The price of beef has shot. And that threatens to turn hamburgers into the new seafood

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“A sirloin or hamburger will become luxury products, retail and restaurants “. The phrase It is from Alejandro Hermo, CEO of Goiko, and gives a clear idea of ​​how the restoration has attended for months to the Encrying of beef in Spain. The deep mismatch between supply and demand has made the price of the genre rise. Quite. And in a short time. They show them CPI data and confirm it in the sector itself, where some manager assures that since January 2024 the cost of meat has shot more than 65%. “We are in a perfect storm,” warns. What happened? That beef has become considerably increasing over the last months. The sector warns it and it is confirmed The INE, The OCU or the Ministry of Agriculture, which in its Sector reportsupdated every week, it brings a clear photo of the prices with which the wholesalers operate. According to His last balancelast week the year (young veal) was paid in Spain at € 686/100 kg, 1.3% more than seven days before and 28.3% more than a year ago. And it is not an isolated case. In the case of cows with the denomination of origin, the price increase with respect to 2024 is 28.4%, of 23% if we talk about girlfriends and 24.4% in the case of the ZR category of eight to twelve months. Is there more data? Yes. In February the IPC of beef recorded an interannual rise higher than 10%considerably above the general data or that of food as a whole, which It did not reach 2%. From the sector they are even more categorical. A few days ago Alejandro Hermo published An analysis On that same issue in LinkedIn in which he ensures that over “the last months” the costs have shot 30%, and “almost (have) duplicated in just over two years.” “Inflation in beef has not stopped and has even gone worse,” It coincided In mid -March Jorge Castelló, director of Carpisa Foods, in an interview with Electomista. “Since January 2024, today the meat has increased its price between 65 and 70%. And in what we have been taking 25%. We have a galloping inflation.” There is who warns that the situation will get worse when the prices paid by wholesalers in March are transferred to the super. And what is the reason? As usually happens in these cases, the trend is not explained by a single factor, but by The sum of several. Hermo points a few, but the main one is the mismatch between supply and demand. The first, Explainit is “very limited” after the sacrifice of cattle several years ago for the rise in costs and the low price of milk, while the second is marked by a increase in consumption in homes and demand from abroad. How to solve it? The problem is that adjusting the supply and demand to correct the imbalances in the market will not be a simple task. Not fast. “Raising cows has a cycle of two to four years”, remember. Of backdrop is the effect of drought on the farms and the blow that the Blue tongue and the Epizotic hemorrhagic disease (EHE). Its shadow is felt double both for its impact in Spain and by the one suffered in the European livestock cabin, which complicates to bring cattle on the other side of the Pyrenees. Have we lost win? “The origin is in the shortage of supply. There are no animals available because the field is empty and this situation will take long to recover,” Castelló warned When asked for the reasons for inflation. “The sacrificed animals have not been replaced and many resources would have to be invested to repopulate the field for high prices. To this shortage, in addition, an increasingly high demand is added in the beef market.” The Eurostat cattle census, collected by The countrygives an idea of ​​to what extent the Spanish cabin and other neighboring countries have been reduced. Between 2022 and 2024, years marked by the health crisis, the drought, the increase in the feed and the shortage of pastures, Spain went from 6.45 million heads of cattle to 6.17 million, 4.4% less. In France, with a much higher census, the fall was 3.3%, in Germany of 4.9%, in Ireland of 3.7%and in Poland 4%. What can we expect? Hermo remember That “less and fewer people want to devote to livestock”, a trend that relates to the hardness of the sector, but also with “administrative obstacles” imposed by administrations. The result, he warns, is that the restoration faces a “perfect storm” that will force him to raise his prices “pure survival.” “A sirloin or hamburger will become a luxury product, retail and restaurant.” In his opinion, a national plan is urgent to “foster livestock”, adopt measures to prevent other countries from outside Europe to carry out “subsidized exports’” or, in case the previous measures do not work, “open the hand” so that the sector can import from countries with greater offer. “Animals will always be, but they will be increasing Add Castelló. Images | Kin Li (UNSPLASH) and Department of agriculture In Xataka | The countries that consume more and less meat in the world, illustrated in a detailed map

JPMorgan has managed to generate really random numbers. The questions are what he needs them for and how he has done it

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A classic computer cannot generate Really random numbers. The algorithms used in computer science to produce this type of numbers resort to an initial value usually known as “seed”, so that making mathematical calculations with it is possible Generate one or several pseudo -elementary numbers. In this context it is necessary to use the ‘pseudo’ prefix because the need to resort to that initial value, to that seed, causes the numbers that we obtain Don’t be really random. In fact, when taking the seed we have several options. Some algorithms resort to the system clock, and it is even possible to increase the apparent randomness of the generated numbers sequence using entropy sourcessuch as the mouse movement or the temperature of the CPU in a certain moment. Even so, the numbers that we will obtain will not be really random because it is possible to predict them if we know the seed and the operations that have been carried out to generate them. Quantum computers, rescue For the gigantic American financial conglomerate JPMorgan the random numbers are very important. A priori may seem strange that a bank is interested in the procedures for generating this type of numbers, but, in reality, this capacity lies in the heart of their business. And it is that random numbers are fundamental in cryptography techniques Employees, for example, to transmit encrypted information, work with cryptocurrencies, develop gambling, and, in general, in any process in which it is necessary to have a randomly as possible randomness. To test their plan they executed their algorithm on a quantum computer of 56 cubits with ion traps manufactured by Quantinuum For this reason, in May 2023, several JPMorgan cryptographers wrote an algorithm of random generation generation that was designed to be executed in a quantum computer. Its strategy was to take advantage of the randomness inherent in the behavior of the cubits, whose functioning is governed by The rules of quantum physics, To generate bits whose randomness It could be proven afterwards. To test their plan they executed their algorithm on a quantum computer of 56 cubits with ion traps manufactured by the American company Quantinuum, which belongs to Honeywell. And it worked. They have detailed the result of their experiment in a very interesting article that they have published in Nature. To check if the numbers given by their quantum algorithm are really random JPMorgan researchers worked side by side with scientists from the National Argonne Laboratory, the National Laboratory OAK RIDGE and the University of Texas in Austin. In Your article develop the method they have used to Mathematically demonstrate using super -touches of the US Department of Energy that the numbers delivered by the quantum computer are genuinely random. “It is a revolutionary result (…) the next step requires understanding where we can apply this technology,” Asses Marco Pistoialeader of the project and head of applied research in Global Technology of JPMorgan. Image | Honeywell More information | Nature | Bloomberg In Xataka | Psychantum’s success is not having collected 750 million: it is its groundbreaking quantum chips manufacturing technology

There are dozens of crops with weeks late

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A few days ago began to circulate online A map in which the distribution of rains could be seen in the last two months. Although I had errorsthe distribution of rainfall was fine and showed a very clear photograph: while Central Europe lived a peculiar drought, in the Peninsula he had not stopped raining. And it’s true. So much so that Aemet itself recognized that the soils of much of the country are saturated. That is, they no longer admit water and all the rain was running directly to the channels. That has been causing problems with the hope that the worst of the situation would happen soon. However, the models point to a new atmospheric block in northern Europe. Is Spain in a situation of receiving more water or all that falls will end up being missing (while destroying everything in its path)? We will not be exaggerating a bit? After all, water is water. We have been complaining about droughtNow that it rains we will also manage them to complain? However, abundant rains are already having a direct impact on the field. It is true that crops such as cereals, vineyards and olive groves have benefited; others instead are In full red alert. A clear example is watermelons and melons. As with Huelva’s strawberries, high rainfall raised moisture levels causing a sudden “proliferation of pests and diseases such as Botrytis (a fungus) or Mildiu“They end up rotting plants. But, little by we stop to analyze it, we see that the problem is greater (because it affects much less striking plants). Let’s talk about the chickpea. 30% of the national chickpea production is concentrated in Seville. Well, as the Secretary General of Coag Sevilla says in The debateat this time “the plant would have to measure a span and still without sowing” because the accumulation of water on the grounds makes it unfeasible. In general, the chickpea has to be more than 100 days in the countryside and “this year, hopefully, will pass 60”. That is turning it into a mousetrap and is making many farmers shuffle to sunflower (up to the limits that the PAC allows). And what will happen? That we probably begin to notice a certain shortage of Spanish chickpea in July. That does not mean that the general prices will rise (those of the native varieades probably yes; but that is inevitable). Most likely, large distributors compensate for local shortages with imports from Mexico and the US – if the commercial war allows it, of course. What if in April the same thing happens in March? Well, the thing is complicated. Between April and May the flowering of many fruit trees occurs. Citrus, for example, moisture It is not very good for them And we already know that the olive tree’s plot asks, above all, tranquility. That is, another month of historical rains would be a problem. Also for the water system in general. Because, although we have Even much storage roomwe are not used to working with the reservoirs, the channels and the full pipes. The final result of more rain would be a waste. What if not? Taking into account that March It has been a historic monthmost likely we do not approach the accumulated of the last weeks. That would force us to make bobbin lace (as in the case of chickpeas), but a good part of the field will depend on the meteorology being consistent and does not “deceive” the plants in their development. Do not forget that March has been The coldest month in three years (in terms of thermal anomaly) and that has disoriented the biological machinery of all plant, animal or thing. In short: the long road to summer begins and we will need a little luck if we do not want this Historical blow of luck become an poisoned candy. Image | In Xataka | After the rains of March and with the reservoirs of Media Spain to overflow, another battle begins: who stays that water

Thus Imagine Samsung the future of the connected home

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Samsung has been one of the manufacturers who has decided Bet strong for artificial intelligence. We began to see it with Galaxy AI in its smartphones and tablets, but it was a matter of time that this technology was integrated at a deeper level in its appliances. And so it has been The idea of ​​”connected home” makes sense to the South Korean manufacturer if we imagine an ecosystem of devices and appliances that can communicate with each other. And with which we can interact through screens. Screens everywhere. Therefore, Samsung has decided to renew its high -end catalog and provide its most interesting functions for day to day. AI at home, how do we use it? The connected home is not a new concept. There are already devices that integrate with each other and with which we can interact through the voice or mobile, but Samsung seems to want to go one step further using artificial intelligence and screens as a catwalk Attend the World of Samsung 2025 In Frankfurt (Germany) it has helped me to verify that when they proclaimed their motto “Screens everywhere“They said it seriously. We started seeing Samsung’s first intelligent refrigerators years ago equipped with a big screenthe Bespoke French Door with AI Family Hub+, but now there are also screens in the washing machine and the dryer. Because? So that? Although it is a new version, redesigned, this new screen has been called Ai Home and that they have incorporated it into more appliances has a clear objective: Learn from our habits and routines so that we have nothing to worry about. Ai Home is smaller, we can find it in 7 or 9 inches (compared to 32 inches of the family hub), and is integrated into washing machines, dryers and refrigerators. It has the same functions that at first we saw in the Family Hub: Reproduce streaming content, consult information such as time, share images of the gallery, receive calls and provide all kinds of information related to the functions of the appliance in question and saw it for the first time in the Bespoke Ai Laundry Combo. This screen is the access door behind each appliance. It is the tool that users have to interact with the technology that is implemented in these appliances and that aspires to change the connected home paradigm. Or that is Samsung’s idea. How Samsung integrates AI in its appliances Since the celebration of CES 2025 we have seen that Samsung has announced several new appliances with artificial intelligence functions that promise some comfort to the user. The new washing machines of the manufacturer, for example, incorporate the technology AI Wash, which detects the type of garment tissue and the level of dirt through weight and load sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms. From there he decides What is the most appropriate washing cycle and the amount of detergent that is needed. The dryers, more of the same, with AI Dry the drying process is adjusted taking into account the weight of the clothing and the type of tissue. The processing of this information is generally made locally. These types of appliances have integrated microprocessors that are able to execute the necessary algorithms without doing it in the cloud. And, in addition, both appliances can be linked to Auto Cycle Link technology, so that we do not have to bother us to select any program. The dryer Receive the necessary information of the washing machine on the garments that has washed and adapts its cycle. The way in which artificial intelligence is manifested in refrigerators has a lot to do with how they are capable of Regulate the interior temperature In case of necessity. Either to adapt to the outside temperature or so that there is no problem if you need to be opening and closing the door for a while. Thus, temperature changes will not directly influence food. As in the washing machines and dryers, the user experience with this technology in the refrigerators is nourished mainly through the Ai Home. Thanks to the camera and the function Ai Vision Insidethe user can access a list of foods that have been registered when introduced and taken from the interior. Thus, for example, it is not necessary to be at home and look at what is needed in the fridge, it can be consulted directly from Smartthings. In the air conditioners and the vacurers we do not find the AI ​​Home, but they do not forget the artificial intelligence. These appliances include a function that, being linked to a galaxy watch, They detect when you have fallen asleep And then they activate their echo mode, which they call Windfree. Artificial intelligence provides a huge number of functions thanks to all the sensors that are integrated into these appliances with the intention of making the user more comfortable. In addition to promising more efficient consumption, so Savings in the Light Invoice It can be noticed quite a lot. And that consists of Energy Mode, a smartthings function that allows the user to access all the information related to the energy consumption we do with our appliances. In this way, it is much easier to have a global image of what our energy expense is, how we could do a more efficient consumption And what is the environmental impact we have. Is AI in homes something for everyone? It is clear that AI in homes goes far beyond being able to have colored bulbs and ask Alexa to turn on or off the light. Until now, if we stopped to think about a connected device ecosystem, the most logical thing is that a smartphone chain, smartwatch, computer and some Wearable further. Samsung’s proposal, in this case, expands this concept and expands it to a complete network of connected appliances where everyone offers functions based on artificial intelligence. None of this seems something “of the future.” But of course It is not available to everyone. At least, for now. Artificial … Read more

He has just closed a key laboratory in Shanghai, according to SCMP

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Microsoft is one of the American technology with the greatest experience in China. Began operating in the country in 1992 and has since maintained several research centers. However, in recent months it has given replication signs in a context of growing geopolitical tensions. In May last year, It transpired that the company had started efforts to relocate between 700 and 800 employees, in addition to having carried out layoffs and to close their physical stores in the country. Now adds a new step: the closure of one of its most relevant laboratories in Zhangjiang, Shanghai. The label disappears, Microsoft too. According to Asian media as South China Morning E Post and it Homehe IoT & AI Insider Labcreated to boost national development in Internet Technologies of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), closed its doors earlier this year. The offices are empty and the company’s poster has already been removed. The laboratory was in a strategic area of ​​Shanghai, surrounded by key names of the technological sector. In that environment, companies such as Infineon Technologies, German semiconductor manufacturer, Baidu, the Chinese giant of internet searches, and the Commercial Aircraft manufacturer, have a presence. Zhangjiang High Technology Park (Baidu Maps capture) A Center with Global Ambition. The laboratory was inaugurated in May 2019 as a joint initiative between Microsoft China and the Zhangjiang state group. Its objective was to support the development of IA E IOT technologies applied to sectors such as industry, health, finance or retail trade. The IoT & AI Insider Lab in its inauguration in 2019 With an area of ​​2,800 square meters, it became the largest center of this type of Microsoft outside the United States. During his five years of operation, he supported 258 projects of about 100 companies. More than 50 of them captured financing worth 9.4 billion yuan (about 1.3 billion dollars). He also generated 139 technological developments and trained about 10,000 professionals. A replication underway. As we point out above, the closure of this center does not arrive by surprise. In 2023, Microsoft had already begun to offer relocations to employees of the Artificial Intelligence Area, in addition to closing all its physical stores in China and applying personnel cuts. In parallel, the company has hardened its internal security policies. According to BloombergIn 2024 he urged all his employees in China to use exclusively iPhones to access corporate platforms. The measure was related to the lack of access to Google Play in the country, which prevented the use of applications such as Microsoft Authenticator or Identity Pass on Android. In the search for greater security The withdrawal in China coincides with a Internal Security Review in Microsoftafter a wave of criticism for the management of computer attacks. A Russian group, identified as Midnight Blizzard, accessed corporate accounts and stole sensitive emails sent between federal agencies and the company. Images | Microsoft | ABODI VESAKARAN | Baidu Maps capture In Xataka | Huawei is beating income record thanks to China. It is just the beginning of his new era

The price of oil does not date back

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Saudi Arabia has been the center of attention thanks to its dystopic architectural projects that the country has launched with the aim of diversifying its economy and becoming a Luxury Tourist Destination. However, after a streak of economic fluctuations that have reduced the yields of the Saudi Financing Fund, the entire project wobbles. The reason: the Low oil price and estimates of Let it be maintained So for a time. The fall in the price of oil. One of the reasons that promoted the Vision 2030 Project From Saudi Arabia, it was precisely to disconnect the country from its strong dependence on gas and oil deposits, origin of its current prosperity. However, the current geopolitical context and the unstoppable boom of the Sustainable energies They have made the price of oil, a vital resource for the Saudi economy, has experienced a considerable drop in recent months. Such and As you collect he Financial Timesin March 2025, the price of barrel in international markets was around 70 dollars, far from the more than $ 100 that were reached in 2022. Despite the production cuts implemented by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEP+), the recovery of black gold prices has been slow and insufficient. No oil there is no financing. This decrease in income directly affects the country’s budget, estimating a spending cut by more than 3.7% per year by 2025. Saudi authorities had projected much higher income to finance their ambitious plans, so a significant deficit in public accounts that puts at risk that puts at risk has been generated The financing of your megaprojects star. “A more pronounced and sustained drop in the price of oil would require a deeper reduction in government spending to contain the magnitude of the deficit and accumulation of government debt. There will probably be also an additional adjustment and recalibration in the investment plans out of budget,” explained Monica Malik, chief economist of the ABU Dhabi Commercial Bank to Financial Times. According to published Bloomberg, the Saudi Arabia government had budgeted an expense of 342,000 million dollars by 2025, of which it estimated to recover about 315,000 million dollars for oil revenues. That would leave a deficit of about 27,000 million, which is aggravated by the reduction of income of an oil that does not rebound. There was already a first cut. It is not the first time that the pharaonic architectural projects of Neom is trimmed. A year ago, the expectations of building a 170 km long building, It was lowered 2.7 km by 2030 and the construction of The desalination plant that was going to guarantee drinking water for the new city. Unlike the current situation, those cuts were motivated by the poor financial performance of the Public Saudi Investment Fund, such and As I counted The Wall Street Journaland for some maneuvers of “creative accounting” by the managers of the work with the objective of justify the cost overheads. The Saudi crossroads. With a whole catate of half -building works and an investment forward trying to attract as many investments possible to cover the growing expenses. Of that Fugging forward The commitments arise to make Saudi Arabia at the headquarters of the Asian Winter Games in 2029, followed by the 2030 Expo in Riad and the Football World Cup in 2034. These commitments will require that the Government further cuts the investments destined for Great tourist projectsto focus on the construction of 10 futuristic stadiumsa skiing station with an artificial lake of fresh water and artificial snow. All this, remember, in a desert climate. In Xataka | Neom announces a new city: hundreds of luxury villas that instead of having parking will have port for superyates In Xataka | SIRANNA: The new luxury destination for the Supermer Image | Neom

This Bitcoin millionaire paid Spacex to make the first space flight around the poles: he has achieved it

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The Fram2 mission images They do not disappoint. For the first time in history, there are humans flying over the earth from space in polar orbit. And not because a space agency such as NASA or ESA has financed it. It’s about A private mission of Spacex For a cryptocurrency customer. The first manned flight in polar orbit. The mission Fram2 He took off during the early morning of March 31 from Cabo Cañaveral, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage of the rocket returned to the earth to land in a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The second stage went south to place the Crew Dragon ship in a polar orbit. FRAM2 is the first manned space flight in history with a 90 degree inclination, which means that Its four crew They are the first people who fly over the north and south poles of the earth from space. A Bitcoin tycoon. None of the crew had gone to space before. The commander and patron of the mission is a Chinese millionaire of Maltese nationality called Chun Wang. Wang made fortune as founder of F2POOL, one of the biggest Bitcoin mining platforms that exist. Next to him travel Jannicke Mikkelsen, Norway Cinematographer, ship’s commander and responsible for documenting the mission. Rabea Rogge, expert in robotics and pilot of the mission. And Eric Philips, doctor and mission specialist, who brings his experience as a tanning explorer of the poles. 22 experiments. Even if they are financed by Wang, the four travelers will collaborate with Spacex and NASA with A series of experiments in flight. Among them, the first radiography taken in space and a mushroom culture in microgravity. In addition to a multitude of images of the polar caps taken through the dome, the Module with panoramic views of the Crew Dragon ship. But perhaps the most interesting happens on your return. When Americann, they will be in charge of opening the hatch and leaving the ship, without the help of Spacex rescue equipment, demonstrating this possibility for the first time. A new era. Chun Wang has become the Person number 722 In crossing the line of karm, the official “border” of the space. Characters such as the television presenter Jesús Callejaand will follow him shortly Katy Perry or Lauren SanchezJeff Bezos’s fiancee. Private spatial flights have come to stay and, when there is enough money at the table, the border between space tourism and space exploration is blurred. The Fram2 mission is the first one that flies in polar orbit, but the mission Polaris Dawn, financed by Millionaire Jared IsaacmanIt was the first private mission in which two people carried out an extravehicular activity. Images | Spacex In Xataka | Of the 719 people who have traveled to space, only one has done so without revealing their name. Now we know who it is

GTD dropped the German rocket Spectrum to the sea during Sunday launch

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Isar Aerospace declared successful the launch of your Spectrum rocket To the north of Norway, but it was a Spanish company that saved the day in some way. Context. The German company Isar Aerospace tried to launch the first private orbital rocket in Europe on Sunday. After lighting the nine engines of its first stage, the Spectrum rocket cleared the launch platform, located on the island of Andøya, north of Norway. 18 seconds later, Spectrum began to turn and correct its orientation orientation. Half a minute had passed from takeoff when the engines turned off and the rocket fell into the sea. The 28 -meter pitcher, loaded with propane and liquid oxygen, finished his inaugural flight with a great explosion. The Spanish contribution. GTD, an engineering consultant based in Barcelona, ​​was in charge of Develop the launch control system (LCS) of the Andøya Space Puerto. This system supervises the countdown and flight safety of the Spectrum Spectrum of Isar Aerospace. His role was fundamental in the rocket debut. Not only because the countdown worked perfectly, but because it successfully activated the flight termination system that made the rocket safely to the sea. Flight termination system. Unlike other rockets, Spectrum does not call themselves when something goes wrong. Its flight termination system (FTS) consists of turning off the engines to prevent the rocket from getting out of its trajectory and, instead, falls controlled into the sea. The software of the Spanish company GTD He successfully activated the flight termination system when the rocket lost control. The rocket turned off its engines and began to fall, without causing damage to the launch platform. “We are proud to have demonstrated the reliability of our systems in such a symbolic mission for Europe in space,” Ricardo Bennasar, Coo by GTD, said in a statement. “It is a key step for future missions, and we are ready to continue supporting what is coming.” The congratulation. Isar Aerospace congratulated the Spanish company privately for its role in launch. “We were able to validate our flight termination system,” He said his CEO publiclyDaniel Metzler, Sunday. Although the system is designed for exceptional situations, its correct execution is one of the many data collected by the German company for the second flight. Metzler has commented that Now they know “the double” What they knew before trying the rocket, in addition to confirming that the second and third Spectrum pitcher are already in production. Image | Isar Aerospace In Xataka | An unknown Barcelona company has become indispensable for ESA: its software controls the Ariane 6 rocket

Mercedes broke out for uncovering the anti -petitive pact

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The European Commission has imposed A sanction of 458 million euros to 15 car manufacturers for its involvement in an illegal pact on recycling. Paradoxically, the scandal was uncovered thanks to Mercedes-Benz, who participated in the framework, but when exposing him to European regulators he obtained total immunity. A pact not to compete. According to the commissionthe manufacturers involved agreed two key practices. On the one hand, not paying vehicle dismantlers, starting from the idea that recycling was a profitable enough business to not have to remunerate it. They did it under a strategy that they baptized as “zero treatment cost.” On the other, they agreed not to make public data on the percentage of recyclability of their vehicles or on the amount of recycled materials used in the manufacture of new cars. The objective was to prevent this information from generating competitive pressure between brands or expectations among consumers. The infraction. These practices went against the Directive 2000/53/CE On vehicles out of use, which establishes that the last owner must be able to deliver his car to a drain without any cost. If necessary, it is the manufacturers themselves who must assume that expense, in addition to adequately informing the recycling and reuse data. The detail of the fines imposed by the EU. The highest sanction has been for Volkswagen, with 127.7 million euros. They are followed by Renault/Nissan with 81 million, and Stellantis with almost 75 million. Toyota, BMW, Ford, Hyundai, GM, Suzuki, Mazda and Volvo also appear on the list, with amounts ranging between 1 and 25 million euros. The ACEA (European Association of Automobile Manufacturers) has also been sanctioned, in this case with a fine of 500,000 euros. The investigation concluded that it acted as a facilitator of the Pact, having organized numerous meetings and coordinated contacts between the manufacturers involved. Mercedes-Benz is fought from fines. Although he participated in the illegal agreement, Mercedes-Benz has not been fined. It was the company that went to the commission in 2019 and activated the clemency program, revealing the existence of the cartel and providing key evidence. If he had not done it, he would have faced a penalty of 35 million euros. Stellantis, Mitsubishi and Ford also subsequently collaborated, which allowed them to obtain reductions in their fines under the same procedure. A pact that crossed borders. The European Commission did not act alone. The investigation was coordinated with the United Kingdom competence authority (CMA), which announced additional sanctions for more than 77 million pounds (about 92 million euros). Among those fined by the British competence authority are Ford and Volkswagen. Challenging times. The news does not arrive at the best time for the sector. The European car industry is under pressure, partly because of the accelerated growth of the sector in China, which threatens to change the global balance. To that are added commercial tensions with the United States, which recently announced new vehicle import tariffs. In the words of Teresa Ribera. The Spanish Commissioner who leads the competition efforts in the European Commission has left a forceful statement: “Today we have taken energetic measures against the companies that were conspired to prevent competition in recycling.” Along these lines, he pointed out that they will not tolerate this type of practices. Images | Yunus Yildiz | Sara Kurfeß | Olga Nayda In Xataka | The extension of the MOVES III Plan is bittersweet: 400 million euros for the electric car and the same problems always

Ghibli -style images have firing the chatgpt phenomenon again

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You probably remember that moment in the late 2022 in which Chatgpt broke into the scene. An application created by a practically unknown startup allowed, for the first time, to maintain a fluid conversation with an AI. We could ask him to write a story, review a text or explain string theory. At a time when the industry seemed to advance with incremental improvements, without great surprises, Chatgpt’s irruption was an unexpected turn. And yes, he caught everyone with the Guardian. Because, as happens so many times, when a technology catches us, we run in mass towards it. The chatgpt phenomenon was no exception. He only needed five days to reach one million users. A shocking figure if we compare it with other technological giants: Netflix took three and a half yearsTwitter two years, Facebook ten months and Instagram two and a half months. Now, Openai is news again: he has done it again, overcoming his own popularity records. Click to see the original message in x The person in charge of announcing the new milestone was Sam Altman himself. “The launch of Chatgpt 26 months ago was one of the most crazy viral moments I have ever seen, and we added a million users in five days. We just added one million in the last hour,” The OpenAi CEO wrote in a message posted on X on March 31. There are very few services capable of receiving such an avalanche of users in such a short time. One of the closest cases starred in Goal with Threads, Your alternative to Twitter, which added two million users in just two hours. Of course, the context was different: direct integration with Instagram greatly facilitated this mission. But not everything stays in the official data. Analysis signatures such as Tower Sensor also reflect the huge growth of Chatgpt. According to your estimatesapplication downloads increased by 11% last week, while the number of active users grew by 5%, with subscriptions by increasing 6% in the same period. When technology connects with the public It is no secret that artificial intelligence has evolved at high speed in the last two years. However, they are not always the most sophisticated technical advances – Those that seek greater performance, solve complex problems or democratize access to reasoning models – those that manage to connect with the general public. Generally, what moves us is on another plane: nostalgia, art, humor. Or, directly, the memes. And it is precisely where the last of Openai has found his hole in everyday life. Exactly seven days ago, Chatgpt was updated With a new function: an integrated image generator, driven by the multimodal model GPT-4O. One of the many scenes recreated with chatgpt Although GPT-4O was already present in ChatgPT-we met last year-until now he stood out for his skills in text generation and computer vision. But It did not generate images. That has changed with this latest update, which, curiously, is especially good when recreating images in very recognizable styles. In Spain, as in other parts of the world, users soon took advantage of the novelty to unleash creativity. They began to recreate iconic images In the purest Studio Ghibli style, transform vacations in scenes built with Lego pieces or convert real portraits into versions of Muppets or in detailed illustrations Pixel art. But not everything is so idyllic. Fever for the new ability to generate images in ChatgPT has been accompanied by two factors that, although less visible, are not minor. The first has to do with The infrastructure: demand has been so high that OpenAI delayed deployment for free users and impulse use limits. In addition, the question of visual styles is not exempt from controversy. As users experience with recreations inspired by very recognizable creative universes, a debate has been on the table that has been around the development of artificial intelligence: how have these models learn? The answer, although not always transparent, points in an awkward direction. Many of these models, including the one that drives this function in chatgpt, They have trained with large volumes of images available on the network, Many of them protected by copyright. This, once, is a point of tension between technological and authors. Images | Xataka with chatgpt | @MDURBAR | X screen capture In Xataka | How to turn your photo into an action doll with accessories using chatgpt In Xataka | Openai has just lifted the greatest financing round in history: there is a blind faith in the AI ​​despite everything

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