company

Some Tesla employees requested Elon Musk’s dismissal in a public letter. The company responded with fulminating dismissals

by

In recent months the situation of Tesla It has been complicated for a series of catastrophic misfortunes. Some of them were predictable, such as the punctual fall in sales before The renewal of its supervent model, the Model and. Others, on the other hand, have been entirely unexpected. As the reputational crisis that has collapsed the sales of the brand’s cars worldwide by the Elon Musk’s political implication and his role Doge front. The Tesla crisis not only manifested outside doors. The Sales fall And the growing discontent among employees have triggered an internal crisis between the template unprecedentedputting Elon Musk in the center of the hurricane. Employees They claimed Elon Musk’s departure of the company’s management. That petition has resulted in dismissals, but not that of his CEO. An unsustainable situation even for the template The internal tension reached its peak when a group of Employees from Tesla, both current and old, decided to publicly express their discontent with the management of the company. They did it through an open letter Published on the Web “Tesla Employees Against Elon”. In the publication, employees and small shareholders who had been part of the Tesla staff directly requested the departure of Elon Musk as the company’s CEO. “We are at a crossroads: continue with Elon as CEO of Tesla and face a greater decline as customers leave the brand, or advance without it and allow our products and mission to succeed or fail for themselves,” he explained in the workers’ statement. The signatories They pointed out that the damage Musk’s personal brand is “irreversible” and that his figure as the maximum representative of Tesla has become In a load for the entire template. Employees reproach their main manager His intention to “rename” In the Tesla direction, and they consider it “insulting” for being an explicit recognition that Tesla’s problems are the result of its neglect of functions at the head of the company. “Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon,” said the statement. More electric, but less Tesla While the electric vehicle market grows at a good pace, Tesla’s sale figures do not give signs of recovery. In Spain, the brand already registers falls of more than 16% and none of Tesla’s models appears among the 10 best -selling electric cars In Spain. According to data April of the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC) The electrified tourism market grew 79% last month, which represents a 6.5% sales increase with respect to the same period last year. The phenomenon is not limited to Spain. Reuters echoed the latest data from the global electric vehicle market, which in April had grown by 29% year -on -year, despite uncertainty for tariffs imposed by the US. The US electric car market also records upward values. The data of Cox Automotive indicate a Growth of 18.5% In the volume of new electric car sales month by month, while the Tesla market share fell five points to 42%. The data announced in its presentation of Results of the first 2025 quartercorroborated this downward trend. The manufacturer delivered 336,681 vehicles, which represented a 13% drop with respect to the same period of the previous year, when almost 387,000 units had been delivered. As the employees pointed out in their open letter, “this is not due to the fact that our cars have worsened. It is not due to affordability problems. But to the fact that people no longer want to associate with Elon. Production marches better than ever. Quality is high. Processes are solid. Demand is what fails. It is not a product problem. It is a Leadership problem“ Tesla’s response: layoffs Tesla’s address to the publication of the letter was immediate and forceful. According to published Business Insiderseveral critical employees with Musk They were fulminating. This manufacturer’s reaction has generated even more Fear and self -censorship Within the company, reviving accusations of repression and contradiction with speech “Absolutist of Freedom of Expression“That Musk itself defends publicly. One of the most prominent cases is that of Matthew Labrot, former responsibility of Sales and Delivery Training of Tesla, and one of the main drivers of the protest. Labrot declared in Business Insider Being a passionate defender of Tesla, but was fired in less than 24 hours after the open letter on the website and participating in the protest under the motto “Pro Tesla, Not Elon!”, whose Account in x It has been suspended. Despite having lost his job in Tesla, Labrot says that “I still believe firmly in the company and in the objective we pursue”, but maintains its critical position with the Musk’s negative influence in the company and in its public image. In Xataka | If the question is which car will not leave you lying on the road, the German experts are clear: the electric Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Geoff Livingston)

A company has created an alternative to facial recognition. Does not scan faces and its use already begins to generate controversy

by

When cities like San Francisco They decided to prohibit use From the facial recognition by the police, many celebrated it as a victory for privacy. However, a new tool begins to make its way as an alternative. It does not scan faces, but allows people with remarkable precision to follow. Identify without analyzing the face. The tool is called Track and has been developed by Veritonea company specialized in artificial intelligence solutions applied to video analysis. Unlike classic systems, Track tracks individuals based on attributes such as physical complexion, hair color and style, clothing, accessories or the type of footwear. The algorithm also distinguishes the skin tone, although, according to the company, it does not allow to search explicitly by that criterion. With all this information, the system generates chronologies that allow following a person along different scenarios and video sources. It is not a development concept or a future promise. According to data provided by VERITONE itself, more than 400 customers are already using this technology in the United States, including state and local police forces, universities and private companies. Among them are federal prosecutors of the Department of Justice, who began using the tool in August 2024. Track is available through cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and is part of the company’s digital forensic analysis solution ecosystem. An evolving system. Currently, Track works exclusively with recorded videos, such as those captured by body cameras, drones, public recordings on YouTube or content provided by Citizens. Veritone claims to be less than a year after enabling the analysis in live broadcasts, which would open the door to a real -time surveillance system capable of following people even when their faces are not visible. Covering your face no longer guarantees anonymity. Until now, avoid facial recognition systems It was possible with hairstylelarge glasses, disruptive makeup or garments designed to confuse algorithms. But Track works differently. It does not depend on the face, but on general visual patterns. You can follow a figure through multiple videos analyzing complexion, clothes or way of moving. Of course, he needs a starting point: someone should mark the person before starting tracking. Even so, its logic doubts many of the classic strategies to avoid being identified. And privacy? Although this technology does not use biometric data in the strict sense, such as faces or footprints, it is based on physical and aesthetic attributes that can be repeated frequently. As Mit Technology Review collectsACLU, an American civil rights defense organization, warns that tools such as track could significantly expand surveillance capabilities. On the other hand, some digital rights specialists underline that continuous tracking through different video sources could be functionally equivalent to facial recognition. An alternative that can avoid the current legal framework. As Track is not based on traditional biometric characteristics, many of the laws that regulate facial recognition in different parts of the world would not be applied directly. This does not mean that the surveillance is less, but that it operates from another technical angle, less regulated for now. The tool is thus positioned in a gray terrain. It offers advanced monitoring without formally invading the biometric space, but its practical effects are dangerously approaching those who have already generated concern with automated facial identification. Images | Xataka with XAI | Alex Knight In Xataka | The intentions of the United Kingdom with Apple are a nightmare for privacy. That of the British and that of the whole world In Xataka | Alibaba wants to be the new Deepseek: he claims to have a training method for his AI 88% cheaper

OpenAi plans a future IPO. It is the definitive step to become a profit company

by

Openai and Microsoft are renegotiating The terms of your non-dilio. The artificial intelligence startup recently announced an important change in its restructuring plans, and one of the objectives is that of a potential outlet. To the rhythm they are spending moneybetter that they complete that transition. Profit of profit. Last week OpenAi left his original restructuring plans. Its complex structure makes the “commercial” organization, which we know as OpenAI, is controlled by the non-profit organization (Non-Profit), OpenAi, Inc. Altman’s intention was to completely separate himself from the latter and become a company with profit (“for-profit”) traditional. Money and social good. However, They will become a public benefit corporation controlled by the non -profit organization. This type of entity not only seeks to obtain benefit, but also seeks social good. It is the same model that rivals such as Anthropic or XAI have adopted, and will allow OpenAi to offer their investors a business participation in exchange for their investments. And open the doors to an IPO.. Another of the key elements of the restructuring is that it will allow OpenAI as a public benefit corporation to opt for a public offer of actions to go over. That opens the definitive possibility to obtain funds: sell company participations such as any other company quoted in indexes such as Nasdaq. Microsoft Renegocia. Those renewed Openai intentions have caused them to now maintain a renegotiation of the terms of the alliance with Microsoft. The company of Satya Nadella has invested about 13,000 million dollars in Openai – part of them, in the form of resources to train their models – and OpenAi’s plans offer an opportunity to reach new agreements. More access to chatgpt. According to Financial TimesMicrosoft is willing to give part of its participation in that new corporation with OpenAi for profit in exchange for accessing its models and technology beyond 2030. The current agreement ends at that time and covers the access that Microsoft has to Openai’s intellectual property, in addition to a commission for the income that the company obtains for its commercial products, such as Chatgpt Plus. OpenAi is already giant. In FT they reveal that Openai is valued right now at 260,000 million dollars. However, the recent Softbank investment of 40,000 million dollars in Openai has caused that according to their own responsible Its valuation is 300,000 million dollarsas well as Coca-Cola. The IPO can further shoot its assessment, which is already colossal, thanks to its projection and popularity. But this moment is delicate. Analysts agree that Openai needs to complete that transformation to an entity with profit. If not, I would see future financing rounds committed, especially since companies that bet on OpenAi do it logically with the hope of recovering their investment with juicy benefits. They keep burning money. Meanwhile, in Openai they continue to burn money as if there were no tomorrow to train their generative models. The recent investment round led by SoftBank allows you to continue having a maneuvering room, but in the company they make it clear that they do not expect to have benefits until 2029. New member of the Big Techa group sight. By then, yes, its agricultural models and new products promise to make income of up to $ 125 billion, According to The Information. The step to a “For-Profit” structure is intended to endure until then and continue to have access to new funds in the future. It is a risky commitment, but one that can do well can make it a new full rule Big Tech. Image | Microsoft In Xataka | Silicon Valley has an obsession with “Todismo”: they begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

by

When we think of the CEOs Better paid on the planet Surely we repeat a small group of people at the controls of some of the great technological corporations that dominate the present. We would not be unchanged in figures such as Tim Cook, Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg, but none of them approaches the emoluments received by the Jafazo best paid in the United States. The curious thing about this story is that you have not heard in your life or the CEO, nor the company it directs. A complete stranger at the top. In an environment, that of the great corporations, dominated by omnipresent names such as Tim Cook, Elon Musk or Jensen Huang, the title of the best paid CEO of 2024 did not fell in any of them, but in an executive practically unknown to the general public: James Anderson. As? Yes, the man is in charge of COHERENTa technological company based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the manufacture of network and laser systems. Anderson received a total remuneration of 101.5 million dollarssurpassing by a wide margin to figures such as Brian Niccol de Starbucks or Satya Nadella de Microsoft. Its impressive salary package positions it as the only CEO of the Ranking of Equila (which analyzed the 100 companies with income greater than one billion dollars) to exceed the barrier of the nine digits in compensation, in a year in which the average salary of an CEO reached a record of 25.6 million dollars. The stock market effect and a distortion. Although Anderson has a base salary of little more than one millionits incorporation to Coherent in June 2024 made its remuneration in cash be limited to only $ 81,538, along with a signature bonus of half a million. The rest, 99.4% of its emoluments, came from a Actions package whose value was shot unexpectedly. The reason: the enthusiasm of the market after the announcement of its appointment catapulted the price of coherent shares, thus generating an inflationary effect on the value of its shareholding concessions. The company, in Your proxy reporteven recognized this paradox: the actions were valued using a 30 -day mobile average that did not reflect the posterior stock market explosion, which artificially amplified the amount of the package. In addition, the payment included compensation for the loss of deferred actions accumulated during its previous stage in Semiconductor Laticewhere it was considered key in the exponential growth of the stock market value. The Top 10 of 2024 Domino effect. The impact of his Latetice departure and his arrival in Coherent was immediate. On the same day of the ad, the market value of Latice fell 15.5%which represented a loss of 1.6 billion dollars, while Coherent shares rose 22.9%, adding about 2,000 million in stock market capitalization. Since then, Coherent has maintained sustained growth, while Latice has retreated 34%. To all this, we must add that Anderson, Electrical Engineer With titles of MIT, Purdue and the University of Minnesota, it has a proven history: During their management in Lattice, the actions rose more than 875%, exceeding by broad margin to the S&P 500. In other words: its reputation as a silent transformer seems to have become an asset as valuable as any product line. The era of actions as salary. In the background, Anderson’s case illustrates a Dominant trend In contemporary executive compensation: retribution in shares represents near the 73% of the average total salary of the ceos, According to equilationwith a 41% increase compared to the previous year. This form of remuneration, linked to stock market performance rather than immediate results, has allowed to justify very high compensations, even in companies where the benefits do not always accompany. For example, Summit Singh, Chewy CEO, He received 35.1 million in 2024 Although the actions of the company 60% fellthe worst performance of the entire list. In contrast, Jensen Huang, from Nvidia (the firm with Best stock yield of the year, with an increase of 215%) received 34.1 million, although Your personal fortune It is estimated at 92,000 million thanks to its shareholding of 3.5%. Map of “tech” salaries a year earlier Benefits, security and inequality. There is much more, of course. In fact, in addition to wages and actions, many CEOs enjoy luxurious additional benefits. They counted in Barrons That Tim Cook, for example, received more than $ 780,000 in personal security services and another 655,000 on private flights. Starbucks, meanwhile, provides its CEO flights exclusively in private jets. Plus: This type of expenses has become more common due to growing concerns for security, especially after UNITEDHEALTH GROUP CEO Murder in a street in New York. In fact, a parallel study of equilation shows that almost a third of the S&P 500 companies already offer some type of executive protection, in this case a 28% increase Regarding 2023. The enigma Elon Musk. Yes, you may have realized that The richest man The planet has not appeared much until now. Elon Musk, although absent from the ranking because Tesla He has not presented Even your proxy report is still a key figure. Its previous ten -year compensation plan, approved in 2018 and currently valued in about 70,000 millionwas canceled twice By a delaware judge and now awaits a resolution in the state Supreme Court. This episode, together with the growing disconnection between real performance and executive remuneration, has fed criticism about the lack of effective controls in corporate wages. As Dean Baker summed upco -founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, “there is no real control over what is paid to the CEOS”, adding that many are not extraordinary, although they are paid as if they were. Citing these days, Warren Buffett, I remembered: “I try to invest in companies so good that even an idiot can direct them, because sooner or later, someone will do it.” Reflection of an era. In summary, at a time where salary inequality and wealth concentration generate increasingly intense debates, Anderson’s story It represents both … Read more

Every month that passes, Tesla’s breakdown is greater. And that begins to be a real problem for the company

by

We begin to have sales data in European countries. The acea data will arrive in the last week of May but, little by little, we are knowing sales in the main European markets. And, once again, the data for Tesla are dramatic. It was expected. It was almost waiting. With each new quarter that begins, Tesla lowers its sales. The company has long followed a registration strategy that leads to enroll a greater number of vehicles in March, June, September and December. Consequently, January, April, July and October, when the quarter begins, pays the consequences with a good hangover. Spain. The data in our country confirms it. In January the brand already gave evident symptoms that something did not march well. Neither the Tesla Model 3 nor the Tesla Moda and sneaked into the 10 best -selling electric cars of our country which gave an idea that the company had cars stored in stock After a final push in 2024 to make up the photo of the year. Now, three months later, Tesla Model 3 loses the first position again. In March he had recovered ground (and is still the best selling car in what we have been) but the Renault 5 and Kia Ev3 They have overcome them again. Right now, Tesla is leaving in our country more than 16% fall. The damage in the case of Tesla Model 3 is lower. It is 9% compared to the accumulated of January-April of 2024 and it is not a bad figure if we take into account that the Tesla Model and is falling 25.46%. The electric SUV was its best selling car and right now it has placed almost half of the units that a model 3 in setback. Still worse. The data They are still worse Out of Spain. Our country does not cease to have a relatively small electric market, so the oscillations are more evident and represented by larger numbers. However, the fall of Tesla in the main markets are striking. In April 2025, the following falls are counted with data from Bloomberg: Sweden: -80.7% Netherlands: -73.8% Portugal: -33% France: -59.4% Germany: -46% United Kingdom: -62% In April, the company only grew in Norway and Italy. In the accumulated of the year, Tesla has fallen 60% in Germany, more than 50% in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and the only reason why it barely falls in the United Kingdom is because They could have diverted cars from other markets with a right -hand flyer to the islands. In a very bad time. So far we have been talking about the Tesla Model and Juniper hangover. The electric SUV update has undoubtedly slowed the sales of the new car. Because the production has reduced, there is a stock of the outgoing model to which it has had to leave and because there will be clients who have waited for aesthetic update to buy the most affordable models (it arrived exclusively wearing the most expensive option). The problem is that after a year in which the electric car noticed the first symptoms of wear, Europe has put the direct With this technology. We still have no official data from the entire continent but it is palpable that the number of electric cars in what we have been over is higher than 2024. The electric car market share has gone from 12% to 15.1% in the continent and have registered 412,997 units for 333,428 last year in the first quarter. We are at a growth of 23.9%. The competition squeezes. That means that competition begins to eat ground to Elon Musk’s company. Every day that passes is market share inside the electric car that is being left in Europe. With data from the first quarter of 2024, in Europe Tesla has gone from 2.4% market share of 1.3%. A 45%drop has been left. Volkswagen It has become the Super Survents of electric cars. After many problems with a Volkswagen id His secret has been the sale of the Great Electric Berlina. But, in addition, to these sales we must add those of Skoda, Cupra and Audiwhich improves the general photography of the group. At the same time, Kia Ev3 has entered the market very force And the Renault 5 is being a sales success in these first measures of the year, especially in France. A bump? As we say, it remains to know if what we have in front of Tesla is a bump, if it is going through a bad time that will remain as mere anecdote or if it really begins to have problems to place their cars. The arrival of Tesla Model and Juniper should end these sensations but the doubts begin to emerge. Because although in our test we count that the Electric SUV of Tesla remains a product that is above Of the competition, the truth is that there are more and more alternatives that move in about 30,000 euros and there Tesla is missing. It seems urgent for the company that can put a more affordable electric car on the market. Begins to be urgent. Seen what last numbers presentedfor the company it is urgent to lift the flight. The company has opted in recent months that it would begin to generate money with its autonomous driving systems, either with Robotaxis or with Sales to third parties. A commitment to which they have not taken revenues yet. At the same time, sales figures are not being expected. For the first time, in 2024 Tesla did not sell more cars than the previous year. Start worrying about 2025, just when competition You need to sell more cars electric And we have no 25,000 euros car Not one cheaper version of the current Model 3 or Model Y. The perspectives, of course, are not the best. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Tesla begins to discover what happens when you lose your competitive advantage: its benefits have collapsed 71%

A Norwegian company is building an empire buying Spanish software startups for SMEs. With patience and without mergers

by

Norway houses one of the biggest Spanish software startup buyers, although not well known beyond the niche niche. With five acquisitions since 2021 and more than 250 million euros invested in Spain, Visma has become a fundamental actor in the national technology and entrepreneuraccording to a long analysis of EcoTechers. Operational independence as a management model The Nordic giant broke into the Spanish market in 2021 with The acquisition of HoldedBarcelona business management software, which disbursed more than 190 million euros. Since then, has incorporated to declaring, woffu, quaderno and, The most recent, Tugesto, A Valencian startup that was participated by Angels, Juan Roig’s investment society, president of Mercadona. “I would expect something more this year for own ambition and project ambition. 2025 and 2026 are going to be years of many outings of Private Equity who entered the year 2021 and 2022. We are already beginning to see movements, “says Miguel García-Paredes, responsible for mergers and acquisitions for Spain and Portugal of Visma, according to EcoTechers. The most striking of its strategy is that, unlike other corporate buyers, Visma maintains companies acquired as independent entities, retaining their brands and management teams. “The idea of ​​visma is to set up an ecosystem rather than also from entrepreneurs and conserve the entrepreneur,” said García-Paredes. This philosophy was evident after the recent purchase of Tugesto. As reports The economist“It will continue to operate as an independent company under the same name and address.” Manuel Fandos, CEO of Tugesto, said That this union represents “a unique opportunity to revolutionize business management together, especially in a market such as payroll software, where much remains to be achieved and innovate in Spain.” Who is visma: the discreet multinational Founded in 1996 by merger It was privatized by the HG capital fund. Currently, its shareholding is distributed mainly between HG Capital (70%) and the Sustain Fund of Singapore GIC (14%). The company has closed the year 2024 with 2.8 billion euros of income, a growth of 17%, and 893 million EBITDA (+26.6%)according to data provided to EcoTechers. In Spain, where it has more than 400 employees, it hopes to reach 60 million billing this year. “Spain is one of the highest growth for visma,” said Merete Hverven, CEO of the group, to The economist In 2023. “From our landing in 2021, we grow at a rate of 70%.” Visma has perfected its acquisition strategy after More than 373 completed operations worldwide. Only between 2023 and 2024 closed more than 70 purchases. In Spain, its focus is on SME -centered software startupsan easy pattern to detect seeing your history. According to García-Paredes, they look for companies that meet or approach the “40 rule” for software, that is, the sum of the percentage of income in income and the Ebitda margin is equal to or greater than 40. The company, which has a presence in 27 countries in Europe and Latin America, sees in Spain a strategic market for its size – almost 50 million inhabitants – and for the “growing advance of digitalization”, factors that predict that there will be more acquisitions in the future. Outstanding image | VISMA In Xataka | The technological basis of quantum computers developed in Europe: what happened so that in the long term we lost the race

China’s future in the chips industry is in the hands of a single company almost unknown: Sicarrier

by

Sicarrier is not a Chinese company. When we repair the country’s semiconductor industry led by Xi Jinping probably many of us think of companies like Huawei, SMICHua Hong semiconductor or Naura Technologyamong others. But not in Sicarrier. Until just a few weeks this company It was a real unknown Beyond China’s borders, but in a record time it has attracted the attention of the global industry of integrated circuits. And he has done it for a weight reason: it is the authentic responsible for China currently having the ability to produce avant -garde chips. Although it was founded in 2021, during the last four years Sicarrier has maintained a very low profile. Its origin is not entirely clear, but The most reliable sources They collect that this company is probably a huawei split. What we know for sure is that it is a state company administered by the Shenzhen government. Sicarrier’s soul are veteran engineers of ASML and Applyed Materials I will not prolong the mystery more: Sicarrier is dedicated to designing and manufacturing photolithography equipment and wafering processing machines. In fact, the more than 30 products that it has presented just a few weeks ago in SemiCon China 2025 competes with the solutions of the Dutch company ASMLthe Japanese Tokyo Electron or the American Apply materials. It is shocking that a company with just four years already has proposals capable of competing in the market of chips manufacturing equipment. But it seems to have earned it. Whatever this presumable success is not the result of chance. And is that his main team is led by engineers with more than two decades of experience in the ranks of ASML and Applyed Materials. In fact, these technicians are surely responsible for the milestone for which Sicarrier is probably in the spotlight of the US administration: the technology used by Huawei and SMIC for MANUFACT 7 NM INTEGRATED CIRCUITS derives from a patent that seeks to make the production of 5 Nm chips possible using equipment from deep ultraviolet lithography (UVP). The technology used by Huawei and SMIC to make 7 Nm chips derives from a patent from Sicarrier The most ambicious lithography equipment by Chinese integrated circuit manufacturers is the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine (UVE). ASML is the only company that produces them, but THE SANCTIONS TO CHINA DE USA They prevent you from giving it to your Chinese clients. The problem is that this equipment is necessary to produce on a large scale and with a competitive price semiconductors of 7 Nm or with even more advanced integration technologies. Sicarrier has not presented a UVE photolithography team in China 2025. It is very unlikely to have it, but, at the same time, it is reasonable to anticipate that their engineers will be working on a machine of these characteristics. The teams that this company has already made known, or, at least, has officialized, are A 28 Nm immersion lithography machinean engraving equipment for advanced nodes below 7 Nm, diffusion machines for rapid thermal processing, chemical vapor deposition equipment for nodes of 28 to 5 Nm, verification machines and test for advanced integrated circuits, etc. The retahíla of lithography and wafering processing that Sicarrier has presented in Semi -Con China 2025 is long. As I mentioned a few lines above, these products compete with the proposals of ASML, Applied Materials or Tokyo Electron, although the authentic Sicarrier fire test will be the tuning of a UVE lithography machine. Du liqun, the president of this company, has declared that its strategy requires betting on the development of avant -garde lithography equipment, selective deposition machines and latest generation transist technologieslike ga (Gate-alall-around), which is already part of the Porfolio of TSMC, Intel and Samsung. It is still early to identify if Sicarrier will live up to the expectations it has generated, but there is no doubt: there is a new actor in the integrated circuit industry. And it is worth following the track very closely. Image | Sicarrier More information | Nomad semi In Xataka | This is China’s big problem with chips: Huawei will manufacture its Kirin X90 for PC using the 7 Nm of SMIC

The company wants the name of the Pokémon filter and goes with all its legal arsenal

by

On the video game industry board, few pieces move as forceful as those of Nintendo when it comes to protecting what you consider. This time, the Japanese firm responsible for icons such as Mario, Zelda and Pikachu has launched a legal operation of surgical precision. Its objective is not a competitor, but an anonymous user of discord, indicated for having filtered Pokémon confidential content last summer. The episode of “Teraleak”. Baptized by the community as “Teraleak”, the incident meant one of the greatest content leaks in the saga in recent years. We do not talk only about loose data or minor details: among the filtered files there were preliminary versions of titles in developing and unpublished conceptual art, all related to the Pokémon franchise. An extremely sensitive material that, once outside, spread as a gunpowder in an environment where virality is the norm. The Nintendo Judicial Movement. According to documents published by Polygonon April 18, Nintendo submitted a citation request before the Federal Court of the Northern District of California. In it, he requires Discord to provide the user’s personal data identified as “Gamefreakout”: full name, physical address, telephone number and email address. The legal documentation also includes a capture of the “Freakleak” server, where that user shared the file in question. According to the company, after that initial publication there was a rapid diffusion of the content, although Discord received multiple DMCA applications for withdrawal. The damage was already done. A known strategy, a clear message. It is not the first time that Nintendo resorts to the courts to defend their intellectual property. In recent years He has managed to close portals like Romuniverse and Loveroms or Loveretro; And, in 2024, reached an extrajudicial agreement of 2.4 million dollars which forced the developers of emulators Yuzu and Citra to cease their activity. Github also withdrew 8 535 forks related to Yuzu. Each of those movements has left a trail: immediate closures, millionaire compensation and a warning that now resonates with renewed force. Filtering Nintendo material is not just risky: it is legally dangerous. Game Freak, the true target of the attack. Paradoxically, the gap did not open in Nintendo systems, but in those of Game Freak, the Japanese study responsible for the development of Pokémon games. As they recognized in a statementfiltration was the result of unauthorized access that left more than 2,600 personal records exposed. Game Freak claims to have rebuilt the affected and reinforced server its security measures, although the episode showed the fragility of certain infrastructure in the middle of 2024. The immediate future: And now what? The next play depends on the court. If he grants the citation and discord cooperates, Nintendo will be in a position to act with names and surnames. From there, the legal path could include different types of demands, although there is still no concrete information about the steps to follow by the company. For the user after “Gamefreakout”, anonymity could have the days counted. An industry on alert. What is at stake is not only an identity, but a precedent. Nintendo, with its relentless history, re -marks the path that other giants in the sector could follow. At a time when leaks are gestated and spread on community servers and social networks, the question is not whether it will happen again, but how those who have something to lose will answer. Images | Roger CE | Eesofuffzich + Photoshop | Pokémon In Xataka | The new ‘Balatro’ is an addictive mystery with thousands of fans worldwide: its creator has taken eight years to finish it

The Chinese company Alibaba has an AI to detect pancreatic cancer. It is so good that the US has accelerated its approval

by

The applications of the artificial intelligence (AI) They go far beyond what models such as Chatgpt, Deepseek or Dall-E offer us, among many others. These services are already part of the day -to -day life of many people, but AI is present in many other areas in which is already making a differencesuch as The design of new materialsthe development of drugs or medical diagnosis. The innovation in which we are about to investigate belongs to this last scenario of use. And it is that the Damo Academy, which is the branch dedicated to the investigation of the gigantic Chinese company Alibaba, has developed an AI tool that is capable of detecting in an early phase and in asymptomatic patients one of the types of cancer with the worst prognosis: that of pancreas. The figures of this disease are shocking. Is The seventh cause of cancer death globally even though the twelfth type of this most frequent evil. And survival after diagnosis, unfortunately, does not exceed 10%. The FDA is accelerating the approval of this Alibaba technology When the protagonist is the health of the people it is encouraging to verify that two superpowers faced with The virulence with which they are Currently USA and China are able to leave their differences aside. The first contact with AI developed by the Damo Academy to identify pancreas cancer in November 2023 thanks to an article published in the Medicine magazine Nature Medicine. Some treatments have taken between 10 and 12 years to be approved by the relevant agencies The approval of an innovation of these characteristics by the European Medicines Agency, known as EMA for its English denomination (European Medicines Agency), or the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of the USA, requires investing a lot of time. Some treatments have taken between 10 and 12 years to be approved if we count the time elapsed from the moment the initial idea arose until it received the final blessing from these agencies. However, this alibaba presumably will be able to be used with patients in much less time. And is that, according to SCMPthe FDA has initiated the process of accelerated review and approval of Panda (Pancreatic Cancer Detection with Artificial Intelligence), which is what is the name of the model developed by Alibaba. This deep learning model It has been trained with computerized abdominal tomographies without contrast of 3,208 patients with pancreatic cancer. And, according to preliminary tests, it is 34.1% more sensitive than radiologists when identifying this disease. Alibaba has already used Panda to examine 40,000 people in a hospital in NOBO (China), and identified six cases of early pancreatic cancer. Two of them were overlooked by radiologists during routine exams. Image | MART PRODUCTION More information | Nature Medicine | SCMP In Xataka | We did not know why some superbacteria were resistant to antibiotics. This AI has found it in two days

A company has achieved the greatest advance of the toilet paper in 100 years. And he is shooting his sales

by

There are many sectors where the margin of improvement is very wide and others where it would be said that everything is almost invented. Let’s put the toilet paper market as an example. Since his invention more than a few century ago they have changed. Yes, a few years ago the arrival of A “Luxury” versionand has even been used for other purposes (the last putting it in the refrigerator), But, in essence, its virtues and defects have remained. And suddenly, something seems to change. Silent revolution. For decades, the toilet paper It has been one of the most unalterable products of modern home, a routine as natural as invisible. However, under that apparent immobility there is a fierce technological career: large corporations have been perfecting this essential object through small but sophisticated innovations for years. As explained a few days ago The Washington Postthe most recent is possibly the most important and comes from the hand of Charminwhich after five years of research has replaced the classic straight drilling line with a undulating, in what call Smooth teara solution that seeks to solve such a mundane problem as universal: The damn unequal tear of the leaves. The company ensures that this minutia has triggered a 5 % growth in its business and a “significant level of delight” among users, demonstrating that even the most banal gesture can be optimized to the further detail. Engineering applied to touch. Far from being frivolity, innovation in toilet paper is the result of highly complex development processes. Explained the post that in laboratories by Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clarkengineers and designers have tried hundreds of prototypes evaluating parameters such as resistance, texture and water response capacity and use in different positions of the portarrolos, even considering whether the user is left -handed or right -handed. The curves of the new pattern are not ornamental, but the result of millimeter calculations on strength, traction angle and adaptation to the industrial process, where the technical challenge consists in creating a non -linear rupture line that is effective for the consumer, but robust enough to survive to the vertiginous rhythm of production machines. To get an idea, engineering behind this humble product includes rotary cylinders, synchronized teeth and strategically positioned anvils, a precision gear that the consumer never sees. When Nokia produced toilet paper Role, culture and hygiene. Modern toilet paper is surprisingly invention recent In human history. Although the paper has existed for more than two millennia (thanks to The ancient China), its use for intimate purposes did not popularize until the end of the 19th century. Before that, what would be at hand: leaves, rags, cobs, even store catalogs. Was Joseph Gayetty who in 1857 introduced the concept of “medicated” paper, although it was ridiculed by the modesty of the time. The real milestone arrived in 1890, when LThe Scott brothers They popularized the perforated roll, contributing comfort and hygiene to the daily ritual. Since then, each advance (however it seems) has responded to a persistent search for balance between functionality, cleaning and experience (even sensory), gradually raising the daily product to a subtle form of applied design. Innovation without rupture. Barry Kudrowitzproduct design expert, defined these types of changes such as “Incremental innovation”: lowercase improvements that do not alter the essence of the object, but optimize their use within the frame that the user already knows and accepts. As opposed to more disruptive solutions such as bidé (which still generates cultural resistances), the wavy toilet paper fits perfectly in consumer habits and finds its force precisely in its familiarity. If you want also, we are facing a change that does not ask to relear anything, but it offers A tangible benefitand that is why it is precisely so effective. In a saturated market, where almost all consumers already use “their” toilet paper, the only real growth route is to convince them that their brand makes it a little better, a little softer, or a bit more intelligent. Improve the practical. In short, the history of New undulating edge Charmin is, in essence, a metaphor of modern obsession for technical perfection in everyday life. It is not about reinventing the toilet paper, but about turning it into a product worthy of scientific attentioncommercial and cultural. The art of finding complexity in the simple, of applying high precision technology to an object whose destination, ironically, is disappear instantly. In a world where almost everything essential is already invented, the idea is accurate: refine the ordinary, reinvent the minimum and remind us that even the most bland gesture (that pull a hung roll next to the sink and that it comes out “perfect”) can be the fruit of years of engineering, design and effort. Image | Erik McLean, CATLEMUR In Xataka | Putting toilet paper in the refrigerator seems an absurd idea. This is what we know about its advantages In Xataka | Save toilet paper is possible and very easy: the question is why you want to do it

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.