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A millionaire has been fined 120,000 euros for exceeding the speed limit

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In Finland, breaking the speed limit can ruin your day. Above all, if you are a millionaire and they fine you for driving above the permitted limit. The latest example was experienced by Anders Wiklöf, one of the richest men in Finland, who was stopped by the police on March 22 after catching him driving at 59 km/h through an urban area of ​​Mariehamn, in the Åland archipelago, where the limit was 30 km/h. For exceeding 29 kilometers per hour, the police imposed a fine of 120,000 euros. ​The millionaire accepted it without question. Wiklöf is president and founder of Wiklöf Holding, a group of more than 20 companies with investments in logistics, aviation, real estate and tourism valued at more than 400 million dollars. When the police stopped him for speeding, he did not try to escape the problem. “The agents asked me if I wanted to take the case to court, but if I made a mistake, I accept it. They were polite and nice guys who were just doing their job,” declared to the local newspaper Nya Åland. Wiklöf will pay the fine for speeding without even appealing it, although he did take the opportunity to ask the Government that the money be used to cover the planned cuts in health, one of the hottest political debates of the moment in Finland. This unusual normality regarding the amount of the penalty is due to the fact that the Nordic country’s sanction system links the amount of the fines to the offender’s income. That is to say, for most mortals such a sanction implies ruin for life, for this millionaire it is little more than pocket change. Wiklöf has not learned his lesson. Despite the surprising amount of the fineit’s not the first time that police officers stop Wiklöf for speeding. The millionaire already accumulates four documented penalties for speeding: one of 95,000 euros in 2013, 63,680 euros in 2018, 121,000 euros in 2023 and this is 120,000 euros in 2026, which adds up to a total of 399,680 euros in those traffic fines alone. For these same violations, any driver in Spain would hardly have paid more than 600 euros in total, since the regulations in Spain establish a series of fixed penalties depending on the severity of the violation, but are not linked to the offender’s assets. Wiklöf himself already said it bluntly in 2013: “In Sweden they would have fined me about 450 euros. I don’t understand how I can be a bigger offender here than there, but the law is the law.” Nokia executives’ feet are heavy. The most famous case of this sanctions system Anssi Vanjoki starreda 44-year-old Nokia executive, who in January 2002 was traveling at 75 km/h on an urban road in Helsinki with a limit of 50 km/h. For exceeding 25 kilometers per hour, the authorities imposed a fine of 116,000 eurosfor years it was considered the highest traffic fine in history. Another Nokia executive, Pekka Ala-Pietilä, He also received a sanction of 35,000 euros for a similar violation at the same time. Vanjoki ended up appealing his fine, alleging a drop in income compared to the previous year, and got a reduction. In Finland, a fine can’t ruin you. No matter how high and disproportionate these fines may seem, in reality they will never cause the offender to go bankrupt. The key is in a calculation system in force since 1921. While in Spain everyone pays the same for the same offense depending on its severity, in Finland the police consult the offender’s previous year’s income database in real time and calculate the fine in days salary depending on the severity of the infraction. In this calculation, the monthly net salary is taken, the vital minimum of 255 euros is subtracted and divided by 60 to obtain the value of each “fine day” (Päiväsakko). The greater the speeding, the more days of fines are accumulated. For the majority of Finnish citizens, the result of this calculation translates into fines of between 30 and 80 euros for minor infractions such as those committed by Wiklöf. Astronomical figures only appear when the fined person is very rich. Despite the complaints of some affected (in 2015, millionaire Reima Kuisla threatened to leave the country after paying more than 50,000 euros for speeding), the model has great social support for consider it fair and proportional. A fine of 400 euros does not have the same deterrent character for someone with an income of 25,000 euros a year, than 25 million. In Xataka | In 2010, the owner of a Ferrari missed a radar in Switzerland at 137 km/h. He took home the most expensive fine in history Image | Unsplash (toine G)

If you want to travel through Europe with your pet, there will now be something more important than the suitcase or the tickets: your passport.

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If you walk around a park or square in any Spanish city, you’ll probably notice a curious detail: it’s easier to come across people walking dogs than parents with children. Logical. The number of pets far exceeds to that of babies. It happens in Spain and in many other nations. Against this backdrop, Brussels has decided to reinforce the rules that pet animals that want to cross community borders must comply with. And that means something new. starting in April. What has happened? What Brussels has updated the rules that pets (dogs, cats, ferrets and pet birds) must comply with if they want to enter European territory from other countries or cross borders, going from one nation to another in the community club. The goal: harmonize EU rules. This is not a bureaucratic endeavor, but rather a matter of reinforcing laws that try to prevent the spread of diseases. It’s nothing new either. The latest changes are based on the regulations that Brussels has been approving in the last decade. Why is it news? If you have a pet, it is likely that in recent days you have come across news that talks about “rule changes” or one disturbance of the standards. The reality is more complex and less radical. To understand it, you have to go back at least to June 2013, when the Regulation (EU) 576/2013 of the European Parliament on the movement of pets. This regulation replaced a previous one from 2003 and is basically the one that has been governing the movements of pet animals in the EU in recent years. The reality is that the 2013 law was not the last law approved by Brussels on the subject. In fact, years later the regulation was repealed by a later standardmore focused on “animal health” and which (in order to facilitate its application in different countries) included a transition period. That is the key to making the topic news now. This adaptation period will end in less than a month: April 22, as the European Commission (EC) itself recalled at the beginning of this year, when it published the regulation which will govern from now on the movements of pets made for any reason other than commercial. And what does the regulation say? The document It covers 35 pages in which the Commission details the regulatory framework and legislative precedents, as well as describing the different scenarios in which a dog, cat, ferret or bird can travel through the EU. For example, the details of the ‘photo’ may vary depending on whether we are talking about pets from “third countries”, outside the Union, animals that are simply passing through the EU (on their way to their final destination) or others that move between nations of the community club. Your age also influences. From the outset, the regulation makes it clear that it does not represent a full stop, nor does it break with the previous framework. On the contrary. Its guidelines “largely reproduce the rules currently established in the EU.” The objective is not so much to completely change the framework as, the Commission legislators clarify, to “update” the regulation “taking into account the experience acquired” over the years. One of its greatest novelties in fact focuses on the ‘European pet passport’a document that is not far from new and with which the Spaniards who have dogs and cats they have been around for a while familiar. What is the most important thing? He new regulationpublished by the EC in January, above all emphasizes three requirements that pets (pet dogs, cats and ferrets) who want to travel between member states must meet. All this, let us remember, as long as the trips are made without commercial purposes. The first obligation of the EC is that the animal must be individually identifiable, something that is basically guaranteed through a chip. The second, that you have to be up to date with your vaccines, specifically with the rabies vaccine. The regulation is very clear in this regard: the animal must “have received a complete primary vaccination against rabies at least 21 days before the date of movement or have been revaccinated, in accordance with the established validity requirements.” If we also talk about a dog that will move to an EU area free of Echinococcus multilocularis (a species of tapeworm that can infest humans) must first undergo special treatment. Of course, to guarantee that it is ‘clean’ the animal must have gone through this procedure between 120 and 24 hours before arriving in its destination country. Are there more requirements? Yes. If the pet is a puppy less than 12 weeks old and does not yet have the rabies vaccine, the photo changes. Its owner will have to present a signed statement ensuring that the pet has not been in contact with other animals suspected of being infested. However, the main requirement contained in the community regulation has to do with the ‘baggage’ that the animal must carry with it. Just as we always travel with documentation, our furry companion must also go with “an identification document in the form of a passport.” What is that document like? “Such passport must meet the following conditions: be signed by the owner of the pet and have been duly completed and issued in the Member State in which the owner of the pet usually resides”, clarifies the regulations European. That is, the passport is an obligation. That is the main requirement included in the standard, along with which it clarifies that the animal must be vaccinated against rabies and have undergone, if necessary, internal deworming in the last five days. All of the above translates into something very simple: when you travel with your pet, it will no longer be enough for you to book tickets and hotels. You will also have to take care of the animal’s management. Is it that big of a change? Yes. And no. It is important to the extent that it updates community … Read more

When Sora was released many assumed it was “the death of Hollywood.” Only two years, then Sora no longer exists

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In February 2024, OpenAI published on X a string of AI-generated videos with his new model, Sora. Although today, after two years of progress, they even feel outdated, at the time the result was convincing enough for the media around the world to start headlines that Hollywood had a very serious problem. Two years later, Sora does not exist. Panic effect. The effect of this presentation with videos was immediate: MIT Technology Review, for example, described them as “impressive“, although warning that they had probably been chosen and were not representative of the output usual. That did not stop the narrative: for weeks, the dominant conversation in the specialized media was that film studios were facing an almost perfect replacement tool: synthetic actors, sets generated in seconds, automated post-production… The Hollywood unions, which they had signed agreements with the studios the previous year after a historic strike they put the issue back on the table. Two bombs. Sora’s story has two moments of media panic, separated by eighteen months. The first arrived in February 2024, with the presentation of the model described above. There was talk that Hollywood had a serious problem, that the almost perfect replacement tool already existed and that the studios were not prepared to face this threat. The second came with the launch of Sora 2 in September 2025with real faces inserted in videos generated by AI and with third-party intellectual property by default, unless the prompts expressly requested otherwise. All of this multiplied the volume and intensity of the alarm in Hollywood and the media. What was said In February 2024, coverage of Sora’s first model mixed amazement and alarm in similar proportions. Fortune commented that OpenAI had moved the generative AI battle directly to Hollywood. NBCNews asked filmmakers if this was the end of Hollywood, and some responded that it wasn’t yet. IndieWire He sensed that Sora could mean the apocalypse of cinema. The cycle of apocalyptic headlines with Sora 2 was much more intense. CNBC declared that the app was challenging Hollywood and causing panic in the film industry. deadline He said Hollywood was raw. LA Times He spoke of a battle that was worsening and a firestorm unleashed in the sector. slatewell, he talked about how AI was about to crush Hollywood as we had known it. What happened then. The panic increased in December 2025, when Disney, the most careful entertainment company in the world with its intellectual property, signed a three-year agreement with OpenAI: investment of 1 billion dollars and access to more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and ‘Star Wars’ so that Sora users could generate them in their videos. Disney+ would broadcast a curated selection of that content. It was the definitive legitimation, which has only lasted 90 days. OpenAI has closed Sora before a single dollar has changed hands. Property problems. Sora’s problems have not only been financial. The app has accumulated a long list of controversies: deepfakes of deceased public figuresmassive use of copyrighted characters without permission prior, and the appearance of external tools to remove watermarks that identified AI-generated content. In November 2025, CODA (Japanese association representing, among others, Studio Ghibli and Square Enix) sent a formal letter to OpenAI demanding that it stop using its intellectual property to train the model. The families of Robin Williams and George Carlin They publicly asked for it to be blocked generating videos with your images. Moderating generative video content at scale turned out to be much more complex than moderating text or image. The consequences of hype. Analyst Ed Zitron criticized this attitude of the media, stating that they did not cover the launch of Sora but rather they amplified their marketing. Saying that Sora was a real threat to Hollywood was, from the beginning, an extrapolation built on selected demos and clips of a few seconds. Thousands of audiovisual professionals spent months convinced that their industry was about to be replaced by a tool that, according to OpenAI’s own numbers, never found enough users willing to pay $200 a month for it. The hype cycle has real consequences: it inflates expectations that are not met, generates costly defensive decisions, and when the product closes, no one takes critical stock. Sora’s coverage is a textbook case of how uncritical amplification of tech demos can be confused with industry analysis, and the damage that attitude can do. Hollywood is still alive. The closure of Sora does not erase the generative video sector in one fell swoop: runwaywhich rejected an acquisition offer from Meta, currently leads the sector with its Gen-4.5 model, along with I see 3.1 from Google and Chinese models Kling and Seedance. These tools are absorbing the space that OpenAI abandons. Who no one absorbs is Hollywood. The film industry, with all your problems (reorganizations, box office decline, threat of streaming), remains a profitable business built on decades of well-established creation, distribution chains and franchises that no generative model can replicate with a prompt. The question is not whether AI will transform audiovisual production (it is already doing so, in post-production, pre-visualization and marketing content creation) but in what real time frames and under what viable economic models. For now, the market responds that generating photorealistic video on a massive scale is computationally very expensive and that consumer users are not willing to pay what it costs. Disney signing Sora wasn’t evidence that Hollywood was in danger. It was, rather, evidence that big studios want to be in the AI ​​conversation, not outside of it. In Xataka | Seedance’s strategy was to copy first, go viral later and back away later. Until Hollywood said “enough”

In its efforts to once again conquer the Peninsula, the brown bear has just found its main ally against the ranchers: tourism

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In the late 80s and 90s, the brown bear was on the verge of total extinction in Spain. There were just a few dozen spread across remote areas of the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees. Today there are more than 400 And although we have been recovering the species for almost 40 years, the truth is that it has not stopped being controversial for a single moment in all that time. A controversy that, little by little, spreads throughout the country. An absence of 150 years. In the regions of La Cabrera, Sanabria or Carballeda and even in areas bordering Ourense, it had been more than a century and a half since anyone had seen a brown bear. However, a new study They have documented up to 85 tests that he has returned to the region. They are direct observations, verified footprints, damage to hives, phototraps and testimonies. It doesn’t matter, despite the size of these bugs, identifying them is difficult. The interesting thing is that, as another study pointed out, the bear has expanded to 17,000 km2. But… how did we do it? There are three key pieces to the system: great efforts were made to prevent poaching, their natural habitat was protected, and Slovenian bears were reintroduced to replenish populations. In the Pyrenees, in fact, the native line ended up disappearing (although, in 2025, it was recorded the first native bear cub born in the mountain range in more than 50 years). An even more important question: why are we doing it? That is, what purpose does a brown bear serve and why do we want to reintroduce it. Well, according to experts, the brown bear has several important functions in the maintenance of its ecosystems. To begin with, they are dispersers of seeds of fleshy fruits (something very beneficial for the forest mass), they control the populations of herbivores, they clean the forest of bodies as scavengers and it is a bioindicator of the quality of the ecosystem. The bear is at the top of the food chain: its presence improves ecosystems, manages them, maintains them. But, it creates problems… doesn’t it? That’s what the livestock industry says. According to data from the Aragonese Pyrenees, in 2024 there were 33 confirmed attacks (29 in Ansó and 4 in Hecho). The result was 44 dead sheep and 2 goats. The dispute is that, according to the ranchers, the compensation (22,431 euros in 2024) is insufficient. For them, not only deaths must be counted, but also stress abortions, disappearances and a drop in production. That is, what they defend is that part of the costs of the reintroduction of the bear are being paid by them. The issue, as its presence is consolidated, the interests of the ranchers are no longer the only ones. Little by little, the bone regions are attracting wildlife tourism which also generates money. A lot. In the Val d’Aran, there is even talk of overcrowding. In the end, the problem is always the same: Are we willing to pay the cost of living with the nature that we say we want to save? Whether we like it or not, the accidents on the farms in the Pyrenees and the massive replantings (up to 150,000 trees) in the Cantabrian Mountains are two sides of the same coin. It is not enough to throw it in the air and wait to see what happens. Image | Karl Paul Baldacchino In Xataka | Faced with the largest flood of wild bears in memory, Japan has taken a measure: emergency hunts

There are soldiers with +30 resistance thanks to a briefcase

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In 1965, the US Army already tested mechanical devices to increase the strength of soldiers. The problem is that they were models so heavy and impractical that they could barely move with them. Today, half a century later, those systems have reduced their size to fit in a suitcase and weigh less than a light backpack. And they are being tested in Ukraine. From the drone to the exoskeleton. we have been counting. The war in Ukraine had become the best example of how drones and remote control they changed the combat modern. For months, the focus has been on gun operators from screens and devices adapted from the civilian world. However, now has appeared a new step that completely changes the approach. Combat is not only controlled remotely, the body of the soldier on the front line is also reinforced. In other words, the scenario begins to seem less like an evolution of classic warfare and more like a transition towards something close to science fiction or the universe of the shooters. Exoskeletons in real combat. Yes, because the Ukrainian forces have begun to test exoskeletons on the Pokrovsk front both in logistical tasks and in combat positions. As far as is known, this is the first time that this type of technology has been used in real war conditions. As? Apparently, the systems are placed on the waist and legswith a structure that runs along the back and reaches the knees. Additionally, they include actuators in the hip that function as mechanical joints. Your goal is reduce physical effort and allow soldiers to operate for longer without losing effectiveness. Two soldiers from the 147th Artillery Brigade showing off their exoskeletons Faster, stronger and less wear. The first data handled by the units is clear. Exoskeletons have reduced the load on the legs around 30%. This has allowed faster movements of up to about 20 kilometers per hour for distances close to 15 or 17 kilometers. There is no doubt, in artillery units this has a direct impact. A soldier can move and load projectiles faster and with less fatigue. The improvement is not just physical. It also increases the pace of work and maintains operational capacity for longer. The key: artillery. This initial use in real combat is no coincidence because artillery crews endure some of the most demanding tasks on the battlefield. Every day they can manipulate between 15 and 30 projectileswith weights close to 50 kilos each. That means moving more than a ton in an intense day. The exoskeletonsa priori, allow us to alleviate this effort and accelerate the rate of fire. From that perspective, in a conflict where the volume of fire continues to be decisive, any improvement in that process has an immediate impact. Light, portable and adaptive technology. Military commanders counted on Insider that one of the most relevant aspects is the format. Each unit weighs around two kilos and can be folded up to fit in a briefcase where to save and deploy. This makes it easier to transport and deploy on the front line. Furthermore, they incorporate artificial intelligence systems that adjust operation in real time based on load and soldier movement. They can even operate in different modes depending on the task, making it clear that it is not just a mechanical reinforcement, but a system that adapts to the user while fighting. From video game to reality. The truth is that, for years, the war in Ukraine has reminded of a video game due to the use of screens, drones and remote control. Now the reference changes diametrically. Exoskeletons bring combat closer to images more typical of popular sagas like Call of Duty or even mechanical chargers that we saw in Alien. We are talking about soldiers who carry more weight, move faster and maintain performance for longer, a real change in how the human presence on the battlefield is conceived. It is no longer theory. Other countries had been testing similar systems for years without deploying them as a standard. For example, the United States has worked on projects how to KNOW either ONYXbut none had come into widespread use. As in the use of large scale dronesemergencies are leading Ukraine to take the step before anyone else by testing them directly in combat. If the results are consolidated, the use could extend to other units beyond artillery. The pattern is the same as with drones: first a test in real war, then broader adoption. Accumulating technology. The change doesn’t mean drones are going away, of course. It means rather that now add new layers. The combat in Ukraine thus mixes remote operators, artificial intelligence, old vehicles and now exoskeletons. There is, therefore, no substitution of technologies, there is accumulation. The result is a battlefield where technologies from different eras coexist and where each advance does not eliminate the previous one, but rather redefines how it is used. Image | Telegram In Xataka | There are four days left for the US to make a momentous decision: whether it wants to turn Iran into its own Ukraine In Xataka | Iran is exploiting the US’s weak point: it is not its F-35s or its Patriot missiles, it is the bill every time they take off

that OpenAI does not run out of funding

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OpenAI’s strategy until now had been to shoot into the air to see if, with luck, a bullet would hit the target. They have finally realized that it was not the way to go and for a few days there have been signs that the company is beginning to define its priorities once and for all. They plan duplicate your template before the end of the year, they want to launch a super app to simplify your catalog and even They have closed Sora 2. The changes are being profound and also affect their own CEO. What is Sam Altman’s role in this new OpenAI? Raise money. They count in The Information that Sam Altman has changed his role within the company. Until now, the CEO directly supervised the safety and security teams, but from now on he will focus on securing more investments, managing supply chains and building data centers “on an unprecedented scale.” Why it is important. This change suggests two things: on the one hand, that Altman would have distanced himself from strategic issues to become more involved in technical or secondary aspects; and on the other, that the situation within OpenAI is serious enough to move it to a role more focused on fundraising. As a consequence of the closure of Sora, OpenAI has lost the agreement it signed with Disney worth 1 billion dollars. Added to this is that recently NVIDIA itself got off the wagon with its 100,000 million. The situation is, to say the least, delicate. Saving mode. OpenAI’s strategic pivot seeks to save both money and computing resources. The closure of Sora has a lot to do with the latter since the app consumed a lot of resources, and it had only been launched in the United States. The team that was dedicated to its development will now dedicate itself to robotics-oriented world simulation. Additionally, the applications division led by Fidgi Simo is now called “AGI deployment” and will primarily focus on commercialization and real-world usage. Spud. That’s what the company’s next big AI model is called internally. According to The Information, the pre-training phase has already concluded and it is expected to be launched in the coming weeks. It’s unclear what capabilities this model will have, but Sam Altman has told employees that it “can really boost the economy.” Once again, it confirms that the strategic shift points in the direction of the desired profitability. AI as a consumer product. Throughout 2025, Open AI launched many very different products that added to those they already had, which were not few. With Sora 2 They wanted to be a social network, with ChatGPT Atlas a browser, there are plans for a sex mode on ChatGPT… Until now, OpenAI’s bet has been to turn AI into a mass consumer product, but they have discovered that going viral is not the same as making money and that having so many eggs in so many baskets is not profitable. AI as a business product. While OpenAI was searching for its identity without a fixed direction, there was another company that was very clear: Anthropic. The startup focused primarily on business clients, those who do not have so many qualms about paying subscriptions of hundreds of dollars a month, and little by little it has been taking over OpenAI. The figures They are not lying: two years ago OpenAI had a 50% enterprise market share and today it has 25%, while Anthropic already has 32%. Image | Xataka with Freepik In Xataka | Sora’s closure is a sign: OpenAI takes a step back in the AI ​​race to completely recalibrate

Many airlines are canceling flights due to the fuel crisis

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The conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran hits the air sector squarely. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a colossal energy crisis that the airlines have not seen coming, which has resulted in thousands of flights canceledrising rates and an uncertainty that, for the moment, has no expiration date. Start. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated attacks against Iran, triggering the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a sea lane through which about 20% of the world’s oil trade transits. According to Kevin Bookco-founder of the analytics firm Clearview Energy Partners, when analysts study what can go wrong in global oil markets, this is “the worst thing that can happen at any single point of failure,” he told NPR. Iran did not achieve this with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones. A few attacks in the vicinity of the strait were enough for insurers and shipping companies to decide that it was too risky to cross it. The result: The price of Brent exceeded $100 per barrel on March 8 for the first time in four years, reaching a high of $126. The impact in commercial aviation. The closure of airspace over the Middle East has caused complete chaos in global aviation. According to CNBC, more than 25,000 flights over the Middle East have been canceled since the attacks began, and the price of aviation fuel skyrocketed 58% in just days, reaching more than 170 euros per barrel. Who is canceling and how much. There is a flood of airlines that have canceled flights around the world. Among the main ones are: The Americans: United (5% of capacity); Delta, which already accounts losses of more than 400 million dollars for fuel; American and Southwest, which are also exposed without price coverage. “The price of fuel has more than doubled in the last three weeks. If prices remained at this level, it would mean an additional expenditure of $11 billion a year on fuel alone,” counted Scott Kirby, CEO of United. The Europeans:SAS, canceling about 1,000 flights in April; the entire Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, Brussels Airlines), KLM, Finnair, ITA Airways, Wizz Air and easyJet, whose CEO publicly warned that the situation in Europe could become seriously complicated starting in mid-May. “Although we try to absorb cost increases as much as possible, it is a shock that directly hits the sector,” counted SAS CEO Anko van der Werff. Asia-Pacific: Air New Zealand, about 1,100 flights until May (affecting about 44,000 passengers); Cathay Pacific, which have applied supplements of fuel to all its routes; Thai Airways, which already plans to raise rates between 10-15%; AirAsia; Qantas, with price increases and suspending departures on specific routes, and Vietnam Airlines. Where it hurts the most. The crisis does not hit everyone the same. Southeast Asia is especially exposed due to its dependence on supplies from the Gulf. According to Aerotime, China and Thailand have restricted exports of fuel, and the possibility of further calendar disruptions and other potential problems looms over the entire Asia-Pacific region. On the other hand, the situation in Sri Lanka is particularly extreme. And the country not only faces rising prices, but also a real shortage of foreign currency to pay for it, to the point of having declared Wednesdays holidays to reduce fuel consumption throughout the country. What’s coming A recent assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) concludes that Iran could maintain the closure of the strait for between one and six months. kirby warned in its memo that United is preparing for a scenario in which oil reaches $175 per barrel and does not drop below $100 until the end of 2027. If this scenario comes to pass, the wave of cancellations and rate increases that we are seeing now could be just the beginning. Cover image | David Syphers In Xataka | The Government’s plan against the fuel crisis: lower the VAT on gasoline and diesel to 10%

OpenAI has signed countless billion-dollar agreements with other companies. We are discovering that they are made of paper

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OpenAI has announced that will abandon development of Soraits AI video generator, just six months after the launch of its standalone app. Disney, which had announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI in exchange for licensing its characters for Sora, has confirmed that the deal will not go ahead. The money never changed handsand joins others in recent weeks that send a worrying message. One that calls into question the real strength of the most valued company in the AI ​​sector. Paper agreements. In recent months, OpenAi has been the protagonist of a frenetic string of announcements that have shaken the stock markets and sent prices skyrocketing. Analysts like Ed Zitron have documented in detail how these agreements are for now more smoke than anything else: all of them were “letters of intent”, conditional commitments that now seem increasingly difficult to come true. There are examples everywhere. The NVIDIA case: the one hundred billion that did not exist. In September 2025 NVIDIA announced a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI to invest “up to 100 billion dollars” and build 10 GW of data centers. Four months later, the company led by Jensen Huang considerably reduced that investment to 30 billion dollars. Jensen Huang recently stated that this will “probably” be the last round he will enter into OpenAI and clarified that the statement made it clear that this was a “letter of intent”, not a contract. Months later in NVIDIA’s quarterly results, the agreement is described as “an opportunity to invest in OpenAI.” Not a single dollar has been sent to him, and it is not certain that he will. The AMD case: 34% rise in the stock market. In October, another mega-deal. amd announced a “definitive” agreement with openAI to deploy 6 GW of data centers. The company indicated that would potentially generate “tens of billions in revenue,” and AMD shares rose 34% in one day. Four months later, in quarterly results from the company, zero mentions of OpenIA. IN November 2025, in AMD’s 10-Q filing, AMD’s outstanding obligations on contracts with a duration greater than one year were 279 million dollars. There were practically no mentions of OpenAI. Many promises, no reality. The Broadcom case: a confusing order. Broadcom too was going to deploy 10 GW of “AI accelerators designed by OpenAI” at the end of 2029, but at the moment there is still no evidence that chip sales have occurred and there are no clues in OpenAI’s latest quarterly results, which do not mention this agreement anywhere or its impact. Broadcom CEO he did tell investors that they expected to deploy 1 GW of computing in the form of XPUs in 2027, but did not give details of how they planned to reach 10 GW in 2029. And also revealed that “we do not expect much in 2026” from the contract with OpenAI, because the return will focus on 2027, 2028 and 2029. The Disney case: a very bad sign. The agreement with Disney announced in Decemberincluded the company taking a $1 billion stake and will license more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for use on Sora. It was the type of agreement that validates a company before the general public, especially since Disney does not sign agreements with just anyone. However, the agreement was entirely built on stock warrants, not cash, they point out in Deadline. By abandoning Sora, Disney has withdrawn without consequences and without having transferred a dollar. Another paper agreement. The SKHynix case: where are we going to get so much memory from?. SK Hynix and Samsung intended to provide 900,000 RAM wafers per month for OpenAI’s Stargate project, but the result of these intentions has been null. That agreement would have consumed 40% of world production of DRAM in the midst of the crisis of this type of components. The mysterious Norwegian data center case. OpenAI promised in July 2025 that would boost construction of an AI data center belonging to the Stargate project but which would be in Norway. It was then expected that this center would have 100,000 NVIDIA chips by the end of 2026, and that it would expand “significantly” from that figure. There has been no news of this development since then. Nobody asks questions. Zitron complained in your reflection how financial analysts seemed not to ask the necessary questions when faced with these announcements. He explains that OpenAI had committed about $300 billion in different agreements to create new data centers, but its real income is around $4.5 billion a year and it is expected that it will have losses of about $14 billion in 2026. Despite everything, Zitron criticizes, the stream of advertisements continues to work because it generates increases in the stock market and positive headlines. The difference between contracts and letters of intent was buried in the fine print of the advertisements that almost no one reads. And the examples continue. In fact, the advertisements do not stop coming despite everything and everyone. OpenAI announced in February an investment of 110 billion dollars by SoftBank (30 billion), NVIDIA (30 billion) and Amazon (50 billion). SoftBank itself is “testing its lending limits” with that bet, which we will see if he can complete. Amazon’s 50 billion are divided in two phases: a first of 15,000 million that should be executed on March 31, and another of 35,000 million dollars whose deadlines depend on several events. Too many agreements that must demonstrate something critical: that they are not made of paper. In Xataka | Problems are multiplying for OpenAI in the race for AI. Your solution: go from 4,500 to 8,000 workers

features, price and technical sheet

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Samsung has just announced its new Samsung Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5Gits mid-range terminals and successors to its most popular smartphones. The key, as it could not be otherwise, is found in software and artificial intelligence. The technical sheet does not change much compared to last year, but Samsung has chosen to offer improvements in terms of usability and functions. Both terminals, as we will see immediately, are very similar to each other. They have a similar size, same screen diagonal and same battery capacity. The fundamental difference is found in the motor and the camera, since the Galaxy A57 5G is somewhat more powerful and “sees” a little better. Technical sheet of the Samsung Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5G Samsung GALAXY A37 5g samsung galaxy a57 5g DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT 162.9 x 78.2 x 7.4mm 196 grams 161.5 x 76.8 x 6.9mm 179 grams SCREEN 6.7 inch AMOLED FullHD+ resolution (2,340 x 1,080 pixels) Refresh rate: 120 Hz HBM: 1,200 nits Vision Booster 6.7 inch AMOLED FullHD+ resolution (2,340 x 1,080 pixels) Refresh rate: 120 Hz HBM: 1,200 nits Vision Booster PROCESSOR Samsung Exynos 1480 Samsung Exynos 1680 RAM MEMORY 6GB 8GB INTERNAL storage 128GB 256GB REAR CAMERA Wide 50 MP, f/1.8 Wide angle 8 MP, f/1.8 Macro 5 MP, f/2.4 Wide 50 MP, f/1.8 Wide angle 12 MP, f/1.8 Macro 5 MP, f/2.4 FRONT CAMERA 12MP f/2.2 12MP f/2.2 BATTERY 5,000 mAh 45W fast charging 5,000 mAh 45W fast charging OPERATING SYSTEM Android 16 with One UI 8.5 Six years of updates Android 16 with One UI 8.5 Six years of updates CONNECTIVITY 5G Sub 6 Wi-Fi 6 WiFi direct Tethering NFC USB C 2.0 Bluetooth 5.3 5G Sub 6 WiFi 6E WiFi direct Tethering NFC USB 2.0 Bluetooth v6 others Galaxy AI Samsung Knox IP68 resistance Galaxy AI Samsung Knox IP68 resistance price 389 euros 559 euros This is how Samsung makes money: the secret is in the IPHONE Similar, but not exactly the same Samsung Galaxy A57 5G | Image: Samsung The company has preserved the design lines that it already implemented in the last generation. However, he has managed significantly reduce the thickness of the Galaxy A57as well as its weight. The Galaxy A37 5G is, for its part, identical to the Galaxy A36 5G. For the rest, and at least in appearance, there are no notable changes at first glance beyond the colors. Both devices incorporate a flat, smooth, simple and minimalist back, in line with what is seen in other ranges. As for the screen, same size and technology as last year. Both devices incorporate 6.7-inch Super AMOLED panels with FullHD+ resolution, up to 1,200 nits of maximum brightness and up to 120 Hz refresh rate. Last year, the devices mounted Gorilla Glass Victus crystals, but on this occasion Samsung has not made any mention of said technology in the statement issued to the media. Given what we have seen, we can conclude that the differences between both models in terms of design are size and weight. The Galaxy A37 5G is heavier and somewhat larger than the A57 5G despite having the same screen size, something that is probably due to better use of the front in the higher model. Exynos for everyone and similar cameras Samsung Galaxy A37 5G | Image: Samsung Samsung has once again opted for own processors for your new mobiles. The Galaxy A57 5G has eight gigabytes of RAM memory and a Exynos 1680 eight cores that reach 2.9 GHz, while the Galaxy A37 5G stays with six gigabytes of RAM and a Exynos 1480also octa-core, at a maximum speed of 2.75 GHz. On paper, the power should be enough for everyday tasks and easy use. However, we will have to see how they evolve in the long term. In that sense, both terminals come to the market with Android 16 and One UI 8.5 pre-installed as standard. The most interesting thing is that Samsung talks about “up to six generations of Android operating system and One UI updates, plus up to six years of security updates.” That means that, in theory, these devices should try the honeys of Android 22. Samsung Galaxy A37 5G | Image: Samsung AI plays an important role in these devices. The Korean company has this section well covered and offers functions such as voice transcription in the recorder, object deletion, Circle to Search, filters and editing suggestions, automatic video cropping and the new Bixby. Along with Gemini, Bixby allows you to interact with the mobile phone and its settings by voice, something we saw released on the Galaxy S26 just a few weeks ago. We ended up talking about the camera, where we didn’t find any big surprises. The configuration is similar on both devices, so they both mount a 50 megapixel wide angleand wide angle and a macro. The difference is in the wide-angle resolution, which is 12 megapixels on the A57 and eight megapixels on the A37. Otherwise, equal. The same applies to the selfie camera, which is 12 megapixels on both terminals. Versions and price of the Samsung Galaxy A57 5G and Galaxy A37 5G The Samsung Galaxy A37 5G and Galaxy A57 5G They can be purchased from April 10. The A57 will arrive in dark blue, gray, light blue and lilac, while the A37 will come in dark green, lavender and white. The prices are as follows: Samsung Galaxy A37 5G 6/128 GB: 389 euros. Samsung Galaxy A57 5G 8/256 GB: 559 euros. Images | Samsung In Xataka | If the question is what comes after the mobile in the age of AI, David Alonso, VP of Samsung Spain, is clear: the mobile

how to create an interactive list so you don’t forget the things to pack

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Let’s explain to you how to create an interactive packing list with everything you have to carry in your suitcase. We are going to do this with Claudea artificial intelligence which will create a module with elements that you can select when you put them. This list will have a counter in addition to the checks, so always you will know what you have put in and what you still have to put in in your suitcase, and this way you will make sure that you don’t forget anything. There are several ways to proceed, letting Claude create the list automatically for you based on where you are going to go and other information, or by dictating the items you want to have. Automatic packing list First, you can have Claude create the packing list for you automatically. For that, you’re going to have to tell him where you are going, for how many days and the activities What are you going to want to do? You can use a prompt like this: “I want you to make me an interactive packing list. I am going to spend 5 days on the Costa Brava during Easter from April 3 to 6. There will be some hiking, trips to the beach if the weather is good and some dinner at a restaurant. Can you make me a complete suitcase list, including clothes, shoes, toiletries and various items?” The most important thing is indicate that you want it to be an interactive list. When you ask him, Claude will first look for the weather information that there will be during those days, with the temperatures that you will encounter. And based on this data and everything you have said, it will generate your packing list. As you can see, the list will indicate what each thing is for, and there will be counters with which you will know how many items on the list you have added and how much remains to be added. Besides, you can ask it to remove a group of elementssuch as removing the hiking ones because you’ve changed your mind and don’t want to go to the mountains, and Claude will redo the list to your liking. Personalized packing list item by item But if you don’t want Claude to add a bunch of stuff that you might not need, then it’s best to create your personalized packing list with the elements you have in your head. To do this, you will have to ask him for a list telling him the items you want. You can use the following prompt: “I want you to create an interactive packing list for my trip to Dublin from April 23 to 26. It should only have the items that I tell you. I want you to add: Mountain shoes, 4 long-sleeved t-shirts, 2 sweaters, 1 jacket, 2 jeans, 4 underwear and 4 pairs of socks, 1 pajamas, toiletry bag, charger for cell phone and watch, passport, ID, sunglasses.” As you can see, in the prompt we have started by telling you that we want the interactive packing list, and then We have given you the list of items we want to add. Claude himself is in charge of categorizing them. We have also specified the dates and the place we are going, then we will tell you why. When you have the list added, leave that chat and don’t touch anything else. Then, if something else occurs to you, you can go back to the chat and ask him to add or remove thingsand Claude will regenerate this list. A useful trick is that you can ask Claude if you are missing something important on your list. That is why we told him at the beginning where and when we are going, because when you ask him if you are missing something, he will be able to take this information into account and tell you the things that you may be missing. In my case, a trip to Dublin reminded me that I will need a plug adapter, and I took the opportunity to add it. In Xataka Basics | How to create a Claude AI chatbot that responds solely based on your own documents

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