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The US every day trusts less than China. Now plan to prohibit the use of submarine cables of Chinese origin

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The distrust held by the US and China is absolute. And probably both countries have solid reasons not to trust the other. After all, they are struggling to get world supremacy. The last sample of distrust has been put on the table the nation led by Donald Trump. And is that the Federal Communications Commission, known in English as FCC (Federal Communications Commission), wants to ban submarine cables of Chinese origin used to connect USA with the rest of the planet. This American institution is responsible for regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, telephone, satellite and cable, so it has power to execute a prohibition like this. In fact, Brendan Car, the president of the FCC, holds in a statement That his intention with this measure is to defend the integrity of the US Internet connection infrastructure in the face of the security threat that China represents. This initiative is also supported by the Plan “America First” that the Trump administration officially launched in February this year. In the current context, submarine cables are more important than ever “Submarine cables are the anonymous heroes of global communications. In fact, they transport 99% of Internet traffic,” Brendan Carr assures in its statement. “As the US builds the data centers and the infrastructure necessary to lead the world in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and next -generation technologies These cables are more important than ever. “Although it does not express it clearly, Carr’s statement contains a very important message that we cannot overlook. “We have witnessed how submarine cable infrastructure has been threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, such as China” What the FCC fears is that China, which is climbing at full speed in the manufacturing industry of submarine cables, uses its technologies to spy on the US. Currently the companies that lead the production of these cables reside in France, Italy, USA and Japan, but HENGTong Group, Zhongtian Submarine Cable, Orient Cable and Dosese cable, All of them Chinese companiesThey are increasing their competitiveness and market share. Car proposes to adopt a double approach. On the one hand, it aims to encourage the use of US repair and maintenance of submarine cables, as well as completely reliable technologies from foreign countries. And, on the other hand, it aspires to discourage the use of Chinese technology in global infrastructure by imposing additional restrictions on its use in any underwater cable that connects to the US. “We have witnessed how submarine cable infrastructure has been threatened in recent years by foreign adversaries, such as China,” Brendan Carr in its statement. This is not at all the first time that the US launches an initiative to prohibit the use of Chinese technology in its communications infrastructure. In fact, in 2019 the Donald Trump government prohibited using telecommunications equipment manufactured by Chinese companies ZTE and HUAWEI. This was one of the most important chapters of the conflict held by the US and China for almost a decade. More information | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | 2025 has started with another cut cable cut. The problem is where and the suspect: in Taiwan and China

The United States is convinced that the Chinese army already uses its chips for ia. Nvidia has a different opinion

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The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, recently granted An interview to the CNN medium, where he could speak without capujos about the current context of his company, about Nvidia’s position in the AI racethe benefits of this technology, and other relevant topics of current affairs. In addition, he has also provided his opinion about The commercial war with China and restrictions, as well as the possible use of American technology in Chinese military terrain. Chips for the Chinese army. The United States has shown concerns in the past about whether advanced Nvidia chips would be used by the Chinese army. Those concerns gave rise to The restrictions of chips A100 and H100. Despite this, There are indications that the chips would also be reaching the Chinese army. Nvidia is not worried. Huang It has subtracted importance To Washington’s concerns about the military use of its artificial intelligence chips by China, arguing that the Chinese army cannot depend on American technology that can end up being restricted at any time. Their statements come while the company promises to resume sales of Its H20 processors to the Chinese market and days after meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House. Huang’s position against Washington. In the interview, the manager defended that “we do not have to worry” about the military use of American technology in China, since “they simply cannot trust it.” His argument is that Beijing will avoid depending on US components due to the risk of future limitations. Huang added that China already has “a lot of computing capacity” and does not need Nvidia chips to develop its military capabilities. The restriccions have hit Nvidia. US administrations have maintained export controls on the most advanced semiconductors for fear of strengthening Chinese military capacities. These measures, applied in a bipartisan manner, have cost Nvidia billions of dollars in potential revenues. According to the company, restrictions made them lose approximately about 15,000 million dollars in sales After the latest restrictions imposed by the Trump administration to prohibit their chips to China. The company affirms which also had to amortize 5,500 million in inventory. Between Washington and Beijing. It is clear that the company is making extraordinary efforts to maintain a balance between Washington and Beijing. His CEO openly criticizes control policies, arguing that They are counterproductive For American technological leadership. His thesis is that for the United States to maintain its dominant position in AI, American technology must be available globally, included in China, where half of the world’s developers are located. American senators They have warned him specifically that avoids meeting with companies linked to the Chinese army or intelligence organizations during your visit to Beijing. Meanwhile, Nvidia faces Huawei’s growing competition and other Chinese chip manufacturers, although the country’s technology companies continue to demand their processors due to their platform CUDA. And now what. Nvidia has announced that you will request licenses for Resume Sales of the H20 Chip to Chinawith the US government ensuring that it will grant them soon. The company has also developed a new processor specifically designed to comply with current regulations: the RTX Pro GPU, which is part of the architecture Blackwell and is completely adapted to export controls. China represents 13% of the total income of Nvidiaabout 17,000 million dollars, which explains why Huang maintains its favorable speech towards the Chinese market while sailing among the geopolitical pressures of both countries. The H20 chip had been developed specifically for the Chinese market after the restrictions of the late 2023, becoming the most powerful product legally available until its effective prohibition in April. Cover image | Nvidia In Xataka | The Nvidia’s supercomputer costs millions of dollars. And to work we use a switch with three kilometers of cable

Deepseek marked a turning point in the AI race. Now another Chinese company wants to imitate its success: Kimi K2 is born

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The Chinese startup Monshot AI has presented Kimi K2, an open -source artificial intelligence model that arrives with outstanding programming capabilities and autonomous tasks that, according to The published benchmarksThey spray competition in several of their models. Its launch occurs at a key moment for the sector, when Chinese companies seek to replicate the disruptive success of Deepseek with potential height models and much cheaper than market alternatives. Kimi does not come from nothing. MoNshot ai was one of the most promising startups in the Chinese ecosystem of AI and that giants like Alibaba have invested greatly. His Kimi chatbot reached third place in monthly active users in August 2024, but fell to the seventh in June After the emergence of Deepseek R1 in January. Now try to recover ground with a strategy that combines open source and aggressive prices, following the formula that catapulted Deepseek. Image: MoNshot AI What Kimi K2 offers. The model has 1 billion total parameters and 32,000 million activated parameters, using The well-known Mixture-Of-Experts architecture to optimize computational costs. It is presented in two versions: a base for researchers and developers, and another optimized for conversation and autonomous tasks. Kimi K2 thus becomes Moonshot AI’s proposal with the ability to act as an intelligent agent to use tools, write code, complete workflows or talk, among other tasks. Kimi K2 explained in numbers. In performance testsKimi K2 has achieved 65.8% precision at Swe-Bench Verified, one of the most demanding benchmarks for software engineering. In LivecodeBench it reached 53.7%, exceeding 46.9% of Deepseek-V3 and 44.7% of GPT-4.1. In mathematics, its 97.4% score in Math-500 exceeds 92.4% of GPT-4.1, suggesting significant advances in mathematical reasoning. The price factor. MoNshot is charging $ 0.15 per million input tokens and $ 2.50 per million tokens out of the developers who use their API. Compared, Claude Opus 4 It charges 100 times more for the entrance (15 dollars) and 30 times more for the output ($ 75), while GPT-4.1 charges 2 dollars per entrance and 8 per exit. In addition, the model is available for free in Web applications and Kimi mobile, without monthly subscriptions that require chatgpt or Claude for their most advanced models. Technical innovation. MoNshot has developed the MuCanclip optimizer, which allows train models of one billion parameters “With zero training instability.” This technology could drastically reduce the training costs of large models, a problem that has limited the development of AI to companies with greater resources. Double channel strategy. The company offers so much Free access to the source code as payment API at a very competitive price. This strategy allows companies to start with the API for immediate implementation and then migrate to self -healing versions either by regulatory cost or compliance. And it is that each developer who downloads Kimi K2 becomes a potential business client. Moment of inflection. Kimi K2 represents a convergence point where open source models and proprietary alternatives shake hands. MoNshot AI intends to turn Kimi into a tool for everything, while offering its open source model and is reserved to charge for the use of its API for all types of implementations. And now what. The launch reaches a critical point in which both Openai, such as Google or Anthropic, must respond to this wave of cheap and high quality language models. The issue is no longer whether open source models can match the owners, but if large technological ones can adapt their business models fast enough to compete in this new scenario. The looks are put in GPT-5 And in the next movements of the industry at a rate, as always, accelerated. Cover image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio and Kimi AI In Xataka | Grok 4 destroys the tests and aims to be the most advanced AI model. The problem is that Elon Musk continues to sabotage his answers

In Euro NCAP they are clear how Chinese cars are

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The Chinese cars They have gone from anecdote to something common on European roads. Great manufacturers such as Byd or Saic have own fleets for bring their cars from Chinabut also They are expanding to manufacture on European land. Some brands are opening concessionaires and, although the market grows, there may be a runrun about whether the Chinese car is As sure as the European, Japanese or South Korean. And who is clear about the answer is the agency that gives the security score in Europe. EURO NCAP. Skepticism. My partner Alberto confesses that one of the Questions that make friends and family more When addressing the purchase of a Chinese car it has to do with security. There is still a certain skepticism due to that belief that the ‘cheap made in China’ translates into some quality. With the new policies promoted by the Government of Xi Jinping, in fact, it seeks consolidate the country as a reference in the Technologies of the futureand precisely they have a lot to say in the battery technology or the electric car. Obligations. Beyond that technological leadership, several things must be taken into account. Chinese companies have been forming joint ventures with more consolidated companies. Geely, for example, has an idyll with Renault. SAIC with Volkswagenso both They share technologies and objectives in areas such as the development of the electric car. In addition to this mutual learning, obligations by regulations come into play. Since 2022, The European Union forces that all new cars approved on continental soil must have a Safety elements series such as emergency braking, the fatigue detector, notices on excess speed, lane outlet or rear camera with cross traffic alert, among other measures. And this is also forced Chinese manufacturers. In fact, due to pedestrian danger, The Tesla Cybertruck is neither expected in Europe. Euro ncap is clear. And apart from the regulations, we have an agency as EURO NCAP. This is the person in charge of performing tests to measure active and liabilities security elements and, when there is a maximum score, it is something that manufacturers use as a marketing element. Surely you have often heard that “Five Euro NCAP stars” Well, the funny thing is that, as we read in Reutersthe organism considers that Chinese cars not only have nothing to envy to Westerners, but are superior to certain models. Matthew Avery is Euro Ncap’s Director of Strategic Development and has been blunt about it: “Forget about what you can think about that the Chinese mean lower quality or worse safety performance. The quality of vehicles models of Chinese brands is better than that of others.”

The one between Chinese companies

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The artificial intelligence (AI) resides in the heart of the pulse currently supporting the US and China. The government led by Donald Trump is doing everything in his hand to prevent avant -garde chips for ia that design Nvidia, AMD, Intel or brains, among other US companies, They arrive in the country led by Xi Jinping. Meanwhile the latter is dedicating An enormous amount of resources to the development of its own advanced GPUs and AI models. The curious thing is that the most level competition in the AI ​​sector does not support only the rivalry of US and Chinese companies. During the last four years the subsidies of the Chinese government have led to that the companies that are dedicated to the development of great AI models. The Chinese market is very large, and, of course, the World Cup is even much more, but this circumstance has not avoided that conflicts between some Chinese companies emerge. The one who is freeing Huawei and Alibaba is especially bloody. Huawei denies having copied Alibaba Ren Zhengfei, the founder and general director of Huawei, made at the beginning of last June very interesting statements during a conversation with a Chinese journalist from the people’s newspaper. According to this executive “Las Gpu Ascend de Huawei are still a generation behind the chips for the US”. A priori it is surprising that the head of this company publicly publicly recognizes as this. His words They arrive at a very important moment For the company that leads. And it is that just two months ago Huawei released two new chips for AI, the GPUs Ascend 910d and 920with which he aspires to go Learning Nvidia, leading the leadership in performance in AI applications that hold both in China and beyond the borders of this Asian country. In fact, Noah Ark Lab, the Huawei Research Division, already has its first large -scale model implemented entirely on the Ascend chips. Honestagi has published a study in Github in which he maintains that there is a correlation between Pangu Pro Moe and Qwen 2.5 14b For this company, the development of a large language model in whose training and inference has only used its own chips, and not the NVIDIA GPUs, it is a success. However, the arrival of the last review of his Pangu Pro Moe model (Mixture of experts) He has not been exempt from shocks. And is that, According to Reutersa research group known as Honestagi has published a study on the Github platform in which it maintains that there is a very evident correlation between the Pangu Pro Moe de Huawei and Qwen 2.5 14b of Alibaba. This simply means that Noah Ark Lab could have trained its AI model using Qwen 2.5 14b instead of starting from scratch. If this, this division of Huawei would have violated the copyright of Alibaba. However, this is what honestagi defends in your report, but Huawei hasn’t taken it to deny it. And is that This last company holds That PANGU PRO MOE does not strengthen the incremental training from the models of the other manufacturers. There is another important fact that we are not overlooking: Huawei ensures that its development team has strictly adhered to the open source license requirements for any third -party code that it has used, although it has not specified what open source models it has used. On the other hand, Alibaba at the moment has not ruled, but presumably will announce his opinion about this conflict during the next few days. It will be interesting to verify how this Liza is resolved between two of the most important Chinese companies in the AI ​​domain. Image | Huawei More information | Reuters In Xataka | The Chinese company Alibaba has an AI to detect pancreatic cancer. It is so good that the US has accelerated its approval

The vast majority are Chinese

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Mark Zuckerberg has a goal and is moving heaven and earth To get it. Dissatisfied with the Meta advances in AIthe CEO set out to create a team of ‘Superinteligencia’ to lead the next great jump of this technology. Offered More than 100 million dollars to the candidates and even has signed OpenAi talent. The thing marches and Zuckerberg already has eleven AI stars in his new team. The striking: seven of them are Chinese and six of them come from Openai. And this without counting Alexandr Wang, the director of the new team and founder of Scale AI. The team. After several weeks starring headlines for his aggressive offers, Zuckerberg already has his superintelligence team, or at least part of him. These are the names of the eleven experts that will be incorporated into the Palo Alto offices: Bi Suchao (ex-openai. China): He was co-creator of the GPT-4O and O4-mini voice mode. Chang Huiwen (Ex-Openai. China): Co-creator of the GPT-4O image generator. Before he worked in Google, where he created Maskit and Muse. Lin Ji (Ex-Openai. China): He worked on the creation of several language models, from GPT-4O to GPT-4.5. He also dealt with the reasoning of Operator. Ren Hongyu (Ex-Openai. China): He helped create several models and led the post-training team. Sun Pei (Ex-Google. China): He was the principal investigator in Deepmind and had an important role in the creation of Gemini. Zhao Shengjia (Ex-Openai. China): He directed the synthetic data program and was key in the creation of Chatgpt. Yu Jiahui (Ex-Openai. China) He led the perception team. Joel Poblar (ex-anthropic. Australia): He worked on the creation of inference systems. Bansal Trapit (Ex-Openai. India): Co-creator of several language models and pioneer of the combination between reinforced learning and ‘chain of thought’. Jack RAE (Ex-Google. United States): Scientific researcher at Deepmind. Johan Schakwyk (formerly. United States): expert in language technologies. He also worked in Google and Maya Leakage talent. The target signing list reveals something we already talked about, China concentrates a lot of specialized talent in AI. According to Jensen Huang statementsCEO of Nvidia, “50% of the world’s researchers are Chinese” and this would give China a great advantage in the AI ​​race. However, if the best engineers end up working for American Big Tech, in practice that advantage may not be so great. As They count on South China Morning Postthe announcement has generated reactions in China. Mainly of pride, but also of concern for the departure of that talent towards its main competitor. It is not an unfounded fear: it is currently estimated that 38% of experts who work in the United States have formed in China. Nevertheless, China has a plan And it is not only to produce more talent, but to do even better. They are already prioritizing races linked to AI and are beginning to integrate training related to primary and secondary schools. The race for AI. The United States was very advanced in AI, so that it seemed unattainable, but recently we have seen how China cut distances. The quality gap is smaller than ever: in just one year they have managed to cut it from 9.26% to 1.7%. Although in the United States they still have many more models, in China they are opting for a more efficient approach with less models, much cheaper and that they are getting very good results. The other victim. We do not forget Openai. At first there was talk that Goal had signed four key employeesbut with the new published names it would be at least seven. In an internal statement, Openai’s research director Mark Chen said “I have a visceral feeling right now, As if someone had sneaked into our house and stole somethingChen also assured that they were not going to stay with crossed arms and would make counteroffers, something that does not seem to have served much. Footballer salaries. Zuckerberg’s strategy to capture talent has been extremely aggressive, offering bonds of up to 100 million dollars to engineers, causing him to make him IA experts become the best paid in history. And not to mention the 14.3 billion dollars that he has allocated to take Scale AI and his young founded Alexandr Wang, whom he has given the leadership of this new team. Now we just have to wait to see the fruits that come out of this Dream Team. Image | Goal and David Yu in Pixabay In Xataka | The AI ​​industry has become a kind of ‘game of thrones’. And that reveals a worrying truth for your future

A Chinese firm has just presented a quadruped that challenges the limits. Boston Dynamics no longer has a clear path

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In a world where the focus seems to be in humanoids as Tesla optimus or the ‘nurse’ robot that already works in a Taiwan hospitala new generation of machines is winning its place. They are fast, resistant and are beginning to show that they can do much more than impress in videos. One of them has just run 100 meters as if their future depended on it, and is Chinese. Quadruped robots also compete. For years, the conversation about advanced robotics has been monopolized by biped figures. Robots that move as humans. But there is another way: that of robots that do not try to imitate us, but overcome ourselves in other areas. The quadrupeds, for example, have been demonstrating its usefulness in difficult terrain, repetitive tasks and, now also, in speed tests. A challenging career. It was just a moment, but it didn’t go unnoticed. How global aims aimduring a live broadcast of Chinese state television, a four -legged robot aligned on an athletic track prepared for something unusual: a 100 -meter race. When the stopwatch was launched, Black Panther II did, the new robot developed by the startup Mirror Me. He completed the route in 13.17 seconds, which is equivalent to an average speed of 7.6 m/s. In that same test, the robot sensors registered a peak of 9.7 m/s, and the company claims to have reached 10.9 m/s in previous internal tests. If that data is confirmed, we would be facing one of the fastest quadrupeds. Is it the fastest in the world? It depends on how you look. The figures invite to breastfeed, but it is always key to put them in context. Black Panther II reached 10.9 m/s in an internal test, which is equivalent to about 39.2 km/h. During the televised race, the registered peak was 9.7 m/s (34.9 km/h). Both figures exceed the official Wildcat,That according to the Boston Dynamics website reaches 30.6 km/h. For its part, the robot Cheetah – also from Boston Dynamics – reached 45.6 km/h (12.6 m/s) In laboratory tests. The demonstration, collected in an official video, was made on a running tape with external food and physical support to maintain balance. Even so, the data remains the highest technical reference registered by a quadruped. With that data, Black Panther II would be below the Cheetah – at least in tip speed – but clearly above Wildcat. In other words: it is one of the fastest quadrupeds ever built, although its brands have not yet been officially certified. For now, the formal title is maintained by the Hound robot, of the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology of Korea, which completed 100 meters in 19.87 seconds (about 18 km/h), As stated in the Guinness book. A young startup with very clear ideas. Mirror’s story didn’t start a long time ago. The company was founded in May 2024 in Shanghai by a group of professors and graduates from the University of Zhejiang. One of the founders is Jin Yongbin, a researcher at the Institute of Innovation in Humanoid Robots, while his partner, Wang Hongtao, is a university professor with trajectory in advanced robotics. In just one year, this startup has gone from developing robotic arms and mechanical hands to compete publicly with companies such as Boston Dynamics. Beyond the Black Panther II, Mirror already works on new prototypes. Among them, a fast bipedo in 2026 and a humanoid that, according to their plans, could act as a personal assistant for the year 2030. Images | Mirror me In Xataka | Elon Musk has updated Grok to look so much to him that AI is having hallucinations: Elon Musk is believed

The US tried to the desperate strangular the Chinese chip industry. It has taken two months to back down

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There is a key to be able to manufacture the best processors in the world: have access to software that allows you to design them. And there, at least currently, the leadership still has the United States through three companies: Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence. The Trump administration has been since May trying to pull the rope with China To use this software as a throwing weapon. And the play has not finished doing well. The context. On May 29, the Office of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce He gave the order: EDA software is ended up to Chinese groups. A movement that sought to stop China’s incessant advance in semiconductors, at a key moment in which the country led by Xi Jiping is achieving milestones in its lithographic, current and future processes. The answer. China, which has been looking for technological self -sufficiency for decades and reduce its dependence with the United States, saw in these new restrictions “the greatest opportunity for history growth”, according to some of the main figures after Chinese EDA software companies. Triggered action, national commitment to a product that has been refining years, and even publication in Github of some of the advances they were achieving in this matter. What happened. The restrictions imposed on the sale of software by Siemens, Cadence and Synopsys have been terminated with immediate effect, According to SCMP. The three giants of this industry can resume their commercial ties with China, so their supply chain can resume the use of these crucial tools. What will happen now. That the United States has unlocked (at least, for now) the use of EDA software is an oxygen ball for the Chinese semiconductor industry. The country is close to achieving capacity to make 5nm chipsalthough It is still choking progress in this lithographic process Before the prohibitions of the US and the Netherlands that prevent Asml extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). Access to American Eda will be key, but not the key to the future of the country. Empyrean Technology, Primarius Technologies and Semitronix are the names to remember. Three Chinese giants who want to stand up to the three American giants, a task that will not be easy. The American Eda Empire. Together, Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence are around 80% of the global in this industry. They monopolize almost all of the EDA market and are one of the main strategic pillars in the semiconductor design industry. Figures that will not allow China to approach in the short term, but that will not move her away from her inevitable destiny: Lead the semiconductor industry, sooner or later. Image | TSMC In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

Chinese dolls of sinister smile are breaking it in Spain. They are called Labubu and they are already falsifications and scams

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Rabbit ears and a very sinister smile. So are the labubu, some small collection dolls that, following the wake of successes like Sonny AngelThey are invading everything. After its success in China, the fever for these collection dolls has left their borders and has arrived in Spain. And with it the inevitable is also coming: falsifications. Context. Labubu are an original creation of the Hongkonese artist Kaising Lung, marketed by Pop Mart, which also markets Other similar collection toys lines. These are small stuffed animals with a keychain hitch, which are usually hung from the bag or backpack. When we buy one, several designs appear on the side of the box and you can touch any of them. This surprise effect and the gamification of the purchase have caused them to become an object of desire for collectors around the world, getting to pay authentic fortunes For them. Viral success. Although there were long before, the Labubu boom occurred in 2024. In China they generated the whopping 3,000 million yuan (about 355 million euros). 2025 is even better For these little elves. Only in China the growth is 100%, but in the rest of the world it would already be in 480%. There is a key factor in this global success: there are more and more celebrities and influencers who show their labubus in public. The first Celebrity that popularized them It was Lisa, from the K-Pop Blackpink group. Now they are hanging from Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Madonna or Kim Kardashian bags. The fever arrives in Spain. We said there is an invasion of Labubus and Spain was not going to be less. At the end of last year They opened a store in Barcelona and the tails to buy one of these dolls were kilometer. In the official store they are exhausted and, although there are other stores that sell Labubus in Spain, the same thing happens: almost all They have hung the ‘out of stock’ poster‘(Yeah, Also Amazon). With this panorama, the sale platforms are being filled with Labubus, with an increase in searches for 856%. Falsifications and scams. Stock -free stores and demand for clouds are the perfect ingredients for counterfeiters to fall in action. According to a Kaspersky reportit’s already happening. Fraudulent websites that sell counterfeit figures have been created and, in addition, they steal data from the users they buy. They always recommend buying official distributors, but since in Pop Mart Spain there are hardly any stock, many users go to Wallapop, Milanuncios or Vinted. There are many available, many of them original, but here another problem is presented: the price. Normally a Labubu costs between 15 and 30 euros. Taking advantage of scarcity, many vendors They swell prices. Precedents. Collecting Figuritas is no news. A few years ago we lived the Funko Pop Fever. In 2019, the North American company He presumed to have tripled its value, Although a couple of years ago we knew that their finances did not happen their best moment. Labubu fever takes advantage of the wave generated by a more recent phenomenon: The Sonny Angelsthose Japanese dolls that many people had glued on their smartphones and that were also a problem by The amount of falsifications that circulated. In ambiguity is success. Although similar to the Sonny Angels, Labubu are pioneers in one thing: it is the first time that China “colonizes” Europe with a cultural and consumerist phenomenon of this type. According to This Chinese journalist, The secret of success would be precisely that Labubu does not seem something Chinese. Its ambiguous design makes it more consumable by a massive audience. The corporate image of its parent company, Pop Mart, is also more ambiguous or “less China”, something that according to this journalist is intentional and would have a goal: “There is less likely that there is a violent reaction if Beijing does something wrong.” And China became cool. They told it in This Economist articlewhere they explore the change of image that China has experienced since the West in recent years. A clear indicator is the success of Chinese cultural products such as The movie Ne Zha 2or video games like ‘Genshin Impact’ and ‘Black Myth: Wukong‘. Tiktok’s success, his leadership in industries such as The electric car or the drones They have contributed to improving the image of the country outside their borders, something that coincides with a growing United States Negative Vision Under Trump’s mandate. Image | Declan Sun in Unspash In Xataka | A new potentially disruptive scenario opens in global energy: China has touched the oil in oil

Apple led the wearables worldwide. Now is third after two Chinese manufacturers

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Chinese manufacturers have achieved what seemed impossible: to dethrone Apple in a category that they did not invent, but they did define. He Apple Watch The physical standard to be followed by the rest has been and still largely, but it is no longer the first in market share after many moons being … and neither the second. After the stage in which Xiaomi advanced him in quota, now he has also done so The new huawei, which does not compete but creates its parallel reality After the sanctions that forced him to reinvent himself. He is going well. Why is it important. Huawei leads the global market of Wearable In the first quarter of 2025 with 10 million units sold, followed by Xiaomi with 8.7 million. Apple is relegated to third place with 7 million sales, according to data from IDC. The loss of leadership – from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 – marks a turning point for a company that dominates this segment from The launch of Apple Watch in 2014. For years, Apple not only sold more smart watches, but also staying with most of the benefits of the sector. Now that last continues, but the unitary majority no longer has … … While it is true that this is not usually Apple’s game: as with mobile phones, prioritizes capillarity benefits. The context. The secret of Chinese success is based on a devastating price strategy. While the Apple Watch becomes more basic It costs about 250 euros, Xiaomi sells its Smart Band 10 For less than 50 euros and Huawei has models from 50 euros. This price difference is not accidental. Chinese manufacturers have opted to democratize technology Wearablecarrying basic health monitoring and fitness functions to population segments that would never be considered to spend 300 euros on a clock. In figures. Huawei controls 21.9% of the global body of body devices, rising from 17% of the previous year. Xiaomi reaches 19% compared to 14.7% of 2024. Apple stays at 15.5%, although it has grown since 12.5% ​​last year. The growth of the sector has been 10.5% year -on -year, with 45.6 million units sold worldwide in the first quarter. China represents 17.6 million of these sales, a spectacular growth of 37.6%. Yes, but. Apple maintains important advantages that sales figures do not reflect. Keep dominating in profitability, keeping most of the benefits of the sector despite selling fewer units. In addition, Apple Watch works exclusively with iPhone, which limits its potential market but guarantees a closed and very profitable ecosystem. Apple Watch users They are usually more likely to spend money In accessories and applications. After all, they are the same as they do from the iPhone. The threat. For Apple, this loss of quota represents more than a change of position. Chinese manufacturers have shown that they can offer 80% of the functionality for 20% of the price, an irresistible equation for many customers. The Chinese strategy is not limited to being cheap. Huawei has launched premium models like the Watch Ultimatewhich exceeds 1,000 euros, competing directly with Apple’s most expensive versions. Xiaomi, meanwhile, has reasonably improved design and benefits of its basic models. And now what. If Apple prioritizes recovering fee, you can try to compete in fee, risking your margin. But that is not Apple’s own. Its most common movement is to worry only about its own needle and whether the segment grows or not. If sales grow, it will hardly worry that other manufacturers sell more devices at a much lower price. If sales fall, their concerns will focus on what they can do to alleviate it. Including check where these sales go, if other manufacturers, to traditional watches or simply a longer update cycle. In Xataka | After almost a decade with the Apple Watch I have spent a Garmin. And I have understood what I was losing me Outstanding image | Daniel Romero in Unspash

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