the answer was right under our noses

During Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, a French soldier accidentally found a black stone covered in inscriptions while working on fortifications near Rashid. That piece, known today like the Rosetta Stoneended up becoming the key that allowed the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs after centuries of incomprehension. Since then, a good part of the history of Ancient Egypt has advanced like this: not so much by discovering impossible objects, but by looking in a different way at things that had been in front of everyone for a long time. A mystery that had been ahead for centuries. The Great Pyramid of Giza has been obsessing archaeologists, engineers and historians for more than 4,500 years because there always seemed to be a missing essential piece of the puzzle: how to move millions of stone blocks at high speed using extremely simple tools and without leaving clear traces of the system used. For decades, theories about giant ramps, external structures or complex internal tunnels ran into the same problem: none of them fully explained the balance between speed, precision and absence of physical evidence. Now, the Spanish researcher Vicente Luis Rosell Roig propose something which completely changes the perspective of the debate. His idea is based on an almost uncomfortable premise because it seems so simple: perhaps the solution was not hidden in a lost technology or in impossible mechanisms, but rather integrated. in the geometry itself of the pyramid from the beginning, in plain sight, confused with the structure itself. A gigantic logistics machine. He great challenge of Cheops It was not only about lifting huge stones, but about sustaining an almost absurd pace of construction for decades. The Great Pyramid contains about 2.3 million blocks and, to finish it within the reign of Khufuworkers would have had to place approximately one block every three minutes for more than twenty years. Rosell understood that the correct question was not “how they lifted the blocks,” but rather “how they maintained that constant flow without collapsing the system.” Your model appears there Integrated Edge Rampa helical structure built within the pyramid’s own edges. Instead of building a huge external ramp that would later have to be dismantled, the Egyptians simply left unfilled runners around each level and used them as temporary access routes. As the work progressed, these ramps disappeared under the final blocks until they were completely hidden. The idea that emerged from an algorithm. The most striking thing is that the theory was not born in an archaeological excavation, but in front of a screen and from a computational problem. Rosell began making sketches after watching a documentary in 2020, but the project changed radically when he moved the problem to a 3D environment and began modeling the pyramid block by block. There he discovered something fundamental: a single ramp was a bottleneck, but replicating the system on several faces of the pyramid turned construction into a much more efficient parallel operation. The model then went from being a simple geometric hypothesis to a logistics simulation complete where several routes operated simultaneously, adapting as the pyramid narrowed upwards. At lower levels they could operate up to 16 ramps at a timelater on, the system was progressively reduced until there was a single track near the vertex. The pyramid thus stopped looking like a static mountain and began to behave like an enormous optimized distribution machine. The hidden gaps make sense. One of the most suggestive aspects of the study is that fits surprisingly well with some of the great enigmas recently discovered within the pyramid. Explorations using muons (cosmic particles capable of passing through dense materials) years ago detected internal cavities whose function remains to be fully explained. He Rosell model coincides with several such anomalies, including the called Great Void and the corridor on the north face. That doesn’t automatically prove the theory correct, but it does introduce something that was missing from many previous hypotheses: testable predictions. According to the studythere should be specific wear marks in certain corners and subtle differences in the masonry where the ramps were finally sealed. For the first time in a long time, a theory about the construction of the pyramids not only attempts to explain the past, but also offer concrete evidence that can be sought in the future. Surprisingly humane solution. Perhaps most interesting of all is the feeling that the answer was always ahead from our noses. For centuries, the mystery of the Great Pyramid It fueled ideas about lost civilizations, impossible knowledge or even extraterrestrials because many people assumed that such a work required extraordinary technology. Rosell’s model points in just the opposite direction. It suggests that the Egyptians solved the problem by using very simple principles of organizationparallelization and intelligent use of space. Impossible machinery was not needed, but to convert the pyramid itself in part of the tool of construction. In a way, the theory reduces one of history’s biggest puzzles to something deeply recognizable: a gigantic logistics optimization problem solved 4,500 years ago by people who understood geometry, coordinated work, and efficiency much better than we usually imagine. Image | Little girl, paweesit In Xataka | We believed that the pyramids of Giza did not hide any more secrets. we believed wrong In Xataka | Germany has set its sights on Tenerife from the sky and has discovered plasma bubbles like those of the Pyramids of Giza

the day Naples rejected a Boeing 787 with 200 people on board because it would not enter the airport

It hasn’t been long since dawn and the passengers are stretching one day in June 2025 thousands of meters above sea level. They left Philadelphia last night and are about to land in Naples. They are about to discover that, whether they slept better or worse, they are going to have a bad awakening. And when they approach eight hours into the trip and already see the Italian coast on the screens in their seats, a voice informs them that they will not land in Naples. There is not much to fear, everything is in order. All. Except for a small bureaucratic error that is currently diverting them to Rome. They will probably find out about that later. All they know is that their flight from Philadelphia to Naples has had to be diverted. And this time it was not due to a breakdown, a storm or a health emergency. The reason is simple: the plane is too big to land in Naples. Two meters, specifically. Two meters that no one noticed The Philadelphia-Naples route operated by American Airlines is a very good option if you want to travel from the United States to Italy and do not have the need to go through the large airports of New York or Rome. It also has the advantage that it flies at night, which makes it easier to deal with jet lag. Encouragement that, surely, was appreciated by the 231 passengers who had to travel on a Boeing 787-8, according to C.B.S.. However, that day, the airline could have put someone else on board. And, for operational reasons, American Airlines used a Boeing 787-9 On that trip June 3, 2025, a plane slightly larger and with greater capacity than usual on a route that It has been operating since 2024. The aircraft are almost carbon copies. Of course, a Boeing 787-8 measures 57 meters long but the 787-9 already extends to 63 meters long. A difference that has implications beyond the number of passengers. And, according to air safety regulations, a Boeing 787-8 can land in RFFS Category 8 airports (Rescue and Fire Fighting Services) or higher. But a Boeing 787-9 does not have it so easy, it needs to do it at airports in Category 9 RFFS. The difference is small but it is substantial. A Category 8 RFFS airport can accommodate aircraft up to 61 meters long. Yes, two meters shorter than the Boeing 787-9. And you can imagine what category Naples airport has. Indeed, about 70 miles awaythe American Airlines flight asks for a runway in Naples but from the control tower someone realizes the problem: the aircraft is not the same as always. For logistical reasons, the airline was using this second, larger version of the Boeing 787 and therefore exceeded the maximum permitted limit of 61 meters. No one in the company updated the documentation or notified of the change. Technically the problem is not in the size of the trackthe problem is in the security measures. And Naples is not prepared to deal with a possible incident involving a plane of this size. Airport categories are not only classified based on the size of the runway, but also take into account their ability to accommodate emergency and firefighting services. From the control tower they see it clearly, there is no choice but to warn the pilots: they must land in Roma Fuimicino. The capital’s airport is the closest airfield where flights the size of a Boeing 787-9 can land and is therefore where the passengers were ultimately taken. From there, they were finally transferred by bus to Naples, a trip that takes between two and three hours. A lesser evil for a problem that would have been much more serious if the aircraft had had a problem when landing. Photo | Dominic Bieri and Flightware In Xataka | The inevitable increase in air travel is leading us to a reality: there are no places, no planes, no planet for so many tourists.

Benidorm triples its population in summer and does not run out of water. The secret is a miracle of invisible engineering

We assume that when we turn on the faucet water comes out. It is an almost automatic, everyday gesture that we rarely stop to think about. However, ensuring that this resource springs up clean and safe in Benidorm, a city that its population triples In the middle of the summer high season, it requires a true miracle of engineering and management. In the Marina Baixa, one of the regions of the Valencian Community with greater water stresscatering to millions of annual visitors is a colossal puzzle. As reported by local mediathe philosophy of those who operate this gear is perfectly summarized by Ciriaco Clemente, manager of Veolia in Benidorm: “In a territory where the pressure on water resources is structural and permanent, guaranteeing that the water reaches the tap in perfect sanitary conditions and that, once used, it returns to the environment without damaging it is not an option, it is an obligation.” The challenge of quantity and quality. The water challenge is not exclusive to the Alicante coast, it is a national problem. According to official data from the Ministry of Health (SINAC)the quality of water in Spain is increasingly threatened. The filtration of nitrates from industrial agricultural activity is saturating the self-cleaning capacity of many aquifers, putting local water treatment plants in hundreds of municipalities in check, especially in inland Spain. While much of inland Spain deals with nitrate pollution, Benidorm faces its own perfect storm: extreme seasonal demand and the threat of shortages. The city not only needs to ensure that there is enough water for everyone, but that its quality is impeccable under all circumstances, regardless of whether it comes from the Guadalest reservoir, the Amadorio reservoir or the Bajo del Algar Canal. To overcome this crisis, the tourist capital has shielded itself around two essential infrastructures managed by Veolia: the Drinking Water Treatment Station (ETAP) and the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Beyond thirst. Water quality is synonymous with public health and economic survival. In fact, consuming water with nitrate levels close to or higher The European legal limit of 50 mg/L carries serious risks, and recent medical studies suggest that even much lower thresholds could be linked to oncological problems. Treating water to the millimeter is, therefore, a matter of life or death. On the economic level, as the newspaper highlights Informationfor the enormous hotel plant in Benidorm, opening the tap and letting water flow with total health guarantees “is not a secondary detail: it is a basic requirement to operate and to maintain the trust of visitors.” In addition, the system must be able to withstand the onslaught of the weather. According to Alicante Plazathe ETAP faces extreme scenarios after episodes of torrential rains, when the water collected arrives with enormous turbidity due to the dragging of sediments. Given this, the plant adjusts its treatments in real time. “Our responsibility does not end with there being water; it ends when that water reaches the tap in perfect condition,” says Noelia Llinares, ETAP plant manager, in these media. Leaving behind traditional management. As detailed by Veoliathe answer is in technology. A digital ecosystem has been deployed in Benidorm that includes network-wide sensors, leak detection algorithms and remote control systems. This has allowed the milestone of reducing water losses in the network to minimum levels of 5%. To support this burden, ETAP itself already received a powerful injection of more than 9 million euros in its last major expansion in 2010. But the cycle does not end at the sink. The WWTP works under a strict circular economy philosophy: used water is not waste, it is a resource. Today, 35% of the water that reaches the treatment plant is already reused, mainly for agricultural irrigation. And there is an extra factor that adds complexity: wastewater treatment plants are electricity devourers. To counteract this, María José Martínez, head of the WWTP, details that the facility uses byproducts such as biogas or sludge to generate its own energy. “The objective is clear: for the plant to become increasingly self-sufficient and for its environmental footprint to be as small as possible,” says Martínez. The next challenge: squeeze regeneration. Behind all this there is an ambitious project underway: the Regenerated Water Master Plan. The short-term objective is to take advantage of up to 2 additional cubic hectometers of regenerated water for purely urban uses, alleviating the suffocation of conventional sources and reinforcing the network against drought. Benidorm has empirically demonstrated that the high numbers of mass tourism and water sustainability are not antagonistic concepts, but rather necessary allies. In a context marked by climate change, the experience of the city of Alicante provides an inescapable journalistic and vital lesson: intelligent water management is no longer a simple competitive advantage or a green slogan. It is, purely and simply, a question of survival. Every drop counts, from the moment it is dammed until, thanks to engineering, it is regenerated to start again. Image | Diego Delso Xataka | The future of 150,000 hectares of crops is decided today. We have been fighting for decades, but the wars over water have only just begun

Someone has gathered more than 13 million public contracts and has set up the Google of public procurement in Spain

Every euro spent by a State Public Administration must be traceable by citizens. We don’t say it, the law says it. But theory is one thing and practice another: if you try, you will discover that sometimes it is a long, tedious and sometimes almost impossible mission. Let me explain: when someone wants to know which company a public hospital or city council has awarded contracts to, the official search path forces them to go through different platforms ranging from Public Sector Procurement Platform state to autonomous regions such as those of the Community of Madrid, the Basque Country or Galicia, because there are CCAA (quite a few) that have their own system and do not publish in PLACSP. This fragmentation makes the search difficult, as details the Public Procurement Observatory. So an engineer has set out to solve it by building a search engine for Spanish public contracts. The “Google” of public contracts in Spain. jobsearch.com solves this fragmentation problem with a single search engine. It is an independent project that aggregates, cross-references and allows you to consult in seconds the public procurement information that the State publishes dispersedly on a long list of different platforms. More specifically, it draws from 10 official sources, including the State Platform (PLACSP), the Official Journal of the EU (TED), and regional platforms of Madrid, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia, the Basque Country, Asturias and the Valencian Community, plus data from the Commercial Registry. The result is a search engine with around 13.4 million indexed contracts, without advertising, without tracking and with open source available on GitHub. Behind the project, Gerard Sanchezprogrammer and founder of BQuant and professor at the University of Navarra and the UPF Barcelona School of Management. Why is it important. Public procurement is not trivial: in Spain it moved more than 113 billion euros in 2024, the equivalent of 10.92% of GDP, according to the OIReScon Annual Surveillance Report 2025the official supervisory body of the Ministry of Finance. Each year a sum of money is allocated through procedures that must be public and auditable. The reality is that this audit is very difficult without tools. A CNMC report of 2019 highlights that public procurement represents between 10% and 20% of Spanish GDP and that Spain is one of the European countries with the lowest participation of companies in tenders: only one company participates in one in three state contracts. With data access tools that facilitate transparency, competition could be increased and the cost for public coffers reduced. Context. In Spain there are several laws that require public contracts to be published: there is the Law 19/2013 on transparency, access to public information and good governance with a triple objective of increasing transparency in public activity, guaranteeing access to information as a right and establishing good governance obligations for public officials, but also the Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contractswhich is a transposition of European directives on public procurement. So the problem is not that there are no regulations, but rather their application and the dispersion of data. As explains the Public Procurement ObservatorySince March 2018, it has been mandatory for the entire public sector to publish the information on their contracts in the PLACSP, but the tool is also a headache as thousands of entities upload information manually and with free-writing text, which constitutes a continuous source of error. PreciselyBuscalicitaciones.com detects and documents these inconsistencies. How it works. Technically, the project downloads and normalizes the open data that each of those 10 official platforms publishes in structured formats such as XML, JSON, CSV. Each record is crossed with data from the Commercial Registry to enrich the information of the successful bidder. The search engine offers three main modes of use: search for contracts by winning company, contracting body, CPV sector or free text of the contract; see the complete history of awards of any company by its NIF and consult a public registry of contracts with anomalous amounts greater than 1,000 million euros. Yes, but. The first major limitation is structural: it depends on the quality of the data published by official sources and that quality can clearly be improved. If the source data is bad, the aggregator inherits that error. And we have already seen that sometimes it is and that it is certainly anything but homogeneous. On the other hand, this is the first version of the project and it shows: It has flaws and the coverage is not complete. Navarra does not appear on the list and sources such as the Valencian Community do not have an aggregate amount available, the Basque Country only has an amount in 106,000 of its 651,000 contracts and Catalonia has two separate entries with different coverage. On the other hand, the independent and altruistic nature of this public utility resource also has its B side: long-term sustainability, given its great magnitude. In Xataka | Someone has passed 12,000 laws and reforms to source code and now searching the BOE is no longer an ordeal In Xataka | The “ChatGPT for lawyers” exists, it was born in Spain and has just reached a milestone: becoming a unicorn Cover | Mockuphone and Gemini

When to use one and when to use the other (and why they are not the same)

Let’s tell you the differences and when to use NotebookLM or Geminiso that you are clear about the purposes of each of these two platforms. This way, you will be able to know the main functions, what their differentiating characteristics are, and when to choose each of them. Because yes, Google has two powerful artificial intelligence tools, but NotebookLM and Gemini They are not the same, and they neither serve the same purpose nor are they designed to be used for the same purpose. That can make deciding between one or the other somewhat confusing if you don’t understand much about AI, and that’s why we’re going to help you differentiate them. We are going to start the article with a comparative table with which you will be able to see at once all the differences there are in concept and functions of both tools. Afterwards, we will write these differences for you so that you understand them, and we will end by explaining to you when it is useful to use one, the other, or even both at the same time. NotebookLM vs Gemini, comparison feature gemini Notebooklm Tool type General AI Assistant Document analysis tool Information source Your own knowledge + the entire internet Only the documents that you upload Internet access Yes, with web searches No Integration with Google Drive, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Maps, Flights, etc… Google Drive (to import files) Generate new content Yes. Texts, images, code, etc…. Limited. Summaries, multiple choice questions, aydio podcast Create audio podcasts No Yeah Create presentations Yes, with Slides. Yes, basic format. chat organization Through conversations, there are different chats to ask whatever you want. Through notebooks, and in each notebook you can have conversations. Memory between conversations Yes, with Gems and memory settings. No, each notebook is independent. Number of sources Unlimited by internet 50 free, and more with subscription Price Free with limits Wider limits on paid versions Free with limits Larger limits included in paid versions of Gemini Who is it for? Any user Students, researchers, professionals with many documents. The key difference between these tools is that Gemini is a general purpose AI assistantas are other alternatives such as ChatGPT or Claude. You can ask him any question you want. While, NotebookLM is a tool to work with your own documentsand will only respond based on them. Therefore, what differentiates the two is where they get the information from. Gemini pulls it from the Internet and its knowledge base, and NotebookLM pulls it only from the files you upload to each notebook you’ve created. One is used to ask what you want about what you want, and another to interact with the content that you upload. What is Gemini and what is it for? Gemini is Google’s artificial intelligence assistant. You can talk to him about anything, from asking questions to asking him to write you an email, solving problems, finding travel itineraries, or generating images or videos. When you make a request, Gemini will search your content base and the Internetand then with this data it will generate the response. It is especially useful because it is integrated into the Google ecosystem, being able to connect it with Gmail, Docs or Maps to manage emails, appointments or routes. If you use all Google services, then it is normal that Gemini helps you enhance them. Therefore, Gemini is perfect for ask general questions and ask you to perform tasks related to content creation in general. You can search for any type of information, ask for recommendations, make product comparisons or simply have a conversation about whatever you want. ​ What is NotebookLM and what is it for? NotebookLM is not an AI assistant, but a tool created to work with your documents and use Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model to ask questions related to it. Therefore, it is not a Gemini chat, but rather a tool that uses this AI for tasks in a controlled environment. So, while Gemini responds to you based on information from all over the Internet, NotebookLM responds to you based solely on the files you attach. So, if you ask it to explain something to you, it will only use the uploaded files to do so. The files can be PDFs, audios, web pages, drive documents or even YouTube videos. You can ask Gemini to work explaining something about a specific file, but it does not do so in a closed environment, and there is always the possibility that it completes the information on the Internet. In NotebookLM you do not connect to the Internet. The results it generates can be texts, but You can also create an audio podcastalways based on the content you upload. When to use each Now let’s go summarize when to use each of these tools. Because they are totally different, so depending on what you want to achieve, it will be more useful to use one or the other. When to use Gemini: When you want to look for information from the real world, search the Internet, compare options, find out news, or ask about something that you do not have documented. When you want AI to manage the content of your Google applications, such as your emails, your Calendar agenda, your Doc documents. You want to plan routes with Maps. When you want to generate new content, such as a piece of writing (email, article, script, code) or an image. When you want to do several different things in a conversation, without having to organize the content in a notebook or upload sources. When to use NotebookLM: When you want to analyze your own documents accurately and without them being mixed with Internet content. It can be a contract, a report, a book, your course notes and anything else. When you want to study or prepare for an exam. You can upload your notes, a book or a syllabus, and you can ask them to ask you multiple choice questions or explain things … Read more

Wine consumption has plummeted to lows not seen since 1957

Almost seven decades. This is what you have to go back in the world wine chronicle to find a year in which the world consumed less wine than it drank in 2025. This is at least shown the balance which has just been published by the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), an organization that boasts of bringing together 51 countries that account for 88% of the world’s wine production and that now cannot but note a trend that the sector has been viewing with suspicion for some time: the world seems less and less interested in the wineries. Your data is revealing. “Adapting to challenges”. Although corporate language usually avoids fatalism, the truth is that the OIV’s latest annual report does not leave much room for optimism. Its CEO, John Barker, claims that in recent years the wine sector “has been adapting to the constant climatic, economic and social challenges”, but the reality is that the global ‘photo’ of 2025 is not good. Consumption fell worldwide until reaching unseen lows for decades and things were not much better in world trade, where exports also suffered in both volume and value. Production did improve, although in a very discreet way and insufficient to approach the average that the sector has managed so far this century. Not only that. In general, today there are many fewer hectares cultivated with vineyards in the world than 25 years ago. Has consumption dropped that much? It seems that way if we trust the OIV, which estimates that in 2025 global wine consumption will amount to 208 million hectoliters. It may seem like a large sum, but it marks a drop of 2.7% with respect to 2024 and aggravates the ‘puncture’ that the sector has been registering since 2018, widening the collapse to reach 14%. The tables of the OIV show that never before has so little wine been drunk on the planet since (at least) 2000. And that is only what their latest balance shows. The EFE agency has reviewed the historical archive of the organization and assures that in 2025 consumption plummeted to the lows of 1957. Searching for the causes. As is usually the case, this ‘puncture’ is not explained by a single factor. Inflationary pressures, geopolitical tensions, interruptions in trade due to causes beyond the control of the sector or, if we go back to 2020, the effect of the pandemic come into play. In the cocktail however there is another ingredient taken by the OIV itself: “Changes in social habits and at a generational level” that directly affect consumer behavior, a trend that is seen above all among the young. If we focus on the world map The organization focuses above all on what is happening in three large markets. The first is China, where “the greatest contraction” is noted, with the loss of about two million hectoliters per year since 2018. As a reference, if in 2020 its consumption was estimated at 12.4 million, last year it was already around 4.8. The union has also noted a sustained decline in the French market and a “marked slowdown” in the US, which contracted 4.3% in 2025. The picture is not exactly good in the EU, which although it accounts for a large part of world consumption, reduced it by 3.1%. Global data 2020 2022 2025 Cultivated area (thousands of hectares) 7,388 7,236 7,034 Wine produced (Millions of hectoliters) 264 265 227 Wine Consumed (Millions of hectoliters) 232 228 208 A business less business. Another indicator in low hours is exports. Last year fell 4.7% in terms of volume, which extends the trend observed in the market since 2022. If we talk about hard dollars (value), the puncture was even greater: world exports moved 33.8 billion euros6.7% less than in 2024. Once again, these percentages are explained by a sum of factors that include fluctuations in demand, prices and “tariff uncertainty”; but also something much more basic: less is exported because fewer vines are planted and less wine is harvested. The footprint in fields and wineries. As for the first (the area with vineyards), in 2025 contracted 0.8% until it reaches seven million hectares. “It represents the sixth consecutive year of contraction,” remember the OIV. “This confirms a continuing adjustment in the global wine sector, driven by the clearing of vineyards in several major vine-producing countries in both hemispheres.” This trend helps to understand the decline that wine production has experienced, which although it rose a slight 0.6% last year, moving away from the historical minimum of 2024, is still 9.4% below the average for the last five years. The data is not explained solely by the loss of hectares. The weather also comes into play. Is everything negative? No. The OIV too has detected markets in which the trend is clearly positive, such as Portugal or Brazil, which has significantly expanded the area dedicated to vineyards and has also increased its production. Furthermore, although exports may have faltered in the last year, the organization recalls that the value of world trade remains at “significantly higher levels” than those recorded before the pandemic. A certain balance is also appreciated from the sector. “A third consecutive year of relatively low global production means that production and consumption are generally in balance, minimizing the impact of lower consumption on stock levels,” clarify from the OIV before remembering that their merchandise is not only destined for wineries where it is bottled and sold as wine. Every year around 30 million hectoliters are reserved for industrial uses, such as distillation or the production of vinegar, wine derivatives and spirits. Images | Svetlana Gumerova (Unsplash) and OIV In Xataka | The European Union believes it has a solution for the decline of wine in Spain: plucking the “green” grapes in La Rioja

The trial against Sam Altman seemed like a duel between two millionaires. It has ended up uncovering the ins and outs of OpenAI

Three weeks of testimonies, 78 messages between Sam Altman and Mira Murati during the night they were going to kill him as CEOemails where Greg Brockman wrote in his personal diary how nice it would be to “earn billions” and Satya Nadella describing the OpenAI board as ““amateur city”. This Thursday the final arguments of the Musk vs. Altman trial were held in a federal court in Oakland. The lawsuit asked for 150,000 million in damages and the dismissal of Altman. What has been left for the public has not so much to do with the verdict. Why is it important. OpenAI is, despite its name, one of the most secretive companies in Silicon Valley. Its internal functioning, until now, was known through highly selected profiles in The New Yorker or specific leaks. The trial has forced the company to publish emails, text messages, personal diaries and depositions that depict an organization very different from the one that sells its official communication. A company plagued by power struggles, mutual suspicions between founders and a board that in 2023 could not explain why it fired its own CEO. behind the scenes. The most illuminating episode occurred not on the stand, but in a chain of late-night messages between Altman and Murati during “The Blip“, the weekend of November 2023 in which the board removed the CEO. At 2:30 a.m. Monday morning, Altman was asking his then-CTO if things were going well or badly. “This is going in a very bad direction. Sam, this is very serious,” Murati responded. Minutes later, Altman offered to leave to avoid lawsuits. Murati replied that the council already had a replacement: “uncle random of Twitch”, in reference to Emmett Shear. That same day, Murati signed the first of the letters from employees asking for Altman’s return. The contrast. What Murati’s deposition leaked is that she herself had fed the board with complaints about Altman before the firing. Helen Toner, a former councillor, testified that Murati and co-founder Ilya Sutskever had conveyed to the council a pattern of behavior about Altman’s honesty. Sutskever wrote a 52-page memorandum. On the stand, Sutskever himself confirmed writing to the board that Altman “demonstrates a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his executives, and pitting them against each other.” Murati, in his deposition, maintained his criticisms but framed them as “purely managerial.” Go deeper. The term that the Microsoft leadership used to describe what they saw in those days was said by Satya Nadella from the stand: ‘amateur city. The CEO of Microsoft, the main investor in OpenAI with more than 13 billion contributed, said that he never received a concrete explanation of why Altman was fired. “I was very concerned that employees would leave en masse,” he said. Nadella offered Altman a position at Microsoft with an open invitation to the entire OpenAI team. Altman admitted at trial that he was on the verge of accepting: “I would have made a lot of money and had a much easier life at Microsoft.” He ended up coming back to OpenAI with some new advice. The outgoing board’s accusation was that Altman “had not been consistently candid” with them. The money trail. The trial has also exposed Altman’s web of personal interests in companies that do business with OpenAI. While under interrogation, Altman acknowledged stakes worth more than $2 billion in companies such as Helion Energy, Cerebras –just went public–, Reddit or Stripe. His third of Helion (from which he has just left as president) is valued at 1,650 million. OpenAI has signed a framework agreement with Helion for future energy supplies. Forbes has recalculated his assets at more than 4,000 million after these revelations. Brockman, who according to Musk “did not invest a cent”, now appears with a stake valued at 30 billion. Yes, but. None of this changes the legal background. The jury must decide on two specific civil claims: breach of fiduciary trust and unjust enrichment. Musk’s lawyer, Steven Molo, has tried to turn this into a trial about Altman’s credibility. In his closing arguments he put an unflattering photo of the CEO on screen and asked the jury to imagine a bridge over a ravine “built on Sam Altman’s version of the truth.” And now what. OpenAI has been preparing for a long time an IPO that could value it at close to a billion dollars. Musk, meanwhile, flew to China with Trump despite the judicial warning that he could be called to testify again. Regardless of the ruling, the reputational damage has already been done. The narrative that OpenAI has tried to project for years (that of being an idealistic laboratory guided by the mission of benefiting humanity) now coexists with another version documented in a judicial process: that of a company where the co-founder sends messages to the CEO at two in the morning to tell him that it is finished and a few hours later she signs the letter asking for her return. A company where the president wrote in his diary that “it would be nice to earn billions.” And where the reference investor, seeing the chaos from the outside, called ‘amateur city to its governing bodies. The jury’s verdict will come next week. What can no longer be archived are the documents. In Xataka | There is a thing called “Ornn price index”, it is out of control and it is bad news for everyone Featured image | Xataka

the landing of the Emir of Dubai’s Boeing 747

Badajoz airport is not exactly the type of airfield that often appears in the news. Badajoz airport received the emir of Dubai’s private Boeing 747 in 2016. The landing forced the runway, stairs and trailers to be adapted to operate the largest aircraft in its global aviation history. According to data collected by OndaZeroit is a modest regional airport, with little more than 107,000 passengers per year and around 4,500 annual operations. But on an afternoon in April 2016, the staff at that airport experienced the three most stressful hours in its history: had to completely adapt to receive the largest private plane that had ever set foot on its runway. What landed that day at the Extremaduran airfield was not a private jet to use. It was a Boeing 747-400 Combi owned by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. A device designed to transport up to 530 passengers that, in its private version, serves as a flying embassy and residence of the Arab leader. What is an emir like you doing in a place like this? As and how I collected The Gulf Courierthe emir’s visit to the Extremadura airport was not a coincidence. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum arrived with a delegation of about 30 people to inspect the new farm he had purchased in the vicinity of Táliga, an area of ​​about 200 hectares of oak forest. Although it was the first time that the emir in person made an appearance in Badajoz, the presence of his representatives in the area was not new. According what was published by The Vanguard That same year, several members of royal families from the Persian Gulf had acquired estates in Extremadura, attracted by the extension of the pasture, the privacy of the rural environment and the proximity to high-level equestrian routes. The Olivenza region accumulates several of these properties and, since then, Sheikh Mohammed has visited the area on more than one occasion with the same device. Landing a Boeing 747 at a regional airport is not only an air transport operation, it involves a whole logistical challenge for infrastructure. Unaccustomed to receiving aircraft of such size, the airport authorities had to expand safety zones on the track, the resistance of the pavement and even adapt the taxi route on the runway to guarantee an adequate height. In addition, they had to provide themselves with larger access stairs, because the ones they usually used did not reach to the double deck of the Boeing 747. Something similar happened with towing vehicles, suitable for moving smaller commercial aircraft, but without enough power to maneuver such a colossus. According to details LuxuryLaunchesthe airport also had to enable higher capacity generators to keep the VIP cabin and the plane’s air conditioning system operational while the president’s visit to his Táliga estate lasted. The Badajoz airport met the minimum requirements to operate aircraft of this caliber, but needed to adapt to a very unusual maneuver for a regional airport in Extremadura. The visit lasted three hours. The preparations, much more. A flying presidential residence He Emir of Dubai’s “private jet” It has nothing to do with conventional private jets, and looks more like a flying palace than a commercial airliner. The front area houses the private bedroom with the Sheikh’s suite, lavishly decorated with gold taps and shower. In the center is the majlis, a reception space of Arab tradition, where the emir meets with his council during the journey. In the rear, a dining room functions as a meeting room with capacity for 26 people, and on the upper deck there are eight minisuites with seats that convert into beds to accommodate the entourage that accompanies him on each of his trips. Even the cockpit has its own particular detail: the throttle levers and flap controls are covered in gold. The Combi configuration of the device also allows cargo to be transported in the rear section, with containers enabled for the emir’s horsesthe main reason for the successive purchase operations of land and properties in the Extremaduran pasture. The emir’s intention was use them as breeding spaces for his stud farm and organize private equestrian raids on his land. In Xataka | The Emir of Dubai bought a 500 million superyacht but discovered that it had a serious problem: there was no mobile coverage inside Image | Wikimedia Commons (Cybaaudi, Konstantin Von Wedelstaedt)

El Corte Inglés liquidates its LG, Sony and Samsung TVs from the online outlet with models ranging from 510 euros

El Corte Inglés has a online outlet which is usually very well stocked with devices that are on sale. On many occasions we can find high-end televisions with more common prices in the mid-range. And… this is precisely the current case, since right now we can find a large selection of Sony, LG and Samsung televisions with very reasonable prices. Sony Bravia XR-55A95L by 721.65 eurosa television with a 55-inch QD-OLED panel. Samsung TQ65S95FATXXC by 1,104.15 eurosa TV that incorporates a 65-inch OLED screen. Sony Bravia XR-55A84L by 509.10 eurosan economical television if you are looking for a model that has an OLED panel. Samsung TQ65S85DAEXXC by 509.15 eurosa Samsung OLED TV with a 65-inch screen. LG 100QNED86A6 by 1,529.15 eurosa smart TV from LG that comes with a 100-inch screen. Samsung TQ65S85DAEXXC (65 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sony Bravia XR-55A95L If you want to buy a television that will be placed in a brightly lit roomhe Sony Bravia XR-55A95L It is one of the most interesting on this list. Because? Basically because it incorporates a panel QD-OLED. At the El Corte Inglés outlet it costs 721.65 euros and it comes with a good 55-inch diagonal, 120 Hz refresh rate and Google TV operating system. Sony Bravia XR-55A95L (55 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung TQ65S95FATXXC With a slightly higher price we find the Samsung TQ65S95FATXXCa smart TV that remains in the El Corte Inglés outlet 1,104.15 euros. It is a television with an OLED panel that in this case comes with a diagonal of 65 inches. Its refresh rate reaches up to 165 Hzincludes anti-reflective treatment and works with both Alexa and Google Assistant. Samsung TQ65S95FATXXC (65 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Sony Bravia XR-55A84L On the other hand, if you are looking for a cheaper television, but one that also exudes quality, El Corte Inglés has in its outlet for 509.15 euros the Sony Bravia XR-55A84L. We are talking about a smart TV that mounts a panel with OLED technology and that, in this case, comes with a 55-inch screen. It incorporates a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports and is compatible with Dolby Vision. Sony BRAVIA XR-55A84L (55 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung TQ65S85DAEXXC For the same price as the previous Sony television, we find an even larger Samsung model. We talk about Samsung TQ65S85DAEXXC which, in this case, remains 509.15 euros. It is a smart TV that also incorporates a panel with OLED technology, its diagonal is 65 inches, it has anti-reflective treatment and its speakers are compatible with Dolby Atmos. Samsung TQ65S85DAEXXC (65 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG 100QNED86A6 Finally, if what you are looking for is a huge television, El Corte Inglés has in its online outlet for 1,529.15 euros the LG 100QNED86A6. It is a TV that inevitably stands out for its size, since in this case it incorporates a 100-inch screen. Its panel technology is QLED, it is compatible with Dolby Vision and its refresh rate reaches 144 Hz. LG 100QNED86A6 (100 inches) 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. Image | El Corte Inglés and Compradicción (header), Sony, Samsung, LG In Xataka | Best home theater projectors. Which one to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

They are evaluating more than just your resume.

If you have been called for a job interview it is because, most likely, you already meet the technical and knowledge requirements that the position requires. In fact, that’s something recruiters are capable of doing. in less than six seconds, as long as your resume is organized in the right way to give more visibility to what really matters. Job interviews are designed so that the person in charge of hiring you becomes aware an idea of ​​your personality and your values. For this they often resort to serious questions or even small “cheats” like the “chair test”. A strategy designed to reveal whether the candidate face the problems or just adapts to them. A chair that limps This test consists of developing a regular job interviewbut with the peculiarity that the chair in which the candidate will sit has a somewhat shorter leg, so the interviewee will be swaying and uncomfortable throughout the interview. The key is that, right next to the candidate, there will be a second chair in perfect condition. What the interviewer basically wants to know is whether the candidate will remain in the lame chair throughout the interview, adapting to the problem on which he is sitting, or will ask to change the chair for the one next to him. If you choose the second alternative, it will also be taken into account the way you ask for it. Attend a job interview It is already a situation in which candidates come with a certain level of nervousness or uncertainty, which makes the reactions to this test genuine and spontaneous. Let’s face it, the chair limps The ultimate objective of the test is to evaluate the proactivity, the ability to adapt and react in the face of obvious discomfort in a delicate situation such as a job interview. If the candidate continues the interview without complaining and tolerating the discomfort, it means that he has a great ability to concentrate and prioritize your goals well. Despite the discomfort of the environment, he manages to maintain his composure and continue with the interview against all odds. If the candidate asks to change chairs, they will be showing initiative to improve the situation and proactivity to make it change, stopping the interview to change the chair. Thomas S. Bateman and J. Michael Crant analyzed in 1993 the relationship between proactive people and their environment, discovering that this type of personalities are more likely to make changes in their environment to improve your situation. Furthermore, by taking the initiative and changing the chair, you will also be demonstrating courage and self-confidence when facing challenges in delicate situations. The way in which the candidate stops the interview to change chairs is also important. If you do it naturally but decisively or if you politely ask permission to change it. Studies carried out by Gary Yukl, professor at the University at Albany Business School, highlight some common traits in the behavior of leadership personalitiespointing out that these types of profiles tend to take immediate action when faced with problems, while more gregarious personalities wait for others to make decisions. There is a third option that It is not the best rated by interviewers: make comments about the chair being limp, but stay in it. This option denotes a passive attitude of the candidate facing problems, diverting the priority objective (the interview) to their personal terrain (the chair). The worst thing about this reaction is that it reveals all that, and highlights that the candidate points out the problem without taking a single initiative to change the situationsince you have not considered the option of changing chairs and will remain focused on your own discomfort. In Xataka | It’s not enough to be good, you have to know how to tell it: this is how the STAR method works in job interviews Image | Pexels (Mikhail Nilov)

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