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China has done everything to stop its population bleeding. The result is the lowest birth rate since 1949

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China has encountered an even more complex challenge than the real estate crisis, the trade war with the US or the future of Taiwan: the babies. As your birth rate deflates (leaving the number of newborns below the number of deaths) the Asian giant is becoming less and less “giant”, a trend that threatens to punish the nation’s economy. Beijing knows it and that is why it takes time deploying measures that seek to boost their demographics. The problem is that, despite his many efforts, he can’t hit the nail on the head. Your latest official data birth rates show a new setback. What has happened? That despite all its efforts, China has not been able to stop its demographic hemorrhage. This is how it reveals the last balance from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), which shows a scenario similar to that suffered by other nations (inside and outside Asia) shaken by demographic winter: fewer babies, more deaths and general population decline. In short: a country that continues to lose weight little by little and risks complying UN predictionswhich estimates that by 2100 China will have lost more than half of its population, remaining at the size it had in the late 1950s. What does the data say? That in 2025 the authorities counted 7.92 million of births, 17% less than the previous year. The data leaves two other negative readings: the first is that it suggests that the birth rate increase registered in 2024 was punctual and has not been consolidated over time. After that brief rebound (which some associate to the cultural influence of ‘Year of the Dragon’) the Chinese birth rate has resumed the negative curve that it has been drawing for years. The second negative reading is that the decrease in the number of births has in turn reduced the country’s birth rate, leaving it in 5.63 births per 1,000 people. This is a historic low. A fact that has not been seen since (at least) 1949, year of foundation of the People’s Republic of China. It is about the steepest drop birth rate for the last five years. As AP News recallsChinese authorities do not regularly publish their fertility rate, but their last estimate, from 2020, was 1.3 children per woman. Now that indicator would have dropped to 1. The data is far from the “replacement rate” (2.1), essential to keep a country’s population stable. Click on the image to go to the tweet. Are there more figures? Yes. And they are just as bad. Deaths increased, going from 10.93 million registered in 2024 to 11.31 in 2025. The result of this drop in birth rates and increase in deaths was a natural loss of population (the data does not allude to the migratory effect) that brings China even closer to the projections of the United Nations by the end of the century. The NBS balance sheet reflects the loss of some 3.39 million of Chinese, leaving the country’s total population at around 1,405 million. It is the fourth consecutive year in which the country sees its population reduced, which has caused China to no longer be the most populous nation on the planet: from 2023 that honor India boasts itwhich comfortably exceeds the 1.4 billion of people. Why is it important? Birth rate and census are more than just demographic variables. They also influence the future of the country. The size of the population is directly related, for example, to domestic consumption (key piece in the country’s economy) or the health of its workforce. The demographic winter threatens to subject China to the same social pressures as other countries in Asia and the West, only on a much larger scale. Right now the population over 60 years old represents 23%. If nothing changes, in 2035 that strip will add 400 million of people, just like the entire population of the US and Italy combined. The big question is how that will affect their pension system. At the moment the country already has increased the retirement age. How to change it? That is the other reason why the NBS data is so important and has probably fallen like a bucket of cold water on Beijing. It’s not just about fewer babies being born and population being lost, it’s that the Government has been looking for a way to avoid it for some time… without success, at least until now. As far as birth rates are concerned, it seems to have hit the same rock as other neighboring nations that face a similar challenge, like japan either South Korea. What have you tried? Of everything. And without much success. Despite the billions of dollars invested in child care programs, the facilities offered to those considering becoming parents (from subsidies to medical attention) and efforts to form new couplesthe birth rate continues without increasing. And the Chinese authorities have gone to the extreme of go door to door encouraging women to be mothers. The reason? Beyond the influence of ‘one child’ policy (abandoned a decade ago) there are those who point to cultural changes and the high cost that (despite everything) parenthood entails in China. A 2024 report from the YuWan Population Research Institute in fact concluded that China is one of the most expensive places to raise children (especially if we talk about cities), even more than in Japan or the United States in relative terms. The study addressed both direct and opportunity costs. Image | Peijia Li (Unsplash) In Xataka | China knows that its population is going to collapse but it already has a long-term plan to solve it. Of course, thanks to AI

that China loses the AI ​​race, but wins the economic war by bleeding them dry

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The AI ​​race has two main players, but their bets are very different. While the United States has already spent $350 billion in AI (and plan to spend much more), China has only invested 100,000 million. Silicon Valley optimists start from the belief that AI will radically change the world and whoever masters AI will dominate the future. And if not? As they say in financial times, The United States could win this battle, but lose the economic war. USA. You have put all your eggs in the same basket. Exorbitant investments are guided by the belief that AI will change the world as we know it, that AGI will make humans finally stop working. It is an epic speech in which AI is presented to us as a kind of messiah that will save the world, one that completely ignores the alternative: that AI is a great technological leap, yes, but neither so revolutionary nor, above all, such a great business. And it’s not just a technology thing, investors are absorbed in the same obsession. China. In 2017, China announced the “Development Plan for a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence” in which they defined AI as a strategic technology. For China, AI is a national priority, but its approach is more pragmatic and much less speculative. You just have to look at their AI models, like DeepSeek, effective but very far from the very expensive ‘frontier models’ in which the US is investing. His vision for AI is not so much to transform the world, but rather to function as a tool to be even more efficient in different processes. a few months ago They announced the “AI+” planwhere they detailed the deployment of AI in six sectors: scientific and technological development, industrial applications, consumer services, public welfare, governance and security, and international collaborations. The AI ​​war. We always hear the idea of ​​this stark battle to dominate AI from the American side. In many cases, the AI ​​war, like AGI, is another point of pressure for Silicon Valley to justify the tremendous expense or achieve its objectives. We have seen it recently with Jensen Huang pushing for the government to let him sell his chips in China and his argument revolved around the idea that China will achieve technological independence and then win the AI ​​war. The paradox for the United States is that its own invention is benefiting its enemy. The AI ​​war also functions as a pressure point for China: forcing the US to mortgage its economy to the technology they consider the future, while they overtake them in everything else. The economic war. The United States is betting everything on a single winning horse, while China has not stopped investing to ensure its dominance in other key sectors, such as electric cars, batteries, robotics and, above all, renewable energy. For China there are many futures, for the US only one. The commitment to diversification is going well. In 2024 China already manufactured 76% of electric cars sold worldwide and 80% of all lithium batteries. They are also the country with more industrial robot installationswhich gives them an advantage to continue being the factory of the world. There is much more, they are also undisputed leaders in other sectors such as the manufacture of drones, solar panels, high-speed trains and graphene. China’s AI is energy. China carries years investing in clean energy. According to Carbon Brief reportIn 2024 alone, China invested $940 billion, and it is not the year it spent the most. The curious thing is that energy is key for many sectors, especially AI. The United States knows this well and has already encountered a wall: They don’t have power for so many chips. Not only is China producing more energy, it is also is subsidizing it. Jensen Huang warned about this situation, ensuring that “China is going to win the AI ​​race” thanks to the government’s energy aid. Trump, for his part, has discouraged renewable energies and the electric car industry. In the end it will turn out that, for the United States, it is AI to win or nothing to win. Image | Gemini In Xataka | China already has an army of 5.8 million engineers. His new plan involves accelerating doctorates

There is an industry losing 42,000 jobs and bleeding before us: Hollywood

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The entertainment industry in Los Angeles is going through its worst crisis in decadeswith a dizzying drop in the number of productions and jobs, which has caused a feeling of “economic disaster” in the creative heart of California. It seems like a well-known story that we recover cyclically every few years, but this time some abysmal figures, never seen before, accompany: the media have detected how companies are entering a real emergency situation. Are we contemplating Hollywood’s last great crisis? Two years of chaos. According to The Wall Street Journalthe crisis that Hollywood is going through not only affects the large studios and production companies, but also has an impact on thousands of indirect jobs and the commercial fabric of the city: restaurants, technical services, prop stores and housing have seen how the activity linked to film and television is drastically reduced. In the last two years, more than 40,000 jobs have been lost in the sector, leaving animators, technicians, scriptwriters, operators and small businesses in a precarious situation, and raising the local unemployment rate above the state and national average.​ Some data. These 40,000 direct jobs disappeared represent a drop of more than 20% of the sector’s total. With this, the unemployment rate in Los Angeles County for industry professionals has reached 5.7%, exceeding not only the state average of California (5.5%) but also the national average of the United States, around 4.3%. All this has led to a drop in local production to historical record numberswith a decrease of at least 30% in film and television projects recorded in Los Angeles, continuously since 2023.​ And how is that reflected for practical purposes? In it production exodus: The number of Hollywood projects filming outside of California, primarily in states with more competitive tax incentives such as Georgia and New Mexico, has risen 25%.​ The signal from the sets. The occupation of the Hollywood sets It is perhaps the clearest sign of how the area’s economy has fallen. In 2024, the average occupancy of sets in Los Angeles fell to a historic 63%, a significant decrease from the average of more than 90% that remained constant between 2016 and 2022. And there is another fact: only 20% of the activity on sets was destined for television, down from 30% in previous years. The cause, as we will see below, is the reduction in expenses that the platforms of streamingimmersed in extreme savings policies.​ But why does it happen? First of all, prolonged strikes of scriptwriters and actors since 2023, which paralyzed a good part of local production, generating million-dollar losses and discouraging new investments from being generated. Added to this is the considerable increase in the cost of living and production in Los Angeles, which has led many studios and production companies to seek alternative destinations with tax incentives and more attractive subsidies, such as those mentioned above, Canada or other emerging markets.​ Another significant cause is the transformation of the entertainment economic modelparticularly with the proliferation of platforms streaming. These platforms, faced with market saturation and pressure to maintain profitability, have reduced their budgets and the number of projectstaking away part of the total production volume in Los Angeles. The combination of lower demand and budgetary adjustments has pushed the industry into a prolonged contraction.​ And finally, there is the emergence of artificial intelligencewith its challenge to traditional labor, especially in fields such as animation, visual effects and post-production. And now what. To begin with, an immediate effect: The position of the United States as a global leader in audiovisual production is in danger. Not only are a significant number of productions moving to other regions and even countries, attracted by better fiscal conditions, lower costs and cheaper technical equipment. It is that thanks to the globalization of entertainment that has brought streamingticket offices like those in Korea or China They are no longer secondary. This week’s highest-grossing film worldwide it has been an anime. The animation phenomenon of the year has been a k-pop idol movie. The throne is more disputed than ever. Header | Braden Egli in Unsplash In Xataka | While Hollywood goes through a slump, one film industry is constantly filling theaters: the Chinese one

Amazon kept losing money on its Echo devices. He has found a way to stop the bleeding: flood us with ads

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Amazon has been losing a fortune with their Amazon Echo devices. Connected speakers and displays are in millions of homes, but they have never been profitable. The company’s hope was that they would become a vehicle to sell more products on its e-commerce platform, but that goal was never met. Now Amazon has found a way to get a lot out of them: to put advertising in them for good. Lots of advertising. Why is it important. Amazon has just launched on the market your new Echo Show and Eco Dot. Prices have risen in all cases, but they also arrive with Alexa+ —although not in Spain at the moment—, the AI ​​assistant that the company has been working on for several months. These products are supposed to offer important advantages in the user experience, but at the moment what is happening is that these devices are displaying advertisements frequently. Wasted. Between 2017 and 2021 Amazon lost more than $25 billion with its Amazon Echo. The idea seemed good: they could sell them at a loss if they later amortized them by converting them into products to sell us things. Instead, users ended up taking advantage of them for little more than setting timers and musicand that has ended up being a huge problem for Amazon. Ads everywhere. There are several users of Amazon’s connected screens—the Echo Show—who are seeing surprise ads appear on these screens. a user Reddit account how the alarm clock feature on your Echo Show 5 became an annoying ad. Other user checked that in addition to one advertisement, songs that he had not specified were playing, while another he complained about how his Echo Show kept advertising the Amazon Plus service. Ads now appear more frequently on Prime Video. Source: Xataka. Flooded with advertising. These screens don’t stop showing ads, match other users, but in addition none of those users accepted that their devices could be used to display advertising, and there is no switch or configuration parameter that stops this behavior. Even people who are paying $20 for Alexa+, Amazon’s new AI assistant, are complaining from all that advertising avalanche. Also on Prime Video. Personally, I don’t have an Echo Show, but I have noticed that when enjoying series and movies on Prime Video, advertisements are broadcast with greater frequency and duration. I am not he only (not much less). Amazon allows customize preferences regarding advertising, but those who have done it affirm that this does not hardly reduce the frequency with which advertisements appear. What Amazon says. An Amazon spokesperson stated the following: at Ars Technica: “Advertising is a small part of the experience and helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to the next card on the screen or directly provide feedback by tapping the info icon or tapping the screen.” If you move away, I announce to the song. The Amazon Ads website details the ad formats, and the text explains that “The ad viewing experience dynamically adapts based on the customer’s proximity to the device.” Once it is detected that the user is more than 1.2 meters away from their device, “the ads are displayed in full screen alternating with other content, such as the weather, recipes, sports and news.” This seems to be getting worse. The latest comments seen on Reddit or on X (formerly Twitter) seem to make it clear that Amazon is increasing the amount of advertising it displays on its devices and services. The question, of course, is how far they will go… and how that will impact both sales of their devices and subscriptions to their platforms. In Xataka | Amazon missed the AI ​​train, but it wants to catch it back. The new Alexa with AI will arrive this month to try it

China is building more electric cars than you can sell and that announces something dramatic: a manufacturers bleeding

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For years, China has cooked its assault on the electric car. As in other sectors, the country has put a cooked pot and has been done with all the ingredients. Little by little, it has been heating the water, browning the sauce and, with everything ready, the fire has risen. The time has come to get the dishes. And it doesn’t matter if someone stays along the way. A huge market. China is the largest electric car market. Not only that, by volume, it is the country in which more cars are bought if we add all kinds of technologies. His market is gigantic. To the point that In it, 23.5 million cars were sold In 2024. To get an idea, in the United States 16 million cars were sold and around 12 million cars. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing According to data from Carnewschinasales were slightly lower (22.9 million) but the International Energy Agency (IEA, for its acronym in English) and the specialized medium in the Chinese market agree that the barrier of more than 11 million vehicles of new energy sold (category in which plug -in and electric hybrids are included) was broken). Over low heat. Until last year, European manufacturers had been leaders in the Chinese market. Little by little, local manufacturers have gained ground … until Byd rolled Volkswagen. Among new energy vehicles, more than 60% of sales They are electric cars. And there, Chinese manufacturers have passed over Westerners. They have achieved it with a determined policy. European manufacturers were offered land and labor at balance prices. Of course, they had to associate with local manufacturers. These manufacturers have learned from the West and, in addition, They have received subsidies from the Chinese governmenteither with the creation of state companies (or partial participation in them), almost free land and facilities and soft loans. And, at the same time, the State has been taking strategic positions. China controls the supply chain of semiconductors But also the production of Rare earth and of batteries. All this has caused that the cost of producing in China for the Chinese market is much cheaper for its local producers, which has resulted in a better product at a better price than foreign competitors. Fearless. Once the State has been done with the ingredients and has put the cooker, it has not been afraid to climb the fire with the intention that their marks will eat the western ones in the country. The purchase subsidies have been focused on maintaining a constant sales yield of electric cars and new energy, where China has managed to get ahead. At the same time, a wave of nationalism well aimed from the State (for the interests of its manufacturers) has moved the purchase interests of consumers. They already see Western brands as a thing of the past. Companies that previously positioned themselves as a luxury product today are obsolete in a market that bets on a type of car without barriers. A car that is the object of mobility but is also karaoke or interactive center where to take a while surrounded by screens. Overcapacy. Or overproduction, so that we all understand each other. According to data from the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, In 2024 there were 31,282 million vehicles and 31,436 million were sold. Keep in mind that much of that production, obviously, was sent outside the borders. In fact, already in 2023 The country beat Japan as the largest car exporter in the world. The problem is that the formula has begun to give symptoms of exhaustion in this 2025. O, as little, of a certain stagnation. Last August, Byd confirmed that he had to redirect your sales prospects. The company I planned to produce 5.5 million of vehicles but its new objective is on the border of the 5 million. With 80% of its sales in China, which by the brake begins to give an idea of ​​the difficulty finding the market to absorb all the cars that are producing. An unexpected war. That difficulty in putting cars in the market has been the manufacturer himself in his meats. They explain in Reuters That in the Chinese city of Chengdu it is easy to find cars with discounts of 50%. Some of them, the Audi that are manufactured in collaboration with FAW, are sold with up to 60% discount. That war is dilapidating the margin of benefits of brands such as byd that have more muscle than rivals to lower prices and reduce stock. Because that is another of the obvious symptoms that point to a slowdown in the Chinese market. A few months ago, The concessionaires themselves asked that manufacturers stop sending cars because they were having problems selling them despite the attractive discount. In fact, The State itself has brought together manufacturers To deal with the topic of kilometers 0, which add up as a sale but then are forgotten in stores in the absence of a buyer. A private market. When China lived its previous price war, we already commented that it was a fire test for some companies. The problem of this wild competition is that manufacturers enter a downward price wheel where cars are ended up without taking out enough benefit to it. So, Tesla and Byd They were the ones that had the entire muscle to destroy the rivals. But, in addition, two peculiarities in the Chinese market must be taken into account. The first is that the launch rhythm is very high. That makes the companies themselves leave the cars they have launched just a few months or a year ago with their own innovations. This is the case of byd And the announcement that His eye of God would reach all his cars From now on. The client observes that the models and prices are renewed with each launch. Conclusion: delays the purchase, the stock accumulates and the cars are outdated. But, in addition, manufacturers … Read more

LaLiga IP blocks are bleeding many companies

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Indiscriminate blockages of IPS ordered by LaLiga They are wreaking havoc on the Internet. It is no longer just that Millions of users They cannot access thousands of websites: there is companies that are losing income for advertising or for sales. From Xataka we have contacted some of those companies to learn first -hand what is the impact they are Noting in your business. These days it has been launched A list of affected in which some companies try to estimate economic losses, although as we will see in the following testimonies, measuring this impact is really complicated. Of 70,000 euros of monthly income to 40,000 There are some more clear cases in that regard. It is for example what happens with Onlytenis.coma sporting store that operates in various countries but that for example in Spain specializes in tennis and paddle items. María José ValueCommerce Manager in the company, explained how for a long time they make use of a cloudflare payment plan, but not even that serves the blockades: “On weekends it is crazy”, because they clearly notice how both the activity in their store and sales. In fact he explains, they have compared the income of the months without IPS blockades and the recent months, which have. “Before we entered 70,000 euros a month, this month They have become 40,000 or 50,000 euros“ However, he explained, for the company “it is very difficult to demonstrate” and relate that decrease in income to LaLiga IPS blockages. For her there is no other explanation than these technical blockages, and he knows that at some point in the payment process there is a problem. “At first it affected more,” he says, “and now it seems that less, but if a client arrives and the web carries it but cannot do Checkout, he goes to another platform.” The problems also extend to online advertising that they also have: for months they never had a problem, but the blockages and football are causing that part to be affected, although It is very difficult to evaluate the impact. The search engine they use in your store stops working totally or partially, she tells us, and the cycle is always the same with these problems. “They last all weekend, and on Monday the orders begin to activate.” For onlyten the impact is being direct and very negative, because as it explains value, “we had a growth trend of 20% and now everything has stagnated, this does not go 100%.” It shows other desperate with the situation, because it does not have solutions or resources to go to: “We cannot deactivate cloudflare, the remedy is worse than the disease“ That’s: the services of this CDNS provider avoid for example denial attacks, and disable these services can end up being a significant cybersecurity problem. Getting rid of cloudflare is not the solution José Ángel Martínez He is the founder of Ninjalabs —What gives WordPress support services or SEO audits – and administrator of Generationxboxand has seen impact on both businesses. In the first case, he tells us, those affected are the clients they manage and who make use of Cloudflare. With the second, your community for Xbox users, it does estimate that the losses are about 800 euros per weekend due to blockages. As was the case with Onlytenis, in the case of online stores those customers see how every time there is their websites are blocked at some point. “Our agency manages some online stores and When the blockages are produced, they cut the payment catwalk“He explains. It is a serious problem, because as it explains, in those shops sales are made but they are not registered: When the client goes to pay, normally the payment platforms for security lead you to their platform, for example Redsys. With these blockages the customer arrives, pays and believes that the purchase has made, but this is not registered in the store because the catwalk that has to return to the online trade does not inject the transaction data. In fact, he explains, that causes the client to believe that everything has gone well, but that trade does not know anything. “There are customers who are claiming requests from March”, and that is when online stores have to investigate and compare data to know who made what requests not registered and be able to complete the process normally, which is especially cumbersome and delicate. The solution in some of the services they manage is to directly remove cloudflare. “With some we tried the payment plan but even with that they are saved from the blockages,” so they ended up taking it away. By removing cloudflare the exhibition as we said is greater, but from Ninjalabs they mitigate problems with various rules. Even so, these clients notice other problems: their servers then consume many more resources, because they have to request bots that arrive from everywhere and that would normally be stopped by the Cloudflare service. Suddenly infrastructure needs rise, and on top of the attempts to manage bots can end up blocking legitimate traffic. A true nightmare, Martínez explains. “It is more a matter of image and helplessness” Htcmanía It is a well -known mobile users forum that has also been affected by these indiscriminate IPS blockages. Its creator and owner confirmed it, Jorge Burruecowhich told us that “both the payment service and the free cloudflare has given us problems” because “they have ended up blocking all the IPS” that uses its platform. Even so, he explains, the blockages are irregular. “It does not always happen in all the big games. I do not know if it is random or forget, but for example on Saturday there were no blockages on my page. Yes on Sunday,” he explains. Burrueco adds that his exposure is relative, but sensitive: “As you know, it only affects Movistar, Digi fiber connections, and some more operator. Taking into account that the percentage of users who enter HTCMania must be around 65%, that remaining … Read more

The great fortunes are bleeding with the collapse of the bag. Warren Buffett has hit his old recipe again

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Financial markets are living A moment of maximum turbulence causing the value of the actions in all markets in the world to collapse from its opening. According to Bloombergsince Thursday, the 500 greatest fortunes in the world already They have lost more than 536,000 million dollarswhile its companies record falls valued by more than 5.4 billion dollars, As he pointed out Reuters. However, meanwhile chaos and justifying the nickname of “Oracle of Omaha”, Warren Buffett seems to have anticipated the collapse taking the appropriate measures to minimize losses. Buffett is the only one whose fortune is not written in red numbers. The devil knows more by old … When Warren Buffett began to get rid of his positions in Some of the main technological ones They were shot in the stock market, many thought that the veteran investor had lost their heads. They continued without understanding anything when the veteran investor accumulated the more than 325,000 million dollars that he obtained from their sales, and He preferred to pay taxes for them to invest again. Today, those who laughed, don’t laugh so much. As stock indices such as S&P 500 are minced– With a collapse of 17% since its February peak, and the Nasdaq falling more than 20% – Buffett’s decision to bet on liquidity and low -risk assets demonstrates its ability to Read the market with enviable precision. His movement has not only allowed him to protect the capital of Berkshire Hathaway, but also increase your own fortune In a context where the vast majority of Milmillonarios is registering losses in the assessment of their assets. As a good veteran In this investmentBuffett’s recipe for these moments of uncertainty is not very different from the one that applied in previous stock market crises: “There is simply no way of knowing how much actions can fall in a short period. However, when important falls occur, they offer extraordinary opportunities for those who are not limited by debts.” In a Opinion article for The New York Times In 2008, the millionaire gave another track about How to anticipate and act before moments like the one we are living: “A simple rule dictates my way of buying: being afraid when others are greedy and being greedy when others are afraid.” After capitalizing a good part of his actions, Warren Buffett now You have the portfolio to overflow with cash and ready to take advantage of generalized falls to buy the best bargains. Therefore, now all eyes are put in the next Buffett movements. The big fortunes lose, but buffett resists The main fortunes record losses so far this year except Warren Buffett. Source: Bloomberg The impact that the announcement of The commercial war that has begun USA has especially hit The technological magnateslike Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose fortunes have been reduced in 130,000 million and 45.200 million Of dollars, respectively, in what we have been in 2025. Larry Ellison, meanwhile, has left 42.1 billion dollars after the last falls and Mark Zuckerberg has lost 28.8 billion so far from 2025. Faced with this scenario, Warren Buffett’s fortune has remained out of generalized losses. Berkshire Hathaway class B actions even They have risen 7.7% this yeardespite suffering a slight correction in the last week, the result of the widespread fall of international bags. But it keeps its green counter so far this year. While others suffer the impact of the international exhibition of their portfolios and the fall of technological ones, Buffett did the homework in 2024diversified their investments to focus on sectors less exposed to imports and with a strong presence in the United States, such as insurance, energy and transport. Buffett not only withdrew a good part of the money from Berkshire Hathaway investors, but also chose to invest that liquidity in short -term treasure bonds, whose profitability has recently increased, thus raffling the collapse of the markets. In his Annual letter to shareholders February, Buffett explained that these bonds offer a “predictable gain” and one effective volatility protection of the market. This approach allowed him to avoid the generalized losses that have affected investors exposed to sectors such as technology, where Apple – one of the old jewels of their portfolio – dropped 28% since its peak, due to their high dependence on China. “Berkshire’s shareholders may be sure that we will always display a substantial part of their money in shares,” he said in his letter, although he adds that, as always, his goal is Companies with good foundations. In Xataka | In January, a group of millionaires supported the US president: they have already lost 209,000 million dollars in their mandate In Xataka | In 2000 Amazon fell 80% in the stock market. Bezos’ response leaves a clear lesson: we must not trust the markets Image | Unspash (Maxim Hopman), Flickr (Fortune Live Media)

streaming has generated a Milmillionaire bleeding in Apple accounts

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Since, a few months ago, Apple started taking Expenditure containment measures related to its audiovisual productions it was learned that the company not only had to abandon its project to become a Major that competed with Disney or Warner in its same terms. In addition, the expense generated by Apple TV+ was excessive. But today we have known that it goes far beyond what the most pessimistic calculations ventured: it loses one billion dollars a year. It is not another Netflix. Today, In an interview for Variety commemorating his 25 years at the head of Netflix, Ted Sarandos responded thus when asked about his impressions about Apple’s role in the streaming: “I don’t understand it beyond a marketing play, but they are very intelligent people. They may see something we don’t.” Saraonds’s words can be an order or not, but it is clear who carries the lead: in July, Bloomberg spoke Of the immediate cuts that Apple TV+ was going to start because it had less vision in a month than Netflix in one day. The abyss between both competitors is indisputable. One billion a month. The Information Publish a report that analyzes the financial statement of the platform after five years. It states that Apple TV+ loses more than one billion dollars a year. The specialized medium in Apple 9to5Mac Comment on the articlestating that although it had always been said that the platform was not profitable, it had never had such concrete and forceful figures associated with its losses. A lot of investment, few income. The explanation of these spectacular figures is at the high cost of Apple films in recent years. The very expensive ‘Napoleon‘by Ridley Scott and’The Moon Killer‘Martin Scorsese were the first, but the authentic financial bomb was’ argylle’, which raised around 35 million dollars And it cost 200. After that, to a commercial candy like ‘Wolfs‘, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, predicted a storm, and was released directly on the platform, with Apple assuming losses that perhaps they would have been greater carrying it to cinemas. The thrust of ‘separation’. The funny thing is that, at the image level, Apple TV+ goes through an excellent time. ‘Separation‘It has passed, with its long -awaited second season, of being a product of cult to reveal itself as one of the most unanimously acclaimed series of the moment. It is said that in the last month he could have reported two million users to the platform, which would be added to the 45 that The Information affirmed that he had at the end of 2024. And on the horizon, the return of ‘Ted Lasso‘. Apple is going well. However, these certainly disastrous numbers for the streaming They do not imply that the company does wrong. The last quarter, Apple closed the year with 124.3 billion dollars of incomeof which 36,300 could be considered benefits. Despite some obstacles, such as the fall in device sales in China, the business works perfectly for Apple; Even subscriptions, section where Apple TV+is, but also Apple Music, App Store, ICloud or Apple Care, paid great, growing 14% compared to the previous year. That is, bad news for Apple TV+, but they are certainly far from making the colossus staggered. Header | Apple In Xataka | Prime video is becoming an “aggregator” of other platforms. And the arrival of Apple TV+ is the last example

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