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A one million years of years suggests that the ‘homo sapiens’ does not come from Africa

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The history of human evolution is a fascinating puzzle that we lack many pieces. Each new fossil adds details, but occasionally, one of them does not fit the image we had. Or rather, It forces us to redraw the puzzle completely. This is what has just happened with the analysis of a skull of one million years old found in China, an investigation that, according to its authors, “totally changes” our understanding about when and how we arise, since I would question Our origin based in Africa. The study. Published In the prestigious Science magazinea team of scientists from China and the Museum of Natural History of the United Kingdom, a posture that the lineage of the Homo sapiens began to separate from their relatives, such as Neanderthalsat least half a million years before what was believed. And this is not a short time. The skull The protagonist of this story is the skull of Yunxian 2approximately one million years old, which was damaged. This caused that at first it was classified as the skull of a Homo erectus, One of our most primitive ancestors. But nothing is further from reality. Thanks to digital reconstruction technology, which included computerized and modeled tomographies, researchers were able to restore their original form. The analysis. Once the results were had, the surprises arrived. The skull did not belong to a Homo erectus, It showed a mixture of primitive and modern features. According to the study, Yunxian 2 is actually an early member of the clado Homo Longi, a sister species of Homo sapiens which also includes Mysterious denisovans. “Our research reveals that Yunxian 2 is not Homo erectusbut an early member of the clado Longi And it is linked to the Denisovanos, “said Professor Chris Stringer, co -director of the research.” This changes the thought a lot because he suggests that a million years ago, our ancestors had already been divided into different groups, which points to a much earlier and more complex human evolutionary division of what was believed, “he continued explaining. New temporal line. Until now, most genetic studies placed divergence between the lineage of the Homo sapiens and that of the Neanderthals about 600,000 years ago. However, this new analysis has changed everything and the dates remain as follows: Origin of the clado sapiens: It is now estimated at approximately 1.02 million years. Origin of the clado Longi: It is calculated in about 1.2 million years. Separation of both lineages: the study places the divergence between the lineage sapiens and the Longi 1.32 million years ago. This implies that three large groups of humans with large brains –Homo sapiens, Homo Longi (including denisovanos) and Neanderthals – could have coexist for almost a million years, much longer than was thought. Africa. Although the appearance of these fossils in the Asian continent can make us think that the origin of our ancestors is not in Africa as thought, we must have caution. Professor Stringer himself, one of the study authors, warns that there is not enough evidence to affirm that our species evolved in Asia instead of in Africa. The task that is now ahead is to select fossils with a similar age found in Africa and Europe and do the same study. That is why the scientific community is enthusiastic right now, but in a critical position. Dr. Aylwyn Scally, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge, points out that both genetic and fossil -based analysis have significant uncertainties, especially when establishing such old chronologies. “More evidence is needed to be safe,” he says. What is clear is that Yunxian 2’s skull has opened a new and exciting window to our past, demonstrating that the history of human evolution is much deeper and more complex than we imagined. Images | Ranjit Pradhan In Xataka | “This is not a penguin.”

Openai has just opened the door to a new way of using apps with chatgpt

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The next time you ask for Chatgpt Help you mount the playlist for your birthday, the chatbot may go one step further. You may propose to do it directly with Spotify and, if you connect your account, offer you add the list to your profile with a single touch. And not only is limited to Spotify. Openai has just considered a new way of using applications. The company directed by Sam Altman has announced An update that allows you to use apps from the conversation window itself, in natural language and without the need to open eyelashes or leave the chat. Some functions also incorporate small visual interfaces adapted to the chatbot environment to offer a more fluid experience. A few apps to start. In order for applications to work within Chatgpt, developers must integrate OpenAi SDK and accept their conditions, designed to guarantee a safe experience. The project is still in an early stage. The SDK is in preliminary version and, for now, only seven companies participate in the pilot. Openai has selected them to show how this new applications integration within the chat will work: Booking.com Canva Coursera Figma Expedia Spotify Zillow How apps are used in chatgpt. There are two ways to use them. The first is to mention them directly if we know they are compatible. The second, more automated, occurs when Chatgpt himself suggests connecting an app to continue a task. It is an interesting function, although it can be somewhat invasive for some users. For example, if we have a linked Canva, it would be enough to write “Canva, can you turn this scheme into a presentation?” The application would generate different versions from the content. With Expedia, we could ask you to look for hotels in Chicago with King bed for less than $ 250 a night, and the integrated app in charge of the rest. The striking of this new generation of applications is how it combines family interactive elements, such as maps, lists or presentations, with the naturalness of a conversation. There are limitations. At the moment, the novelty has clear limits. Only a few apps are compatible, the support is available only in English and, at least for now, it cannot be used in the European Union. Openai has not explained the reasons, although everything points to the privacy regulations that usually slow the launch of new artificial intelligence functions in the region. The company states that it works to offer it “soon” also in the community block. Security and privacy. By using integrated applications, users are subject to both OpenAI terms and those of each connected service. The company has urged developers to “include clear privacy policies, collect only the necessary minimum data and be transparent with the requested permits.” It also promises “more granular” privacy controls so that each user can decide which specific categories or data can use each application to customize the results. The data business. The data is the new gold. Not literally, but in value. From the beginning of segmented advertising to the rise of artificial intelligence, companies have demonstrated a voracious appetite for user information. That is why it is convenient to review the privacy policies of the applications that we use: to understand how our data is collected and process, at this point, almost as important as using them. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | Openai and AMD have just signed more than an AI agreement: it is the bartering of despair

The light bill has shot up to 267% in the US

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“I could not keep paying such an invoice,” says a woman from Baltimore. In the areas of the United States close to large concentrations of data centers, the wholesale price of electricity has risen up to 267% in the last five years. To anyone’s surprise, consumers are assuming these costs in the light bill. Short. An exhaustive Bloomberg analysis He has crossed the prices of 25,000 points of the American electricity grid with the location of the country’s data centers. The result is devastating: more than 70% of the nodes that registered large price increases are less than 80 kilometers from a Data centers cluster. AI and the price of light. According to the International Energy Agency, the electricity consumed by data centers will double up to 945 twh from here to 2030overcoming the demand for entire countries like France or Japan. The AI ​​will be the main engine of this increase. While large technological ones defend that their data centers bring investment, high quality jobs and tax revenues that benefit the adjacent communities, the residents of these large energy monsters have been suffering less debated consequences. A matter of supply and demand. The energy demand of the AI ​​data centers is so high that it is carrying the auctions of electrical capacity at record prices. The phenomenon is especially visible In the accounts of the largest network operator in the United States, PJM Interconnection, which covers 13 states. In its last annual auction, the load of the data centers fired the sale of PJM capacity In 7.3 billion dollars, 82% more. The reason is simple: energy demand grows much faster than the ability to generate new electricity. But the consequences go beyond simply encouraging the installation of new energy sources. The wholesale price that electricity pays to guarantee the future supply affects both the invoices of the companies and the households. David against Goliath. To understand the conflict at street level, it is enough to travel to Virginia, home of the largest concentration of world data centers. It is estimated that Between the 3rd and 40% of world Internet traffic Go through your servers. Here, the Dominion Energy electric company expects demand to grow 85% by 2039. If they were not the data centers, the growth would be only 10%. But here they are, so new infrastructure will be needed, such as high voltage towers and electrical substations, which will have to be paid. And who pays? Today, these expenses are distributed among all the clients of the electric company, from a small apartment to the gigantic data center. It does not happen only in the US. Although the epicenter of the crisis is in the United States, due to its leadership position with AI, the problem is global. Technology companies seek to expand their infrastructure throughout the world, and voltage in electrical networks is replicated. In the United Kingdom, the greatest demand from data centers could Electricity prices more expensive 9% by 2040. In Malaysia, the government has had to Increase electrical rates of the data centers as the new facilities test the country’s supply capacity. The social cost of technological progress. Data centers are not born by spontaneous generation. Someone has to build and maintain them, which generates employment. In Virginia, they contribute 9,100 million dollars to state GDP. The career of giants such as Microsoft, Amazon or Google is reviving investment in renewable energy and more efficient chips. But as long as the electricity grid does not supply and the light invoices continue to rise, the debate on the cost of AI for citizens will continue to fueling. Image | Rawpixel In Xataka | Google has finally revealed how much electricity and water consumes its AI. Estimates could not be more wrong

In 2026 there will be so much that we will not literally have where to put it

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Nothing new under the sun, could be the slogan of these last months around oil. On Sunday, October 5, the OPEC+ reopened the tap with an increase of 137,000 barrels per day from November. According to the official poster statementthe measure seeks to “keep market stability” in the face of “healthy foundations” and a “stable global economy.” However, the markets did not interpret it that way. Brent’s crude more than 8% fell After the ad, closing below $ 65 per barrel, its lowest level in three months. The political message, despite the rumors of more production, was clear: Saudi and Russia do not seem willing to give ground. In the words of Jorge León, Rystad Energy analyst: “The decision did not focus on the barrels, but on signaling.” An oil tsunami. “The oil market is directed towards an immense surplus at the beginning of 2026 “, Analyst Javier Blas warns. According to the Macquarie Bank, the magnitude of excess will be “Cartoonish”, that is, almost caricaturescas proportions. When production exceeds demand, the market adopts a peculiar form: future prices become higher than those of the present. Is what operators call A countyan incentive to buy raw now, store it and then sell it at a higher price. The problem, according to Blas himself, is that this time storing oil will be much more expensive. With US interest rates above 4% – 1% in 2020 -, finance the storage of millions of barrels will be “more difficult and expensive than in any other count of the last 25 years”. In other words: oil will be left over, but saving it will be expensive. It is not the result of chance. The current situation is not explained only by market dynamics, but also by a complex network of geopolitical and financial decisions. For years, Riad led production cuts to sustain prices, but the Saudi government has now decided to relax those restrictions. As they have detailed in New York Timesthe change responds to the fatigue of producing below its ability to benefit countries that do not always comply with agreements. “The Kingdom has reassessed the cost of sustaining the profits of other producers,” said Helima Croft, of RBC Capital Markets. In addition, Mohammed Bin Salman seeks Maintain a fluid relationship With Donald Trump, who prefers lower prices for American consumers. As Bachar El-Halabi, an analyst at Argus Media, explains: “The Saudi understand that the United States is their most important strategic ally.” The real increases have been modest and that analysts interpret the maneuver as a “proof of the limits of demand”, rather than a price war. In fact, the International Energy Agency (IE) estimates that OPEC+ He added 1.5 million barrels per day from the first quarter, well below the promised 2.5 million. For some analyststhis figure indicates that the market has absorbed the new volumes without shocks and that the demand could be stronger than expected. China, Factor X. In parallel, from Beijing they have become the shock absorber of the global excess. The country has bought 150 million more barrels than you consume, spending about 10,000 million dollars in oil that does not need immediately. A new energy law forces to maintain strategic reservations in both the public and private sector, the Asian giant has filled up to 90% of the measurable world storage. The reason, The analysts sayit is double: take advantage of moderate prices and guarantee their energy security to a possible conflict for Taiwan. As long as the excess continues, the global market will remain afloat. But the day China reduces its purchases, the overoferta will go to the surface with force. Interest rates change the game. In previous times – as 2008, 2014 or 2020 – the traders took advantage of the counting to store oil and obtain insured benefits. But now, with the most expensive money, the business is complicated. According to calculations cited by Bloombergif the types are kept at the current levels, the count must widen at least one dollar per barrel to compensate for the financing cost. In simple terms: so that saving oil will be profitable again, future prices will have to climb even more. Effects on all fronts. On the one hand, prices are under pressure due to the excess so large. In this way, crude oil prices could fall below $ 60 a barrel. Blas warns that“The threshold of 60 dollars seems extremely vulnerable to the approximate supply tsunami.” For consumers, this would be good news: cheaper fuel and lower inflationary pressure, but for producing countries – especially those most dependent on oil – would involve a blow to their fiscal income. Saudi Arabia You need close prices at $ 90 per barrel to balance their public accounts, while Emirates can do it with 50. On the other hand, international policy adds uncertainty. The Trump administration He has authorized For the first time the delivery of intelligence and long -range missiles to Ukraine to attack Russian energy infrastructure. If refineries or pipelines become objectives, the global supply could be altered just when the markets are already saturated. Paradoxically, too much oil and too much war could coexist at the same time. The future scenario. The crude market advances towards an uncertain 2026. Analysts draw several possible paths: The oil that no longer fits. For years, fear was to run out of oil. Today, the problem is the opposite: we will not know where to keep it. As Javier Blas has summarized: “A counting is coming; the only doubt is how deep it will be.” When that curve is invested and the tanks are filled, the world will discover that excess can also be a form of crisis. Oil, once again, not only moves the economy: it marks the pulse of global power. Image | Unspash Xataka | In a crucial Ukraine agreement he has given the US his best weapon. In return he has received something unpublished: a map to knock Russia

In 1995 some researchers discovered the “peaceful gene” of our body. Today their finding has earned them a Nobel

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The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute of Stockholm has done it again. He has rewarded one of those investigations that, for years, seemed like a page note in textbooks, but today are the basis of revolutionary treatments. He Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine of 2025 He has been granted jointly to Japanese Shimon Sakaguchi and Americans Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell for “their discoveries about Regulatory T cells And the role of Foxp3 gene In the immune function “ The beginning. Already in the previous decade, Sakaguchi had identified a subset of T lymphocytes that did not attack, but did the opposite: they suppressed the activity of other T lymphocytes. They were pacifying cells, a kind of riot police of the immune system. In 1995, He published a job Key that characterized these cells, today known as regulatory T cells (TREGS). The finding was transcendental. Sakaguchi showed that without these tregs, The immune system went crazy and began to attack the tissues of the body itself, causing devastating autoimmune diseases. He had discovered the natural mechanism of the body to maintain tolerance and avoid self -destruction. But the key piece of the puzzle was missing: what made a T cell become a peacemaker and not a soldier? Brunkow and Ramsdell. Although this discovery was transcendental, the reality is that there was a lot of skeptic that he did not believe in his theory. But the answer to the big question that stayed in the air came in 2001 (still far from the year 2025 and the delivery of this award). Here, on the one hand, Mary E. Brunkow’s team investigated a rare and deadly disease Autoimmune in children called IPEX syndrome. The investigation pointed to a gene as a cause of this disease: Foxp3. On the other hand, Fred Ramsdell’s team was studying a mouse model with very similar symptoms and reached the same conclusion: The defective gene was Foxp3. The connection. The connection was immediate and explosive: Foxp3 was the “master switch”. It is the gene that, when activated in a T lymphocyte, gives you the instructions to become a TREG. Without functional FOXP3, there are no regulatory T cells, and the immune system is uncontrolled. Sakaguchi’s discovery finally found his genetic explanation and already gave him enough weight so that the scientific community saw that he had sat a great precedent. A revolution. This double discovery, Sakaguchi’s cell phone and Brunkow and Ramsdell’s genetic, has completely changed the immunology paradigm and has opened two great therapeutic pathways with immense potential. On the one hand, the door opens up to the fight against autoimmune diseases since with the lack of tregs the body attacks itself. The solution in this case is to increase this type of cells, and there are already different clinical trials to extract patient T cells, “convert” them into the laboratory and re -inject them to the patient. Something we now know as ‘immunotherapy’. But it also serves for the fight against cancer. In these cases it has been seen how tumors are ‘intelligent’ and surround themselves with tregs to protect themselves to the immune system that tries to end these cells. These pacifying cells prevent “soldier” T lymphocytes from attacking cancer. The new immunotherapies seek precisely to temporarily deactivate these tregs or block the action of Foxp3 in the tumor environment, eliminating the protective coat of cancer so that the immune system can destroy it. This has been especially promising in tumors such as lymphoma. Time has passed. The most surprising of all this is the large amount of time between the initial discovery and recognition with a Nobel. If it is true that it has been expected to have a crucial relevance within the clinical aspect, with trials that give very good results for diseases that are really serious. Images | Wikipedia (2, 3) In Xataka | A Spanish team has taken a giant step in a hopeful cancer treatment: chemoinmunotherapy

It is the bartering of despair

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Openai has just announced that you will buy 6 AMD GPUS gigawatts. Not with cash, but with Warrants: AMD issues Openai the right to buy up to 160 million of its shares if it meets staggered purchase milestones. A company that loses 2.5 billion every six months has just committed to a massive infrastructure deployment. And it will, at least for the moment, without releasing a hard. OpenAi has titled The statement of this blog operation like a ‘Strategic ParnerTeship ‘but rather it is A barter of mutual survival disguised as business alliance. AMD desperately needs to exist as a credible alternative to Nvidia. Although that means selling its own capital instead of only chips. OpenAi needs to escape Its total dependence on a single supplier that already has too much negotiation power. None can afford what is promising in traditional terms. But Both need the market to believe that they can. The story tells the structure of the Warrantsthat are unlocked by sections: The first, with the initial deployment of a gigavatio. The following, as scale to the sixth. But there is more: the VARING (Acquisition of rights) is also linked to AMD reach “certain objectives of action prices” since OpenAi achieves “necessary technical and commercial milestones.” Translation: They only work if both companies grow exponentially. Both have just become hostages of mutual success. He Timing It is no accident: two weeks ago Openai signed 100,000 million with Nvidia. Now this. AMD values ​​it in “tens of billions of dollars in revenue” counting drag effect. A billion dollars in infrastructure commitments in fifteen days. By a company with negative cash flow. The joke is counted alone. The innocent spectator will see this news and assume that it is only a diversification of suppliers. He who sees beyond his noses will understand that andStán accumulating promises that cannot pay but that the market values ​​as if they were real effective. AMD has risen more than 30% in the stock market after the announcement. A climb that does not come from more chips sold, but of marketing: the chatgpt manufacturer has validated its product. And as always, what they don’t say is as important as what they say. The first Gigavatio does not reach the second half of 2026. One year. The agreement is “definitive” but the milestones are “flexible”, conditioned to technical, commercial and stock market objectives. No one signs rigid calendars in this industry because nobody knows if there will continue to exist to the current rate of spending. And above all: no press release clarifies how Openai will finance this without issuing more debt or dilute more capital. We are seeing an industry financing itself with optionality and future: Nvidia finances OpenAi to buy Nvidia chips. AMD gives him Warrants A OpenAI to buy AMD chips. OpenAI becomes a potential shareholder of its suppliers. Suppliers are revalued because Openai buys them. OpenAi can only exercise those Warrants If suppliers grow while complying with huge orders. Meanwhile, The only real money entry is chatgpt subscriptions. That do not reach to cover current operating costs, much less for a billion infrastructure. AMD has just exchanged certainty for optionality. Openai has just exchange liquidity that does not have the possibility of having part of its supply chain. Both bet in the same box: that the exponential growth of the demand for AI will make economic fundamentals irrelevant. It is an understandable, but very high bet. They may be right. Or that in five years this agreement appears in business schools as a case study on Chow an entire industry decided that mathematics were optional. The market, meanwhile, rises 30%. Because nothing says “solid foundations” how to finance yourself selling shares of yourself to buy things that you cannot pay. In Xataka | The engineer who does not need spotlights: smooth his AMD at the edge of bankruptcy and ten years later has made her an empire Outstanding image | Xataka

Before the incursions of Russian drones, Ryanair has its own alternative to the European wall

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“Why are we not shooting these drones?” The question is from Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair. The mandamás of the Air Company verbalized its doubts about the performance of the European Union in an interview with Political. According to its point of view, Europe faces an air navigation problem derived from war in Ukraine. A problem that, according to O’Leary, should not be consent. It is not a security problem. It is a business problem, according to Ryanair CEO. To this aimed the first statements of O’Leary in which the closure of Polish airports echoed as a result of A Russian Airspace Invasion of the country. “There is a risk of continuous interruption, not security,” O’Leary said in words collected by Reuters. While Europe discussed what can be done in these cases, how to act and evaluate the danger of these incursions, from Ryanair they pointed to direct damage to their business. Hybrid war. Is The concept to define those attacks that seek the destabilization of a country and that do not necessarily have to be violent. The intention is for citizens to lose confidence in their leaders either by a feeling of helplessness or because basic services does not work. In the case of the Ukraine War, Russia has been enough to enter the Polish airspace to paralyze its airports. Danish bases They were also paralyzed. The same happened in Oslo and the last to know the effects has been the Munich airport. In addition a cyber attack left unusable or diminished for days the airports of Berlin, Brussels and London-Heathrow. A wall. The solution that has been proposed is to raise a wall in Europe. One that has no concrete or, in fact, is visible. The European Commissioner for Defense, Andrius Kubilius, opted for lift a wall of drones that protects the entire European Union. The intention is very simple: surround the entire European Union of a drone detection and inhibition system. With him we want Russian devices not attacking European space but that they cannot interfere with the daily activities of citizens. “It’s useless”. Given this idea, O’Leary has signed up for the most absolute disbelief. Of Ursula von der Leyen assured Political that “it is useless and should resign.” To recreate with a “I have no faith in European leaders, sitting there drinking tea and eating cookies.” In his day, O’Leary opted for a British permanence in the European Union but its Shocks with politicians of every sign They have been constant. The CEO of Ryanair is part of those unbelievable businessmen of politics that, in the case of the Irishman, has an invariable constant in time: If it’s bad for the business, it is criticizable. The business. According to O’Leary, the real problem of that European antidron wall is that it would not be worthless: “I don’t think a wall of drones has any effect. Do you think the Russians cannot launch a drone from within Poland?” And I set an example: “If you can’t even protect flights on France, what are the possibility of protecting us against Russia?” This criticism referred to the French strike of aerial controllers that threatens to affect more than 100,000 passengers and 600 flights Ryanair alone. And we could continue with the criticism of the Government of Spain by the Aerial rates and The fine for the collection of hand luggage. And the impact? In economic terms, there is no clear data of how much money it has been lost with Russian incursions in European airspace. What is certain is that the inconveniences of this type of activity are palpable. Only in the last sighting in Germany of drones, 23 flights to Munich have had to be divertedanother 12 have been canceled and there are more than 6,500 affected passengers. It is estimated that during the closure of the Danish and Swedish airports, Other 100 flights They also had to be canceled. And in Brussels more than 140 flights were canceled during the cyber attack of a few weeks ago. Photo | Markus Winkler and State Border Guard Service of Ukraine In Xataka | Ryanair’s paradox in Spain: while drowning small airports, he is adding 100,000 more places

The US studied what would happen if it enters war with China. Now he has started a career desperate to double missiles

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When China raised the curtain of your military parade staged much more than arms power which has. It was a clear and direct message that had its reaction a few days later, when the United States moved its new platform from missiles to Japan. It was then discovered that, if missiles, there are 3,500 pointing In the same direction. Since then, the United States has started a desperate race: to double its own missile manufacturing for what may happen. The strategic awakening. I told it in an exclusive The Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon has turned on all alarms in the face of the evidence that its missile arsenals would not reach to sustain a prolonged conflict With China. Russian Ukraine invasion and mass consumption of interceptors In Europe the fragility of the American industrial base had already made clear. However, He counted the medium What was the twelve between Israel and Iran, in which Washington launched Hundreds of high -end missiles to support their ally, which finished emptying the deposits and precipitated a shock plan. The message that circulates in the pentagon’s offices is clear: the current arsenal is not enough to defend Taiwan or the allied bases in the Pacific if a direct confrontation with Beijing explodes. The new creation. To face that reality, the Department of Defense has created an extraordinary body, the Munits Acceleration Councilpersonally directed by Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, who calls the main executives of the industry every week to demand immediate increases. The strategy seeks to duplicate, and even quadruplethe production of the twelve missiles considered critical: from the Patriot interceptorsto him Standard Missile-6the Long Range Anti-Ship Missilesthe Precision Strike and the Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missiles. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Dan Caine, They have presided Meetings with giants such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon or Boeing, but also with new actors such as Anduril Industries and with key component suppliers, from solid propellants to batteries. The destroyer of guided missiles USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) of the United States Navy launches an RIM-174 Standard Eram (Standard Missile-6, SM-6) The industrial bottleneck. The challenge is monumental. The complete manufacture of a missile can take up to two years. The production lines have cooled after decades of divestment, secondary suppliers have disappeared and critical pieces such as Boeing front search engines have become true bottlenecks. Expanding shifts, add square meters and form specialized personnel require billions of investment and firm purchase commitments. As Experts remembercompanies do not produce without contract: they need guarantees that the pentagon will not withdraw financing in the middle of the effort. Even so, some suppliers have taken steps in advance. Northrop Grumman, for example, has invested More than 1 billion in expanding its rocket engines capacity, with the expectation of doubling production in four years. Patriot Priority: Patriot. The most urgent case is the Patriot PAC-3whose global demand has shot himself. In September, the army gave Lockheed a contract of almost 10,000 million of dollars to manufacture 2,000 missiles in three years, but the objective of the pentagon is to reach that same figure Every twelve monthswhich means quadruple the current rhythm. To do this, Boeing has been seen forced to expand Thousands of square meters of its plant to assemble more search engines, while Lockheed studies new investments in assembly lines. The spokesmen insist that they can deliver above their declared capacity, but all claim more money and multiannual commitments that give stability to the productive jump. Precision Strike Missile New acquisition model. The pressure is such that The army announces “Massively substantive changes” in the way of buying weapons. Formulas such as licenseing technologies to third parties are explored, attract private capital or guarantee registration programs to give demand visibility to the entire supply chain. Trump administration already It allocated 25,000 million extra in five years through Big, Beautiful Billbut analysts agree that it will be necessary to multiply For several orders that figure to meet the objectives. The effort, in addition, is part of a greater debate: how to maintain an industrial base capable of sustaining high intensity wars in a world where arsenals are consumed in weeks. Background: China. The ultimate reason for this acceleration is the perspective of a War in the Pacific. A confrontation By Taiwan I would demand simultaneously American and Allied Bases, guarantee maritime runners and face a Chinese Navy increasingly equipped with hypersonic missiles and drons swarms. American superiority will depend not only on the quality of its systems, but on their ability to replace them quickly in case of prolonged conflict. Pentagon fears Discover too late that does not have the necessary volume to hold the pulse. Hence the race against clock to turn the industry into a large -scale war arsenal. The risk of the gap. The acceleration effort reveals the structural contradiction of the West: weapons every time more sophisticated and faces which are consumed at an industrial rate, in front of adversaries willing to flood the battlefield with solutions of low cost and mass production. In that sense, Ukraine’s lesson seems clear: millions of millions of dollars They can be exhausted In a matter of months, and rebuild reserves it has been. If the United States wants to maintain its deterrence against China, it must demonstrate that it can sustain not only technological innovation, but also the mass production on which the survival of its network of alliances depends. Image | Lockheed Martin, Mapn, Us Navy In Xataka | Satellite images have revealed that China has turned its oriental coast into a war zone: 3,500 missiles point to Taiwan In Xataka | After the demonstration of China’s force, the US moves a card sending its new missile platform to Japan

All to train his AI

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The Chinese company Anker, owner of the EUFY security camera brand, launched an initiative for 2024 collect robber videos of packages and cars with which to train their artificial intelligence systems. The proposal was simple: 2 dollars for each useful video. The campaign, which worked between December 2024 and February 2025, achieved more than 120 participants, according to Public comments On the program page. What Euphy asked. The company requested both real and staging videos of theft situations. On its website, Anker explained that they were looking for material that helped train their AI to better detect parcel thieves and people trying to open cars doors. They even encouraged users to simulate the situation themselves: “You can create situations pretending to be a thief and donate those videos,” the company explained. If a user managed to record a simulated theft with two cameras simultaneously and added another car opening scene, he could earn up to 80 dollars. The goal after the initiative. Eufy wanted to gather 20,000 videos of each type of robbery (packages and cars), adding more than 40,000 clips in total. Interested users only had to fill in a Google form where their videos uploaded and added their PayPal account to receive payment. The company assured that the data would be used exclusively to train their AI algorithms and for any other purpose. Why generates debate. This strategy raises questions about privacy and security, although in this specific case it is more transparent than The usual practices of the sector. Unlike many companies that collect data without explicit consent or that They track the Internet To feed his models, Eufy made it clear what he asked, what he wanted and how much he would pay. The program was voluntary and the participants knew exactly what they accessed. It is also true that Eufy’s history does not play in his favor. And is that in 2023, The Verge He revealed that the transmissions of his cameras, advertised as end -to -end encryption, were not when it was accessed through their web portal. Anker then admitted having cheated users and promised to solve him. Rewards for training their AI. Currently, EuFy actively keeps a video donation program within its application with a different rewards system. Users They can win digital medalscameras or gift cards in exchange for videos that help improve AI. The app even shows a ranking with the users who have donated the most. The first of the ranking has contributed more than 201,000 clips. For this program, EuFy only requests videos with people and reiterates that the material will not be shared with third parties. He has also requested videos recorded with his vigilabés, although in this case no economic reward is mentioned. Until security fails. Today there are many companies that are willing to reward their users as currency to obtain data that allow training their language models. However, although the company explicitly explains everything it needs and there is total transparency, the systems can fail. A recent example is Neon, a call app that offered money in exchange for recordings and transcripts, and that He had to close After discovering a security failure that exposed the data of all its users. Cover image | Alan J. Hendry In Xataka | Nvidia has control of the most powerful chips of AI: OpenAi, Broadcom and TSMC want to end their XPUS

They come out at a very good price and with insured gift

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We are starting the month of October, but it is impossible to lose sight of the end of last month that Huawei made a new batch of products. As usual, the company has renewed several lines with new devices that have a lot to say. In short, we have two new watches, a tablet and headphones. The good news? All these devices already have an offer in the brand’s official store. The Huawei Watch GT6 come with one of the best autonomies that are Let’s start with the two new watches presented by the Chinese manufacturer. These two belong to their “GT” series, watches that are aimed at monitoring physical activity and health. These two models, the Huawei Watch GT 6 and Huawei Watch Gt 6 Pro, They are similar to each other in almost all their characteristicsalthough there are differences in certain characteristics that are worth pointing. Although both several interesting attributes have, let’s start with the main course: autonomy. As Huawei explains, both the GT 6 model and its pro variant are capable of offering up to 21 days of autonomyincredible figures. This figure is much higher than that offered by other smart watches such as Apple Watch Ultra 2among others. Beyond autonomy, it is also worth noting that they come with An ultra -precise GPS. If we plan to go on a route with the bike or run through remote sites, we can come great to know our position to the millimeter. In this way, we can also plan the routes and go safer, at the same time controlling our progress. GPS does not imply that it is only designed to practice outdoor sports. In fact, it comes with 100 different sports modes, so it is very easy to find what we need every time. It also has A very advanced fall detection system (Able to issue a SOS alert) and detect parameters that we do not usually see in other watches, such as the emotional state. Everything we have commented so far is common for the two new Huawei watches, so now it is time to talk about the differences of the pro model. These focus on the materials of the sphere, Since the Watch GT 6 pro bets on titanium. We can also get a titanium strap for this model, which is exclusive to it. Let’s talk about the launch offer. The first thing we have to keep in mind is that we can use the code in our purchase A60xatakathanks to which we will have a direct discount of 60 euros. The Watch GT6, in its 46 mm version, is available by 249 euros And it comes with the Huawei Scale 3 Scale. Not only that: we will also take a gift strap with exclusive colors of the brand store. Huawei Watch GT 6 (46 mm) The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links If we prefer the pro model, it goes out for 379 euros for versions that have a black fluorolastometer and brown belt compound material. In addition to these two, we have, as we have said above, the one that comes with a titanium belt that comes out of 499 euros. Although Eye: This titanium version includes an extra bucoroelastometer black strap and the Huawei Scale 3 gift (the pack is valued at 88 euros). For any of them, we can continue using the code A60xataka. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links We have new headphones and an ideal tablet to work We put aside the clocks to focus now on the rest of the new Huawei devices. The first of these devices is the new 12 X Matepad, a 12 -inch tablet that is ideal for working or helping us at the university. Its screen, in fact, uses the company’s Papermatte technology and offers Resolution 2.8 K and 144 Hz. Another interesting point of the same is that it comes with the M-Pencil Pro, an ideal pencil to take notes or draw. It has 3 different tips, which allows a very versatile tool to have. At the performance level, it also offers an important leap with respect to the previous model, as well as A 10,100 mA batteryh with sufficient autonomy to offer 14 hours of video. It is available by 649 euros. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Finally, we have the new Freebuds 7i of Huawei. These new headphones, which have a very design in the line of what the Chinese manufacturer is doing, offer A new and improved active cancellation of dynamic noise. This, in addition to activating very fast, is also able to offer a quite high depth of silence. At the design level, they also have a very comfortable gesture control system. Its autonomy is able to offer up to 35 hours without the active cancellation of activated noise. What were we running out of battery? No problem, since it is able to give up to 4 hours of listening with a minimum load of 10 minutes. We have them available for 99 eurosalthough we can reduce its price 10 euros with the coupon A10FB7ies. The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Huawei In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

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