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achieve the same thing that Google achieved with Android

October 21, 2025 by usatoday24

In two years, Alibaba has gone from e-commerce giant in regulatory crisis a global powerhouse in open source AI. Its family of Qwen models has accumulated 400 million downloads and 140,000 derived models arising from it, figures that surpass any Western competitor, except one: Llama, from Meta. Why is it important. Eddie Wu, CEO of Alibaba, has openly said that Qwen aspires to be “the Android of the AI era.” It’s not marketing: the company has released 357 models in less than two years, a pace that neither OpenAI nor Google maintain nor want to maintain in their public version. The strategy copies Google’s manual with Android: giving away the operating system to dominate the infrastructure that supports it. Only this time the dominant player doesn’t come from Silicon Valley. The context: Alibaba poured more than $800 million into the country’s top four AI startups —Moonshot, Baichuan, Zhipu, MiniMax— before realizing its own technology could lead the market. Now those investments have stopped because the bet is on home. The road has been brutal. Between 2020 and 2022, Alibaba lost half of its stock market value due to the Chinese government’s regulatory offensive. DAMO Academy, its research arm, fired 30% of his staff. Some key scientists such as Yang Hongxiacreator of M6; either Zhou Changtechnical leader of Qwen, left for other companies such as ByteDance. The brain drain left a crater. Even so, Alibaba has managed to get back on its feet. The unexpected turn. In January 2025, DeepSeek launched R1an open source reasoning model that rivaled the o1 by OpenAI then. It had rapid and global adoption, and Alibaba seemed to lose steam. Joe Tsai, president of Alibaba, admitted the hit: “We said, ‘How is it possible that they got ahead of us?’” The response was drastic. On the first day of the Chinese New Year—a sacred holiday in China—the AI team canceled his vacation and launched Qwen 2.5 Maxsurpassing DeepSeek V3. The war was not over. In figures. Alibaba has promised to invest 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) over three years in AI and cloud infrastructure. It’s more than it spent in the entire previous decade. In the second quarter of 2025, AI-related revenue grew by triple digits for the seventh consecutive quarter. Alibaba Cloud increased sales 26% year-on-year. The stock is up more than 90% so far this year. a rocket. The strategy. Free models generate demand for GPUs and training. That demand is monetized on Alibaba Cloud. It is the Microsoft-OpenAI model for Azurebut here Alibaba is an investor and beneficiary. Unlike Amazon (without competitive open source models), Google (closed models) or Meta (without its own cloud), Alibaba unites open model, cloud and developer ecosystem. And it’s already the fourth world in cloud behind the Amazon-Microsoft-Google trident. Of course, Alibaba opted for the wrong architecture while OpenAI scaled with GPT. When ChatGPT took off in December 2022, it had to admit the mistake. In August 2023 he opened the Qwen code just as Llama 2 crashed in Chinese. He filled that space immediately. In February 2025, Apple chose Alibaba as a partner for Apple Intelligence in China. Beastly validation of the then most valuable company in the world. Months later, Wu detailed the roadmap: expand the context, from 1 million to 100 million tokensand scale from one billion to ten billion parameters. Quantifiable bets with assigned budget. ByteDance is the only rival that keeps the pulse. Missing. The western market. Qwen dominates Asia but has not penetrated Europe or America like Llama has (and it is not like it has swept mobile phones like Android). Besides… The big question. Can a Chinese company that has endured regulatory purges and talent drains become the global standard for open source AI? What remains to be seen is whether the West agrees to rely on an AI operating system designed in Hangzhou. In Xataka | ‘World models’ aim to be the next great revolution in AI: this is what robotics needs to look like movies Featured image | Xataka

The companies of AI tell us that they want to achieve an AGI. What they are really conquering is the economy of attention

October 1, 2025 by usatoday24

Sora 2 is already with usand with it a tool that will allow anyone to create great videos generated by AI. The problem is that we will have an even greater problem of “Ai Slop“(” Bazofia generated by AI “): Internet is direct to become an even more gigantic hay career for the economy of attention. What’s happening. In recent days we have seen a goal to launch vibes Ya Openai launch Sora 2. Both applications are actually platforms in which to discover, create and share videos generated with AI. Both democratize that access to generate video content easily through their AI models, and we will no longer have to be an expert in Premiere, Davinci or dedicate hours to the script, recording, editing and publication of the videos, because AI does everything much easier. That does not mean that this content will be better: only there will be more. A lot more. Sora’s website greets us with a “Explore” section in which we can move vertically to see content destined for one thing: to have us trapped by the Doomscolling. Trapped in doomscrolling. The result of these initiatives can be seen quickly in the Sora websitein the application of iOS (for the moment, only in the US) or in the Meta Ai Ai and vibes. Here we have infinite content that moves and whose cost of production for the user is zero euros (for a video, if you want to create many the thing changes and you will have to pay a subscription) and just a few seconds. The incentive not to stop creating videos is huge, because the promise is that “anyone can create viral videos.” But. What these tools raise is to turn the viral into a formula. For this, it is possible to use emotional templates in a simple and direct way and that appeal to our attention. We have filters of nostalgia, indignation and tenderness on demand, for example, and the risk is the death of authenticity: everything seems designed by an algorithm. Quantity (and immediacy), no quality. These platforms – and those that are to come – are like gigantic automated content farms and are designed for user retention, not to give value. The content is the new slot machine, and the “AI Slop” manages to exploit our cognitive biases better than ever. It is synthetic dopamine at an industrial scale. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok More creators = more slaves on platforms. Facebook created its empire convincing users to create content for it. Suddenly they were creators and consumers, and social networks took advantage of the reef and put us to publish reflections, links, and share photos and videos of all kinds. For some that was not enough claim, but being able to do everything with AI can attract new audiences (creators?). The user is more than ever the unpaid worker and the product. And those platforms want to attract the maximum possible number of usuals for the same thing that Facebook did it 20 years ago: to monetize that attention. Will it give us the same not to believe anything? In that martemágnum of content generated by the contamination of the contents, it promises to be so exceptional that it will be more difficult to distinguish the real from what is generated by the. A couple of years ago the thing was relatively complicated with imagesbut today it is almost impossible. There is an obvious risk that goes beyond the Deepfakes and the possible fraud and scams: the threat is that We will not even believe that real images and videos are indeed real. The AI Slop era began. The “AI Slop” or “Bazofia generated by AI” is content generated by AI which is technically impressive but probably lacks meaning, authenticity or purpose beyond achieving that immediate attention by users. We have already seen how these tools already serve to generate comments and texts of text and images, but the video is even more powerful. OpenAI wants to kill Tiktok. In fact, with Sora 2 and its new website and app the objective, whether indirect or not, is to end Tiktok, which He owned and lady of the short video format. That users can now generate content with themselves as protagonists doing all kinds of impossible things thanks to AI is an extraordinary claim for many traditional Tiktok users. The “cameos” are a possibly addictive and brilliant product to achieve that goal. Before uploading a video with which to create cameos or mixtures, Openai warns of the implications. Is that enough for us not to create them? But. Of course, risks are important in security and privacy. The fraud and scams with increasingly credible deepfakes will be difficult to detect, but it is also asked where privacy ends if a platform ends up having ours images, videos and audios that can be edited and remix if we allow it. OpenAi offers configuration options, parental controls And warnings when it comes to uploading content, but it is not clear if that will be enough. In Xataka | Differentiating the AI content on the Internet is increasingly difficult. The solution goes through something similar to fillets

The self -employed cars promised to get rid of paying attention to them. At the moment they only achieve it every 9 minutes

August 21, 2025 by usatoday24

The Advanced driving assistance systemsor Adas, they have become an argument of Key sale for many car manufacturers. Functions such as Adaptive Cruise Controlmaintenance within the lane and Assistants for traffic jams They promise to relieve driving load, especially in dense traffic situations. However, A recent study by the American Automobile Association (AAA) returns us to reality: technology is useful, but the attention of the duct remains indispensable. A test in extreme conditions. The AAA chose one of the worst possible scenarios: Los Angeles highways in rush hour. For more than 16 hours, over 550 kilometers, five vehicles equipped with different level 2 ADAS systems (Those who attend, but do not assume total control) face the real world. The cars were instrumented with cameras and GPS to record every detail of their behavior. Less than 10 minutes of tranquility. Although these systems promise us to have great tranquility at the wheel (even if they are not self -employed at all), the reality is very different. On average, in this study it has been seen that every 9.1 minutes (or every 5.1 kilometers) a notable event was recorded that requires driver’s intervention. There are situations that are very frequent. Among these events that require a person to take control of the vehicle, the lane invasion stands out above all. This happens when another car gets into the lane in front of the vehicle, forcing the driver to intervene to adjust the appropriate safety distance to avoid collision in the face of speed decrease. But they stay here. Secondly, there is the inability of the car to stay perfectly focused on the lane, needing driver intervention in 72% of the occasions. This is very typical, especially when it comes to curves. But in addition to these, 71 more cases have been recorded in which the car did not resume the march after a total stop or 43 moments in which the car did not stop enough, being able to have caused an accident. There are differences between proven systems. One of the most interesting comparisons that was carried out in this regard was among the systems that require the driver to keep his hands in the steering wheel and the most advanced that allow them to remove them. Surprisingly, systems that do not require having their hands on the steering wheel are more reliable when requiring a driver intervention every 20.1 minutes. Instead, the most basic systems need human help with a frequency three times higher: every 6.7 minutes. Of course, the “hands -free” systems also asked the driver to take control every 15 minutes for security. The best security recommendation: to have common sense. Given these results, the AAA has launched a series of recommendations in the face of the proliferation of these driving aid systems and trust that can be deposited in them. They point to that the alert must always be maintained, since ADAS does not replace the driverdistraction must be avoided and above all know the car and how each system works before starting it actively. Right now, the goal ahead is to press manufacturers to make driving aid systems that are more reliable. And although driving technology advances by leaps and bounds, the human factor is still essential to guarantee security. The ADAS are already mandatory. Little by little, these systems are increasingly present in our day to day and without having to pay an extra in the car settings. Since 2022 all new approved vehicles They must include Smart Speed Assistant, Integrated breathalyzer or lane involuntary change alert. Images | Charlie Deets In Xataka | The new Mazda CX-5 has taken the physical buttons ahead. According to Mazda, it’s what we want

Nvidia and AMD can sell their chips from AI to China. The amazing thing is that to achieve this they will give the US a slice of 15%

August 11, 2025 by usatoday24

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to yield to the United States a part of the income from the sale of certain AI chips in China. This pact unlocks the export of these components to the Asian country after months of uncertainty, but does so with that unusual consideration. The context. The US government It has been for years imposing all kinds of prohibitions to Chips exports and advanced technology from AI to China. The goal has always been avoid that the Asian giant could compete. The shot has come absolutely for the cylinder headand the advance of Chinese AI models –As Deepseek– And chips –Like Huawei– They show that this tactic has not worked. Nvidia and its H20 chips. To try to avoid those vetoes, Nvidia He developed his H20 chip with the intention of meeting the requirements of the US government – not selling its most advanced chips – and thus continuing to obtain income in China. They didn’t even solve the problem, and the US government prohibited the sale of that chip in the Asian country. A dilemma that also involved AMD. US has faced for months A apparently impossible dilemma: to sell Hardware from AI to China, or that of not selling it to him and that they develop them. AMD was also in identical situationabsolutely blocked to be able to sell their chips from AI to China, which meant a colossal problem for their global income, which are nourished with force of sales in China. Solution: Give me my slice. What has unlocked all this scenario has been, of course, money. In an unprecedented agreement revealed In Financial Timesthe US government will allow NVIDIA and AMD MI308 to export to China, but 15% of the revenues of these sales will go to the United States government coffers. Jensen Huang had already notified. The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huan, already warned that the blocking of the sale of its chips in China could cause A reduction of 15,000 million dollars In your income this year. The Asian giant represents 13% of the total income of Nvidia, but The sanctions They threatened the survival of this company (and AMD) in that country. A successful meeting. According to FT, the US Department of Commerce began to issue export licenses for the H20 Chips on Friday, two days after the NVIDIA CEO met with the US President Donald Trump. That meeting seems to have been the definitive After the theoretical initial agreement that both had reached less than a month ago. This had never happened. This “Quid Pro quo” is not preceded, FT analysts stand out, who point out that no US company had previously agreed to pay part of their income to obtain export licenses for their products. Even so, the pact follows the dictatorial position of President Trump, which In addition to its badly called reciprocal tariffs Does not to demand that companies manufacture the chips used in products that are sold there in the US, such as iPhone. The forecasts. According to analysts of the consultant Bersntein, Nvidia would have sold about 1.5 million H20 chips in China without exports controls. That would have meant revenues of about 23,000 million dollars, but now that figure is probably lower. Even so, it is expected that Chinese companies make great orders of both the Nvidia and AMD chips. A worrying precedent. Meanwhile, certain experts criticize this type of agreement. Liza Tobin, of the Jamestown Foundation, commented on how “Beijing must be gloating to see how Washington converts export licenses into sources of income. What will be the next one? Let Lockheed Martin sell F-35 to China in exchange for a 15 %commission?”. Image | Nvidia | Dominic Kurniawan In Xataka | China’s first avant -garde lithography machine is not the biggest US problem. They will be the other two that are on their way

Madrid needs to build a lot to relieve its serious housing crisis. You already have a (mini) plan to achieve it

August 7, 2025 by usatoday24

Madrid You need housing. A lot of housing. If the city wants to solve its mismatch between supply and demand and thus stop The climbing Price that he has long suffered needs to strengthen his market. It is not a simple task. Over the last years the capital has Moved file for example to avoid the escape of floors towards the holiday rental or clear land in which Raise new houses. With that backdrop, his City Council has just taken an important step with which he hopes to create hundreds of households in a new urban widening. Objective: to stop one of the Great challenges of the capital. What happened? That Madrid has taken an important step that will allow (partly) to relieve one of its most pressing problems: The lack of housing. A few days ago the City Council advanced in the procedures to clear the situation of an area of 218,000 m2 located east of the capital, together with San Fernando de Henares and Coslada, and in which 700 houses will be built, 50% official protection. What exactly? Advance in the long bureaucratic journey that the project has to complete before the first stone is placed. Last week the Government Board of Madrid approved Submit to the public information process the Sector Plan for the ‘Development of the East-Esanche of San Fernando’. The objective: ultimately, order the land located next to San Fernando de Henares and Coslada to “transform” with green areas, services … and houses. The Governing Board also approved to send the document to the Community of Madrid to activate two other essential bureaucratic gears: the strategic environmental assessment and the territorial impact report. For now, the project already has a favorable report from the General Planning Directorate. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Where will it be built? East of Madrid. To be more precise, near the roads M-45 and M-50 and the Regional M-206, between the towns of San Fernando de Henares and Coslada. Towards the East limits with the Parque Roma-Coronas neighborhood (S. Fernando de Henares), to the Oste with Jarama (Coslada) and to the south beautiful with the hills (Madrid). The Consistory recalls that under the ground the Metro line 7 runs, not far away are the Central Coslada and S. Fernando. The idea is not to build only 700 homes, green areas and other equipment, but “integrate” the new neighborhood into the surroundings, especially with Romoronas Park and Jarama, “giving continuity and harmony to the whole set, also with the metropolitan forest,” Clarify José Luis Martínez-Almeida’s team. The Consistory wants to integrate the improved road into the urban framework, preventing it from acting as a kind of “barrier”. Why is it important? Because among other things the Ensanche of San Fernando plans to create about 700 new homes, half with some degree of public protection and the rest available for the free market. And that is an important news in a city that suffers a deep mismatch between demand and the supply of residences, which translates into a deficit that some voices of the sector They relate precisely with the lack of soil available for construction. The Association of Real Estate Promoters of Madrid (Asprima) Calculate that every year they are necessary 40,000 New households in the community, well above the production of new construction. According to their estimates, over the last years housing deliveries have remained between 7,200 of 2014 and the “peak” of 23,500 last year. In 2023 and 2024 he estimates that 16,000 and 18,600 began respectively, which gives an idea of the stage for the next few years. And what does that suppose? “There is much more demand than supply and that translates into a price increase. In addition, there is an embolized demand for more than 175,000 homes,” warned Real Estate Consultores Forum in a 2024 analysis. In its last year’s report, Asprime already remembered that the INE forecasts pass through that in the coming years (between 2022 and 2037) the population of the Community of Madrid grows almost 13% to exceed the 7.8 million inhabitantswhich will fully affect its real estate market, tensioning it even more. “This growth will cause the community to build housing in the next 14 years for 573,738 new homes, passing the housing park of the 2,636,988 existing in December 2022 until 3,210,726 of December 2037. It means building more than 40,000 homes a year, compared to the 17,000 that are currently built,” collect The promoters report. The collective is part involved, but it is not the only one who has warned of the hole, a problem that extends to other regions of the country and also has pointed out The Bank of Spain. Does it affect something else? Yes. The mismatch between supply and demand, added to other factors such as The pressure that holiday rentals exercise, it is felt on several fronts. For example, in The speed with which the floors find tenant or buyer or The hard conditions who are forced to assume those interested so as not to be expelled from the market. If there is a clear indicator of the imbalance it is nevertheless the price. Idealista calculates that M2 costs € 5,718 In the capital, 23.7% more than a year ago. In the case of rentals the rise was from 11.3%. Images | Quique Olivar (UNSPLASH) and Borja Carabante (X) In Xataka | In Madrid the number of Latinos has shot. And with them a new phenomenon: 15 -year -old parties for Madrid

Nothing’s CEO wants to conquer the mobile market with crazy designs. He has told us his very complex plan to achieve it

July 8, 2025 by usatoday24

Carl Pei is one of the CEO that gives off the most in the technology industry. You saw a cowboy and basic shirt, they warn me that it is shy and, after a few minutes of interview, we end up smiling, commenting that “the vibes” are the future, and remembering the old days of Cyanogenmod out of formalities. Those who have been in El Cotarro to know Carl from that Old OnePlus who only sold his phones by invitation. With Nothing, the approach is different. A London company with the focus on design and with a clear slogan: “Make Tech Fun Again”. Looking up Nothing began with a Phone (1) that attacked the mid -range. He continued with a Phone (2) that took a specifications and, in 2025, attacks the market with a mobile of 799 euros with a high range. I can’t help wanting to know why. Carl explains that for Nothing, both the Phone (1) like him Phone (2) They were flagships. It sounds like a statement Marketinianbut it is not: “For a company, a flagship is the best mobile you can do.” For the first time, they believe they are at an engineering point in which they can compete with the best in the market, a point where they are finally ready. Sailing a high range is risky, and throwing it being oriented to a concrete niche, it is even more. Nothing is not in volume, it is not desperate to launch product and points directly to “the most creative users.” All this sounds very good, but it is worth asking if A company can be profitable and sustainable living as “creative users”. “We are focused on new generations of consumption. We focus on people who are interested in technology, design and creativity. Our consumer is much younger than the average consumer, it is around 26 years.” Does the strategy work? Yes. Carl tells me that they have folded the volume of business, exceeding one billion dollars in the accumulated sales. He knows that they have been focusing on software for years, but they intend to double software investment to be even more attractive. They also have an important investment behind, in which investors take a direct role in the decisions made by the company. “Sometimes it is uncomfortable, because they give their opinion in front of the rest of the members of our table. But I think it is really important to find ways to keep us connected with this base, especially when the company grows. It is difficult to hear uncomfortable truths when you have that type of structure, we always know what people want us.” The present Carl Pei during the presentation of Nothing Phone (3) and the Nothing Earphone (1). Image | Xataka With Nothing Phone (3) comes the whopping seven years of security updates and five software. Maybe it’s time for Get out of stopping a mobile per year if mobiles are getting older and more. Or maybe not. “On average, people renew phone every three years. So there will always be someone thinking about the following. But we are also seeing a trend of people who want to keep their device for a longer time. That is why we want to give even longer support.” The phone also lands with an integration of quite discreet. Essential Search Essential Space Minor translation functions Is enough to compete, taking into account that There are already those who integrate the AI Even in the most basic apps of the system (telephone, keyboard, camera …)? Carl is clear that Nothing’s approach is cautious, because they see “a lot of hype” in the market. It drops that, even if they have launched these functions, “the Roadmap is long, there will be updates and updates.” But, beyond promising that in the future AI will be more complete, it is not afraid to admit that it agrees. “This is almost like a hygiene factor, right? We have to take care of that basic part, but that is not what excites us most. What really excites us is how we apply this new technology to redefine the way people use products, especially in the software part. But yes, that basic work is necessary. You have to do it. The market is doing it and I think we can do much more.” Image | Xataka To close the block, I ask Carl for something practically inevitable: How are geopolitical tensions between the United States and China livingand if your supply chain is being affected. The Nothing Phone box (3) shows a clear “Made in China”, so there is nothing to hide. Here he tells us that most of their products are manufactured in India, and some of them in China. Apart from this, he affirms that they are in the process to start producing in other parts of the world. It does not seem too worried, and the reason is simple. “Being a startup, we can be quite agile and reagents, whatever happens.” The future of smartphone Nothing Phone (3). Image | Xataka A question that I like to ask the main responsible for Tech companies is how they look in the future. And being, honest, the answers are usually little concrete. It is something completely normal: neither should get wet with compromised statements or, really, it is easy to predict with where today’s technology is going. But Carl is a Jugónand it is clear that the future of the smartphone goes through a single app capable of controlling everything. That agriculture that we have spent so much speaking throughout 2025. The key is that, When everything is … what will be the reason to decide between one device or another? It clarifies that it is still distant, and that no one would buy a phone without apps today. The key will be on the path that is to achieve it, a path to combine and melt all software and hardware. “I think Essential Search is a good example. … Read more

There is a career to achieve the cheapest and most powerful model. And against all prognosis, China is winning it

May 30, 2025 by usatoday24

On May 20 Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash in preliminary version. These new AI models were better than ever, and to demonstrate the company included in its announcement several graphs and comparative tables. They looked at how both surpassed their rivals both in the field of reasoning and in the traditional performance (Benchmarks of Mathematics or Programming), but there was also another fact that Google presumed: Google: The cost of Gemini 2.5 Flash. Source: Google. That table published by Google made it clear that Gemini 2.5 Flash It was clearly the winner of that comparison in the important price/benefits ratio. What Google did not say is that this success of this model was the exception to the rule, because in that race for having cheap and powerful models, China seems to take the lead. He does it at least if we attend to the cost of using these models. In Xataka we have analyzed that cost based not on the price of subscriptions for end users, but on the cost of access to the API, which is the one that allows developers to integrate these models into their own chatbots and their services. The API prices of each model clearly differentiate two uses from artificial intelligence. On the one hand, how much does it cost to write something for the model to then process it (the so -called input tokens). On the other, how much does the text generated by the model once processed the answer (the so -called output tokens). The entrance tokens They are usually five times cheaper than exitbecause processing the request and generating text is much more expensive than receiving it, analyzing and “understanding it.” We wanted to compare the cost of the main models of the AI developed in China and those of the US, and although as always are not all that are, if they are all. The resulting table is as follows: These prices are public and very easy to find in the case of US AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) but not so much in the case of Chinese models (Deepseek, Qwen (Alibaba), Doubao (Bytedance), GLM-4 (Zhipu), Ernie (Baidu)). Be that as it may, the table, ordered from the cheapest to the most expensive, demonstrates that today Chinese models are especially cheap. Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview manages to compete – and does it exceptionally. In the rest of the cases, the AI models in China win the battle for cost. It must be noted that, Like all comparisons, this is unfair. And it is because that table does not take into account the benefits of each model. Openai O3 and Anthropic Claude Opus 4, the last and most powerful models of those companies, are especially precise in their answers, but each consultation consumes much more resources (computation, energy) and that makes it logical that they are much more expensive than their competitors. But these models are also designed for very special cases and for specialized, detailed and deep consultations. In the vast majority of cases it is not necessary to use these models, and that is where they are competing for example Deepseek R1 or Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview: in the price/benefits ratio. Models with variable prices That price battle has made us see in recent times two techniques that some companies are applying to the prices of use of their APIs. The first one is to differentiate normal entries and outputs of inputs (and even exits) cache. Deepseek API prices. Attentive to the lower left: according to the time you use them, they can leave cheaper. Source: Deepseek. The explanation is simple: a “normal” entry is a request or question that the model has never processed and therefore has to process completely. If the entrance has been caught (Cache hit) is because that request has been processed in the past, so the system can obtain the response of its cache, which significantly reduces the computational costs. Deepseek, Google, Anthropic and Openai offer this type of option, as can be seen in the table. The second technique is to use variable prices according to (at the moment) the time slot in which we use these models. This is what Deepseek has done, which has “day” and “night” prices according to UTC schedule. If you use the Depseek API from 18:30 to 2:30 (Peninsular schedule in Spain), it will be half price. Good news: AI is every time (much) cheaper While China and the US fight who has the most powerful model or who has the cheapest model, what is constantly happening is that the AI price is falling remarkably. It is an observation that several experts such as Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who recently analyzed how That price/benefits ratio does nothing but improve. The models are getting better and cheaper. Other experts such as Raveesh Bhalla – explained by Netflix and LinkedIn – also reflected this evolution at the beginning of the year. Then he showed how the cost of an O1 level model had dropped 27 times in the last three months. Moreover, at this rhythm the GPT4 level models – which a year ago were absolute referents – will be reduced 1,000 times in just 18 months. We are living it in price reduction. Dane Bahey, from Openai, said at a conference in September last year how the cost per million tokens had fallen from 36 dollars At just 0.25 dollars In the last 18 months. And that price drop is still clear and fantastic for users. Thus, we are facing a career that at the moment has a lot of stretch: China’s models carry the lead if we attend only to their cost, but careful, because we must also take into account the benefits. It is true that these Chinese models have already shown in the benchmarks that have been showing that they compete from you to you with the best US models, and now it remains to … Read more

Japan has made an airport not lose a suitcase in 30 years. Now you have to achieve another milestone: that it does not sink

May 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Now that that moment of the year is approaching where millions of travelers prepare to face the flights that will take them to the long -awaited holidays, an airport room is also ready for the arrival of one of those evils assumed as part of the package: the lost or lost suitcases. Although there is an exception. In Japan an airport has erected as the most efficient of the planet. They have been three decades Without losing luggage. His problem is another, and is underground. 30 years without a complaint. As we said, in a sector where loss is almost evil assumed by travelers, the Kansai International Airportin Japan, it offers an amazing anomaly: in its three decades of operationhas never lost a suitcase, a baby cart, a couple of skis or a single bag. The feat, which its employees describe with modesty as a simple consequence of following the rules, has made Kansai a reference of silent efficiency. Serving the regions of Osaka and Kyoto, and with 30 million passengers International a year, its record cannot be attributed to a low volume of traffic. What distinguishes it is meticulous attention to detail: from aligning the handles of the suitcases to facilitate their collection until they personally deliver fragile or bulky objects directly in the hands of the passenger. In Xataka Nobody wants to spend three hours on a Saturday. And that’s why hypermarkets go down Operational discipline. Had in Japan Times Tsuyoshi Habuta, supervisor of one of the luggage manipulation companies in Kansai, which behind there is no special training or secret systems. According to him, merit lies in Comply with established processes And act carefully: each suitcase is treated as something valuable, not only for its content, but for what it represents for the passenger. Your team manages some 3,000 pieces a dayand the manipulation procedure of is a ballet Synchronized revisions and cross controls. Each piece is counted not only at the time of check-in, but also during and after the flight. The workers inspect that the number of packaged packages coincide exactly with those downloaded, both in the airplane warehouse and in the safety control rooms. If something does not block, the search begins immediately. The rule of the quarter hour. Plus: There is a tacit rule. Deliver all luggage in the collection zone in less than fifteen minutes From landing is a priority. This system is what has made the airport a world reference of efficiency, being awarded eight times with international awards for its excellence in the delivery of luggage. Airport Aerial View Omotenashi philosophy. Behind this impeccable history is also the Japanese concept of omotenashior hospitality as art. According to testimonies of the workers themselves collected by NPRcommitment is not only with logistics efficiency, but with the happiness of the passenger. For them, excellence is not an objective achieved but a constant improvement, fueled by the humility of learning every day and the responsibility of representing Japanese quality to the world. This collective attitude generates an organizational culture where The error is not allowednot for fear of punishment, but for professional pride. Wonder of engineering. The airport, opened in 1994, is built entirely About an artificial island In Osaka Bay and remains one of the infrastructure projects more ambitious and expensive Never performed. Conceived to relieve the saturation of the Osaka airport, Kansai has evolved to become the third busiest airport from Japan. Its initial construction cost around 14,000 million dollars, but with expansions and adjustments it has reached an estimated value of 20,000 million in 2008figure that, adjusted to current inflation, could double. Endowed with characteristics such as flexible asphalt tracks capable of resisting earthquakes and a high structure on 900 hydraulic cats that allow leveling the terminal as the ground sits, the airport has even resisted the devastating Kobe earthquake 1995 without compromising its operation. Osaka Bay Marine bed The problem: it sinks. It We count a while ago. Despite all his technological advances, Kansai faces a persistent and increasingly worrying threat: It is sinking. Since its inauguration, the airport has already descended about 11.5 meters And it is expected that another additional four meters could descend before 2056, approaching dangerously to the sea level. This situation is due to the fact that it was built on land earned to the sea, a highly compressible alluvial clay base that, under the weight of the artificial island, releases water and contracts, causing the progressive sinking of the soil. Although engineers have tried to accelerate land consolidation through “sand drains” (deep holes stuffed with sand to evacuate moisture), the settlement was not completed before starting construction, and the effects continue to accumulate over time. {“Videid”: “X8ST3IM”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Japan ride generated with Sora”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “17”} Fight against the sea. In 2018, a powerful typhoon flooded one of the slopesconfirming that the problem is not theoretical or distant. In response, the containment dike rose in 2.7 meters To prevent future floods, but experts agree that these measures are palliative and will not be enough in the long term without a large -scale intervention. Yes, the airport is designed to adjust structurally and adapt to the movements of the land, but the geological environment itself (that species of “wet sponge” of loose clay) represents a continuous and silent threat. Every centimeter that descends more compromises its future viability, and although for now it remains an example of advanced engineering, the countdown to its physical obsolescence has already begun. In Espinof I’ve seen ‘Rogue One’ after finishing ‘Andor’. I still have the impression that they are two half films forced to meet Monument with expiration date. In summary, Kansai is a fascinating paradox: a symbol of what human engineering can achieve and a reminder of the limits that imposes nature. While continuing to operate effectively recognized worldwide (With its unmatched record of delivery of luggage without losses), its future survival asshole a complex equation between technology, resources and political decisions. Without large … Read more

Overcoming our brain when making the purchase is not easy. Some researchers have developed a tool to achieve it

May 1, 2025 by usatoday24

“Codazo theory.” It’s how we could translate Anglo -Saxon expression, “Nudge Theory”, Which refers to the study of actions focused on giving us A “little push” Towards a specific decision. The concept is especially used in the context of the behavioral economy, That place where the economy is mixed with psychology. We know that companies often resort to these “pushcins” to lead us to purchases that generate more benefits but can we use this tool to improve health? Digital tool. The answer is yes, and there are many researchers who work to develop this type of tools. The last It has been developed By a team of Duke-Nus Medical School and it is a digital tool that aims to facilitate the task of choosing healthier products in our purchase on-line. An imperfect system. Choosing healthier food products is not always easy. Yes, we can always make sure that our purchase car is full of fruits, vegetables and other basic foods to cook at home, but this option is not always realistic. Labeling systems such as Nutriscore They can help us choose better, but they have Important limitations. The first is that evaluating the healthy of a product in a simple index is not always easy and sometimes leads us to important inconsistencies. The second, that this index must compete with marketing strategies that seek to buy a product, regardless of how healthy or ceases to be. Beyond labeling. To exceed these limitations, Duke-Nus’s team designed a digital tool destined to facilitate a purchase on-line better informed at nutritional level. This tool complemented the information available on the Internet purchase page, adding additional information. This additional information included a traffic light based on the index Nutriscore of products, complemented with other tools. First, the page ordered the products based on this index, first showing the healthiest products instead of doing it alphabetically. Second, the tool incorporated the follow -up of the products in the purchase car, indicating what proportion of food was labeled as green, yellow or red. Third, the digital tool also showed healthy alternatives (with similar prices and characteristics) to selected products. Studying alternatives. The team tested the tool through an experiment. They asked a group of participants to make three purchases on-line over three to six weeks. Some of the participants used this tool, while others used the conventional portal. The team observed that the purchase cars of the people of the intervention group scored better in the nutritional index. They also contained less calories, less fat in total and less saturated fats, less sugar and less salt. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Public health issue. By will or necessity, there are many people who seek to eat healthier, and that begins in a healthier purchase. Achieving it for oneself is not easy, but it is not to help these people without falling into prohibitions and Tax Methods. Here is like the behavior economy and Nudge Theory They can help us: the same tool often used to take us to more advantageous options for sellers can also be used to improve the health of consumers who wish to improve their diet. In Xataka | The three expert tricks so that they do not lead you with food labeling, according to one of the country’s biggest specialists Image | Lothar Boris Piltz

The 16E iPhone looked like a stumble. In the end it has been decisive for Apple to achieve an unpublished milestone in its history

April 15, 2025 by usatoday24

Apple has been in the smartphones market for almost two decades, but I had never managed to lead global sales in a first quarter. That has just changed. Between January and March 2025, the Cupertino company has been at the top of the world ranking, ahead of Samsung and with Xiaomi completing the podium. Counterpoint Research has been in charge of putting figures and context to the new Apple milestone. The keys? An unusual launch calendar for the company, a solid growth in emerging markets and a good global behavior just before the earthquake of the tariff war driven by the United States. At the top of the podium. Apple led global smartphones sales in the first quarter of 2025 with a 19% market share. In addition, it achieved a 4% increase in units sold compared to the same period of the previous year. In second position Samsung appears, which obtained 18% and experienced a 5% drop in units sold. Xiaomi, meanwhile, maintains third place with sustained growth. Its evolution has been progressive: in the first quarter of 2023 it had 12% of the market, in 2024 it rose to 13% and in this start of 2025 it has reached 14%. Although its position has not changed, the constant improvement in quota reflects a difficult to ignore rise. An unusual launch. A key part to understand Apple’s leadership This quarter is at the launch of the iPhone 16E. The device was announced on February 19 and reached stores just a week later. Although it is not usual to see new iPhone in this section of the year, there are precedents: The iPhone is original It was launched in March 2016, And the third generation also did it in March, but 2022. An iPhone discussed, but sold without brake. Although the 16E iPhone has not fully convinced those who expected a more competitive proposal in quality-pricethe truth is that its market performance has been remarkable. It is a model with a more accessible approach, but with a hardware reinforced to be compatible with Apple Intelligence. Despite doubts, its launch has had a strong reception. A trimester of contrasts. The global market grew by 3% year -on -year in this first quarter, promoted by China, where “public subsidies reactivated demand, and for recovery in emerging markets such as India, Southeast Asia or Latin America. On the other hand, markets such as Europe, the United States or even China showed signs of exhaustion, according to the analysis firm. A market that does not stop. Samsung started the year with a slower pace due to the delay of Galaxy S25but sales rebounded after its launch and that of the new A. Xiaomi series, meanwhile, reinforced its presence in both new markets and in its country of origin. Vivo became the brand that grew most among the top five, while Oppo maintained fifth place thanks to good results in India, Latin America and Europe. Other manufacturers also gained ground, although they were out of the top five. Huawei was the largest seller in China during the quarter. Honor and Motorola also grew strongly in several international markets, intensifying competition in segments where great global brands predominated. Tension on the horizon. Although the quarter leaves positive figures, the immediate future is not clear. The threat of new tariffs, driven from the United States, has forced brands such as Apple to move file quickly. The company came to charter flights from India to mitigate possible problems. At the moment, exemptions have appeared on stage, but uncertainty persists. Images | Thai Nguyen | Medhat Dawoud | Ricardo Aguilar (Xataka) In Xataka | If the question is “who will win if prices for tariffs up” the answer is: “Second -hand mobiles”

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