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The biggest sign that a foldable iPhone is coming went unnoticed at WWDC

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Yesterday Apple held the opening keynote of the WWDC 2026. The great protagonist was Siri AIthe long-awaited update that comes from Google’s AI, but they announced more news and there was one in particular that Apple did not mention, but which is the clearest clue of a highly anticipated device: the foldable iPhone. The function we are talking about is the ability to resize windows in iPhone Mirroring mode. Apple didn’t show it at the presentation, but rather it was discovered by developer Dylan McDonald, who showed it in action in X. You can also see in this post in X from a Macrumors analyst. Click on the image to go to the post in X How it works and why it is important iPhone Mirroring is a feature that allows us to view the iPhone screen directly on the Mac, as if it were a floating window. This window has the format of the iPhone screen, but in the betas of iOS 27 and MacOS 27, these developers have seen that the window can be resized, adopting a format like that of the iPad. Until now, if you mirrored the screen on the Mac, the format of this window was fixed. The fact that it allows it to be enlarged is one of the strongest evidence we have of the existence of a foldable iPhone, which you can change your screen format depending on whether we use the exterior screen or the interior screen. Of course, at the moment it can only be done with apps that have adopted iOS 27 By the way, iPhone mirroring is not available in the European Union, although There are ways to activate it. What do we know about the foldable iPhone Although Apple has not mentioned it directly and it is not yet official, the rumors are increasingly intense. Everything indicates that the iPhone Fold (as it is believed to be called) will have a book type design like that of the Galaxy Z Fold, with a 5.5-inch exterior screen and a 7.8-inch interior screen. The characteristics that have been leaked pose a aluminum design with titanium reinforced parts120Hz OLED screens and four cameras, two on the back and one on each screen. As for hardware, it is expected to feature a next-generation chip (probably an Apple A20 Pro), 12GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage. What there are more doubts about is the release date. Most information indicates that will be announced in September of this year, but its arrival on the market would be later. We recently talked about how Apple had encountered unexpected problems in the engineering phase which could make it take longer than expected. In September we will clear up doubts, but the fact that they are already including this type of functions in the next version is an argument in favor of a presentation this year. Cover image | Xataka with Google Gemini In Xataka | All the news of iOS 27: the new Siri at the forefront of an update bigger than it seems

is coming back from Russia and bombing its own soldiers

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In World War II, many armies reused captured enemy tanks simply painting over their own symbols and returning them to combat days later. Eight decades later, the war in Ukraine has regained that same logic… only now the weapons come flying back at night. The night witch changes owners. The Baba Yaga heavy drones had become one of the weapons most feared of the Ukrainian arsenal. Large, slow and capable of transporting mines, projectiles or supplies during night flights, these devices ended up generating such fear among Russian soldiers that they ended up baptizing them with the name of the Slavic folklore witch that stalks its victims in the dark. The problem for Ukraine is that that same psychological weapon is now beginning to return from the other side of the front. Russia is capturing, repairing and reusing quantities Baba Yaga crescents shot down to bombard Ukrainian positions with exactly the same tactics who for years terrorized their own troops. Drone warfare has thus entered a strange phase where weapons no longer only change hands: they also change identity. The problem with heavy drones. Unlike the small, cheap, disposable FPV drones that dominate much of the battlefield, the Baba Yaga are complex platforms and relatively difficult to manufacture. The reason? They need high lifting capacity, flight stability, sufficient autonomy and robust systems to resist electronic interference. Carrying heavy loads for miles requires huge batteries, powerful motors and strong structures capable of withstanding constant vibrations and partial damage. Ukraine managed to develop these systems thanks to a combination of ingenuity, adaptation of commercial technology and decentralized production outside the slow traditional military channels. Russia, on the other hand, has had much more trouble producing a large-scale operational equivalent despite multiple publicly announced projects. Russian electronic warfare finds an opportunity. The Baba Yaga reuse captured reveals the extent to which Russian electronic warfare remains one of its greatest strengths. Many of these drones are shot down not by sophisticated missiles, but by exploiting something much simpler: its repetitive patterns flight and its permanent radio links. Russian systems detect, track and saturate these signals until they cause the devices to lose control and crash relatively intact. Others are killed by conventional fire because, being large and slow, they are much more visible than the small FPVs. Russia has even deployed specialized equipment of snipers specifically dedicated to destroying these drones. The important detail is that damaging a rotor or a support arm is enough to render the device unusable without completely destroying its structure. From the battlefield to the improvised workshop. They counted in Forbes that the increasing number of recoverable drones has allowed Russia develop an ecosystem Surprisingly effective makeshift repair kit. Workshops operated by soldiers and volunteers disassemble captured Baba Yaga, replace damaged parts through 3D printing and install new systems compatible with Russian communication networks. What started as an emergency solution is gradually becoming a stable supply of drones heavy for Moscow. In a way, Ukraine is inadvertently providing some of the raw material that Russia needed to cover one of the most obvious shortcomings in its unmanned aerial arsenal. The phenomenon reminds us that in a prolonged war of attrition, each downed device can end up having a second life at the service of the enemy. The irony of night attacks. The broadcast images by Russian soldiers already show scenes that just a few years ago would have seemed absurd: Ukrainian Baba Yaga launching anti-tank mines, mortar shells and improvised bombs on kyiv positions. Some Russian commanders even talk about them using the same nickname that previously symbolized the night terror of Ukrainian troops. The irony is especially cruel because these drones were conceived precisely as a Ukrainian technological advantage over Russian industrial superiority. Now some are being employed for supply outposts Russians, attack Ukrainian trenches or support night assaults using thermal cameras identical to those used by kyiv. A new phase of drones. All of this reflects a profound change in the logic of modern technological warfare. For years it was assumed that the key was to design weapons more advanced than the enemy. In Ukraine it has been imposing for some time another reality: It also matters who can best recover, recycle and reuse the material destroyed on the battlefield. Russia has found a relatively cheap way to close part of the technological gap with Ukraine without waiting to develop equivalent platforms from scratch. This now forces kyiv to study unprecedented solutions such as anti-handling systems capable of automatically destroying critical components if the device falls intact into enemy hands or even introduce malicious software designed to sabotage Russian networks after the capture of the drone. Image | X, Armed Forces In Xataka | Russia has discovered a brutal way to strip the Ukrainian defense: force it to spend Patriots it cannot replace In Xataka | Russia has found something more important than drones in China: secret training for the war in Ukraine

Castilla-La Mancha accuses the Southeast of “watering wildly”, while irrigators find it impossible to survive what is coming

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On May 20, just before the Supreme Court will definitively close the door to the aspirations of irrigators to maintain the Tajo-Segura transfer as until now, the spokesperson for the Junta de Castilla – La Mancha He stood in front of the media and said it: water cannot be limited to the irrigators of the region while in the Levant “it is watered freely”, he came to say. That’s the gossip, but that’s not the news. The news is that, 47 years after the inauguration of the transfer and after a decade of judicial conflictthe battle for the water of the Tagus returns to the negotiating table. Not because of ecological flows; That (barring a surprise) has already been decided: he has returned to the table because the most difficult thing remains. Say who pays the bill. Whose water is it? Because that is the heart of the matter and where Castilla – La Mancha is wrong. As I have explained the Supremethe arguments of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct do not apply, precisely, because it is not about taking water from ‘someone’ to give it to another ‘someone’. The ecological flows (which taxes come by the jurisprudence of the same court and by the EU directive) cannot have “a use character, and must be considered as a restriction that is generally imposed on exploitation systems.” The problem is that these flows represent, according to the technical reports, a water loss of around 40% for the irrigators of the east. Irrigators who, let us remember, have the right to that water according to the current transfer rules, who have made investments and have built businesses (‘livelihoods’) counting on that water that the State had granted them. Rules that do not apply. Due to the court battle, the new flows have not come into force and, at this time, the old rules continue to be used to send water to the Segura basin. In fact, for the April-June quarter There are 180hm3 authorized (a much larger amount than would correspond to the new standard). And the irrigators are nervous. With sense, too: the Administrations’ alternative (desalination) is lost in combat. And, in any case, that is water is between three and ten times more expensive. This is important because (as explained by the Community of Irrigators of Campo de Cartagena) “The irrigable surface has not expanded by one square meter since 2017“. It is no longer a question that without water they cannot grow; it is a question that without water they cannot “maintain what we already cultivate.” And that would lead us to a more than considerable industrial reconversion throughout the region. But there doesn’t seem to be any other solution. Because, as we see, the cuts are due to legal imperative. The administrations have little else to do: they have already been delaying the application of ecological flows for years and the situation has not improved one bit. It doesn’t mean that all this is over. It is likely that the Union will appeal to the European Court, but the reorientation of the agrarian model in the southeast cannot be extended if we want it to remain alive. That is to say: the hour of truth arrives. For decades, politicians have been passing the buck without taking the necessary measures (no matter how painful they may be). That is the economic, ecological and social bill that we are paying now. The only reasonable question is whether we have learned our lesson. Image | David Algas Oroquieta In Xataka | The Tagus reservoirs have reached their maximum level. The response of the authorities has been to empty them immediately

A survival thriller coming to Netflix tomorrow that pits Charlize Theron against a psychopath in the depths of Australia

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A murderer chooses his victim carefully. That’s what Ben (Taron Egerton) does when he determines that Sasha (Charlize Theron), an elite climber who has entered the outback Australian to overcome a duel, is his next objective. What Ben doesn’t know is that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has spent twenty years specializing in placing extraordinary actors in devastating environments. The result of this clash receives the poor translation of ‘Dominant predator‘in Spain (the original is the most elegant’Apex‘), premieres on April 24 on Netflix and is pure popcorn party. Shot entirely in real locations, the film put Egerton and Theron, who are joined by Eric Bana, to the limit of their strength. In fact, Theron suffered a broken toe during filming and continued filming without anyone on the crew knowing. A good example of how the film posed a challenge for its performers that went beyond the strong psychological tension that is drawn between the two rivals. In fact, The approach of ‘Apex’ is one of the oldest in action cinema: The short story ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ by Richard Connell, published in 1924, described an aristocrat who hunted humans on his private island, and inspired a total classic of the genre in 1932, ‘The Evil Zaroff’. From there, multiple variants of the “people hunting” trope, and which is often, as here, accentuated by a danger that is added to the relentless hunters: an environment that functions as a gigantic trap. ‘Apex’ director Baltasar Kormákur has spent two decades building a filmography around a single question: what does extreme adversity do to people? His most relevant survival films, ‘Everest’ (inspired by a real catastrophe in 1996), ‘Adrift’ (about a couple trapped in the ocean after a hurricane), and ‘The Beast’ (where Idris Elba confronts a lion in South Africa), have common characteristics: real locations, actors subjected to harsh physical conditions and landscapes that are both scenery and threat. This new Netflix exclusive ‘Apex’ plays in that same league. In Xataka | 16 premieres on Netflix: this week, the new ‘Stranger Things’, a rare British series and the return of Charlize Theron

MediaMarkt’s new Day without VAT is coming strong with discounts on OLED TVs, mobile phones and even video games

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Just a few hours ago, MediaMarkt started a new edition of its star promo: Day without VAT. As usual, we have available a huge list of technology offers where we can find very good prices on cell phones, televisions, scooters, watches, air purifiers and, essentially, anything we need right now. The promo, which will last only until tomorrow at 9 in the morninghas very sweet offers. Below we leave you a selection of five that we find interesting: HW-Q990F/ZF Sound Bar by 698.35 eurosone of the best sound bars on the market. Xiaomi 15T Pro by 453.72 eurospowerful mobile with a 144 Hz screen and Leica camera. Galaxy S25 Ultra by 1,197.72 eurosa great Android mobile that still has some juice left in it for a while. LG OLED55B56LA by 798.35 eurosa 55-inch TV with bright colors that is ideal for watching movies. ‘Pokémon Pokopia‘ by 61.15 eurosone of the best games on Nintendo Switch 2 and in 2026. HW-Q990F/ZF Sound Bar We start with a Samsung sound bar and, in fact, it is one of the best from the Korean manufacturer. We are looking at a sound bar that comes with two independent speakers and a subwoofer to offer a total sound power of 756 Wideal if you want to set up a cinema in the living room. In addition, it is compatible with Dolby Atmos and, if you have a Samsung television, you can pair it with the TV speakers with Q-Symphony and thus achieve a better experience. It is available for 698.35 euros. Soundbar – Samsung HW-Q990F/ZF, Bluetooth, 756 W, Subwoofer and wireless Dolby Atmos, 11.1.4 channels, WiFi, Titanium Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi 15T Pro If we are looking for a new Android mobile, this Xiaomi 15T Pro It is a very good option. We are looking at a device that has a 6.83-inch screen with a refresh rate of 144 Hzsomething that is not usually seen on many mobile phones and is ideal for having a fluid experience or reading text. In addition, it has a Leica signature photographic system, good battery and notable performance. comes out for 453.72 euros. Mobile – Xiaomi 15T Pro, Black, 256 GB, 12 GB RAM, 6.83 ” AMOLED, MediaTek Dimensity 9400+, 5500 mAh The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Galaxy S25 Ultra It is true that the new one is now available S26 Ultrabut he Galaxy S25 Ultra It is still a great buy in 2026. It has a 6.9-inch screen with one of the best anti-reflective treatments there isideal so that not even the sun bothers you when you are outdoors. In addition, plenty of power with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, a very complete camera system and it has six years of guaranteed updates left (it came out with 7, but a year ago). Costs 1,197.72 euros. Mobile – Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Titanium Black, 512 GB, 12 GB RAM, 6.9″ WQHD+, Snapdragon 8, 5000 mAh The price could vary. We earn commission from these links LG OLED55B56LA This LG OLED55B56LA television is perfect for taking the leap into this technology, since it is a model with a good price right now (it costs 798.35 euros). It is a TV that offers pure black and very vivid colors, which will give you a great experience when watching movies at home. In addition, it also offers 0.1 ms and 120 Hz response time with VRR on its HDMI 2.1 ports, which is ideal for gaming. 55″ OLED TV – LG OLED55B56LA, 4K OLED, α8 AI Processor 4K Gen2, Smart TV, DVB-T2 (H.265), Umber brown The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Pokémon Pokopia We close this selection of offers with a video game, in this case with one of the best releases so far this year. ‘Pokémon Pokopia‘ is a title that is very far from what this franchise usually is with a video game where there is a lot of exploration, puzzles and tons of things to discover. It is, without a doubt, one of the best exclusives of nintendo switch 2 until now and comes out 61.15 euros. Nintendo Switch 2 Pokémon Pokopia (Game Key Card) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Other interesting offers from MediaMarkt’s VAT-Free Day Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | MediaMarkt In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

Anthropic says Claude Mythos is too powerful to go public. The question is if this is nothing more than “the wolf is coming”

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Claude Mythos Preview It is the best AI model ever created. We don’t say it, Anthropic says it, but almost no one else can say it because only a select group of companies has access to said model. The cybersecurity capabilities of the model appear to be astonishingbut more and more experts say that although Mythos is better than its predecessors, it is not the revolutionary leap that Anthropic seems to propose. Is that way of launching the model just an effective way of creating hype? Beware the Anthropic speech. The well-known entrepreneur and analyst Gary Marcus recently gave three reasons why, according to him, the launch of Mythos is not as revolutionary as Anthropic wants us to see. I cited tweets from software engineers and cybersecurity experts who cast doubt on Anthropic’s claims. The company published a study on the capabilities of Claude Mythos Preview that seemed to make it an extraordinary tool for the field of cybersecurity, but at the same time it was so powerful that it could be very dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. Isn’t that a big deal? Among Claude Mythos’ achievements, Anthropic highlighted how he had found vulnerabilities in Firefox 147. But in reality many of the flaws were basically variations of the same two bugs. If you removed them from the equation, Mythos’ effectiveness rate at finding new exploits dropped a lot, even below Opus 4.6. Anthropic did not hide that fact, of course, but it makes this capacity, for example, not seem so striking. An X user also criticized the use of Cybench as a cybersecurity benchmark when Opus 4.6 almost completely surpassed it. For him, the choice of some of the Anthropic tests was debatable because they were not a challenge to current models. Other models can do the same. The co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, Clement Delangue, stated that Mythos was no big deal. Their argument: they had used small, cheap open models, isolated the relevant code from some examples of the vulnerabilities found by Mythos, and they found the same problems which had already detected the Anthropic model. According to the Epoch Capabilities Index, which measures the capacity of AI models by combining several benchmarks, the leap that Mythos has taken is striking and “departs” from the progressive line of its predecessors. Source: Anthropic. Observer bias. But here it should be noted that in those analyzes they knew where to look because Mythos had already found those problems. We are dealing with observer bias, and in fact the Hugging Face document makes it clear that they even gave him specific clues such as “consider integer overflow”) to find those bugs. And on this observation, another one: Hugging Face does not say that a small model can replace Mythos on its own, but that it can be very good by giving it the appropriate code fragment. Mythos seems more capable of blindly complex security breaches, but it is a huge model and that is why it has greater capacity. Or what is the same: Mythos is better because it has the size, design and resources to be better. Fear, uncertainty, doubt? The language used by Anthropic in this advertisement could be considered to some extent a clear use of FUD (“Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” -> “Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt”) as a marketing technique. It is a resource that has been seen in the past, and for example OpenAI already said in 2019—years before the launch of ChatGPT—that GPT-2 was too dangerous for a public launch. Obviously it wasn’t, but that certainly served to create expectation about the true capacity of the model. It’s better, but it may not be revolutionary. The results of the benchmarks that Anthropic published already made it clear that although there are very notable jumps in some tests, in others the evolution is much less striking. Claude Mythos was not the best at everything, and now analysts appear who contrast that data with other metrics. For example, with the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) from Epoch AI, the startup that has one of the most reputable benchmarks of the industry. And according to this index, Claude Mythos is above his rivals, but not for long. The wolf is coming. The truth is that the launch of Claude Mythos Preview has been really striking and the documents that accompanied that document tell us about a really capable AI model. The problem is that it is impossible to verify it because only a few companies have access to it and can test it. Without that public availability the only thing we can do is trust (or not) what Anthropic tells us, and that is the point: it is not clear that we should do it. The company is interested in us buying this discourse, obviously, but without an independent analysis it is impossible to verify these statements. In Xataka | Anthropic has become the darling of AI and has sought a partner to guarantee its future. It’s not the one we thought

that tourists stop coming

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For a couple of years, almost day in and day out, Japan has been in the news for its avalanche of tourists and the problems that this massification is leaving in the country. It doesn’t just happen there. In Italy, South Korea, Nepal, Hawaii either Netherlands They are not alien to the effects of the tourismjust as Spain is not, where they have already organized several demonstrations by the pressure that vacation rentals are having on the real estate market. Not everyone encounters that problem. In Peru it is actually worrying quite the opposite: the tourists who do not arrive. “Warning signs”. We mentioned it before. Accustomed to news about countries saturated by tourism or even look for ways to repel visitors, it is surprising to read cases like that of Peru. Over there Apoturthe Association of Incoming and Domestic Tourism Operators, has just launched a message that breaks in a certain way with the speech optimistic that the Government maintains. The association recently published a study with several “warning signs”. Specifically, two. The first is that, despite the gradual recovery of visitors, Peruvian tourism still not going back to their pre-pandemic levels. The second, that foreign travelers seem less and less interested in spending their vacations in the Andean country, which is benefiting other destinations. “Loss of competitiveness”. The study de Apotur does not leave much room for interpretation. After analyzing the searches of millions of people from several countries, including Spain, its authors warn that the interest that Peru arouses as a vacation destination experienced a year-on-year decline of 14% in 2025. The result, insists the employers’ association of Peruvian tour operators, is “a loss of competitiveness” that favors other nations in the region. “The study detects a shift in demand towards regional destinations that today compete directly with Peru. When travelers discard the country, 26.1% opt for Colombia, 25.4% for Costa Rica, 20% for Ecuador and 19.8% for Mexico, markets that are capitalizing on cultural and natural tourism that was previously directed to Peruvian territory,” stand out from Apotur. In case there were any doubts, its president, Claudia Medina, insist in that it is not that international tourism is declining, but rather that it is looking towards other horizons. But… Why? Peru has an enviable landscape, cultural and heritage wealth and has one of the main tourist attractions in America, the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchuconsidered one of “the seven wonders of the modern world” along with other treasures such as Chichén Itzá, the Taj Mahal or the Great Wall of China. So…why is it “falling interest” of foreign tourists, as Apotur itself warns? What is the distancing due to? The key would be more in travel management than in what the country offers. “Sector studies show that there is a high interest in visiting the country. However, more than 70% of potential travelers change their decision (postpone or cancel) due to uncertainty about their trip. Factors such as blockades, lack of predictability, informality and operational limitations at the entrances to Machu Picchu directly affect confidence in the destination,” regrets the head of Apotur in statements collected by the newspaper Management. Seeking security. The key would be precisely that, the perception of “security”a value that does not refer so much to the crime rate as to the reliability that the country offers at the tourist level. When traveling, people want everything to go as planned, without surprises. And that is where Peru loses strength. “Among the reasons that most worry travelers are informality in tourist services (31.2%), citizen insecurity (30.9%) and social instability (29.1%), as well as infrastructure problems and logistical disorder in some destinations,” remember from the association. “The study warns that these elements do not affect the attractiveness of the country, but rather the perception of risk.” The example of Machu Picchu. The message from the tour operators comes after Peru’s great heritage treasure, Machu Picchu, has been involved in controversy over its management. Last year New7Wornders warned Lima that the citadel risked losing its place on the list of the “New Seven Wonders of the World” if it did not solve the problems that threatened it. Which is it? The organization specifically pointed out its saturation, the lack of sustainable management and “irregular practices” related to inputs. The Peruvian General Comptroller’s Office itself has shown its concern about the “tourist overload” that both the citadel and the Inca Road Network suffer. The Government of Peru already has made a move and made an effort to strengthen security and entry control, but what it has not managed to avoid is that the controversy spread beyond its borders. And it hasn’t been the only one. The country wants to create an airport in the region that could shoot 200% tourism. One figure: 3.4 million. That does not mean that Peru’s tourism industry is doing poorly. Recently the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism confirmed that in 2025 the country will receive 3.4 million of international tourists and its objective is that this year this mark will be far exceeded, reaching four million. When announcing the data, the central Executive also showed its intention to diversify the offer, also betting on religious, nature, adventure and meeting tourism, distributing the flow of visitors throughout the country. The problem for Apotur is that, even if the set objective is reached and four million tourists are reached in 2026, the figure would be “insufficient”. Competition earrings. “We are growing, but we are still not competing at the level that Peru can,” claims Medina before remembering that in 2019, before COVID turned the sector upside down worldwide, Peru registered around 4.4 million international tourists. It is not just that the country has not yet reconnected with the demand that the coronavirus once destroyed. The group also insists that Peru is losing ground in favor of neighboring countries that “have already exceeded their pre-pandemic levels.” In the background: the cost that this has for the country’s economy, which Apotur estimates … Read more

Jensen Huang believes we have reached the “coming of the AI ​​wolf.” It is perfect for feeding a Tamagotchi

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Artificial intelligence has become a football league. There are divisions in which titles are pursued such as having the most powerful AIthe fastest, the most capable at a specific task either the most versatilebut the goal is to become champion of the Champions League, and that is the AGI. Although from the United States they do not stop talk about artificial general intelligence As something that is about to fall, it is a theory that suggests that, at some point, an AI will be achieved that will surpass humans in all areas of knowledge. For the NVIDIA CEO, that moment has already arrived. At the moment it’s… smoke. The AGI has already arrived. It has been in the podcast by Lex Fridman in which Jensen Huangboss of the company that is supporting the AI ​​industry, has pointed out that general artificial intelligence is already here. Fridman posed a question: Could an AI system establish, grow, and operate a $1 billion-plus technology company within five to twenty years?” Huang rephrased the question, stating that current AI systems are already capable of creating a viral web service that briefly generates $1 billion in revenue. That remains to be seen, but it is not the only one that Huang threw into the air. When Fridman asked if AGI is five, ten, fifteen or twenty years away, Huang responded with a resounding “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.” Well no. Friedman said that was going to raise some eyebrows, and it took Huang less time than ChatGPT to agree with you if you tell him something isn’t right to qualify his words. Much of the conversation focused on OpenClaw platform, the open source agentic AI framework that has become the pearl of the industry and where everyone wants to have something to say. In the article of The Verge point out the example of the Tamagotchi and how Huang points out that people can use their AI agents to do all kinds of things like digital influencers or apps to feed a Tamagotchi for you. That would become an “instant success” that can generate billions of dollars, but the possibility that, right now, 100,000 of those agents will build a company like NVIDIA “is zero percent,” he noted. What is AGI? That is, current AI and agents can create “fleeting and viral hits”, but… that is not the question. That is, one thing is agentic AI, which is something that all the major companies in the sector are already pushing and, basically, it is like a shortcut program for AI to do things for us. And a very different one is the AGI. The artificial general intelligence that Huang says we have already achieved is something very different. While the agents drink from the same AI that is nothing more than a language model that is dedicated to putting together words that more or less make sense, but that are calculated by algorithms, percentages and probabilities As long as two words go together, AGI is a “real” artificial intelligence, one that thinks like a human. It is something that, as far as we know, is only in the theoretical framework because its technical complexity is overwhelming. The big difference between an AI and agents and AGI is that, if the first two have language as their core and operate from it, AGI is the human brain whose core is thought. Or so they aspire to create. Is Huang an AI? After seeing some of their recent statements and this interview, the question that arises is why there are certain profiles that are choosing to “reason” exactly the way an AI reasons. These tools They are designed to prove us right.so as not to confront us and so that we spend more time using that AI and not another. That’s why ChatGPT or Gemini are so accommodating in their responses when we try to find a way around them. But, as Mashable points out, giving that more convenient answer is also becoming a trend among “real” intelligences. The wolf is coming. Huang himself already pointed out in 2024 that AGI would be software capable of imitating standard human intelligence, but his examples do not seem to match the idea of ​​what AGI is. The industry seems hell-bent on reaching AGI through language models, but as some point out, It’s a dead end. Yann LeCun is considered one of the godfathers of modern AI. Until recently, he was also the head of AI at Meta and stated that the path to AGI is not language modelsbut the world models. They are models that will learn from the environment, will be able to imagine scenarios and operate like humans. That has nothing to do with current models that would not be possible without plundering the Internet and human-created culture. It is not at all clear what it will be the spark that will allow that general artificial intelligence will be reached, but the American AI Big Tech never tires of saying that AGI is already here. Now it is, really good. Huang just stated it to qualify his words in the following sentence, Sam Altman of OpenAI It has been creating expectation for a long time about the AGI when they are not yet able to do a ChatGPT that doesn’t hallucinate, Zuckerberg has assembled a super team to achieve itAnthropic’s Darío Amodei believes that is at the doors and Elon Musk says that Grok 5 could achieve it. At the moment, a lot of promises, and something that creates an app to power a Tamagotchi doesn’t sound like that great revolution in technology either. Images | NVIDIA In Xataka | Customers demand that a human solve their problem. The surprising thing is that if humans serve them they think they are an AI

There is a Russian bomb floating in the Mediterranean coming from Ukraine. And Europe trembles because it can explode at any moment

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It is a fact that most of the world’s trade moves by sea. This means that every day thousands of ships cross key routes very close to European coasts. In this constant traffic, a single out-of-control incident is enough to put entire ecosystems in check and force several countries to react at the same time. The war in Ukraine has just ended activate one of them. A bomb adrift in the heart of Europe. The situation is the following: in the Mediterranean right now there is more than just a damaged ship, the Arctic Metagaz is a latent threat that mixes war, energy and environmental risk in a single point. We are talking about a loaded Russian tanker with gas, fuel and diesela ship hit by a drone attack from Ukraine that sails uncontrollably, with structural damage and a real risk of explosion. Not only that. It appears to have no crew, is leaking and catching fire, and is moving slowly between European waters and North Africa. What makes it especially disturbing is not only its condition, but its origin: It is one more piece of the war being fought in Eastern Europe that has ended up floating in the Mediterranean, moving the conflict directly to the doors of the entire continent. It’s not just the front anymore. The episode confirms something that was already intuited for some time: that the war between Russia and Ukraine is no longer confined to the Black Sea or the land front. Ukraine has expanded its radius of action by attacking Russian ships on much more distant routes, including those that are part of the called “ghost fleet”key to avoiding sanctions and financing the Kremlin’s war effort. These increasingly frequent attacks turn ships into de facto military targets, even if they are sailing through international waters or near European territories. The result is an extension of the conflict that blurs borders and places Europe in an uncomfortable position, because it is not a direct part of these attacks, but its potential scenario. Arctic Metagaz Ecological risk and implications. The immediate danger right now it’s pretty obvious: an explosion or massive spill in an area of ​​high ecological value could cause lasting damage in the Mediterranean, affecting protected ecosystems and coastal economies. But the problem goes beyond the environmental impact. These types of incidents also reveal to us the fragility of the maritime system in times of hybrid war, where poorly maintained, aging ships, with opaque structures and no safety guarantees, They circulate on key routes. The combination of sanctions, evasion and attacks turns these ships into risk vectors that can trigger crises at any moment. Europe and the threat. The European reactionwith Italy and France along with several EU members warning of the imminent risk, reflects a growing concern: countries have asked a coordinated response facing a problem that is not only specific, but structural. The difficulty in intervening (whether due to weather conditions, the location of the vessel or legal issues) also represents a capacity and governance vacuum in nearby waters. While Russia he ignores of incident management and points to coastal states as responsibleEurope faces a rather complex dilemma: managing the consequences of a war in which it neither controls the origin nor the evolution. Symbol of a new phase. If you also want, the derived from the Arctic Metagaz summarizes like few elements the evolution of the current conflict: a war that no longer only dynamits infrastructure on land, but is capable of turning the sea into a space constant riskwhere each asset can become a threat. It is not just, therefore, an accident or an isolated episode, but the proof (one more) that the conflict has acquired an unpredictable dimensionwhere an action in Ukraine can end up generating a crisis thousands of kilometers away. And that is precisely what it has of the nerves to Europe: not knowing when or where the next impact may materialize. Image | war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua In Xataka | While we all look at Iran, in Ukraine they continue doing their thing: robot against robot battles where humans only watch In Xataka | Ukraine has become the world’s leading specialist against Iranian drones. And he won’t share his antidote

El Niño is coming back in a big way

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Since mid-2025, we had no news on the front: the equatorial Pacific has been governed for months by a tremendously weak, decaffeinated and boring La Niña. But things end. And this La Niña is, in fact, ending very quickly. As I write, Kevin waves are transporting heat into the eastern Pacific and major seasonal models are signaling with unprecedented fixation that El Niño is just around the corner. What’s more, they point out that the next episode of ENSO is going to be between strong and very strong before we know it. First of all… what is El Niño in 127 words. What we know as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (or ENSO) is a cyclical (although somewhat irregular) climate phenomenon that has large effects on the global climate. During the warm phase (during El Niño itself), the lack of trade winds to cool the surface causes the temperature of the Pacific waters to skyrocket. And that, precisely that, disrupts all the Earth’s weather systems, causing the thermometers of the entire planet to skyrocket. As explained from AEMET“El Niño, through different atmospheric teleconnections, gives rise to drier than normal conditions in certain parts of the world; while in others it causes more precipitation. Some countries have to deal with significant droughts and others with torrential rains.” What happened now? Something quite curious, really. In just one week, we have gone from the most absolute tranquility (60-70% chance of neutral conditions) to 80% of a strong or very strong El Niño before summer ends. What has changed, as I said above, are the ocean signals: NOAA have found signs of significant subsurface warming, and that warming is the classic first sign that something is starting to change. Basically, since the beginning of the year there have been three episodes in which warm water from the western Pacific has been moving eastward. Changes in the wind pattern have also been detected. And why does it concern experts? Because these rapid changes are very similar to what happened in 1997. The super El Niño of 97-98 was one of the strongest ENSOs in recent years and caused numerous problems: the estimates say that he alone caused damage to global economic growth of around 5.7 trillion dollars. Obviously, many things They can go wrong between now and summerbut we would be wrong if we do not pay attention to the Pacific. We are at the doors of a global food crisisthe last thing we need is for El Niño to hit the Southern Hemisphere hard during the last months of the year. Image | NOAA In Xataka | Long periods of drought are going to become more and more normal. It’s time to get used to them

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