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NVIDIA fears that China will hinder the sale of H200 chips, so it is asking for advance payment without exchanges or returns

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The fact that NVIDIA can market H200 chips in China It’s going around a lot these days and it’s no wonder. And after the Government’s uncertainty about whether it ends up allowing them in the country or not, the company has imposed unusually strict payment conditions for customers who want to buy these chips in China. According to information According to Reuters, the company now requires full payment up front, with no cancellation, refund or configuration changes options once the order is placed. Why it matters. NVIDIA has billions at stake in China, the world’s largest semiconductor market. Chinese technology companies have placed orders for more than 2 million H200 chips valued at about $27,000 each, well above the company’s available inventory of 700,000 units, according to account the middle. But the regulatory situation is a powder keg: the United States has just authorized the sale with a 25% tariff, while China has not yet confirmed whether it will allow imports. Regulation. The Biden administration had banned the export of chips advanced AI to China, but Donald Trump reversed that policy last month allowing H200 sales with the aforementioned 25% tariff that goes directly to the US government. However, China has not yet given the official approval. According to BloombergBeijing plans to approve some imports this quarter, but only for select commercial uses. The military, sensitive government agencies, critical infrastructure and state-owned companies would be left out for security reasons. Protection. The payment terms transfer all of NVIDIA’s financial risk to its customers, who must commit capital without certainty that Beijing will approve the imports or that they will be able to deploy the technology as planned. According to account The average, although NVIDIA has always required advance payments from Chinese customers, deposits were sometimes allowed in lieu of full payment. Now the company is especially strict due to the lack of regulatory clarity. A recent scar. NVIDIA has reason to be cautious. Last year it had to write down $5.5 billion in inventory after the Trump administration abruptly banned the sale of the H20 chip to Chinathe most powerful product that it could then offer there. Although the United States has reversed that decision, China has since banned H20 shipments. This experience explains why the company prefers to ensure collection before any unforeseen regulatory event. Overwhelming demand. Chinese tech giants like ByteDance and Alibaba see the H200 as a significant improvement. This chip, currently NVIDIA’s second most powerful, offers approximately six times the performance of the now locked H20. According to Bloombergboth Alibaba and ByteDance have privately communicated to NVIDIA their interest in ordering more than 200,000 units each. Delivery times. NVIDIA plans to fill initial orders with existing stock, with the first batch of H200 chips expected to arrive before the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, according to account Reuters. The company has also approached TSMC to increase H200 production to meet demand in China, with additional manufacturing planned for the second quarter of 2026. The local competition. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s Chinese rivals are gaining ground. And just as inform Bloomberg, local manufacturers such as Huawei have developed AI processors, including the Ascend 910Calthough its performance still lags behind the H200 for large-scale training of advanced models. On the other hand, Cambricon Technologies It also plans to significantly increase its production of AI chips in 2026, thus expanding its market share and filling the gap left by NVIDIA. What’s coming now. In the coming days it will be known if China makes a final decision on H200 imports. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, declared at CES this week that customer demand for H200 chips is “quite high” and that the company has “activated its supply chain” to increase production. Huang also noted that he doesn’t expect the Chinese government to make a formal statement about approval, but rather that “if purchase orders come in, it’s because they can make them.” Cover image | NVIDIA and Arthur Wang In Xataka | There is a new player in the race for the autonomous car and it is one that should worry Tesla a lot: NVIDIA

an invisible weapon that blinded his soldiers without firing a single bullet

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The number of Venezuelan casualties after the United States incursion in Caracas and the subsequent capture of Nicolás Maduro varies with the passing of the days and the sources, but it seems clear that it amounts to at least double digits (we speak of up to 100). In any case, another piece of information has now been revealed that amplifies the mission. In reality, Washington’s key weapon did not fire a single bullet. The attack that was not heard. Yes, the American operation in Caracas was not defined by explosions or columns of smoke, but by the sudden silence of radars, radios and command centers, a demonstration of force in which more than 150 aircraft acted in a coordinated manner to enter, hit and leave with hardly any visible resistance. In fact and how explains the Wall Street Journalthe key was not to destroy the enemy, but to leave him blind and disoriented from the first minute, unable to understand what was happening or to react coherently while special forces captured Maduro in the heart of Venezuelan power. The invisible weapon. At the center of that blackout was the EA-18G Growler, an aircraft that does not attack people or physical positions, but rather the opponent’s nervous systemspecialized in locating, jamming and neutralizing radars and communications until turning an apparently solid defensive framework into a collection of mute sensors and useless screens. While stealth fighters and bombers performed deterrence and targeted attack functions, the Growler ensured that the Venezuelan defenses they will never get to see them clearly, demonstrating to what extent electronic warfare has ceased to be a complement and has become the precondition of any modern high-intensity operation. Blind before hitting. The logic applied in Caracas reflects a lesson learned and refined in Ukraine– It is not necessary to physically destroy all enemy systems if you can overwhelm, confuse or fool them until void your operating profit. The Growler can simulate multiple targets on the radar, flood the electromagnetic spectrum with noise, interfere with command links and, if necessary, guide anti-radiation missiles against active emitters, creating temporary windows of absolute superiority that allow helicopters and ground forces to operate with minimal risk even in theoretically defended environments. The Russian defenses that did not fire. They recalled in Insider that the most striking result was that none of the Russian-made air defenses in Venezuela’s possession managed to shoot down a single plane American during the operation, despite the fact that the country had on paper respectable systems such as S-300VM, Buk-M2, Pantsir-S1 and radars of Russian and Chinese origin. The image of airspace simply collapsing under a well-planned operation It has been devastating from a symbolic point of view, because it shows that having advanced systems does not guarantee their effectiveness if they are overcome by a combination of surprise, electronic warfare, stealth and multi-domain coordination. 9A83ME launcher of the S-300VM Antey-2500 missile system Not everything is the system. The Venezuelan failure cannot be explained solely by the technical limitations of the Russian systems, but also due to structural factors such as the state of maintenance, the real integration of the defense network, the quality of command and control and, above all, the training and experience of the operators. An anti-aircraft system is only as effective as the doctrine that supports it and the people who operate it, and in Caracas it became clear that, in the face of a well-trained Western force, even feared equipment can be defeated. reduced to passive spectators if they do not function as part of a coherent whole. Repeating pattern. What happened in Venezuela is not an isolated case, but rather fits with a pattern observed in other scenarios like syria or attacks Israelis against Iranwhere air defenses of Russian origin have shown irregular performance against forces that master electronic warfare and stealth. Although in Ukraine, operated directly by Russia, these defenses have worked betterhave also not achieved the invulnerability that their reputation promised, which reinforces the idea that their effectiveness decreases considerably when faced with adversaries capable of combining interference, cyberattacks, deception and precision attacks. Without triumphalism. There is no doubt, for the United States, about the Caracas operation strengthens confidence in its ability to penetrate airspace defended by Russian systems, but it also emphasizes that this success depends on exhaustive planning and intensive use of invisible capabilities that are not improvised. The lesson is not so much that Russian defenses are useless, but that in the face of an adversary that dominates the electromagnetic spectrumEven feared systems can be neutralized long enough for a decisive operation to take place. The war that is not seen. If you also want, the assault on Caracas leaves an uncomfortable and increasingly obvious conclusion: modern war is decided before the first shotin an intangible space made of signals, links and frequencies, where whoever controls the information controls the result. He Growler He did not fire a single bullet, but its effect It was more devastating than that of many bombs, remembering that in current conflicts lose seeing and hearing is almost always equivalent to losing the war before it begins. Image | COMSEVENTHFLTSenior Airman John Linzmeier, Vitaly V. Kuzmin In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has just met that of Venezuela: that means that its two invaders are facing each other In Xataka | While the whole world looks at oil, Venezuela’s true treasure is hidden in the basements of London: its gold

Olivier Blume is the CEO who has piloted Porsche’s jump to the electric car. Now he leaves with a message: “we were wrong”

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Porsche is going through difficulties. To display data: Its profit margin has plummeted to 0.2%. Its sales are clearly declining and it has encountered the worst possible scenario in Europe, China and the United States. Now, Oliver Blume, who has been its CEO for a decade and has piloted the transition to electric cars in the company he leaves. And it does so with a painful message. “We were wrong”. This is what Oliver Blume has pointed out outside of Porsche in an interview with the German newspaper FACE: “Our strategy was to offer sports cars with internal combustion, hybrid and electric engines in each of our three segments, but not for all models. We were wrong with the Macan. With the data and market studies available at that time (late last decade), we would make the same decision today” The statement refers to the complete electrification of the Porsche Macan. A car that, like we count on Xatakaruns like a shot and maintains all the quality and touch of the company but has to deal with the backpack that Porsche, at the time, offered that same car with a V6 gasoline engine. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? Today the Porsche Macan is an exclusively electric car that, in addition, was delayed countless times as a consequence of creating a platform with an expiration date for this model and the Audi Q6 e-tron. A solution that only created more chaos and difficulties to an internal development that was prolonged to the point of being one of the reasons that removed Herbert Diess, then CEO of the Volkswagen Groupfrom the company. A perfect storm. In favor of Blume it must be said that Porsche has encountered a perfect storm. And this is reflected in the statements to the German newspaper: “The Chinese luxury market has plummeted by more than 80% in a very short time. In the United States, we face high tariffs. These two markets each account for more than 50% of Porsche sales” European luxury brands are having serious difficulties in China. It has been difficult for them to understand a market that has turned its back on them and that has changed his tastes. What was once a sign of quality has become an obsolete product. Now, luxury chinese cars navigate rivers, break speed records and they are filled with screens. “It was just an electrified Porsche. That’s all,” a Chinese customer pointed out to Bloomberg to express his disappointment when getting into the Porsche Taycan To this we must add that the tariffs that the United States has raised for the entry of vehicles from Europe have been a very harsh punishment for the Volkswagen Group and especially for Porsche, which distributes its production between Germany, Bratislava and Malaysia. There is no good option when it comes to putting cars in a very important market for Porsche and much more interesting than China or Europe if we take into account the drop in sales in the former and the position in terms of emissions in the latter. Already in July Porsche’s operating profit was estimated to fall by 67%. Not very flexible. In his interview, Blume acknowledges that they were not very flexible. Buoyed by the enormous success of the Porsche Taycan, the company decided it had to electrify its best-seller. With the numbers in hand, it seemed that converting the Macan into a purely electric car was a good idea to reduce emissions and avoid fines. Over time it has been proven that it was a bad decision. The European Union has made fines more flexible, delaying the accountability of manufacturers from 2030 to 2032 when the Volkswagen Group will have greater room for maneuver to cover Porsche’s presumed excess emissions with greater electric sales of Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda or Cupra. Furthermore, they leave the door open to a future of very expensive combustion cars from 2035what gives life to an even more expensive and exclusive Porsche 911. Without understanding the public. But, furthermore, everything indicates that they did not understand their own audience. And the customer of a Porsche Taycan, the company’s most advanced car at its launch With the appeal of being its first electric car (which was also much more advanced than any other car on the market), it is very different from that of a Porsche Macan. Yes, it is very likely that there is a Macan audience that wants an electric car as a second vehicle in a home where there is already a Porsche 911 or a Panamera to travel with. But the Macan is also the gateway to the Porsche world, the most accessible entry for those who have always dreamed of having one of the Stuttgart cars in their garage. And that customer does not dream of an electric car. going backwards. It’s easy to talk in the past when the data said Porsche was on the right track With the electric car he only does a little more than two exercises. And it must be taken into account that the company has experienced years of record after record in the last decade. All in all, they seem to have verified that their range of clients is very wide. The Porsche Cayenne that it aimed to be electric only will include hybrid engines. The Porsche 718 that were also going to go all-electric They will maintain combustion versions. And the Porsche Macan is preparing for new gasoline versions that have to be mounted on another platform (presumably from the Audi Q5) because the current PPE does not allow the use of a combustion engine. Photo | porsche In Xataka | Porsche wanted to convince us that the electric sports car was the future. The problem: almost no one wants it

This is the mobile phone that brings them back with a BlackBerry scent

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From time to time, technology allows itself to doubt itself. In 2026 it does so by recovering elements that many considered amortized, such as the physical keyboard or the headphone jack. It is not a gratuitous gesture nor a simple nostalgic provocation. There are those who believe that we have made too many compromises in the name of screen and simplicity. To understand why this discussion is so striking today, we must go back to 2007, when the original iPhone marked a before and after in the way we understand the smartphone. In that scenario, Steve Jobs was very explicit when marking distances with devices like BlackBerry: “They all have keyboards that are there, regardless of whether you need them or not. And they all have fixed plastic control buttons, the same for any application.” The touch screen was not just a technical novelty, but a way to free up space and adapt the interface to each use. The screen won. Beyond the design, the triumph of the on-screen keyboard has to do with the daily experience. It does not require you to reserve a fixed space, it adapts to the language, the context and the type of text, and it has proven to be surprisingly effective. Even intensive users have ended up writing quickly on a touch surface, supported by automatic corrections and increasingly refined suggestions. The keyboard returns to the center of the design. In the case of Clicks Communicatorthe keyboard is not an addition or an accessory, but rather the starting point of the device. The company has opted for an Android phone with an integrated physical keyboard, accompanied by a 4.03-inch AMOLED screen designed to complement, not replace, writing. The terminal executes Android 16 and is supported by a functional technical sheet, with a 4,000 mAh battery, 50 MP main camera with optical stabilization, expandable storage via microSD and increasingly less common details such as the 3.5 mm jack. Clicks Communicator Beyond the hardware, Clicks tries to differentiate the Communicator by the way it is interacted with on a daily basis. The physical keyboard incorporates touch sensitivity to scroll through messages or pages without lifting your fingers, while a side button allows you to convert speech to text, start recordings or transcribe meetings. Added to this is a visual notification system using a configurable LED and a “message hub” that groups conversations from different applications on the same screen. The company itself frames it with a clear idea: “Designed to do things, not to surf the Internet.” Clicks Communicator The reversible option. Before launching its own phone, Clicks became known for its Clicks Keyboard Casea case that adds a physical QWERTY keyboard to the bottom of the phone, BlackBerry style. The idea is simple: keep your usual smartphone and add a keyboard when you need it, without making it a final decision. This case connects via USB-C, or Lightning in older models, and is available for several iPhones, including the iPhone 17 Pro, as well as some Androids such as the Google Pixel and the Motorola Razr. Clicks Keyboard Case (left), Clicks Power Keyboard (right) The third piece in the catalog aims at an intermediate point between both proposals. Clicks Power Keyboard It is a magnetic accessory presented at CES 2026 that adheres to the back of the phone and deploys only when you need to write. Unlike the traditional case, it does not replace the case nor is it permanently fixed. In addition, it works as a 2,150 mAh external battery and is compatible with MagSafe and Qi2, which extends its reach to a wide variety of iPhones and Android phones. Pros and cons. In the end, Clicks’ approach puts a very clear exchange on the table. Bringing back the physical keyboard means accepting smaller screens. Magnetic cases and keyboards allow you to explore that idea without definitive commitments, while the Communicator requires a more conscious commitment to another way of using your mobile. Price and availability. The Clicks Communicator can now be reserved with a promotional price of $399, compared to the usual $499, as long as the reservation is formalized before February 27. The company plans to begin shipments later this year, without a specific date for now. Spain is among the countries included in the European deployment, although the definitive deadlines will be specified when production enters its final phase. Images | Clicks In Xataka | Expensive and premium mobile phones are not a fad: they are the new standard, and Motorola knows it

While all cities are removing their last phone booths, Mexico City is putting them back

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The 21st century is that of smartphonesInternet, networks, 24/7 365 connectivity, virality and immediacy, a scenario in which telephone booths seem like an almost antediluvian vestige. Spain began to retire them a few years agoalthough many had been out of play for some time, vandalized, converted into little more than billboard posts. After all… Who wants a cabin when most of us walk around with a cell phone in our pockets? In Mexico you have the answer. In fact, the country is so convinced that booths make sense that it is installing hundreds and hundreds in its streets. What has happened? That Mexico is doing something (apparently) extemporaneous in the era of smartphonesInternet, social networks and permanent connectivity: the public company CFE Telecomunicaciones is installing hundreds of telephone booths. The diary Expansion talks about 848distributed mainly in the southeast of the country, in states such as Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas. It’s actually nothing surprising. In February 2024 CFE already announced their plans to “roll out” telephone booths throughout the country. But… Why? Because even though in 2026 the smartphones have become masters and lords of our pockets, not everyone has one, nor does they feel comfortable handling them. With the cabins CFE wants precisely that: to close the “generational or digital gap” in the country and “guarantee the connection” of the entire population. Hence, telephone poles are being installed especially in rural areas after reaching agreements with local authorities. “The project adds an alternative to guarantee the connection of the population who, due to the generational or digital divide, may see their communication with their loved ones affected,” claims the company. The idea, precise The Countryis that the phones can be accessed at no cost and the devices also offer an Internet connection and the possibility of making calls outside of Mexico, to the US or Canada. On your website CFE recalls that the project is carried out with “institutional linkage” and agreements with local administrations. And how many cabins are there? That is one of the most curious details of the initiative. And also those who have given the most talk. Expansion assures that CFE Telecomunicaciones has installed at least 848 booths, especially in the southeast, but the same media recalls that throughout Mexico there are still thousands of the old booths that people went to years ago, before cell phones and WhatsApp radically changed our way of communicating. Are they all the same? According to the Federal Telecommunications Institute, in December there were still 580,199 cabinsa considerable number, although they represent 10.6% less than in 2019. The majority are in the hands of Telmex, although the firm BBG Comunicación is also present in the market. This inheritance has not been without controversy, especially due to the state of some booths. Not long ago the Congress of Mexico City proposed withdrawal and dismantling cabins that are disused, abandoned or obsolete. The reason: from being key pieces for communication, they have become annoying obstacles that hinder pedestrian crossing and generate a bad image. It may seem exaggerated, but according to authorities’ calculationsin the country there are thousands of population centers that still have “public telephony” and most of their facilities “no longer function correctly.” Many of the booths are not removed despite being obsolete because prevents it an agreement from the 90s. Do you all agree? Although the country seems determined To find a way to end the digital divide, not everyone considers that the installation of new booths in rural areas will be the solution. This is what Jorge Bravo, for example, from the Mexican Association of the Right to Information warns (Amedi), who warns that the booths are part of an anachronistic connectivity model. “There are no clear criteria for the installation of these cabins. Although I have observed some in good condition, I have never seen people using the service,” he says. Images | Honorable Municipal Council of Silacayoápam (Facebook) and Mateusz D (Unsplash) In Xataka | Americans have been devouring pizza for generations. Now they are changing them for something else: Mexican food

replanting them in the bush is not an option

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Once the holidays are over, it’s time to take down the tinsel, dismantle the Nativity scene, put away the garlands, lights, hanging Santa Clauses and other Christmas decorations and ask yourself the same question as every year: Where the hell to store all those decorations? And above all, what do we do with the tree, that fir tree that is more than a meter high that we bought in a nursery back in December and that has spent weeks presiding over our living room loaded with balls and flashing LEDs? In Madrid they have decided to go ahead to that question by making something clear: Christmas trees should not be thrown into any container and of course they cannot be abandoned on the street. It’s not even right take them to the mountains to plant them there, as nice as that sounds. There is another solution. What has happened? That (with permission from Vigo) Christmas is over. And that means that thousands and thousands of Spanish homes are dedicating themselves to the laborious task of dismantling their nativity scenes, taking down tinsel, putting lights, snowman figurines and hanging Santa Clauses in boxes and, above all, dismantling their trees. Those who have opted for artificial fir trees (or they have rented them) will have no problem, but things change in homes with natural trees. What do we do with the tree? The big question. At the end of the day, a tree should not be treated as just another piece of urban waste. This same week the Madrid City Council remembered it with a clear message: “Its abandonment on public roads or its deposit in unauthorized containers has a negative impact on both the environment and the proper management of waste.” Even Ecoembes recognize that the issue raises doubts and encourages transplanting as long as the trees are real, alive, and “possible.” If not, remember that they must be taken to a clean point, just like synthetic ones. Should we replant it then? Not so fast. To prevent people from giving a second life to their trees in the mountains, on Wednesday (just after Kings) the Community of Madrid issued a statement in which he remembers that, no matter how bucolic it may seem, this solution is a bad idea and is prohibited. The reason is simple. As remember the regional government, the usual thing is that at Christmas the houses are decorated with fir trees of the variety Abies albanative to the north of the peninsula. If we dedicate ourselves to replanting them without criteria in other regions, with other ecosystems, we run the risk of ending up damaging the local flora. Is it prohibited? The Community’s warning is very clear. In his note he recalls “the prohibition of replanting Christmas fir trees in natural areas of the region” and cites the Forest Lawamong other state regulations. “As they are species foreign to the environment, they can cause imbalances in ecosystems, be a source of pests or diseases and increase the risk of forest fires.” Instead of looking for a clearing in the mountains to plant our Christmas tree, the regional body encourages us to contact the town councils and use their collection services. The goal: that our fir tree be relocated to an urban park or garden, where it will grow safely without “putting biodiversity at risk.” Click on the image to go to the tweet. What to do in Madrid? In reality, Madrid residents have it very easy. On the same day that the Community warned of the prohibition of planting fir trees in the mountains of the region, the City Council of the capital announced his campaign Christmas tree collection. During the remainder of January, families who want to get rid of their fir tree will be able to deposit it at two points: one is in the El Retiro Stove Nurserythe other in the Country House Nursery. Whoever wants to use the service will find them open every day, morning and afternoon. Are there conditions? Yes. The campaign is not designed for any type of tree. The idea is for Madrid residents to deliver their fir trees alive, with a cohesive and moist root ball. In fact, the technicians will not collect dry specimens, with loose branches or those in which the root ball is so broken or without roots that it is impossible to recover it. In case there was any doubt, the Consistory clarifies that the collection points are for natural trees, not plastic. “This initiative aims to promote responsible habits among citizens, especially during periods of high consumption such as the Christmas holidays, as well as reinforce the culture of recycling and respect for the environment once the celebrations are over,” duck the organism. Is it something new? No. Last year the City Council already launched a similar campaign during which it collected 597 fir trees after the holidays. Of them, 168 were saved, 28.1%. The idea is that those lucky specimens, which arrive in a condition good enough for gardeners to care for, end up being replanted in green spaces. When choosing a location, the technicians take into account that they are not native species so as not to damage the environment. Trees in poor condition suffer a different fate. The City Council staff takes them to the Mijas Calientes Plant Waste Transformation Plant to subject them to a composting process and create an organic fertilizer that is later used in the parks, gardens and other green areas of the capital. The idea, the City Council clarifies, is to “close the cycle of use of plant waste.” In the last campaign (2024-2025) that was the fate of 429 fir trees. Typically, 25 to 30% of the collected fir trees are recovered. Images | Madrid City Council and Frames For Your Heart (Unsplash) In Xataka | In Spain, homes have changed so much that at Christmas they no longer think about gifts for family members. They buy them for dogs

Getting them out of there is an engineering nightmare.

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The geopolitics of the 21st century has found its new epicenter (again) in a white wasteland of 2.2 million square kilometers. After the recent military operation in Venezuela which culminated in the capture of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has reactivated with unprecedented aggressiveness his most persistent ambition: to convert Greenland into American territory. But while the White House sells the island as a “bullion” of strategic resources, experts warn that the reality under the ice is an engineering nightmare that could break not only Washington’s coffers, but Western security architecture itself. The myth of immediate wealth. The central argument of the Trump administration is mineral wealth. The island is estimated to be home to between 36 and 42 million tonnes of rare earth oxides. However, as Anjana Ahuja relates in his column for the Financial Timesthe fascination with these minerals is not new. Already in the 19th century, mineralogist Karl Ludwig Giesecke cataloged treasures such as cryolite, the “white gold” of the industrial era. However, the technical reality is devastating. Anthony Marchese, president of Texas Mineral Resources, explains in Fortune that “if you go to Greenland for its minerals, you’re talking about billions of dollars and an extremely long time.” The problem is not scarcity, but physical accessibility since it does not have infrastructure that connects settlements, the electrical grid cannot support large-scale mining and, in the north of the island, the climate only allows work six months a year. The rest of the time, the machinery must hibernate under extreme conditions. The battle for the underground. Control of rare earths (neodymium, terbium, scandium) is vital for defense technology and the green transition. China controls today about 90% of this market, and the Tanbreez project in southern Greenland is emerging as the great Western alternative. According to industry sourcesthe company plans to start mining in 2027, but processing costs will exceed $1 billion. However, for experts like Javier Blas, energy analyst at Bloombergthis enthusiasm is, to a large extent, a powerpoint optimistic. Blas warns that Greenland’s potential is more part of a collective imagination than an economic reality. “The market has already spoken,” he maintains: if after decades of exploration no major mining company has managed to operate successfullyit is because the concentrations are low and logistics devours any benefit. According to Blas, the island is not a Wonderland of raw materials; It is an economic challenge that has not produced a single barrel of oil despite years of attempts. The China clamp. Here the most controversial factor comes into play: uranium. The Kvanefjeld deposit, one of the largest in the world, is at the center of international arbitration. The Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) company—owned by Chinese capital— claims 11.5 billion dollars to Greenland after the ban on uranium mining for environmental reasons. This legal dispute places the island in a strategic clamp: Washington wants control to expel Beijing, but it is already underground through litigation and business actions. The navigable Arctic. Beyond the mines, the decisive factor It’s climate change. Melting ice is transforming the Arctic into a viable trade corridor. Sailing from Europe to Asia through the north reduces the distance by 40% compared to the Suez Canal. Greenland is not just a reserve of precious stones; It is an unsinkable aircraft carrier at the center of new sea routes. Controlling the island allows the US to apply what some analysts at Fortune They call the “Donroe Doctrine” (a play on words between Trump and the Monroe Doctrine): securing the hemisphere as an exclusive sphere of influence, preempting Russian icebreakers and Chinese logistics investments. The “optical illusion” factor and the human cost. Despite Trump’s promises to “make” Greenlanders rich, local sentiment is one of rejection. Recent polls cited by the New York Timesput the population that opposes being part of the United States at 85%. Although Denmark’s desire for independence is real, Greenlanders do not want to “exchange one master for another.” Additionally, the maintenance cost is astronomical. Denmark subsidizes the island with 600-700 million dollars annually. According to the Financial Times, For the US to replicate the Danish welfare state on the island, the necessary investment would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars. Alexander Gray, a former member of the National Security Council, admits that “the accounts will never add up” but insists that the strategic value is “incalculable.” ANDbetween ambition and reality. The conflict over Greenland summarizes the transition towards a world where geography once again prevails over international law. For Donald Trump, the island is the ultimate trophy: territory, resources and a coup against the established order. For geologists and energy experts, it is a reminder that political will cannot melt ice or build ports where there is nothing. The Arctic is no longer a remote edge of the map, but the new center of gravity. But while the debate continues in the offices of Washington and Copenhagen, the 57,000 inhabitants of the island watch with suspicion as their home becomes the most coveted piece in a global chess game that is just beginning. Image | Pexels and freepik Xataka | If the question is “what is the next country on the US list” the answer has been on the table for months

Google has decided to touch the heart of Gmail. Gemini aims to transform the inbox into something completely new

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Email has been there for decades, functioning almost silently, as a basic piece of digital life that we rarely question. We use it for studies, work, registering for services, coordinating our personal life and resolving procedures that continue to pass, to a large extent, through the inbox. Precisely for this reason, the changes in this section are usually minimal and prudent. Gmail has been a good example of that stability for years. Now, Google has decided intervene in a more profound way and do so relying on artificial intelligence. From the Mountain View company, the argument is clear: the problem is no longer just receiving emails, but managing the volume and context that accumulate in the inbox. Gmail was born in 2004 in a very different scenario, and today it coexists with endless threads, cross conversations and an information load that never stops growing. In this framework, the company presents the so-called “Gemini era” as a logical step, a way to turn the inbox into something more than a chronological file and begin to treat it as an active system to understand, prioritize and act on information. Google links a good part of these changes to Gemini 3the model that claims to be behind the new capabilities. Search less, ask more. The traditional logic of email has always been the same: search, filter and read. AI Overviews breaks that sequence by introducing a layer of automatic synthesis. When a thread gets longer, Gmail can generate a summary with the important points, avoiding having to go through message by message. And when what is needed is specific information, the proposal is even more direct: ask the inbox. Gemini interprets the query, reviews the relevant emails and returns a summarized response. Google separates the scope of these features: automatic thread summaries gradually roll out to everyone, while the option to ask inbox questions with AI Overviews is tied to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions. Write with help and understand what goes into each plan. Beyond reading email better, Google also wants to make writing it take less effort. Help me write is free and allows you to both polish existing messages and write them from scratch based on a brief indication. Added to that are the new Suggested Replies, which evolve the classic quick replies by taking into account the full context of the thread and the user’s own style. The most advanced layer, Proofread, adds grammar, tone, and style checking, but is reserved for those who subscribe to Google AI Pro and Ultra. According to Google, the rollout begins today in the United States and starts in English, with the promise of expanding languages ​​and regions in the coming months. The new inbox. AI Inbox is the most ambitious bet of this change. Gmail introduces an alternative view that transforms the inbox into a combination of task list and summary of active topics. Artificial intelligence promises to detect pending commitments, payments, appointments or responses and present them as suggested actions, while grouping long conversations together for easy catch-up. The idea is not to replace email, but to reinterpret it, making what is important emerge without the need to manually scroll through messages that, although relevant, are buried by the volume. At the moment, AI Inbox does not come as a function open to everyone. Google is testing it with “trusted testers” in the United States and only through the browser, with priority for personal Gmail accounts and not for Workspace accounts. Furthermore, the proposal still has visible shortcomings: there is no system to mark suggested actions as completed, which limits its usefulness as a task manager. Control in the hands of the user. New features powered by Gemini can be turned on or off, and the classic inbox is still available. However, that control is not completely granular: turning off AI also means you lose other smart features that many users already took for granted. Regarding privacy, Google states that it does not use Gmail emails to train its artificial intelligence models, a key guarantee so that this new layer does not generate distrust in such a sensitive space. This movement makes it clear that Google has decided not to stand still in a field that had been operating for years without profound changes. If this new way of understanding email proves to be useful on a daily basis, it is reasonable to think that other providers will end up following a similar path. In technological careers, not moving or reacting late usually has a cost. But email is also governed by a very different logic: if something works, touching it involves risks. Gmail now enters a real testing phase, where it will be necessary to see if this bet manages to simplify the experience or adds unnecessary complexity. Images | Google In Xataka | Alphabet has just overtaken Apple in the ranking of the most valuable companies in the world. The reason is in AI

A 19th century tactic is blowing up Russian horses

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The war in Ukraine, presented for months as the great laboratory of 21st century combat dominated by dronessensors and electronic warfare, is entering a deeply contradictory phase in which technologies from the last century and tactics from the 19th century are resurfacing, not due to doctrinal choice but due to material exhaustion. There are really videos explosives. The war that looks back. Ukraine has entered a phase in which the narrative of permanent innovation begins to crack, because along with drones and electronic warfare, technologies and practices that they considered themselves surpassednot as isolated oddities but as structural solutions to a conflict that has become a test of industrial and logistical resistance. The battlefield no longer advances at the pace of available technology, but rather at the pace of resources still in stock, which is pushing armies to rescue weapons, doctrines and methods that belong to other timesadapting them to a radically different environment. Soviet mines. The Soviet anti-tank mine TM-62 has become one of the best examples of this functional regression, not because it is especially sophisticated, but because it combines three key virtues in a war of attrition: power, simplicity and abundance. Designed to destroy armored vehicles from underground, today it is also used as an improvised demolition charge and as aerial ammunition. launched from dronestaking advantage of its enormous explosive charge to compensate for the lack of modern ammunition. The result is an artifact from the sixties that has been found a second life in the most monitored and technical war in history, demonstrating that, when supply fails, creativity relies on what already exists. Image capture from a video shared on social media showing the view from a Ukrainian bomber drone as it drops a TM-62 anti-tank mine on a Russian position The war of attrition. The massive reuse of the TM-62 does not respond to a tactical preference, but to an industrial reality that affects both sidesalthough especially harshly on the Russian side, where producing and sustaining advanced weapons is increasingly expensive. In this context, recycling ammunition inherited from the Soviet arsenal reduces logistical pressure and allows the operational pace to be maintained, even if it is at the cost of saturating the terrain with explosives and accept levels of destruction and danger that turn the front into an increasingly more hostile and uncontrollableboth during the war and in the future. TM-62 When the engines disappear. That same exhaustion explains the return of the animals, one more timeto the Russian front, first as a logistical solution and then as combat toolin a process that is reminiscent of the last stages of great industrial wars of the past. The constant loss of armored vehicles, trucks, motorcycles and light vehicles, together with maintenance and supply problems, has led to replacing engines by animal tractionsomething that is not due to any military romanticism, of course, but rather to the need to move men and material when modern media are no longer available in sufficient quantity. A Russian cavalryman seen through the thermal imaging camera of a drone The return of the cavalry. The most extreme step of this logic has been the reappearance of cavalry chargesan image that seemed banished from the war imagination for some time. more than a century and now it reappears in real videos from the front. Far from being an effective tactic, these charges reflect a desperate improvisationin which an attempt is made to cross areas hit by drones with means that do not generate thermal signatures or depend on fuel, but that lack any protection against an enemy that controls the air almost permanently. Horses like white. Thus, in an environment where any movement is detected from kilometers away, horses have become easy targets for FPV drones, with images showing animals and riders jumping through the air hit by direct explosions, a real bleeding illustrating the brutal clash between 19th century tactics and a battlefield dominated by flying robots. Even when operators attempt to minimize damage to mounts, the reality is that the use of cavalry exposes to animals and soldiers to almost certain death, without providing real tactical advantages. Propaganda distortion. While these scenes are repeated, the Russian media sympathetic to the Kremlin have presented as examples of ingenuity and adaptation, wrapping scarcity in an epic discourse that avoids talking about losses and results. How they explained in Forbesthis narrative does not seek to convince the adversary, but rather to sustain internal morale and hide the fact that resorting to cavalry is not a brilliant innovation, but rather an unmistakable sign that modern resources are running out and that the war is being fought with what is left at hand. Go back in time. Thus, the combination of soviet mines recycled and cavalry charges draws a portrait of an army that, under Putin’s command, has gone from promising high-intensity mechanized warfare to relying on solutions from previous conflicts to the First World War. In fact, we had seen it previously with Soviet-era tanks. It is not a victory-oriented adaptation, but rather the symptom of a progressive degradation in which each step back in time reflects a loss of material capacity, and in which the price is paid by both soldiers and animals dragged into a war that can no longer advance without looking to the past. Image | WarGonzo, X, Vitaly V. Kuzmin In Xataka | First it was Finland, now the US has confirmed it: when the war in Ukraine ends, Russia has a plan for Europe In Xataka | If the question is what a drone from Ukraine is doing 2,000 km from your home, the answer is simple: take the war to the Mediterranean

“you should spend all your time practicing vibe coding”

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Alexandr Wang is only in his twenties, but under his responsibility he has the greatest minds in AI in his position as head of the Meta AI Lab. In one of his last interventions during the coverage of the Meta Connect event in the TBPN podcastissued a very direct recommendation to adolescents and young people concerned about their future work: “you should spend all your time practicing vibe coding“. The idea behind his statements is that the sooner you begin to familiarize yourself with the new ways of programmingthe more options you will have when AI is involved in almost everything we use. ​Everything will be “vibe coding”. Wang assured in his speech that the work of software engineers had changed a lot in recent years and that, even for someone who had been in the job market for as few years as he had, it’s going to change a lot more in the next five years. The Goal Manager and founder of Scale AI assures that it is no longer so much about being good at programming in Python, C++ or JavaScript, but about learn to converse with the AI ​​models that are already programming in those languages ​​and explain to them precisely and with natural language what you want to achieve, and monitor its results until the result works. According to Wang, the future of programming inevitably involves he Vibe Coding. The best thing is to start now. Wang’s strongest message is aimed directly at teenagers. “If you’re 13, you should spend all your time coding with Vibe Coding. That’s what you should do,” said the young Meta manager. Wang compared the current technological moment with the computer technology boom of the late 70s and early 80s with the flourishing of the computer industry. “When personal computers emerged, those who spent more time with them and grew up with them had a huge advantage in the economy of the future, like the Bill Gates and even the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world. I think that moment is happening right now,” stressed the founder of Scale AI. Practice new skills. Wang takes that idea even further when he talks about the dedication necessary for today’s young people to acquire those programming skills for their future work. “If you spend 10,000 hours playing with those tools and discovering how to use them better than others, that will be a big advantage,” encouraged the Meta executive. His criteria are based on his own experience, since at just 19 years old, Wang fundó Scale AI, a company dedicated to labeling content for training AI models and only 25 years old, entered the list of millionaires of Forbes with a fortune valued at more than $1.1 billion. The future of programming. According to Wang in his speech, it is clear to him that AI will not only help with programming, but will also write by itself practically all the code that a person like him has produced in his entire career. However, Wang does not believe that the role of the human engineer will disappear, but rather that it will shift to another point in the process. Your job will be to know what to ask for, how to combine different tools, how to review what the AI ​​produces and how to turn it into real products. That is why he insists so much that children and adolescents get used to this as soon as possible. new way of workingso that the youngest learn to use the Vibe Coding and integrate it naturally into their way of working as we already do today with computers and programming languages. In Xataka | “In a year or two, code editors will not exist”: four programmers explain the vibe coding revolution to us Image | Scale AI

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