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The ambitious adaptation of a literary classic with 70 million copies sold comes to Prime Video

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In 1993, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Antonio Banderas starred in the first adaptation of ‘The spirit house‘but Isabel Allende’s novel did not turn out very well, because the film left its Latin identity behind. Thirty-three years later, Prime Video premieres the first television adaptation in Spanish of the work, filmed entirely in Chile, with an Ibero-American creative team and Allende herself acting as executive producer. Published in 1982, the novel has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide and is considered a classic of 20th century Latin American literature. The Amazon adaptation was conceived by Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola, who co-wrote the pilot, who were later joined by Andrés Wood, director of ‘Machuca’ and the series ‘News of a Kidnapping’, who directed four of the eight episodes and served as co-showrunner. Isabel Allende herself and Eva Longoria are on the list of executive producers, in a proposal where Wood recognizes a very extensive female presence. The series follows the Trueba family through several decades of the 20th century in an unnamed South American country (although it is unmistakably Chile) undergoing profound political and social upheavals. At the center is Esteban, an ambitious, authoritarian and violent patriarch who builds his fortune by subjugating the peasants who work on his hacienda, Las Tres Marías. In front of him, Clara del Valle, a woman with supernatural gifts, who is gifted with clairvoyance and communicates with spirits, and whose sensitivity contrasts with the brutality of Esteban, whom she ends up marrying. The story unfolds through three generations of women, each facing power in their own way. The series is part of Prime Video’s commitment to Latin American content: according to data from Parrot Analyticsstreaming originals in Spanish and Portuguese grew 266% between 2020 and 2024, outpacing the growth rate of content in any other language. For this series, the platform is betting on a staggered premiere, with three first episodes available from this Wednesday, April 29, two new ones on May 6 and the three on May 13. It is a formula that Prime Video has used with other productions to keep the conversation active for several weeks, unlike the Netflix model. In Xataka | A porn video club in Valladolid in 1998: Prime Video gets naked with ‘Cochinas’

The cure against hyperconnection is to go “slow”

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You’ve spent two hours, or maybe three, in an impossible position looking at your phone in the middle of a kind of trance. A notification made you unlock the screen and, after jumping from one application to another, you fell into the black hole of the scroll infinite. You could hardly tell what you have seen. What perverse mechanism has hijacked your attention? Technology has “hacked” our psychology based on experiments with laboratory rats that psychologist BF Skinner conducted in the 1940s. Just as rodents became obsessed with a lever that sometimes gave them food and sometimes not, we are victims of intermittent booster. We slide our finger across the screen looking for an unpredictable reward (a likea funny video or an outrageous news story), which generates a highly addictive spike. It is no coincidence that addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke describes smartphones as “modern-day hypodermic needles“. The problem of living on this digital merry-go-round lays it out clearly psychiatrist Evita Singh: short, frequent bursts of dopamine end up overstimulating us. As the months go by, brain pathways lose sensitivity and what previously gave us gratification stops doing so, opening the door to depression, anxiety and lack of concentration. The great myth of dopamine fasting To solve this short circuit, Silicon Valley popularized the concept of “dopamine fasting,” created by psychiatrist Cameron Sepah. However, this term has generated enormous confusion. Dr. Peter Grinspoon warns in a publication for Harvard that the name should not be taken literally. Biologically speaking, it is impossible to “fast” from a natural brain chemical. In fact, Dr. Singh clarifies that the goal of reducing screen time is not to rid the body of dopamine, but reset the sensitivity of our nerve cells so that they react to normal stimuli again. Faced with the frenzy of scrollthere is a trend that has appeared strongly: slow dopamine (slow dopamine). It is an approach that advocates pleasures stretched over time, almost meditative, where intensity gives way to nuance. In practice, it is retraining the brain in delayed gratification: accepting that the reward requires patience and prior effort, as occurs when preparing a meal from scratch, reading a book for hours, or tending a garden. This is in stark contrast to fast dopamine, which offers an instantaneous spike followed by a sharp drop (the scrollsugar, shopping on-line). The science of speed The difference between something addictive and something constructive often lies, purely and simply, in speed. A study published in the scientific journal Neuropsychopharmacology showed that the rewarding effects of stimulants in the brain depend crucially on how quickly they raise dopamine. Through brain scans, researchers observed that rapid increases in dopamine activate neural networks linked specifically to the subjective experience of the “high” or intense reward. In contrast, slow increases generate radically different and opposite patterns of global connectivity in the brain. Furthermore, it is vital to understand that we have trivialized this molecule. Dopamine is not only the “pleasure hormone”, but it is a fundamental neurotransmitter that acts on our movement, memory, attention and sleep. Its imbalance not only generates addictions, but is linked to diseases such as Parkinson’s, schizophrenia or ADHD. Breaking this circuit is not solved in a weekend, restoring these brain pathways and forming new habits can take up to 90 days. From addiction to isolation Misunderstanding neuroscience can be dangerous. Journalist Kirsty Grant, of the BBCunderwent a radical 24-hour dopamine fast: no screens, no music, no interaction, and barely any water. His conclusion was revealing: Instead of achieving enlightenment and concentration, he experienced a level of overwhelming boredom, intense hunger, and felt like he was punishing his body. Dr. Grinspoon in harvard criticizes precisely these extreme drifts, where people deprive themselves of speaking or interacting socially based on bad science. The medical literature supports this concern: an investigation published in the magazine Cureus concludes that intense dopamine fasts, which include extreme isolation or crash diets, can harm both physical and mental health. These types of radical practices cause feelings of loneliness, anxiety and malnutrition. Instead, the studies propose exploring a comprehensive approach that includes mindfulness. Practices such as meditation or yoga offer real and positive effects on the regulation of dopamine, allowing us to disconnect from digital distractions in a healthy way. The antidote to doomscrolling and mental exhaustion does not involve locking ourselves in a cave without stimulation. Science and psychology point towards gentle re-education. It is re-teaching our mind that sustained effort is also a reward. “Slow dopamine” invites us to regain control of our time and attention, transforming pleasure into something deeper and less volatile. Ultimately, it is about ensuring that technology once again becomes a useful tool at our service, and stops being a slot machine permanently installed in our pocket. Image | Photo by Borna Hržina on Unsplash Xataka | The science of “doomscrolling”: how technology hacked psychology so we can’t let go of our phones

We have been thinking about a single path to Mars for decades. A group of scientists has just found a “shortcut”

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If you travel to the Moon It’s quite a challengethe next step is only for the brave. To date, no one has traveled to Mars and even unmanned trips encounter multiple drawbacks. The first of them is the duration of the trip itself, since it can extend up to 8.5 months, one way. Almost nine months of space route, with all the inconveniences that may arise during it. That is why the shortcut that a team of scientists from the State University of Rio Janeiro has just proposed is so interesting. With it, the trip could be shortened to 153 days, round trip. The key is in the asteroids. The authors of this study They have looked for shortcuts on the route to Mars in a quite interesting way: by noticing other travelers. After studying the trajectories of several asteroids, they have focused on those whose orbit intersects both that of Mars and that of Earth. Until now, the trajectories are designed from the Earth’s orbital plane. If the orbital plane of one of these asteroids, specifically 2001 CA21, is also taken into account, new paths are opened, which were hidden from our planet. One of those paths, according to the study, would drastically reduce the duration of trips to Mars. The asteroid is not a vehicle. It is important to note that this study does not propose using asteroids as a vehicle to Mars. They simply use them to open horizons to other trajectories. We from Earth see only a few “roads”, but asteroids like this have other options. By looking for connection points between the Earth’s orbital plane and that of these asteroids, it can be linked to these other routes, some of which turn out to be more direct. Traditional tours. Normally, to travel from Earth to Mars something known as the Hohmann trajectory is used. This consists of beginning to make a turn around the Sun in our own elliptical orbit; to, when the time comes, take advantage of its gravitational pull and extend the ellipse to the Martian orbit. Broadly speaking, the ship does not go in a straight line to where the destination planet is, but rather travels to where it will be at a given time. It is not a short trip, but with it, by taking advantage of the gravitational pull, fuel consumption is greatly reduced. Planned trajectory for ESA’s ExoMars For this to be carried out, launch windows must be taken advantage of in which the Earth, the Sun and Mars are properly aligned. All this lengthens trips a lot. A change of plane. The orbits of the different objects that revolve around each other are not all in the same plane. Each one has its own plan. Like a sheet of paper that is spinning. The Earth’s plane is not exactly the same as that of Marsbut very similar. That of the asteroid in this study, however, is very different and is much more inclined. That is why it allows us to open the window to new trajectories. As explained in Wired, It is something like opening a secondary window in a video game to see a scenario that we do not see in the main one. Multiple launch windows. Taking into account the need to have a proper alignment between the Earth, the Sun and Mars, there are soon three interesting launch windows to travel to the red planet: 2027, 2029 and 2031. By studying them one by one, the authors of this study saw that it is in 2031 when the best alignment with the plane of the asteroid occurs and, therefore, a much faster opportunity for travel. In the best case, Mars could be reached in 33 days. The complete trip would be 153 days, although in less optimistic cases it could be 226 days. Be that as it may, it is still much less than those 9 months, one way, that it takes now. Other asteroids. Although the study has been carried out with specific data from a single asteroid, these scientists believe that, in reality, the orbital planes of others could be taken whose trajectories also intersect with Earth and Mars. Basically, the key is to look outside the box. Or, much more literally, out of shot. There are many interesting routes out there. More powerful propulsion systems. All this sounds beautiful, but there is a big drawback that we must take into account. And, in order to carry out this process, much more energy is needed. Therefore, it would be necessary to resort to practically unfeasible quantities of fuel or to new, more powerful propulsion systems. Today this is not possible, so advances in this regard should go in parallel with the development of advances in propulsion systems. Many examples are already being investigated, such as the use of nuclear energy. Even has been proposed use lasers, although it is a project that is very much in its infancy. There is still a long way to go, never better said, but if the future is in these short and alternative trajectories it must also be in new propulsion systems that leave traditional ones behind. Image | NASA | THAT In Xataka | ExoMars, this is Europe’s most ambitious mission to Mars

Not even God is saved from AI, so the Vatican has gone from the commandments to being the first State to legislate it

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Incredible as it may seem, the Vatican is moving faster than most historical institutions in the face of artificial intelligence and everything that is coming our way (and that, in fact, we are already getting a glimpse of), from disinformation to voice and video deepfakes, to the silent erosion of what we understand as reality. An institution that is more than 2,000 years old and old-fashioned is giving a lesson in institutional agility to governments, parliaments and even technology companies that do not know where they are going. And it does not do so from naivety, but from a firm and concrete theological conviction: that human dignity is not negotiable, not even in the face of a language model with a billion parameters. It has taken the EU years to approve its AI Act and even so it was a pioneer, but big tech in general is behaving like the tobacco industry by self-regulating tobacco. In this scenario, the Holy See has had internal directions in force for months, alliances in cybersecurity and a pope who has already said that AI cannot preach faith. The Vatican’s position. In addition to prohibiting the use of AI to write sermons, last February Pope Leo XIV asked the priesthood do not look for “likes” on social networks. A year earlier, the Vatican had issued one of the world’s first regulatory frameworks on AI demanding ethics, transparency and putting humans at the center Thus, Vatican policy establishes that technology “should never surpass or replace human beings” and must be at the service of human dignity. And it is not something new: the previous Pope Francis already laid the foundations in his Laudato Si’ of 2015, but applied to the digital world. Why it is important. Because the Holy See is moving more and better than the bulk of traditional institutions to establish norms and safeguards against disinformation generated by AI. While the EU approved its legislative framework as a bloc, the Vatican has been the first individual sovereign State to have immediate compliance guidelines for its administration, ahead of powers such as the United States or China. By positioning itself as a moral authority, it seeks to fill the regulatory and ethical void that technology companies have left open. This positioning has real institutional weight: the Vatican operates as a diplomatic actor with permanent observer status at the UN and relations with more than 180 states, which allows it to project its ethical standards beyond the religious sphere, in a space where neither governments nor technology companies have achieved global consensus. Context. We have already seen that the movement is not something sudden or improvised and that the Vatican’s position has been brewing for years. In fact, it is the evolution of the “Rome Call for AI Ethics“, a historical (but voluntary) document where the Vatican managed to get giants such as Microsoft, IBM and Cisco will sign a commitment to develop technologies that respect privacy and inclusion The current geopolitical context, marked by cyberattacks and the use of deepfakes in conflicts, has forced the Holy See to accelerate its cybersecurity partnerships and establish monitoring within Vatican City itself to protect its information sovereignty. At a regulatory level, the Vatican is not going it alone: ​​the Holy See’s approach is complementary to that of the AI ​​Act: the EU regulates by law and the Vatican provides the moral authority and ethical principles of universal application, something that cannot be legislated. Retail. The Vatican’s regulatory framework focuses on both technical security and the social impact that algorithms have and seriously warns about the risk of a new inequality gap: between those who control AI and those who are controlled by it. The Vatican has established formal cybersecurity alliances with simultaneous focus on defense, diplomacy and ethics. The internal guidelines They prohibit AI that manipulates people, generates discrimination or compromises institutional integrity and there are specific safeguards on data. In Xataka | “AI will never be able to preach the faith”: the Pope is asking priests not to use ChatGPT to write their sermons In Xataka | The Vatican, a holy and renewable city: the Pope’s plans to make the small Catholic state more sustainable Cover | Google DeepMind and Julien DI MAJO

a diamond from 2 billion years ago

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It was at the beginning of the 20th century when, in a south africa minea foreman named Frederick Wells thought he saw a simple flash in a rock wall and decided to check it with his knife. What he got out of there turned out to be the biggest diamond never found, a piece so large that for years was doubted whether it was just a fragment of something even greater. The iconic scene left a curious idea that is repeated in the history of mining: sometimes, the most extraordinary finds appear just when no one is looking for them. Luck at the last minute. It happened at the beginning of April, when in one of the most remote regions of the planet, a few kilometers from the Arctic Circle, a mine which was already facing its last days of activity has left an unexpected discovery that rewrites its ending. This is not just a new geological discovery, but one that combines extreme rarity, almost unimaginable antiquity and a context that makes it something much more symbolic How usual. In a place on the planet where every extraction seemed to be part of the past, the earth has offered one of its oldest secrets at the last possible moment. An extraordinary diamond in every way. It is not trivial, because the stone found, with more than 158 caratsis among the largest yellow diamonds ever discovered in Canada, a country where this type of gem is already exceptional. In more than two decades of activity, only a few few comparable pieceswhich places the discovery in a practically unique and almost unusual category. The rarity is even greater when you consider that this type of diamond represents less than one percent of the mine’s total production. Two billion years. Yes, because the true value of this diamond lies not only in its size or color, but in its fascinating origin. The researchers said that, formed approximately two billion years deep within the Earth, it is the result of extremely slow geological processes that have remained intact until today. Its yellow color, a product of presence of nitrogen in its crystalline structure, it adds another layer of uniqueness to an already exceptional piece. On the brink of closure. As we said at the beginning, what makes this discovery especially significant is the moment in which it occurs. The Diavik mineoperational since 2003, just closed after more than twenty years of activity and more than 150 million carats extracted. In other words, this diamond appears as one of the last great discoveries before the end, functioning almost as a symbolic closure for an operation that has marking the industry in northern Canada. Extreme engineering in one of the harshest environments. The context in which the discovery occurs is key to understanding its importance. The mine operates in subarctic conditionswith extreme temperatures and in an isolated environment that has forced the development of advanced technical solutions, from containment dams in frozen waters to hybrid energy systems with renewables. This level of complexity turns each extraction into a logistical and human challenge that goes far beyond simple mining. Beyond the stone. During its lifespan, the mine has not only produced diamonds, but has transformed the economy of the region, generating thousands of jobs and important industrial activity. Furthermore, it has established collaborations with communities local indigenous people for the management of the territory and its future restoration, a key aspect now that the exploitation has come to an end and the environmental recovery process begins. The last gift. If you also want, together, the discovery sums up the essence of the entire operation: technology, nature and time converging in an unexpected moment. When everything pointed to a definitive closure without any major surprises, the mine has delivered one of its most extraordinary pieces at the last minute, as if the land itself refused to disappear without leaving a last trace. Thus, more than a simple discovery, the diamond has become the region in the final symbol of a cycle with the most filmy closing. Image | Rio Tinto In Xataka | The diamond industry has been looking for a way out of its biggest crisis for years. Taylor Swift just served it on a platter In Xataka | The diamond industry promised to be happy with lab-grown jewelry. Until prices crashed

what to do now with your life

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It was in 2023 when Louis Debouzy sold his companyhe got paid, and found himself with an anxiety that he couldn’t explain. Within five months, 200 founders had signed up for The Exit Clubthe community he founded to talk about it. Most showed symptoms of depression. Why is it important. The phenomenon has a name in psychology: sudden wealth syndromeor sudden wealth syndrome. But in the case of the founders there is an additional layer: it is not just the money that arrives suddenly, it is that the company was their identity. When they sell it, what organized their time, their decisions, and basically their sense of who they are disappears. The calendar that was once bursting with meetings is suddenly empty. Without an agenda there is no identity. Between the lines. The entrepreneurial culture has built the exit like the definitive destination, the moment when everything makes sense. It’s celebrated on TechCrunch, applauded on LinkedIn, included in X’s bio, and talked about at any event. networking. What is not usually discussed is what happens the following Monday. Almost all founders experience deep and prolonged sadness after selling your companyeven when the exit has been a success. The problem is not failure but the opposite. The cases. The best-known examples are the most extreme, but not the only ones. These are extreme cases but they illustrate a logic that is repeated: financial success does not resolve the existential crisis, and in fact sometimes triggers it. The context. 72% of entrepreneurs have difficulties with mental health after the exitwhether it be depression, anxiety or addiction to some substance. 72%. It’s almost the norm. And yet, the taboo remains enormous: admitting that one has become depressed after winning millions clashes squarely with the social expectation that one should be euphoric. The post-periodexit It is a very lonely experience, because people expect you to just be happyand there is no guide to get through it. The question. Why does it take so long to talk about this normally? Probably because it combines two taboos: that of mental health and that of privilege. It’s hard to ask for empathy when eight figures have just arrived in your checking account. The absence of this social permission pushes the problem inward, and aggravates it. Groups like The Exit Club try to break that isolation: a space where you can say “I have all the money in the world and I don’t know who I am” without anyone looking at you strangely. It is not a new phenomenon for Xataka: The question of what to do with life when money is no longer the problem has been looming for years in forums and entrepreneurial communities. Yes, but. Not every founder who sells his company falls into a crisis. Some experience it as a liberation and move on to the next phase without apparent trauma. The problem is not universal, but it is frequent enough that communities, resources and therapists specialized in this specific transit have emerged. That there’s a market for that, especially in a demographic as small as “people who sell their business and get a completely life-changing amount” says something. Go deeper. The post-exit It is not a problem with a solution, but a transition with phases. What matters is recognizing it as a predictable phenomenon that affects high-performing people when their main source of identity disappears. In Xataka | The most expensive house in history is in London, it already has an owner and a dizzying price: 310 million euros Featured image | Xataka

We are injecting radioactive material into live rhino horns so that we stop consuming them

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Maybe you didn’t know it, but to protect ourselves from human nature itself, which is capable of generating the most absolute chaos, most of the main airports and ports, including those in South Africa, already have the necessary infrastructure to detect radioactive material. So that? To detect nuclear weapons. Thus, in theory, we avoid smuggling between countries. In a twist, science has just found in this infrastructure a solution for stop poaching. Radioactive horns. The news is as surprising as it is true: a group of South African scientists has been injecting radioactive material directly into live rhino horns for some time. The idea: make them easier to detect at border posts. Behind the project is the Radiation and Health Physics Unit (RHPU) of Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. Why the horns. Of course, the enclave where it is happening is not trivial. South Africa is home to most rhinos on the planet and, as such, it is a hotspot for poaching driven by, and here comes the key, demand from Asia. Yes, there the horns are used in traditional medicine for its supposed therapeutic effect (not proven). As Professor James Larkin, who directs the project, explained, “every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino dies for its horn.” In fact, before this surprising twist in the script, an attempt had been made to save the rhino with another unexpected move: investing in bonds. Not only that. Researchers indicate that the smuggling of these horns has now made them “the most valuable counterfeit product on the black market, with a value even greater than that of gold, platinum, diamonds and cocaine. These poached horns are trafficked around the world and used for traditional medicines or as status symbols,” they assure. Radioactivity injection process. under the name Rhisotope Projectresearchers are drilling low doses of radioisotopes into the horns of 20 sedated rhinos whose health will be monitored for the next six months. We are talking about two small radioactive chips in the area of ​​the horns that are then “finished off” by spraying 11,000 microdots in the area. Long term. If successful, the program could be expanded in the long term to include elephants and pangolins, as well as other plants and animals, according to the university. The material, in principle, would last five years on the horn, which “was cheaper than removing it every 18 months.” “Each insertion was closely supervised by expert veterinarians and great care was taken to avoid any harm to the animals,” Larkin explains.. “Through months of research and testing, we have also ensured that the inserted radioisotopes do not pose any health or other risks to the animals or those who care for them.” Poison to humans. In essence, once the dose of radioactivity is inserted, the consumption by any means of products made from the horns will make them “essentially poisonous for human consumption,” they say in the work. Be that as it may, the main objective is none other than to identify smuggling attempts, if possible, before they leave the country. How the alarm goes off. Apparently, this infrastructure found in many airports works more or less simply. Anyone trying to get past the radioactive horns would set off alarms and trigger a police response. By the way, scientists remember that the process is not harmful to animals, since the dose of radioactive material is so low that it does not affect the health of the animal or the environment in any way. Figures that have led to the situation. Last year, the country’s Environment Ministry said that, despite the government’s efforts to combat illicit trade, 499 of these giant mammals died in 2023most in state parks. In figures, it represents an increase of 11 percent compared to 2022. To give us an idea of this sad realitywe are talking about figures of up to $60,000 per kilo, which explains why rhino horn is still one of the most lucrative illegal markets. Image | Witts University, Martin Pettitt In Xataka | For centuries, British sailors devoured green turtles until they were almost extinct: today we have recovered them In Xataka | We have a serious problem with the extinction of bees. The United Kingdom wants to solve it with bricks *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2025

Microsoft just turned an $11 billion startup into a Word feature. It’s more than a legal Copilot

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Brad Smith is more than the vice chairman of the board and president of Microsoft: Smith is also a lawyer and as he himself tellsat the beginning of his career he asked his company for a computer because he firmly believed that computing could change the way lawyers work. In fact, his Wikipedia biography gives more detail: it was the requirement that the Washington, DC law firm Covington & Burling set to join. Said and done: in 1986 he was the first person in the firm to have one, which ran the legendary Word 1.0 processor. Seen in perspective it sounds like marketing, but a tremendous omen: Microsoft just announced Legal Agent for Wordan AI agent designed for legal work. What’s new from Microsoft is not a legal Copilot. Legal Agent is an agent designed to understand and operate within a legal document as a lawyer would: it analyzes risks, compares clauses against the organization’s internal rules, has tracking for the changes it generates, differentiates previous reviews of new proposals and detects potentially problematic provisions. Everything happens within the .docx itself, without leaving Word. What distinguishes it technically is its architecture. The agent does not ask the LLM to generate each edit directly, but instead combines that semantic understanding layer with a deterministic layer that applies the changes in a controlled way. This allows you to insert clauses, delete paragraphs, or add comments while preserving the original formatting of the document, including tables, lists, and change history. The result is a more reliable and predictable system than a chatbot, with fewer hallucinations and with the consistency that legal work demands. Brad Smith’s tweet includes a video that lasts almost a minute and a half where it can be seen in action: Tap to go to the post Why is it important. The key is not so much the technology, which already existed, but rather the distribution: Word is the program par excellence for drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts around the world. Integrating there means being in the right place at the right time, without friction: it eliminates the need for another service, creating an account and logging in, the learning curve, the workflow between two different apps, data migrations and security. All in one, all easy. The definitive boost is the price. While subscribing to specialty products like Harvey they hover the 1,000 – 1,200 dollars per lawyer per base month, according to market estimates collected by Sacrathe Legal Agent arrives integrated into theCopilot Enterprise subscription of 30 dollars a month that surely many spiteful people already pay per se. The difference in magnitude and the product placement anticipate a voracious entry into this market niche. Context. A troubled river, fishermen’s profit: Microsoft did not start from scratch for this project. At the beginning of the year contract to more than 18 engineers from Robin AI, the legal AI startup that collapsed after failing to close its $50 million round. Probably if Robin AI had not fallen, Microsoft would not have been able to create such a product so quickly. We were talking about other specialized products but the name on the horizon was one: Harveythe sector’s benchmark. Founded by Winston Weinberg and former Google DeepMind Gabe Pereyraoperates with more than 100,000 law professionals in more than 1,300 organizations and is valued at 11 billion dollars. Your latest financing round It was 200 millionclosed in March 2026 and co-led by GIC and Sequoia. It is true that its proposal goes beyond the review of contracts: it has more than 25,000 personalized agents operating on its platform with deep integrations into the document management systems used by large law firms, such as iManage and NetDocuments. Bottom line: It’s not a $30 a month feature. Yes, but. In any case, for now the product is still in early access, only in Word for Windows, with configuration restrictions and some complaints from those who have already tried it. Furthermore, it remains to be seen whether lawyers will trust into a mainstream tool for highly complex cases where a minimal error can be costly. The battle of price and distribution is won, confidence and technical depth is another story. Saying that Microsoft is going to kill Harvey it’s an exaggeration: The Legal Agent is more focused on volume work, that more mundane work of routine reviews, standard contracts, NDAs… that takes legal professionals hours every day. Harvey is strong in more complex and/or high-risk tasks: a multinational with a serious litigation advised by an elite law firm is hardly going to entrust the matter to an agent included in an Office subscription. What the Robin AI story does make clear is that having a good product and customers does not guarantee survival: the group of organizations willing to pay is smaller than the investment rounds anticipated. In Xataka | The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is no longer exclusive. It took someone 48 hours to fish in a troubled river: Amazon In Xataka | The results of the technology companies are very clear: the business of AI is not AI, it is renting its infrastructure Cover | Brad Smith on Twitter

A Falcon 9 has been roaming through space for more than a year. An astronomer believes it will crash into the Moon in summer

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An upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 has been orbiting uncontrollably for more than a year and astronomers indicate that it will end up crashing on the Moon next August. Although at first it may seem serious, the truth is that it does not represent any danger to us. However, that does not mean that the event has once again revived the debate on the space junk and what may happen in the future if the Moon ends up being inhabited. What is going to happen and when. On August 5, at 8:44 a.m. (Spanish peninsular time), an upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the lunar surface at approximately 8,700 km/h, which is equivalent to about seven times the speed of sound. The prediction It was published by Bill Grayprofessional astronomer and developer of Project Pluto software, a widely used tool for tracking near-Earth objects. According to Gray, the impact will occur in the surroundings of Einstein crater, on the edge of the visible side of the Moon from Earth. Where does this piece of rocket come from? The stage in question, cataloged as 2025-010D, is the upper part of the Falcon 9 that launched two private lunar landers on January 15, 2025: the Blue Ghost from Firefly Aerospace and the Hakuto-R from the Japanese company ispace. The first achieved the first completely successful commercial lunar landing in history, touching down at Mare Crisium on March 2, 2025. The second lost contact with Earth during the descent maneuver and crashed. Meanwhile, the rocket’s upper stage continued to orbit. With more than 1,000 observations accumulated since launch, Gray assures There is no doubt: it is this piece of the Falcon 9. Why can’t it be seen from Earth. Although the Moon will be visible to much of the Western Hemisphere at the time of impact, Gray warns that the flash will almost certainly be too faint to detect with ground-based telescopes. The researcher himself remembers what happened with the LCROSS mission from NASA in 2009, when a Centaur stage deliberately impacted the lunar south pole to study the ground and yet no flash could be observed from Earth. The scientific value, if any, will come from further study of the fresh crater left by the impact. No danger, but with a warning. The stage measures 13.8 meters long and 3.7 meters in diameter. Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere, the device will reach the surface intact. There is no risk to lunar infrastructure, rovers or ships in orbit. Still, Gray account which “does highlight a certain lack of care in the way in which remnants of space hardware are disposed of,” he writes in his report. There is a relatively simple technical solution, and that is that with a little more planning and some extra fuel, companies that launch rockets could send these stages to heliocentric orbits (around the Sun), where they would pose no threat to either the Earth or the Moon. Now it matters more. Both the US and China plan to multiply the pace of their lunar missions during the second half of this decade, with the aim of installing semi-permanent bases near the south pole of the Moon. The United States aims for annual missions with Artemis IV and V from 2028; China wants have your own taikonauts stepping on lunar soil before 2030. More missions means more rockets, more unreused upper stages, and therefore more space junk orbiting near the Moon. If there were people or infrastructure on the surface then, things would get serious. It’s not the first time it happens. Gray stumbled upon another rocket stage a few years ago. In 2022, he predicted that a piece of rocket would hit the Moon on March 4 of that year, getting the time right within seconds and the location within just a few kilometers. Gray had initially identified the object as another stage from a Falcon 9, but it turned out to be a booster from the Chinese Chang’e 5-T1 rocket. This time, however, continuous monitoring since launch rules out any doubts. Cover image | SpaceX and NASA In Xataka | We have found something that astronomers have been searching for decades: the precise edge of the Milky Way

Foxconn is the latest to join

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Nvidia is the sweetest customer right now. It is the glue of artificial intelligence, invests millions in AI startups and, although Big Tech They try to be the new Nvidiathe truth is that they are currently the only ones with the necessary hardware to meet the hyperscalers’ objectives. His real achievement is to make the entire conversation revolve around him and make everyone have to work for you. And Foxconn is the last to tie itself to Nvidia’s future. In short. Nvidia is currently preparing the launch of Vera Rubin. It is a training and inference platform that is bringing together the latest generation of c hardware.ocompanies like Samsung either TSMC. However, Jensen Huang already commented that he would need all available hands this year to meet his goals, and that’s where Foxconn comes in. The great (and controversial) Taiwanese company has been chosen by Nvidia as the exclusive supply chain provider of the equipment necessary to Groq 3 LPX. The two companies were already working together, but the agreement implies a tenfold increase in the planned delivery volume and, furthermore, sooner than expected: for the third quarter of 2026. Transformation. This agreement puts Nvidia’s intentions on the table. If until recently we were talking about GPUs like the H200, which were those desired by the Chinese Big Technow it’s time to talk about the aforementioned Vera Rubin. It is a platform that will be able to do both training and inference work, something increasingly important in the era of Agentic AI. According to Nvidia, the Groq 3 LPX rack has 35 times better performance in inference for billion-parameter AI models compared to the previous generation Blackwell. Not for nothing Intel is turning its business to Xeons for data centers and ARM stock hit highs after unveiling its AI CPU. Foxconn will concentrate its resources on that LPX i platformpowered by Groq to accelerate the entire critical decoding phase of agentic AI models. And, aside from Groq 3 LPX, the Taiwanese company itself is one of the main suppliers of Vera Rubin NVL72 cabinets. In short: Foxconn is, right now, playing in the Champions League. According to the sources industry, shipments of the LP30 and LP35 chips that will use these LPX cabinets will be 1.5 million by 2026 and 2.5 million by 2027. In total, 6,000 racks for this year and 10,000 for the one that comes only with those chips. The fat customer. And here there are two sides of the coin. On the one hand, that of Nvidia, the company that has found a vein in AI so large as to abandon those who were their main clients not so long ago. Working for Nvidia is to ensure profits as long as its hegemony lasts in the age of AI. An example is Samsungwho made all the haste in the world to win the HBM4 memory race because it knew that if they complied, they would overtake their main customers in the race to become Nvidia’s supplier. Another example is TSMC itself. The largest foundry in the world had had Apple as its main customer for years. That ensured that if there was any crisis in the supply chain, Apple knew it would have its chips because TSMC’s future was tied to its own. But now things have changed and The one who has guaranteed wafers is Nvidia. Accumulating big contracts. The other side of the coin is that Foxconn, which is not in the daily conversation as one of the engines of AI, is winning big, juicy contracts. One is the one mentioned exclusively with Nvidia, but they are also suppliers of chips to other giants such as Google with its TPUsMicrosoft and Amazon AWM. Of Google, for example, it has 15% of the market share. And the company’s CEO, Liu Yangwei, sticks out his chest in this situation pointing that they can produce more than 1,000 complete cabinets per week and are working to double that capacity before the end of the year. Oh, and in case you’re wondering if this will have any impact on the price of RAMKeep in mind that each of these thousands of racks that Foxconn manufactures will have 256 chips with 128 GB of SRAM and 12 TB of DDR5 memory. It also helps understand why the memory majors are stopping making DDR4 memory to focus on DDR5. And why prices will remain as they are now for quite a few months. Image | Hillel Steinberg In Xataka | That Qualcomm prepares its own AI chips is good news. Whether it has an opportunity in the market is a very different thing.

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