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It’s going so well that Mediaset is already preparing another season

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In a Telecinco hit by a crisis that has lasted for years and where not even hitherto safe tricks like ‘Big Brother’ work, it is advisable to desperately cling to any success that emerges on the grid. This season’s (and a few previous ones) is ‘The island of temptations‘, he reality which, despite being increasingly exaggerated and less credible, conquers audiences. Mediaset, faced with this triumph, can only do one thing: step on the accelerator. The island returns (it never left). Mediaset has confirmed that ‘The Island of Temptations’ will have a tenth season, whose recordings will begin in January 2026 with Sandra Barneda again at the helm of the program. The announcement came just 24 hours after the reality will reach his best record of the current edition: 17% screen share and 1.4 million viewers, last Monday, November 25. The speed of the move reveals the urgency of the chain to ensure its only consistent success in the midst of a unprecedented audience crisis: The tenth edition could arrive, apparently, sooner than the usual cycle of the program would dictate. The numbers that explain it. In addition to this maximum quota of last November 25, emissions in access prime time (Tuesday and Wednesday) average 11.5% with about 1.46 million viewerseven competing with rivals like ‘El hormiguero’ and ‘La revuelta’. The previous season closed with an average share of 16.5% and 1.529 million viewers, becoming the most successful edition since 2021. That eighth installment swept the young audience: it achieved 36% in the 13 to 24 year-old segment and 28.5% among 25 to 44 year-olds. A new strategy. With this new season Alberto Carullo, general director of content at Mediaset, has scheduled three weekly broadcasts because, as stated at a press conferencethey detected that “the public consumes this program almost like a series.” This repetition confronts reality directly with heavyweights such as ‘MasterChef Celebrity’ and competes on social networks with the phenomenon of ‘Operación Triunfo 2025’ on Prime Video, where it generates viral trends without stopping. And he maintains his form against such popular rivals, something that has undoubtedly encouraged Mediaset to renew. Historical debacle. The success of ‘The Island of Temptations’ contrasts brutally with the historic drop in audiences that Telecinco is experiencing. Mediaset’s main network closed 2024 with a 9.8% audience share, its worst annual record since it began broadcasting in 1990 and the first time it fell below the psychological threshold of 10%. From the departure of Paolo Vasile in 2022when the network averaged 12.3%, the loss has been 20% in audience in just two years. The situation has become so critical that Telecinco was overwhelmed even through the set of paid thematic channels. The network has fallen to third place in the national ranking, far behind Antena 3 and La 1, which They starred in the duel for leadership in 2024. In this catastrophic context, the realities They have become the only lifeline that Mediaset has to cling to. In fact, for a Telecinco at historic lows, ‘The Island of Temptations’ It’s not just a successful program.: It’s literally the only content that works consistently for you. History of a format. ‘Temptation Island’ landed in Spain in January 2020 with an ambitious bet: simultaneous broadcast on Telecinco (13.7%) and Cuatro (9.5%). The immediate impact led Mediaset to prepare a second installment that same year, incorporating crucial changes: Sandra Barneda replaced the original duo of Mónica Naranjo and Carlos Sobera, and the Dominican Republic became the permanent location of the reality. The format has already generated nine regular seasons plus a special spin-off, ‘The Last Temptation’ in 2021, where ex-couples from previous editions returned to test their new relationships. A consistent success. The casting of the ninth season broke records: More than 1,000 couples registered to participateshowing that the format maintains its appeal even after almost five years on the air. And now it’s time to get back to it: after the end of ‘Survivientes All Stars 2’, Telecinco has taken over with ‘Big Brother 20’ (that hasn’t worked) and this ‘Temptation Island 9’ that is doing it, which forces the calendar to accelerate. They counted our colleagues from SensaCineTherefore, “the tenth edition will begin filming as soon as it begins in 2026: in January”, breaking the tradition of summer recordings. At full speed. In Xataka | The end of ‘Caiga Quia Caiga’ is more than a blow to the audience: it illustrates that Telecinco can only trust reality shows

There is still stock of all these bargains

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November is coming to an end and, although we already have Christmas on the horizon, we still have a few more days to take advantage of the offers of Black Friday. It is true that many bargains have disappeared from the main stores, but that does not mean that we do not still have some powerful discounts on technology. In fact, a store that still has several very attractive ones is, without a doubt, PcComponents. This store, immersed right now in its final Black Friday fireworkshas several deals that can suit us very well if we are thinking of renewing our old computer for a new one or if we want to change some of its parts in case we already have a PC assembled. There is a lot to choose from, but below we leave you some very powerful offers that are still available. MacBook Air M4 by 849 eurosa very interesting laptop for those looking for outstanding performance and Apple ecosystem. AOC Q27G4ZR Monitor by 159 eurosgaming monitor with Fast IPS panel and a refresh rate that can reach 260 Hz. AMD Ryzen 5 5500 processor by 70.90 eurosan economical CPU option with good performance. AOC CU34G4 Monitor by 229 eurosideal if you are looking for an ultrawide monitor to play. Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling by 54.99 euroswith two powerful fans and RGB lighting. Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card by 649.90 eurosa minimalist assembly ideal for playing at 1440p or even 4K. MacBook Air M4 If we want an Apple laptop and we are looking for something current, we will find few better options right now than this one. MacBook Air M4. This is the 13.6-inch version with 256 GB of storage, available right now for 849 euros when placing the equipment in the cart. A compact and very manageable device, but that does not give up offering a large dose of power and autonomy. Ideal for working, studying or watching multimedia content. Apple Macbook Air Apple M4 Laptop 10 Cores/16 GB/256GB SSD/GPU 8 Cores/13.6″ Silver The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AOC Q27G4ZR Monitor If we are looking for a new gaming monitor, this AOC Q27G4ZE could be a great fit for us. It is a model with 27 inches, QHD resolution and 240 Hz refresh rate, although it supports overclock to raise the rate to 260 Hz. It uses a Fast IPS panel and barely has 1 ms GtG response. It has support for HDR 400 and has speakers, which is a plus for single player games where we don’t want to use headphones. It is available for 159 euros. AOC Q27G4ZR Gaming Monitor 27″ QHD Fast IPS 240Hz Overclockable 260Hz 1ms HDR400 Speakers The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AMD Ryzen 5 5500 processor Not all users want to have the most powerful or the latest of the latest on their PC. If you are just looking for an affordable gaming device to play at 1080p without too many complications and without spending too much, this Ryzen 5 5500 may be ideal for you. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, more than enough also for simple and undemanding tasks. By 70.90 eurosa CPU with very good quality-price ratio. AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6GHz Box Processor The price could vary. We earn commission from these links AOC CU34G4 Monitor Another monitor option, also from AOC, although in this case significantly different from the previous one. In this case, we have a 34-inch ultrawide screen with 1500R curvature, which is ideal for gaining immersion while we play. Its resolution is WQHD (3,440 x 1,440 pixels) and it has a refresh rate of 180 Hz. It is very adjustable, so we can place it as it best fits our setup. It is at a minimum price: 229 euros. AOC Monitor CU34G4 34″ Curved WQHD 3440×1440 180Hz HDR10 Fast VA 1ms Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling Accompanying our CPU with good liquid cooling will allow us to have sustained performance without temperatures rising excessively. This one from the Forgeon brand is ideal if we take into account that it also barely costs anything right now. 54.99 euros. It has two 120 millimeter fans and a square pump. In addition, the system has RGB lighting that will allow us to give a different touch to our tower. Forgeon Solum Liquid Cooling 240 ARGB Liquid Cooler Kit Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card We close this selection of offers with a graphics card, this time an RX 9070 XT. This assembly, from XFX, has an arrangement of three fans and a fairly sober and minimalist appearance, ideal if we are not concerned about having lighting or flashy details on the PC. At the performance level, it is a graphics card capable of offering outstanding performance at 1440p, as well as in 4K, relying on technologies such as AMD’s FSR. comes out for 649.90 euros. XFX SWIFT AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Triple Fan 16GB GDDR6 FSR 4 Graphics Card The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | PcComponentes, Apple, AOC, AMD, XFX In Xataka | Best wireless headphones. Which one to buy and 21 models from 15 euros to 470 euros In Xataka | Best gaming keyboards. Which one to buy and 11 recommended gaming keyboards for different users and budgets

Science wants to put ‘microrobots’ into our bodies to medicate us. They have already given good results

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One of the great problems of modern medicine in the treatment of different human ailments is the “killing flies with cannon” approach. This means that when we have a headache and we take paracetamol, this medicine is distributed throughout the body and not only where it needs to take effect. But this is something that may end up changing thanks to microrobots. The importance. That the medication ‘walks’ throughout the body seems completely irrelevant as long as it has its analgesic effect, but the reality is that it is the responsible for many side effects that are generated. For example, taking a simple ibuprofen to relieve pain or reduce inflammation seems like a wonderful thing. But the fact that it has a general effect on the body also causes the blocking of mucus production in the stomach, which can lead to one of its most ‘famous’ side effects, such as the generation of stomach ulcers when abused. And when we talk about the much more serious side effects, it can cause many clinical trials of new drugs to have to be stopped because of this. But simply with a system that makes the medication act in a specific place in the body, this problem could be alleviated (in part). A new advance. A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has published in the magazine Science a solution that brings us a little closer to the setting of the movie Amazing Journey: a platform of magnetic microrobots ready for clinical use that are capable of traveling through blood vessels and releasing their cargo into the affected tissue. Bradley J. Nelson, co-author of the study and professor of robotics at ETH Zurich, says this is just the beginning: “We’re just the tip of the iceberg. I think surgeons are going to look at this and I’m sure they’ll have a lot of ideas about how to use it.” A simple grain of sand. In this case we are not talking about a metal robot with gears, but rather a capsule of approximately 1.69 mm in diameter that is designed to dissolve inside the body. We can rest assured that we will not have thousands of grains of metal sand in our bloodstream. But to get here, the engineering behind it is not at all simple. One of the challenges, logically, is that its application would be viable within the human body. To do this, the team had to balance three key factors such as: biocompatibility, drug loading capacity and magnetic control. The result was a spherical gelatin matrix that has three components: Iron oxide nanoparticles to respond to magnetic fields. Tantalum: a dense metal that can be ‘seen’ through radiology techniques in order to follow its path through the body. The medication you want to apply. How it moves. In addition to the capsule, what is important is how it moves until it reaches the target where it must act. For this, an electromagnetic navigation system called Navion is used. To do this, coils are placed around the patient’s head to generate a magnetic field around it that allows the capsule to move. In this way, a surgeon, for example, will be able to control the capsule almost as if it were a remote-controlled car to be able to reach the desired action point. To do this, there are different ways of moving through the vessels: by rolling, by dragging or by navigating the blood flow itself. A suicide mission. Once this microrobot reaches its destination, the doctor will be able to activate the final phase. Using high-frequency alternating magnetic fields, the iron nanoparticles inside will heat up, which will cause the gelatin matrix to melt in a matter of 40 seconds, releasing the drug at once. In their tests, they managed to transport rtPA (a powerful drug to dissolve thrombi) to a clot in a vascular model, managing to restore blood flow in less than 20 minutes. When will it reach the hospitals? Although the system is quite promising, it will take time to reach patients. The researcher himself points out that clinical trials could begin within three to five years. In addition to thrombi, applications are being considered to treat aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and very aggressive types of brain cancer. It’s not the first time. The medicine every time tends more towards personalization of treatments. In cancer we already see it with use of therapies such as CAR-T which focuses on training the immune system to specifically attack a person’s tumor cells and not healthy cells. A completely targeted therapy like the one proposed in this system, but in this case it is applied in the daily clinic (although it has a very high cost). The same happens with the immunotherapy with the use of antibodies. In this case, science looks for those particles that are unique to tumor cells and that are not present in healthy cells. In this way, drug weapons can be created that directly attack cancer cells. In Xataka | The rarest element on Earth aims to cure cancer. And Europe is already accelerating its production

Ultra-rich tourism has found an oasis in Kenya. A Safari at $3,500 a night that blocks animal migration

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For some time now, conflicts between large tourism projects and fragile ecosystems have multiplied: from the megaresorts built next to mangroves in the Caribbean that destroy natural barriers, even the hotels built in areas turtle nesting or unregulated cabins that have degraded reserves in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Each case shows the same pattern: the promise of immediate economic development versus the risk of damaging landscapes that cannot be recovered. The last one: a safari that short the wings of many animals. A camp in the worst place. The story was told these days the new york times. The opening of Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara Safari Campwith its $3,500-a-night suites, private plunge pool and privileged views of the Sand River, has ignited a controversy that goes far beyond elite tourism: for Maasai leaders, local guides and ecologists, the resort has been built on one of the last areas free of construction and in the middle of the corridor through which millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles move every year between the Serengeti and the Mara. What Marriott presented as a “historic” raid in the high-end safari, many perceive it as the most serious threat to a natural corridor that supports one of the most important ecological spectacles on the planet. The complaint filed by the Maasai scholar Meitamei Olol Dapash It maintains precisely that: that it has been built in a critical space where decades of monitoring data confirm a continuous and irreplaceable migratory flow. Overwhelmed tourism. The Ritz-Carlton is not an isolated casebut the most recent symbol of a growth that has become explosive: from 95 camps in 2012 to 175 in 2024an increase that experts consider incompatible with the ecological capacity of the Mara. The rise of tourism has multiplied the number of vehicles that chase animals off-road, deteriorate vegetation and corner predators, as in the viral video of 2023 in which dozens of cars closed a circle around two cheetahs while they hunted. Added to this are the discharged wastewater to the rivers, the light pollution of the camps and the noise that alters the nocturnal routes of the fauna. Various species have already disappeared from the Mara (such as the african wild dog or the oryx) in a process that researchers describe as an inversely proportional relationship: when the tourism industry grows exponentially, fauna decreases in the same way. Ritz-Carlton An exceptional permit. Outrage grew when it was learned that the construction of the Ritz-Carlton was authorized despite the moratorium of 2023 that prohibited building new lodges within the reserve. The approval was based on a “one-time exemption” signed by President William Ruto’s leadership, a gesture that activists they interpret as the porch for an avalanche of uncontrolled luxury projects. Even more disconcerting, according to the Timesis the controversy over the supposed community consultation: signatures of Maasai who claim not to have participated in any meeting, questioned documents and a climate of vulnerability that makes many think that the most powerful took it for granted that no one would protest. For the inhabitants of the Mara, the feeling is that the process is deliberately jumped essential steps of environmental assessment and local participation. Ritz-Carlton A wall to block animals. The camp, it seems, is surrounded by an improvised wall of earth and grass that prevents seeing the interior and that, according to local guidesalready shows marks of animals trying to cross or climb it. It is, if you still stand still, an uncomfortable symbol: a luxurious refuge shielded from the rest of the environment and the communities that live a few meters away. For many Maasai guides, the barrier embodies a dangerous idea: that visitors can enjoy the ecosystem without having to face its real problems, isolated from the pressure that the camps exert on the territory. African conservationists have been calling for years for accommodation models with a minimal footprint (fewer rooms, removable structures, reversible impact) and a transition towards smaller, more sustainable conservancies, but the presence of large chains threatens to reverse that trend. The line that should not be crossed. The paradox is profound: the Maasai communities know that tourism is their main source of income and they don’t want to stop it. Hospitals, schools and scholarships exist thanks to visitors. What they demand is a model that does not destroy that which gives them life. For many, the problem is not Marriott itself, but its exact location: placing a permanent complex in a migration corridor sets a dangerous precedent that could open the door to future construction in equally sensitive areas. Young activists like Emmanuel Sananka they insist in which the fight is not against tourism, but against a model that ignores the local voice and prioritizes profitability over conservation. Faced with this, Marriott He defends that his camp generates employment (90% of the staff is Kenyan, and 40% local) and that it complies with environmental regulations, but mistrust persists. Ecosystem to the limit. In short, the conflict reveals a clash between two visions of the Mara: that of global luxury that sees it as an exclusive setting and that of the communities and scientists who consider it a living and fragile system where every square meter matters. The Ritz-Carlton embodies that stress point: a project that is too big, too fixed and located in the worst possible place. The court decision What is done will not only determine whether the camp remains or is removed, but also the direction of the entire Masai Mara tourism model in the next decade. It depends on what is decided the Great Migration It continues to flow as it has for millions of years… or it begins to fragment due to the same human pressure that claims to come to admire it. Image | Vencha, Ritzcarlton In Xataka | Someone wants to build a 144 meter high skyscraper in the middle of the port of Malaga. The reason: luxury tourism In Xataka | A robot called “Sardinator” circulated through the streets of Malaga promoting a … Read more

An Italian man did not want to be left without his elderly deceased mother’s pension. So he started dressing up as her.

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To the civil registry official the alerts they jumped him quickly. The person in front of me claimed to be an 85-year-old woman, but if you looked closely you detected certain details that didn’t fit. His voice, for example. It was too serious and from time to time it seemed to go down several tones. Lugo had the skin on her neck and hands, thick, smooth, very different from what one would expect to see on an almost nonagenarian woman. More than an old woman, he looked like a man in disguise. The civil registry official was quickly alerted. So much so that he ended up notifying the police. And in doing so he uncovered a delusional scam that has cost Italy tens of thousands of euros and now has the country fascinated. A lot of money, few scruples. That the imagination is sharpened when there are bills involved is nothing new. Just as it is not true that there are unscrupulous people willing to do all kinds of nonsense to pocket money that does not belong to them. Last year we told you the story of a Brazilian woman who appeared at a bank in Rio de Janeiro accompanied by the corpse of a man (supposedly “Uncle Paco”) to withdraw 3,000 euros in her name. That case went around the world, but it is not much more bizarre than another that just aired in Italy. As happened in Brazil, there is a corpse and an attempted scam involved, although in this case the staging has been somewhat different. The reason? The alleged criminal did not take the dead man with him, but instead disguised himself as him to impersonate him before the city council. The problem is that the alleged scammer was a 56-year-old man and the person his mother wanted to impersonate was a woman in her 90s. Click on the image to go to the tweet. Who are you? The case has told it in detail the diary Corriere della Sera. A few days ago, an employee of the civil registry in the town of Borgo Virgilia, in Mantua (Italy) found that a neighbor wanted to renew her expired ID. So far nothing out of the ordinary. The woman showed up by appointment and her papers were in order, but upon seeing her the official became suspicious. The woman walked at a slow pace, wearing a skirt, jewelry, painted nails, and an exquisite layer of makeup that apparently tried to hide her wrinkles. In theory he was 85 years old. Or at least that’s what his license said. Her neck, however, was robust, her wrinkles were strange, and her hands had little to do with those of a frail, almost nonagenarian old woman. Not only that. Although she spoke like an older woman, from time to time her tone seemed to drift into deeper registers, registers more typical of an adult man, between 50 and 60 years old. “Isolated from the rest of the world”. The mayor of Borgo Virgilia, Francesco Aporti, explains that this accumulation of details made the employee suspicious, who ended up alerting her bosses and the police. The first alert was raised when reviewing the security cameras and verifying that the supposed octogenarian had arrived at the wheel of a car, something strange considering that it did not appear that she had a driving license. A more exhaustive search also revealed that the elderly woman had not been to the doctor or visited specialists for some time. Neither her nor her son. “It was as if they were isolated from the rest of the world,” says Aporti. There were signed documents and deeds of sale, but either they had been handled directly by his son as attorney-in-fact or they showed a signature that did not seem completely authentic. And the cake was revealed. With all these indications, the authorities decided to set a trap for him. They called the old woman’s house to inform her that she had to return to the registry to complete her paperwork. They were not able to speak with her, but they did speak with her son, a 58-year-old man who assured them that he would notify his mother. Shortly after, the woman went to the town hall, wearing makeup, a skirt and jewelry. On that occasion, however, she did not meet the official who issues ID cards, but rather a police officer who accompanied her to the police station. There the cake was revealed: during the interrogation, the supposed old woman recognized that he was actually her son, an almost 60-year-old nurse who was impersonating her. A corpse in the closet. The next question is obvious: Why? To find out, the agents inspected the house where the old woman supposedly lived, where they found her mummified body in a closet. The woman in question was called Graziella Dall’Oglio and everything indicates that died in 2022 at 82 years old. Instead of notifying the death, the only child decided to keep it a secret, keep his mother’s body at home and continue collecting the pension religiously. According to precise CorriereThanks to that income and the properties his family had, he managed to pocket around 53,000 euros a year. “There were no known relatives. The woman’s husband, a doctor, had died, and the 58-year-old man was her only son. He worked as a nurse, but was unemployed. The last time the old woman was seen at City Hall was ten years ago, when she came to renew her old identity document,” explains the mayor of the town, who confirms that the police are investigating to clarify two points. First, confirm that the body they found in the closet is indeed Graziella’s. Second, that he died of natural causes. A strange case? Strange yes. Uncommon, not so much. Although in this case the protagonist’s lack of scruples and daring stands out. it’s not the first time that the Italian press talks about people who hide the death of a … Read more

We already have fake GTA VI videos circulating on the internet and made with AI. The implications are more serious than it seems

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The strange thing is not that it happened. The strange thing is that it hasn’t happened before: the news that we would have to wait a full year (and not the few months that were planned) to enjoy ‘GTA VI‘ fell like a bucket of cold water on the fans. And after all the pertinent guesses, came the inevitable string of fake trailers made with AI. Despair. The desire for the most anticipated game in recent years has resulted in fake trailers, a subgenre that has always existed, but since the appearance of AI is reaching spectacular levels of verisimilitude. The channel specialized in this type of content Teaser Universe published a fake “final trailer” for the game that It already exceeds 600,000 viewsand which was followed by an additional one that had less impact. With the complicity of Google. As Kotaku tells itthe merit of the scope is not only the verisimilitude of the video (a trained eye can detect that That trailer for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ is fakebut with digital video game content and animated images things get complicated), but from Google. The search engine spread the video as if it were official Rockstar Games content, although everything was done with AI, as its own creator recognized. In this way (remember that we are not just talking about the Google search engine, but about YouTube’s own algorithm, which also recommends it), what should be an anecdote becomes a viral phenomenon… and disinformative. Made to confuse. As much as the video includes in its description that it is made with AI, there are other elements of it that are somewhat more confusing. For example, the title “Grand Theft Auto VI – Final Trailer (2026) Rockstar Games”, a name calculated to be confused with official material. He timing It was also intentionally confusing: the video circulated just after the announcement of the postponement of ‘GTA VI’ until November 2026, a time when players were willing to consume any content linked to ‘GTA’, although in places such as the comments of the video itself The anger at the deception was evident. The false button of the twerk. It is just one more example of how easy it is to manipulate algorithms and search engines using AI, and not the first related to ‘GTA VI’. This summer, YouTuber Jeffrey Phillips launched a deliberate disinformation campaign publishing on Reddit and TikTok that the Rockstar game would incorporate a button to do twerking. Phillips even created a fraudulent subreddit, r/TrueFactsOnlyz, whose description would theoretically help the AI ​​with its search summaries. The result exceeded his expectations: Google AI Overview ended up literally quoting the Reddit comments that the Youtuber himself had writtenand referred to these comments as if they were speculations from real players. When someone asked him for proof on Reddit, he responded that Rockstar had called him personally. It was enough for Google’s AI, and it became clear that Google prioritizes content from Reddit without bothering to give it human oversight, allowing malicious lies like this (even if it was an experiment) to contaminate searches. A systemic problem. All these cases linked to ‘GTA VI’ are not isolated anomalies, but symptoms of a structural failure on YouTube. Mozilla published in 2021 an investigation which revealed data that 71% of the problematic videos reported by volunteers had been directly suggested to them by the recommendation algorithm, not actively searched for. And because of these suggestions, these questionable content recorded 70% more daily views than other videos. The proliferation of the so-called massive content generated by artificial intelligence aggravates the problem. have been identified channels that have accumulated almost 500 million views using AI tools exclusively. NBCNews uncovered a network of channels spreading hoaxes about famous African Americans with deepfakessome of them commercial ads that generated income for both the creators and YouTube. That is to say, as Jonathan Albright commented on Mediumthe technological paradox is in sight: YouTube is capable of instantly detecting songs protected by copyrightbut it does not identify texts from journalistic articles read with synthetic voices or images extracted from other websites. A real chaos. In Xataka | I have tried Gemini Dynamic View: here begins the era of visual and interactive AI that you will not want to stop using

OpenAI needs a lot of money. And to keep giving it to them, they are promising things that cost even more money.

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That OpenAI is in trouble is something we’ve been talking about from long agobut the last few weeks have aggravated the situation even more if possible. The company continues burning money like there’s no tomorrow and the income does not match. OpenAI needs investors and to justify those investments it needs to diversify into new markets. It’s going to be very difficult. The problem. On the one hand we have an OpenAI that dominated the AI ​​chatbot market with ChatGPT, but no longer enjoys the technological advantage it used to. Sam Altman himself acknowledged in an internal email that Google was technologically catching up with them with Gemini 3 and user figures indicate that Gemini is getting dangerously close, with 650,000 monthly users in front of the 800,000 weekly ChatGPT users. Losing the market leadership they themselves created would be a serious problem, but unfortunately for OpenAI, it is not the only one. The other problem. OpenAI’s spending projections for the next eight years are $1.4 trillion, said by Sam Altman himself. Let’s pause: 1.4 European billion, that is, 1,400,000,000,000. Thirteen figures, that’s nothing. To justify those astronomical investments, Altman talks about getting into robotics, cloud computing services and the highly anticipated (although nothing concrete) personal device designed by Jony Ive and which It will be “the iPhone of AI”. It sounds good, the problem is that at the moment OpenAI does not have the infrastructure and it does not say how it plans to compete in these markets. The OpenAI business. The barrier to entry to create an AI chatbot in 2022, when ChatGPT came out, was much lower than that presented by the sectors with which OpenAI is flirting. In the Wall Street Journal newsletter They point out something key: they are markets with fierce competition and huge companies that have been well established for years. Let’s look at the panorama they face: Robotics: Humanoid robots are still a developing segment and we have doubts that it becomes mainstreambut already There are many companies competing to put a robotic butler in our home. That OpenAI would manufacture its own robots seems completely unlikely because they do not have the infrastructure and it would cost them a fortune, something they do not have. The most feasible scenario would be to work with a robotics company to integrate their AI. In the United States it would have to compete with Figure and Tesla, both with their own AI. In China, with Unitree and Deep Robotics. Complicated. Cloud computing: getting computing power is another of OpenAI’s problems and the center of its multi-million dollar deals with amazon, NVIDIA either amd to mention a few. Setting up your own business in the cloud would mean competing with giants like Microsoft, Google or Amazon, who are also your own partners and you need them. Not to mention that Personal devices: It is the sector in which they have a more concrete plan, and yet we hardly know anything about this supposed “iPhone of AI”, a device so revolutionary that the smartphone would be a thing of the past, or so Ive and Altman said. We have not seen a single image of the device and the project has been delayedbut assuming OpenAI ends up launching it, it has the difficult task of convincing the world that it is better than a smartphone. Humane didn’t make it. For now it works for them. In October OpenAI closed a share sale that raised its valuation to $500 billionmaking it the most valuable startup in the world. It is an astronomical figure especially considering that the company’s expenses are also astronomical; only in the last quarter They lost a whopping 11.5 billion dollars. Investors have remained confident until now, the question is how long the party will continue. OpenAI needs it to last several years to be able to have that business that is going to cost 1.4 billion to build. Images | Wikipedia In Xataka | We have reached a point where not even the CEOs of Google or Microsoft deny that we have an AI bubble

We believed that the NVIDIA-killer would be some other chip manufacturer. We were very wrong

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Yesterday NVIDIA had a stumble in the stock market. The shares lost 7% and then recovered part of the fall. Meanwhile, Google grew by about 4%. Both movements had the same origin: the rumor that Meta is considering using Google’s TPU chips in its data centers in 2027. Why is it important. During the last few years NVIDIA has managed to dominate imperially the AI ​​chip segment. Its accelerator GPUs made the difference, but although other traditional manufacturers such as AMD tried to follow in its wake, the dominance of the company led by Jensen Huang was spectacular. That could change, and the surprise is that the one who threatens that position is Google. Google prefers to throw balls out. A Google spokesperson explained on CNBC that “Google Cloud is experiencing accelerated demand for both our custom TPUs and NVIDIA GPUs; we are committed to supporting both, as we have for years.” But they have been preparing the move for a decade. Sundar Pichai’s company has been working on the development of the Tensor Processing Unit since 2015. They launched the first version in 2018 to take advantage of it in its cloud computing business, but little by little these TPUs have been gaining performance and are now promising alternatives for AI loads, both for training and especially inference, as Ironwood demonstrates. Anthropic already uses them, Meta could do it. Google has already reached a circular financing agreement with Anthropicto which it will supply its TPUs for data centers that work with its model, Claude. The rumors pointed out by The Information make it feasible that Meta reach a similar agreement with Google and use those chips in its data centers. The difference, of course, is the size of Meta versus Anthropic. NVIDIA shows off its chest. In a post on It is a message with two faces: on the one hand, congratulations. On the other hand, the declaration of intent. But you already know what’s coming. The CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, already warned at the investor conference when presenting results of the current situation: the rivalry with Google’s TPUs is increasing. However, he also insisted that Google remains his client and Gemini – which has just been renewed with a spectacular Gemini 3— can run on NVIDIA technology. Competition is good. All major technology companies try to avoid dependence on NVIDIA, and almost all of them have their own bets. It’s AMDbut also Intel, Microsoft, amazon and of course the aforementioned Google. But apart from them there are proposals such as those from OpenAI, Broadcom or TSMC that with their XPUs they want to end the reign of NVIDIA. But CUDA is still a lot of CUDA. The development of own chips is promising, but as AMD knows wellNVIDIA continues to have a spectacular wild card with CUDA, the industry standard development platform for AI solutions. The network effect that this technology has generated it’s going to be hard to beatbut Google certainly has resources to try. Image | World Economic Forum | Hilel Steinberg In Xataka | That Qualcomm prepares its own AI chips is good news. Whether it has an opportunity in the market is a very different thing.

NordVPN Black Friday is almost over

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If we want to protect our privacy on the Internet, there are few things more useful than a VPN. It is a shield that we can use while we are browsing to safeguard our Internet traffic or our IP address. It only takes a quick search on the Internet to see how there are dozens of options, even free. But is it worth choosing a VPN that is free? For occasional use, nothing should happen, but it is not recommended if we are going to use it a lot. The reason is that no one gives a service for free without expecting anything in return, so it is to be expected that they will be full of invasive advertising or worse: that our data and our traffic end up in the wrong hands. It is not worth it if we talk about price, since we can get right now with one of the best VPNs out there for very little: it’s NordVPN and it costs only 2.99 euros per month. NordVPN Monthly Basic Plan (2-year plan) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links The best privacy and security for our customers is cheaper this Black Friday The risk that free VPNs entail is not something new and that can catch us by surprise. If it were just having to avoid advertising, it might be worth using this type of application, but the problem is that there are cases where have been the gateway to cybercriminal attacks. All without talking about our IP address, that may end up on certain lists without us knowing. Be careful, this does not mean that it is not worth using a good VPN. This type of tool is one of those things that we will always want to have installed with us, whether on the computer, tablet or PC. With it, we will be able encrypt all our Internet traffic If, for example, we are going to use a public WiFi network, something that carries its risks. This is one of the most common uses for VPNs, but it is not the only one. By passing our traffic through one of these tools, let’s hide our IP addresssomething that can prevent us from suffering attacks or our address ending up in the wrong hands (something very important in terms of privacy). That this traffic passes through a VPN tunnel also prevents anyone from knowing what we are doing on the Internet, ideal for those who are most jealous of their privacy. It is now time to weigh what a VPN offers and whether it is appropriate for us to invest in one, but we cannot ignore that we are in Black Friday and that is the best time to hire one like NordVPN. right now we have 75% discount on all your plansall without using discount codes or any type of discount. Simply choose the plan that best suits you and we will automatically have the best price. It’s not all about the price, obviously. NordVPN allows you to install your product on up to 10 devices simultaneouslyso with a single account we will have a VPN to take everywhere. At a security level, it has military-grade encryption to make any type of attack as difficult as possible, as well as a ‘kill switch’ button to automatically disconnect the Internet connection in case the VPN goes down (thus avoiding risks and possible problems with our data). Another highlight of NordVPN is that it has more than 8,400 servers spread across 165 locations, which has two main advantages: we will never have speed problems (because it is very complicated to have congestion in the connection) and we will have multiple options when choosing where to connect. All without forgetting that it is also a tool that can be configured in just a couple of minutes. If everything that NordVPN offers suits us, then let’s talk about its Black Friday promotion. As we said at the beginning of this article, your most economical plan comes out 2.99 euros per month in its two-year modality and with three extra months, so we will have 27 months of VPN for 80.73 euros in total. We also have other plans available that come with more features. For example, its Plus plan includes, in addition to a VPN, an ad blocker and a scanner that will allow us to know first-hand if our data or passwords have been leaked. If we also want cloud storage, we have the Complete plan, but also the Ultra plan that comes, exclusively, with a tool to delete our information from databases. To help you have a complete and quick view of the price that all these plans have right now, we leave you a summary below: Basic Plan: 27 months for 80.73 euros in total (2.99 euros per month). Plus Plan: 27 months for 105.03 euros in total (3.89 euros per month). Complete Plan: 27 months for 132.03 euros in total (4.89 euros per month). Ultra Plan: 27 months for 175.23 euros in total (6.49 euros per month). It is important to note that we only have a few days left to take advantage of these prices, since They will only be available until December 1. We cannot forget that NordVPN has a 30-day trial period, so we can subscribe, try the service and, if we are not convinced, ask for a refund. We also have your password manager very discounted If we talk about security and protecting our data or our accounts, what is more important than the passwords we have? Saving them in notes on your cell phone or on paper is not ideal, especially when we can do it with a manager like NordPassalso reduced this Black Friday to a price we don’t see the rest of the year. With it, we will be able to store our passwords and take them everywhere with us, also including tools to autofill and autosave. It offers, as in the case … Read more

In 1982 Seiko created a watch for making calls and watching television. His only problem was arriving too early

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History is full of devices that were ahead of their time. I am not referring to literary or cinematographic machines like the tablet by Kubrick or the multiple predictions from Verne, but to other devices that were put on sale decades ago and now we realize that they are very similar to some of the latest gadgets on the market. One of these inventions was Seiko TV Watch. In its day this rarity was considered and recognized as the smallest television in the worldand even made appearances in some movies, but today no one can miss its striking resemblance to current smart watches, and in a way we could say that we are facing a distant relative. The history of this device began in 1972, but the first step was not taken by Seiko but by another North American company called Hamilton. They were the creators of Press P1the first digital wrist watch in history. The Japanese they acquired to Americans, and they embarked on their own path into the digital age by launching their first watch of this type in 1973. At that time it was said that society was moving towards a revolution in visual information, and to join it with its new range of watches the japanese company started to work on the research and development of liquid crystal panels (LCD) with active matrix that were capable of reproducing moving images. Over the following years, these efforts helped their watches become increasingly smaller and thinner, with higher component density and more energy efficient. They were also implementing new functions such as stopwatches and calculators. After three years of development and hundreds of millions of yen invested, the summer of 1982 Seiko advertisement in Tokyo a new watch. It was about TV Watchthe first to finally allow us to watch television on our wrist. This was Seiko’s TV Watch A watch that you can watch television on. Today this concept seems simple, but back then being able to carry it out was a little more complicated. The TV Watch was made up of three different elements that had to be connected together for it to work. The result was a science fiction product, yes, but a little uncomfortable to wear. On the one hand we had the clock, but we had to connect it to a radio and television receiver the size of a walkman. We also needed headphones, and these also had to be connected to the signal receiver. And how could you carry so much cable with you in a fairly comfortable way? Well, very simple, pay attention to this drawing that appeared in your manual. As you can see, the trick was to put the receiver cable under the sleeve to connect it to the watch. But in case we didn’t want to complicate our lives, the TV Watch also had a function to listen only to the audio of television broadcasts. The watch itself had dimensions of 40 x 49 x 10 millimeters and a weight of 80 grams, and all its magic was concentrated in its innovative 1.2-inch white and blue LCD screen with a resolution of 32k pixels and 10 shades of gray. I also had a second smallest screen in which we could see the time, set the alarm and use the stopwatch as with any other digital watch. During the presentation of the device, its creators had to give certain explanations about how they had achieved such ingenuity. They said their new panels controlled the molecular arrangement of liquid crystal within an electric field, and that this made it possible to create miniature images with very low power consumption. Especially when compared to the cathode ray tubes of conventional televisions. The receiver measured 74.5 x 125 x 19 millimeters and weighed 140 grams. This made it too big to carry in a back pocket, but perfect for the inside jacket pocket. Its battery consisted of two AA batteries that gave it a range of five hours, and it tuned both FM radio and television on VHF & UHF channels. What could have been and was not The TV Watch arrived on the Japanese market in December 1982 with a single DXA001 model that cost 108,000 yen, although a second, cheaper DXA002 model was later released. The difference between the two was that the second included a hearing aid instead of headphones, and its price dropped to 98,000 yen. In exchange, these two models today would be worth around 600 and 500 euros respectively. The presentation of the device managed to generate a lot of interest, and the watch made front pages of newspapers and headlines on television. It was considered an innovative product for allowing us access a large amount of information in real timeand it attracted so much attention that a year later it also ended up reaching the US market. Errr, okay? During its launch in Japan, Seiko managed to sell 2,200 units, and the president of the company’s North American subsidiary said that the reception from the American media had been so good that he believed he could sell all the ones they manufactured. This optimism translated into the production of between 15,000 and 20,000 units ready for export. But not everyone saw the TV Watch as an invention destined to revolutionize the market. In fact, it is known that at Sony they came to say that their laboratories had the capacity to develop a similar product, but that They didn’t think there was a big enough market. for this type of devices. In the end it turns out that they were right, and the watch did not end up becoming a successful product. In the TV Watch curriculum we find several dates indicated. In 1982 he won the Nikkei Award for Superior Quality Products and Services, and a year later he made an appearance in Octopussythe new James Bond movie. The watch culminated its career in 1984 by entering the Guinness Book of Records as … Read more

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