil. That’s where the interests of Washington and Israel diverged. While Benjamin Netanyahu wanted keep pressing To further weaken the Iranian regime and even force a change in regional balance, Trump saw the domestic political cost of prolonging the energy crisis. With elections approaching and the price of oil as a threat, the priority stopped being to subdue Iran and became reopening Hormuz as soon as possible. In practice, this meant accepting a much more limited agreementfocused on navigation, ceasefire and future nuclear negotiations. Israel doesn’t see it. I was counting this morning the wall street journal that in Jerusalem the reading is almost opposite. The fear is not just that Iran will receive billions, but that it will do so without immediately handing over all of its enriched uranium or completely giving up rebuilding its nuclear program. For many Israeli strategists, this means that Tehran gains oxygentime and resources to rearm. Furthermore, they see profound damage to American credibility: after months of military and economic pressure, the end result looks more like a purchased pause than a strategic victory. A peace that strengthens some. The agreement, therefore, leaves an uncomfortable and quite surreal image: the United States bombed, pressured and isolated Iran to end up offering the conditions for its reconstruction. The Iranian regime comes out beaten, yes, but alive, with the Strait as a negotiating weapon and with the possibility of receiving an avalanche of foreign investment. Of course, Trump could possibly sell it as stability and containment nuclear. But seen from the outside, the feeling is very different: peace has not only cost Washington dearly, but it may end up financing the very actor it tried to corner and overthrow. Image | US Navy, Google Earth In Xataka | We have been fearing the Apocalypse for 100 days due to the closure of Hormuz. The blow is going to be given to us by a heat wave in China In Xataka | Ukraine turned drones into hunters. A helicopter shot down in Hormuz has transformed them into a Spielberg film

The EU puts an end to some of the most desperate airline practices. The fact that the carry-on suitcase is free is really not one of them.

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Thirteen years after the European Commission opened the reform process, the European Parliament and the EU Council They have closed a political agreement to give a twist to the issue of the rights that passengers have when getting on a plane. The current rule dated back to 2004. At that time, Ryanair transported about 23 million travelers a year. Today it moves more than 180 million. The world has changed a lot since then, and regulation will have to too. We tell you all the details. Why has it taken so long? The European Commission launched the reform proposal in 2013. The European Parliament positioned itself relatively earlybut the Council, where the national governments are, blocked the file for almost a decade. There were several discrepancies, including delay thresholds for compensation, which some states wanted to raise; the issue of regulatory burden on the plane, and more. What has ended up unblocking the process has been in part the calendar. And in July the presidency of the EU Council changes hands to Ireland, which is precisely the headquarters of Ryanair. And so, according to sources cited by El Mundowould have complicated the negotiations even more. What changes for the passenger. The agreement introduce several measures Important for those who buy a plane ticket in Europe: Carry-on suitcase in the base rate. Airlines must show from the first moment of purchase a price that includes the transportation of a trolley-type cabin suitcase (up to 7 kg and maximum dimensions of 100 cm in total). This measure is the one that most affects the low-cost business model, which For years they have started from the lowest price and then add extras. Now the starting point will include the luggage. And those who do not want to take it can opt for a reduced rate. Always free personal item. The right to board the plane with a small piece of luggage (a backpack or bag of up to 40x30x15 cm that fits under the front seat) will be guaranteed at no additional cost, regardless of the contracted rate. Families and people with reduced mobility, together without paying more. Airlines will not be able to charge for ensuring that minors under 14 years of age travel seated with an adult companion. The same applies to people with disabilities or reduced mobility and pregnant women. End of some lower rates. Charges for correcting spelling errors in the name on the ticket or for printing the boarding pass disappear if the passenger has already checked-in. Delay compensation, unchanged. This has been the other major front of the negotiation. The threshold of three hours of delay to be entitled to compensation remains intact. The amounts too, paying 250 euros for flights of up to 1,500 km, 400 euros for journeys between 1,500 and 3,500 km, and 600 euros for the rest. What’s wrong with the suitcase?. Regulation around cabin baggage has been a constant tug-of-war for years. The European Parliament came to the negotiations asking for carry-on luggage to be included in the ticket free of charge and universally. It has not completely succeeded, since airlines will be able to continue charging for this service, but they must reflect its cost and make it visible from the beginning of the purchase process. Javier Gándara, spokesperson for the Association of Airlines (ALA), which brings together companies such as Iberia, Vueling, Ryanair and easyJet, account to El Mundo that the standard “does not respond to current needs and goes against consumer philosophy in recent years.” How airlines read it. The ALA employers’ association celebrates that Europe has recognized that “it is perfectly legal to offer a cheaper fare to those passengers who only carry a carry-on bag”, something that indirectly validates this business model against the sanctions imposed by the Government in Spain. But they criticize that forcing the cost of the suitcase to be included from the first price shown “distorts the principle of consumer choice” and can lead to many travelers “ending up paying for a service that they do not need.” For companies like Ryanair, services not included in the ticket generate more than 4,000 million euros annual in revenue, so it seems more or less inevitable that the airline will end up raising the cost of its base fare. And Spain?. The country has voted against the agreement in the Council, along with Latvia. Finland and Austria abstained. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, led by Pablo Bustinduy, continues to maintain that the fact that hand luggage is free is a right already recognized by the Spanish courts and by a ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU, and that this criterion was what it was based on. that fine of 179 million euros imposed in 2024 on five low-cost airlines. Brussels, however, opened infringement proceedings against Spain for these sanctions. The new agreement does not resolve that conflict. And it is that the Ministry considers it insufficient because it has not really managed to force the airlines to include the cabin bag in their lowest fare, and the airlines now have a guarantee to strengthen their position. What remains pending. The political agreement must be formally ratified by the plenary session of the European Parliament, whose vote is scheduled for July. Once adopted and published in the Official Journal of the EU, the new rights will come into force twelve months later, expected in 2027. The Commission has also committed to assessing in three years whether the scope of the regulation can be extended to third country operators flying to the EU. Cover image | Suhyeon Choi In Xataka | The fastest civil aircraft since Concorde has just set its first record. Speed ​​is only part of the story

what it is and how it wants to revolutionize streaming with its improved efficiency

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Let’s explain to you what is AV2 codeca new video codec that has arrived after more than five years of development. It is the successor of the AV1 present in most large platforms where video is broadcast over the Internet, so it represents a future improvement in how we all watch online videos. We are going to start the article by explaining what this codec is and what it is for, so that you understand it even if you have never heard of its predecessor. Then we will tell you its main improvements, and we will end with an estimate of when it can start arriving. What is the AV2 codec and what is it for? A video codec is the technology, the software responsible for compress and decompress moving images. Thus, the images are sent from a server to your computer compressed so that they do not occupy or consume excessive amounts of data, and then they are decompressed on your computer to view them in maximum quality. For example, if you wanted to watch a 4K movie on a streaming service, this would possibly cost you huge amounts of gigabytes, and would require a connection of a speed that not everyone has. But thanks to video codecs, less data is consumed on the mobile, and you require less fast WiFi than if the video were uncompressed. That said, AV2 is the successor codec to the very popular AV1currently used by YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, Instagram, Discord, and many other video platforms. It has been developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium made up of more than 50 companies, including Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft and Samsung. The main characteristic of AOMedia developments is that it works under a free patent policy, so any manufacturer or platform you can implement the codec without paying licenses. This is what makes its adoption expected to be as massive as that of its predecessor. In fact, its objective is the same: that you can watch higher quality video with less bandwidth, or with the same quality but consuming less data. Of course, it comes with a series of technical improvements that will improve the experience even more. AV2 codec news According to its creators, the AV2 offers 30% higher compression efficiency than AV1 approximately, with improvements of 28.6% in the YUV-PSNR metric and 32.6% in the VMAF benchmark. This means that you can get the same image quality when you watch movies or series on services like Netflix, but consuming 30% less bandwidth. Furthermore, if you already have a good fiber, the platform will be able to offer you higher image quality with the same connectionmaintaining the same bit rate. This makes it a new codec especially useful for 4K or 8K content. Therefore, when platforms begin to adopt this new technology we should notice an improvement, at least, in the data we consume when viewing content. On a technical level, in addition to these new features, these others stand out: Larger superblocks: AV2 uses 256×256 pixel blocks versus AV1’s 128×128, allowing for smarter partitioning and improved image prediction. Up to 7 reference frames: This improves prediction of movement between scenes. Support for immersive and multi-stream formats: Support is included for formats such as 3D videos through several layers, and for sports broadcasts with several simultaneous cameras. Planned future extensions: The AV2 codec is also expected to eventually implement support for 12-bit video and greater color depth, as well as potential AI/ML capabilities, which will be offered as optional extended profiles. When will AV2 arrive? The AV2 codec has been official since the beginning of June 2026, but for it to reach devices such as smart televisions or mobile phones, chips are needed that are capable of playing files compressed with this technology. Therefore, possibly not until 2027 or 2028 when, with the arrival of chips from MediaTek, Qualcomm, Amlogic or Rockchip that incorporate support for the technology, it begins to reach us all en masse. That will also be when we start to see it arrive on the main streaming platforms, although there are no specific dates for this either. It will just do it over time. Support will also have to start arriving in the main Internet browsers. According to AOMedia, 53% of its members plan to adopt AV2 within 12 months of its launch, and 88% plan to do so within the next two years. Therefore, The technology is ready and now it needs to be implementedand this will take time. In Xataka Basics | How and where to download 4K and full resolution wallpapers for your Windows PC

For decades, companies have accumulated capital and talent. Satya Nadella Thinks They Need Something Else Now: Token Capital

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The reflections of the CEOs of large companies must always be taken with some caution since they are not usually simple reflections thrown into the air. They seek to give someone their ear: investors, rivals, users or to calm the waters among its employees. Satya Nadella, has published in their profiles of social networks a text in which he redefined, without much dissimulation, what a company should be in the era of artificial intelligence. It was not just a statement, but rather it almost pointed to become a manifesto in which the focus of the race was changed by develop the best AI model (an area where Microsoft seems to accept the Copilot’s defeat) and defines that the future of companies involves generating a third pillar to their structure: token capital. The company of the future needs a new type of capital: token capital. Nadella does not conceive AI as a substitute for human employees since, according to his thesis, human capital is the basis for turning AI into a truly disruptive tool that is nourished by knowledgethe criteria, the relationships and the reading of patterns that employees provide. However, it brings a new element to the business equation: token capital. This new element is formed by the AI ​​that a company builds and owns, not in the models that third companies rent to it. Currently, most companies use AI as a subscription service in which they pay for a model that they use to perform tasks with it. However, when they stop paying for it, all that knowledge and evolution is lost and the company retains nothing of all the knowledge. time and resources you have invested in fine-tuning its use. Nadella maintains that this path leads to transferring value to a few suppliers and the only ones who accumulate advantage are those who sell the models, the knowledge of each company ends up being the raw material that feeds others. The loop that becomes active. The Microsoft CEO’s idea revolves around what he calls a “learning loop”: a system that feeds back with each decision made and each workflow completed. That is, it is a knowledge base that makes the company’s memory permanent and not lost when changing the AI ​​model or employees. “This cycle becomes the company’s new intellectual property,” highlights the Microsoft CEO. “I look at it as a hill-climbing machine.” The key is that this asset, unlike what happens today, is evolutionary and is built based on training with real company data and internal measurements of its response. The more you use it and tune it, the more value it has. And, Nadella argues, the company that builds it will soon have something that can’t be bought in any AI model marketplace: a tool that has been “trained” to do a very specific job in a custom context. AI as a tool, not a monopoly. There is a paragraph in Nadella’s statement that is striking coming from the CEO of a company valued at three trillion dollars. Nadella compares the current risk with what happened in the first phase of globalization: entire industrial sectors were emptied by outsourcing. The macroeconomic figures of the countries they endured the loss of industrial fabric, but the social fabric ended up suffering by adding tension in the labor market. His warning leaves no room for interpretation: “If all value is concentrated in a few models, political economy simply will not tolerate it. There is no social permission for an AI future that destroys entire industries.” The goal, he says, has to be an ecosystem where each company can build its own learning, not be another cog in an AI monopoly. Actually, this is not new, since it is the same principle with which Microsoft built its platform business in Azure cloudwhich used Microsoft’s infrastructure for companies to generate more value than the platform itself had. The problem that the manifesto does not solve. However, Nadella’s words also raise a series of contradictions with respect to the latest movements of Microsoft and other large technology companies. The CEO maintains that human capital becomes essential as token capital grows since it is the employees who make a company’s AI learn. However, his own company has been half doing the opposite. Microsoft fired to more than 15,000 employees during 2025, and in April 2026 it offered voluntary retirement packages to some 8,750 workers in the US, something it had not done in its 51-year history, linking these layoffs to your commitment to AI. It is not an exclusive case of Microsoft. In the first quarter of 2026 they are already more than 92,000 layoffs among the employees of large technology companies and the argument that all companies repeat is the same: AI allows us to do more with less people. In Xataka | Jensen Huang enters the Samsung salary controversy: “Workers should earn as much as possible”

five portable air conditioners without work or installation ideal for your home

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The heat is here to stay until the summer ends, so it is a good time to buy a device that allows us to cope better with it if we have not already done so. If you cannot install a split air conditioner or you are simply looking for something better than a fan, in this article we are going to review five portable air conditioners that do not require works or installation. Comfee 3 in 1 by 224.99 eurosa portable air conditioner that includes its own window kit. Midea by 429.99 eurosa model with a window kit that offers 3,000 frigories. Cecotec ForceClima 7100 by 179 eurosthe best-selling portable air conditioner on Amazon. De’Longhi Compact PAC ES72 by 419 eurosa model that also has a dehumidifier and ventilation function. Create Silkair 5000 by 155.95 euroswith a dehumidifier function and its own window kit. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Comfee 3 in 1 He Comfee 3 in 1 (224.99 euros) is a particularly interesting device for those people looking for a triple function of air conditioning, air conditioning and dehumidifier. It offers 2,000 frigories, can be used with your mobile phone and includes its own kit for sliding windows. If you have folding windows, the kit is not useful, so we recommend taking a look at the Hoomee insulating coverwhich is ideal for both this model and the following ones. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Midea The model Midea (429.99 euros) can be used for both summer and winter because it incorporates a heat pump. It offers a cooling capacity of 3,000 frigories, can be controlled via the touch panel or with a smartphone and also comes with its own kit for sliding windows. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Cecotec ForceClima 7100 On the other hand, if you are looking for a more economical model, the Cecotec ForceClima 7100 (179 euros) is not far behind in terms of specifications. It is the best seller on Amazon for several reasons: because of its price, because it offers a cooling capacity of 1,750 frigories and because it comes with a ventilation and dehumidifier function. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links De’Longhi Compact PAC ES72 He De’Longhi Compact PAC ES72 It is not a particularly cheap model (419 euros), but it is quite complete. It offers 8,300 BTU, has a timer of up to 24 hours, is quite compact and has three speeds. In addition, it does not make too much noise, since the minimum noise is 47 dB. De’Longhi Compact PAC ES72 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Create Silkair 5000 Lastly, the Create Silkair 5000 (155.95 euros) is a portable air conditioner that has a cooling capacity of 7,000 BTU, allowing it to cool rooms of up to 20 square meters. It also comes with a fan and dehumidifier function and includes its own kit for sliding windows. 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 | Comfee, Midea, Cecotec, De’Longhi, Create In Xataka | Buying guide for connected fans: recommendations for choosing a “smart” model with WiFi and six models from 50 euros In Xataka | Silent ceiling fan: which one to buy? Tips and recommendations

3.5 kilometers over the Guadalquivir and a height that no other bridge in Europe reaches

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Seville is going to have the longest road bridge in Spain and, most likely, the largest in all of Europe. The most interesting thing of all is that the project already has an official green light and until approved budget. What is missing, as usually happens in these macroprojects, is time. Decades without solution. The SE-40 ring road has been a pending issue in Seville for years. Of the 75 kilometers planned, only 38 are in service today. The section that was missing (and that was the most difficult) is precisely the one that must cross the Guadalquivir to the southwest of the city, between Dos Hermanas and Coria del Río. As long as this situation continues, traffic continues to be diverted to the SE-30, a road where traffic accumulates daily and for which the SE-40 was born, precisely, as a solution. It took a while to start. For almost two decades, the project has been paralyzed because no agreement was reached on whether to opt for a subfluvial tunnel through the Guadalquivir or build a bridge. The tunnel option ended up being discarded due to its enormous technical difficulty and exorbitant cost. Furthermore, according to point El Confidencial, the failure of that plan left consequences such as a tunnel boring machine valued at 37 million euros that was stored unused for more than a decade and ended up being sold for just 1.8 million. So the Ministry of Transportation ended up opting for the bridge solution, approving the project last November. The bridge traces the Dos Hermanas–Palomares–Coria del Río section, is 5,069 kilometers long and has an estimated budget of 688.11 million euros (VAT included). ORn pillarless cable-stayed bridge across the river. Perhaps the most outstanding element of the complex is a cable-stayed bridge whose central span, 366 meters of lightwill avoid the Guadalquivir without supporting any pile within the channel. This decision aims to protect the riverside vegetation and the Special Conservation Area of ​​the Bajo Guadalquivir, also guaranteeing that large boats can cross it. The total of viaducts add up to approximately 3.5 kilometers in length. A record gauge. The minimum vertical clearance over the river is 70.80 meters. It was a figure required by the Port Authority of Seville so that the bridge does not interfere with maritime traffic towards the river port. According to the newspaperthe current European champion in vertical clearance is the Puente de la Constitución of 1812, in the Bay of Cádiz, with 69 meters. This new bridge aims to surpass it, which would place it among the bridges with the largest clearance on the entire continent. ANDThe longest road viaduct in Spain. The Constitution Bridge of 1812, known as the La Pepa Bridge, measures 3,092 meters and has held the national length record since its inauguration in 2015. The set of viaducts on the SE-40 will total approximately 3.5 kilometers, according to collect The Vanguard. Two records in one. When can it be used? There is still no official date for the start of works or opening to traffic. According to the mediathe Government’s forecasts suggest that the works could last until 2030 or 2031. El Diario points out that the tender for the central structure of the bridge would not take place before January 2027. To give context, the Pepa bridge took about eight years to build, so it looks like there is still some distance left. When the southern arch of the SE-40 is closed, several key highways will be connected (A-4, A-92, A-376, A-8058 and A-49) that today do not have a direct link to each other in the south of Seville. It remains to be seen how the project progresses. Cover image | Recreation of the Ministry of Transportation (climbing with Upscayl) In Xataka | Building tunnels is very good, but in China there are regions that are doing other things: cutting mountains in half

OpenAI lost $38.5 billion in 2025, almost eight times more than in 2024. It will still go public

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The well-known analyst Ed Zitron has leaked the audited financial statement of OpenAI for 2024 and 2025. The data is overwhelming and shows how the company, which lost $5 billion in 2024, lost almost eight times more in 2025: $38.5 billion. These colossal amounts do not seem to be an obstacle to the company’s new ambition: going public. It looks like a big hole… When analyzing the 2025 numbers, it is clear that OpenAI’s operating business is not the real cause of this hole in its accounts. Much of the net loss is due to the transition that the company made from an entity non-profit (non-profit) to a traditional business corporation (for-profit). By doing soUS tax regulations caused a loss of $41.55 billion due to changes in the value of convertible interests and stock options (warrants) that had been agreed with partners and investors. …but maybe it’s not. The fascinating thing about this situation is that although the data is worrying, it also contains a probable contradiction. OpenAI records this colossal loss of $41.55 billion not because business is bad, but precisely because it is worth much more than before. How do they explain in Financial Timesupon becoming a for-profithad to update all those “accounting promises” at a fair and reasonable value, which generated that notable negative impact on the balance sheet. The “real” loss. The leaked balance sheet explains that if this “technical” loss from revaluation and some other tax credits is discounted, the pure operating loss from its traditional commercial activity is around a much more acceptable figure and less than $8 billion. It is still a huge amount (in 2024, we repeat they lost 5.08 billion), but it changes the perspective. Investors still believe in OpenAI. These data may seem terrifying and should make investors flee. They are doing just the opposite because they firmly believe in the future of the company. A few months ago the company raised an absolutely astronomical investment round of 122 billion dollars to reach a valuation of $852 billion. At the moment the one that wins is Microsoft. The leak also shows who is currently the big financial winner of this AI fever: Microsoft. In 2025, OpenAI paid the Redmond giant a total of $17.2 billion to be able to use the computing capacity of its cloud infrastructure, Azure. The amount Microsoft paid OpenAI for licenses or services was ridiculous by comparison: $303 million. Source: Sherwood News. Revenue is growing. For investors, the metric that is sustaining optimism is the speed at which OpenAI has managed to grow its revenue. The company closed 2025 with consolidated revenues of 13.07 billion dollars, almost tripling the 3.7 billion in 2024. But what is really notable is the evolution of its annualized income (Annual Run Rate, ARR), which allows projecting what is expected to be earned at the end of the year. OpenAI started at a pace of $1 billion per quarter, and then accelerate and end up closing with a turnover of more than 2,000 million per month (per month!). The condemnation of everything free. OpenAI’s commercial strategy, however, may have been its great Achilles heel. The company has paid a high price for wanting to be the free AI of the end user. Keeping hundreds of millions of people querying for free on ChatGPT certainly has a huge impact on operating costs. That contrasts with Anthropic’s approach, which from the beginning focused on business users who pay in much greater proportion. This tactic has allowed the rival company to achieve something unusual: make money with AI. With small print, but they win it. And the IPO, what? The truth is that OpenAI has already sent the confidential documentation that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs to start the IPO process. That doesn’t necessarily mean such an IPO is near, but there’s a problem: Anthropic has taken the exact same step. If the company led by Dario Amodei comes forward in that appearance on Wall Street, it will be another reputational battle won just at the moment when OpenAI is generating the most doubts. In Xataka | Anthropic is at the most important moment in its history and has a warning: we must lift the AI ​​accelerator

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