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“We don’t see the promise of the four-hour work week reaching society. I don’t expect AI to change that”

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Every technological advance brings the same promise: fewer work hours, more leisure time and a less stressed life for employees. It happened with the steam engine, with the computer and with the arrival of the internet. Now it’s up to the AI ​​to take charge. that collective illusion. Sam Altman, the man who more has pushed This wave with ChatGPT has just spoiled the party. He did it in a talk with host Ti Morse, on the podcast ‘Relentless‘. There he made a devastating statement: the founder of OpenAI does not believe that AI is going to bring the four-hour day. Not even now, nor ever. A promise that is never fulfilled. “For a long time, technology has promised people that they will work less and have a lot of free time,” Altman said. He acknowledges that this has been partly the case. Today we have more leisure and a better quality of life than decades ago. But that’s where the consolation ends for the dedicated employees. “For some reason, we never see the promise of the four-hour work week reach society on a large scale. And I don’t expect AI to change that,” the manager said. In itself it is a powerful phrase, but it is even more so coming from the founder and CEO of the company that has most promised to change work. as we know it. A game of comparisons. Why doesn’t it happen? According to Altman, human nature itself is to blame. “We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for others, to wish for ourselves,” Altman justified. “It’s like a comparison game. People focus a lot on how they are doing relative to others.” That’s the key, according to him. Productivity does not translate into restbut in new goals. “I think we are all going to be much busier than we thought in a post-superintelligence world,” the manager concluded. “We will continue to complain, but secretly we will be happy.” Competition, he says, drives the economy and he doesn’t believe that will stop. What is already happening in the offices. The data, for now, give him some reason. a study of Harvard Business Review confirms it. After eight months observing a US technology company, he found that AI does not simplify work. Expand it and modify the processes. The report Work AI Indexfrom the Glean Institute, goes further in its conclusions. Workers spend an average of 6.4 hours per week just doing make AI work well: check errors, relaunch prompts, clean results. They call it “botsitting“Almost 70% admit to having submitted AI-generated work without reviewing it first. Not everyone thinks like Altman. On the other hand, Altman’s statements contradict what OpenAI itself recently published in its report Industrial Policywhere proposes just the opposite: 32-hour days without touching the salary, thanks to the so-called “efficiency dividends” that AI brings. Bill Gates is also among the supporters that AI will be a key piece in the arrival of the reduction of working hours. In a talk with host Nikhil Kamath, the millionaire founder of Microsoft assured that “you’ll be able to retire earlier, work shorter work weeks.” Jamie DimonCEO of JPMorgan, and Anthony Scaramucci also talk about three- or four-day weeks in the coming decades. The human that survives. Meanwhile, the technological labor market no longer aspires to reducing working hours, but rather to not continue losing jobs. According to Layoffs.fyimore than 200,000 people have lost their jobs so far this year in the technology sector. Altman himself recognized that many companies were using the AI as an excuse to apply the staff cuts that were carried out after the overhiring of 2021 and 2022. Altman, however, believes that certain aspects of human work are not going away. In his speech he used a curious metaphor: cooking for others. “You’re not creating much economic value in the world, but it shows love. I think people will continue cooking and eating together long after robots can cook just as well.” The four-hour day may still be a myth, but at least we will have the kitchen homemade. In Xataka | Sam Altman: “I’m glad I was wrong about this, I thought cutting jobs would have had more impact by now” Image | Flickr (World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz), Unsplash (Annie Spratt)

Parents’ brains also change when they have children

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There is a lot of talk about brain of women when they have children. As soon as pregnancy begins, the brain begins to experience those changes that, over time, turn them into supermommies capable of distinguish your child’s crying among many more. They even react more strongly to their babies’ cries than to their partners’ cries. These supermommies develop an incredible ability to detect if their little one needs them in the middle of the night and can compartmentalize their tasks so that there is always room for parenting. The brain changes a lot, of course. But parents’ brains change too. Obviously, there are no hormonal changes due to any pregnancy, but your brain adapts to attend to that new life that comes into the world. For that reason, there are no excuses. Fathers are as biologically capable as mothers to care for their children’s needs. If a parent does not know the name of the pediatrician or where the diapers are kept, it may be because they did not want to learn. Reconfiguration of gray matter in the brain of parents This 2026, a study was published in which the brains of 25 new parents were analyzed using functional magnetic resonance imaging at weeks 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 after birth. Thus, it was observed that in the first six weeks the gray matter volume in areas like the insula, the hippocampus, and the occipital, frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. The loss of gray matter may sound like they were becoming dumber, but nothing could be further from the truth. They were rewiring his brain. Therefore, after those first six weeks the process stabilized, to begin to become an increase in gray matter levels from week 12, especially in the frontal cortex and the cerebellum. Basically, it is believed that neuronal pruning was taking place. Brain connections that are not useful are eliminated to invest more energy in reinforcing those that will be essential in that new life. It is a process that occurs to all people throughout life. adolescencebut that can occur in specific situations such as parenthood. In fact, a big change was also seen in the brain connections of the parents. For example, the amygdaladirectly involved with emotional processing, greatly strengthened its connections with other regions of the brain. All these data are added to those of another previous study, 2014in which an increase in gray matter volume was observed in brain regions involved in motivation and reward. Basically, the motivation of parents to take care of their children was being enhanced. This is something that has made us grow as a species evolutionarily. Reward systems make us feel good about situations that are good for us, like having sex or eating chocolate. Sex helps us perpetuate the species and chocolate gives us a lot of energy. Taking care of children is also beneficial for us, although sometimes it can be very tiring, so motivation through reward systems is essential. Curiously, all these reconfigurations in the brain they are more intense in parents who are more involved in caring for their children. Come on, the brain can be trained to be a good father. The more you practice, the simpler the care becomes. The parents most involved in parenting are the ones who experience the most changes It’s also a question of hormones Hormonal changes are more intuitive in women, as they are often associated with pregnancy. However, in men there are also changes in their hormone levels once they become parents. In fact, has been observed that in the first years of their children’s lives their levels of testosteronewhile oxytocin levels increase. This, far from being bad or stealing one’s virility, as some may venture to think, is essential to developing patience and attachment to one’s children. There is only one but It should be noted that, generally, these studies are carried out with few participants and, furthermore, only with parents who are involved in parenting to a greater or lesser extent. The absent parentsthose who believe that by putting in the sperm they have done enough, do not volunteer to know how their brain changes with parenthood. Luckily, there are more and more parents who do get properly involved, but those who don’t continue to exist. That is the main handicap of these investigations. Anyway, it is clear that the brain changes and can be trained, so surely even they could become super daddies if they wanted to. Or simply in parents. It is not necessary to be a superhero or a superheroine. It is enough to get involved in equal care. The brain is more than prepared, you just have to start using it. Images | Magnificent In Xataka | In Spain it is much more likely to encounter a pet than a child. Six times more likely, specifically

Because of climate change, by 2100 we will lose the equivalent of what 2 billion people eat each year in crops.

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We all know that climate change affects crops. the drought, global warmingextreme rainfall and many other related weather phenomena can seriously endanger agricultural activities. Given that these are the main livelihood of millions of people around the world, it is a situation that is worth analyzing carefully. It is precisely what has done recently a team of scientists from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. After comparing historical episodes of extreme heat with crop yield data from the FAO, they observed that we have been gradually losing crops for several years and that this, as climate change progresses, will only get worse. So much so that by 2100 losses of 160 billion dollars annually are estimated. Only three crops. The situation is even more worrying if we take into account that the data has been analyzed for only three crops: cornsoybeans and wheat. These were selected because there was sufficient data from FAO to carry out both phases of the statistical analysis. The first, calibration, was carried out with data from 1974 to 2004. On the one hand, historical records on episodes of extreme heat and drought were taken and then they were confronted with the existing information on the yields of these crops in different countries around the world. Thus, it was possible to obtain a formula on the correlation between climate and crops. This formula was then validated with data from 2007 to 2019. The objective was, with the climate information for that period, to calculate how it would affect crop yields. For the validation to be positive, the results should coincide with the true performance that was recorded at that time. And so it was. The data coincided and were not at all encouraging, as the first losses began to be detected. Specifically, there was a 3.5% decrease in crop yields. It may seem like little, but as explained to New Scientist one of the authors of the study, Kai Kornhuber, are relevant figures about a global impact, which could even trigger serious crises at a regional level. In fact, there are already annual losses of 20 billion dollars. A worrying situation in 2100. With the model already validated with known data, these scientists ventured to analyze an unknown future. What they saw when entering data for a scenario high emissionswith current trends, was very worrying. According to their calculations, global yields will fall by around 35% by 2100, with annual losses exceeding $161 billion. Another of the authors of the research, Yi Ling Hwong, explained in May at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union that the losses would be roughly equivalent to what around 2 billion people consume in a year. Crops affected by climate change around the world. The calculations have been made at a global level. There would be losses in all countries, including developed ones. However, these scientists warn that the situation will be especially serious in developing countries, where many people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. It can be solved. The positive part of all this is that, according to the authors of the study, you can try not to reach those figures. Kornhuber recalls that climate scientists make these statistical calculations with the goal of making people react and their predictions ending up being wrong. Therefore, they hope that this data will be disseminated and will help farmers to find ways to adapt, choosing new crops, according to the climatic conditions of each area and customizing irrigation. Limitations. This study on how climate change affects crops has limitations that must be recognized. Firstly, only three crops have been calculated. Others could be related to worse or better data, so it cannot be extrapolated to everything that grows on earth. On the other hand, only climate data related to extreme heat and drought are taken into account, but not with the floods or hail, for example. These are also phenomena associated with climate change that affect crops to a large extent. In addition, some scientists outside the study consider that the statistical calculations used may be good for making short-term forecasts, but not for the end of the century. Some even believe that the data may be overestimated. Even so, the authors of the study insist that it is better to be somewhat alarmist so that measures are taken than to underestimate the data and, with the truth in the face, it is too late to take action on the matter. Because that is the great reality of all this. Something has to be done. Data can be the push needed to get started once and for all. Image | Magnificent In Xataka | Google has shown with its AI that the prediction of storms and hurricanes is outdated. This is how your new model works

Eight years ago Morocco embraced Central European Time. Now you’ve decided it’s time to change.

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September 20, 2026 will be an important day in Morocco. Or rather, an important early morning. With the last blows of summer, the Maghreb country wants to apply a major change in an aspect that affects its close ties. 37 million inhabitantsbeyond your age, gender, profession or wealth: the schedule. The nation will abandon the GMT+1 to return to GMT. It may seem like a minor issue, but it has been starring for years an intense debate. In practice it also means move away (at the time level) of Europe. What has happened? That Morocco has decided that next September will mean more than just the end of summer. It will also mean goodbye to GMT+1the time that is one hour ahead of the Greenwich meridian, the same one used by peninsular Spain during winter time. The executive headed by Aziz Achanuch has decided that at the end of summer it will return to GMT. The change will be made at 02.00 on Sunday the 20th of September. What hours do you have now? At the end of the 1960s Morocco established the legal time GMT, but in the last decade it progressively adopted the use of GTM+1. That change occurred an acceleration in 2018, when it was decided to establish it definitively, eliminating the return to the GMT. At that time, Moroccans stopped having to manipulate the hands of their clocks depending on the season they were in. There was only an exception: Ramadan. During those weeks (the dates depend on the lunar calendar) the population switched to GMT time to make life more bearable in a period marked by fasting and prayer. As explains Juan Carlos Sanz in The Countrythis year the hands were moved back one hour between February 15 and March 22, which in practice advanced he iftarthe food that breaks the daily fast, and prolong the rest. العودة إلى الساعة القانونية (توقيت غرينيتش) ابتداء من متم الصيف الحالي (السيد أخنوش) pic.twitter.com/TF14b57sTE — Agence MAP (@MAP_Information) June 25, 2026 And why do they go to GMT? In words of the Government, to meet “citizens’ expectations” and “solve the problems associated with the early schedule.” The return to GMt+1 after Ramadan is supported by several government decrees, but that does not mean that it convinces Moroccans. The reason: the mismatches between the official schedule, the bands in which there is daylight and the biorhythms of the population. For example, it is said that the GMT zone prevents it from being nighttime when children go to school in winter. Is it that important? Yes. In April Watchtower public a chronicle in which he talked about how a collection of signatures against the GMT+1 had achieved the support of 300,000 people, a considerable number in a country of 37 million of people. The same medium cited a survey, carried out in 2025, in which the majority desire to establish the GMT is expressed with percentages. According to the survey, 43% of Moroccans are against GMT+1, which only convinces 28%. 40% also affirm that it is negative for their daily life. Why did they adopt it then? Because GMT+1 also has its advantages, although they may not be as noticeable in the daily routine of Moroccans. His defenders they talk of energy efficiency and competitiveness and recall a 2019 study that estimated a saving of 37.6 GWh in electricity during the winter, which resulted in fewer CO2 emissions and fuel costs. Are there more reasons? Yes. Another key reason is that the GMT improves Morocco’s synchronization with its major European economic allies, France and Spain. That Rabat joining GMT+1 meant that for a good part of the year, from october to marchthe Moroccan capital shares the same time as Madrid, Paris and Berlin. The rest of the year the difference was only one hour, like Lisbon or London. The change will mean moving Morocco away from that harmony, leaving an hour of lag in winter and two during summer. Images | Raúl Mermans García (Unsplash) and Mari Helin (Unsplash) In Xataka | For decades we changed the time to spend less. Today we know that it was not of much use

two very little-known parameters that change everything with AI

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ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and others artificial intelligences (AI) seem simple: we write, we give them our request or question and we receive a response. However, behind this simplicity of use there are two parameters that greatly determine the quality of the response that we get. And they often go unnoticed. We cannot manipulate the temperature and response length directly from the conventional chat. In fact, they are only touched from the API or using advanced tools, but the good news is that we can simulate their effect by resorting to the prompt appropriate. Temperature affects the creativity of the response. And the length to which the AI ​​model extends. The important thing is that by combining them we can completely transform the result of the same question. What these two parameters actually do The language models we currently use do not “know” the answers to our questions. They actually calculate, roughly speaking, word by word which is the most likely next word. This is all. In this context, the temperature decides to what extent the model deviates from that most probable option. A low temperature (and therefore close to 0) almost always chooses the predictable. A high one, however, allows for less probable options, with more variety, but also with more risk of detours. Be that as it may, there is no “correct” temperature: depends on the task. To summarize a contract, explain a concept or translate a text, we want it to be low. But to search for names, write an e-mail or propose ideas, we are interested in just the opposite. Almost no interface in AI applications allows us to touch this parameter directly, but we can simulate its effect using explicit instructions. If we write in Claude or ChatGPT: “Give me a very conservative and literal answer, without speculating or adding your own nuances” In practice we are asking for a behavior equivalent to a low temperature. If instead we write: “Be as original as you can. I prefer unconventional, even risky, ideas over the most obvious ones” The model will behave much more like it would with the temperature at maximum. Something similar happens with response length, although the mechanism is different. The model generates text until it decides to stop or until it reaches a limit of tokens fixed in advance, and a longer answer does not equal a better answer. It almost never is. The solution is simple: just include an explicit extension instruction in the ‘prompt’ Without instructions, most models tend to extend with nuances that we do not always need. On the other hand, if we are looking for in-depth development, a short answer will remain half. The problem does not lie in the model: it is that we have not indicated how much space it should occupy. The solution is simple: just include in the prompt an explicit extension instruction, from “answer me in a single sentence” to “develop it as deeply as possible.” And the two parameters are also combined: a low temperature and a short response give surgical responses, ideal for technical purposes. However, a high temperature and generous length enable an AI that expands and takes risks, perfect for generating new ideas. Know both parameters, even if it is indirectly through the itinerary that we mark for the model in each promptallows us to ask exactly what we need instead of settling for what AI delivers by default. Image | Generated by Xataka with a prompt created by Gemini and submitted to ChatGPT In Xataka | ChatGPT blocking mode: what it is, what it is for, who can use it and how to activate it In Xataka | AI is replacing one of the most hated jobs in the world: the tailcoat collector

two plants in Portugal and Scotland are about to change that

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While there are renewable energies such as solar or wind that are accelerating decarbonization, there are others that remain a melon to be opened, such as wave drive. The potential of waves is enormous, as you well know. island countries like Japan and places known for how brave their coast is like Galicia. It is true that some installation already exists, such as Mutriku’sbut its size and performance is rather discreet. To take wave power to another level, you need technology reliable enough to create a large plant and someone external to attest to it. There is the fence comes down to two places and one company: Portugal and Scotland, both from the Swedish company CorPower Ocean. The invention. CorPower Ocean’s C4 power converter measures nine meters in diameter, 18 meters in height and about 100 tons in mass. Since 2023, it has been installed and operational in the testing phase four kilometers off the coast of Aguçadoura, in the north of Portugal, at a depth of 45 meters. The device has achieved a historic milestone for wave energy: its C4 has received the first prototype certificate from Det Norske Veritas, the world reference entity in offshore energy. What does this mean? In short: that the technology meets the requirements of resistance, reliability and safety. In addition to reviewing and approving the conceptual development, detailed engineering, structural resistance and fatigue analysis, manufacturing, assembly, dry testing, installation, the most striking thing is that they have approved its performance in storms with waves of up to 18.5 meters. Why it is important. Because wave energy has been the unfinished business of renewables for more than half a century, far behind in performance (and obviously, also in exploitation of others such as wind or solar). That an independent certifying entity has given the go-ahead means that the technology is ready to make the leap to commercial production in terms of performance and safety, which opens the door to materializing projects once the necessary investment arrives. Here is the crux of the matter: if the technology is reliable, it is easier to convince financial and investment entities that it is worth betting on it. Context. Since the first prototypes will be patented in 1981 by engineers Laithwaite and Salter, other states such as Japan, Spain and Italy They have tried it without much success: wave power is still stuck in the experimental phase without making the commercial leap. Among the problems they have to deal with is the unpredictability of the waves: there may be some, but they are variable in height, pace and direction. On the other hand, the harsh marine environment also does not help in the design and maintenance of the devices. In detail. Certification is not the final stage, but rather the beginning of its commercial implementation: CorPower is already preparing its first two commercial parks, in Portugal and Scotland, with the stated objective of placing wave energy as the third major renewable source next to wind and solar. If everything goes according to plan, they will come into operation between 2027 and 2029. At that time, wave energy will finally be able to contribute its grain of sand to the electrical grid. And the Swedish company does not stop there: its next C5 is already pending certification. Yes, but. What has been certified is a prototype, not a device already manufactured in series, which is the next necessary step to produce on a large scale. And older plants such as Mutriku in Gipuzkoa (in operation since 2011), demonstrate This energy produces much less electricity than expected compared to wind or solar (its efficiency is 11%), so it remains to be known if these new parks will meet expectations. In Xataka | Twelve years of work, three winters at sea and a 42-meter buoy: this is the Basque project that wants to convert waves into cheap electricity Xataka | For years, wave energy was the ugly duckling of renewables. AI and data centers have taken a turn More information and cover | CorPower Ocean

If your password is stolen, you change it. If they steal your face, you have no other choice

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Google launched yesterday a new way to regain access to your account when you lose your phone or computer. All you have to do is record a selfie video by turning your head in several directions, and then send it to Google servers and use it as biometric verification if you want to recover that lost access. What’s really interesting is not this launch, because Google is just the latest big technology company to join the trend. And that trend, although interesting on the one hand, is very, very disturbing on the other. Google and your face as a method to recover your account. In Google’s announcement, those responsible explain the system for scanning and sending that selfie video to its servers, and how this system will allow users to recover their account if they lose access to it. Privacy and security by flag. Google promises that they will keep that information encrypted and use it for other purposes unless you actively allow it. The option can also be used to log in to your account (as Microsoft has been doing for years with its Windows Hello technology), but it cannot be used in Workspace accounts, nor in child accounts or in accounts that are part of the Advanced Protection Program from Google, aimed at journalists, activists or businessmen with especially sensitive information. Meta already tried it and had to abandon it…. Facebook had a facial recognition system —the one that suggested tags of people in photos— and closed it in 2021 erasing more than a billion faces after pressure from regulators and privacy organizations. …to get it back again. In October 2024 They resurrected technologythis time to recover Facebook and Instagram accounts that had been hacked. In December 2025 they had already made it the standard recovery method, and Meta assures that has improved by more than 30% the recovery rate of hacked accounts in the US and Canada. A Trojan horse called “age verification”. If account recovery is a gateway to giving up our “face”, the other, much more widespread, is to protect minors. That excuse has served to promote facial recognition as a verification measure. In July 2025, Roblox He started asking for a selfie video. to teenagers ages 13 to 17 who would like to unlock unfiltered chat with their circle of “trusted friends.” The system, managed by the company Personestimate the age based on facial features, and if you are not sure ask for official identification. Discord and its troubled system. In February 2026, the company advertisement that its more than 200 million monthly users would have to verify their age with a facial scan or an official document. The announcement came a few months after uploading a hack which exposed some 70,000 user IDs, which generated a lot of skepticism and notable criticism to the initiative. Discord had to delay the rollout of the measure until the second half of 2026, and shortly after a user shared a way to cheat the system with a 3D avatar controlled with an Xbox or PlayStation controller. TikTok, in the spotlight. The platform combine the estimate with a behavior and activity system (videos watched, usage patterns) and another for verification by selfie or official document when the system suspects that a self-declared adult user is actually not one. From 2021 has several lawsuits like the one that recently occurred in Florida because according to the accusation, TikTok deliberately modified your age rating to bypass parental controls. The vetoes that, for example Australia imposed on minors to enter social networks have also driven these efforts, which TikTok rushed to implement. Risky intermediaries. On French porn sites like Xvideos, verification provider AgeGO (a Spanish company based in Barcelona) offers to verify age with a live selfie. An AI Forensics investigation discovered that this data was sent directly to Amazon Rekognition, AWS’s facial recognition service, along with the user’s IP and the information that they were accessing an adult website. It is a clear example how biometric data that theoretically serves to verify your age ends up being used to create user profiles that can violate your privacy. What changes with a leaked password. If your password is stolen, you can change it. But if your facial scan, generated from the selfie video with various angles, expressions or lighting, is filtered, you cannot change your face. That’s the fundamental difference between “something you know” and “something you are,” and it explains why regulators and privacy activists are very clear that biometric data represents a category of data with a very different sensitivity than any other personal data. Interesting and above all very disturbing. Each of these companies insists that the video selfies they allow users to take are used only for the proper purpose—recovering an account, verifying age—but the truth is that the option, while interesting, is disturbing. Although it presents a valid and even very attractive alternative to recover an account, the risks that this biometric identification imposes are enormous. The privacy scandals proposed by this type of system are already beginning to appear —Let them tell Meta and his smart glasses—. Added to all this the threat of deepfakes which the EU will try to mitigate with your AI Law. Image | Taan Huyn In Xataka | Instagram tried to generate images with AI from its users’ photos: now Meta has had to retract it

Carnival’s next megacruise will be huge. Your biggest change will be in how the sea will look

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A mega cruise can offer so many attractions that at times it’s easy to forget you’re sailing. Carnival aims to respond to this contradiction with the Carnival Destinya ship of enormous dimensions whose proposal will not be based solely on volume, capacity or the number of spaces on board. The shipping company wants its distinctive feature to be its relationship with the outside world. To achieve this, it has proposed an open architecture, with more glass surfaces, wide perspectives and areas designed to keep the ocean within the field of vision. Carnival Destiny will be the first member of the new Ace class, a family of three ships with deliveries scheduled for 2029, 2031 and 2033. Its construction formally began with the steel cutting ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, where a 3D hologram was also shown with the first preview of its design. Delivery is scheduled for summer 2029, after which she will sail to destinations in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Mexico. By size, the Destiny will enter directly into the highest category on the market. Its approximately 230,000 GT of gross tonnage and its capacity to around 8,000 passengers They will place it close to the largest cruise ships built, although it will not lead the classification by volume. Royal Caribbean’s Icon class ships, such as the Icon of the Seas and the most recent Legend of the Seasare around 250,800 GT and can accommodate around 7,600 passengers at full capacity. The new Carnival ship will therefore compete in that same league, but with a different proposal. A giant who does not want to hide the ocean Once its scale is located, the difference that the company wants to highlight appears in the design. Carnival has not yet presented a main attraction or a large thematic space that defines the ship, but rather a different way of organizing it around its relationship with the outside. The company describes it as the most outward-oriented megacruise ship on the market, a promotional claim it will yet have to prove. The intention, in any case, is clear: that the ocean functions as a constant reference and not as a secondary element. To materialize this idea, the project will use more than 18,200 m² of glass surfaces. Among the elements already announced there will be multi-story glass wallsmore open lines of sight and a greater presence of spaces facing the outside. It is not just about adding windows, but rather organizing part of the architecture to reduce visual obstacles and extend views across the ship. Carnival has not yet shown the complete design, so the real scope of that transformation remains to be known. This image shows Royal Caribbean’s Legend of the Seas, not the future Carnival Destiny. Delivered in June 2026 as the third ship of the Icon class, it represents the current reference against which Carnival will place its new giant Another of the pillars will be in the cabins and on the outer decks. The company maintains that the Destiny will have an unprecedented number of accommodations with balconies and sea views, but has not published a figure to verify the scope of that claim. It will also redesign the Lanaian exterior cover designed to create a more continuous connection with the ocean. With this, the shipping company intends that this relationship does not depend solely on the large panoramic spaces. The changes will not end in the architecture, although the rest of the new features are still difficult to measure. According to Carnival, more than 70% of the spaces and attractions will respond to concepts that the brand has not used beforewith proposals planned for restaurants, bars, lounges, entertainment and outdoor areas. The figure is striking, but it is not yet accompanied by names, plans or detailed descriptions. Until these announcements arrive, it can only be stated that it is preparing a broad renewal of its offer, not that each proposal will be unprecedented in the sector. The Destiny proposal is based on a contradiction: the more cruise ships grow and the more activities they concentrate, the easier it is for the sea to be relegated to the background. Carnival will try to correct this with balconies, exterior routes, large glass surfaces and a layout designed to expand the views. The idea has already been defined, but it still remains to be seen how it will work on a ship prepared for around 8,000 passengers. Until 2029 we will not know if this architecture will really change the experience or if its greatest effect will remain in the promotional field. Images | carnival In Xataka | A technology created to avoid collisions at sea blows millionaires’ minds: it allows them to locate their yachts in seconds

OpenAI wants its own Alexa, but on steroids. Its first device seeks to change the relationship with AI, according to Bloomberg

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Home assistants have been operating for years around a simple logic: we give an order, the device executes a task and the relationship usually ends there. The bet that OpenAI would be working on aims precisely to break that limit and give artificial intelligence a more continuous role within the home. It wouldn’t just be about answering questions or activating services, but about learning from the user and offering help before they have to ask for it. The OpenAI device. According to BloombergOpenAI is working on a screenless home device, similar in general appearance to a speaker, but designed to be moved around the house thanks to a rechargeable battery. The company would like to make it the physical embodiment of ChatGPTcapable of responding to messages, playing content, controlling connected devices and helping with different tasks. It should be noted that the company has not presented it and there is no official information yet. Jony Ive, Apple’s former design chief, is also behind the project. OpenAI paid $6.5 billion in 2025 for io Productsthe company he had co-founded, while his studio LoveFrom participates in the design of this new family of devices. The team also brings together numerous former Apple designers and engineers responsible for products like the iPhone and Mac, a concentration of talent that helps understand both the ambition of the project and the legal conflict surrounding it. Your own Alexa, but with another ambition. The entry of the firm led by Sam Altman in the home it would put it in front of Amazon, Google and Apple, companies that have been building their own ecosystems of speakers, assistants and connected devices for years. According to the aforementioned medium, the difference would be in a more personalized and proactive experience, capable of learning from the user and offering information without always waiting for an order. OpenAI would describe it internally not as a simple smart speaker, but as a computer conceived from the beginning to work with artificial intelligence. The difference would be in its ability to interpret what is happening around it using a camera, several sensors and more advanced models than those available in conventional home assistants. Instead of processing an isolated instruction, the system could take into account the environment and the specific moment to determine what information is useful and how to respond. New voice model. Much of that experience would depend on GPT-Livea more advanced version of ChatGPT’s voice mode that OpenAI launched in July 2026. The idea is that you can listen and speak at the same time, adapting more naturally during conversations and processing information quickly. The device would also incorporate mechanical elements capable of moving on their own. With this, the company would try to reinforce the personality of the device and generate the feeling that “it is alive.” To anticipate, you will have to know us. OpenAI would like the device to become a kind of expert on its user over time, capable of identifying what information may be useful at any given moment. Bloomberg notes that to achieve this, it could turn to personal information, such as emails, and use it to better understand its owner. This personalization would be one of its main arguments, but it would also force us to decide to what extent we are willing to open our digital lives. Apple’s lawsuit. The project is also moving forward under pressure from a Apple lawsuitwhich accuses OpenAI of having used trade secrets to accelerate the development of its devices. OpenAI maintains that it knows of no evidence to support those accusations, although Apple has requested a court order that could delay its commercialization. According to Bloomberg, the company aims to present the product during 2026 and launch it in 2027, as long as the technical and legal process allows it. The final bet is to turn ChatGPT into a physical presence that we live with daily. Images | OpenAI/LoveFrom In Xataka | Alexa+ arrives in Spain with the ambition of understanding real conversations: we have seen it in action and everything changes there

Volkswagen led an army of sheep to graze under 31,000 solar panels. It turns out that the way of producing energy began to change

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For years, the industry has assumed that each new problem required an increasingly sophisticated solution. Volkswagen just demonstrated which is not always like that. After deploying thousands of solar panels to power one of its factories, it has discovered that the best possible maintenance is not done by a robot or a specialized machine, but by a flock of sheep. The problem was not the plates, but what was underneath. Photovoltaic parks share a challenge that is as simple as it is constant: vegetation doesn’t stop growing. In industrial facilities with tens of thousands of panels, keeping the ground clear involves introducing machinery between metal supports, wiring and electrical equipment, with the consequent economic, energy and maintenance costs. In the Volkswagen plant in Poznań, Poland, where a solar park of 31,000 panels can cover the entire energy demand of the factory during the days of greatest radiation and provides about 25% of its annual consumption, that challenge had become part of daily operations. An ancient solution. Instead of looking for a more efficient machine, Volkswagen turned to a much older technology: a hundred sheep. The animals replace lawnmowers, eliminating the need for mechanical clearing as they calmly cover the terrain under the plates. The curious thing is that the solution is not only effective in maintaining the grass at baybut it avoids the constant passage of vehicles between the infrastructure, reduces emissions and simplifies the maintenance of a state-of-the-art energy installation. The plus that sheep give. The project is part of a known model like agrivoltaicswhich seeks to combine electricity production with agricultural activity on the same surface. Under the supervision of researchers from the Poznań University of Sciences, the flock has been turned into a real open-air laboratory. The scientists analyze how it influences grazing on biodiversity, soil quality, vegetation, microclimate and animal well-being, while studying the extent to which the shade projected by the panels reduces the thermal stress of livestock during the hottest months. Nature also optimizes. The first results show an adaptation surprisingly fast. The sheep have been distributed naturally throughout the facility, forming small groups that take advantage of the shaded areas generated by the solar panels. This behavior, in addition to indicating that the animals feel safe, helps maintain a uniform plant coverage and encourages the appearance of insects and other species, transforming a simple photovoltaic plant into a much richer ecosystem than conventionally mowed land. Agrivoltaics is no longer rare. Although the case of Volkswagen is especially striking because it is a large industrial facility, the use of sheep in solar parks takes vyears extending in countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. The idea it’s simple: obtain two different yields from the same plot. While the plates generate electricity, the agricultural or livestock activity keeps the land productive, reduces operating costs and improves the environmental performance of the facility without competing for the use of the land. Innovation is not always more technology. The paradox of the project is evident. A factory that is committed to electrification, solar energy and decarbonization has ended up finding one of its most effective solutions in a livestock practice with thousands of years of history. At a time when innovation is often associated with artificial intelligence, automation or robotics, Volkswagen has discovered that, sometimes, the greatest advance consists of simply letting innovation. nature do a job that no machine can do with the same efficiency. Image | Rafal Pijanski In Xataka | Australia compared 1,700 sheep and discovered something unexpected: those that graze among solar panels give better quality wool In Xataka | Texas installed millions of solar panels on rural land. To maintain it they have had to hire 3,000 sheep

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