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Rosalía knows that we are in the post-woke era and she is reflecting it in every movement

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It is inevitable that every statement of Rosaliaone of the most scrutinized artists of today, raised dust. And as a woman with a success difficult to encompasseven more so. The curious thing is that she does not stop pecking at controversial topics: Palestine, Catholicism and, now, feminism. And of course, each of their positions entails the consequent wave of responses for or against. The question is whether his commitment to non-polarization is still polarization in itself. The conflict phrase. “I surround myself with feminist ideas, but I am not morally perfect enough to consider myself within an ‘ism’.” With this phrase pronounced on Radio3 Extra during the promotion of his ‘LUX‘, Rosalía once again evaded the issue regarding a conflictive issue. The Catalan singer has made ambiguity part of her business model, but it is not the first time: it is the second version of a tactic that she already put into practice five months ago. The pattern of neutrality. After the refusal of the Balearic designer Miguel Adrover to work with her for not speaking out about Gaza, Rosalía launched three paragraphs about the conflict without saying “Israel”, “occupation” or “genocide”. His strategy: vaguely condemn “what is happening” while arguing that “the pointing should be directed upward, not horizontally between us.” Some analysts they then observed that this form of protest is the complete opposite of activism (donations, NGOs, hiring of Palestinian personnel): a declaration of intentions without commitment. And it worked: after the statement, the controversy cooled down within a week. Adrover did not mention her again, the fans moved on to other scandals, and Rosalía was able to continue promoting ‘LUX’ without losing any advertising contract. In the age of the 72-hour news cycle, whoever holds out wins. And now, feminism. This verbal balancing act is repeated now: Rosalía “surrounds herself with feminist ideas”, in the same way that in July she felt “horrified” by Gaza: these are feelings without militancy. She protests when they pressure her for her silence, but It never gets muddy on its own initiative. And in both cases, avoid words that could be cited against him. It doesn’t say “Palestine”, but “what happens”, and it doesn’t say “feminist”, but that it is not “morally perfect”: it uses language designed not to remain. The importance of the United States. This linguistic engineering is explained by the key relevance of the US market, where controversies woke up in a particularly adverse climate they can sink careers (the commercial disaster of the new ‘Snow White’ after the pro-Palestine statements of its protagonist Rachel Zegleror the rejection of woke twists from brands like target, Jaguar either Bud Light). Rosalía has 70 million followers on networks and contracts with brands around the world. Saying “I am a feminist”, for example, automatically excludes it from conservative Latin markets or in Saudi Arabia, while the opposite position cancels it out in Europe. The solution: don’t say anything definitive. Let’s not forget that Rosalía’s business already functions as a company, a family business structure that turns over millions. Motomami SL entered 3.6 million euros in 2022 alone. In February 2024, Tresmamis SL was established, a real estate agency dedicated to managing properties such as a penthouse with views of the Mediterranean between Castelldefels and Sitges or a modernist apartment in Barcelona. Added to this are global contracts with brands such as Dior, Calvin Klein, MAC Cosmetics, Skims and Coca-Cola, which according to estimates generate between 5.3 and 7.2 million additional dollars annually. It is not surprising that each strategic silence protects an international investment portfolio. The Sydney Sweeney precedent. A clarifying precedent about Rosalía’s attitude is in the actress Sydney Sweeney, who in July 2025 starred in a jeans advertising campaign for American Eagle with the slogan “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” a play on “genes” that sparked accusations of promoting eugenics and white supremacy. Sweeney’s response was complete silence for weeks, followed by an interview for GQ where he declared with icy indifference: “When I have something to say, people will know.” He didn’t apologize, he didn’t qualify or explain. And it worked: American Eagle’s shares soared and she established herself as an anti-woke symbol. One more layer. Rosalía is applying the same tactic, but where Sweeney refuses to speak, Rosalía speaks without committing herself. And build an aesthetic alibi: ‘LUX’ is dedicated to historical female figures who are feminist icons (with their lace, as we will see): Joan of Arcwhich challenged patriarchal military and ecclesiastical structures; Hildegard von Bingenthe 12th-century Benedictine nun who documented the female orgasm in her theological writings; Saint Teresa of Jesusreligious reformer who faced the Inquisition; either Simone Weilphilosopher who denounced worker oppression. Rosalía can point out the pantheon and make her feminism understood through osmosis. Conservative turn. But there is more, and it is that refuge in more conservative aesthetics and discourses that do not fit with feminist statements. In ‘Motomami’, Rosalía cultivated a hypersexualized image: extremely long acrylic nails, school miniskirts, thigh-high boots, aesthetics that they became linked with the pornographic industry and hentai. With ‘LUX’, we have neutral colors, straight lines, veils, digital halos. It is what some have called “modest fashion“, associated with conservative religious movements. Rosalía goes from hypersexualization to Catholic devotion. The Catholic resurgence as a context. And as a final point of this conservative underpinning of Rosalía’s non-speech: religion is back in fashion. Although we are away from massive conversions that tries to sell Catholic propaganda, yes there is a “silent revival“which has caught on in countries like France or the United Kingdom, with more attendance at mass, Bible reading recovery and others celebrations among young people. ‘LUX’ arrives at the exact moment when declaring yourself spiritual but not religious is no longer countercultural, but mainstream. In Xataka | The real deal about festivals isn’t the music, it’s that you can’t bring your own food in. But that’s over

Clarifying which FP to choose is chaos and someone wanted to fix it with an app. And that someone is… the Government of Spain

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Oppose It is one of the Spanish dreams. For the rest who do not want to follow the path, the alternative is entrepreneurship or private business. And, within this last sector, The FP has been ceasing to be the ugly duckling for yearspractically half of engineers in Spain work in positions in which professional training is required. But choose FP It is not simple, there are partial accreditations of competence, certificates of competence, professional certificates, training cycles, specialization courses… In the face of chaos, solutions. And in this case the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has published an app to untangle the knot. Does it work well? It works very well. I wanted to try SoyFP, the new app with a Spanish seal to better understand the types of training and have a complete picture of the offer in our country. How to download it. I amFP It is available for both Android and iOS through the Play Store and App Store. It is a completely free application, without any advertising and with a moderate size. In the case of iOS, it requires version 15.6 or later and, in the case of Android, you will need version 9 or later. Nothing out of this world. The welcome. As soon as we open the app, its main objective is explained to us: to help find the entire offer of the officially recognized Vocational Training System. It is divided into several grades (A, B, C and D) and has different levels, each with a specific type of duration depending on whether we are doing basic, medium or higher. The operation. SoyFP has a fairly simple operation: it is an offer search engine. In its search bar we can enter keywords (categories, jobs, etc.) to find offers for each of the degrees. If we have no idea what we want to search for, the app allows us to segment by: Professional Family Degree Level And, within each of these categories, we find even more subcategories to filter by levels. Within each of the FP degree offers, we can find all the information related to them: academic or professional access requirements, tasks to be carried out, what you are going to study, competence accreditations, how you could continue said training… A very complete photograph of the itinerary and the steps to take during the process. The golden era of Spanish administration and its apps. During the last years, Spain is doing a good job with its national apps. My Citizen Folder, MyDNI, MyDGTand now with Soy FP. An era of lights and shadows, with outstanding applications and suspenseful security in a 2025 starring hacks that place us in second place worldwide. Image | Iván Linares for Xataka Móvil

accept earning less and less per client

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Digi Spain Telecom has completed its transformation from SL to SA, from a Limited Company to a Public Limited Company, as stated in the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry. The change, approved on December 15, paves the way for an IPO in 2026 that seeks to raise up to 750 million euros by selling 30% of the Spanish subsidiary. The context. Spanish commercial legislation prevents a limited company from being listed on the stock market. Only public limited companies can issue securities that are freely traded in the markets, hence this change is essential to ring the bell. Why is it important. Behind this movement there is a radical strategic commitment. While the three large Spanish operators fight to increase the average income per customer… …Digi does exactly the opposite and is winning the game. In 2025 it has snatched 932,000 customers from its rivals, but its profitability per user has fallen from 8.7 to 7.8 euros, a decrease of 10% in an amount already much lower than that of competitors, closer to 20 euros. The bet. The Romanian operator has chosen a volume over margin strategy that goes against the traditional logic of the sector. He would rather have 10 million customers paying him very little than 5 million paying him little, and the numbers are proving him right, at least for now: It is already the fourth operator with 10.2 million users and it is hot on the heels of Vodafone. In figures. The results of this strategy are overwhelming: 1.5 million ports accumulated in 2025, 23% more than in 2024. 681 million euros of income, 19% more. 70 own stores in Spain, more than double that of the previous year. Average income per client of 7.8 euros, compared to figures that are around 15-20 euros in large operators. Between the lines. The IPO will be what definitively validates (or not) the model. If investors buy shares and validate that narrow margin strategy, Digi will have shown that in a saturated market like the Spanish one, the only way for a fourth operator is to be radically cheaper. And less profitable. But more massive. If this does not happen, Digi would see the sign that its growth model does not convince to finance itself under better conditions. The background. The move to SA is not the only move paving the way for going public. Yes, but. The question now is how far ARPU (average revenue per customer) can fall before the model stops working. With less than 8 euros per customer, Digi is in uncharted territory for an operator with its own infrastructure. In Xataka | The Government has had an idea so that the next blackout does not leave us without mobile data: let the operators pay Featured image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio

It just went public and its value has skyrocketed by 688%

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A few days ago we said that the Chinese company Moore Threads Had an Amazing Stock Market Debut. Today history repeats itself with Meta X, a GPU manufacturer and another of the companies that wants to hold the title of “the Chinese NVIDIA.” If Moore Threads already surprised by shooting up 500% in the stock market, MetaX has just said “hold my cap.” MetaX goes public. We have talked about the company in the past and today they are in the news because, as we said, they have gone public following in the footsteps of Moore Threads. The market response has seen its share price skyrocket from 104.66 yuan to a whopping 824.50 yuan, an increase of 688% that has raised its valuation to 280 billion yuan, almost $40 billion. According to South China Morning Postis the third most successful Star Market debut so far this year. Why is it important. The market reaction to companies such as MetaX or previously Moore Threads highlights the interest in creating domestic alternatives to NVIDIA chips. Furthermore, it happens at the moment when The US has given permission for NVIDIA to sell its H200 chips. Although there are companies that prefer American chipsthe appetite for creating competitive alternatives is fierce. MetaX. It was founded just five years ago by three former AMD employees, including Chen Weiliang, the company’s current CEO. Its main product is GPUs intended for training and executing AI models. Just like NVIDIA, MetaX operates under the ‘fable’ modelthat is, they do not have factories and what they do is design the GPUs from their headquarters in Shanghai, so that they are manufactured in third-party plants such as TSMC’s in Taiwan. Compatibility. Its first GPU intended for AI training, the C500, was launched in 2023 and stood out for its compatibility with CUDA, NVIDIA’s programming platform. This allows them to run existing software without having to rewrite the codeis the same path that Moore Threads took with its own GPUs. The new model, the C600, is about to enter mass production and the C700 is already in the development phase. They also have the N line, which are more basic chips for inference and video processing. Power. They count in Nikkei Asia that MetaX has recognized that its technology is still behind what NVIDIA offers, but by how much? The C500 GPU offers 15 TFLOPS of power, which is about 75% of the power of the NVIDIA A100. In the case of the N100, it offers approximately 50% power of the NVIDIA A30. It is far behind the American giant, but that has not stopped investors. A big ‘but’. Not everything is so pretty. MetaX is in the same situation as many AI companies: it is not yet generating revenue. So far this year they have invoiced 1,230 million yuan, a figure that is five times that of 2024, but with losses of 345 million. Moore Threads is in a similar situation and despite its big IPO, it warned investors that its chips have not yet generated revenue, which caused the share price to drop 20%. In the end it seems that the high expectations about the AI ​​boom are not just an American thing. Image | MetaX In Xataka | Moore Threads is the real NVIDIA of China. So much so that the US considers it a threat

features, price and technical sheet

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OnePlus did not want to let the year end without updating its family of smartphones. The company OPPO sister just announced his new OnePlus 15Ra device that debuts the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and that sacrifices part of the camera to bet everything on two things: performance and autonomy. And this chip is not the only thing that stands out from the set, since inside we find a battery with no more and no less than 7,400 mAh capacity, a figure that, in 8.3 millimeters, only allows us a technology like silicon-carbon. With the introductions made, let’s get to know him a little better. OnePlus 15R technical sheet oneplus 15r dimensions and weight 163.41 x 77.04 x 8.3mm 214 grams screen 6.83-inch LTPS AMOLED FullHD+ resolution (2,800 x 1,272 pixels) 450 dpi 19.8:9 format HBM: 1,800 nits Refresh rate: 60, 90, 144, 165 Hz Response frequency: 3,200 Hz Gorilla Glass 7i 100% DCI-P3 processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 ram memory 12GB LPDDR5x Ultra internal storage 256/512 GB UFS 4.1 rear camera Wide 50 MP, f/1.8, OIS Wide angle 8 MP, f/2.2, FOV 112º 4K@120FPS Video front camera 32MP 4K@30FPS Video battery 7,400 mAh 29.01 Wh SuperVOOC 80W fast charging operating system Android 16 with OxygenOS 16.0 Four years of major updates Six years of security patches connectivity 5G NSA/SA Dual nanoSIM Wi-Fi 7 Bluetooth 6.0 NFC GPS L1+L5 USB Type C 2.0 others IP66, IP68, IP69, IP69K Vapor chamber cooling Google Gemini OnePlus AI Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor price 12/256 GB: 729 euros 12/512 GB: 829 euros An elegant design with lots of green The two colors in which the OnePlus 15R will be available | Image: OnePlus Preserving the wake of OnePlus 15the new OnePlus 15R proposes an elegant industrial design, with plain colors, aluminum and a simple rear in which the camera module stands out. The firm maintains the proposal of a very vertical module in which, on this occasion, we find two cameras: an angle and a wide angle. It was necessary to cut somewhere to keep the price low and the firm has chosen to reduce the photographic section. As for the screen, we find a 6.83-inch LTPS AMOLED panel with 1.5K resolution which reaches 165 Hz. It is one of the highest figures we have seen to date, although in gaming we can only squeeze it in certain very specific games. On paper, it doesn’t look bad, nor does the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor under the screen. OnePlus 15R | Image: OnePlus The device can be obtained in black and mint green with a more youthful aroma. When it comes to resistance, the company boasts IP66, IP68, IP69 and IP69K. According to OnePlus, the phone is protected not only against jets of water, but also against jets of water up to 80ºC. Needless to say, it also withstands dust and we can submerge it at 1.5 meters for half an hour. An engine at the top of everything OnePlus launches the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. Be careful, not to be confused with the Elite model. It is a different chip, although also high-end. This SoC reaches 3.8 GHz and incorporates a 1,225 MHz Adreno GPU. OnePlus claims to have optimized the CPU so that games run better. Basically, they have skirted the CFS that Android comes by default with OnePlus CPU Scheduler, a technology that gives games some priority. OnePlus 15R | Image: OnePlus The chip is accompanied by 12 GB of LPDDR5x RAM, up to 512 GB of UFS 4.1 storage, a 5,704 mm² vapor chamber and a huge battery. Silicon-carbon continues to give us good surprises and has allowed OnePlus to implement a 7,400 mAh battery in just 8.3 millimeters thick. Fast charging, for its part, has a power of 80W. Gaming is an important aspect, so along with Android 16, the OnePlus AI suite and Google Gemini, OnePlus has introduced a chip dedicated to response time and another to WiFi. The first allows the terminal to have a 3,200 Hz touch detection, a real savagery, while the G2 chip improves WiFi connectivity even in complex conditions. All of this, of course, always on paper. A simple camera OnePlus 15R camera detail | Image: OnePlus The OnePlus 15R assembles a versatile photographic package, although hopelessly less competent than its older brother. The reason? It does not have telephoto, but is content with an angle and wide angle in the back. On the front, for its part, we find a single 32 megapixel camera. Regarding the main camera, we have a sensor Sony IMX906 50 megapixels with OIS and an eight megapixel wide angle. The cameras no longer arrive signed by Hasselblad, something that now reserved for OPPObut OnePlus is betting on its DetailMax Engine, an image engine that consists of three technologies: Ultra Clear Mode, Clear Burst Mode and Clear Night Engine. In short, the firm promises detailed photos during the day, static images of moving subjects when we take burst photos, and better lighting at night. We will clear up any doubts when we have the opportunity to get our hands on it. Versions and price of the OnePlus 15R OnePlus 15R colors | Image: OnePlus He OnePlus 15R It can be reserved from today and will go on sale next January 15. Its starting price is 729 euros for the 12/256 GB version and 829 euros for the 12/512 GB version. The first model will be available in black and green, while the most powerful version can only be obtained in black. Images | OnePlus In Xataka | When OnePlus finishes a mobile phone, the next step is to torture it until it can’t take it anymore: we have seen it in its factory

The real deal about festivals isn’t the music, it’s that you can’t bring your own food in. But that’s over

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The sentence of Valencia Court against Madrid Salvaje It’s not just about snacks. It is an assault won by consumers in a larger war: that of maintaining cultural experiences without every moment being designed for the purchase and sale of services. A ray of hope in the battle between “leisure as a business” as opposed to “leisure as a social right” that defines our era in an increasingly clear way. The battle for free entertainment. The judgmentwhich comes after the lawsuit from FACUA-Consumers in Action, is the first judicial resolution in Spain which establishes the abusive nature of these prohibitions at music festivals. But its importance transcends the anecdotal, since what is at stake is not only the right to bring a sandwich to a concert, but something more structural: the battle to maintain cultural spaces that are not completely immersed in transactional dynamics. A chronology of victories. A series of rulings can be traced that serve as a preamble to this latest judicial decision and that have paved the way to reach this point. For example, in 2001the María Cristina multiplexes in Toledo lost a lawsuit that certified that prohibiting entry with external products was an “irrational restriction on the consumer’s ability to choose.” There was already talk of “tied sales”: indirectly imposing services that the client had not requested. In 2022 another milestone arrived: the law was enacted that requires all hospitality establishments to offer free tap water. Although the official justification was environmental (reducing single-use packaging), it also served as a basis for this issue of forced consumption. Since then, the fines have increased: Yelmo Cines, for example, was fined 30,001 euros by the Basque Consumer Institute for prohibiting food from abroad. Spanish legal doctrine already makes it clear: if the main activity is showing films or scheduling concerts, hospitality is accessory. Beyond the sandwich. What happens at festivals is a symptom of a deeper mutation: leisure is being colonized by logic that transforms the cultural experience into a financial asset. It is understood if we look at the case of Live Nation, owners of Ticketmaster. In 2024, US Attorney General Merrick Garland defined like this the business model: “Live Nation uses illegal anti-competitive conduct to exert monopolistic control over the live events industry at the expense of fans, artists, small promoters and venue operators.” That is: you control the 70% of the ticketing market in the United States60% of concert promotion, and exclusive contracts with 75% of the large venues (the numbers are comparable in other countries of the world). In this way, each business segment feeds and reinforces the others. Ticket revenue is used to tie artists into exclusive promotional contracts, allowing for long-term ticketing exclusives, with more commission income… and perpetuating itself ad infinitum. By controlling the entire distribution and business chain you earn more money. Parallel trends. This transformation of leisure does not come from nowhere. It is intertwined with a couple of trends that redefine current leisure. On the one hand, the shrinkflation cultural (untranslatable, but here it goes: shrinking inflation), reduce the size of the product while maintaining or even increasing the price. General admission prices to American festivals they rose 55% between 2014 and 2024. And it’s not just that it costs more: it’s that you receive less. What was once included (being able to bring your own food, access to free drinking water, reasonable personal space) is now sold as a “privilege” or outright prohibited. Furthermore, in 2006, Spirit Airlines introduced the “unbundling” model: a cheap ticket that only includes one seat. Luggage, seat selection and priority boarding became extras that, as in 2024 had generated billions of dollars in baggage and seat selection fees. In other words: the unbundling did not reduce the cost of flying, but rather fragmented the final price into multiple hidden charges. Because ultra-low-cost airlines operate with very tight margins in base notes, recovering profitability through peaks that represent up to 47% of income. Festivals follow the same recipe: tickets that barely cover fixed expenses, while the real margins come from drinks and food. And since now live performances are essential for the survival of the music industryit makes sense that all efforts are focused on making it profitable. A crucial moment. After decades of unstoppable advance in the commodification of every aspect of entertainment (from cinema to sports stadiums, passing through theme parks), this judicial ruling indicates that perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing in the opposite direction, at least in certain details. Consumers may not have completely lost the battle for “leisure as leisure” to the relentless “leisure as business” model that has been theorized for decades (Joseph Pine and James Gilmore spoke in 1998 of“the experience economy” and, even further back, the German sociologists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer once defined visionary “colonization of free time) Extirpating leisure from capitalism. In 1944, the political economist Karl Polanyi published ‘The Great Transformation’where he argued that land, work and money are essential elements of life that They should never have become commodities. When the market attempts to subordinate “the very substance of society to the laws of the market,” society reacts spontaneously to protect itself from its own disintegration. So this judicial resolution is about being able to enter the next MadCool with a sandwich, but also about something more. Header | James Jeremy Beckers in Unsplash

This does not reach two euros per month and comes with three extra months

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After Black Friday, this pre-Christmas season we are in is one of the times of the year when we most often buy online. The search for the perfect gift is not easy, but having the Internet It allows us to access many different stores to find even original gifts with which to truly surprise. Buying online (like any other online activity) can carry certain risks, especially if it involves stores that we don’t know much about or if we do it on a WiFi network about which we don’t have much information, such as that of a hotel. The simplest way to protect ourselves is by using a VPN and we have quality like Surfshark for very little: only 1.99 euros per month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – monthly The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A VPN is one of the best tools there is to protect ourselves on the Internet As we usually tell you, a VPN is a very useful tool that never hurts to have installed on our devices (be it a PC, mobile phone or tablet, among others). Maybe at this moment you are wondering if it is worth paying for one if there are free ones and the truth is that yes. Although there are free options, these are not recommended in the long run because They are not as safe as they say they are.. Now, is it worth using it when shopping online? When using a VPN, what we do is pass all our Internet traffic through a secure and encrypted tunnel, so that no one can see what we are doing. Thus, we will protect our transactions and purchases by keeping things like, for example, our credit or debit card safe. The fact of encrypting our Internet traffic is also ideal when using a public WiFi network or some type of establishment, such as a hotel or a shopping center. Plus, with a VPN too we will keep our IP address safewhich can fall into the wrong hands and be used, among many other things, to impersonate our identity. Now let’s talk about Surfshark, which is with its Winter Sale active. Thanks to them, as we said above, we can get hold of it for 1.99 euros per month if we opt for its two-year modality. With it, in addition, we will take three extra months (same as with the rest of the plans). In this way, to sum it up, we would have 27 months of VPN for a total of 47.46 euros. If we are looking for a tool that offers more and we have a larger budget, then we can opt for the plan Surfshark One. This one, which has a price of 2.29 euros per month in its two-year modality, it comes with VPN and other additional tools such as antivirus or an alert system that notifies us if our data is leaked on the Internet. Surfshark One Subscription – monthly The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Finally, we have to talk about the most powerful plan that this company has, called Surfshark One+. This one, what does it cost? 4.19 euros per month in its two-year modality, includes everything from the previous plan and an exclusive tool called Incogni, thanks to which we have the possibility of delete personal information from databases. Regardless of the plan we choose, we will have more Internet security at a very good price. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Image | Money Knack, Arun Kuchibhotla In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public Wi-Fi and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Free VPN and security: what’s the problem, why you should be careful

anti-nudity algorithms within the system

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Children’s access to technology has gotten out of hand, or that is what more and more governments around the world think. The United Kingdom banned porn for those under 18 years of age, Australia has banned those under 16 who have accounts on social networks, Denmark wants to do the same…There are many attempts to limit what minors can see online, but The effectiveness of their methods is rather doubtful. Now, the British government has had a new idea. TOanti-nudity algorithms. They tell it in Financial Times. The government wants technology companies to do the work of blocking nude images on the devices themselves. The idea is that it is not only detected within apps, but also at the operating system level. We are talking about both mobile phones and computers, so it would imply that iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows implement algorithms to prevent, not only from seeing, but from taking and sharing nude photos within the system. At the moment it will not be mandatory, but they will simply encourage the platforms to do it, but the idea is on the table. Why is it important. It is a way of admitting that the current measures are not enough and it is necessary for the platforms to take sides when filtering the content. Taking the United Kingdom’s own example, people who want to access portals like Pornhub must identify themselves in advance, which has caused a huge drop in traffic, but at the same time an increase in VPN downloads. Effectiveness and friction. At the moment it is a hypothetical scenario, but it could be the most effective measure of all those being considered. We only have to look at the case of apps like Instagram and its relentless algorithm to avoid nudity. The idea is to bring these algorithms to the entire system, so that no nudity is shown on the screen, except if the user has verified that they are of legal age through an official document. How the porn block works now in the United Kingdom (and how it is proposed the well-known Spanish ‘pajaporte’), users must identify themselves when entering certain websites. Now imagine that when you buy a cell phone or a computer, when creating the account they ask for your ID to verify your age. Sure we would still find ways to bypass it, for example by creating fake profiles, but it creates less friction because you would only have to do it once. ANDThe HMD case. There are currently no safeguards to block nudity at the operating system level. The options offered by the platforms are the classic parental controls, but there is a precedent for a device that blocks adult content. It is about the HMD Fuse“the mobile that grows with your children” that was announced a few months ago. It comes with a system called HarmBlock AI that is dedicated to scanning the content and prevents nude images from being displayed, stored or taken. Image | Pexelsedited In Xataka | This year the Three Wise Men bring something very special to children: children’s cosmetics

Amazon is preparing an investment of 10 billion in OpenAI because if you can’t beat your enemy, the best thing is to join him

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Leonidas, had six-pack or not, he died at Thermopylae, but what is curious for our history is exactly what happened afterwards. Xerxes’ Persians had devastated Attica, and faced with the threat that all of Greece would fall, the Spartans—who deeply distrusted the Athenians—agreed to join forces with them. War makes strange allies, they say, and this story is not even close to explaining what is happening with AI. Everyone is joining forces. Then I’ll tell you how it ended with the Spartans and the Athenians. what has happened. OpenAI is negotiating an alliance with Amazon according to which the latter would invest around $10 billion in OpenAI. In The Information They were the first to reveal that negotiation, now confirmed by sources close to the conversations that have been cited on CNBC. What do each other gain?. Thanks to this agreement, Amazon will sell OpenAI its Tranium chips and will also rent more computing capacity in its data centers so that OpenAI can further expand the execution of its AI models and services such as ChatGPT. What OpenAI gains is, once again, economic resources to continue growing. Or what is the same: money to burn on that bonfire that AI has become. A strange agreement. The alliance is surprising, especially considering that Amazon had already put its eggs in another basket. Specifically, Anthropic, OpenAI’s absolute rival in the AI ​​race. It is estimated that Amazon has invested a total of 8 billion dollars at Anthropic, but now there is another reality: that everyone invests in everyone. Anthropic, the best example. The truth is that in recent months we have seen more and more circular financing agreements. Microsoft, which had invested 13 billion dollars, announced last month that would invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and NVIDIA also signed up, doubling that amount: it will invest $10 billion in it. And already, Even Google has teamed up with Anthropic. Long live circular financing. But of course the main protagonist of these agreements is OpenAI, which has been receiving blank checks (or almost) from giants like NVIDIA —100,000 million-, with Broadcom or with amd. We are facing a gigantic house of cards which is in danger of collapsing. But while it doesn’t, players continue adding floors. Or what is the same, money. Win-Win? The agreement is certainly interesting for Amazon, which has been working on its own AI chips since 2015. Trainium are the latest expression of that effort, and the fact that OpenAI is going to use them to train its models—along with those of its competitors, for the record—is good support for that development. In fact, there was perhaps more interesting support recently for those chips: Apple’s. And of course, AWS. In reality, this agreement is a continuation of that (temporary?) love affair between Amazon and OpenAI. The latter, once its ties with Microsoft were released, began to look for new girlfriends in the field of infrastructure, and a little over a month ago announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services worth 38 billion dollars. This is about preservation. All these agreements between big technology companies are not about money, because these circular investments are nothing more than exchanges of kind that compensate each other. What they are about is being stronger and protecting themselves. And if they fall, yes, they will all fall together. Let’s go back to Greece. The alliance between Sparta and Greece crystallized in the naval battle of Salamis (also in 480 BC, shortly after Thermopylae), one of the most important in human history. Sparta reluctantly ceded naval command to Athens, but the strategy worked. That union of forces achieved a decisive victory that saved Greece from being conquered by Persia. Alliances that end as they end. After that battle and that of Plataea a year later, the alliance began to deteriorate and ended up breaking up. Athens and Sparta were enemies again. In fact, 50 years later (430 BC) both would face each other for more than a quarter of a century in the Peloponnesian War. It was totally logical, as it will be that all these alliances end as they should: with each company going about its own thing. Image | OpenAI In Xataka | NVIDIA and OpenAI have just made a masterstroke. One that strengthens them and weakens everyone else

AI promised to free senior employees from tedious work. In reality it is loading them with more tasks

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Imagine a young recent graduate in finance, eager to join a large consulting firm. He dreams of learning the trade from below. That inexorably involves preparing reports, researching markets, creating presentations, etc. But along comes AI and suddenly those routine tasks are automated. He produce more and faster, but all that torrent of documents lands on the desk of the person in charge of supervising him, a senior manager who is now passing hours checking errors that have been overlooked. This scenario is what reveals a study prepared by the consulting firm UpSlide and its conclusion leaves an unexpected twist: artificial intelligence not only removes the access ladder for new workers, but also burdens the most veteran workers.​​ AI takes away opportunities for recent graduates. According to the data that they are being collected In different studies on the impact of AI on recent graduates, job offers for entry-level positions have been reduced between 11% and 20% in the last year. The reason: AI now takes over the basic administrative tasks that before these young people did. Furthermore, a elaborate study by researchers from the University of Navarra and IESE Business School, based on data from 138 million workers in the United States, reveals that in companies exposed to generative AI, average salaries fall by 4.5% compared to those not exposed. In the most affected, the salary drop reaches 7.7%, with the initial salaries of juniors decreasing by 6.3%, while those of seniors remain stable or increase slightly.​ Juniors produce more, seniors review more. The UpSlide report indicates that younger employees use the AI ​​tools their companies have implemented to improve their efficiency in distribution (24%) and research (22%) tasks. On the other hand, the use of AI for senior profiles implies an increase in the review and quality control tasks of their work. According to the authors of the study, while juniors have stepped on the accelerator producing more content and documentation with AI, seniors have had no choice but to dedicate more time in their day to review all that new AI generated content. “Rather than reducing workload, AI is displacing: it places more pressure on senior professionals, who must now review, validate and correct a growing volume of AI-generated content. This bottleneck is especially critical in high-value operations, where the margins of error are minimal,” the study’s authors underline. AI overloads seniors. The data indicates that 41% of the seniors participating in the study dedicate more than 11 hours per week to reviews, such as checking errors in the figures of financial presentations or formats. 83% of them recognize greater pressure on seniors for quality reviews, and 82% see more risk of those errors finally reaching the client. “While the technology is very impressive, it just doesn’t beat the professional touch. That’s why we’re making sure to create review checkpoints with humans in the workflow,” said Joshua Stolarz, Managing Director at KPMG in the study.​​ A model that makes the revision more expensive. Yes, as they point out the evidenceAI automates training tasks for junior profiles, concentrating review on seniors, one of the arguments used by the main CEOs of technology companies that the use of AI would allow the most senior profiles to free yourself from administrative tasks to focus on giving value to the products. By leaving them with the burden of reviewing AI-generated content, you actually bury them in more administrative work. If the trend pointed out by the study is consolidated, companies could opt for more veteran profiles in their hiring, which would reverse the dynamics of fire these employees when the cuts come. However, these more experienced profiles also they earn better salariesso many companies could rethink implementing AI if it means increasing your labor costs. In Xataka | Jensen Huang is clear: at this point no one should learn to program, AI will do it for us Image | Unsplash (Omid Ajorlo)

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