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This CEO is delighted to fire employees and replace them with AI

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The AI comes For our jobswe listen to it constantly and there are already a few companies that have opted for replace your human employees with IAS. Judging by their statements to Gizmodoit is what Elijah Clark likes to do the most, CEO of a company that is dedicated to advising high positions to precisely automate its companies implementing AI. Without tapujos. In 2024 the CEO of Duolingo was proud to announce that They were going to fire 10% of their translators to put an AI And then he said feeling surprised by the amount of criticisms received. Clark takes it further and does not cut when talking about saying goodbye to replace them with an AI. In fact, he is delighted with the idea. “As CEO, I can say that I am very excited with this. I have fired employees for AI,” he says. Elijah Clark fired 27 of the 30 employees in sales team that directed and presumes that “now they get in less than an hour what they did in a week.” Who is this man. Navigating Your LinkedIn We see that it is dedicated to advising other companies in process automation. “Focus on your passion, automates the rest,” is the slogan that stands out in Your website. We can also read messages that say that “human errors cost companies up to 30% of their annual income” or “do not waste 20 hours a week in tasks that a machine can complete in minutes.” Thus, this aggressive rhetoric and his love for saying goodbye to people in the AI are understood a little better: he lives on it and it seems that it is doing well. “The CEOs hire me to find out how to use AI to cut jobs. Not in ten years. Right now.” Rage Bait. He ‘Rage Baiting‘(Ira bait) is a technique that is used a lot in social networks and consists of generating a strong, anger or anger emotional reaction, to generate many interactions. It is like the classic saying “to talk about you, even if it is bad.” Recently we are seeing how that bait is used in a subject that worries many as it is The impact of AI on the labor market. Recently a startup of AI agents hung posters for San Francisco They prayed “stop hiring humans.” People get angry, normal. This is what Clark is doing: to use a incendiary speech to generate noise and thus sell its services. It is not so disenchanted. The great magnates of the AI Like Sam Altman either Dario Amodei They do not stop warning that many jobs will disappear, but what do CEO say? In a Recent Wall Street Journal reportCEO of companies such as Ford, JPMorgan Chase, Amazon aligned with what already seems like a reality: AI is going to take many jobs ahead. According to the last World Economic Forum Reportby 2030, 92 million jobs will be destroyed, many of them by AI automation. Not everything is bad. There is another face of the currency and it is also an engine of job creation. The World Economic Forum talks about The creation of 170 million new jobs In the same period we commented on. Salesforce’s case It is a good example. The company announced that it was going to hire 2,000 new employees to boost their AI products. The AI still needs accompaniment. The integration of agents in companies is being quite chaotic, so much that there are already demand for experts to fix the pifias that are leaving the AI. Some companies that rushed to replace their employees with AI They have started backing Oa pause your plans. Although the agents AI They are already a realitythey are demonstrating that They are not so capable as we thought and They make many mistakesat least for now. Image | Marc Mueller, Pexels In Xataka | There are those who believe that the best AIs become more silly over time. It is no madness

They are boycotting investments at their CEO

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Spotify has just announced your quarterly financial resultsand arrive with bittersweet news, although not as much as the revolt that is created within their own catalog: some bands They are abandoning the platform After the linking of its CEO with the arms industry has been discovered. A new blow to the image of the platform, powerful and influential as fewbut that does not finish finding the approval of many artists. The problem. The main conflict is in the link of Daniel EK, founder and CEO of the platform, with the ‘Start Up’ German Helsing, a company specialized in military software based on artificial intelligence that develops a combat drone called HX-2, which can achieve objectives 100 kilometers away. The financial support from EK to Helsing is frontal: Through prima matter, an investment fund that co-created in 2021, EK injected 100 million euros that same year to the war company. To this has joined another 600 last June. The reaction. This is what has made many groups raise the voice against this investment. Already in 2021, people like Darren Sangita or Skee Maskbut now, after calling for the boycott of the experimental deerhoof and Xiu Xiu, it arrives the abandonment of a couple of independent bands of international fameKing Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Mexicans Café Tacuba. The phenomenon is especially striking because the former are greatly prolific, with 27 albums since 2012. This will make abandonment take time, having to coordinate a good number of stamps and distributors. Other frightened. King Gizzard and Café Tacuba are the last to leave, but there have been many other groups and soloists who did it before. Neil Young was a notorious casedenouncing that Joe Rogan’s podcast, produced by Spotify, was delivered to the misinformation about COVID-19. He was followed by relevant artists such as Joni Mitchell, James Blunt or Crosby members, Stills and Nash. Even more media was almost Taylor Swift, which In 2014 he eliminated all his platform musicclaiming that the transmission service did not pay enough to the artists. Snoopp Dogg did this year for similar reasons. Practically all the aforementioned artists They have ended up returning to the platform. An organized rebellion. Especially in alternative environments and more politically committed, certain discomfort with the platform is being developed, which undoubtedly has parallels with the negative of many artists To participate in festivals this summer linked to the Israeli Investment Fund KKR. In the case of Spotify, There are already manifestos that They list alternatives to the platform, and that have more catalog, better prices or, simply, an ethic more in line with the philosophy of the groups or subscribers. The accounts. All this comes at a key moment for Spotify, which has announced 86 million losses and the announcement of the expansion in 857 million of the Actions repurchase plan (all in contrast to a benefit of 274 million in the same period last year). On the other hand, users continue to grow: assets have risen 11% and ‘Premium’ subscribers, 11.6. Undoubtedly, the most important data is the rise in the business figure, 10% more, reaching 4,193 million. How are those millionaire losses possible? Spotify blames him for the impact of financial costs associated with staff and marketing. We will have to see if the abandonment of artists, none extremely massive at the moment, ends up affecting their accounts even more. Image | Xataka – Sampaio Czar in Unspash In Xataka | An artist published an album with 30 songs of 29 seconds exact each. Its goal: to highlight spotify

“I have created more billionaires in my management team than any other CEO in the world”

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Jensen Huang is In the epicenter of one of the industries with the greatest Growth potential in which some are managed dizzy investment figures. That flow of money, also permeates higher wages, especially in those strategic positions such as It has shown well Mark Zuckerberg with his last rounds of signing of talent. Within the framework of a round of interviews with AI as a central axis, the CEO of Nvidia has presumed how well paid its closest collaborators. So Huang does not fear that his competition comes to steal his best talent. “They are very good. You don’t have to feel sorry for anyone in my management team,” Huang said. The Nvidia billionaire club. In a thematic days about organized AI by all-in podcastJensen Huang answered a question of moderators about the recent signings and millionaire hiring between AI specialists: “I have created more billionaires in my management team than any other executive director of the world.” Under the stock market results From the company, this statement is absolutely true since a good part of the remuneration of Nvidia’s responsibility positions have a package of actions linked to their position, and the rest of the company’s employees can take advantage of the Share purchase plan for employees (ESPP for the acronym in English of Employee Stock Purchase Plan). Through these plans, much of its template has become a millionaire. Working in the most profitable company has advantages. The price of Nvidia’s shares have not stopped growing in recent years, so any employee who had invested a minimum initial capital, would have increased substantially. According to published data by Fortunesince 2019, the company has increased 3,776% in the price of its shares, with a 170% rise in the last year. With a heritage valued at about 151,000 million dollars, Huang has made Nvid Become Millionaires. Small and well paid teams. Nvidia is one of the companies with Greater profitability by employee. That is, it is able to generate huge benefits with a relatively reduced template. Huang ensures that this is the formula for success in AI investigation. “Some 150 researchers in AI, with sufficient financing, can probably create an OpenAi. There is something elegant in small teams,” said the CEO of Nvidia. Huang said that this approach not only maximizes the performance of the teams, but also facilitates to make its “extraordinarily rich” members if they reach the expected success, putting as an example the OpenAI researchers or to the development team of Deepseek. Nothing moves in Nvidia without knowing Huang. Another feature of Huang’s leadership is that CEO knows everything that happens in your company thanks to a peculiar system Email -based that allows him to be aware of what he does or worries to the last employee of the company. This proximity allows Huang to affirm that it personally supervises “the compensation of all employees until today … and always increases the company’s expense on operational expenses.” According to Huang, there is a reason for weight to take care of your employees, “if you take care of people, everything else takes care of themselves.” The CEO has declared a joke: “Yes, I carry Stock Options In the pocket right now. “ Nvidia’s “gold wives”. However, these economic incentives of Nvidia are associated with a Extreme labor demandwhich implies eternal days seven days a week. Despite this intensity, Nvidia has registered a personnel rotation index below the average of its peers. According to his 2024 sustainability reportin that year it was only 2.7%, compared to the 17.7% that the semiconductor industry records on average. Bloomberg defined This phenomenon has been described as “gold wives” for those employees and managers who access these actions packages. In Xataka | Jensen Huang hates individual meetings with his team. There is only one exception: “If you ask me, I will leave everything” Image |Nvidia

The Xiaomi CEO came out in a video showing a new product and sold out in minutes. It was a cat carrier

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To exhaust products in minutes is something that Xiaomi has enough experience. More than a decade ago already They got it with their mobiles And currently your star product are cars; They recently sold 200,000 units of Xiaomi Yu7 in three minutes. The last product that have exhausted just put it on sale has not been technological, but something much simpler: a cat carrier. Exhausted. They tell it in Following The Yuan. After the publication of A video in which we see Lei Jun showing the cat bagThe brand had to hang the exhausted poster in just a few minutes. The bag-transport cost only 199 yuan, which to the current exchange is about 23 euros, and was put on sale as an accessory for the company’s SUV, the company, the Xiaomi Yu7. Designed by cat owners. In the video, Lei Jun tells that the transport has been designed in collaboration with brand employees who have cats. It emphasizes that it has a spacious interior, ventilation grilles on both sides and a transparent window at the top. It also has a pocket on the side. The truth is that, although the design seems very careful, it has nothing super -revolutionary, it is a fairly normal cloth transport. It doesn’t matter, that has not prevented them from running out. For the car. As we said, Xiaomi has promoted this new cat bag as an accessory for Xiaomi Yu7. The car has the possibility of activating a “pet mode” which consists in the installation of a camera in the rearview mirror that allows us to control pets and also has a speaker so that we can talk to them. In addition, by activating this mode the air conditioning continues to work so that they do not pass heat (or cold, it depends). It is not the only brand that offers something like that, others like Tesla either Mercedes They also have it. Pets like target. We have more and more pets and also They occupy a more privileged position in families. China does not get rid. To the current rhythm, it is expected that by the end of the decade Pets exceed children under 4 years. Given this, more and more technological companies that enter the growing segment of pets. Xiaomi launched The connected feeder and source that we already analyzed in Xataka And we have seen other connected products such as this curious Cat quantifying bracelet. Image | Douyin / Amparo Babyloni In Xataka | Communicating with our cats has always been a complex task. A study has discovered the key: flashing

The 22 -year CEO of a Tech company that demands 80 hours a week to its workers

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In Silicon Valley, a new generation of technological entrepreneurs He is turning his back to the traditional workday of 40 hours. A case that has generated a heated debate is that of Daksh Gupta, founder and CEO of the STARTUP GREPTILwho has implemented an extreme day model that has raised a large dust in the Reddit threads. Gupta, only 22 years old, considers that working 80 hours per week is not only not excessive, but is necessary to survive in the current technology industry. An extreme workday. Daksh Gupta published in late 2024 in Your X profile That his company did not offer any type of conciliation between working and personal life, literally affirming: “Greptile does not offer balance between working and personal life.” As he said in that same message, the days in his company begin at 9:00 and end at 23:00 or even later. “We also work on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays. I emphasize that the environment is very stressful and that poor work is not tolerated,” the CEO added without ambiguity. The work culture defended by Gupta shows An important change Among the managers and founders of Silicon Valley, who are erasing the boundaries between working and personal life. What was traditionally understood as labor exploitation, some see it now as An extreme form of commitment professional. In the case of Greptile, this commitment can mean days of 14 hours from Monday to Sunday. Competition as justification. In one Interview with Inc.comGupta argues that this time demand responds to the reality of technological startups. The CEO declared that “this is an extremely competitive space. Nobody cares about the third best company, not even the second best, in any software category. If you are going to strive 95%, it is the equivalent of striving to 0%.” His position generated an intense debate on networks and, as confirmed in Your X profilehe received numerous criticisms and even death threats for applying this policy. Gupta, however, insists that changing his work form would mean a competitive disadvantage that cannot be allowed. “We face very intense competition,” he said to justify the sacrifices required by his employees. Silicon Valley and the culture of hyperproductivity. What for many may seem an unsustainable work excess, in Silicon Valley begins to become a norm, such and as they publish in The confidential. The so -called “new culture of effort” to which Daksh Gupta gave visibility, is referring to figures such as Elon Musk, who has publicly defended The extreme days. “No one has changed the world working 40 hours a week,” said the millionaire CEO of Tesla in one of Your messages in x. At the same time, Tesla’s own investors They asked the tycoon Dedicate at least 40 hours a week to do your job as the CEO of the electric car manufacturer. Another outstanding name of this new culture of the eternal working days is Serguéi Brin, co -founder of Google, which also asked his employees a minimum of 60 working hours per week. The era of offices with ping-pong tables And free food has given way to marathon days where, literally, workers are expected to live for the company. As I said Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, work from 9 to 5 as we know it, is in danger of extinction. AI was going to end the eternal days. Beyond the regression in labor rights imposed on Silicon Valley, the most ironic thing is that these proposals for extreme days arrive precisely those companies that are developing AI models that promise reduce workload of workers. No less ironic it turns out that companies like Microsoft or Google ensure that between 25 and 30% of its code is already generated with AI agents, and at the same time they have hardened performance demands and commitment to carry out longer days, under the Shadow of mass layoffs. In Xataka | Lucy Guo, co -founder of Scale Ai, bets everything at 996: “If you want to leave at 5 you are not at the right work” Image | Unspash (Aluminum dissemboweler3000)

The Starbucks CEO wants everyone to work to the office. It is easy for him because he can go in private jet

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Back to Starbucks. That is the name that Brian Niccol, the current of CEO of the popular coffee shop chain, put To the plan to revitalize the company. It is an ambitious plan and that, among other things, has meant a change of course as far as teleworking is concerned. Since 2023, Starbucks workers have maintained a hybrid format Three days in the office, two at home. That will end because, soon, will be four mandatory days. It is a novelty that is seen very differently when you go to the office in private Jet, of course. Let’s start at the beginning. Of coffee tacos. Niccol was CEO of Taco Bell until 2018. The headquarters of this company is in Irvine, California, 15 minutes by car from Niccol’s house in Newport Beach. In 2018 he left Taco Bell to exercise as CEO in Chipotle, whose headquarters was in Denver, 1,600 kilometers from his residence. Three months after assuming the position, Chipotle changed its headquarters to Newport Beach affecting 400 people in the process. In 2024, and after revitalizing Chipotle, Niccol assumed the CEO of Starbucks With conditions that did not go unnoticed. Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos: The Galaxies War Brian Niccol | Image: Starbucks To the ophi yes, but I don’t move. The Starbucks headquarters and therefore the workplace of its CEO is in Seattle (Washington). As a company employee, he also applied the policy of going at least three days to the office. The distance that separates the headquarters from your home is 1,600 kilometers, but that is no problem because The offer contemplated that “you will not be asked to move to the headquarters of the company”. So… It will not go by car, clearly. They are about 19 hours of journey, According to Google Mapsbut fortunately the job offer established that Niccol could dispose of the company’s private jet for “business -related trips according to the company’s travel policy, travel between its city of residence and the headquarters of the company in Seattle, Washington and its personal trips according to the company’s policies, up to a maximum amount of $ 250,000 a year.” Image | Starbucks Three four days. Now that we know the context, we will surely see in another way The letter that the CEO has recently published. In this text, Niccol explains that from next fiscal year employees will have to go to the office four days instead of three. Specifically, from Monday to Thursday. At the moment, this dynamic will affect the regional offices of North America, the Toronto support centers and, of course, the headquarters in Seattle. If you are a boss, to the office. In February, Starbucks asked the VP level team and managers who worked in Seattle and Toronto. Now that requirement will also apply to support centers, whose leaders will also have to move to these cities. And all this why? According to Niccol, the reason to reestablish this office culture is that “we work better when we are together. We share ideas more effectively, we solve difficult problems creatively and move much faster.” Between lines can be read that an increase in productivity is sought. The CEO affirms that it understands that not everyone will agree with this measure, “but as a company based on the human connection, and given the magnitude of the change we have ahead, we believe that this is the right path for Starbucks.” So clear it has that the future goes through the office that, in its own words: “If you decide to leave Starbucks for any reason, we respect it. To support those who decide to” leave “, we are offering a unique voluntary output program with a cash payment for the partners who make this decision.” Two rhythms. This is not a problem for Niccol (to which this policy should also be applied). Has All the company’s resources at your disposal To travel and, according to a company spokesman, a house has been bought in Seattle. This already shows that The return to the office is made at two speeds: that of employees, which can be forced to move to a more expensive city, give up promotions or even leave the company; and that of the senior executives, who can afford to travel in a private jet or buy a house in the city that proceeds. Cover image | Tr In Xataka | Starbucks made a very strong bet in China to continue growing. Tariffs threaten to take it ahead

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

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

The Telegram CEO believes that it has 100 “children.” And it will distribute its 13,000 million dollars among them

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What does it mean to be someone’s son? If you ask Pavel Durov, the Telegram CEOThe answer is not only limited to the six “officers” children he has with three different women. In fact, it includes more than 100 people around the world. “How is it possible that a man who has never married and prefers to live only has so many children?” Hardov He asked rhetorically in his Telegram channel in 2024. 25 Telegram tricks to make the most The answer is simple: by sperm donation. During the last 15 years, Durav has frequently donated sperm, convinced that it was his “civic responsibility.” However, unlike many, Durov considers that all children conceived through their sperm are theirs, even if they are not present in their lives or know who they are. The latter is important since according to Durav, all their children have the same rights. An inheritance issue. Durov shared his opinion about the family in an interview with LE POINTwhere he comments that his will recently finished. From there comes the importance of how many children does the Telegram chief have, whose estimated fortune is around the € 13,000 million. “I want to emphasize that I do not make distinctions between my children who were conceived naturally and those who were conceived through donations of my sperm,” said Durov. “Everyone is my children and everyone will have the same rights.” A donation. That Durov have more children than a football team It is no surprise. Himself He told it in 2024explaining that it all started 15 years ago when a friend of his asked for a sperm donation. “I was leaving my ass before realizing that my friend said it seriously,” said Durov. The friend and his wife had fertility problems and needed help to form a family. Durov agreed, but the story did not end there. More than 100 children. “They just told me that I have more than 100 biological children,” he said in a post on his telegram channel last summer. “(When I made my first donation) the clinic head told me that there was a shortage of high quality donations and that it was my civic responsibility to donate more sperm anonymously to help other couples.” According to Dorav, his donations over the years have helped more than 100 couples in 12 countries. He added that at least one clinic still has its frozen sperm and available as anonymous donation. Pavel Durov (left) and Jakob Burda in 2016. The children: an obsession of the billionaires. Certainly, Dorav’s dedication to help others have children is not unusual among millionaires. In recent years, people like Elon MuskMarc Andresen or Peter Thiel have dedicated themselves to sounding the alarm on the “risk” of the low birth rate to humanity. The Tesla CEO has classified the low birth rate as the “most important humanity risk of today.” In fact, on a personal level, Musk seems to be committed to the idea to have all the children I can. The billionaire currently has at least 14 children of 4 different womenalthough there is the possibility of having more. Andresen, on the other hand, has declared that the planet suffers from a “Dramatic depopulation.” States that in an ideal future, the Earth will house 50,000 million (there are currently 8.2 billion). And what about poverty? According to Andresen, the markets will be responsible for financing social welfare programs. Although Durov is not as vocal on the subject as Musk and Andresen, it is clear that he takes it seriously. In fact, last year, paid fertility treatmentwhich is around $ 5,000, women who agreed to use their sperm in Russia. Distributing the inheritance. So what happens to that inheritance of € 13,000 million? I’m sorry to tell you that, although your parents suddenly say that Telegram’s CEO did have a role at your birth, you will have to wait a long time before seeing a cent of their money. Specifically, three decades from this year. “I want my children to live as normal people, who are worth them, to learn to trust themselves, that they can create something for themselves,” said Durov. “I don’t want them to depend on a bank account.” How can I know if I am a son of Durav? After all, the tycoon made sperm donations anonymously. Well, don’t worry: Dad Durov has thought of everything. “I plan to put my DNA in Open Source so that my biological children can find themselves more easily,” said Durov in 2024. “Of course there are risks, but I do not regret having been a donor.” Images | Techcrunch | Hubert Burda Media In Xataka | Change WhatsApp and Telegram for a European alternative: how to do it and what you should take into account

No one understands why the former Google CEO has bought a rocket company. He says it: Datacenters in space

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If the New Space is full of something, it is from Billonario Technological CEOS, but what Eric Schmidt Shopping Relativity Space He caught the sector by surprise. He has offered an explanation. Context. Whatever it was Google CEO for a decade He surprised the space sector two months ago acquiring a majority participation in the Relativity Space rocket company. The Californian startup has never reached orbit, but made a test launch of a 3D printed rocket, Terran 1, and It is developing a partially reusable commercial rocketTerran R. After the acquisition of the company, Eric Schmidt assumed the role of CEO, a position he did not occupy since he left the Mountain View giant in 2011. Data centers in space. Eric Schmidt is obsessed with the amount of energy and computing capacity that will need to move artificial intelligence. It was the journalist Eric Berger, from Ars Technicawho joined the points. The idea of ​​displaying data centers in space, feeding them with solar energy and keeping them cold without using water “probably explain why Schmidt bought relativity space,” Berger commented on X. The next day, Eric Schmidt responded with a monosyllable: “Yeah.” The unprecedented scale of AI. In an appearance before the Energy and Commerce Committee of the United States Congress, Schmidt put some figures on the table: “10 gigaw data centers are being raised, when an average nuclear power plant in the United States generates 1 Gigavatio. One of the estimates that I think is most likely that data centers will require 29 additional energy gigawatts by 2027, and 67 more gigawatts for 2030. These things are industrial to a scale that I have never seen in my life.” The money is in the datacenters. Since no country is prepared for such an energy escalation, Schmidt has in mind to get the databases from the Earth. Although incredibly ambitious and challenging, the hypothetical space data centers could make sense if energy is a bottleneck on earth. With reusable rockets to launch satellite constellations, photovoltaic solar energy always available for part of the constellation and dissipation of heat in the emptiness of the space, they could even be profitable or safer than the Earth Data Centers. But everything is about to demonstrate, from cheap throws to heat dissipation. What state is Relatity Space. The reality is that far from competitors such as Spacex, although it is a much younger company. He had bet in full for 3D printed rockets, but removed Terran 1 after his debut flight, in which he could not reach orbit. Terran R is designed to be a direct competitor of Falcon 9, with the capacity to launch 33.5 tons to the low terrestrial orbit in disposable mode and 23.5 tons with a first reusable stage. Although its development has been erratic, capital injection and leadership of Schmidt, whose fortune is estimated at 20,000 million dollars, could revitalize the project and bring it closer to a first launch planned by the end of 2026. Image | Relativity Space, Leweb In Xataka | The space race is becoming a multi-million dollar competition: the last to enter is Google’s ex-cement

The Klarna CEO dismissed 700 employees to replace them with AI. Now he has replaced himself … with an avatar

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In 2022, the European technological giant Klarna (one of the main actors in the world of digital payments), He fired 700 workers To replace them with a chatbot. According to the company, in just one month implementing it, they concluded that the chatbot was able to cover two thirds of the company’s customer service chats. “He is doing the job equivalent to 700 full -time agents,” they said. Now, the company flirts again with AI to replace … to its CEO. I’m not me, it’s an avatar. Klarna has presented Your results report of the first 2025 quarter regardless of its CEO. Or, rather, using a virtual CEO. The video begins with full transparency: “It is me, or rather, my artificial intelligence avatar.” Siemiatkowski is still CEO of Klarna, but the company wanted to show its commitment to the AI ​​replacing it for the presentation of results. Avatar ia. We recommend watching the video since the avatar, Far from being one -style Facebookhe is realistic to not being able. Only the imperfect audio synchronization and the absence of natural flickering can make us suspect that we are not facing a real person. For the rest, it is an avatar that could strain perfectly. A strong bet on AI … The company was clear that customer service services could be provided through the integration of a chatbot. Klarna said at the time of dismissals that “he is on par of human agents in terms of customer satisfaction score”, and that “it is more precise in tasks.” Some service users such as Gergely Oroszcreator of the Newsletter The Pragmatic EngineerThey thought the opposite, pointing out that the chatbot did not do much beyond reciting documents. The most curious? When the chatbot was not able to find an answer, the solution it gave was to speak with a human assistant in case of problems. Klarna is marking the guideline in the practical deployment of AI, and the benefits quickly accumulate. Since 2022, Klarna has rationalized its workforce by approximately 40 %, while increasing the percentage of technological employees of 36 % in 2022 to 52 % in the first quarter of 2025. 96 % of employees use AI daily, which has contributed to a 152 % increase in revenues per employee from the first quarter of 2013 and has put Klarna on the way employee income. AI is reducing costs throughout the company, especially in customer service, where transaction costs have been reduced by 40% since the first quarter of 2013, while maintaining customer satisfaction levels. … in which humans are necessary. In February 2025 Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of the company, He admitted that AI will never be as valuable as human talent. He acknowledged that the bot was faster responding, but that it was limited to “offering fragments of documentation”, without a real understanding of the text. He announced thus through X that they would start working so that the company was the best offering real “people” to talk to. In other words: what They would begin to recover and reactivate the hiring of personnel which was once replaced by a chatbot. They are not alone. Just a few weeks ago, IBM explained that they were in the process of contracting workers, after having fired 8,000 to replace them with the. It is a somewhat more particular case, since IBM automated 94% of human resources related to human resources, With positions that will not cover again. With the savings in costs that this meant, they are reinforcing the hiring in positions related to programming and sales. There are companies guaranteeing that replacements for AI are a correct decisionothers that end up reculating and evidencing on LinkedIn that it was not a good ideaand managers fearing that be replaced in the short term. Image | Klarna In Xataka | At the moment, AI is not removing work for people. Its development is leaving a reguero of dismissals

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