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Money doesn’t buy happiness. But it does give a monstrous Bugatti television that folds itself

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A 137-inch television that, when you are not watching it, folds by itself and remains as a luxury decorative structure in your home. Yes, it is as crazy and absurd as it is real. Bugatti has presented to the world “his” first televisionone of the most spectacular on the planet. Of course, it needed a little help, so it relied on the work of C Seed, an Austrian display brand focused entirely on luxury. WTF. The chances of seeing the video of this television and not surprisingly, in my opinion, they are very low. In fact, the first thing I thought when I saw the video was that it was generated by AI. Mistake. The concept is “simple”: a television in 110 and 137 inch formats that folds in 45 seconds and remains as a very expensive decorative element in the home. Beyond the eccentricity, on a technological level it is truly amazing. Original design of the C SEED N1. Two of them can be configured in dozens of options. Bugatti version. Who is behind. The truth is that Bugatti did not invent this television, it was presented by the Austrian company C SEED in 2022 under the name N1, and it began to be sold to order in 2024. C SEED is a young company, founded in 2009 and with headquarters and production plant in Vienna. From the beginning, it focused on luxury televisions and solutions, both for mansions and superyachts, events, etc. It’s a small, absolutely niche company, so if you’ve never heard of it… you’re not alone. The bug. The Bugatti N1 is a complete redesign of the original N1, with materials and lines used in the Bugatti Tourbillona four-wheeled hypercar million of euros. And as for specs… 4K UHD resolution, HDR10+. Foldable microLED technology (five panels). Wisdom Audio self-deploying speaker system. Swivel system up to 180 degrees to the right and left. 1,000 nits brightness. 3m wide, 1.7 meters high, less than 10cm thick in its 137-inch version. 680 kilos for the 137-inch version. The five panels of the television unfolding. How is it possible. C SEED has not created a 137-inch folding panel, the TV is made up of a total of five microLED panels. This is one of the keys: it is not a typical panel with sub-panel hinges visible at a visible level, they are rigid and independent panels. The company has patented its own “Adaptive Joint Calibration” system, in other words, its electronic calibration system to align panel joints with millimeter precision in real time, making them indistinguishable to the eye. MicroLED technology is self-emissive, in which each LED is an individual, independent light emitter. This means that the system can precisely control the intensity, color and on-time of each pixel individually, including the pixels that are on the edge of each panel, next to the board. Go deeper. C Seed does not go into details about the manufacturing of the mechanism that rotates and hides the panel, although the documentation of the panel reveals some images of its interior. In them, we can perfectly appreciate the cavities that house the microLED modules, the screws and some of the joints of the system. In addition to this system, the audio system, signed Wisdom Audio, is especially striking. The speakers are hidden within one of the panel structures, and appear only when we need to play audio. The rest of the time they are hidden, to keep the design as clean as possible. I want one. The C SEED website only allows you to configure the television. Once we have done so, we submit the request and the company will contact us. Depending on the materials chosen, the customizations we want to make and the size, the price of the previous version was around $200,000, so add another few thousand for this Bugatti version. Image | C SEED In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

Adidas has managed to get all of Spain to wear the National Team shirt. It has also managed to get almost no one to buy it from Adidas

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I’m sorry I can’t link it but the other day I read a tweet that said something like: “In these moments of extreme polarization, there is only one thing that unites all of Spain: the fake National Team shirt.” In cascade, there were the answers. One after another, fans fed up with the abusive price of football shirts, an accessory that It is already transversal to the sport itself but for which many are not willing to pay more (much more) than 100 euros for a product that you can have at home for just over 20 euros. At the gates of a World Cup, with a Spanish team that excites and a shirt that has had a deep impact since its presentation, the team’s second kit, the white one, can already be seen everywhere. And, of course, it’s not always official. It complicates your month According to Bankinter datathe median salary in Spain for a man was about 26,000 euros in 2024, the latest data published. That of women was just over 22,000 euros. That leaves us with a gross salary, of course, in 14 payments of just over 1,800 euros for them and less than 1,600 euros for women. With that salary, whoever wants to buy the official shirt of the Spanish National Team, replicating all its details, will be dedicating around 15% of the money that enters their account at the end of the month. Official Authentic T-shirt: 150 euros Player name: 20 euros FIFA patch: 10 euros Euro champion patch: 7 euros The accounts come out quickly and easily: 187 euros It is what it costs to wear the same shirt with which Lamine Yamal will take the field in Atlanta (United States) on June 15 at 6:00 p.m. (peninsular time) to face Cape Verde. That, of course, if you manage to get your hands on any of the t-shirts that They have already flown from the Adidas website. For much less, just 23 euros, you can have a replica at home in less than two weeks. It’s not that I asked one of the many in my close circle who have already gotten one. There is simply a website that ranks ahead of Adidas itself on Google. The German company says that “Spain’s away shirt pays tribute to this country’s incredible literary legacy, with intricate prints inspired by manuscripts, a nod to the cultural depth of the Spanish language that connects culture and football.” Let’s say that that other website does not offer such a literary description but what is certain is that there must be plenty of clients. The (pen)last example The second Adidas kit has highlighted the rise of fake t-shirts replicas and the enormous popularity they have garnered in recent years. Sid Lowea British sports journalist welcomed by the Asturian community, echoed this article in Digital Freedom in which the enormous popularity of Spain’s second shirt is mentioned. The one that no one seems to have paid at the price that Adidas lists on its website. Click on the image to go to the original tweet The responses criticizing the high price of the official set and the defense of getting one, let’s say, less official are repeated one after another. Click on the image to go to the original tweet The answers seem to concentrate each and every one of the issues surrounding the underworld that football shirts have become in recent years. Those of us who have dressed Saturdays, Sundays and summer holidays in football shirts and shirts know that replicas do not have the same feel as an original. No? Sure? Without a doubt, it looks a lot like him. It’s something I’ve known from conversations with friends and because… well, he who is free from sin… An example: Real Madrid shirt 99/00. Pushed by the nostalgia effect dosmilerothe aftershocks multiplied their presence in the streets. To the point that Adidas took advantage of the pull to reissue them and make good money. At least, to get mine and that of enough fans who spend our 110 euros to buy a shirt with more than a quarter of a century of history. In my case it was because I wanted to have the shirt with which Raúl dribbled past Santiago Cañizares to score Real Madrid’s third goal in the Champions League Final in Paris. He wanted “the one on Eighth”, the black one. Because the white one had already been given to me a few months before and this one was not entirely true. And, despite this, I had to go to the closet to rescue the shirt that I was wearing when I was eight years old and had an R. Carlos (3) on the back to certify that it did not have the same shiny patina that the official one had. Nor was the stitching of the shield the same, of course. No, it wasn’t the same, but it was almost identical.. And that is enough for many, many of us to wear the shirt of our childhood on the street again. It doesn’t matter if the shirt is from Raúl’s best years, Djalminha wearing Feiraco on the chest of Deportivo de la Coruña or Maradona carrying Buitoni to levels of popularity they never imagined. They all share a single code: they are fashionable. So much so that Adidas has not hesitated to reissue iconic designs from the nineties and 2000s. Without going any further and taking advantage of the return of the World Cup to the United States, For 110 euros you can dress like Clemente’s Spain in 1994. At least, the Germans have had the detail of not reissuing the second kit, forever anchored in a Luis Enrique bloodied. The football shirt phenomenon has become a transversal fashion that transcends genres, decades and teams. They are there when you go to buy bread, when you have a party with friends and when you go to the summer music festival. That has also created a … Read more

eight laptops that you can buy soon with the new NVIDIA RTX Spark chip

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The market of Windows laptop processors It seems that he is more alive than ever. After Qualcomm’s arrival with its ARM chips, MediaTek and NVIDIA have just officially announced their counterattack: NVIDIA RTX Spark. This is a new generation of processors designed specifically for slim laptops and compact computers running Windows 11. He Microsoft Surface Ultra It will be one of these laptops that will go on sale soon with this new chip from NVIDIA and MediaTek. It is an improvement over the previous generation that has Snapdragon 1,799 euros. Of the new generation with the new SoC, the price of the next Microsoft laptop is still unknown. Microsoft Surface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 15” touch screen | Snapdragon® X Elite | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD | Latest Model, 7th edition | Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ARM efficiency and RTX power Until now, ultra-thin laptops with long battery life had to sacrifice performance in demanding video games. The alliance of these two giants seeks precisely to end this problem. MediaTek brings its experience in the design of SoC low power consumption, low latency wireless connectivity and intelligent power management. For its part, NVIDIA puts its graphic architecture on the table RTX and its local Artificial Intelligence ecosystem. The result (according to both companies) promises hyper-realistic visual effects and brutal graphic power on devices that neither heat up nor consume the battery. Although not all the technical details have been revealed, the architecture of this chip already shows its intentions to compete in the high rangethanks to key features such as: Advanced local AI: prepared to run AI agents and relatively heavy workflows directly on the device, which could reduce the constant dependence on cloud services for everyday tasks. Up to 128 GB of unified memory: It is projected with a high-capacity, high-speed unified memory architecture designed by MediaTek, an approach reminiscent of the strategy applied by Apple in its M series processors. Cutting-edge manufacturing: The chip benefits from the collaboration between MediaTek and TSMC, which points to optimized power consumption and even notable power efficiency under demanding workloads. Laptops that have been presented and will integrate this chip With the presentation of RTX Spark we have also been able to discover a new series of laptops that will integrate this SWc. However, it is worth keeping in mind that these teams have not yet landed in stores. If you urgently need to renew your computer and prefer not to wait for the next few months, we have selected some of the most interesting proposals that you can find today among the current generation models after presenting the features that the new models will have. Microsoft Surface Ultra: The upcoming Surface Laptop Ultra aims to become the most powerful device in Microsoft history when it debuts at the end of the year. Its great hardware assets will be a spectacular 2,000-nit Mini-LED screen, a haptic trackpad and total connectivity without sacrificing ports. All of this powered by the new RTX Spark chip, which promises graphics performance on par with a laptop RTX 5070 and the ability to process advanced Artificial Intelligence locally and 100% privately. The previous generation of this Microsoft Surface (which is the current one) comes with a 15-inch touch screen, Snapdragon X Elite as the brain, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of SSD storage and Copilot+ PC. Microsoft Surface Laptop | Copilot+ PC | 15” touch screen | Snapdragon® X Elite | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD | Latest Model, 7th edition | Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Asus ProArt P16 and P14: aimed squarely at creative professionals, the new ProArt P16 and P14 will stand out for their 120 Hz OLED touch screens. Inside they will hide a brutal configuration of up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 1 TB or 2 TB SSD storage options depending on the size of the chassis and all-terrain connectivity to work without limitations. The current generation of Asus ProArt It can be purchased with different configurations. For example, this one that costs 2,399 euros It comes with a 16-inch screen, AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and Windows 11 Home as the operating system. ASUS ProArt P16 OLED H7606WM-SC056W The price could vary. We earn commission from these links MSI Prestige N16: This 2-in-1 convertible seeks to redefine the concept of premium ultraportable equipment. Although the details about its price, dimensions and other technical components are kept secret, the company has confirmed that it will have a spectacular 16-inch OLED screen with UHD resolution and a peak brightness of more than 1,000 nits. If you don’t want to wait for the new MSI Prestige, you have the current generationalso with a 16-inch screen with 2.8K resolution, Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD storage. MSI Prestige 16 AI+ C3MG-013ES 16″ laptop The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Dell XPS 16: The Dell XPS with RTX Spark chip will maintain its iconic 16.3-inch aluminum chassis, establishing itself as a workstation with a continuous design but with renewed power. Although the specific technical details and its starting price remain unknown, the firm has confirmed that it will retain versatile connectivity with three USB-C ports, HDMI, audio jack and SD card reader. For those who do not want to wait for the current generation of the Dell XP, it is also a good option. In your 13 inch version costs 1,679 euros on Amazon and comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB storage. Laptop DELL The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HP OmniBook and Ultra 16: HP has announced the development of its new OmniBook Although the brand has preferred to keep the technical specifications and prices secret, it has announced that these devices will come optimized … Read more

Now they need more than two million euros to buy a flat

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Madrid has become one of the favorite cities by the great Latin American fortunes, and this migratory movement of millionaires to Spain is already being noticed in international rankings. The latest report ‘The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report‘from the consultant Henley & Partners places the Spanish capital among the main destinations for millionaires from the other side of the pond. The capital is no longer only gaining visibility for its offer of urban life and its luxury real estate marketnow it also does it as the formula to own a “pied-à-terre” in a city on each side of the Atlantic that the map is changing of demand in the most expensive neighborhoods of the city. A magnet for large assets. According to data from the report of Henley & PartnersMadrid brings together nearly 34,900 millionaires, about 5,900 more people than three years ago, which equals growth of 20%. The consulting firm considers millionaires to be individuals with investable liquid assets of $1 million or more. This report points out the possibility that Madrid could welcome 200 more millionaires in the next twelve months. In the last decade, the number of millionaires in the capital has grown 3%. Of the almost 35,000 millionaires who live in Madrid, 72 can be considered centimillionaires, that is, with assets of more than 100 million dollars, and eight billionaires with assets of more than 1,000 million dollars. Your home remains your most valuable asset. Data of another study from the consulting firm Knight Frank points out that Latin American investors maintain a relevant weight of 26% in real estate purchase operations prime from Madrid, while those from the United States rise to 8% and the United Kingdom to 5%. Henley & Partners explains in its report that Madrid is positioned as one of the cities that best consolidates the most determining aspects in the migratory decision of foreign millionaires: stability, private education and quality of life for families with large assets. The pressure is noticeable in the real estate market. As and as highlighted cnnof the 44,680 foreign residents of the Salamanca district, the most exclusive area of ​​Madrid, about 21,740 come from Latin American countries. This high demand has caused the price of housing in those areas to skyrocket. According to report data annual Diza Market, in 2014, with one million euros you could buy 2.88 standard homes in the prime areas of Madrid, while in 2026, the same investment barely covers 1.17. That pressure on prices has been shifting to other areas of the cityand postal codes such as Ibiza- Niño Jesús have registered an increase of 195.1% in the prices of their properties since 2014 or Aravaca 119.2%. The square meter has skyrocketed. The study by the real estate consultancy Diza has detected a strong rise in prices in the high-end housing market during the first quarter of 2026 in the most exclusive neighborhoods, which have gone from having an average price of 4,166 euros/m2 in 2014, to 11,928 euros in 2026. The average amount of each operation in these prime districts of the capital is around two million euros, and more than half of them are carried out under the ownership of family officesSICAVs, Socimis or other investment vehicles. Spain is fashionable among millionaires. Madrid is not the only one that monopolizes the arrival of large assets Latin Americans and the United States. All this, despite the fact that in April 2025, the Government ended with the “Golden Visa”which allowed foreigners to obtain residency in Spain through a real estate investment of at least 500,000 euros. Just like the report highlights of Henley & Partners The Costa del Sol maintains its appeal among centimillionaires, remaining in 56th place on the list of places with the largest population of millionaires with more than 100 million dollars, while Barcelona is located just on the edge of the top 100 cities with more millionaires. In Xataka | Madrid has been filled with Latin American millionaires, so Spanish millionaires are creating clubs without them Image | Unsplasg (Florian Wehde)

China can’t buy the best Nvidia chips. So Alibaba has decided to connect theirs and sell them as if they were one

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Alibaba does not want its infrastructure artificial intelligence (AI) continues to depend on Nvidia technologies. Little by little, the largest technology companies in China are assuming the request that Xi Jinping’s government made them at the beginning of October 2024: as far as possible They had to use chips produced in China. Ten months later this recommendation became a requirement. And the data centers that belong to the State throughout the country had to use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits on their servers. This scenario especially favors Huawei, Moore Threads and Cambricon Technologies because they are Top AI GPU Manufacturers from China, but it also works great for Alibaba. In fact, Alibaba Cloud, its cloud computing subsidiary, has taken a very important step forward. A few days ago it presented a new chip for AI, the Zhenwu M890, and made official a very ambitious itinerary that describes what solutions it will develop over the next three years. This GPU has been designed by T-Head, the semiconductor division that Alibaba founded in 2018. It incorporates 144 GB of HBM3 memory and achieves an interconnection transfer speed between chips of up to 800 GB/s. As we are about to discover, this last feature is essential in the strategy that Alibaba has developed to compete in the AI ​​hardware market. Alibaba is going to spend $53 billion on its infrastructure According to Alibaba, the performance of its Zhenwu M890 chip is triple that of its predecessor. Additionally, it has been designed to perform well both during training of cutting-edge AI models and during inference. An important note: inference is broadly the computational process carried out by language models with the purpose of generating responses that correspond to the requests they receive. Alibaba wants to compete face to face with Nvidia in the deployment of infrastructure for data centers However, there is another relevant fact that is worth not overlooking: in medium precision operations (FP16) the Zhenwu M890 chip reaches 0.6 petaflops, a performance comparable to that of Nvidia’s A100 GPU and three times higher than that of the H20 chip. On the other hand, the ICN Switch interconnection chip allows link up to 128 GPUs M890 so that they work in unison. Alibaba assures that this architecture makes these GPUs work as a single chip, which, on paper, will allow it to compete head-to-head with Nvidia in the deployment of infrastructure for data centers. Regarding the itinerary that will follow until 2028, this Chinese company has anticipated that it plans to launch the Zhenwu V900 during the third quarter of 2027. According to Alibaba, it will implement its own significantly improved parallel computing architecture, will have three times the performance of the M890 chip, will be supported by 216 GB of memory and will reach an interconnection transfer speed of 1,200 GB/s. The Zhenwu J900 will arrive during the third quarter of 2028 with another major architectural leap. This roadmap It reflects that Alibaba goes all out. In fact, it has also announced that it will support this plan with an investment in 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) over the next three years. Is the largest engagement of its kind in history of the company. Additionally, T-Head is planning its IPO to fund a more aggressive infrastructure investment program, which would put it in direct competition with Cambricon Technologies and Huawei’s Ascend line in the domestic AI chip market. Image | Alibaba More information | Alibaba | ChinaDaily In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. Your plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end Chinese AI chips sold abroad. And China knows how to defend itself

22% of the electric cars we buy in Europe are produced in China. It’s just the tip of the iceberg

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One in five electric cars purchased in Europe are Chinese. Chinese of origin, but it does not mean that their manufacturers are Chinese. However, it is a fact that does not explain the entire story. Chinese companies continue to gain ground in Europe and tariffs are clearly not slowing down their expansion. 22%. The data is brought Benchmark Mineral Intelligence in a report explaining how much ground Chinese manufacturers are gaining in Europe. According to them, 22% of the electric cars that have been purchased in Europe between January and April 2026 come from China. The figure is striking because it grows compared to the 19% that was registered last year. But, above all, because it grows by 27% compared to the same period in 2025. In the first four months, 400,000 electric cars from China were sold in Europe. Chinese and non-Chinese. As we said, the data includes all the electric cars that we have bought in Europe arriving from China. This is relevant because the European Union imposed tariffs to the cars that came from there alleging that the Chinese manufacturers are financially doped and that they do not compete on equal terms. But those trade barriers They also prevailed over European manufacturers who bring their cars from China. Tesla also suffers from it with every Tesla Model 3 sold in Europe. The consequences of these policies have been especially harmful for Seat SAwith a Cupra Tavascan that has barely been sold and that has had to eat the tariffs to be able to have a competitive price. Duty? As we pointed out, the European Union already imposed a 10% tariff on all cars that arrive from China to our market. Defending that many of the brands that came to play on price, They imposed new specific trade barriers for each brandpunishing more those who, in their opinion, had received the most aid from the State or had collaborated the least with the investigation. Rodhium Group shows that they have had a limited deterrent effect over time. When they were lifted in October 2024, China had exported 44,000 electric cars to Europe in a single month. Immediately, the figure plummeted but in February the same sales level was reached again in Europe. But, in addition, the number of plug-in hybrids has skyrocketed. While the sale of purely combustion cars from China has grown, the plug-in hybrid has experienced brutal growth, going from 7,000 units in October 2024 (when the tariffs were applied) to 26,000 units in February 2026. Among the best sellers. In addition to these general market figures, some Chinese manufacturers have managed to make a breakthrough in the markets where they have the most hope. They collect in Autovista24 that BYD was the fourth company in Europe that sold the most electric cars between January and March 2026. Its market share in this space reached 6.8% and is only surpassed by Volkswagen, BMW and Tesla (the latter with 7.3% and BMW with 7.4%). BYD is also, of course, the one that is growing the most, marking 154.7% more sales than last year in the same period. Among the 10 best-selling electric cars in Europe, the Leapmotor T03 It also sneaks into the list. If we look at plug-in hybrids, BYD has the best-selling model. The BYD Seal U is the car with this mechanic that has placed the most units on the market between January and March 2026 with 21,494 units. He is followed by Jaecoo 7 with 17,434 units. And BYD manages to place Atto 2 as the tenth best-selling plug-in hybrid in Europe. The market share. In global terms, S&P Global points out that in 2025 the market share of Chinese manufacturers in Europe was 5.8%. But Automotive News points out that last March, when Chinese manufacturers broke their export record to Europe in terms of volume, the market share already shot up to 9.41%. If we talk about quota, the record from December 2025 (9.48%) still stands. The vast majority of analysts assure that these figures will continue to grow over the years. In S&P Global They believe that by 2035 the market share of Chinese manufacturers will reach 15.5%. Because? What we are seeing, according to analysts, is the tip of the iceberg. BYD is a good reflection of how China has discovered a loophole through which to enter Europe. The brand came with the idea of ​​bringing only electric cars, it tried the BYD Seal U in its plug-in hybrid version and has discovered that it is a success. The Chery Group has not hesitated to bet on this technology. Geely has also come up with a plug-in hybrid upon arrival. And the same thing happens with Deepal, from Changan. These cars have no tariffs and it allows them to gain market share because they can push their prices much higher. In addition, it allows them to give a relatively easy exit to cars that are overproduced for the Chinese marketwhich has slowed down and is beginning to see itself unable to assimilate more growth in its sales. Without forgetting that more and more companies are looking for produce in Europe or Türkiye to skip tariffs. BYD will manufacture in Hungary and in this last country. The Group Chery already operates in Barcelona. Leapmotor will also do it in Spain and everything indicates that the number of models will increase destined for our country. Xpeng already uses factories in Austria. And one fact: S&P Global It anticipates that 44% of the Chinese cars we buy in 2035 will be manufactured in Europe or Türkiye. Photo | In Xataka | The plug-in hybrid is China’s Trojan horse: we looked at the electric car and its great weapon was the combustion engine

Chinese Big Tech can now buy Nvidia GPUs. The problem for Nvidia is that they don’t need it now

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The United States and China are immersed in a trade and technological war that has caught the line of fire to the AI ​​giant: Nvidia. The situation is that Nvidia must prioritize AI companies from the United States to guarantee the supremacy of this country, but as a company it would be interested in taking a bite out of the giant Chinese market. And the problem is twofold: it has not been able to do so for a long time due to trade vetoes, but now that it seems that it can sell its famous H200 to China, it turns out that China has turned the page. More or less. green light. Nvidia has gone from having a monopoly on AI GPUs in China to have a 0% quota. These are the words of the CEO, Jensen Huang, and the reason is the aforementioned trade restrictions between the powers that prevented Nvidia from selling its most powerful products to the Asian giant. Huang has spent months insisting on Donald Trump’s government to allow them to sell with a very clear logic: China is going to develop its alternatives and what better way to make a profit until then. The situation is gone relaxing at the end of last year and at the beginning of this to get to the point where we are now. According to Reutersthe US Department of Commerce already allows ten Chinese companies and distributors such as Foxconn and Lenovo acquire that long-awaited H200the company’s second most powerful AI chip. Good news for the company. Or they should be if it weren’t for the fact that the Chinese industry is going its own way looking home. Alibaba, ByteDance, JD.com and Tencent are the Chinese giants that can supposedly already buy H200. Up to 75,000 chips each, to be exact. However, it is noted that they have not yet made any shipments. Here there is a mix between very restrictive bureaucracy and, above all, that emphasis on national development. Tencent, for example, noted in September last year that they had no intention of producing AI chips, but that they were going to invest a lot of money in domestic partners. For example, they are in the process of adapting their infrastructure to be able to connect Huawei’s Ascend platform (particularly the Ascend 950 series) as the main training tool for large models. A few days ago, Tencent’s strategy director already pointed out that that strategy was still in place and that the company expects a significant increase in spending on AI GPUs designed in China. Manufacturing at home. Alibaba and Bytedance have a different approach. If Tencent is focusing on acquiring Huawei platforms, Alibaba and Bytedance are looking to create their own chips. Alibaba seeks to be the most powerful RISC-V chip created to date and it was reported that Bytedance wanted Samsung will manufacture its processor. In the end, whether buying from Huawei or developing the tool internally, the two approaches respond to the great national objective: that at least 50% of the data centers that belong to the State use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits in their servers. That is one of the great Chinese technological impulses of recent years, one of the crucial points of the Five-Year Plan for the development of the country and, above all, the strategy that Nvidia had been warning the United States about for some time. The age of inference. Because this period of ostracism to which the US condemned China has served for the country to develop three very clear alternatives to Nvidia and encourage companies that are already working with models to develop their own hardware. This is important especially in the new AI framework we are entering, that of inference. Although the AI ​​will continue to train and GPUs will be needed for this, the next step is inference, the agentic era in which the processor or CPU is very important. AMD is moving there, same as Intel or ARMand precisely processors are something that Huawei is good at and in which the Chinese giants can shine as much as their American counterpart by developing chips tailored to their models and needs. Also, as pointed out in CNBChaving your own chips means you don’t have to fight with anyone else in a time when there is scarcity and, of course, if you don’t have to buy from an outsider, there is an improvement in the gross income margin. juicy cake. And this leaves Nvidia in that uncomfortable situation, one in which it wants to participate, but in which it seems that it is no longer needed as much as before. Because China is developing its chips for this new era of AI and Nvidia is running into a final boss called bureaucracy and the pressure groups of the ‘Make America Great Again‘. The first is due to the slowness of the export order processes, something that takes months when orders should be much more agile. The second are the aforementioned pressure groups that hold that any deals Nvidia makes with Chinese companies are less chips for American companies, something that should not be allowed. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are developing their alternatives and Huawei wants to flood the market with 750,000 chips this year, three times more than its shipments in 2025, and Nvidia is falling short of a $50 billion pie. In Xataka | The US has the best AI models. China has something else: AI too cheap to care about

If you have half a million euros left over, you can buy it

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The Chinese company Unitree Robotics just presented the GD01, a manned robot that combines bipedal locomotion with movement on four limbs. Wow, a mecha that seems straight out of the movies but already has a price and production date. It already exists and can be purchased. According to Unitree, the GD01 is a high-strength alloy machine that weighs about 500 kilos with a pilot on board. To control it, simply place yourself in the cabin that incorporates the torso. Its starting price is 3.9 million yuan (about 538,000 euros at the current exchange rate). The company defines it as the world’s first mass-produced transformable mecha. What it can do. In the video published The company shows the GD01 walking upright on two legs and knocking down a brick wall with one hand. Next, the robot reconfigures its chassis and begins to move supported by four limbs, literally like a Transformers. China and robotics. The GD01 comes at a time when Chinese robotics companies are gaining ground notably compared to its American competitors, driven by lower production costs and greater manufacturing speed. According to consulting firm Omdia, Chinese companies accounted for almost 90% of global sales of humanoid robots in 2025. Unitree alone shipped more than 5,500 units last year, according to share SCMP, compared to the approximately 150 units shipped by each of the large American firms such as Tesla, Figure AI or Agility Robotics. The price gap. Unitree’s humanoid entry robot, the R1it costs around 5,500 euros to change. Its Chinese rival AgiBot has a simplified model for about 12,800 euros. And on the other hand, Elon Musk has estimated that the Tesla Optimus It could cost between $20,000 and $30,000 in the future. The GD01 is a different bet from the rest, especially to provide maneuverability in industrial environments. Unitree is in full expansion. The company already sells its R1 and G1 humanoid robots, as well as the Go2 robot dog, in international markets such as North America, Europe and Japan through AliExpress. Their robots have begun to appear in all kinds of environments and events (in fact we brought one in the last Xataka Awards). In March, Unitree also requested to go public in the Chinese market, with a financing plan of about 4.2 billion yuan, of which 85% would go to research and development. The question that remains in the air. The GD01 is, for now, a demonstration of technological capacity and a declaration of intent. It is also a really eye-catching product, which is precisely what the company is looking for: notoriety. It is certainly achieving it, although it is still up in the air whether its technological capabilities exceed those currently found in the industrial environments for which it is intended. Now, what’s cool is cool. In Xataka | We had already assumed that AI and robots were superior to humans at chess. Now they are also good at ping-pong

There are people who buy plants to purify the air in their home. The reality is that you are wasting your time

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When we want to give a little life to our homes, the first thing we think about is putting in several plants with the idea that, in addition to giving it a more natural touch, they will also clean the air we breathe. And it’s no wonder, because all you have to do is take a look around the internet or through the hallways of any nursery to find us. with the promise that pothos, mother-in-law’s tongue or ribbon are “natural purifiers” that eliminate toxins. But It’s not like that. The origin of the idea. To understand why we blindly believe in the purifying power of the plants that we can have in our home, the responsibility lies with NASA and its classic studies published in the 80s. Here, in their quest to find ways to clean the air on space stations, researchers placed different plants in hermetically sealed chambers and injected volatile organic compounds that were partly removed by the plants. This was very relevant, but the extrapolation to the general population, not so much. And these investigations were carried out in an airtight chamber in a laboratory, and at the moment a home or an office is not hermetically closed, but there is the possibility of air constantly entering and leaving through windows, doors or cracks. But this detail has not resonated so much with the population. A bath of reality. This arrived in 2019, where a study from Drexel University analyzed a dozen previous studies to evaluate actual plant performance using a standard metric: the clean air delivery rate, or CADR. Here the conclusion reached is that potted plants do not improve indoor air quality in a relevant way. And the explanation is purely mechanical, since the normal ventilation of any building eliminates volatile organic compounds at a rate faster than the absorption capacity of an indoor plant. Size matters. With this premise, for the plants to match the purification achieved by the ventilation system of a standard building or the simple act of opening windows, you would need between 10 and 1,000 plants per square meter. I mean, you would have to literally turn your living room into a dense, impassable rainforest to notice the difference. Very controlled exceptions. This does not mean that all pro-plant studies lie, but rather that context is everything, since some studies point to a decrease in CO₂ levels. A notable example is a study conducted in a school in Portugal, where flower pots were introduced into classrooms and an improvement in the air was measured. However, the scientists themselves warn that these are highly specific and controlled environments and their results cannot be mathematically extrapolated to what happens in the living room of a normal apartment or in a standard office. There is no evidence. Given all this that we already know, the authorities are sharp noting that there is no evidence that a reasonable number of indoor plants remove significant amounts of pollutants in homes and offices. What do we have to do? In order to improve air quality inside the home, the important thing here is to reduce the use of chemicals and avoid smoking indoors. In addition, opening the windows every day to renew the air is the key measure, as well as the installation of air purifiers, which are almost mandatory in many cases for people who have significant allergies. Images | freepik In Xataka | The countries that pollute the most in the world, gathered in a detailed graph

no car is more luxurious than the one no one can buy

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One hundred buyers have paid 3.5 million dollars for a Rolls-Royce that does not exist, that they have not seen and about which they know very little. The most surprising thing is that many other millionaires would have paid much more than those 3.5 million to be among that group of select owners. The British brand has been turning the inaccessible into the highest possible aspiration for a century and has used that FOMO of millionaires to promote their Project Nightingale, the first model of the new Rolls-Royce Coachbuild Collection. A concept of exclusive cars manufactured one by one in an artisanal way in which the first luxury is knowing that no one will be able to buy one like it. Do things like yesterday, with tomorrow’s technology The Nightingale Project is not a car itself, but a collection of fully customized bodies and artisanal manufacturing. The resulting car has the dimensions of a Phantom, but only has room for two people. Its design is inspired by the 16EX and 17EX prototypes that the brand developed in the 1920s. The name of the new model comes from “Le Rossignol”, the house that co-founder Henry Royce had on the French Riviera. Rolls-Royce 17ex from 1928 The new proposal from the British luxury brand is based on a 100% electric platform. According to the official note of Rolls-Royce, “the quiet, effortless delivery of power amplifies every characteristic that has defined the Rolls-Royce experience for more than a century.” The first 100 units of this new electric luxury concept are already sold and deliveries will not begin until well into 2028. Nowadays we see it as an eccentricity to make bodies by hand, but this was normal until Henry Ford generalized mass production of automobiles. However, until the late 1940s, all Rolls-Royces were produced one by one. The Nightingale Project recovers that artisanal and unique essence of the classic Rolls-Royce and adds the latest technology and exclusive luxury finishes of the brand, adapting it to the client’s taste. Although the brand announced this project only a few days ago, in reality the buyers of these first 100 units have been involved in the development since 2024, and this year they will accompany the engineers in tests in extreme climates. As explained CEO Chris Brownridge to Bloomberg: “Customers always ask us for more extraordinary cars. But we know that luxury does not lie only in having the car, but in the experience of knowing that they were present from the beginning,” said the manager. Luxury is no longer measured in money, it is measured in desire Antoine Tessier, CEO of duPont Registry Group and co-author of the report of the Boston Consulting Group on the future of the luxury car, puts it aptly described: “If the automaker tells you that you’re one of 900, that’s one thing. But if they say, ‘We’ll give you access to one of three,’ that’s where it becomes psychological or even egocentric. You can say, ‘I’m different.’ You’re no longer part of the richest 1%, you’re part of the 0.1%, and that makes you feel good.” It has been a long time since horses, cylinders or acceleration stopped being the main argument for selling luxury cars like those manufactured by Rolls-Royce. This already It’s not about cars, it’s about status and exclusivity. Rolls-Royce Project Nightingale According to Felix Stellmaszek, global director of BCG’s automotive practice, he stated in his report that “technical specifications are not even among the main reasons why people buy certain vehicles or certain brands. It is much more about the emotion and the overall experience that a brand offers. Access is essential.” According to data in this report, the US market for vehicles over $100,000 is valued at around $110 billion and could double in the next decade, registering annual growth of between 5% and 7%. For its part, the hyper-luxury segment (vehicles over $500,000) in which Rolls-Royce operates will grow at a rate of 5% over the next decade. The key to this segment is found in the scarcity and exclusivity. For this reason, luxury car manufacturers are investing in their customization “ateliers.” The billing of customization workshop of Ferrari has grown so much that, according to official dataof the 1,525 million euros of profit it obtained in 2024, about 1,300 million euros of those profits were invoiced from units that had gone through the Ferrari Atelier. Porsche is in the same situation, which has stepped on the accelerator at its Sonderwunsch programin which the brand accepts orders from the owners to build exclusive units and 100% handmade of their cars. Lamborghini has also jumped on the bandwagon with the Opera Unica editionsin which unique versions of its series models are created by hand. However, the brand that has best known how to exploit this new need for extreme exclusivity among millionaires has been Bugatti with models like the Tourbillonwith which it does not matter if you have all the money in the world to pay for it, if you have not been selected as a potential owner of one of its few units, you can never have it. In Xataka | Bugatti has found a new vein: its customers spend an average of 500,000 euros on extras to personalize their car Image | Rolls-Royce

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