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It’s called “Acubi”, K-Pop stars wear it and Zara is already taking note

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The long-awaited return of the third season of Euphoria to HBO screens this April seemed to dictate a clear sentence about the future of fashion and beauty: excess is back, but in a darker and more intentional version. The series has abandoned the ethereal, innocent aesthetic of its beginnings to embrace high-contrast makeup, deep ’90s inspiration, and “fierce, unapologetic glam.” As Donni Davy saysthe main makeup artist of the fiction, this new season is “a campaign against clean-girl makeup.” However, while Hollywood pushes hard towards this drama and visual aggressiveness, there is a much quieter rebellion in the streets and on global social networks. An entire generation has decided to turn its back on the aesthetic chaos of the West to embrace Acubi: the quiet cool South Korean style with muted tones and loose silhouettes that is redefining the youth wardrobe. A trend born on the internet. The Acubi style is not an invention of recent weeks, but its current explosion is undeniable. The term comes from the south korean brand Acubi Cluba pioneer in mixing 2000s minimalism (Y2K), “subversive” basics and cyber fairy grunge. It is an aesthetic that avoids metallic pastel tones and takes refuge in a neutral color palette—white, black and gray—, constantly playing with proportions: tight-fitting tops or those with strategic cuts (cut-outs) combined with very loose cut pants. This fashion is gaining traction on platforms such as TikTok and Pinterest since the summer of 2022, standing out for being a creative and mature mix. The accelerator has been K-Pop. If Acubi has conquered the world, it has been thanks to its most powerful ambassadors. Heewon Yuh, youth fashion strategist at WGSN, clarify in cnn that “K-Pop functioned not so much as the origin, but as an accelerator, transforming a local style approach into a globally recognized look.” Female groups with global impact such as Blackpink, NewJeans and Aespa have taken this aesthetic to the stages and fashion weeks. In fact, Ning Ning and Winter, vocalists of Aespa, they showed off their best performance of the Acubi style, dominated by black and asymmetry, during the promotion of his album Armageddon. The data supports this aesthetic tsunami: the hashtag #Acubi generates about 65,000 daily posts on TikTok and 87,000 on Instagram. In addition, interest in Google Trends in Korean fashion reached its peak in the United Kingdom and the United States in February of this same 2026, coinciding with the appearance of idols at London Fashion Week. It is not a simple algorithmic whim. Jaana Jätyri, founder of the forecasting agency Trendstop, explains to cnn that “in periods of economic and social tension, fashion tends to soften.” The Acubi allows young people to be fashionable “without feeling on display.” Along the same lines, Rose Coffey, analyst at The Future Laboratory, maintains that new generations seek “stability and a sense of control” through modular and adaptable garments. However, this search for stability through neutrality does not convince everyone, and has a deeper and more controversial reading. The general obsession with derived aesthetics such as clean girl proposes a “neutral, apolitical and universalized” image. According to Marta De la Rochaan expert from the European University of Madrid, “we have lost the political and identity message that more striking urban tribes previously had.” This is where the analysis of journalist Noemí López Trujillo in Newtral provides a fundamental critical layer. Based on the test Reaction by Susan Faludi, details that the rise of aesthetics that require women to be discreet and ultra-clean can be read as a conservative and anti-feminist reaction. The goal, as journalist Brenda Otero explains, is that women “do not make mistakes, that they all appear equal, that there is no chaos, that they are static and do not change.” Fortunately, although the Acubi shares that silent color palette, its heritage grunge and its asymmetrical cuts save it from falling into the total and apolitical submission of the clean girlgiving it a subversive edge against the desire for women to go unnoticed. From digital niche to universal basic. Far from being a passing fad, the business model behind Acubi predicts a long life. The trend has already made the leap from screens to cash registers. Retailers of fast-fashion such as Shein and British brands such as Minga London already market these garments. Furthermore, mainstream market giants (high street) like Zara and COS have begun to incorporate similar loose silhouettes in their recent collections. Even haute couture has taken note: Gucci’s Cruise 2025 collection and Fendi’s recent catwalks They have presented minimalist designs relaxed people who drink from this same fountain. This success is also a victory for Soft Power South Korean. Professor Dal Yong Jin, from Simon Fraser University, explains in cnn that the growing visibility of Seoul aesthetics is a reflection of the expansion of the Hallyu (the Korean wave). Consuming Korean fashion has become deeply attractive to the international public, strengthening the economy and institutional image of the Asian country globally. The key lies in its extreme practicality. As illustrated in The Straits Times When analyzing urban youth in Singapore, this aesthetic triumphs in all types of contexts – even in hot and humid climates – thanks to the fact that it allows you to show off a well-groomed appearance effortlessly. It is a style that is built on interchangeable and breathable layers: a basic tank top, loose cargo pants and the finishing touch of some metallic accessories or sunglasses are enough to complete the look. Furthermore, although it was initially promoted by women, Acubi has broken gender barriers. Men’s fashion has embraced this trend under an influence Techwear. The “tiny top and big pants” formula translates to men wearing tight shirts or ripped sweaters paired with extra-wide parachute cargo pants, a line that retailers like Lewkin already carry under the “Acubi Men” label. The silent noise of a generation The current fashion landscape draws an interesting dichotomy. 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Millionaires are fleeing the Middle East. And their unexpected destination is a small Swiss canton called Zug.

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In 2011, during the Arab Spring, several European private banks detected an unusual phenomenon: Within days, high-net-worth clients began transferring large sums from the Middle East into accounts in Switzerland without prior notice. It wasn’t the first time something like this happened, but it was one of the fastest. That left a clear lesson in the financial sector: when stability falters, money does not wait to understand what happens, it simply moves. War moves money. we have been counting. The war in the Middle East is not only altering military and energy balances, it is also causing a silent movement but massive capital. What were previously fiscal decisions or lifestyle They have become urgent security decisions, where the priority is no longer optimizing profits, but protecting assets. In this context, an idea begins to prevail: billionaires do not wait for the situation to get worse, they go aheadand that movement is redrawing the global map of wealth in real time. Dubai is no longer an unquestionable refuge. For years, Dubai was the natural destination for international fortunes seeking stability, tax benefits and a secure environment in a complex region. However, the conflict with Iran has introduced a variable that previously seemed controlled: the direct risk. That perception has been enough for activate discrete outputs but constant numbers of businessmen, executives and large assets who are now looking for more predictable alternatives outside the gulf. This is not a collapse, but a change in mentality: when security is no longer absolute, attractiveness quickly erodes. Aerial view of Zug And, suddenly, Zug. In this displacement, the place that is attracting attention is not a great global capital, but a small swiss canton of just 135,000 inhabitants: Zug. Traditionally known for its role in commodities trading and, more recently, in crypto ecosystemhas become the first destination that many of these capitals look to. Reasons? counted the financial times that both wealth managers and bankers agree that demand has grown significantly since the beginning of the conflict, to the point that for many clients the request is direct and automatic: move there. The call effect. This growing flow is having immediate consequences in an already limited market, especially when it comes to housing. Demand has rapidly outstripped supply, generating intense competition for any property available and lines even for modest rentals. Added to this are administrative barriers that make entry difficult, especially for those who do not belong to the European Union, forcing residence to be linked to employment, investment or specific tax agreements. Zug attractsbut it does not absorb without friction. Switzerland reinforces its role in the geopolitics of money. What is happening in Zug is not an isolated phenomenon, but rather part of a broader dynamic in which Switzerland consolidates again as a refuge in times of uncertainty. Its political stability, its legal framework and its financial tradition make it a almost automatic destiny when overall risk increases. In fact, other cantons like Lugano have begun to capture part of this growing demand, expanding the phenomenon and confirming that the movement has only just begun. A map of wealth that changes with each conflict. In short, the result is a progressive movement of money from risk areas to safe enclaves, where each crisis acts as a catalyst. The war in the Middle East is accelerating this process and leaving one conclusion abundantly clear: global fortunes are no longer driven only by opportunity, but for threats. And in that new balance, places so small and discreet like Zug They can become, almost without noise, the great beneficiaries of an increasingly unstable world. Image | Schulerst , IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, LohriPR In Xataka | The most buoyant market right now is selling streaming and satellite images of US movements to Iran. In Xataka | Commercial aviation is based on very old aircraft. The Iran war is going to make it even worse

Someone has created the first complete advanced malware by vibecoding with AI. It’s called Voidlink and it leaves an important question

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For a long time, develop malware advanced seemed reserved for actors with experience, time and considerable technical capacity, especially in an environment in which operating systems and many platforms have been tightening their defenses. But the table is changing. What we have seen in recent years is that artificial intelligence not only serves to summarize texts or answer questions, it can also very visibly accelerate the software creation when given precise instructions. And that leaves us facing a reality that is difficult to ignore: the same tool that simplifies legitimate tasks can also reduce part of the effort necessary to create malicious code. That change begins to take concrete form with VoidLink. In his analysisCheck Point presents it as one of the strongest evidence so far of advanced malware developed largely with the help of AI. There is, however, an important nuance in the investigation itself: the company assures that it detected it at an early stage, that it was not deployed against victims and that it was not used in active attacks. But that is precisely why the discovery is so revealing, because it allowed access to development materials that rarely come to light. How VoidLink was built and why it changes the dashboard VoidLink was not, at least on paper, a minor piece or a rudimentary experiment. The cybersecurity firm describes it as a malware framework for Linux with a modular architecture, designed to maintain stealthy and prolonged access in cloud environments. In his analysis he mentions components such as eBPF and LKM rootkits, as well as specific modules for cloud enumeration and subsequent activities in container environments. That level of maturity is just what separates it from other previous cases associated with simpler code. One of the most striking twists in the case is who seems to have been behind it. Check Point explains that, due to its internal structure and the pace of evolution observed, VoidLink gave the impression of having come from a large team, with different profiles and a fairly defined work plan. But the evidence collected by the firm points to something very different: a single actor who, according to the investigation, would have had AI support during different phases of development. There is also another relevant element: that actor would not be a rookie, but rather someone with a solid technical base and previous experience in cybersecurity. The most revealing part of the case is how the project would have been built. The firm describes a working method based on what it calls Spec Driven Development that works as follows: You define what you want to build This idea is translated into architecture, tasks, sprints and delivery criteria The implementation is delegated to the model. In the exposed materials, development plans, technical documentation, coding standards, deployment and testing guides appeared, as well as an organization by teams and phases that supports this model. One of the recovered artifacts, dated December 4, 2025, further suggests that VoidLink had already reached a functional phase in less than a week and exceeded the 88,000 lines of code. That is precisely what separates VoidLink from other precedents. Check Point maintains that this is the strongest evidence of malware created almost entirely with the help of AI. “This is the first confirmed case of advanced AI-generated malware, created with the speed, structure and sophistication of an entire engineering organization,” claims the company. The question now is how far malicious actors can go with these types of techniques. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana | Check Point In Xataka | The Booking hack is a little more disturbing: “Tracking phishing” attacks are here to stay

The developers who get the most out of AI are also the ones who sleep the least: it’s called "AI psychosis"

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Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and who coined the term vibe codinghas been in what he describes as a state of “AI psychosis” since December. He works 16 hours a day directing swarms of code agents. And he admits that he feels “extremely nervous” when he has left tokens without consuming at the end of the month. This has been admitted in an interview with Sarah Guo. It is not an isolated case but rather the pattern that is beginning to repeat itself among the developers who get the most out of this type of agents. Why is it important. The dominant narrative about AI has been that of unlimited productivity and the famous “10x“What is beginning to be documented is its dark side: the most intensive users are also those who show the most worrying signs of behavioral deterioration. And they are not anecdotal profiles. Garry Tan, CEO of an entire Y Combinator, has called his own experience “cyber psychosis“. A CTO picked up by Axios says he needs prescription medication to sleep. If the most productive tools in history generate the same patterns in their most intensive users as games of chance, the debate about the impact of AI at work enters another dimension. In Xataka Having an AI on my phone that works without an Internet connection is more useful than I thought: this way you can start it Between the lines. Karpathy’s nervousness at the tokens Being left unused is the behavioral signature of someone who has internalized scarcity as a threat, exactly the same mechanism that keeps a gambler hooked on a slot machine. Developer Armin Ronacher talked about this in January: “Many of us fell into code addiction with agents. We barely slept, we built incredible things.” The context. Agents like Claude Code either Codex from OpenAI do not work like a chatbot that is asked a question. They operate autonomously for hours, writing, testing, and deploying code while the developer monitors, fixes, and re-delegates. The promise is enormous and so is the cognitive cost: the human brain is not designed to supervise processes that advance at machine speed during 16-hour days. {“videoId”:”x9f93vm”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Claude Code Presentation”, “tag”:””, “duration”:”234″} Yes, but. Programmers have always had a reputation for working in marathons of concentration. Sleepless nights before a launch are part of industry folklore. What distinguishes this phenomenon is its compulsive nature and its continuity: it is not the specific pressure of a deadlinebut an activation that does not turn off when the job ends, because with an agent that can keep running, the job never completely ends. In Xataka |I have lived the “miracle” of vibe coding: this is how I programmed an Android TV app without having any idea about programming Featured image | Anthropic (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The developers who get the most out of AI are also the ones who sleep the least: it’s called “AI psychosis” was originally published in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

It is called CY8, and it is the missing piece to transport tons

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In some of the most extreme environments on the planet, such as plateaus above 4,000 metersair density can reduce the takeoff ability of an aircraft by more than 30%forcing a complete redesign of how any cargo is transported. For a long time, that has limited what can be moved… and, importantly, where. The “air truck” of Beijing. Yes, China has just successfully tested a pilotless “air truck” in the form of a drone. It’s called CY-8 and its first flight in Zhengzhou was not only a technical test, but the confirmation of a concept: an unmanned aircraft capable of combining large load capacity with operational flexibility that until now was reserved for much more complex or infrastructure-dependent platforms. Designed to charge. The CY-8 stands out for a very clear logic: moving weight efficiently. With a maximum weight of 7 tons and a 3.5 ton loading capacitypractically equals its own useful weight, something key in logistics operations. Your closed cellar 18 cubic meterswith front and rear access, allows you to accelerate loading and unloading processes, reducing time on the ground and increasing the pace of operation in environments where every minute counts. Operate where others cannot. The local media reported that the true advantage of the system is not only in how much it transports, but in where can you do it. The CY-8 can take off in less than 500 meters and operate on basic tracks, allowing you to access high mountain areas, isolated regions or island environments. It is optimized for extreme altitudes such as those in Tibet and for territories with limited infrastructurewhich greatly expands its radius of action beyond conventional airports. Autonomy, range and versatility. With more than 3,000 km rangethe drone not only connects remote points, but does so without the need for pilots and with the ability to adapt to multiple missions. Plus: can be set up quickly for logistics transportdisaster relief, emergency communications or reconnaissance tasks, making it a hybrid platform between civil and military, designed to respond to changing scenarios. Pilotless logistics. The development of the CY-8 is part of a growing competition to dominate heavy unmanned aerial transport. China is already working in even bigger modelswhile the United States explores alternatives with vertical takeoff that completely eliminate the need for runways. In this context, the CY-8 represents a more or less intermediate bet: it does not eliminate the infrastructure, but it does reduce it to the essential minimum. More than a drone, a strategic piece. Beyond its numbers, this “monstrous” drone redefines a key idea: in conflicts or crises, it is not enough to arrive, we must be able to sustain. This type of platform makes it possible to maintain supply chains in places where it was previously complex or impossible to do so. Therefore, more than an isolated technological advance, this kind of Chinese “air truck” points to a paradigm shift: logistics, silent and constant, as the true engine of any modern operation. Image | x In Xataka | China just showed the world what comes after the combat drone: 96 drones with a science fiction launch In Xataka | For years we have associated drones with propellers: in China they explore an alternative inspired by nature

The number one enemy of the Spanish mountain is called climate change. And we have data to prove it.

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In 2024, they burned 47,700 hectares. In 2025, 340,000 were exceeded. And honestly, the reasons are manyalmost too many. Well, Marco Turco, from the University of Murcia, just demonstrated something that we already sensed: at a global level, the days of extreme fire risk They have increased 65% since 1980. That’s 12 more days a year. And, if that were not enough, the Mediterranean region is where lthe signs are clearer. What does all this mean? In general terms, this means that although the causes of the fires remain human (in Spain between 80 and 95% of firesin fact; the intentional ones there are many less), climate change has a lot to do with its spread. Increasingly. Why is it interesting? Because this study is the first to apply formal climate fingerprinting techniques on a global scale to fire risk. That is, that figure of 11.66 more days of extreme risk in 44 years is achieved with the most advanced methodology that we have at our disposal. And if the global data is bad, the Mediterranean data (where the days have doubled in these almost five decades) they are horrifying. But it’s not all bad news. After all, as Turco points outdespite the increase in risk, the burned area has not increased proportionally. And the reason, according to him, is the improvement of the means of extinction. However, “when extreme conditions coincide with ignition, the resulting fires are more virulent and extensive.” Why is it news now? Besides because the article has just been published in Science Advances, because the precedent of 2025 (a rainy spring and a terrible summer) It resonates a lot with what we have in 2026. We don’t even have to remember that we are talking about a handful of months with truly incredible accumulated rainfall and that is generating an amount of material in the field that can easily be end up turning Spain black. Because the core of Turco’s work is that the conditions that allow fire to spread and become a big fire They are stronger than ever. Furthermore, human exposure to these types of fires is increasing: according to recent work in Cataloniabetween 42 and 138% for each area burned since 1992. The great debate of the future. As we have repeated on several occasions, there is no debate about the effect of climate change on increasing the risk of fire. The work is summarized in how much, how and where. Therefore, the central debate is another: what. What we do with the cards that nature is dealing us. And the truth is that there is a lot to cut: whether to bet on extinction or preventionif investing more in the landscape management or begin to integrate the entire territory into urban planning schemes more ambitious and extensive. Etc, etc, etc. The debate is endless and we are always late. Because what is clear thanks to Turco is that the distance that separates the spark from the megafire is increasingly shorter. Image | Mikhail Serdyukov In Xataka | In Ourense there are towns that fear running out of water in the middle of the rainy season. The reason: the hangover from forest fires

It’s called MACROHARD and “no one else can do it”

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Elon Musk is determined to unify his empire. After the purchase of xAI by SpaceXhas now announced a joint project between Tesla and its artificial intelligence company. It is about the AI agent MACROHARD, and before going into details, let’s go with what is most important for Musk himself: it is a mockery of Microsoft and software that wants to emulate the functioning of entire companies. Also something that no other company can do right now. According to Elon, of course. MACROHARD. If Microsoft is “small soft”, MACROHARD is “huge hard”. Elon Musk with his usual things, but beyond the joke, the project is an umbrella that unites the capabilities of Grok and those of Digital Optimus. Grok is the conductor, xAI’s large language model that calls the shots thanks to its “deep understanding of the world.” Digital Optimus is the executing “arm”, the software that manages the execution of a task in real time. From what Musk has stated, it is a vitamin agent, something in which American industryand Chinais putting all his efforts into it. Also with the General Artificial Intelligencebut that is a different story. like a brain. The tycoon has compared the operation of the agent with the theory of dual processing of the brain. While Grok is the one who sets the reason, the pause and the intention, Digital Optimus is the one who carries out the instinctive action, whatever that means. If we land it better, Grok has the knowledge Being an LLM and Digital Optimus is the one that executes the action. As? Well, being able to “process the last five seconds of what appears on a computer screen and execute actions with the keyboard and mouse in real time. If you want to know more about how it works, you will have to wait because in Musk’s message there is not much more to say about this. Basically, he has described an agent like those in which the competitors are already working from xAI, but Musk claims it can “simulate all of a company’s operations.” “It’s a funny reference to Microsoft” – Elon Musk AI4 chip. The most interesting thing about MACROHARD is that part of “hardware” that can also give rise to the name. Tesla and xAI have been working on their own chips for some time that allow them to better train AI and more optimal inference. After abandoning its chip project a few months ago, this 2026 Tesla rescued it and noted that they were making enormous progress. Maybe not yet to train the model with heavy load, something that NVIDIA chips largely take care of (because NVIDIA is involved in all AI companies, big or small), but yes for that inference task. And that’s where this Tesla and xAI project has a key advantage. The agent is designed to run on Tesla’s AI4 chip along with “relatively moderate use of the NVIDIA hardware that already has xAI and it is much more expensive.” The key is that the AI4 is much cheaper than NVIDIA’s solutions and is also the ‘home-made’ solution, allowing Tesla and xAI to scale the system as far as they want. Provided that TSMCwhich is the company that manufactures them, has bandwidth, we already know who the two main clients are in case of a bottleneck. Revived project. And it is also curious that, just like the own chip projectMACROHARD has been rescued from the underworld he was in. Days before Musk revealed the project, the media Business Insider He noted that the agent had stalled due to factors such as a hiring freeze and the departure of key engineers such as Toby Pohlen, a founding member of xAI who was going to lead the project, but who left the company two weeks later. Perhaps with that part of it being a system powered by its own and cheap chips, what Musk says that “no other company can do it yet” is fulfilled, but it will not be because they are not trying. Outside the long shadow of NVIDIA, OpenAI continues to develop own chips from Broadcom. And Goal, after some lurchesthere is also preparing chips for inference. Photo by Planet Labs Now all that remains is to see less talk and something tangible about MACROHARD’s capabilities and whether, being under the Tesla umbrella, the project comes to fruition. And one last curiosity: MACROHARD is like Elon christening he Colossus 2 data center…with which he already laughed at Microsoft. Images | sherwood, Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is not exactly the best place to get objective information. ChatGPT doesn’t care

A startup from Malaga is the most used European AI app in the world according to Andreessen Horowitz. It’s called Freepik

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The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has prepared its already traditional ranking with the world’s top 100 end-user AI applications. There are many predictable ones in the top positions, but we are surprised because among the top 15 is none other than freepikthe platform created by the Malaga startup of the same name. Freepik in the world top. On the list we have many usual suspects (and some not so usual) in the top positions, but one of the big surprises on the list It is the Freepik platformwhich is ranked number 11 and is the only representative of our country in that ranking. But besides that, it is the first of all Europeans included on the list. This specific list is made with the number of unique monthly visits as a criterion. USA dominates. In that list the dominance of apps from American companies is clear, and only the Chinese one DeepSeek sneaks into the top 10 list. Here ChatGPT dominates the ranking with Gemini and Canva completing the podium, but it is surprising to see the relevance of Grok, ahead of Claude. And Google shines with its own light. Within the list, the presence of Google is also notable, which has four tools on that list: Gemini (in number 2 on the list), Google AI Studio (10), Google Labs (25) and the splendid NotebookLM (30). Most of these apps come from the US. Graphic: Xataka with Gemini. Data: Andreessen Horowitz. China tightens. It may seem that China’s role here is less relevant than it should be, but it must be taken into account that many Chinese startups focus on platforms and applications for the Chinese market. Even so, there are clear protagonists such as Capcut and Doubao (ByteDance), Qwen and Quark (Alibaba), Kimi, Kling, Cutout and of course the aforementioned DeepSeek. Europe has its protagonists. Freepik is the clear standout on this list among the European AI applications, but there are others that stand out and manage to make it onto the list such as Photoroom (France), Turboscribe and Veed (United Kingdom), Remove.bg/Kalleido (Austria) and another standout, ElevenLabs (based in London). An evolution towards hybrid apps. As Andreessen Horowitz points out, three years ago the distinction between “native AI” products and traditional software was clear. Today that barrier has disappeared, since massive tools like CapCutCanva or Notion have integrated generative AI as the core of their experience and revenue engine. They have taken advantage of their inertia, they have adapted and they have won. In mobile apps the ranking changes, and a lot. The most popular AI mobile apps in the world based on their number of active users each month is very different. Here Freepik disappears from the list, for example, and it is China that totally dominates with 22 of the 50 apps (44%). The US has 13 apps on the list (26%), while Europe only has four (8%) and other countries share the other 11 (22%). Here China benefits from its huge user base, who also very frequently use AI applications for all types of functions. ByteDance is especially eye-catching and has five apps on the list (CapCut, Doubao, Cici, Hypic and Gauth). Divergence of approaches. In general, all apps try to build user loyalty through their ecosystems and try to integrate more and more things so that one does not leave them. However, there are important approaches among some such as ChatGPT, very oriented towards being a “super app” for mass consumption, and Claude, from Anthropic, which focuses on professional and technical users. AI wants to be almost invisible. AI is no longer a destination, a website to go to, but is becoming part of the experience, a function integrated into the application. Thus, it now resides directly in the browser, in development environments or in office suites. In Xataka | The war between Anthropic and the Pentagon points to something terrifying: a new “Oppenheimer Moment”

We have found the “switch” of cellular aging. The secret is called protein AP2A1

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Regenerative medicine has a very clear objective ahead today: to look for the ‘button’ that can stop aging and allow us live much longeror at least have a better quality of life when we reach certain ages. And here the Japanese have a lot to say with a discovery that gives us more clues about how to preserve our cells much better. A new study. Everything that has to do with living a little longer, the truth is that it causes a little stir in the scientific world, and the article published in January 2025 in the magazine Cellular Signaling it was no wonder. Here it was shown how a team of researchers from Osaka University managed to identify a protein that literally acts as a cellular senescence switch called AP2A1. Our cells. Just as aging can be seen aesthetically, our cells also age through a process of senescence. Upon entering this state, the cells stop dividing, but do not die, since they become larger, more rigid and adhere strongly to their environment. And here a team of scientists has discovered the exact mechanism that causes this. Here the study has pointed to a protein as the culprit: AP2A1. A molecule that acts as a kind of biological transport truck that moves another protein, called β1 integrin along the fibers of the cell. That is why, over time, this process strengthens cell adhesion, causing the cell to become rigid and “old.” The revolution. The important thing here is that if the function of AP2A1 is suppressed in old cells, the biological clock reverses. That is, the cells decrease in size, lose rigidity, drastically reduce the classic markers of aging and proliferate and migrate again. Basically, they rejuvenate themselves. Furthermore, it has also been seen that if this protein is overexpressed in young cells, the result is great aging that accelerates. Your potential. Here the scientific team has seen that AP2A1 is not only emerging as a great marker that measures a person’s aging, but also acts as a direct therapeutic target. That is why some specialized websites such as Fight Aging! already analyze how blocking AP2A1 prevents inflammatory signaling typical of senescent cells. In this way, if we manage to inhibit this protein in the future, we could develop “anti-senescence” agents capable of extending our healthy life expectancy and combating age-related diseases, such as osteoarthritis. A long way. For now, this is something that has been estimated in cellular models in a dish in a laboratory, but it still remains to be seen how it works in the human organism with all the factors that intervene on a cell that is not isolated. What is clear is that the discovery of AP2A1 is a spectacular milestone in cell biology. We have basically found the button that controls the size and youth of cells in the laboratory, but the next big challenge for science will be to find out if we can press that same button, safely, inside the human body. And for that, there are still many years of research left. Images | National Cancer Institute Huy Phan In Xataka | While half the world is worried about aging, one industry is rubbing its hands: the elevator industry

Between Tenerife and Gran Canaria hides an underwater volcano called ‘Enmedio’. The CSIC has just detected activity for the first time

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Under the waters of the Atlantic, about 80 kilometers southwest of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, hides a colossus that we often forget about. Is called ‘Enmedio’, a name that has quite a joke behind it, but which is nothing more than an underwater volcano with a base of 3.5 kilometers and whose summit is 1,625 meters deep. And although it has been there for a long time, now a scientific team has detected for the first time signs of hydrothermal activity in its depths. A decade. It has not happened overnight, since the team of geologists has spent almost ten years collecting multidisciplinary data driven mainly through the VULCANA project. And the results of the measurements made between 2015 and 2024 now have ended up published in the magazine Bulletin of Volcanology. Here, through oceanographic campaigns that combine high-resolution bathymetry, seismic and geochemistry, scientists they have managed to confirm what until now was only a suspicion: the volcano has an active circulatory system. What have they found? What the team has confirmed with all this information is that there is low-temperature hydrothermal activity at this location. In simple terms, we can now see that the volcano is releasing fluids through a series of fractures and a depression that is in your franc. Although this does not mean that it will erupt in the next few hours. In order to make estimates, it was decided to analyze the water in the vicinity of the volcano, and here the instruments recorded thermal anomalies of up to 0.5 ºC above normal. That is, the water around the volcano was hotter and was also loaded with nutrients such as ammonium or iron oxide, which causes biological alterations in the rocks in the area. There is no rash. Logically, when we read ‘volcanic activity’ and ‘Canary Islands’ in the same sentence, it is inevitable to think about volcanic eruptions such as that of Cumbre Vieja in La Palma, and even more so taking into account the recent earthquakes in the area. However, the CSIC has been quite categorical in this regard, pointing out that this detection does not indicate an imminent eruption and has no relationship with the recent seismic swarms recorded in the area around Teide. A paradise. In this way it is an endemic and latent process. In fact, these hydrothermal vents are excellent news for deep ocean biodiversity. To understand it, we can look back to see how the Tagoro volcano ended up fertilizing the post-eruptive marine ecosystem. Now, Enmedio’s fluids act as a chemical engine that influences the composition of the local ocean and feeds communities of microorganisms that thrive in the most extreme conditions of the seafloor. And although the Enmedio volcano is not a new discovery, this first evidence that it “breathes” marks a before and after in volcanic monitoring in Spain. It demonstrates that under water, more than a kilometer and a half deep, the Canary Islands continue to be an incomparable natural laboratory that, thanks to science, we are beginning to understand better than ever. Images | CSIC In Xataka | The last time Mount Fuji erupted was 318 years ago. The Japanese government has turned to AI in case it happens again

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