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Amancio Ortega has come up short on bricks, so he has set his sights on a strategic sector: milk

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Amancio Ortega has become the greatest real estate magnate of the planet and, in the process, it has turned Pontegadea into the largest real estate agency in Europe. Ortega’s asset portfolio is made up of stores located on the best streets in the world, buildings of apartments for millionaireslarge offices in strategic locations and even hotels. However, in recent months Pontegadea has taken a liking to a much more profitable sector: that of specialized logistics centers. The investment arm of Amancio Ortega has paid 187 million Canadian dollars (about 115 million euros) for the largest refrigerated warehouse in Lactalisa French giant of the dairy industry worldwide. It is in Oshawa, Ontario, less than an hour’s drive from Toronto and stores the milk that supplies half of Canada. A warehouse designed to be the largest in the world. Broccolinithe Canadian firm in charge of building the logistics complex, designed it from scratch for Lactalis. The result It is 35,000 square meters with capacity for 60,000 cold pallets, eighty employees and a long-term lease that keeps the dairy giant Lactalis as a tenant of the complex that it has just sold. The center was conceived to unify the different distribution platforms that Lactalis had spread across Ontario. Its location gave it direct access to the country’s main highways, making it an efficient exit point to the rest of the territory, making the logistics center the ideal hub to centralize its entire cheese and dairy network in Canada. Lactalis: the dairy giant that few know. Headquartered in Laval, France, Lactalis is the largest dairy company of the planet. In 2024, it will exceed €30 billion in turnover for the first time, with 266 plants in 51 countries and 85,500 employees. In Canada it operates with some of the best-selling brands and has more than 4,000 workers in 30 facilities. The agreement reached with Pontegadea follows the usual lines dictated by Amancio Ortega: Pontegadea purchases the building and Lactalis continues to operate normally under a long-term rental regime. That is, only the owner of the infrastructure changes, but not the activity of the plant. It is the same agreement that Amazon accepted at its Seattle headquarters, Primark in the middle of Gran Vía Madrid or with the group’s brands PVH in the Netherlands. Pontegadea has taken Canada’s point. Ortega has been accumulating assets in Canada for years. In 2022 he bought the Royal Bank Plaza of Toronto, two towers in the financial center, for about 800 million Canadian dollars. In 2024 it acquired an Amazon warehouse in Burnaby, near Vancouver, for around 260 million euros. Last year The Post closedthe former Vancouver post office, for around 700 million euros. Judging by the number of operations that Ortega has closed in that country, everything indicates that the Canadian market is very attractive for Pontegadea. That has reinforced its presence in the country with each new “branch of investment” that it has started: it has offices, Premium commercial premises and, now, also logistics centers specialized in the dairy industry. The cold chain, the new objective. Pontegadea has been expanding its logistics portfolio for years beyond offices and commercial premises. The jump to food cold chain logistics is the most recent step, although not the first in this sense. Pontegadea already has a cold warehouse in Miami. This new movement represents an evolution with respect to the model of general logistics platforms that the real estate company had been applying. in Netherlandswhere he recently acquired a new logistics center of 94,000 m2 for 132 million euros. A refrigerated warehouse of this size is not easily improvised or moved, and that makes it especially valuable for those looking to secure rent collection for a long time. In Xataka | With just three moves, Amancio Ortega has conquered the Ibex35: he is now the most powerful investor in Spain Image | Broccolini

review with features, price and specifications

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If with mobile phones we saw an evolution towards increasingly larger screens, it seems that with wearables we are moving in the opposite direction. Whoop has managed to find the key in a tremendously competitive segment: its bracelet without a screen is the germ of the Fitbit Air that I have been wearing for the last two weeks. This has allowed me to know something very specific: having to look at everything on my phone is not my ideal use. You are interested in following the activity, not recording exercise. You need to disconnect from the screens. You are looking for a comfortable device to track your health. You are an athlete who needs to have a record of your training. You like to leave your cell phone at home when you do sports. You want to avoid subscriptions. The essentials in 30 seconds The Fitbit Air is an old-fashioned fitness tracker, without a screen. It’s like the Original Mi Band: All information must be consulted in the app. This eliminates at once part of the appeal for any amateur athlete: the bracelet does not have GPS, it cannot record outdoor workouts, it does not allow you to follow the coach from the screen and, ultimately, does not release the smartphone. Yes of notifications. The Fitbit Air adequately records steps, measures heart rate accurately as long as your heart rate does not increase, offers easy use without a subscription (like a basic activity bracelet) and includes tools such as a personal trainer, workouts, extended information and more under Fitbit Premium Google Health Premium. Google has looked to its competition, Whoop, for its subscription model. The accessory has a very specific audience, among which I am not: who only needs the bracelet to motivate activity. Google aims for a calm profile, far from the athlete who would use a Garmin. Even far from those who would choose a smartwatch as an extension of their mobile phone: the Fitbit Air seeks to cut out notifications to focus on what is essential: movement. Their approach to health measurement is also important. If you’re looking for motivation to get off the couch, and you don’t want an uncomfortable accessory on your wrist, the Fitbit Air may be for you. Google Fitbit Air – Activity Bracelet with Physical Activity, Heart Rate and Sleep Monitoring – Personalized AI-Based Advice – Up to 7 Days of Battery – Raspberry The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Our experience with the Fitbit Air Comfort above all. What I like most about the bracelet is that it looks like you’re not wearing anything. It is light, compact, fits well on the wrist and the nylon strap is very nice (I am a fan of these straps). What I don’t like is not having a screen: more than once I found myself turning my wrist to check the time. I understand those who are looking for a Fitbit Air to complement their watch, I prefer not to carry two devices. How am I doing, Fitbit Air? Google has focused on Whoop to focus the Fitbit Air on well-being and health, not so much on exercise. Measure heart rate, SpO2, temperature, stress, breathing or sleep. More or less what is usual for an activity bracelet. The data is good without reaching maximum reliability: the variety of heart rate is high and in the step count I have seen a certain margin of error. Not to mention distance estimation: since it doesn’t have GPS, the margin of error is enormous. The coach is the best of the bunch. Gemini disguises himself as a trainer under our orders. So this is the best thing about the software: you can ask it for workouts, to explain your health status, stretching, or, as it occurred to me, a Pilates plan. Since Google knows a lot about me, it was able to adapt a plan to me with precision. It is an AI adapted 100% to the Fitbit Air and its data. The coach is the best of the bunch. Google offers the trainer, and some added features, under the Premium subscription. With the purchase of the Air, three months of the plan begin. And there is something better: if you have Google One Pro or higher you already have Google Health Premium. It is a complement that is very worthwhile, since it not only tells you how healthy you are, it also creates training plans, sessions and any other approach related to health and sports. You can register the sport with it. But…It is far from what a GPS watch can do. Measuring running distances is useless, the same with walks (in performance data it comes out well). Also, since you don’t have a screen you can’t see how the practice is going. The Fitbit Air automatically records steps, but for sports practices you must necessarily go through the smartphone. There will be those who prefer this way of training, I like to forget about the phone as much as possible. The recording is sufficiently precise, as I said before, but the calculations tend to err in high intensity situations. Less battery than expected. Not having a screen I imagined that the autonomy would be high. Error: with everything active, the battery lasts a week, as Google promises. Charging is done using a magnetic base and takes an hour and a half to complete (ten minutes saves the day). Again, all the information related to the charging status must be checked from the mobile phone, since when you double tap the LED it only gives us two pieces of information: white LED, it has a charge; Red LED, danger. And that’s it. Fitbit Air technical sheet fitbit air DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT 34.9mm long 17mm width 8.3mm height BATTERY lithium polymer Up to 7 days duration Charging time (0-100%) 90 minutes Fast charging: a day of use in 5 minutes SENSORS Optical heart rate monitor Accelerometer Red and infrared sensors for SpO2 … Read more

Someone used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI. What followed confirms that we cannot trust AI

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A developer named Antoine Finkelstein had had a sore right shoulder for weeks. After visiting an orthopedist, an MRI was performed on the affected area, and according to the medical report, he had a grade III partial tear in the subscapularis tendon. Finkelstein then did something else: he passed the resonance to Claude Opus 4.8 to see what the AI ​​told him about that image, and the result was striking because according to that AI model his shoulder was “intact.” AI gives you clues. The developer suspected that the clinic was perhaps trying to cash in on his condition, so he requested the raw DICOM data from the MRI. What they gave him was 266 MB which he crossed with currently available AI models. First, of course, he made a quick consultation with ChatGPT and in it he detected potentially important negligence: the clinic had applied shock wave therapy, which is not recommended for tendinopathies without calcification. He had also been injected with Traumeel, a homeopathic product registered in Germany “without therapeutic indication.” Let’s see what Claude Opus 4.8 says. To try to get to the bottom of the matter, the user decided to turn the Anthropic model into a doctor to ask for a second opinion. After setting up the model on the Claude Code platform, he allowed the system to install the code packages needed to process the raw medical images he had been sent. After an hour of processing these images, the AI ​​model issued a surprising diagnosis: the tendon that human doctors detected as 50% torn was completely intact. I don’t trust. The result was so contradictory to the human diagnosis that Finkelstein wanted to go a little further and set up a blind arbitration system. He instructed Claude to deploy several independent subagents, combining AI images isolated from each other to avoid confirmation bias. The verdict of all those subagents was unanimous: there was no partial or total break, and everything suggested that the human specialists had exaggerated the diagnosis. But quantity is not quality. This article gave rise to an interesting debate on Hacker News in which some important reflections were raised. It is important to remember, for example, that although AI eliminates the cost of consultations, having more information is not equivalent to solving the problem. As I said For one user, the situation reminded him of a problem he had with his car. He asked three different workshops for a solution, and each one told him something, and one even recommended a repair that he knew was useless. “The solution to uncertain information is not more information, which is certainly what AI can providebut better information, and right now AI can’t provide that.” AI is too nice. There’s another problem here: big language models are meant to be nice and “nice.” They are in a sense echo chambers that want to keep us happy, so they are not designed to contradict us in a harsh way, which makes it easier to confirmation bias. If a user enters his suspicions in the prompt when asking the chatbot, the AI ​​tends to agree with him: we often see how he begins by answering with “You are absolutely right…”. The problem with answers to medical topics is that they can be very different in independent sessions, but since the tone is always convincing and confident, they can lead to more confusion than the initial one. The expert thinks. A professional radiologist participated in that conversation and provided expert insight. According to your criteriacurrent AI models remain mediocre at interpreting medical images due to the lack of massive public training databases. These data are protected by medical privacy laws, and at the moment this problem has a difficult solution, but that user explained that the latest models are already close in accuracy to that of a first or second year resident doctor. The theoretical threat to the radiology profession from AI is something we we have literally been talking for years: for now It doesn’t seem like something like this is close to happening.. Who is responsible. There is another big problem with AI: there is no one responsible if something goes wrong after applying a recommendation. It is true that human doctors can make mistakes and may have biases or even commercial incentives (selling treatments). However, the legal difference is fundamental: the medical system has a series of licenses, regulations and responsibility management that penalizes negligence. AI forces you to manage yourself in the face of uncertainty. The problem is simple: trust AI or not. In issues as delicate as this, it is proven that AI is still far from being a real substitute for human experts. Today’s medicine may be “commoditized,” but AI, no matter how cheap or attractive it may seem, does not yet have the precision that would be needed for certain areas. As Finkelstein himself concluded, “I can’t know if I can trust the AI, so I’m in a kind of limbo in which I either try my luck with another doctor, or I wait and see if my shoulder improves with the rehabilitation I’m doing.” Image | Vitaly Gariev In Xataka | A team in Malaga has just developed a new medical AI. Your job: Help interpret MRIs, CT scans and medical images

2,000 years ago they wanted to build a temple to the goddess Minerva in Cuenca. They ended up doing it in the most unlikely place

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In a quarry one expects to basically find workers, machinery and stacked blocks. It is like this today and it was probably like this (with obvious differences) in times of the Roman Empire, when the stonemasons of Hispania dug in the mountains and caves of the peninsula in search of deposits. In a quarry exploited between the 1st and 4th centuries AD in Cuenca, archaeologists have however found Anything else: a temple of 2,000 years dedicated to Minerva. From a simple quarry to a temple. What has happened? that archaeologists have found a fascinating find in Carrascosa del Campo, in the municipality of Campos del Paraíso (Cuenca): a temple dedicated to the goddess Minerva. The discovery is interesting because of the value of the carving itself, but what makes it really special is its context. The aedicula It was not erected in the center of a city, the courtyard of a wealthy villa or on the walls of a sanctuary. The votive piece was carved into the rock of a quarry. Its creators carved it in front of the site, a place where it was surely easier to meet stonemasons than priests. What is the sanctuary like? The temple is located in a place known as Peña de la Saceda and experts estimate that it was carved between mid-2nd century and early 3rd century AD The complex is made up of pilasters, capitals, a triangular pediment and a carved entablature, which imitates a small sanctuary. Although the representation of the goddess Minerva has been greatly deteriorated over the centuries, experts have identified her traditional attributes (helmet, spear and peplum) and an owl, an icon used as a symbol of the goddess. Do we know anything else? “There is barely a glimpse of the goddess Minerva. What can be clearly seen is an owl, which is the totemic bird that represents Minera,” explains in the SER Juan Carlos Guisado di Monti, one of the archaeologists who signed the article from the magazine Mantva in which the discovery was revealed. The relief is accompanied by a brief inscription at the bottom of the aedicula, in which can be read: “Minervae dominae Ploti vs cun svo comitato”, that is to say: “To Minerva Domina, (dedicated) Plotius Vigor with his retinue.” And where did they find it? That’s the key. The temple, 0.7 m wide by 0.5 m high, was conceived as “a small facade carved directly into one of the stone fronts of the quarry.” Its authors carved the complex out of sandstone rock, and they did so in the quarry itself, not in a remote space. This is not a minor detail, since it tells us about a connection between the profane and the sacred, how a quarry, an a priori functional space focused on work, could also acquire a sacred meaning with a sanctuary dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, arts, strategy and craftsmanship. Is it something unique? “There are other temples dedicated to gods in other quarries, but in Spain until now none dedicated to Minerva had been discovered. This is the most important and surprising discovery, because it suggests that the quarry workers made their ‘votes’ to the goddess, for the work they were doing,” details in elDiario Dionisio Urbina, who has directed the excavations at the Roman site for more than a decade. Equally relevant is the brief inscription located at the bottom of the temple and which includes the formula “cum suo comitato”which suggests to archaeologists that the offering was not individual, but rather came from a group. What were the quarries? The temple was located just 15 km from Segóbrigaan important deposit that includes a theater inaugurated in the time of Emperor Vespasian, in the 1st century AD. As the authors of the study recall, the area was also known for the mines of lapis specularisa selenite gypsum stone highly appreciated in Rome for the manufacture of windows and whose exploitation generated wealth in the region. Now the temple discovered in Carrascosa del Campo reveals something else to us: the veneration of Minerva. “The rock sanctuary of Minerva constitutes a find of special value. The old quarry, transformed into a place of devotion, shows how the Roman religion was not only expressed in the large urban or peri-urban sanctuaries, but also in rural and productive enclaves where the community, the workers or their promoters sought protection and left both their veneration of the goddess and the memory of their vow inscribed in the rock,” they conclude the researchers. The discovery, yes, has come accompanied by some controversy. After the news circulated in recent days in general media, the director of the Cerro de la Muela excavation recalled that the work is still “in progress” and regretted what he considers an “unauthorized dissemination” of the results. Images | Government of Castilla-La Mancha and Wikipedia In Xataka | In 1778 Mozart attempted to teach composition to a French noblewoman. It didn’t go well at all, but thanks to her we now have unpublished works

Powerplanet starts its Power Days with discounts on cell phones, TVs, projectors and more

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Now officially summer and before starting the month of July, Powerplanet is starting its new Power Days. This sales period comes with a ton of offers in different categories, many of them with devices marking their all-time low prices. But the star of this event is the flash offers that are going to happen one after another. We tell you more about them. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links How do Power Days work? This Powerplanet promo comes, as we say, with discounts on all types of devices. We will find, for example, mobile phones, tablets, headphones or smart watches. There will also be room for offers on televisions, home and even gaming offers. These will be available throughout the duration of the Power Days, something that will not happen with the flash offers. Every 48 hours, a new flash deal will appear on Powerplanet. This will only last two days and, when this period is over, it’s over. Stock is also limited, so there is a chance that the offer will end even before that deadline. In other words, more simply: if we are interested in something and we like the price, it is better not to think about it too much. Both for the flash offers and for the rest of the discounts that exist in all Power Days, it is worth mentioning that we will have free and fast shipping (as well as three years warranty). Four devices that are already on sale at Powerplanet Below we leave you four products that already have a discount and that are a very good example of what we are going to find at Power Days. Xiaomi Mix Flip 5G We start with the Xiaomi Mix Flipa folding mobile phone with very good quality-price. It has a 4.01-inch 120 Hz exterior screen that occupies almost the entire external surface of the phone and a 6.86-inch interior screen. It has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with 16 GB of RAM inside, so we can expect very good performance from it. In addition, it has a 4,780 mAh battery and a dual camera system. It is available for 549 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Redmi Watch 6 If you are looking for an affordable smartwatch, this Redmi Watch 6 from Xiaomi could fit you very well. It has a 2.07-inch screen and aluminum frame. It is quite light (weighs 31 grams) and has autonomy for up to 24 days, so you will only have to charge it once a month. You can use it in water (it resists 5 ATM) and it has more than 150 sports modes, as well as sensors to measure blood oxygen or heart rate. Costs 91.50 euros. Xiaomi Redmi Watch 6 2.07″ AMOLED 24 days GPS 5 ATM Gray The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Gaming Monitor G27i 2026 The Xiaomi Gaming G27i 2026 monitor is a very interesting option if you are looking for a screen to play and don’t want to spend too much. It uses a Fast IPS panel, Full HD resolution and a 200 Hz refresh rate, which makes it ideal for competitive games (also its 1 ms response time). A very complete gaming monitor that comes out 129.90 euros. Xiaomi Gaming Monitor G27i (2026) 27 Full HD IPS 200Hz FreeSync Premium The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Wanbo Cube 1 Projector Finally, we have this Wanbo projector. It is a very interesting option for this summer to be able to watch TV, movies or even the World Cup wherever you want. You can have a screen of up to 110 inches with it and it has Android TV 11, so it is easy to install apps like Netflix or Prime Video. It has a built-in speaker, Bluetooth and costs 109 euros. Wanbo Cube 1 350 Lumens HD Wi-Fi Projector Alpine White 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 | Powerplanet In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | Best mobile phones in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and ten recommended models

The people from Cruzcampo had to come to explain to us how to drink beer

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There are few things more closely linked to summer than the gesture of taking a frosted glass out of the freezer and filling it with beer. And honestly, it’s fascinating. Not only because no one is quite clear why this movement has become so popular, but because for years sommeliers and brewmasters have said that it is not a good idea. The last one was Francisco Javier Soriano, one of the people behind the beer that grows the most in Spaindeclaring “totally enemy of the frozen glass because it breaks the cold temperature of the beer”. A lot of memes, a lot of jokes, but it happened: the people from Cruzcampo had to come and explain how to drink beer. Wait, wait… breaking the temperature of the beer? Here are at least three ideas complicating the physics of the matter. The first is obvious: the frozen glass supercools the beer. A priori, each formulation of this drink is optimized for a specific temperature and putting it in -18 degree glasses is something that no brewery takes into account. In a world like ours, where the temperature consistency of drinks in summer leaves much to be desired, the trend for frozen glasses is understandable. But it has costs: in the end, the TRPM5 taste receptor needs heat to activate. If the drink is very cold, we don’t feel it. The second idea goes hand in hand with the latter: the aroma also disappears. The colder the beer is, the fewer bubbles it lets out and that means there are less “organoleptic effluvia” traveling to our nose and rounding out the experience. The third was the one added by another brewmaster, Xabier Cubillo, when he said that “It is very refreshing, but the aromas are no longer noticeable and the foam falls off sooner”. “Let people enjoy things.” That’s clear: let everyone drink their beer however they like. Our intention, in addition to pointing out that “the more we know about alcohol, the more dangerous it seems”is simply inviting us to reflect on why we are drinking beer. Given that beer does not hydrate and is not healthyit is reasonable to think that we drink beer because we like it. That is, because we want to enjoy the flavor, aroma and texture of the product. And if so, we must keep in mind that “extremely cold” kills everything interesting that the drink may have. Now, if what we want is an extremely cold drink for the summer, there is not much more to add. Spain is, today, the second largest beer producer in the European Union. That was about 41.29 million hectoliters in 2024 and, when it comes to consumption, we drink 52.8 liters per person per year. And the market, little by little, begins to follow in the footsteps of wine trying to hide the risks of alcohol with culture. But if we want to follow that path, it wouldn’t hurt to be consistent. And, in that sense, frozen cane in summer is not a mistake. That’s why it doesn’t matter what sommeliers, brewers or journalists say. Frozen beer is a choice: one that prioritizes cold over flavor. And it is not a bad decision, as long as we do not fool ourselves and are aware of what we are doing and what we are losing. Image | CCALM 2016 Zombie Party In Xataka | Spain can tell itself as many times as it wants that it hates Cruzcampo. The figures say a very different thing

“The problem is not drinking coffee, it is needing five cups to be functional”

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It is the first action of the morning for millions of people, the starter of offices, the companion of night shifts and the fuel of exam times. For a long time, coffee has been at the center of the nutritional debate, often demonized for its stimulating effects, but now this is something that is slowly changing. The problem. Just like pointed out Recently, the psychologist María Ros, the real elephant in the room is not the substance itself, since the problem it’s not drinking coffee“it takes five cups to be functional”. In this way, when we cross the line between enjoyment and absolute dependence on keeping our eyes open, the focus must move away from the coffee maker and onto our lifestyle. The consumption barrier. To understand when coffee becomes a problem, you must first establish what is safe consumption. The main international health agencies are quite unanimous on the matter, since, for example, the EFSA established at the time a clear opinion that today serves as a standard: for healthy adults (not pregnant), consumption of up to 400 milligrams of caffeine per day does not pose safety problems for our health. To put it in perspective, an espresso is around 60-80 mg, and a cup of filter coffee can be closer to 100-150 mg. That is, we are talking about a margin of about three or four cups a day. In the case of the US regulator, matches with these figures, and points out that unwanted effects begin to emerge the moment this threshold is exceeded. The positive side. Beyond not being dangerous, the latest evidence point because regular consumption of 3 to 4 cups a day could be more beneficial than harmful. This fits into different articles that associate moderate consumption with lower mortality and a reduced risk of developing various pathologies. Even at a cardiovascular levelan area where coffee has always generated suspicion, current medical literature emphasizes that in regular consumers the effects on blood pressure are transitory and reversible. The danger of coffee. We speak at these levels when it stops being something pleasurable and becomes an urgent need to combat mental exhaustion. This way, if a person needs to binge cup after cup simply to avoid experiencing crippling drowsiness or to be able to stay focused on their work, coffee is acting as a painkiller for an underlying problem that needs to be addressed. We must remember that caffeine works by blocking adenosine receptors in the brain, the neurotransmitter that makes us feel tired. It doesn’t eliminate tiredness, it simply puts a “bandage” on the brain’s sensors, so using large amounts of caffeine to compensate for chronically insufficient rest creates a perfect storm. The experts. Institutions like the Mayo Clinic warn of the cascading effects of this excess by pointing out that tolerance is capable of developing, causing more and more caffeine to be needed for the desired effect. The problem is that overconsumption quickly leads to anxiety, nervousness, headaches, palpitations, tachycardia and digestive problems such as worsening gastroesophageal reflux. Furthermore, a vicious circle is created, since if you drink a lot of coffee to perform because you have slept poorly, that excess of circulating caffeine will prolong sleep disturbances the next night, feeding back stress and insomnia. Images | Taylor Franz In Xataka | Coffee doesn’t just wake you up: science now suggests that it also improves your mood (even decaffeinated)

a historic family from Valencian high society bets on photonic semiconductors

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The Valencian saga that has made part of its fortune bottling soft drinks is now taking a technological leap: a chip factory that uses light instead of electronswith almost 25 million of public money. The general overview. The Council of Ministers has approved almost 25 million in public financing for Attypics Photonicsas reported exclusively He Confidential. The company, 100% controlled by Baladre Capital (the holding company of Álvaro Gómez-Trénor, director of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners), plans a total investment of 50 million to build a photonic chip plant in Paterna, a municipality a few kilometers from the Valencian capital. The State enters with 49% through the Perte Chipthe semiconductor program linked to Next Generation funds. The context. The Gómez-Trénor They are an old acquaintance of Valencian high societywith two centuries of history that starts with an Irishman named Thomas Trenor Keating: He founded the Trenor Bank, traded in guano and got involved in the region’s agri-food industry. Nine generations later, the saga accumulates noble titles, historical properties (from the monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba to buildings in the center of Valencia, passing through a park for public use in Torrent) and a reference position in the province’s business community. In detail. Attypics was born in April 2026 from a team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with more than fifteen years manufacturing photonic chips. The integrated photonics processes and transmits information using light instead of electrons: more speed, less energy consumption. The company wants to be the European private benchmark in the model Lab-to-Fab (from the laboratory to the factory) covering from prototyping to the manufacture of 200 and 300 millimeter wafers. The first phase includes 1,240 square meters of clean rooms and 100 direct jobs. The second would expand the facilities to more than 7,500 square meters and would exceed 300 jobs. Why is it important. Photonic chips are destined to be infrastructure in AI data centers, quantum telecommunications and high-performance computing. Europe has been trying for years to reduce its dependence on Asia and the United States for semiconductors, but private projects that actually materialize are rare. That a family with its own capital, stable dividends from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and no need for advertising decides to commit 50 million to this niche says a lot about how certain family assets are reading the next decade. Entering now, with state support and a consolidated scientific team from the UPV, has overwhelming logic. Yes, but. Attypics is barely three months old. Integrated photonics is a field where the gap between the laboratory and industrial-scale production has brought down projects with more muscle than this. Depending on the Perte Chip also implies being exposed to the rhythms of the public administration, whose management of European technology funds has a bittersweet history in Spain. And the Gómez-Trénors, much more accustomed to collecting dividends than managing semiconductor factories, will have to demonstrate that the scientific capital of the UPV can become a sustainable business without the university umbrella. In Xataka | “My family tells me, but where are your products?”: inside the Spanish institute that is putting its chips on Mars Featured image | Ayar Labs

the continent has just realized that its infrastructure lives in a world that no longer exists

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a tugboat approaching a dutch drawbridge and watering it with their hoses; stopped trams in Leipzig, British supermarkets without chilled products, melted roads… They seem like a bunch of curious anecdotes about how Europeans survive one of their first real ‘heat waves’. But they are not. Each of these failures is the symptom of a problem that, despite bombastic speeches and sickeningly detailed plans, we have persisted in forgetting: that climate change is serious. And here we are. A Europe that does not exist. For practical purposes, the event these days is the second heat wave that the continent has faced so far this year. We have seen incredible things: 37.3 in the United Kingdom, 37 in Denmark, 41.7 in Germany, 39.5 in Slovakia, 39.4 in the Netherlands… it is not only that the June highs have fallen in almost all the countries of Western and Central Europe, it is that absolute records have been broken (i.e. also July and August) in four countries. According to World Weather Attributionis the most severe episode ever measured in the region studied: in 1976, such heat would have been “virtually impossible” in June. And that is perhaps the most important lesson of these days: that the Europe of 1976 no longer exists. And we have begun to notice it in the worst possible way. Although we can make distinctions between what has happened these days (In Leipzig, the problem is that the sealant between the lane and the road surface softened to dangerous levels; while in Holland the bridges began to be refreshed by protocol without any problem being detected), the truth is that these are all signs that the European infrastructure is outdated. Many of Europe’s roads, bridges and highways were designed for maximums between 32-35. Before, exceeding that limit was something anecdotal (in the 119 years between 1881 and 2000 There was only one day in Germany that measured 40° or more), today is the ‘new normal’ (last week there were 4 days like this). It is important to note that so far I have not said anything about mortality. It will take some more time to have the complete data, but suffice it to say that France has already registered around 1000 deaths attributable to the heat wave. The obvious question is… what have we been doing all along? While all this is happening, no one can claim ignorance or surprise: in March 2024, the European Union itself recognized in its first European Climate Risk Assessment that “Europe was not prepared” for what was coming, that policies “were not keeping pace with the increase in risks” and that incremental adaptation “was not going to be enough.” I don’t want to say that nothing has been done. There are analyzes that say that without the adaptation of this century (things like heat plans, surveillance or the alert system) mortality would have been a 80% older. However, the data is there: no matter how much we have done, the deficit grows with each passing day. And that means we’re not doing enough. What can we expect? It seems like little or nothing. In recent years, public support for climate policies appears to have tempered. And there is a lot to do: we must not forget that estimates tell us that Europe’s air conditioning fleet will go from less than seven million devices in 1990 to more than one hundred million in 2030. That requires radical changes: an enormous reconversion that, given what we have seen, we do not know if we are going to want to undertake. Europe knows what is coming and knows what it has to do. You have it planned, signed and approved. The question is whether he will do it before this stops being an anecdote and begins to become an unmanageable crisis. Image | Bill Iliot In Xataka | ENT doctors agree: “Sleeping with air conditioning forces the nose to work excessively”

The US has realized that millions of workers have no future because of AI. And he got to work

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A question has been going around the councils of ministers and the main world economic forums since ChatGPT showed its capabilities in November 2022. How many jobs is going to destroy the AI? The founder of OpenAI himself has been one of the more pessimistic voicesand has even financed studies and pilot tests on universal basic income as a tool to mitigate the impact of AI in the world of work. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, is also not optimistic about the impact of AI on the labor market: up to half of office jobs of recent graduates They could disappear in five years. Now, the same people who develop the great AI models are putting money on the table to cushion the coming labor blow. The concern about a labor apocalypse is such that it is even uniting political adversaries to find a solution together. United against the AI ​​workplace apocalypse. As and how he published The Wall Street Journallast week he was born RAISE USa non-profit organization that aims to train US employees in profiles with a future within the new AI economy that is coming in the coming years. The organization will be led by Democrat Gina Raimondo, former Secretary of Commerce in the Biden administration, but, what is more curious, is that she will do so together with the former Republican governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb. Yes, AI has achieved something that seemed impossible: that political parties and rival companies join forces to prevent millions of employees from being left without jobs due to the arrival of AI. The problem also wants to be the solution. The initiative starts with more than 500 million dollars already committed, half of a budget goal that is set at 1,000 million for several years to come. The goal of RAISE US is to harmonize the evolution of the AI ​​career, but without leaving people behind. “If we build the best AI systems in the world and leave millions of Americans behind, we will have gained nothing,” said Raimondo in the presentation of the project. The most striking thing of all is that, among the main donors of this initiative we find some of the main protagonists of the race for AI. Namely: Amazon, Microsoft, Bank of America, IBM, Cisco or the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. Of course, Anthropic and the OpenAI foundation have also joined in. That is, the same people who are building the tools that can put their users out of work want to provide them with training for a future in a sector less exposed to AI or to cover the new professional profiles that will be created. AI is going to change everything. AI is evolving much faster than systems designed to protect workers, and that makes them more vulnerable. Goldman Sachs calculated that some 300 million jobs globally will be affected by the automation of generative AI. In the US, young people between 22 and 25 years old with jobs exposed to AI they already accuse the blow and its unemployment rate has risen almost three points since the beginning of 2025. The problem is that the current unemployment aid and subsidy systems are not designed to cover employees of entire sectors who, suddenly, lose their jobs. for AI automation. In Spain, unemployment benefits it is more guarantee when an employee becomes unemployed, but in countries like the US, only 27% of the unemployed receive unemployment benefitaccording to data from 2025. RAISE US objectives. An analysis 2025 Brookings Review reviewed decades of job training and retraining programs, and concluded that their results have been modest at best. RAISE US wants to redesign incentives so that companies prefer to retrain their employees rather than lay them off. It also proposes reforms in US unemployment benefits, so that a laid-off worker can continue collecting unemployment benefits while starting a business or starting training, instead of losing it as soon as he signs a new contract, something similar to what It is already applied in Spain in some specific cases to encourage their reintegration into the workforce. Get it started before it’s too late. The first pilot tests of the job training platform are already underway in four US states. In Arkansas, an AI-based career guidance platform is being tested that connects students and unemployed people with training programs tailored to their profile. In Maryland, the focus is on expanding a paid course program of at least nine months that gives candidates real-world experience in sectors with high demand of personnel, such as healthcare. The biggest fear of those who promote the platform is that their measures arrive on time. Labor markets already show signs of adjustment with changes in demand for certain technological profiles on the rise, while junior profiles they are in free fall in technology, law firms and consulting firms. In Xataka | We believed that AI was going to retire an entire generation of workers early. The opposite is happening Image | Unsplash (Shamin Haky)

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