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The battle for the Arctic has ceased to be a two thing. China has “planted” with five breaks against Russia and the US

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In March there was one of that news that rumbles in the geopolitical scene. Russia announced its decision to put its flag in the Arctic with a floating nuclear plant. And if any nation, call the United States, I wanted to say something, I was very delayed. In the background a strictly numerical theme: the Moscow fleet had eight “nuclear” break. And, suddenly, China has appeared. Unpublished deployment. United States, through the North Command (Northcom) and the NORAD, Watch The simultaneous presence of Five Chinese breaks operating in Arctic International Waters, in front of Alaska, a number that multiply by two and a half The current capacity of the US coastal guard in the region. The units, mostly research ships Like the Xue Long 2, the Ji Di and the Zhong Shan da Xue Ji Di, have been intercepted or survived by US media within the framework of the Frontier Sentinel operationdestined to counteract hostile activities, protect sovereign interests and promote respect for international maritime law. The deployment is part of a three -year trend of growing Chinese activity in the Arctic, facilitated by the thaw that opens routes such as The “Route del Norte”axis of the Chinese strategy of the “Polar silk route” To shorten in about 4,600 km The maritime journey to Europe. Arctic capacities and gap. Yes, despite not being an Arctic State, China already operates at least Five Rompehielos And it projects to build more tens, while Russia has dozens of units and the United Polar Stary and the Healy), to which the Storis on August 10 as provisional reinforcement. The rest of the 20 American breakwoods are domestic and They lack polar capacity. The Coast Guard warns which must expand and modernize its fleet to safeguard national security and maritime trade, aligning with the presidential guideline to acquire 40 new breaks. However, a new one is not built in the United States for half a century and current programs They suffer delayswith the first Polar Security Cutter postponed from 2024 A, possibly, 2029. The USCGC Healy helps to release an oil tanker with Russian ice flag near Alaska in 2012 Industrial response. Before the gap, the Trump government has assigned 4.3 billion of dollars for up to three new heavy breaks and 3.5 billion for medium units, in addition to promoting the ICE Trilateral Pact With Canada and Finland to meet the planned demand for 90 Rompehielos In the next decade. This agreement seeks Share informationform personnel and allow the joint acquisition of ships built in allied shipyards. In July, shipyards of the United States, Canada and Finland announced an alliance to produce Arctic Security Cutters, with a mature design and delivery capacity in 36 months after the award of the contract. Strategic competition. No doubt, the increase in Chinese and Russian activity in the Arctic reflects its growing interest in natural resources and strategic advantages of the region. Russia has massively reinforced its military infrastructureas in the Nagurskoye Air Base and the Trefoil Arctic Complexwhile the United States performs multinational exercise Arctic Edge 25 With own forces, from the United Kingdom, Denmark and local partners, although its ice operability remains limited by the shortage of breaking. The simultaneous presence of five Chinese ships in this sensitive area underlines the urgency for Washington to close the capacities gap if you want to maintain influence and access at the north end. Geopolitical importance. Plus: the thaw of the Arctic not only opens shorter trade routes between Asia and Europe, but It exposes reservations of hydrocarbons, critical minerals and new fishing grounds, all of high strategic value. For China, increase your footprint in the region gives you ability to influence In a space historically dominated by NATO Arctic States and members, in addition to reinforcing its global naval projection. For the United States, on the other hand, the Chinese advance and Russian supremacy In polar abilities they show the urgent need to invest in media that ensure the defense of their maritime routes, resources and presence in a scenario where geopolitical competence intensifies rapidly. Image | Us Coast Guard, USCG In Xataka | Eight Rompehielos have turned Russia into the power of the Arctic. Your secret: Nuclear force to operate all year In Xataka | The future of energy is floating in the Arctic: the ace under Russia’s sleeve is a nuclear plant

There is an AI battle that China is overwhelmingly losing against the US: that of Capex

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Beijing, we have a problem. It is much that the Asian giant has achieved In recent years to achieve compete from you to you With the US in the field of AI, but it is losing a crucial battle: that of investment. There his rival was already overcoming him before. Now he is crushing him. Investment gap. Winning in AI means doing it in many areas. China has managed to overcome many obstacles and is competing with the US in the ability of its models. Is even starting to have Really promising chips They can put things to Nvidia. However, China has a big problem in the field of investment, because its companies do not invest by far as much as the Americans do. The US capex is astronomical. In the last five years Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon They have accumulated A capex of 5.36 billion yuan. Meanwhile, the seven large Chinese technology companies (Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com, Kuaishou – one, do not include Bytedance -, meituan, and netease) invested a total of 630,000 million yuan. The difference is spectacular, but it has been increasing over time. According to A report From Jinduan Research Institute, in 2020 the US capex ratio with China’s was 1: 6, but at present that ratio is already approaching 1:10. It is not so much that China does not invest: is that the USA invests much more. Source: Jinduan Research Institute Data centers send. Although not all the capex of these technological ones is intended for AI, the majority of that capital expenditure is certainly focused on this area. In fact, we have already seen how the great US technology have announced multimillion -dollar investments in data centers. From 100,000 million of dollars that intend to invest Amazon to 65,000 million of goal dollars, the figures are absolutely dizzy. Network effect. To that problem is added that of Network effect which is causing US investment. This effect occurs when a product or service becomes more valuable as more people use it. The US investment allows better models to develop and attract more users that generate more data. These data “feedback” AI and improve models, which in turn makes more users use it, and thus in an infinite loop. The quality of the Chinese models in front of those of the US is remarkable, at least according to some of the most popular benchmarks in the market. Source: Artificial Analysis. Adoption rate. The problem, they indicate in the Jinduan report, is in the adoption of the AI by the US, which is also supposedly far superior to that of China. According to its data, the AI adoption rate by companies in the US is 78%, while in China that figure does not go from 15%. The first data comes from A study of the consultant McKinsey, while it is not clear where China comes from. The same goes for the number of active weekly users of chatbots of AI. In the US, 1,000 million are exceeded – only chatgpt He already counts With about 700 million – but in China that figure seems to be only 70 million according to the study, a figure that a priori seems doubtful. The Questmobile consultancy revealed that last November the number of active users of AI apps in China exceeded 100 million users. China (probably) would like to spend more, but can’t. Although it is not clear if the adoption rate causes that minor capex or is the other way around, but what is certain is that Chinese companies would probably want to increase their capex to bet even stronger for AI. The problem is that they cannot due to export controls which has imposed the commercial war between the US and China. If the United States Veta chips export And advanced components from AI to China, those companies simply cannot dedicate more money to buying them. Dividends. The authors of the Jinduan report point to another reason for that difference in Chinese Capex-Eeu. Chinese companies are using the benefits obtained to repurchase actions and offer dividends instead of dedicating them to CAPEX. According to this report “in 2024, the total net amount of the repurchases of shares, dividends and debt amortizations of Tencent reached 1.68 billion RMB, more than double its capital expenditure for that year.” Thus, the restrictions imposed by the US are only part of the problem. The “deflation of AI” China seems to be due to a certain inaction by these companies, the report points out, and that can end up causing a big problem, especially in the long term. Image | Karolina recordowska In Xataka | The infrastructure boom for AI begins to show cracks: China accumulates unreasonable data centers, and is not the only one

The “Battle of Copper” of the US unleasies a historical collapse in the markets

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Julio was a month of vertigo in metal markets. The only threat of a 50% tariff to copper imports in the United States announced at the beginning of the month by Donald Trump, fired prices in New York and unleashed a counterreloj race of traders that filled ports and copper stores before the deadline of August 1. An unexpected turn. Hours before the term, the White House decided that the tax would not cover all copper, but only to pipes, cables and electrical components. As Financial Times has detailedkey products such as minerals, concentrated, cathodes and scrap metal were excluded. Besides, According to Reutersthe encumbrances would not accumulate with those already in force on cars. The result was immediate: a collapse of between 17% and 22% in copper futures in the Comex bag, As the Wall Street Journal has reported. It was the greatest daily fall since 1987. The blow is significant. As Financial Times explainedThe United States depends on imports for about half of its refined copper consumption and only has two foundations: Freeport-Mcmarran and Rio Tinto. Therefore, the measure protects manufacturers who use copper (electronics, plumbing, wiring), but does not stimulate the mining industry or domestic refining, historically limited. Besides, From Wall Street Journal They recalled that building new foundations costs more than 5,000 million dollars and has been in the current presidency for more than 5,000 million, which remains incentive to local investment. “A national security problem.” Thus I justify Donald Trump the measure. According to Reuters, The decision is framed in a wave of simultaneous tariff ads against India, Brazil and South Korea, as well as in the end of the exemption known as minimis for low value packages. According to analysts cited by The Guardianthe shock in the tariff policy of copper suggests that someone in the presidential environment convinced Trump that the US economy could not bear such a wide tariff. The market interpreted it as an “Epic Backflip”, that is, a political gesture that sought to show commercial firmness, without hitting American manufacturing. At the global level? In the short term, the most visible result will be an inventory overload in the US. Since Trump announced the possible tariff in July, the country received more than 550,000 tons of copper, According to Kpler firm data cited by Reuters. Only a fraction of these shipments managed to reach American soil before August 1. This opens the possibility that part of that copper is re -exported, although analysts such as Macquarie calculate that the market would need at least nine months of internal consumption to absorb it. For Goldman Sachs, the scenario of a possible refined copper rate in 2027 will avoid extreme differences between US prices and international. In parallel, Bloomberg He has highlighted that attempts to obtain exemptions from strategic partners such as the European Union, Chile or South Korea failed to stop the measure, which raises commercial tensions in the metal sector. The forecasts are not reassuring. The current tension is inserted in a much more complex background trend. According to the latest report by the International Energy Agencycopper could face a 30% supply deficit by 2035, due to the fall in the mineral law, the shortage of new deposits and long development terms (17 years on average for a new mine). The demand, on the other hand, continues to grow: 3% in 2024, driven by electrical networks, electric vehicles and data centers. IEA has pointed out that solutions go through accelerating permits, fostering recycling and exploring partial substitutes such as aluminum in non -critical applications. The immediate future of copper. As Tom Price, Analyst of Panmure Liberum, has sentenced, To The Guardian: “The markets are now resetting the price of refined copper after the epic Trump posture change.” The episode leaves a warning: copper, key mineral for energy and digital transition, has become a raw material as political as strategic. With an upward demand and an increasingly compromised supply, the decisions that today affect its trade will mark, to a large extent, the energy future of the planet. Image | Pexels Xataka | In full obsession with rare earths, a fairly common metal has jeopardized the green transition: Copper foul

Leave an army without internet in the middle of a battle

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In a war where drones are as crucial as ammunition, cutting Internet access is the equivalent of cutting supply lines. And that was exactly what, according to a new and explosive Reuters reportmade Elon Musk in Ukraine at the end of September 2022, paralyzing a key counteroffensive against Russian troops. It was not a technical failure, nor a Russian cyber attack. According to the agency, it was a direct order of the Musk itself that left the Ukrainian troops blind and showed that the richest man in the world has the power to change the course of a war from his office in California, thousands of kilometers away from the front. The story, which contradicts the public statements of the businessman, is based on the testimony of three people who know the decision of Elon Musk. The first direct proof that the tycoon interfered in the Ukraine War since Walter Isaacson told a similar case in his biography and then rectify. But the incident goes far beyond past controversies and places the tycoon in an unprecedented geopolitical power position for a particular citizen. A deliberate blackout in the front of Jersón. The events occurred during a key counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army to recover the strategic region of Jersón. The Ukrainian troops advanced and depended almost completely on the Starlink terminals for everything: coordinate attacks, point the long -range artillery and pilot the surveillance drones that gave them eyes on the Russian positions. It was then that Elon Musk gave the order to a Spacex engineer, Michael Nicolls, to cut the coverage in the counterattack areas. According to one of the sources, the order was blunt: “We have to do it.” In the Spacex offices, employees complied, seeing how a hundred hexagonal cells that represented Starlink’s coverage on the company’s internal map were turned off. The impact on the front was devastating. The communications were suddenly cut and the surveillance drones were left without a sign, leaving the isolated and vision units on the enemy forces. Artillery units, which are used for the precise geolocation of objectives, began to fail in their shots. The soldiers panic. According to a Ukrainian officer, the attempt to surround a Russian position in the city of Berislav failed after the blackout. Although Ukraine managed to release the area, Musk’s decision temporarily redrawed the front line. Walter Isaacson’s biography fell short. This new report on Jersón is more serious than the most famous controversy to date: the Crimea incident. In September 2023, Walter Isaacson published his biography of Elon Musk telling that the tycoon had ordered to turn off the Starlink connectivity in Crimea to frustrate a Ukrainian attack with submarine drones against the Russian fleet in Sevastopol. That statement caused a media earthquake, but was withdrawn by Isaacson himself in subsequent editions of the biography. According to Musk, what happened was actually that Ukraine had requested emergency activate Starlink’s coverage on Crimea, an area where he was not operational. Musk refused. Your reasoning, expressed in several publications in XIt was clear: doing so would have turned Spacex an accomplice of an act of war, violating the law. So why did you interfere in Jersón? Reuters research points to a reason that Magnate himself has expressed on other occasions: The fear that Ukrainian advances will cause nuclear retaliation by Russia. At that time, Vladimir Putin had threatened to use nuclear weapons if Russia’s “territorial integrity” was compromised. This fear, which according to the report was shared by senior US officials, seems to have been the trigger for Musk to decide that the Ukrainian counteroffensive had gone too far. In his biography, Isaacson collected this kind of existential anguish: “How am I in this war? Starlink was not conceived to be involved in wars. It was for people to see Netflix and relax, not for drone attacks.” The Ukrainian dependence of Starlink. “One of the main factors for which Ukraine was not overwhelmed by Russia is Starlink’s support that I provided, with great risk to spacex of cyber attacks and physical attacks by the Russian military forces,” Musk wrote in the late 2024. “Starlink is the backbone of Ukrainian military communications in the front.” Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites, much more difficult to block through interference than Other satellite Internet services. It also offers much larger bandwidth and latency much lower than other operators. This technological superiority has not only been crucial for Ukraine, but has given Elon Musk, the owner of Spacex (which is still a private company) an unprecedented power. Image | The White House In Xataka | China and Europe are investing a fortune in their own Starlink: the US advantage is too big to ignore it

There is a whole neighborhood battle to try not to reach Madrid. “They are selling my health to earn money”

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A protest earlier this week at the Edinburgh roundabout, marks the start of a new phase in the neighborhood battle against The Madrid Grand Prix. The platform Stop F1 Madrid It is mobilized after the beginning of the elimination of trees to clear the area where, in September 2026, the engines of Formula 1 will roar for the first time in the Ifema enclosure. A new F1 showcase. What began as a “future commitment” by Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida has become a war of wear between the City Council and the neighbors of neighborhoods such as Canillas, Las Cárcavas, Valdebebas and San Lorenzo. More than 142,000 residents within a radius of four kilometers will be affected by the implementation of the F1 circuit in the city, an event that promises to exceed the law of the 65 decibels as a noise limit. “The event will generate more than 95 decibels that we will suffer directly the neighbors of the neighborhood”, complaint Constantino Blanco, spokesman for the citizen platform. More than noise. In addition to noise pollution, the works foresee The elimination of 729 treesof which 295 will not be able to transplant according to the environmental impact report to which we have been accessible. The cuts in the streets, the modifications of the urban layout and the fact of putting upside down all the mobility of Madrid for a decade are more than enough reasons for the neighbors to consider the arrival of this unsustainable event. “They are selling my health to earn money,” says Stop F1 Madrid representative. The legal trick. To overcome the noise regulations, the City Council Plan suspend temporarily the noise law alleging “exceptionality”. The strategy is based on considering the Grand Prix as an “special public transcendence” event, a legal figure that allows us to exceed the usual limits for “duly justified general interest reasons.” However, the neighbors question if a private event with “at the exorbitant price” really meets these requirements. Battles in court. Two judicial resources They already complicate the path of the circuit. In May, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid admitted to process the complaint of the environmental platform against the Special Project Plan. Days later, more Madrid managed to study another demand for “serious deficiencies” in the approval process. Ricardo Ayala, a lawyer specialized in noise cases such as Santiago Bernabéu, commented to the environment Eldiario that “it is an absolute aberration and they barely have arguments that support it.” A domino effect. The F1 case is not isolated. Madrid usually becomes a permanent amusement park, from macrofestivals to projects such as The largest noria in the world. Madrid pursues what is happening in cities such as Miami or Baku, where F1 have also used as a global tourist showcase. However, this also leads to a generalized complaint by neighbors who suffer the noise and consequences of this type of event. The most popular case is The Santiago Bernabéuthat since his new work and transformed into the palace of events of all kinds, beyond football, he has caused The complaint of many neighbors that live around the stadium. What comes now. The project advances with A provisional license until 2026fragmenting the process to complicate legal actions. The courts have not yet decreed the precautionary suspension, but the specialized lawyers predict that the judicial consequences could reach when Formula 1 is either a reality. Meanwhile, the neighbors maintain the pressure: “It would not be here if I did not believe that we can get it,” says Blanco. The battle has just begun. Cover image | Madrid City Council In Xataka | When Mercedes manufactured a “F1” street to three million euros each, he forgot something important: that they would not catch fire

With the battle against the controlled Muslims, the Byzantine emperor Teófilo decided to do something: defeat himself

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Throughout the planet they extend battlefields that have gone down in history. It is estimated that there are some 12,000 localized battles Throughout history, being those of the twentieth century The bloodiest in history. Many of those ‘famous’ wars marked a turning point in one way or another, and the battle of Anzen between Byzantines and Muslims was one of them. But not for being a deed or a great military strategy, but for being an absolute embarrassment in which his army defeated himself. The legend. Between the eighth and twelfth centuries, the Arabo-Bizantine wars. It was a series of conflicts that, for almost 550 years, faced different Muslim caliphath with expansionist eagerness and the Byzantine empire. The conflict changed the political and military landscape in the Middle East and in a large part of the Mediterranean. Legend tells that one of the battles between the Byzantines and the abasi caliphate decided the … spirits. As we read in National Geographicin one of the battles during the ninth century, the Byzantines managed to repel the Arabs, but did not have time to celebrate the victory. At nightfall, the Byzantine soldiers began to see lights moving in the fog, some ‘Fatuos fires‘(flammable gases generated by decomposition matter on the battlefield) that soldiers confused with wandering spirits and souls. In the confusion the Byzantines panicked, they began to attack between them and those who fled were clear by a cliff. Anzen. As history, it is very good, but there are no documents that support it and it seems rather a story so that the soldiers do not get carried away by the Superstitions. The funny thing is that there was a historical episode in which the soldiers were dragged by fear, causing a humiliating defeat. It occurred in the same ninth century, specifically on July 22, 838. In the Anzen battle (current Dazmana, in Türkiye), the Byzantine emperor Teófilo He commanded between 25,000 and 40,000 men against an abasi force under the command of the Iranian Prince al-affshin. The previous year, the Byzantines had made an incursion into the ground of the caliphate, and the Caliph sought revenge. Your goal? Love affairemblem, one of the largest cities in the Byzantine Empire. There are many factors that influence a battle, such as the size of the armies, their armament and even morality, but something definitive is the strategy. And Teófilo came up with a great idea that turned out to be decisive. Galaxy brain. At one point in the battle, and at a point where their troops had the advantage, it occurred to Teófilo to reinforce one of the flanks personally. He took a group of soldiers and left the usual command place. Although in many films we see that leaders are the first to load, the common thing was that they stayed in a remote and privileged position. Not only saved their neck, but they could exercise military tactics in real time. Teófilo sneak away after the defeat Panic and unbalanced. He must have seemed a good idea, but this action was a turn in the dynamics of the battle. The Byzantine troops began to see that Teófilo was not in their command position and thought the most logical (sarcasm): “The emperor has died.” Without its leader, the troops are They demoralizedthey began to act indisciplinedly and there was a disruption in the ranks. Historical chance or strategy, just at that time the Turkish cavalry, with its archers, made a counterattack, which exacerbated chaos in the Byzantine ranks. The attack of the archers mounted and that idea that its leader had died in combat, undermined the morals and cohesion of the imperial army, dynamiting any initial advantage in combat. What do you do? Recall that Teófilo was still alive leading the attack in another area of the battlefield, but their forces had collapsed and the emperor, next to a group of soldiers from his personal guard and the Kurdish allies, was isolated in a hill, the Anzen hill. The Arabs surrounded them, but here there was a Deus Ex Machina de Manual: it began to rain, the strings of the Turkish arches were unused and, while the Arab troops waited for catapults to bombard the position, Teófilo and his personal guard slipped between the enemy lines. Sitío de Amorio for Muslim troops Fatal error. After that, the rumors of his death had already spread and the emperor not only had to fight against it, but against the Arab advance. The defeat in Anzen paved the way to Amorio for the Al-Afshin troops, where the looting of the city that had been a symbol of prestige and imperial power. It was not a definitive blow in the war between Byzantines and Abasíes due to internal conflicts in the caliphate, but of course it was a defeat for the history of the uncoordination of the troops and how important the command figure is. In Xataka | There is a reason why the Canary Islands is not British: the day that United Kingdom invaded Tenerife without knowing what was inside

The battle to relocate it in Ifema

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A few years since the pandemic has been so Horribilis as the present for the veteran Madrid Book Fair. And we just have the first weekend. The most important editorial event of the year in the capital has already suffered a few setbacks, whose motivations and nuances are understood if we go to the history of owners, situations and plans around the fair. What’s happening this year. The Book Fair has encountered two unexpected closures of its doors. The first, The day of the inaugurationMay 30: a few hours after the visit of Queen Letizia, the organization announced that the Directorate of El Retiro told them that from 4:00 p.m. the park would be evicted because, From 18:00, the red alert was going to be activated by adverse weather phenomena. Specifically, a maximum temperature of 35 degrees. At 18 it was announced that the park reopened, but that the fair remained closed. Fair complaints. The next dayon Saturday, the opening in the afternoon was delayed an hour, with cancellation of firms planned between 17 and 18. two relatively unusual days in the trajectory of the fair, and that have unleashed the complaints of the booksellers and the organization of the event itself. Lola Larumbe, from the Alberti bookstore, I asked for explanations Given these closures: “The park was open but the booths were closed, that discrepancy is what is not understood very well.” He also considered that “something is doing wrong” when the Reabre park and the fair no, but did not want to see “hidden motifs or strange things.” Penguins benefits. It is logical that the organization and booksellers and publishers will solve themselves with these closures. The fair is an important business for all of them, and for the smallest participants, an essential event to save the accounts of the year, since in many cases the fair can mean 20% of its annual billing, or even more. To this is also added the important value of the visibility they grant This type of event. Visits in Madrid are around two million people and the business figure exceeds 5 million euros, according to Official data. Even so, these closures are relatively common: last year there were also partial closures two days, but what makes them unique this year is the lack of explanation and coordination of the City Council. A certain instability. This phase of doubts and complaints related to the location in the retirement has served to reinflate the rumors about a possible change of location of the fair. These do not come out of nowhere: Already in 2019The country spoke of “difficult and tense” negotiations between the organization and the City Council. This dozen meetings to negotiate were settled with a reduction of meters and the disappearance of 10 booths. According to the City Council, to “preserve the fragility of the Park from the pressure of the fair.” He gave way to the requests of the organization, since the initial intention of the Consistory was to remove 60 booths, equivalent to 200 meters from the total 1300. Manuel Gil, then director of the Fair, put on the table a new location: “The Madrid City Council has not asked to take out the retirement fair, but in private conversations they do raise the possibility of sending it to Ifema.” That same year, Freedom Digital also talked about the unofficial possibility of A transfer to Ifema. Different site. Although today Madrid identifies the Book Fair with Retiro, has gone through other places: it started in 1933 at the Paseo de Recoletos, where it was until 1967, when it moved to the retirement. In 1979 he was held at the Casa de Campo, but was a failure of assistance, so the following year he returned to the gardens of the center of Madrid. A couple of years was even held outside Madrid (1946 and 1952 in Barcelona, ​​1948 in Seville), but when the fairs were spreading throughout the Peninsula, the Book Fair ended up centralizing. At the moment, the retirement. IFEMA, on the other hand, already has its own fair: BASTwhich alternates its headquarters between Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and is celebrated in October, oriented to professionals. LD entitled his note about the fair in 2019 with a resounding “The City Council declares war”, which is more metaphorical than anything else, but that makes clear the nature of the clash between the institutions, and that with the excuse of the preservation of the retirement, it could be hardened in future editions. Header | Leticia Roncero in Flickr In Xataka | Opposite is the boring dream of millions of people. And the Spanish fashion writer has made him a book

The authentic battle will be fought by ia agents

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The dispute over world supremacy that maintains US and China It permeates everything. The global economy, the most developed defense strategy, the commercial relationship between powers … and technology has an absolutely protagonist role in The delicate current geostrategic situation. Semiconductors and models of artificial intelligence (AI) are the resources used by the two countries with the greatest influence of the planet to measure its strength, and it is understandable that it is so. The range of applications in which the avant -garde and advanced AIs are crucial to guarantee the development of a country is very wide. Its scientific capacity, its industrial development, its economic competitiveness or its military power depend largely on these two resources. However, AIs are supported by semiconductors. Without integrated circuits of high density, high performance and high efficiency it is impossible to implement a really capable AI model. This is the reason why the US government is doing everything in your hand to prevent GPUs for avant -garde that design Nvidia, AMD, Intel or brains, among other companies, reach China. But for the moment the country led by Xi Jinping is resisting the pressure. Jensen Huang, the general director of Nvidia, has declared A few days ago, China is not behind in front of the US in AI. And the solvency of Deepseek, Ernie, Qwen, Pangu, Hunyuan or Sensenova endorses its analysis. The greatest growth potential is the AI ​​agents Right now it is very difficult to determine in an objective way which country leads in AI. It is reasonable to conclude that the US is ahead of China if we stick to the joint capacity and performance of its AI models, but the really relevant thing is to determine if that capacity entails a real value. This is The line of thought that defends experts As Arthur Lai, Chief of Research for Asia of the Macquarie Financial conglomerate, or Jason Corso, professor of AI at the University of Michigan (USA). The metrics that are currently used to evaluate the abilities and performance of the most advanced AI models are less and less clarifying In addition, it is important that we do not overlook that the metrics that are currently used to evaluate the abilities and performance of the most advanced AI models are less and less clarifying. And is that as The models improve and develop Its global competitiveness is equalized. During The Google I/O event last week the spokesmen of this American company said that Gemini is the fastest AI in the world because it reaches a speed of generation of Tokens ten times taller than Deepseek. An note before moving forward: the generation speed of Tokens It measures the speed with which a model of AI generates the answers, but it is only an indicator of the many that is necessary to use to evaluate the ability of an AI. Alibaba, on the other hand, assures that his last family of Qwen models surpasses his rivals if we stick to the ability with which he addresses mathematical reasoning or application programming. In this context, the most reasonable conclusion we can get is that each company affects those indicators that favor it. However, for users, the really important thing is the real value that an AI gives us. AND According to Lai, Corso and other experts The greatest growth potential has it AI agents and not so much the great language models themselves. An agent is an AI program that has been designed to make decisions for himself and behave in an autonomous way with the purpose of achieving a goal. The most important difference between an AI model and an AI agent is that the latter does not need us to tell him at every moment what he should do; Plan, analyze and execute tasks for yourself. This is the battlefield in which the companies that are dedicated to AI will compete, if they are not doing so. Image | Beyzaa Yurtkuran More information | Nikkei Asia In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

The reclining seat is the great battle among plane passengers. A Neozylandesa airline believes to have the solution

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If you fly, it is likely that it has happened to you more than once. You are comfortably sitting in your seat, buckled belt, headphones in the ears and a good book in the hands, and suddenly (plas!) The back of the passenger in front It is about you. Your vital space is smiling. You no longer move with the same comfort. And the worst thing is that little you can do to solve it. After all, the seats are designed for that: recline. In New Zealand there is an airline that has had An idea to avoid that kind of situations. Its proposal is still limited (it applies in the premium class), but it provides at least one solution to a problem that is usually a source of infinite discussions (and even fights) on the planes. THE WAR OF THE SEATS. A year Heather Poole, a hostess of an American airline and author of A book in which he speaks of his 15 years of experience with “crazy passengers at 35,000 feet high,” he published on the CNN website An article loaded with irony about one of the big problems with which the cabin staff fought during flights: the fights triggered by the reclining seats. “In addition to the lack of Wi -Fi or a damaged entertainment system, flight assistants listen to more complaints about the reclined seats than about anything else,” Poole explains Before recounting the case of a passenger who came to threaten to punch if the traveler in front of him continued to lower his seat. “A reclining armchair can be reclined, and no one can do anything about it”, Warns the flight attendant. “If you get it or threats to hit someone you will be you who ends up expelled.” And Air New Zealand arrived. The New Zealand flag airline, Air New Zealand, has decided to take advantage of the modernization of part of its fleet to try a way to end the fights for reclining seats. The company, based in Auckland, has taken advantage of the first “reconditioning” of an aircraft 787-9 Dreamliner to replant the design of the cabins, including among other issues new seats. The aircraft includes the Business Premier, Business Premier Luxe, Premium Economy and Economy Business category. Each has its peculiarities but if we talk about the subject that worries Poole (and the rest of the world’s hostess) the interesting is the Economy Premium. In addition to adding some lateral “wings” to the seat to offer greater privacy to the passengers and expand the storage space, the New Zealand company has sought ways to ensure that if a traveler wants to bow his neck, he does not finish a few centimeters from the passenger’s chest behind him. “All seats have a fixed exterior housing, which means that their reclines does not affect the person behind,” duck. Is it the definitive solution? It is of course an interesting idea for a problem that, although it may seem anecdotal, alters the flight experience to many passengers and forces intervene often to cabin staff. The concept of reclining seat with an exterior housing that prevents the backrest from going backwards It is not new (at least in trains) and Air New Zealand limits it to its Premium Economy class. The tourist class seats of its adapted 787-9 are simpler and the company does not specify that they incorporate any novelty related to the inclination. With all the bet is interesting because the airline wants to continue modernizing its 787-9. The first of its reconditioned aircraft will be released on an Auckland-Brisbane flight on May 19, but the company is already working on a second ship in Singapore and hopes to have seven units ready for the end of the year. “The 14 Boeing 787-9 of the Air New Zealand fleet will be updated to the new cabin configuration by the end of 2026,” They clarify From the company. How serious is the problem? “The main problem is that airlines are piling too many seats in a small space. Do you remember the leg space?” Ironiza Poole. Your comment slips a key idea: optimization does not respond only to a matter of comfort, it is also (and above all) an economic issue. Airplanes have a limited capacity and conditioned by the manufacturer, but to the extent that their squares are redesigned by airlines can earn space, travelers … and money. The issue is so relevant that there are airlines that have op reduce degrees of inclination of your seats or limit Its rotation. In the sector even The idea is handled to directly install immobile seats that prevent any degree of adjustment. That without even more radical ideas, such as that of the Spanish entrepreneur Alejandro Núñez and his two height seator the places for passengers They fly standingraised by some Low Cost. Goodbye to the fights? That is the goal. And one of the advantages that a priori offer the seats of the new Air New Zealand aircraft. They are not the only ones who have sought ways to put some “peace” among the people who have to share flight hours in a limited space. There are companies that have come to design Kits that allows the front seat to be tilted and It is not so much Tiktok circulated a trick more than questionable to prevent the passenger from front to incline our lap: activate the air conditioning and guide it towards it. Images | Air New Zealand In Xataka | We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

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There is a new obsession by the main Android manufacturers: that of Offer how many years of support are possible. Until not too ago, most were conf formed with just two years of updatessomething simply unthinkable in the most current popular mobiles. In the last two years we have seen a magical number: The seven years of updates. A figure that, a priori, seems almost magical, and that raises life time (as long as the updates do not do more damage than well) exponentially. The problem? The same one we have been dragging since Android is Android. A clear obsession. Seven years of updates. Samsung was the first to open the ban, offering more support than Google itself. In response, the Google Pixel also had a seven -year supportboth system updates and security patches. It is a record for the operating system, propitiated largely due to the improvements in support that manufacturers such as Qualcomm. His latest processors allow up to eight years. The question is whether this makes sense. Birds in the air. Promise years and years of updates is fine. But there is only one manufacturer updating At a good pace: Google. Samsung has just announced the update to Android 15 for some of its high -end devices. The point here is that this version has been available since October. We have normalized that updating fast is updating half a year after Google present stable version, and another half of the next version of the operating system, Android 16. A loop that feeds the endemic evil of Android: the fragmentation. Seven percent. Only 7% of the devices worldwide are updated to Android 15. Or, in other words, 93% of Android devices are outdated. Fragmentation is inevitable in this operating system (With more than 70% global adoption), Given the vast diversity of devices in use. But 7% remain a very low fact of adoption. It doesn’t matter too much. A few years ago, updating the system version was to change design language almost in full every few years and access a remarkable number of news. From a time to this part, operating systems focus on stability and efficiency rather than offering draft news. The main change, AI, comes from the hand of models such as Gemini Nano, implementable without changing operating system version. Regarding the security of use, with being updated to the last patches and not having a too old version, it is more than enough. Manufacturers against. Android has moved away from the two years of updates and an acceptable minimum begins from four or five years. On breaking these barriers to approach the ten years of updates there are manufacturers with clear posture. Interviewing Daniel Desjarlais, product manager at Xiaomi, the response to why the brand offered no more support the response was clear: the average consumer’s life cycle is not seven years, it is three. Similar posture Share OnePluswhose posture about the mobile and the sandwich made talk. “Imagine that your phone is a sandwich. Some manufacturers are now saying that the filling of your sandwich, the software of your phone, will remain good to eat in seven years. But what they are not telling you is that the bread in the sandwich, the user’s experience, could be moldy after four years. Suddenly, a seven -year software update policy does not matter, because the rest of your experience is terrible.” Summarizing: manufacturers are at war with operating system updates. A war in which only Google is managing to fulfill deadlines, and in which it doubts how an Android will behave seven years later stalks the most skeptical manufacturers. Image | Xataka In Xataka | How to know how many Android updates you will receive your mobile with this website

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