Spain has declared the Airbnb war. So hotels have uploaded prices

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Last week the Ministry of Consumer claimed Airbnb that Block about 66,000 “illegal” ads of tourist apartments spread throughout Spain. The fight against Break of Tourist Floors In our country it continues to give many headaches, but blocking those ads points to a direct consequence already known and feared by tourists. New York is more exclusive. The city that never sleeps He planted face to short -term rentals offered by Airbnb, VRBO or Booking. The goal was to alleviate the abuses and exorbitant prices with which the New Yorkers dealt every time they had to look for residence. Eighteen months later the conclusions of the measures were worrisome and universal: the prices of the floors that were maintained in that catalog of services rose, and what people did when looking for rentals to live (not holidays) was New Jersey end. And the lesson of Barcelona. The city is the only one that has limited tourist floors since 2014. This would allow many of them to return to the traditional rental market and thus the average rental price would fall. As indicated in In the countrya PWC report demolishes those two myths after analyzing what has happened since 2014 to 2023 in that city: The accumulated growth of traditional rentals has been 2.2%, totally insufficient. Much of the homes that were rented via Airbnb have not returned “to the traditional market The rental price has fired 72% in that period More expensive hotels. And those who have benefited from the situation have been hotels. In 2024, the average price per room and night It was 187.8 euros In Barcelona, ​​8% more than in 2023 and 30% more than in 2019. Barcelona is already the third most expensive destination in its hotel offer in Spain only behind Marbella and the Balearic Islands, according to a study by Cushman & Wakefield’s consultant. 12,000 empty homes. The Apartur Association of Tourist Apartments in Barcelona indicates that there are 12,000 empty homes that do not go on the residential rental market. They do not according to them for two reasons: the price limitation, which reduces profitability, and the High Okupation. The solution would be to offer both legal certainty and tax incentives for owners. Otherwise, those responsible for the association say, the situation will continue to be equally problem or more. Madrid points to the same (worrying) destination. The housing problem goes beyond tourist floorsand although the intention of the Ministry of Consumer is good, it is not likely that these more than 65,000 homes will pass to the residential market to relieve the situation. A report From ESADEECPOL reveals how homemade prefer seasonal rentals (between 1 and 12 months) because it does not force signing five -year contracts or limiting prices as in some areas (Caraluña, the Basque CountryNavarra and Asturias). The other consequence: empty houses. Adolfo Meras is the president of Madrid, an association that represents 5,000 homemade housing housing. According to him, “there are many homemade who They leave their empty houses due to the lack of guarantees and because they are not willing to do without their homes during the five years that the Law of Urban Leases marks. “They prefer to have their empty houses to be able to dispose of them occasionally and if they need it, to rent them with the conditions imposed by the law currently. My apartment like bonus. The Mabrian firm has conducted a tourist offer monitoring study, and according to data cited in the country, the photo of the tourist rental is different from the one that We imagined. Tourist floors are not controlled by large funds: large holders (more than 11 homes) represent 2% of total hosts. Individuals (a home), 74.1% and small holders (two to 10), 23.9%. Three out of four hosts, therefore, “use their properties as a route to obtain additional income, while extending the ability to accommodate tourist accommodation in the destinations,” emphasizes Carlos Cendra, partner of Mabrian. Tourism punishment. The limits that have been imposed on Airbnb in the past in cities such as Barcelona or New York, and that gradually leave extending to other citiesthey are not relieving the housing problem because those tourist floors They do not become residential rentals. The direct consequence is the rise in prices in the existing tourist offer, both in Airbnb or Booking and in hotels, something that ends up being a problem for tourism. It can reduce it, which will placate the anger of those who criticize mass tourism, but it does not seem to be causing these cities to solve their housing problem. Image | Jorge Fernández Salas In Xataka | After expanding throughout the planet, touristification has reached Antarctica. And it is already taking its toll

Mercadona has fired its benefits but has also closed stores for the first time in years. The reason: the “stores 8”

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For the first time in decades, Mercadona reduced its physical network while firing benefits 37% to 1,384 million euros. No other Spanish chain approaches that figure. The paradox has a name: “Stores 8”, a format that can double profitability but forces to close establishments incompatible with it. What is happening. The chain went from 1,681 stores in 2023 to 1,674 in 2024, closing 49 establishments compared to 42 openings. It is not crisis: it is strategy. “8” stores “need spaces of 1,500 square meters to be efficient, impossible in much smaller stores, why they will work decades ago. “We are a assembly chain and the less variability it has, the better it works,” said Juan Roig in the presentation of 2024 results, according to Valencia Plaza. A well -located store 8 absorbs customers from several nearby small stores, concentrating traffic at more profitable points. It is a calculated cannibalization. In figures: 1,431 stores already function as store 8 (85.5% of the total). 10,000 million invested in 7 years of transformation. 3.88% record marginup to foreign chains such as Walmart (2.88%) or Costco (2.95%). 419 million allocated in 2024 only to adapt stores to the new model. The context. “8” stores “are diaphanous spaces with large corridors, advanced technology and new sections such as” ready to eat. ” They reduce energy consumption by 40% and improve purchase experience, but demand specific locations with good accesses and parking. Roig admits to make “frequently unpopular decisions” closing stores due to “small size, access problems or lack of profitability.” The model prioritizes operational uniformity over territorial capillarity: better few perfect stores than many mediocre. Yes, but. Nor are they “perfect stores.” Roig himself says it And his own name says: they are called that because “to get to 10 they must still incorporate new elements and services demanded by customers.” Deepen. Mercadona is changing its commercial map by store. The objective is to complete the 100% transformation in 2026, sacrificing less efficient establishments to concentrate investment in Premium locations. Operational perfection has become its competitive advantage, even if that means leaving some neighborhoods without a merchant as hand as before. Outstanding image | Mercadona In Xataka | Juan Roig believes that cooking at home has no future. There are eight million Spaniards who are already giving the right

Against forecast, Mayan languages ​​are seeing a resurgence. The most surprising is where: USA

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Destiny sometimes has the most unexpected surprises. The arrival of Donald Trump to the United States presidency has put in Diana to immigration as one of the problems Washington administration priorities. At the same time, in a turn of events very difficult to anticipate, Mayan languages ​​are making their way and extending … in the United States. From the highlands to Oakland. I told it in an extensive BBC report last week. Aroldo, a young man from San Juan AtitánGuatemala, undertook a trip of more than four months to arrive in California after the death of his father, carrying little more than his mother tongue: THE MAM. This language, with roots in the Mayan civilization that flourished thousands of years ago, is today one of the many that are finding A new home in the United States through indigenous migration from Mexico and Central America. Yes, far from disappearing, Mayan languages ​​such as Mam and K’iche ‘ They have gained strength On the other side of the border: not only are they heard in streets, Radios and local media of places like San Francisco Baybut they have become some of the languages more common in court United States migratories. Invisibilized community. The story has many readings. One of them: the rise of these languages ​​shows a cultural complexity that has been ignored for decades. The American immigration system Classify as “Hispanics” To all immigrants from Spanish -speaking countries, overlooking that many (such as Aroldo and thousands more) They do not have Spanish as a mother tongue, and even some simply They don’t speak it. This classification erases the social, cultural and linguistic differences that exist within Latin American migrant communities and, very important, complicates the provision of basic services. In this regard, The BBC counted that researchers such as Tessa Scott linguistspecialized in Mam language at the University of California, Berkeley, denounce that grouping all Guatemalans under the label of “Hispanics” generates errors of interpretation, lack of adequate performers, legal difficulties and rising before traumas or structural discrimination, often origin of the exodus itself. Of ancestral languages ​​to today’s rights. There is much more, since the expansion of Mayan languages ​​is not only a consequence of physical displacement, but also cultural resilience. At present, it is estimated that more than six million people speak one of the More than thirty languages existing Maya, with mam, k’iche ‘, Yucateco and q’eqchi’ as the most spoken. These languages, which come of the proto-demand spoken before the year 2000 AC, they are so different from each other that a Mam speaker cannot understand THE K’ICHE ‘and vice versa. Many survived centuries of colonizationto extermination of the hieroglyphs during the Spanish evangelization and to subsequent institutional oblivion. However, its vitality (and use) continues thanks to the orality and use of the Latin alphabet, imposed in colonial times, which allowed them to keep them alive in civil records, testaments and community acts still preserved in files. Mayan codices The Mayan heritage. The British media counted in his report that some of these languages They have left their mark In global languages ​​without many knowing it. He term “cigar”for example, derives from the Maya Siyar, and “cocoa” (chocolate base) also has Mayan origin, being introduced In Europe By Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. Although the hieroglyphic writing was eradicated by being considered pagan, its modern rediscovery, driven from the second half of the twentieth century by American linguists, Russians and more recently by native speakers, has allowed recover your complexity and beauty. Today, groups Like ch’okwoj either Chíikulal uuchben ts’íib They organize workshops, manufacture t -shirts and print cups with old glyphs to bring new generations to their written legacy. A growing diaspora. It is another of the legs that reflect this Language expansion. Mayan migration to the United States has left a mark both in countries of origin and in receiving communities. In places Like San Juan Atitánthe economic model has gone from subsistence agriculture to remittance dependence (sending money from abroad). “Migrating is what our people argue,” affirmed to the BBC Silvia Lucrecia Carrillo Godínez, Mam teacher. Migration has not only transformed its economy, but also its aspirations: learn to add, subtract some Spanish and leave for the United States has become A common strategy of social mobility. Transforming cities. In the Bay of San Francisco, the Mayan communities initially They settled in the Mission Districtbut by increasing the costs of life, many moved to the East Bay, especially Oakland and Richmond. In fact, so much so that they said that in San Juan it was enough to say “I come from Oakland” so that the inhabitants understand the migratory context. There, in the midst of Californian fogs, Aroldo and as many as he has found a community united by language and traditions. Participate in festivities, they receive Mam messages by WhatsApp And they dream of once again built a house in their homeland. Language as shelter. If you want also, in a world where migrations often imply loss, the persistence of Mayan languages ​​represents a form of cultural resistance. In it case exposed in the BBC Through Aroldo, the MAM is not just a means of communication: it is a link with childhood, family and history. In the house where he lives with his cousins, he insists that his nephew (who is already going to an English -speaking school) speaks first Mam, then Spanish, and finally English. As He indicates“The language makes the earth less surprise.” Thus, far from being a vestige of the past, the Mam de los Maya travels with him as a compass and testimony of a living civilization that reinvents himself in an unpublished and surprising way: in the United States now. Image | Деяненко юиана лександровна, Pikpick, Dave Cooksey In Xataka | The Maya played football. And now we know that under the courts they buried a hallucinogenic surprise In Xataka | The languages ​​of the world are disappearing faster. We have a suspect: climate change

Wegow’s bankruptcy is the best example

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Revolled times for the live music scene in Spain. A few days ago we talked about how the most important festivals in the country They had to take positions Given the evidence of investments with Israeli interests in almost all of them. And now comes the news that Wegow has announced that it will go into a pre -bankruptcy of creditors, a situation that will only increase the power of the third leg of this bank: the almost monopoly for practical purposes of the Ticketmaster Ticker Panorama. What happened. Last Wednesday, the Wegow Ticker company announced through a statement that entered a “Legal Process of Creditors“. It is not a bankruptcy ad, but the confirmation that the company is going through delicate economic moments. According to Wegow, the problems have been running from the pandemic: in 2020 The company had losses of one million eurosthat increased until they reached 2023, with debts of almost five million and one turnover more than four times less than the previous year. The immediate impact. Virtually simultaneously to Wegow’s announcement, several groups jumped to networks to comment on their position in this aspect. With this preocconduct of creditors, Wegow has momentarily blocked the money of the tickets sold for the next concerts managed by its platform. For example, Bombai was celebrating Its tenth anniversary tour And they claim to have lost 80% of its income, but they will continue even if they not charge them, and will pass to another ticket for the rest of the concerts. Clear accounts. Another band, twenty -one, revealed its Problems with “a ticket” Before Wegow made the situation public and also claimed that they would continue with the scheduled concerts. Other affected bands are Gorilla Flo, Aiko, fashion or animals. According to Manuel López, lawyer Consulted by ABC“The ticketera does not own that money (of the entrances) And they could not use it in their circulating, it has to have it sectioned by the concert, to return it to its customers (…) but if that money has used it to pay payrolls and arrive at the end of the month, there will be a problem there. “According to media such as Muzikalia, the affected groups could be”hundreds“ A controversial ticket. Wegow’s problems with promoters and artists go back back in time, and add to accusations of lack of transparency and poor management (the company had accumulating operational losses For six years). These accusations They are dating these days In the mouth of those affected, along with the doubts that the Wegow attitude raises Do not suspend, despite the ad, ticket sales They were already underway. Apart from that, his image had been questioning a year after one of his founders was involved in a Episode of harassment to an author In Madrid. Ticket concentration. The sector of the sale and distribution of tickets in Spain presents a concentrated structure: large operators such as Ticketmaster, El Corte Inglés or Tickets.com share the market with a variety of local agents and minor platforms. The trend, however, is at concentration: for example, Serviticket was acquired by Ticketmasterand over time, the joint market share of the main actors can reach between 30% and 40% in volume. All this happens in the context of a business that does not stop growing: in 2024, live music in Spain reached a historical turnover of 725.6 million euros, a growth of 25.32% compared to the previous year. What tickets are left? The large events market is practically covered by the aforementioned, which are continuously involved in doubts about their business practices (entrances.com is low Under administrative investigation for little transparent policies in the application of surcharges, and the practices of Ticketmaster With the variable price of tickets Chained a controversy after another). But companies such as Oratrex, Says either Enterthat fight to get a small portion of the most appetizing cake of the directs in Spain. Header | Photo of Paul Chambers in Unspash. In Xataka | If you have an entrance for Bad Bunny, you have a treasure: the megaconciertes are already devouring themselves

Tired of accidents with wild animals, Galicia has had an idea that already proves on its roads: Flasehar Jabalíes

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The data is not too updated by the DGT but the last counts leave no doubt: animals are a danger on secondary roads. According to traffic datain 2022, 35,661 accidents were counted with animals involved in them. In them, 505 people suffered wounds of diverse gravity and two people died. The problem is especially serious in some autonomous communities such as Castilla y León, where wild animals They often cross the road and put themselves at the driving of the vehicles. According to data from the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memoryanimals are involved in 61% of accidents produced on roads in this region. Nor Galicia is left behind. If Castilla y León is the region most affected by this problem and represents 27% of accidents with animals that occur throughout the country, Galicia occupies the second positioncovering 17% of accidents of this type. To try to minimize this problem, the Xunta de Galicia has launched a system to try to prevent animals from crossing the road. The system has been launched on a Lugo road. Attention, loose wild boar In its official statement, the Xunta de Galicia is clear about what animal is one of the main causes: the wild boar. It was expected not to be a kangaroo, as has been seen recently crossing an Oia road. In recent years, Galicia coexists with a problem of wild wild boars. According to figures collected by The voice of GaliciaThis animal caused a total of 4.6 million euros in material damage in 2024. This figure takes into account the total expenditure that the region had to disburse both compensation and prevention. In this last game you can frame the system that is already being tested in “the LU -540 road (Viveiro – Cabreiros)between kilometric points 37+340 and 39+520, a stretch close to the intersection with the AG-64 “, explain from the regional government. The tested system lifts a virtual fence on the road when cars pass through it. That is, when the system detects that a vehicle is active active light alerts with flash and sound alerts oriented to the outside of the road. Thus, it is about deter the animal from crossing the road at that time and redirecting it away from the road. Using movement sensors, the system is activated by sections and is off if there are no cars in motion. When a vehicle passes, it activates the system as it advances the road. From the Xunta they also point out that the system is autonomous of the general network since it uses solar panels and batteries to stay active both day and night. This is only one of the interventions that, according to the Xunta, have been carrying out in recent years to reduce road accidents caused by the appearance of wild animals. They point out that they have worked reflective prisms and wolf synthetic urine on other roads to scare away wild species. In addition, in recent years it has been insisted on the importance of ecoducts or creating a “Green Bridge Network”. These uplinks are designed so that animals can cross large roads without leaving a natural environment. On the A-8 road as it passes through Kobaron and Montaño, close to Bilbao, There are already two approved. Photo | Nagy Szabi and Max Saeling In Xataka | What does the Animal Welfare Law say about how to take your pet in the car: obligations and fines

The more you know about the blackout in Spain, the less guilty the lack of inertia seems to be renewable

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The historic blackout that paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 It continues to generate questions waiting for an official report. The narrative that pointed at a low inertia of the system due to the high penetration of renewable energies as guilty of collapse has begun to make waters. The data suggest a concatenation of more complex failures, where inertia, although it played a significant role in its final phase, does not seem to be the trigger for the energy zero. Context. Until now, experts They placed in the center of the debate The inertia of the electrical system, the capacity of the large rotary machines of the traditional plants to resist sudden frequency changes. The inertia in the European interconnected system is provided by large turbines and synchronous generators that rotate at a speed of 50 cycles per second to maintain the frequency of 50 Hz. High penetration of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic or wind solar, which are coupled to the network by power electronicsthey do not contribute this inertia inherently, which from the beginning was indicated as the root of the problem. Inertia was correct. However, Vice President Third Sara Aagesen said in the Senate that, in the moments before the blackout, the peninsular electrical system had a level of inertia “according to the recommendations”, according to the data that Red Electrico shared with the government. In statements collected by Europa PressAagesen specified that this level was 2.3 seconds, exceeding the target of two seconds established by the Entso-E European Operators network. Joan Groizard, Secretary of State for Energy, reinforced this idea pointing out that “many European systems frequently operate with inertia lower than those that had the peninsular electrical system in the moments prior to zero of 28th.” These official statements deflate, in part, the theory that a critical lack of inertia was the root cause of the incident. A sequence of anomalous events. The investigations point to a series of disturbances that preceded the blackout. Both Aagesen and Groizard talk about the detection of oscillations in the European electrical system hours before the failure. A first “anomalous” oscillation of 0.6 Hz was recorded at 12:03, whose origin, detected in Spain, France and even Germany“It is still known,” according to the minister. A second “usual” oscillation of 0.2 Hz was perceived at 12:19, even in areas as far as Latvia, Groizard said. Next, the three generation loss events occurred: in just over twenty seconds 2.2 gigawatts were disconnected in the provinces of Granada, Badajoz and Sevilla, between 12:32:57 and 12:33:17. These events coincided with a “situation of overwhelming in the peninsular electrical system, whose cause and consequence are still to be specified.” A problem of surge. Groizard speaks of voltage peaks as the root of the blackout, clarifying that “the main shooting factor is associated with over -overdraft.” But the government has not been the first to divert the focus of inertia. Luis Badesa, professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, pointed in a previous analysis That “two failures are almost very unlikely and point to a common event”, raising as suspicious the “surge in 400 kV lines of the southwest, perhaps linked to the previous oscillations.” The non -return point came, according to Badesa, at 12:33:20, when “Iberia loses connection with France and becomes an electric island; immediately, the centrals are massively disconnected.” Then, with the electrically isolated Iberian Peninsula, it is when synchronism is lost with the European continent. At that moment, with 59% of electricity from solar and 11% wind, inertia is insufficient. Then, the lack of inertia did not help. It is at this time, with the disconnected peninsula, when the inertia of the system becomes crucial. According to Badesa: “With little inertia, the frequency began to go down and to change very quickly.” This rapid frequency variation would have caused the shot of the protection relays of numerous centrals, “finishing off the blackout.” The lack of inertia “aggravated the final problem because he made the Rocof jump, but the origin was in several almost simultaneous generation cuts” previously, Badesa explained, stressing that “no operator designs his network to support three groups out of the service when he is isolated.” In other words, “the low renewable inertia did not cause the initial ruling, but it yesterday accelerated the collapse once Iberia remained alone.” Waiting for the official report. The available information suggests that the April 28 blackout was not a direct consequence of the low inertia due to renewable penetration, but the result of a complex chain of anomalous oscillations in the European network, followed by multiple almost simultaneous generation losses, possibly linked to overcoming. The preliminary conclusion is that the stability of a network with increasing weight of renewables does not depend only on inertia, but on the general robustness of the system in the face of multiple contingencies, such as interarene oscillations. For the definitive conclusions, we will have to wait for the official report, the Government hopes to have “in less than three months.” Image | Diego Delso (CC By-sa 4.0) In Xataka | After the blackout, the government defended the nuclear closure because “in Spain there is no uranium.” Reality is more complicated

Apple and its apparent indifference to the AI ​​revolution reminds us of one thing: the Blackberry fall

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Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, and everyone is turning not to lose that train. Well, everyone doesn’t. Apple seems not to be especially interested in AI nor is it overlapping like the rest of its rivals. The question is whether that can be your definitive conviction. Wwdc sin (barely) ia. Last week the Microsoft Build and Google I/O conferences were held. In both the focus for AI was absolute. On June 9 Apple will celebrate its WWDC, and All rumors They point out that there will be hardly any news in Apple’s proposals. Instead, the company is expected to talk about the redesign of its operating systems, a project with a “Solarium” code name. Apple keeps losing trains. Apple’s apparent indifference attitude with the field of artificial intelligence is undoubtedly surprising. It is one of the most important technological companies in the world, but still does not react as one would expect from it and Keep losing trains. While the competition reacted quickly developing its own models or reaching agreements and investments with startups such as OpenAi, Apple still did not pay special attention, at least for the gallery. And what he has is disappointing. The company already dedicates thousands of millions of dollars to catch up, but when he finally presented his platform Apple Intelligence The result turned out to be disappointing. Very limited and strenuously slowly In its deployment, caution It is starting to take its toll. Not economically, but reputationally. It is not that this disappointment is pending among external analysts: it is that Even their own employees believe that Apple is behind In ia. The disaster Siri. We have seen it especially with Siri, a voice assistant who was supposed to win many integers thanks to AI but still in the development phase. The promises they made last year have not been fulfilled, and recognized analysts such as John Gruber described the conceptual videos that Apple used as “shit.” Siri’s delay, already confirmed by Appleis the definitive proof that the company is in a worrying situation in this segment. Source: Sherwood News. Remembering Blackberry. When we talk about the reputational crisis From Apple we already made an increasingly striking analogy: that of Blackberry. The company, which dominated the world of mobility with Nokia in the first decade of the 2000s, did not react to the announcement of the iPhone. He was surprisingly indifferent, and the curious thing is that the impact of the iPhone took to notice. In fact, Blackberry sales continued to grow and reached its peak in 2011. From that moment on, fallen into dive. Today the company is a shadow of what it was. Apple annual income. Has the company touched roof? Source: Backlinko. Apple is doing very well (for now). On paper things are going very well for Apple. The company has not seemed to notice the impact of the arrival of Chatgpt, and global sales continue to go up. There is signs of concern, because its star product, the iPhone, It seems to have touched roof. Now in fact the growth is much more modest (2% in 2024) and its Silent transformationalthough effective, seems to confirm that Apple is unable to innovate. Even they have made it clear that They no longer look for the next iPhone. The disruptions, it seems, are overvalued. Apple lives in the past. But as they point out In BloombergApple is living in a “legacy” world, depending on products and services that work it, but do not seem to look at the future. The agreement between Jony Ive and Sam Altman to develop an AI hardware product is another sign that may worry: the company that previously excited and which we expected a disruption was Apple. Now we see others like OpenAi or Google. An increasingly criticized tim cook. That apparent inability to react is making Tim Cook’s succession seem to press. In The Wall Street Journal summary The situation of the Apple CEO, to which the problems accumulate and that continues to focus its strategy on the inertia of the iPhone. But that inertia is not eternal: Eddy Cue, senior executive of the company, testified in the US judicial case against Apple this month and said something unique: “You may not need an iPhone within 10 years, although it sounds like madness.” An opportunity. Apple has been presuming for its commitment to privacy for years, and that was precisely the clear Apple Intelligence approach when they presented it. His promise was that of a more private AI, which we could also execute partially – without need of the cloud – and that would still be as capable as the rest. At the moment, Apple Intelligence benefits are far from competitors, but if Apple manages to catch up at the capacity of their AI and also manage to maintain their privacy promise will have something that competitors in effect do not have. Or two. But we are talking about Apple, a famous company to be late for the revolutions and then win. It should not be ruled out of course in the AI ​​segment, but there may also be new options in the field of hardware. That’s where The connected glasses They can be another accessory Very interesting For a firm that is expected to reinforce its “iPhone ecosystem” with this wearable, and the latest data They point to it. In Xataka | The succession of Tim Cook (I): This is the legacy that Apple’s CEO will leave

On May 27, Goal begins to use your personal data to train its AI: So you can avoid it

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The moment has arrived, from tomorrow, May 27, 2025 Goal will start using your personal data to train your AI. You will use almost everything you have on Facebook and Instagram, and we are going to tell you how to prevent it from doing it before it’s too late. This is something that they already knew they would do, but maybe you have been waiting until the end before taking measures to avoid it. Therefore, we will begin by telling you what personal data will use exactly, and then we will tell you the procedure to prevent them from doing so. What data will use a goal to train its AI Goal will use what they consider personal data of users of legitimate interest, an elegant way to say that almost everything is going to use. This will affect those who use their main applications, which are WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. It will be your data in these apps that you use to improve your artificial intelligence system. In essence, You will use everything except private messages. All your photos, your comments, your publications, your stories, your interactions with other users, photo feet. Everything except what you write in Messenger, that at least they have the decency to consider it private. To train a conversational artificial intelligence system such as a goal AI, it is necessary to know how humans, expressions, and also use the photos to identify places and reactions. That’s why, practically everything is considered a legitimate interestall that you publish them. The other exception beyond private messages is that Data from children under 18 will not be used. Come on, if you are a minor or have a younger son or daughter, they are safe, but everything else that you have published no. Goal had already tried this movement without success in Europe, but now it will do it again. It will also do it in a cheat, because The absence of opposition constitutes agreeing. This means that if you don’t say you don’t want to share your data, they will understand that it is because you don’t care and want to do it. A formula to take advantage of the most lazy or less informed users. How to avoid using your data Let’s tell you three fast methods to prevent your data from using. We will tell you one for Instagram, one for Facebook, and a third independent opportunity. You can use the method you want. You just have a few hours to do itbecause if you have not refused, starting tomorrow will assume that you have said yes. If you oppose the dateThere will be no retroactive character. All your data will have already been used, and they will simply stop using the new ones. How to oppose Instagram: As we already told you, To oppose in Instagram You have to click on the options button with the three -striped icon that you have up to the right. Enter Configuration and activitygo down to the section More information and helpand click on Information. Here clicks on Privacy Policyand within the text that appears you press in Oppose you. This will lead you to a questionnaire to indicate your data and the reasons why you do not want them to do it, and you must send it. How to oppose Facebook: You have to enter your account and enter This link. Inside there is a picture where you can click on Right to oppose or you can simply enter directly To this link. Once there, you can fill out the questionnaire indicating why you don’t want your data to be used and send it. You can also go to Configuration and privacythen a Privacy Center already GENERATIVE IN METAwhere below you will have a button of Right to oppose. Use the Citizen8 platform: Another method of the Citizen8 group, which has created this website. In it, you have two links to which An email and its text are generated To ask Facebook or Instagram not to collect your data. You just have to make sure to send it with the email account with which you have the record with them and voila. In Xataka Basics | Artificial Intelligence Guide: Main characteristics of the main models of AI, points for and against, and comparative

The Klarna CEO dismissed 700 employees to replace them with AI. Now he has replaced himself … with an avatar

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In 2022, the European technological giant Klarna (one of the main actors in the world of digital payments), He fired 700 workers To replace them with a chatbot. According to the company, in just one month implementing it, they concluded that the chatbot was able to cover two thirds of the company’s customer service chats. “He is doing the job equivalent to 700 full -time agents,” they said. Now, the company flirts again with AI to replace … to its CEO. I’m not me, it’s an avatar. Klarna has presented Your results report of the first 2025 quarter regardless of its CEO. Or, rather, using a virtual CEO. The video begins with full transparency: “It is me, or rather, my artificial intelligence avatar.” Siemiatkowski is still CEO of Klarna, but the company wanted to show its commitment to the AI ​​replacing it for the presentation of results. Avatar ia. We recommend watching the video since the avatar, Far from being one -style Facebookhe is realistic to not being able. Only the imperfect audio synchronization and the absence of natural flickering can make us suspect that we are not facing a real person. For the rest, it is an avatar that could strain perfectly. A strong bet on AI … The company was clear that customer service services could be provided through the integration of a chatbot. Klarna said at the time of dismissals that “he is on par of human agents in terms of customer satisfaction score”, and that “it is more precise in tasks.” Some service users such as Gergely Oroszcreator of the Newsletter The Pragmatic EngineerThey thought the opposite, pointing out that the chatbot did not do much beyond reciting documents. The most curious? When the chatbot was not able to find an answer, the solution it gave was to speak with a human assistant in case of problems. Klarna is marking the guideline in the practical deployment of AI, and the benefits quickly accumulate. Since 2022, Klarna has rationalized its workforce by approximately 40 %, while increasing the percentage of technological employees of 36 % in 2022 to 52 % in the first quarter of 2025. 96 % of employees use AI daily, which has contributed to a 152 % increase in revenues per employee from the first quarter of 2013 and has put Klarna on the way employee income. AI is reducing costs throughout the company, especially in customer service, where transaction costs have been reduced by 40% since the first quarter of 2013, while maintaining customer satisfaction levels. … in which humans are necessary. In February 2025 Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of the company, He admitted that AI will never be as valuable as human talent. He acknowledged that the bot was faster responding, but that it was limited to “offering fragments of documentation”, without a real understanding of the text. He announced thus through X that they would start working so that the company was the best offering real “people” to talk to. In other words: what They would begin to recover and reactivate the hiring of personnel which was once replaced by a chatbot. They are not alone. Just a few weeks ago, IBM explained that they were in the process of contracting workers, after having fired 8,000 to replace them with the. It is a somewhat more particular case, since IBM automated 94% of human resources related to human resources, With positions that will not cover again. With the savings in costs that this meant, they are reinforcing the hiring in positions related to programming and sales. There are companies guaranteeing that replacements for AI are a correct decisionothers that end up reculating and evidencing on LinkedIn that it was not a good ideaand managers fearing that be replaced in the short term. Image | Klarna In Xataka | At the moment, AI is not removing work for people. Its development is leaving a reguero of dismissals

How to manually update Android Auto so as not to have to wait to have your latest version

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Let’s explain How to manually update Android Auto On your mobile not to wait to have your latest version. Thus, if when you look at your Android Auto Ves that you go several versions below the last launched, you will have a way to solve it. In Basics we are always telling you the novelties of each new version, but what happens is that then these versions take a long time to arrive, and the mobiles usually go several below. This is normal, but there is a fairly manual way to solve it. Manually update Android Auto To manually install Android Auto, you have to resort to file download Android APK. These files are those that allow you to install applications manually without resorting to the official Google application store, although it has risks in the case of downloading them from unknown pages, because they are often used to install malware. To be able to do this, you have to configure your mobile for allow you to install unknown sources files. This is deactivated by default to avoid malware installation by APK, but in the settings or even when you are going to install it you will have to change the configuration to accept them. There are several pages where you can download these files with the latest version of this operating system, being the most reliable APK Mirror. Specifically, you can enter Android Auto in Apkmirror and lower the latest version available. On this website you will have to choose between the ARM and ARM64 architectures, although if your mobile is currently almost certain that you need is the ARM64. Once the file is downloaded, you have to Install the APK on your Android manually and restart. In Xataka Basics | Delete cache on Android Auto: how is it done and what exactly this trick is for solving problems

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