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China will premiere its new Hong Kong in December. And Europe is not prepared for what is coming

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December will mark a turning point in the Chinese commercial strategy. The island of Hainan will launch its large -scale independent customs operation, becoming The new nerve center For international trade with China. A movement that arrives five years after Hong Kong lost his historical role as a bridge between the East and West. The western entrance door to China. Hong Kong has lost much of its appeal to Western companies since 2020, when Beijing The National Security Law imposed In the territory. This change in Hong Kong has been one of the ingredients that have contributed to the cooling of foreign investment in China, and that adds to a list that includes The growing geopolitical tensionsminor growth prospects and increased risk perceived after Trump’s return to power. The former British colony, which for more than two decades had worked as the privileged entrance door to China, no longer offers the predictable commercial environment sought by Western multinationals. A new commercial bridge. Hainan is presented as the “new and improved Hong Kong”, and The figures They support it more and more: 74% of Tariff lines They will have tariff -free products, compared to current 21%. Tax free items will go from 1,900 to 6,600. In addition, imported products that experience at least 30% added value when processing in Hainan will be able to enter Chinese continental territory without tariffs. That is, China is creating its freer economic zone just when the rest of the countries are fragmented in commercial blocks. Prepare, Europe. European companies now face a dilemma: maintain coherence with the geopolitical positions of their governments or take advantage of a real economic opportunity. While Europe debate A separation Of its financial connections on the country, Beijing is offering commercial conditions that will be difficult to reject for many multinationals. The Chinese strategy is clear: to turn Hainan into an irresistible magnet for foreign investment at a time when geopolitical tensions are at its highest point. The signals are already there. First semester data show that companies with foreign investment in China registered A 2.4% growth In its commercial value, reaching 751,720 million euros. The number of foreign companies with commercial activities in China amounted to 75,000, the highest figure for the same period since 2021. Switzerland, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany increased their direct investment by 68.6%, 59.1%, 37.6% and 6.3% respectively. What comes now. Europe has not shown a clear strategy yet. While the United States maintains a more defined position in Its strategic competition with ChinaEuropean countries are debated among their economic ties with the Asian giant and pressures to align with Washington. Hainan represents the Chinese commitment to demonstrate that it can offer better conditions than any other emerging market, precisely when its economic model is most questioned. The countdown has begun. December 18China will officially open its new gateway to the world. Cover image | Denny Ryanto In Xataka | China has a prey capable of changing the rotation of the earth. Now they are building an even bigger

There are people who feel that the best AI becomes silly and vague over time. Is more than a sensation

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A new one comes out artificial intelligence (AI) To the market, social networks and specialized communities hallucinate with their new capabilities, and at the same time, a cycle where users who know the models begin to feel disappointment begins. They begin to see how what until yesterday achieved without problems via Chatbot or API, today stays in a vague attempt. There is a part of sensations, and one real. “Super broken” models. When he launched, Gemini 2.5 PRO reaped huge praise in social networks. The model was Very fastof the cheapest, had A context window huge and it was A beast in programming. However, for a few weeks, comments have emerged in communities such as Reddit that describe a “unusable” model. A model, which as described worked incredibly well between March and June, but that after using now at the end of July it released “absolute nonsense“. Showed a conversation with Gemini summarized by the assistant in which he did not stop recognizing errors. Other users also show Examples of behaviors annoying as Do not finish answers. They are only recent examples of Google’s AI, but even models as praised as Claude have received at different times criticism similareven recently with Claude Code. Suspicion. Many of the users who have criticized the different models speak of cut models: “My assumption is that they reduced the size of the model,” said A Claude 3.5 user in Hacker News. The suspicion is that, over time, and at times of maximum demand, companies begin to use distilled versions of AI models that are not so intelligent, because they have less dedicated resources to respond to the indications. Ian Nuttal developer too He observed Claude Code degradationand claimed that he would pay to have a good version that would never be reduced or degraded at peak hours. Alex Finn, also developer, expressed Equally frustration: “This happened to me with all the IA programming tools that I have used.” It’s not just a sensation. In 2023, many users felt that GPT-4, Openai’s most advanced model at that time, was becoming silly. The company claimed that contrary to what the community denounced, they made each new version “smarter than the previous one.” However, a Paper Academic It ended with speculation: experts from Berkeley and Stanford checked a spectacular precision drop of GPT-4 among its variants in March and June 2023. In programming, for example “the percentage of generated responses that are directly executable was reduced from 52.0 % in March to 10.0 % in June”. Others statistical studies At the end of 2023 they also showed a significant loss of quality between the December and May model. Openai and Anthropic confirmed problems. In December 2023, OpenAI recognized that they had received the feedback on the assistant becoming more vague. They claimed that they had not updated the model from a month earlier, and that it was not intentional, recognizing the problem and explaining that “the behavior of the model could be unpredictable.” Some users came to devise (and achieve, according to their experience) Methods to encourage the model to do betterlike the surprising promise to give a tip or explain to the chatbot that they had no fingers to write the code. More recently, Anthropic acknowledged To TechCrunch have problems in Claude Code, as slower response times, before complaints of users of having limited use without having affirmed. Users who previously performed tasks normally and now could not progress. In Xataka | I have tried day, the browser that replaces ARC and bets everything to AI. It hasn’t come out as expected

The world’s largest hotel is not in Las Vegas or Dubai. It is in Malaysia and has 7,351 rooms

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He is at the top of a mountain, does not presume luxury and does not even reach four stars. But the First World Hotel It has something that no other hotel can say: 7,351 operational rooms. It is officially the major of the planet in this regard. This was certified by the Guinness book of records In 2015, and it is claimed by the website of the First World Hotel. The complex is in the heart of Resorts World Gentingin Malaysia, and today it is organized in three towers: Tower 1, Tower 2 and Tower 3/Y5. From there you access direct nodes such as First World Plaza, Skyovenuethe covered park Skytopolis Indoor Theme Park or the Genting International Convention Center. A city inside a building: how a hotel with more than 7,000 rooms is managed Sometimes, stars deceive. One would expect the world’s largest hotel to be also one of the most luxurious. But the First World Hotel is not sold like this. In Malaysia, The stars are assigned by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac). There are no butlers, but strict cleaning and automated check-in, in addition to an accreditation “Clean & Safe Malaysia” with 100%score. Once inside, the logical question is: And now what? In those mentioned First World Plaza And Skyovenue there are stores, restaurants, an attraction park covered And even a convention center, all under ceiling. We also find the Skytopolis Indoor Theme Parkwhich is one of the jewels: more than 20 attractions in 400,000 square feet, open all year without depending on the weather. To eat fast and cheap are the Coffee lobby and The Junctionwhere the Nasi Lemak wrapped in banana leaves It is announced as “probably the best of Genting.” Managing something like that does not have more staff, it will have a system. The First World Hotel works as a machinery: check-in in kiosks, digital keys from the app, strict rules on furniture and non -transferable reserves. Everything is specified by the hotel itself: you cannot move furniture or enter with appliances. When you manage more than 7,000 rooms, any exception can discourage the gear. Spa and gym? They exist, but are not in the First World Hotel. They are in him Genting Grandanother of the resort hotels, and the access is paid for the guests of the First World. Why in Malaysia and not in a large tourist capital? Because this is not an isolated hotel: it is a piece of a project born in the sixties. The founder of the group, Lim Goh Tong, imagined in 1965 a resort on the mountainfresher than Kuala Lumpur and with entertainment for families. The company itself tells it in its corporate profile and in the official history of the group. From there came resorts World Genting, with casinos, shopping centers, parks and hotels for all pockets. The First World fulfills the strategic function of hosting in mass. He does not need to be in a capital, because the resort is already a city. Since Guinness recognized himthe data of the 7,351 rooms has attracted even more curious. Continues ahead of colossi like the MGM Grand of Las Vegaswith “almost 5,000 rooms” According to the chain itself. The striking thing is that he succeeds without luxury suites or premium services: he does it with compact rooms and an operation designed to function as a gigantic gear. No one has yet taken the title. And that says a lot, not only the size, but of the viability of a model that, despite it seems impossible, continues to work every day. Images | Genting Group In Xataka | In Madrid there were no economic hotels left, but there was a “virgin” space for tourists: polygons

A double riel to Mach 7

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At the end of May, a group of scientists from the Popular Army of Liberation of China announced a weapon more typical of fantastic literature: the world’s first coilgun Without condenseran electromagnetic canyon capable of reaching a fire cadence of 3,000 shots per minute. Japan responded weeks later with A rail cannon on the deck of your JS Asuka ship. China has now redoubled the bet with a projectile worthy of science fiction. The cannon of the future. China has taken a new step in the high -tech arms race with the development of an experimental electromagnetic canyon design (or Railgun) that promises duplicate power of fire and significantly expand its scope. The key lies in an unprecedented architecture: the superposition of two cross -shaped railguns Within a single cannon, a kind of “double linear engine” with independent but coordinated magnetic fields. A disruptive idea. The team of the associated professor Lyu Qingoo, of the University of Engineering of the EPL Army in Shijiazhuang, is the architect of this disruptive commitment that seeks to solve one of the critical limitations of current designs: the inability to generate sufficient energy Without damaging the system. Indeed, when the current is excessive, the metal parts (such as the U -shaped armor that conducts electricity and launches the projectile) They melt o They are literally torn by magnetic forces comparable to a “field saw.” This phenomenon ruins the performance and destroys the rails. The new X system, with two armor and four crossed rails, aims to overcome this physical barrier allowing both units They act simultaneously without their fields interfere with each other, and all thanks to their perpendicular orientation. The double armor design for the X-atun Much more than an experiment. The improvement is not less: while the Chinese Naval Railgun, mounted in the Haiyangshan ship Since 2018, you can barely launch 15 kg projectiles (insufficient to sink a ship), the new land design aspires to accelerate projectiles 60 kg to mach 7reaching white 400 kilometers in just six minutes, with an impact rate greater than at least Mach 4. This represents, in theory, not only an increase in lethal power, but a redefinition of use of this type as a long -range strategic weapon, capable of hitting from land to naval objectives, critical infrastructures or aerial positions in tactical depth. Revolutionary The energy autonomy of each cannon, with its own circuit, allows Avoid thermal saturation and the short circuits that have condemned most of the western programs. In fact, even the United States has officially abandoned its Naval Railgun (for costs, complexity and the rise of Hypersonic missiles) and Japan is limited to Naval prototypes Low caliber, shooting projectiles of only 300 grams. China, on the other hand, persists in transforming an idea of science fiction into an operational war vector. The limits. The design patent already has registered In China under the name of “X -shaped armor”, and represents the first documented attempt of stacking electromagnetic cannons in a cross vertical configuration. However, as the authors themselves warn, there are still technical obstacles. The call “Proximity effect”where neighboring electric currents can alter their behavior within drivers, could undermine system stability, generate efficiency interference or losses. It is also unknown How will it affect The accumulation of heat, the wear of the rails or the precise synchronization between both circuits during the real shot. At the moment, tests have not been carried out in operational conditions, but if the tests confirm the viability of the system, we would be facing a weapon capable of changing the electromagnetic artillery paradigm: a gunpowder without gunpowder, without explosives, but with a hypersonic impact force that rivals the most advanced cruise missiles. Future supremacy. If you want also, the development of this electromagnetic cannon is not only a technical advance: it is also a Geopolitical message. In a context of growing rivalry Technological and military, China shows that it not only continues in the race for the weapons of the future, but also leads in areas that others have abandoned. Its pragmatic approach (combining innovation with reusable engineering) contrasts with the Western skepticism before high -risk projects. If the X-rail becomes deployed in real scenarios, it will be an unprecedented strategic projection tool: fast, precise, cheap (by shot) and extremely difficult to intercept. Image | Handout, PicrylPla Army Engineering University In Xataka | China has come true the dream of science fiction: an electromagnetic cannon capable of reaching 3,000 shots per minute In Xataka | The JS Asuka is already navigating with an electromagnetic cannon on deck. And that can only mean one thing: Japan is serious

If you have ever wondered what the pride of the Spanish Navy is like, this virtual walk puts you in the S-81

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Although the Spanish Naval History is rich and prolificfor years, Spain built submarines under foreign license. Giving life to one of these vehicles is not an easy task, but at the beginning of this century, something changed and the Navy decided that it was time to have its own model: Class S-80. After years of development, delays and some problems, in November 2023 the S-81 was delivered, aka “Isaac Peral” It is a submarine with some of the latest technology innovations and A “unique” propulsion system (which will work at some point). And, if you have ever wondered what life is like within a submarine or how its operators train, the Navy has published a 3D video in which we can see some of the S-81 rooms. What needs to be done to enjoy the video is to give the ‘play’ and rotate with the mouse, turning the camera to see the first details of the roof and, then, of the interior. The first thing we see is the upper area of the submarine, which in some works has been indicated as the entrance zone to it, but that it is an ‘watchtower’ from which the commander performs the work of approach to port. It is the best point to control the operation and has manual controls and a huge compass. At the bottom of the bow, the submarine entrance hatch can be seen, as well as a series of countermeasures in the foreground. Apart from the torpedoes, the S-81 has electronic and acoustic countermeasures as part of its defense and survival suite. In the offensive weapons, it has torpedoes, missiles and mines. As countermeasures, an acoustic lally system is helped that Imitate the submarine signing To divert enemy torpedoes. It also has the possibility of launch mobile countermeasures, luresand the electronic system allows both the detection of enemies and the disturbance of adversary signals to increase their ability to perform furtive operations. In the final bow we see the hatch through which the crew enters the submarine. In the central hall, a plaque remembers the main characteristics of Isaac Peral, as well as some historical data. On both sides of the hall, we find dependencies for the crew. These are six or three beds cabins and each of the 48 occupants of the submarine has its own bunk. In other submarines, especially in the oldest, there was something called “hot bed”, beds in which the crew slept in shifts. Only the commander has his own cabinless than 3 m². Now, although the crew can be rested by having its own bed, there are bad news: there are only two toilets and three showers for the entire endowment. Under the candle, the highest part of the submarine that is from which the commander controls the entrance to port, is the command platform. This is the brain of the submarine and in the image below we can see operators training in the simulator found on the mainland. Also on the mainland, operators can train with a simulator to learn to keep the ships of the ship through ‘avatars’. It is very widespread, but it is always curious to see how they handle similar systems with Xbox’s command. The truth is that the virtual walk of the Navy is short and would have been great to see some non -confidential units under the optics of that 360º camera. Currently, Isaac Peral will be a few months stopped in port because it will undergo a new maintenance round. As they detail in The confidentialwork will be carried out in Mechanics, electricity, hydraulic, electronics and cooling areas With the intention of calibrating systems such as communications, analyze the operation of the drinking water production system and check the state of missile throwers. The S-81, the unique of the S-80 fleet at the moment, due to a postponement In the afloat of the S-82 Narciso Monturiol until the end of summer, it will be three months stopped in port for this maintenance. Images | Navy, Navantia, Rubén Somonte Mde In Xataka | That time Spain bombarded Istanbul: nine ships, a film flight and the Obsession of Octavio de Aragón

Repairing scratches with Mercadona’s hair lacquer is as effective as it is not recommended

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A small one in the front bumper. Another in the right rear wing. And one who did not give importance at the driver’s door and now bothers you. Small friction and damage In the body without much importance. No, at least, to call insurance, however they reduce the image of our car. Because who likes to have the car as a new one always has in those little taps, in some frictions that seemed of little entity, some notches for which they end up suffering. Here we collect some tricks to remove the lighter damage. A small without importance That is what we usually think when these types of small shocks or blows that end up leaving our cars full of notches that at first seemed to go unnoticed. To solve it there are a good number of small tricks and homemade solutions that multiply through social networks. Some more or less recommended. The first thing to consider is the depth of the scratch. If this is deep and has crossed more than one paint layer, it is best to go to a professional if you want to eliminate the same Without leaving a mark. It will be necessary to paint the area and it is essential to use the same tone as in the rest of the body so that it is not striking or obvious that something happened there. When rubbing is not deep, there are various recommendations. From Xataka We propose to get a Specific product for this task. Ha of various types. Some include a simple suede to remove the excesses of the product but others also with polisher and polisher To leave everything as new. Although this, we point out, we believe it is the best option, there are some homemade tricks that can be useful in a timely manner but that are not recommended when you want to make intensive use of them. One that has gone viral on social networks is to apply Mercadona lacquer. The idea is apply hair lacquer on the body and pass a microfiber cloth. The rubbing should disappear but the damage is done and is only a cosmetic improvement that reduces its visibility. Juliwheels on Instagram (More than 350,000 followers) Explain the process and close with a resounding “Flip how it looks.” The problem is that this type of lacquer can contain chemicals that damage the body of the car and, therefore, kill the brightness of the paint or in the worst case to cause its fall. It is not something that will happen with a single punctual application but they are risks that are being repeated in time. These types of tricks, such as using an antigrase product or Vinegar for car wheelsThey usually have little aesthetic route but, in addition, they usually damage the protective layers of the vehicle itself, putting its aesthetics at risk over time. There are multitude of similar cases. It is about applying a slight layer of olive oil, sodium bicarbonate or removing alcohol and, subsequently, conscientiously clean the surface. All of them, as we said, are remedies to get out of the way. The same can happen if we apply toothpaste, which is used as a puller when rubbing it against the surface. This last remedy, for example, is also usually used to polish the headlights of the car, something that works aesthetically but can cause dispersions in the beam of light and, therefore, worsen visibility. Photo | Volodymyr Dobrovolskyy and Mercadona In Xataka | A simple circle painted on the save lives of motorists: the project that praises the DGT but that only Catalonia tests

Extremadura promised them very happy with its powerful Spanish tomato industry. Until China arrived

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More than market fluctuationsthe production costs or the rain. If there is something capable of removing the dream from Spanish farmers dedicated to tomato cultivation, China is. The Asian giant is the great tomato garden of the world and it is increasingly difficult to compete with its prices. Hence, in Extremadura, the region that More hectares dedicated to industrial plantations, recognize That today the competition of the Asian vegetable is its “biggest problem.” The big question is … What to expect from now on? Tomato “Made in Extremadura”. If we talk about Spanish tomatoespecially from industry oriented, Extremadura is the king. In the 2023 campaign, the 75% of the surface of cultivation of the country, at a considerable distance from Andalusia (11.3%) and Navarra (7.9%). And the percentage is even greater if we talk about production volume. In 2021 the regional government estimated that the surface dedicated to the crop was around 23,000 hectares. Throughout Spain it was around 31,000. A sector with swings. The tomato industry is powerful, but like many other crops is subject to the fields of the field and the market. In January, for example, Extremaduran farmers They alerted that the price of the fruit was below the cost of production: the vegetable ton was quoted at 107 euros in the private industry and 115 in cooperatives, far from the 140 reached in 2024 or the average cost of production of recent years, which It was 128. “The situation of tomato is unbearable. If urgent measures are not taken, many farmers will be forced to abandon the crop, which will seriously affect the sustainability of the sector and employment in the Extremaduran field,” warned At the beginning of the year Juan Metidieri, president of Aigg Extremadura Asaja. This year the culture surface will be reduced by several hectares, Precise The economistamong other reasons to avoid stock accumulation. China slopes. In the sector there is, however, something that rests so much or more than production costs or fluctuations in the price of the vegetable. Farmers have been concerned for a long time. Heavyweight of the world tomato market, China, which leads the “Top 4” next to the United States, India and Türkiye. According to data from World Population Reviewits production exceeded in 2022 the 68 million tons and a large part of that fruit ends in the world market -oriented market circuit. The problem is not so much the huge production of China and its prices and the pressure they exert in the sector. A few months ago, during An interview with Financial TimesFrancesco Mutti, the executive director of the sauce manufacturer who takes his last name, warned that much of the cheap tomato paste that arrives from China occurs in the Xinjiang region, where companies benefit from “very, very low labor costs.” That panorama and the different requirements facing European and Asian crops They worry Also in Extremadura. “It’s the biggest problem”. Its effect on the market worries so much that Domingo Fernández, president of APIS Group and manager of Agrifood Cooperatives of Extremadura, recognized recently to The economist that right now the Chinese tomato represents “the biggest problem.” The reason? In his opinion, the differences in controls in Spain and China derives in a “unfair competition.” Similar opinion shared Recently in Today José A. Gutiérrez, Farmer: “What we can not compete in the supermarket with products that enter Spain without those limitations. Compites against a Chinese tomato that has no traceability. It requires controls that are not appreciated in the market.” Are you worrying alone in Extremadura? At all. The sector has been on guard for Asian competition for years, something that is seen with concern both in Extremadura and in other regions or countries of Europe. In 2016 the Las Marismas Cooperativa, in Andalusia, He warned Of the challenges that Spanish farmers face: “They ask us for European quality at the price of Chinese tomato, something impossible taking into account the costs for the industry.” If someone has expressed themselves in a resounding and achieved echo manner in the sector, it is, however, the Italian Francesco Mutti, at the head of a business conglomerate dedicated to food that only in 2023 he billed 665 million of euros. Restrictions, tariffs? “We should stop the importation of Chinese tomato paste or add a 60% tax so that its cost is not so different from Italian products,” Mutti advocates before insisting that “more than 90%” of China’s tomatoes occur in Xinjiang, a region subject to scrutiny of the United Nations allegations of Human Rights against the Uigur minority, including episodes of forced labor. “We must protect them”. According to FTin 2024 China monopolized 23% of the global tomato production, several points above 18% of the previous year. Its production is also much cheaper: Chinese tomato paste costs about half that created in Italy. “We must teach our farmers to grow better, but also protect them from unfair competition. Otherwise, the result will not be a better environment, but to transfer our production abroad,” Mutti advocateswho has already sent his concerns to Brussels. The panorama, Remember Antonio Lucas MarínProfessor of Sociology and Economist, it does not seem simple: China The flow of Chinese tomato paste has been growing after the increase in energy and fertilizers in Europe. In the case of Extremadura, Asian competition will not be felt alone in Spain. The export community Thousands of tons of prepared or preserved tomato. “The Extremadura Tomato Transformation Industries have become the leading agri -food export sector Extremadura, ahead of the fruit. More than 80% of the total is allocated to the export market, with prominent markets such as France, the United Kingdom or Germany among many others,” he says A report on the production and economic footprint of the sector published in 2022. Images | Sue Thompson (Flickr), /Ricardo (UNSPLASH) and Lid (Flickr) In Xataka | The science of finding tomatoes that really know Tomate, that increasingly elusive holy grail

“20 years ago I would have pointed to my daughter to the Top schools, now I think that no longer matters.”

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Artificial intelligence is modeling the present at such a frantic pace that We can barely realize that what until only a few years ago was essential, in the very close future will be Totally accessory. As confirmed in a recent interview Ben Mann, co -founder of Anthropic, academic training and the skills learning is one of those pillars That is changing. Knowledge and skills. Benjamin Mann is one of the “six of Anthropic” a group of engineers who left OpenAi to create their own AI model. Now they are one of The main competitors of his “alma mater“Business. In a recent interview In the podcast From Lenny Rachitsky, the co -founder made it clear that he preferred his children to be happy and kept their curiosity, to pass a good part of their youth acquiring knowledge. “10 or 20 years ago, maybe I would be trying to prepare it to be the best in school and aim it to all extracurricular activities and all that. But at this time, I don’t think that an amount. I just want it to be happy, considered, curious and friendly,” Mann said when talking about his children’s academic training. The titles are overvalued. Despite having abandoned Openai, Mann took with him a common idea in many OpenAi managers and engineers: in the near future marked by AI, university titles They are not guarantee of anything. Mann’s statements go along the same lines asjust a few days agoMark Chen, Openai research leader. The manager assured that“It is less and less necessary to have a doctorate in AI”, even when it came to accessing jobs in AI development. Again, the questions are the key. Mann said he preferred that his children maintain a profile open to experimentation, empathetic and with high doses of curiosity to be studied in an elite school with programs only based on knowledge. Just the same skills that Chen stood out in the profiles he was looking for to incorporate his team. Sam Altman, OpenAi CEO, I summed it up In a much more specific way: “Determining what questions will be more important than knowing the answer.” According to Altman, in a context in which AI can already assume the executive part of tasks such as programming or designing academic training will go to the background, the most decisive part will be how to squeeze the maximum that technology with people who know how to ask questions adequate. AI as an executing arm. The main actors in AI development seem to have reached the consensus that AI, at least in the short term, will have the role of executing arm of human decisions. Such and As I said Jensen Huang during An interviewthat change of roles will make knowledge such as programming less and less relevant to the work world. As Mann mentioned, this approach is totally opposed to that established so far, in which academic training and knowledge acquisition was a fundamental pillar to develop a successful work career. The founder of Anthropic does not even contemplate that possibility for the education of his children, aware that they will develop their career in a labor market conditioned by AI. In that scenario, the truly differential will be to contribute something that still the AI You cannot offer: Creativity and curiosity. In Xataka | Founders of small startups and large technological ones already has something in common: they are millmillonarios thanks to the AI Image | Unspash (Siora Photography), Lenny Rachitsky

A quick look at the ten best -selling car brands in the world offers a dramatic conclusion: China has already won

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17.29 million. That is the amount of electric cars and plug -in hybrids that, according to Autovista24they were sold last year. Suppose we take all those cars and reduce them to ten. What brands would be the most popular? Surely, don’t surprise us to find Tesla, Byd or BMW, but what will get attention is that of those ten cars that we have in front, six are Chinese. Of course, it has all the meaning of the world. The cast. According to the data of EV volumeslast year the electric cars represented 62.5% of the total electrified vehicles sold globally. PHEV, AKA plug -in hybrids, 37.5%. It is a sensitive change compared to the previous year, when the percentages were 69.3% and 30.7%, respectively. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing The list. The crown, of course, is for China byd with a 22.2% market share. It follows, and from afar, Tesla with 10.3%. It is the maximum exponent of the Western electric car, since BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz just add up to 8% between the three. The rest of the brands are from China, as reflected in the graph shared by Rest of the World: Global Electric Car market share | Image: Rest of the World Normal. That China leads this ranking is completely normal, especially if we take into account that, So far this year58.1% of electric car records and 70.1% of plug -in hybrids have been in China. In the United States, which is the second country in the ranking, the figures are 9.5% and 5.2%, respectively. Spain does not appear in the electric cars ranking, but in hybrids with 1.6%. China had, and has everything necessary to eat the electric car market. Has a government that offers incentives for adoptioneconomic resources that They are invested in high -level infrastructure, competitive prices derived from the two above factors, supply chains and, something important, The production of about 80% of lithium batteries. International expansion. The most obvious success case is that of Byd, which in just a few years He has managed to overcome Tesla In sales. In China, meanwhile, Tesla is the third best selling brand with a 5.9% share. Byd dominates with a 31.4% quota followed, very far from Wuling (6%). The next natural step was, of course, expanding to the rest of the world and that happens, in the first instance, through Europe. The company’s idea is that 50% of its sales come from our market, which is why it wants to establish factories in Hungary and Türkiye. Other brands such as Omoda, Jaecoo and Mg They have also opted strong for our borders. Best -selling electric cars worldwide | Image: Highway24 The best selling is still Tesla, but … The photo changes even more if we look The best -selling electric cars listbecause on that list only one brand competes (and strong) against China: Tesla. Elon Musk’s signature stays with gold and silver thanks to his Tesla Model and and Model 3that so far this year have been the best -selling Bevs. All others are signed by Chinese brands, highlighting Byd, Geely and, curiously, Xiaomi, whose Xiaomi Su7 It has been the sixth best -selling electric car of the year. Cover image | Byd In Xataka | The 35 cheapest electric cars that can be purchased (2025)

In 1937, Amelia Earhart took off to go around the world. 88 years later, an expedition will look for it again

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All segments have outstanding figures, but few can say that they are pioneers. Amelia Earhart is one of those pioneers That, with his adventures, he contributed to the normalization of women in the air. A few years before, Amy Johnson opened its way to traveling 15,000 kilometers On an epic trip between England and Oceania, but it was Earhart who set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the earth. On July 2, 1937, he last took off with his partner and disappeared in one of the greatest mysteries in aviation. 88 years later, there are those who do not resign and continue looking for it. And a new adventure will leave next November. Pioneer. Born in 1897, Earhart was an example of overcoming for women. It was the First woman in making two transatlantic flights: one as a passenger and another, in 1932, alone. Got Several records Distance and speed for pilot women, and not only dedicated himself to venturing in the air: he actively fought for the inclusion of women in the sector. As? Apart from with his actions in the air, he helped to found The Ninely-Ninesan association for pilot women and, in 1937, he set out to reach much further. It was one of the most ambitious circumnavigation attempts and, for the popularity of Amelia, more documented in history. Amelia with the Lockheed Electra in the background The plan. The idea was to circumnavigate the globe through the longest possible route. It was not go around the world And no, no: it had to be done for Ecuador, on a trip of about 47,000 kilometers. This would not only establish records, but would generate enormous interest for a later book. The starting point was Oakland, California, and the chosen sense was this. The University of Purdue, where it was a iconfinanced the expedition. The plane was a Lockheed Electra 10-E Modified with extra tanks for fuel and the occasional adjustment. Thus, on May 21, 1937, the trip began, and The route documented was the following: EXIT ARRIVAL May 21, 1937 Oakland Burbank, Tucson, New Orleans June 1 Miami San Juan (Puerto Rico) June 2-5 Caribbean islands / South America Venezuela, Surinam, Natal (Brazil) June 7 Native Saint-Louis (Senegal) June 10-15 Western and central Africa Dakar, Gao, Fort-Amy, Sudan June 17-28 India/Southeast Asia Karachi, Calcutta, Thailand, Singapore, Java, Darwin (Australia) June 29 Darwin LAE (New Guinea) July 2 Lae – “Keep in mind that I am very aware of the dangers. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women should try to do things like men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be just a challenge for others.” – A letter written By Amelia before the last flight Amelia route. Online online, the completed path. In suspensive lines, his last trip. In suspensive points, which should have been the final journey Mystery. When only two stages were missing to close the successful trip, Earhart and his companion, Frederick J. Noonan, took off from New Guinea to Howland Island. After that journey, only Hawland to Hawaii would remain and, finally, back to Oakland. Although much of the road had already been completed, what they had left was extremely complicated both by the route and the supply. Howland is an extremely small island, in the middle of the ocean and very close to the autonomy limit of any plane of the time. The idea was to stop, repost and continue. Between Lae and Howland there are about 4,100 kilometers and undertook the way on July 2, 1937. In their last radio communication, Earhart indicated that they were close to destination, but they could not confirm the visual of the island. And, after that moment, Earhart, Noonan and the Lockheed vanished. That last communication occurred near the limit of autonomy of the plane, so if they had not reached Howland and had not set contact again, it was assumed that they had suffered an accident. Next, a rescue team departed in their search, but they found absolutely nothing and the search was abandoned on July 18. Even with current media we have been Witnesses how complicated it is to find a plane that disappears in the middle of the ocean. Conspiracy. At the time they handled two theories. One, who ran out of fuel and crashed in the middle of the ocean before reaching the island. It is an extremely complex zone because, as we say, Howland is in the middle of nowhere and the ocean has a great depth in that sector, so the search is very complex. The other, which managed to land the plane on some islands about 560 kilometers from the target, but without conclusive evidence. As usually happens, that someone so media vanished that way triggered a series of theoriesto each one more Fourted. One, who landed in the Marianas, of Japanese control, and were executed. Another, which Amelia completed the challenge, but that upon arrival in the United States, he adopted another personality to have a low profile and not deal with his tremendous fame. And, prepare, another theory that points that Amelia was’Tokyo Rose‘, The Japanese propaganda reader who exercised psychological war in the Pacific Front in World War II. New expedition. Three years later, in 1940, a British expedition landed on the Nikumaroro Islands and discovered recent bones, something weird in a practically uninhabited archipelago. A voice rose pointing out that Earhart could be, but They ended Being Men’s Bones (although also There are those who point That thanks to length analysis, they were those of Earhart with 99% security). In whatever, not everyone is satisfied, and there are those who, as we read in NBC Newshe tries to find, definitely, to his heroine: the University of Purdue. “We believe that we owe Amelia and her legacy in Purdue fulfill her desire to, if possible, bring Electra back to purdue,” commented A few days ago Steve Schultz, general advisor of the University. Satellite images … Read more

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