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In two years, pork became 29% cheaper on farms and 7% more expensive in supermarkets. The question is obvious

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When we go to the supermarket for fruit, meat, fish or any other food we find labels that inform us of their prices, but that figure is only the last in a long (and complex) chain of costs in which not all the links move at the same pace. That is the idea that they wanted to emphasize the farmers on account of pork: according to their calculations, they charge 29% less today than in 2024 while the supermarkets sell it to us 7% more expensive. The question is obvious: where is this differential, which according to industry estimates has given a jump of 179%? What has happened? That the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers Organizations (COAG) just report “the growing gap” between what farms charge for pork and the prices that end customers end up paying in supermarkets. After analyzing the market for two years (from April 2024 to the same month of 2026) and calculate what is called the Price Index at Origin and Destination (IPOD), the agricultural organization has detected two trends that move in opposite directions in the production chain: while ranchers charge less for their product today than two years ago, supermarkets sell it at a higher price. How much more expensive? COAG assures that in April 2024, farmers received 1.83 euros for each kilo of pork. In April 2026 (latest data available) this indicator had dropped to €1.3/kg. The striking thing is that (always according to COAG data) the “destination price”which the consumer pays in the supermarket, evolved in the opposite direction. From €6.45/kg in 2024, it went to €6.9/kg. What does that mean? Basically, while producers saw the price of their goods decline by 28.9%, the rates at which meat is sold in supermarkets grew by 6.9%. Are there more indicators? Yes. The organization not only records the rates that are charged at one time or another. It also calculates the “farm-supermarket differential,” an indicator that basically shows how wide the margin is that separates both ends of the production chain. Their conclusion is even more revealing: while in 2024 the differential was 252%, last month it rose to 431%. The COAG speaks already of “a growing and unjustified gap between what the rancher charges and what the final consumer pays” in the supermarket. “The data show that the drop in the price at origin has not been passed on to the consumer at any time. Quite the opposite: while the rancher was suffering a continued drop in income throughout 2025 and early 2026, the price in the supermarket not only remained stable, but continued to grow,” argues the coordinator, who denounces the effect of this double trend: “A net transfer of income from the producer to the distribution chain and the meat industry.” What do the supermarkets say? Coincidence or not, the COAG report It comes just a few days after Asedas, the Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-service and Supermarkets, publicly complained of the “systematic distortions” and “simplistic approaches” that are often used when analyzing the prices that govern the different phases of the production chain. A speech that “generates confusion” and leads to thinking about “hidden intermediaries.” “There are no abusive margins, the price of the final product is fully justified by real costs, risks assumed and investments made,” they argue from the association, which has presented a study precisely on how to “precisely” compare origin-destination prices. In the analysis, prepared by Manuel Hidalgo, professor of Economics at the Pablo de Olavide University, it is appointment among others the IPOD made by COAG. “It constitutes the most paradigmatic example of how a methodologically deficient approach can generate distorted perceptions about the real functioning of the agri-food chain.” What do they argue? The study signed by Hidalgo warns that the IPOD, “far from providing clarity to the debate, introduces significant distortions” and is based on “a conceptually erroneous premise: the idea that the agri-food chain can be analyzed through a simple binary comparison between two points.” The economist warns of “value creation processes” and remember that more actors than farms and supermarkets participate in the chain that brings food from the fields to the tables. Throughout the report, Hidalgo denounces other errors, such as comparing the lowest prices at origin with “the highest observed” on the shelves, that there are comparisons based on unrepresentative samples or that gross margin and net profit are wrongly equated. And what do they propose then? Alternatively, the economist poses a calculation formula that exemplifies with several products. One of them is olive oil, which is tracked from its price at origin (€2.35/l) to that applied in stores (€7.5/l). In between, it indicates the transformation and distribution phases, during which the oil incorporates an “added value” of €5.15 and a commercial margin. “This increase is not speculation, but the sum of necessary services,” concludes the analysis, presented by Asedas and Caea. What’s happening with the market? Beyond the interpretations of some and others about where the margin of money that separates what is paid on farms and in supermarkets ends, one thing is clear: the Spanish pork market is going through a complex moment. Farmers have been greatly affected by the cases of African swine fever detected at the end of last year in Catalonia, which made China ban the entry gender from Barcelona. In general, the data from the Interporc employer association show that in 2025 exports generally fell by 3.4% annually, dragging down turnover, which contracted by 300 million euros. The impact of swine fever it didn’t take long in letting yourself feel with price drops and the search for new markets. A complex scenario that, months later, was followed by the hangover from the Iran war, which, as in many other sectors (including agricultural ones) was felt with an increase in price of fuels. With this backdrop, and for the sake of a more precise ‘photo’ of what is happening with prices, COAG demands something else from the Government: that it publish updated … Read more

As far as we know, the agency that supervises AI in Spain is not supervising anything. What it does have is an Ideas Laboratory

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The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) is close to completing its first year of operational life. This organization has activated several initiatives with results that are still difficult to specify, but one thing is clear: supervise, what is said to supervise, does not seem to be supervising anything. The danger, once again, is to continue the European drift: it is good to try to avoid the risks imposed by AI, but what Europe and Spain need is something else. Neither supervises nor sanctions. The great paradox of the agency with official headquarters in A Coruña is that, after months of operation, it has not yet exercised its theoretical sanctioning power nor has it audited a single critical algorithm of Big Tech. For now, its work has focused on “early access” to the regulations. The eternal criticism. Although the European AI Law already allows systems that violate fundamental rights to be banned from February 2025, the AESIA has not opened a single relevant file. Alberto Gago, its director, recently declared in El País that “We are sure that no prohibited AI operates in Spain.” The work is currently very different: it is limited to pedagogy and accompaniment, leaving the work of regulatory “bite” for a future that at the moment seems far from coming. Meanwhile, the real AI market continues to be defined by companies from the US or China, which do not stop releasing new models with practically no regulatory restrictions, while Spanish and European companies have the yoke of a regulation on their heads that threatens to block them before they can even launch projects of this type. At the moment he only writes manuals. In fact, she has now become a free legal consultant for a dozen companies from a “regulatory sandbox” recently created. This initiative, which boasts of being one year ahead of the mandatory deadlines of the European AI Law, wants to act as a controlled space where companies can test their AI systems. Of the 200 applications, 12 projects were selected, but the result of this effort consists of the writing technical guides that help companies comply with these regulations. The sandbox also raises doubts regarding things such as its duration, which is one year and may be too long for how fast this segment moves. A civic center as a temporary headquarters. AESIA should already be using the facilities of the La Terraza building, but said location continues under a concession from RTVE and this It does not theoretically end until 2034. It is difficult to project an image of international technological sovereignty when the agency’s main office operates from the Casa Veeduríaa shared space with neighborhood activities. This provisional headquarters coexists with neighborhood workshops and association meetingsfar from the massive data centers it aims to oversee. The image of a cutting-edge regulator working among this type of activities is probably not the most appropriate in terms of its operational credibility. Thirty professionals against the billion dollars of Big Tech investment. There is a worrying disproportion between the ambition of the government narrative and, for example, the actual staff currently available at AESIA. During the launch announcement, 80 highly specialized employees were promised, but the figures August 2025 indicate that there are barely 30 professionals on staff covering all areas. The work seems mammoth if an organization like this wants to supervise all the models that will come into operation in our country. Currently on their official website they appear two calls to cover permanent and temporary positions, in addition to six calls for officials. The Ideas Laboratory. Last April got started this “multidisciplinary faculty” to anticipate ethical challenges regarding gender, minors and misinformation. Although the topics are vital, the purely academic format clashes with the extreme speed at which the AI ​​industry moves. It is especially peculiar that the organism emits Christmas toy recommendations as global corporations redefine geopolitical power through massive language models that now threaten even unbalance the pillars of the economy. Good intentions are of little use. There is an evident mismatch between the philosophical mission of this laboratory and the technical reality. Although this citizen pedagogical work is interestingly necessary, it should not be the main function or the greatest achievement of a high-level technical supervision agency. The AESIA is behaving more like a citizen service department than as an organization capable of analyzing how the algorithms that grant us credit or diagnose diseases work. ALIA, a compromising example. We have a first worrying case with ALIAthe AI ​​model developed at the BSC. This model has been certified by AESIA, which indicates that it complies with the regulations. However the boot and evolution of said model continues to be erratic and worrying, although it is true that the resources available to the project are very far from those of startups in the US or China. The rigor of the certification is debatable and calls into question whether AESIA will have the capacity to oversee the most advanced AI models. In Xataka | This is not a normal update: MareNostrum 5 will spend 129 million euros to become the Spanish AI supercomputer

everything we know and think we know so far about the next Google mobile

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Let’s collect you everything we think we know about the future Google Pixel 11the family of mobile phones that is the successor to the current ones Pixel 10. As is usual in the industry, weeks and months before the launch of the most anticipated mobile phones, the Internet is filled with all kinds of leaks, and we will tell you the most interesting and plausible. We are going to start by talking to you about the possible presentation dates of the new Google Pixel 11, because based on experience we can already narrow the range quite a bit. Then we will tell you the models that there may be, to finish by going into the features that have been leaked. Finally, you should know that the Pixel 11 will be the first to arrive with Android 17 serial. And as usual, you will also do so enjoying some exclusive featuresin addition to being one of the first where you can try all the other new features of the operating system. When do we think the Google Pixel 11 will come out Although historically Google used to present its phones in the months of October, the strategy has been changing to have a greater role, advancing the presentations by a few months. We will update this article periodically to add new leaks. We hope that the Pixel 11 will be presented in mid-August 2026during the “Made by Google” event. As we have seen in the latest models, the normal thing is that The launch is at the end of the montha couple of weeks after the announcement. What models are expected to exist? As we have seen in Google internal documents that have been leaked, it seems that the current structure of four high-end devices. They would be the following: Pixel 11 (codename “cubs”) Pixel 11 Pro (codename “grizzly”) Pixel 11 Pro XL (codename “kodiak”) Pixel 11 Pro Fold (code name “yogi”) In addition to this, months later a version 11a will arrivewhich like all those in the A range will have less power and will be more economical, although it will maintain some of the characteristics of its older brothers. What do we know so far Now, we are going to compile everything that has been leaked so far about the different components of the future Pixel 11 family. We are going to touch on what we know about the camera, the processors and other of its internal components. Design, size and screens According to the latest CAD-based renders leaked by OnLeaks and Android Headlinesit is expected that Pixels maintain their design languageand that there are no drastic changes in its appearance. This means that the edges and rounded corners will remain flat. The change that does seem to occur is that screen bezels will be thinner. The iconic horizontal camera module that makes these phones so recognizable will also be maintained, although in this case it seems that the panel will be made of completely black glass. Regarding the dimensions, everything points because they will be almost the same size as the previous generation. The only thing that will change is that they are expected to be a little thinner, going from 8.5 to 8.4 millimeters on the Pixel 11 Pro. As for the displays, we can expect a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED panel, while the Pro XL model will be 6.8 inches. So far everything is normal, no news, although some media such as Mobiflip suggest that Google could release new Samsung M16 OLED panels. This would be a major change, and would mean more maximum brightness and greater energy efficiency. Finally, on the Mystic Leaks Telegram channel, which specializes in leaks, the term is mentioned “Pixel Glow”. This would be an addition of RGB LED lights like the one you can find on mobile phones like those from the manufacturer Nothing. This term was mentioned in a leak where the cameras of the Pixel 11 Pro are also detailed and that the Tensor G6 processor will be used. Cameras and photography As for the main cameras, it is expected that there will be continuity with a triple camera with a 50 megapixel main sensor, an ultra wide angle and a 5x telephoto lens. We will also have improved AI processing for aspects such as cinematic blur, low light video and surely other aspects. Yes, more changes are expected on the front of the device, especially in biometrics. One of the first leaks pointed out that Google could bring back the infrared camera that we last saw on the Pixel 4, allowing the device to have 3D facial recognition at the level of Face ID of iPhones. With this, the Pixel could authorize payments and unlock the screen with your face even in the dark. However, this so-called ‘Project Tuscany’ of the infrared camera has barely appeared in leaks, so it is still early to know if it is true. Processor and memory The processor is possibly the field where the Pixel 11 will change the most. The leaks say that the new Tensor G6 will be manufactured by TSMC, the same manufacturer as the Pixel 10 after years of trusting Samsung, and that a 2 nanometer process will be used. Tensor processors have always followed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, and with this change Google hopes surpass them in power and efficiency. In fact, there are leaks that suggest that the new Google chip will have 15% higher performancein addition to an improvement in thermal and energy efficiency of 30%. This would help a lot to improve the autonomy of the device. The leaks also talk about 12 GB of RAM as a base, with which to help run the advanced functions of Gemini directly on the device in a fluid way. Additionally, we also expect a new Titan M3 security chip. Battery and connectivity We hope that the battery of the next Pixel 11 will be about 5,000 mAh for the base modeland greater capacities for the XL … Read more

DeepSeek V4 has given China the boost it needs against the US. Four chip makers are the big winners

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DeepSeek V4 It is the catalyst China needed. This model of artificial intelligence (AI) developed by the quantitative hedge fund specialized in trading algorithmic High-Flyer has been designed natively to live with Chinese chips. This is exactly the strategy that the Chinese government supports in response to the pressure that the US is putting on China. The Administration led by Donald Trump prevents the most powerful GPUs from Nvidia, AMD or Cerebras from reaching this Asian country. And Beijing has decided to do without them. The challenge facing the Chinese government is that it is much easier to set this goal than to put it into practice. This is the scenario in which DeepSeek V4 has emerged as the asset that China needs. And its arrival has led, for the first time, to several Chinese AI chip designers achieving something that until now had only been within the reach of Nvidia: guaranteeing full compatibility with the latest High-Flyer AI model from day 0. A great opportunity for Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and Hygon DeepSeek V4 has marked a turning point. Its adoption in China is likely to be very notable, which has caused AI chip designers to compete among themselves to ensure full compatibility with this model from the moment it arrives. None of them wants to miss the opportunity to grow in the largest market on the planet if we stick to the most relevant indicators, such as purchasing power parity or the volume of population with the capacity to consume. Huawei is one of the companies that benefited most from the arrival of DeepSeek V4 Huawei will surely be one of the companies that will benefit the most from the arrival of DeepSeek V4. And its entire portfolio of GPUs for AI is compatible with this model. Nevertheless, your Ascend 950PR chip has been established as the main inference solution. A note before moving forward: inference is broadly speaking the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of generating responses that correspond to the requests they receive. China’s three largest internet groups (Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent) have placed orders for several hundred thousand Ascend 950PR processors following the launch of DeepSeek V4, according to Reuters. However, Huawei is not the only Chinese company that has won the lottery with the arrival of this AI model. Cambricon Technologiesthe Chen brothers’ company, has already completed the adaptation to the framework open source vLLM inference framework and has published the code on GitHub. Besides, Moore Threads has worked closely with the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Academy to run DeepSeek V4 on its MTT S5000 card using the FlagOS software stack. And Hygon has carried out a deep optimization of this model in its DCU platform with the purpose of consolidating its hardware as an attractive option for industrial use. The competitiveness of DeepSeek V4 outside of China is unclear because is less capable than its more advanced American competitors, but its future within the borders of its home country appears to be guaranteed. Image | Huawei More information | SCMP In Xataka | The US’s problem in the AI ​​and humanoid race is not China: it is all of Asia and it is greatly disadvantaged

In which communities it can be done and how to do it in the 2026 declaration

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We are going to explain how and where you can have one deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in your Income 2025, which is the declaration we make in 2026 to account for the last fiscal year. You can now request and submit your draft online and from the mobilebut if you live in a small town or rural area with few inhabitants or with a tendency to aging and emigration, you should pay attention to this before confirming it. We have already told you what they are the most important boxes that should be reviewed in the income. And we also have guides on how to deduct you home insurance, gym fee, vet expenses, glasses and contact lenses, school supplies either the rent of your habitual residence. Now it is the turn of a deduction specifically designed to stop the depopulation of the rural interior. Being able to benefit from this deduction It depends on the autonomous community in which you live.because it is only available in a few and conditions change. But before going into the details of each one, there are a series of general requirements that are repeated in practically all of them. Requirements in addition to the community where you live Although each autonomous community establishes its own conditions for this and other deductions, there is always a series of common requirements that are repeated in practically all of them. These are the requirements that you should know about how to request the deduction or if you can do so. Have a habitual residence: No, this help is not for when you have a second residence in the town and go on weekends. The deduction is only for those who live there permanently, when you spend the greatest number of days of the year in that town and have it registered as your habitual residence. The municipality must be on the official list: It’s not enough that it’s a small town. The municipality must be registered on the list of those that are in depopulation or demographic risk of the autonomous community to which they belong. The deduction does not appear in the draft: Like almost all regional deductions, this one does not fill itself out. If you commit the draft without reviewing it, you will lose it. You have to add it manually in Renta Web. Deductions for each autonomous community We start with this table where we summarize the autonomous communities where you will be able to receive the deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation, as well as the amount. This way, you will have everything clear at a glance. Community deduction Rent limit Additional requirement Cantabria 20% of the full regional fee (max. €500) No limit Under 40 years of age and residence throughout the calendar year Estremadura 15% of the full regional quota €28,000 (individual) / €45,000 (joint) Municipality with less than 3,000 inhabitants Valencian Community €330 (plus up to an additional €264 with children) No limit Municipality included in the Municipal Cooperation Fund against depopulation Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in Cantabria In Cantabria you have a deduction of 20% of the full regional quotaalthough with a maximum of 500 euros in the deduction. Come on, if you have a regional quota of 2,000 euros, 400 will be deducted, and if it is 3,000 or more, the limit is 500. In order to apply this deduction you must be a person under 40 years of age and reside in that municipality habitually. You must have lived during the entire last calendar year, so you have no deduction if you moved in the middle of last year. If you are going to do joint taxationthe deduction is applied to each of the taxpayers in the family unit that individually meets the requirements. Each one may apply it separately even if the joint declaration is made. Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in Extremadura Extremadura has a different approach. Apply a deduction of 15% of the full regional quotabut without any type of limit or maximum amount. Furthermore, it is not intended that you live in the town on a list, but rather that you live regularly in a municipality with a population of less than 3,000 inhabitants within the autonomous community. However, yes there is an income limit to be able to access the deduction. Within this limit, the sum of the general tax base and savings must not exceed the 28,000 euros in individual taxation nor the 45,000 euros in joint taxation. If you are going to do joint taxationthe amount of the deduction is the amount that corresponds to you when you are entitled to it. Come on, the 15% will be applied to the proportional part of the full regional quota that corresponds to you within the family unit. Deduction for living in a municipality at risk of depopulation in the Valencian Community The Valencian Community is where this deduction is easiest to understand, but it is also the one that gives the least money. You receive a fixed amount of 330 euroswhich grows by 132 euros if you are entitled to the minimum for descendants for one person, by 198 euros if it is for two, and by 264 euros if it is for three or more. The deduction is incompatible with regional deductions for birth, adoption or foster care for the same descendant. Furthermore, to opt for it you must live in a registered municipality in the Municipal Cooperation Fund against depopulation What documentation should you keep Although in none of the autonomous communities you will have to attach any document to verify your data, it is possible that the Treasury will ask you for supporting documents during the following four years. Therefore, it is advisable that you have saved documents that prove that you have lived in that municipality in 2025, which is the year for which … Read more

SpaceX faces a neighborhood rebellion in the heart of Texas

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SpaceX bases its success on repeating, repeating and repeating. Only in the month of May there are six launches scheduled. But that’s not all, testing of engines and other components carried out at the company’s industrial complex in McGregor, Texas, is the order of the day. Therefore, it is not unusual that more than 150 citizens from South and Central Texas have sued Elon Musk’s company for damage to their homes. Cracks in the walls and shattered glass. In total there have been two group demands. One of 80 South Texas residents and another that includes 77 people residing in the center of that same state. In all cases they complain about the damage caused by the shock waves from the SpaceX tests. Neighbors warn of cracked walls, broken window glass and continuous vibrations. One of the owners even claims that his house has suffered serious damage to the foundation.. A question of engines. The McGregor Test Center is the most active rocket engine testing facility in the world. That is where SpaceX tunes up the Raptor and Merlin engines that propel its ships into space. The problem is that they are very powerful motors, which are firmly connected to the ground. For this reason, as they point out in one of the lawsuits, “kinetic and acoustic energy cannot be spent raising a vehicle into the atmosphere.” Rather, “it is propelled violently outward through two destructive paths: an acoustic wave that hits aboveground structures or a sustained seismic tremor from the ground that physically shakes the underground foundations of homes.” Up to two million dollars. In total, each of the two lawsuits, filed in the 414th State District Court in Waco, asks for up to $1 million in compensation from SpaceX for damages to Texan neighbors. At the moment, Elon Musk’s company has not made any statements to the media. From a city of its own to friction with neighbors. Initially, SpaceX advertised its facilities as a job and even identity opportunity for Texas residents. Your Starbase reached the category of cityfor all the people, many of them workers, who lived in the surrounding area. But what happened recently shows that, in reality, SpaceX has more and more detractors among people who live near its facilities. It is not for less. Seeing how the home that costs so much to obtain is in danger is not a dish of good taste for anyone. From employees to neighbors. In recent times, SpaceX has also received many lawsuits from employees. To avoid them, the company has managed to be classified as an air transport company, since this allows it to be regulated under the Railway Labor Law and, in the process, make it much more difficult to file a complaint or carry out a strike. In short, Elon Musk’s space agency has given employees the slip, but can it do the same with its private Fuenteovejuna? Image | MagnificentGage Skidmore In Xataka | SpaceX is preparing the largest IPO in history: the fact that it is doing so right now is no coincidence

Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are already working on DDR6 while memory prices continue to skyrocket

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The market is going through an unprecedented component crisis. In 2020, a perfect storm caused there to be no chips, but it was known that the storm would pass sooner rather than later. The problem is that the storm of current NAND chip crisis It doesn’t look like it’s going to give us a break in the short term. All memory manufacturers have focused on creating chips for artificial intelligence platformsbut in the meantime, they continue developing DDR6 memories. It will take a long time for consumers to be able to taste them. In short. DDR5 memory has not had a normal life cycle in the consumer market. It was expensive and, when prices began to drop, AI hyperscalers arrived to take over everything available. This is how we have reached a situation in which just 32 GB exceeds the 400 euros: all production is focused on hyperscalers and there are no ‘pills’ for consumption. However, that doesn’t mean that DDR5 has done poorly, not at all. Samsung or SK Hynix they are breaking records and, for them, things are working out great. That is why, together with Micron, they are starting to prepare the ground for the new technology: DDR6 memories. Last year JEDEC (the consortium that is responsible for standardizing DDR, LPDDR and NAND microelectronics) already detailed the standard LPDDR6 and it seems that the fringes are being polished for DDR6. Now, as we read in Wccftechthe big three of memory They are warming up for the near future with their new generation. Performance leap. These new memories will not only be faster. It talks about speeds minimum of 8,800 MT/s according to that JEDEC standard, but can reach up to 17,600 MT/s as the technology develops. They would practically double the performance of DDR5 and the trident of the RAM it takes a few months working together with Intel, AMD and Nvidia in the prototype validation processes. But it’s not just about pure speed, but about architecture. About 2×32-bit DDR5 RAM we would pass to a 4×24-bit subchannel architecture. It is something that brings challenges when it comes to managing temperatures and consumption, but also presents a clear advantage: improved parallelism and greater use of bandwidth. Plate change. For players, that is going to be a little problem, since an architecture change usually entails a board change. And, if the rumors and leaks are true, that plate change will be assured. The reason is that there are sources that they point that CAMM2 is going to gain a lot of weight with DDR6, especially in laptops and compact computers, and could gradually displace the traditional DIMM in certain segments. If this doesn’t tell you anything, visualize how RAM is mounted on a current motherboard. These are modules that are mounted perpendicular to the plate, something that has been around for years and that, although it has been functional for a long time, presents friction when you want to reach certain speeds. On the contrary, we have M.2 SSDs that are mounted in parallel, just like the LPDDR memory of laptops. Precisely, this is what these DDR6 tablets would be like, so manufacturers would have to redesign their boards to adapt either from the front or by adding the connectors to the back of the plate. Context. You probably have two questions in mind: how much DDR6 memory will cost and why the rush. We cannot answer the first question, but for the second question we can guess where the shots are going. We have commented that DDR6 RAM will come hand in hand with a notable improvement in bandwidth, and that is something that the artificial intelligence industry is desperately looking for. Until now, there were many powerful GPUs in data centers to train AI models, but in the era of Agentic AIwhat is needed is equipment more similar to a traditional PC. This is why Intel and AMD sand they are moving to mass-produce their professional processors again, and that is where DDR6 memory would make perfect sense thanks to that improvement in bandwidth. For inference, it’s great. It is already being tested with an arrival on the market for 2028 or 2029, but it will be the hyperscalers who monopolize all DDR6 memory production. Only when the voracity of data centers calms down will the modules begin to reach the mass consumer market. The translation is that Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung are already working on it, but to be able to build a desktop PC with DDR6 there are several years ahead. In the meantime, I’d say we can settle for DDR5, but looking at the prices… Image | Luan Gjokaj (edited) In Xataka | The RAM crisis is destroying all of Valve’s plans with its Steam Machine

the bizarre history of Toyota and its hydrogen trucks

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Toyota relies on hydrogen as a mobility solution. It is not news in itself. However, the agreement reached in the United States is. And the Japanese have partnered with Hyroad Energya mobility solutions company from the United States that will rent 40 trucks to the Japanese company for use in its support activities. That is to say, It is not Toyota that develops trucks. On the contrary, it is Toyota that pays to have these heavy vehicles available. And this North American company will be in charge of supplying the trucks, maintenance and software. Toyota, for its part, will have its own hydrogen charging network. The move is interesting for the company that has to demonstrate that hydrogen is a still alive formula. But it also needs to make profitable an infrastructure that has been dead in the United States practically since its birth. Everything to hydrogen! Toyota’s relationship with hydrogen seems like that of unrequited love. The Japanese have been ensuring for some time that hydrogen is as valid a solution (or even better) than the electric car. Along the way they have developed the Toyota Miraithe first car powered by a fuel cell. In this type of car, a battery inside the car carries out the hydrogen electrolysis process. With this process, electricity is obtained, which is stored in a battery and used by electric motors. The great advantage of the system is that the time spent on “recharge” the car It is the same as filling a gas tank. Furthermore, the car only expels water vapor through its exhaust pipe. Although some polluting substances can also be found in this water vapor, their presence is so low that it is not considered really harmful. The problem is that the use of hydrogen in light transport It is expensive and inefficient. Producing, transporting and storing hydrogen is very expensive given its volatility. For the Toyota Mirai to be able to use this hydrogen, it must have large tanks where it can be kept at a pressure of 600 bars. This leaves the car with almost no storage space because it takes a lot of space to carry a relatively small amount of “fuel.” The other solution they have found is designed for use on the track or with high-performance vehicles, as an alternative to maintain the sensations of a combustion engine but without emitting smoke from the exhaust pipe. This solution goes through burn hydrogen in liquid form but the high cost of storage and the system used continues to be a real problem. A final solution involves heavy transport. Some anticipate that this last option is the most logical since a truck has a lot of space to incorporate huge hydrogen tanks without sacrificing cargo space. Furthermore, if recharging is only carried out in the large industrial centers of the cities, the cost of transportation would be lower because it would not be necessary to distribute it to many small points in the geography of a country. With the aim of demonstrating that the use of hydrogen is reasonable and interesting for heavy transport, the company has reached an agreement with the aforementioned Hyroad Energy. This company is in charge of supplying 40 trucks to the company for its daily tasks. These heavy transport vehicles have a capacity 12 times greater than that of a Toyota Mirai, with a range of more than 800 kilometers. According to the company, refueling this truck only takes between 15 and 20 minutes. Curiously, these trucks with Nikola vehicles, a promising start-up that was betting on electric vehicles for heavy transportation. However, the company went bankrupt last year and was forced to sell its assets. It was at that time when Hyroad Energy acquired a fleet of more than 100 trucks, so those used by Toyota will be electric vehicles converted for use with hydrogen. It is an operation similar to that Stellantis was carrying out in Germany until terminated the project. The story is, if possible, even more bizarre. And it is that Toyota is immersed in a legal dispute with the American owners of some Toyota Mirai who They sued the company for false advertising. They maintain that when they obtained these vehicles, Toyota promised a deployment of its infrastructure that has never occurred. Without that support network, their cars can barely be used. Therefore, even if Toyota uses third-party vehicles, its bet makes some sense. If the company continues to invest in hydrogen, it needs to demonstrate that it is a viable alternative and wants to take advantage of its charging points in the United States to add value to an infrastructure that has been identified as insufficient. The movement also comes when more and more companies are beginning to think about purely electric heavy transport as the ideal solution for the future. Photo | Hyroad Energy In Xataka | Hyundai and Kia want to save combustion by burning hydrogen. And they have a very promising engine in their hands.

DeepSeek wants to raise its first round of financing and copies the last thing that remained to be copied from the US: the economic model

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Chinese AI startups appear to have surrendered to Silicon Valley capitalism. Both DeepSeek such as Moonshot AI (Kimi) have begun to raise investment rounds or are preparing to do so. It is a turning point in a race that is now becoming especially interesting and that also raises a clear question: will these companies continue betting on open models? The valuation is multiplied by two. DeepSeek had always avoided making that decision and it seemed almost a personal project of its founder, billionaire Liang Wenfeng. However, the company is now in talks to raise its first round of external investment, they assure in Financial Times. According to company data, Wenfeng has 89.5% of the stake in the company. There is talk of a round that would increase DeepSeek’s valuation from the current $20 billion to around $45 billion. Who is the “Big Fund”. Behind this investment round is above all the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known as the “Big Fund”. This consortium, the most important of its segment in the field of semiconductors, is supported by the Chinese state, and has a “cash” of 47 billion dollars contributed by the Chinese Ministry of Economy, the local government and several state banks thanks to a third round that was carried out in 2024. At the moment the “Big Fund” has not invested in other Chinese AI startups, but it has in companies like SMIC or Yangtze. The war for talent. The reason behind this decision is not only the need for capital to have access to more computing capacity. According to sources close to the operation, Liang Wenfeng has been forced to open that option to stop talent theft and thus be able to keep their best researchers on the payroll. In a market as competitive as this one, DeepSeek needs to offer shares to its employees to compete with the aggressive recruitment of talent by its local and Western rivals. A promising pairing. The relevance of this investment goes beyond the AI ​​model as such. DeepSeek has been significantly optimized for be able to run on Huawei hardwareallowing China to have a platform that works without the need for Nvidia chips. This symbiosis between this efficient AI model and the Chinese hardware giant is quite a bet by the Chinese government to try to win this race despite Washington’s blockades. The forced bet on “national” chips. Seeking that support in Huawei chips is not only a technical choice, but a political necessity for survive NVIDIA GPU crash. The problem is that Chinese hardware is still struggling to close the raw performance gap against architectures like Blackwell’s. If DeepSeek’s software hits a ceiling and chips created in China do not evolve at the necessary pace, the laboratory could find itself trapped: it would not matter to be very efficient when they cannot compete in raw power. Moonshot signs up for the rounds. DeepSeek is not alone in this race to achieve huge valuations. Moonshot AI just got up 2 billion dollars from investors such as Meituan, raising its value above 20 billion. Meanwhile, other rivals such as MiniMax and Zhipu AI (GLM) already surpass the 30,000 million valuation in their stock market debuts. This trend is therefore following what was already experienced (and continues to be experienced) in the US with AI startups, and the capital bubble that exists in the North American country now seems to have its eastern version in China. Moonshot AI and exceeds $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The paradox of copying the economic model. It’s ironic that DeepSeek, which became famous for challenging the “brute force” of American spending, ends up adopting its same funding structure. The company has shown that efficiency could offer an alternative to those almost unlimited resources of venture capital accessed by OpenAI or Anthropic. However, market reality dictates that a very solid capital structure is still what is needed to survive in the long term. Either you have it, or you can’t continue training models, reserving computing capacity and, of course, retaining talent. Open models? Until now DeepSeek had been one of the heroes of open weight AI models. Thanks to this, platforms like Hugging Face allow you to download it and allow everyone to take advantage of its achievements in terms of efficiency. The entry of venture capital and state funds could change the rules of the game: investors do not usually inject billions of dollars so that the product ends up being “given away” even for its competitors. The company will probably face the dilemma of closing its next models to protect its valuation and generate exclusive income, or keep its philosophy open at the risk that its investors no longer trust that strategy. In Xataka | If at some point NVIDIA has to choose between giving its best chips to the US or China, its choice is very clear.

Iran did to the US what Ukraine did to Russia in Operation Spiderweb

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In the first weeks of the war, published reports on the damage inflicted by Iran to bases and radars of Washington in the Middle East. For example, attacks on 14 US military sites or air defense facilities were documented, or the bombing of a US base in Kuwaitthe first time in years that an enemy fighter jet hit a US base. However, it has now just become known that, in reality, it has been much worse. The war that the images began to reveal. For years, Western armies assumed that absolute control of the air and satellites was enough to hide damage, movements and weaknesses in the middle of a war… until recent conflicts began to demonstrate just the opposite. In Ukraine, simple commercial photographs Taken from space, they allowed Russian convoys to be followed, bombers to be located, and destroyed facilities to be detected long before governments acknowledged anything. To that mission he called it Spiderweb. It so happens that the same thing is happening now in the Middle East. What began as a campaign presented by Washington as a punishment operation against Iran has ended up leaving an image much more uncomfortable: that satellite photographs are showing a level of destruction on US facilities much higher than publicly admitted. The uncomfortable discovery. Latest Washington Post analysis More than a hundred satellite images have revealed that Iran hit at least 228 military structures or equipment Americans distributed throughout bases in the Middle East, a figure much higher than that officially recognized. The impacts hit hangars, barracks, fuel tanks, Patriot systems, THAAD radarscommunications centers, electrical installations and even strategic aircraft, making it clear that Tehran was not launching symbolic or indiscriminate attacks. The most delicate thing for the United States is that many of these images initially came from Iranian media and were subsequently verified through European systems and other independent commercial sources. In other words, the initial narrative of limited attacks began to collapse when the images began to show something much more serious: that Iran had achieved penetrate advanced defenses and hit critical American infrastructure in numerous countries at the same time. Damage to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait visible on March 4 Iran found the weak point of the bases. Wapo counted that one of the most striking aspects of the attacks is the precision with which they were executed. Military analysts highlighted the absence of random craters and the concentration of impacts on specific targets, a sign that Iran had very detailed prior intelligence on US facilities. The attacks were not limited to military runways or depots traditional facilities, they also hit gymnasiums, lodgings, mess halls, and staff buildings, reflecting a deliberate attempt to increase human casualties and force the United States to empty entire bases (as, in fact, that’s how it happened). Because several facilities ended up being considered too dangerous to operate normally, causing partial evacuations and the transfer of troops beyond Iranian reach. Some bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, used to launch attacks against Iran or deploy HIMARS systems, were especially punishedfueling the feeling that Tehran had managed to quickly identify which platforms were directly participating in the campaign. Nine fuel tanks at the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait were damaged Drones changed everything. Much of this battlefield transformation is directly related to a lesson learned in Ukraine: cheap and unidirectional attack drones are eroding the traditional advantage of great powers. American experts recognize that the Pentagon did not adapt its bases quickly enough to this new threat, despite spending years observing how relatively simple drones destroyed armored vehicles, radars or critical infrastructure in other conflicts. Although many Iranian drones carried reduced explosive charges, they were extremely difficult to intercept and they could attack stationary targets with enormous precision. This forced the consumption of gigantic quantities of Patriot and THAAD interceptors, dangerously reducing American and allied reserves in just a few weeks. The result was paradoxical: the most advanced military power in the world began to be forced to play defense around its own bases, while Iran found relatively cheap ways to overwhelm multibillion-dollar anti-aircraft systems. The enormous hidden wear. While Washington publicly insisted that the damage did not significantly alter the military campaign, the images they showed a more complex reality. Some key facilities were damaged considered “extensive” even by American officials, and part of the regional command had to be relocated out of the Middle East. As we said, the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain was one of the most affected areasto the point of moving functions to Florida, while the internal debate grows over whether certain bases will operate as before. Worrying signs also emerged on structural failures: Strategic aircraft repeatedly parked in vulnerable positions, insufficiently protected tactical centers, and a shortage of hardened shelters for critical personnel and equipment. All of this fueled one conclusion: that the United States had underestimated both Iranian resilience and the speed with which modern wars are making transparent facilities that previously seemed untouchable. The true strategic signal that this war leaves. Beyond the specific damage, what really worries strategists and military personnel is the change of perception left by satellite images. For decades, the presence of US bases throughout the Middle East functioned as a symbol of absolute control and immediate response capacity, but now those same facilities appear exposedvulnerable and permanently observed from the air and from space. If you will, the conflict has left a feeling that is difficult to ignore: that Iran may not be able to defeat the United States militarily in a conventional confrontation, but it can. inflict enough damageattrition and political pressure to profoundly alter the US strategic calculation in the region. And that idea that began with Spiderweb operation in Ukrainemultiplied by hundreds of photographs of destroyed hangars, hit radars and partially emptied bases, may end up being one of the most important consequences of the entire war. Image | Iran media, Planet In Xataka | Türkiye has taken a look at the … Read more

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