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The uranium is listed up after the nuclear resurgence. And a company wants to start extracting it in Greenland

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While Trump Keep with your speech to buy Greenlandiamining remains prohibited in the country. However, this decision may change by imposition of a judge. Short. The Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) company, formerly known as Greenland Minerals, has filed a millionaire demand against Greenland for the care of his project at the Kvanefjeld site. The company has demanded that the mine be allowed to exploit or receive compensation of 11.5 billion dollars. The dispute has reached an international arbitration under the dispute resolution system between investors and states (ISDS). The competent court to resolve the case will be the one established under international arbitration agreements between investors and governments. In depth. The company acquired the rights to exploit the Kvanefjeld site. This reserve is one of the largest in the world not exploited that contains uranium and rare earths. However, in 2021, the Greenlandic government prohibited uranium mining. Currently, the lawsuit accuses the country of illegal expropriation and for the moment the case is in international arbitration, initiated in 2022, but has progress slowly due to prolonged disagreements about the procedure. This summer, the referees will decide if they must accept the case. If they do, it is likely to be resolved at the end of this year. Meanwhile, the decision is dividing the population with nearby elections that could change this resolution. The complaint system. This arbitration system, designed originally to protect foreign companies of abuse by governments, it has been increasingly used to demand the states that adopt environmental laws. In several cases, companies They have sought millionaire compensation for the closure of mining projects that considered profitable. In this way, international arbitration It has become In a lucrative area of ​​international law, with multimillionaire payments to companies that require compensation for the losses attributed to regulatory or environmental changes. The history of uranium. Mining has meant a problem For Greenland for pollution. As of 1970, the first deposits of lead and zinc began to exploit, which has caused irreversible damage in the flora and fauna of the area. For this reason, when ETM acquired the rights to exploit the Kvanefjeld area in 2007, the local population was alarmed by the environmental impact it could cause in drinking water and in the farm farms. If the mine reopens. In case they return to work on the project, the exploitation would be done in the open, which implies removing large amounts of rock to extract terbio and neodymium, key metals to manufacture magnets in wind turbines and electric cars. However, in doing so, uranium would also be unearthed, which would generate radioactive waste. From the company itself, has explained to The Guardian that “will use the best environmental practices” whenever it is “technical, practice and financially.” The international game. While Greenland face again To the United States after the statements of the US president to “take the country in any form, now he will have to stay aware of how the trial on the exploitation of the Kvanefjeld site will be resolved. However, this sentence must be seen with magnifying glass, because the company Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) is partially owned by Shenghe Resources, a company backed by the Chinese government. So, Greenland is trapped between the interests of China and the United States. For its part, the government opposing uranium mining, demonstrating Your concern for the environment and the future of the sovereignty of the country. Image | Maggie & David Xataka | It is the fifth time that the US wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. If they asked on the island they would have it clearer

For the first time, a private company has managed to reach the moon successfully. And it has been after resurgence from bankruptcy

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The early morning of March 2, the Blue Ghost ship of Firefly Aerospace fell gently on the lunar surface. It was the First time in history that a private company achieved a completely successful moon landing: in vertical and with the solar panels well -oriented to survive the 14 days that a lunar day lasts. Blue Ghost nailed the moon landing. Preceded by the failures of the Beresheet ships (From the Israeli company Spaceil), Hakuto-R (of the Japanese ispace), Pilgrim (of the American astrobotic) and Odysseus (also American intuitive machines), Blue Ghost landed in a stable position after a descent maneuver designed to dodge rocks and dangerous geographical accidents. The lunar module touched soil in the Mare Crisium region, near the volcanic formation of Mons Latreille. The instruments and sensors on board reported that Blue Ghost was at an optimal angle, and the first images of the shadow projected by the Firefly Aerospace ship showed that it had perched on the lunar surface vertically. A respite for NASA. The historical achievement of the Texana company is also an achievement for NASA, which breathes quiet after the first round of the CLPS program (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), designed to send regular missions to the Moon in commercial ships. Intuitive machines I could achieve the second in a couple of dayswhen its new Nova-C module athens tries to alunize in the South Lunar Pole after Nova-C Odysseus overturns in February 2024. The Ghost Riders. On board the Blue Ghost module of Firefly there is a series of instruments, experiments and technological demonstrators, mainly from NASA, that will drill the soil to collect samples, investigate how the dust rises to mitigate the problems they represent in future lunar missions, and measure the level of radiation and the magnetic activity in the environment. Blue Ghost will display and operate these loads for 14 terrestrial days, equivalent to a lunar day, before the lack of sunlight and the very low temperatures compromise their batteries. An eclipse of earth. Blue Ghost has already given us overwhelming images of the Dawn on the moon or the Planet Earth in the firmament. “We are all in that image,” Firefly engineers recalled during the press conference. But the best will come in the last days of mission. Among the planned mission milestones are the capture in high definition of a total eclipse on March 14, when the earth blocks the sun from the perspective of the ship on the moon, as well as a recording of the lunar twilight on March 16 in which we will see the lunar dust levitating. The Renaissance of Firefly Aerospace. The Firefly feat is especially remarkable taking into account the recent history of the company, marked by a bankruptcy, an internal scandal and a sound change in property. Firefly was saved by the Ukrainian inverter Max Polykovwho invested around 200 million dollars and resurrected the company. However, Polykov was forced by the United States government to sell its majority participation in 2022 for a symbolic price of 1 dollar. And all for geopolitical reasons. Since then, Firefly was under the majority control of the private capital firm AE Industrial Partners. His current CEO is Jason Kim, who assumed the company’s management in October 2024 after his predecessor, Bill Weber, retired from An alleged inappropriate relationship With an employee. Image | Firefly Aerospace In Xataka | In 2011, a collector bought in Morocco a meteorite. It has turned out to be a direct test of thermal water on Mars

Participate and win two tickets for the AI2030, the great event on artificial intelligence in the company

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If you have no plans for March 19 and you are passionate about technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular, this interests you: from Xataka We draw two packs of two entries each To attend the day of March 19 of the event face -to -face AI2030, of which we are Mediapartners. How to participate: Filling this form What is raffled: Two packs of two tickets each (there will be two winners) to attend the AI2030 in the talk day (March 19) Deadline to participate: From today until March 5 The deadline to participate will end next Wednesday, March 5. On Thursday, March 6, the winners will receive an email informing them that they have won and must confirm their assistance within 48 hours. If they do not confirm the assistance within this period, the tickets will be distributed to the substitutes also chosen at random. For more details about the procedure you can consult the Bases of the contest. Artificial Intelligence + Company = AI2030 The AI2030 event will be a different event. It will not be an event to talk about Hypeof generalist things … but something very practical and oriented to the real uses of artificial intelligence in different sectors. On March 19 there will be different presentations with this approach (Here you can consult the agenda And here all the speakers) with the occasional … surprise. And so far we can read. I will only tell you that our partner Angela Blanco It has something very cool prepared. And, after this, that same day there will be a small space for the Networking. Our raffle guarantees the two face -to -face entries to the winners, but if you do not want to worry, you can still try their luck and request assistance. And if you run out of face -to -face entrance or if you are not in Madrid but you want to attend, there will be streaming and you can follow everything from home. In both modalities, You can request it from here. In the event that you have a startup, there are little squares but you can still request participating in the Hackaton on March 20. To do this, you just have to press the “Join As startup” button in the upper right of the web. Already either in one format or another, we encourage you all to sign up. Much AI, many practical uses and many top people. Don’t miss it! Link | AI2030

convince us that the company has not lost the AI ​​train

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Panos Panay, dressed in rigorous black, launched himself to give his first great Keynote as an Amazon employee. Not long ago, but with Microsoft where I was the head of the hardware divison. Your mission here is even more complex, because Try to show that Amazon has not lost the AI ​​train. And to achieve this, he was in charge of presenting the new version of Alexa. A supervitaminated with AI. During the presentation Panos Panay tried first to defend Alexa’s legacy, a voice assistant who according to this manager attracts millions of new customers every month. It is a unique statement, especially when it is evident that in recent times that technology has been far behind the modern models of generative. Alexa: 11 things we can do with Alexa and 5 that still does not For Amazon it was not enough to integrate a model of AI capable of explaining with a synthetic voice how to make a recipe. “You will not buy the ingredients and will not send an invitation to your friends for dinner. A chatbot of AI does not take us to what is our vision for Alexa,” he explained during the event. AND that’s where Alexa+ arrivesAlexa’s new version. An AI technology with which Amazon wants to change everything: we are facing an agthic that is capable of doing things for us. Not only to answer questions, but to take advantage of your integration with other devices and applications to perform actions. In the demo shown by Panay Alexa made a reservation in a restaurant, sent a message to the kangaroo and added everything to the calendar. Not only that: it was also shown as Alexa+ is now much more conversational – here the new models and the recognition of natural language have done a good job – and is able to interact with the home automation of our home, for example. In his official statementAmazon describes Alexa+ as smarter, conversational, personalized and capable of “doing things”, that is, completing tasks. In many cases, completing these tasks will make it necessary to give access to our data – you, contacts, information with which we want me to work – to this model of AI. According to Amazon, Alexa+ has been trained so that he is able to recognize the tone to adapt to conversation. If he sees us agitated, for example, he will try to calm us down – he who noticed in the demo of Panos, for example. There is another important element in that interaction. Alexa stores and remembers the data you are giving to be able to use them in the future. For example, user restaurants preferences or tastes about certain dishes or ingredients. In the demos it could be seen how the interface of the connected screens Amazon Echo has undergone important changes. For example, it shows an animation at the bottom of the screen when “thinking”. Something since it is almost standard and we have seen in Gemini or Apple Intelligence. There are more animations to represent that Alexa is in action, and Amazon calls them “Alexicons”. Home automation is one of the areas in which this type of interaction with AI is enhanced, and Amazon has created a specific widget for home automation in the interface of its smart screens. Natural language – to speak as we would normally, but with these devices – is the focus when controlling all kinds of options and actions. In development …

The plan of a British company to revolutionize the sector

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The future of nuclear energy is aimed at not depending on huge fixed facilities, but on floating plants, capable of moving and adapting to the needs of the moment. In fact, the company that It started is revolutionCore Power, wants to take a step further. Short. The main challenge of nuclear reactors are high costs and long construction times in fixed infrastructure. Therefore, Core Power has announced The development of floating nuclear plants with a modular and mobile design. In addition, they have gone a step further using an advanced fourth generation reactor based on molten salts, with the intention of building these mass units and offering nuclear energy more flexible and efficiently. Market from 2030. although the reactor of molten salts It began to develop in 1950, now thanks to its compact and mechanically simple design characteristics, it is consolidating for floating nuclear energy. In addition, this type of reactor offers several advantages in front of traditional models: its modular design allows mass manufacturing, which could significantly reduce costs and construction time. It should be added that molten salts reactors operate at higher but atmospheric temperatures, which makes them more secure and easy to maintain. Safer. This type of reactors has a passive cooling system, which does not depend on external pumps. In case of emergency, it cools naturally without the need for human intervention. They also do not require pressurization, which still increases plus operational security. Nuclear fuels can also be recycled or filtered from the molten and automatically replaced liquid, which makes the reactor need for refueling during its useful life. Floating nuclear. Being installed in ships does not have the bureaucratic complications associated with obtaining construction permits and fixed areas. By this way, floating plants can be placed near areas of maximum energy demand, ensuring a constant electricity supply. And if the energy needs of a region change or if the political climate becomes unstable, these floating centrals can be disconnected and moved to another area. This design is not only flexible in terms of location, but also in terms of functions. In addition to generating electricity, floating plants can be used to desalination water and produce green hydrogen. The challenges. Despite the great advantages, this type of technology faces several challenges. One of the main is the high initial cost of development and construction, because the required investment is significantly higher. However, mass production will reduce long -term costs. In addition, there are still doubts about the viability of long -term maintenance and the possible technical problems derived from the use of these plants in the maritime environment. Another aspect to consider is public acceptance and international regulations. Although floating plants do not need traditional permits for fixed nuclear plants, they could still face regulatory barriers in different countries. Regulations on safety, maritime safety and nuclear waste management could complicate the global implementation of this technology. Forecasts Despite the ambition of the project, the truth is that the real impact of this technology is yet to be seen. In addition to generating electricity, these plants could play an important role in commercial propulsion and help in other areas as you mention the desalination and production of green hydrogen. Time will tell if these innovative solutions can really transform the global energy panorama while minimizing the environmental impacts that traditionally They are associated with nuclear energy. Image | Core Power Xataka | The future of energy is floating in the Arctic: the ace under Russia’s sleeve is a nuclear plant

It turns out that in Spain there was a company dedicated to spy software and has closed after declaring in bankruptcy

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In Spain we can boast many things, but having known companies globally for the development of spy softwareNo. Although Barcelona is becoming An unexpected Startup Hub related to this sectorthe reality is that we do not have a great NSO GroupFor example. The closest thing was an unknown company called Mollitiam Industries. We talked in the past because it has broken. Where does Mollitiam Industries come from. According to The recordsthe company was founded in 2018 and its headquarters was in Toledo. As pray Your websiteactive at the time of writing these lines, was specialized in “offering a deep tracking capacity in highly specialized and complementary areas”, such as the “interception and surveillance of communications”, for “through invisible capabilities of capture, management and security active data in the context of cyberspace and encrypted telecommunications “, allow” those responsible for decision making identify, anticipate, degrade or neutralize possible attacks of connected objectives. “ In other words, he was specialized in cyberinteligence and espionage software. In Your LinkedIn profileThe company states to have “real experience in cyber operations, in coordination with state bodies and security forces. From planning and support to intelligence execution and production.” What happened. Which was declared in bankruptcy on January 23. This is reflected in public records and has transcended the media through the specialized magazine Online intelligence (via Techcrunch). The reasons are unknown, but the magazine argues that it has been due to economic problems. Techcrunch also feeds that it may be due to lack of international attention as it is a Spanish company since it has not been involved in too many controversial cases. From Xataka we have tried to contact the company through its networks (the web form gives error) and a phone that appears on its Google Maps card, but we have not received an answer in any of the cases. What has you participated in. Regarding Spain, Mollitian Industries has achieved three public contracts: In 2020a contract less than 14,950 to facilitate the Civil Guard a “social media monitoring tool.” In 2022worth 250,000 euros, a tender for the “acquisition of a remote monitoring system of mobile terminal communications to provide the Central Operational Unit of the Judicial Police Headquarters of the Civil Guard.” In 2023worth 330,578.51 euros, a tender for the “supply of a mobile device management platform to provide the Civil Guard units.” In the international arena, Mollitian Industries was a name sounded in Colombia. In 2020, Week magazine He reported that his journalists were being monitored by Colombian intelligence services through software called “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler.” These spywares were able to access the archives, location, microphone and camera of the infected terminals, and even record the key pulsations. Week published images of a contract between the National Army of Colombia and Mollitian Industries. Apparently, the local army had paid 3,000 million pesos, around 860,000 euros to the current change, for accessing these software. The latest. The most recent information about this company is the report Adversarial threat report Meta, dated at the end of 2023. In said report, Meta warned of eight Spyware companies focused on iOS, Android and Windows. Those eight companies were Cy4gate/Elt Group, RCS Labs, IPS Intelligence, Veriston IT, Tuel IT, Protect Electronic Systems, Negg Group and the Spanish Mollitiam Industries. In this report, Meta said the following: “(…) We have eliminated a network of accounts on Facebook and Instagram linked to a Spanish company, Mollitiam Industries, which announces a data collection and spyware service aimed at Windows, Macos and Android. Mollitiam Industries and its customers handled accounts false they used to test malicious capabilities between their own accounts and scrape public information. IP registration links to track the IP addresses of their objectives. . Cover image | Pexels In Xataka | Google has revealed the techniques that Russia is using to violate Signal: it is the cyber warman against Ukraine

This game worked at 10 fps in PlayStation 3 and its creator believes that any company that was not Sony would have canceled it

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Any game has beta versions that work with a much lower performance than they reach in its final version, but … 10-15 fps? Under that ridiculous frequency it moved ‘The Last Guardian‘In PS3, game that ended up appearing in PS4 after eleven years. Its person in charge was the Team Ico, signer of masterpieces for PlayStation as ‘ICO’ or ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. Do not underestimate the evocative power of those Team Ico games. Possibly their fame and prestige are the ones that led Sony to persecute with the project despite their weak technical results. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony manager for almost 40 years, who worked at the first playstation and was president of Sie Worldwide Studios, He told Taipei Game Show That a company that was not Sony I would have abandoned the game. Yoshida explained that years passed since they announced it, and began receiving questions about the game from Sony. The truth was that they were having problems Derived from the vision of fumito Ueda, responsible for the team, which wanted the protagonist creature of the game, the immense trico rodent, to move realistically. But PS3 could not manage the huge character on the stage and stuck at 10-15 fps. Finally, it was decided to pass the project to PS4 and schedule it from scratch. “A normal developer would possibly have abandoned it,” says Yoshida, but trusted Ueda’s vision and thought of ‘Ico’ and ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ fans, and decided that “whatever happens we have to launch it.” Finally, the game was announced in the E3 of 2015, when everyone already thought that the Ueda project was sentenced to cancellation. Header | Sony In Xataka | Why the creator of ‘The Last Guardian’ is a reference with only 2 published games (and an eternal third)

A year ago the world’s largest olive oil company was clear that it was going to continue expensive. Now he has just shown up

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In 2022 deoleo, the largest marketer of olive oil in the world, He won 5.5 million euros of benefits. In 2023, lost 34. It is the best metaphor of the earthquake that the olive oil industry has lived in recent years. Above all, because we are not talking about a lost oil mill in Sierra Morena, we talk about the bottling brands such as Hojiblanca, Carbonell or Koipe. Therefore, if we are interested in olive oil, we must follow them closely. One year of transition. During 2023, drought, a short harvest and the increase in costs (derived from the situation in Ukraine, the inflationary scenario and high interest rates) caused a very serious problem in the oil. We know that well. The problem is that, although They themselves recognized that they had transferred “partial (mind) to customers the increase in prices experiments throughout the chain”, it had not been enough. And that deoleo was (at least, on paper) one of the marketers that More margins had for the ‘premium’ positioning of its brands. 2024 was, then, the year of transition. What happens is that ransition has been faster than anyone expected. In fact, I was not sure what was going to happen. And, at some point, they bet because prices They were going to stay up. His analysis said that if prices at origin did not fall sufficiently, the industry would have to contain the decrease of finalist prices (or expose to bankruptcy). That It is something that has happened: prices at origin have collapsed, while in supermarkets the descent is being very soft. However, with estimates that They tell us 1.4 million tons They have already realized that there is no way to contain the price in the medium term. Preparing for 2025. Hence Víctor Roig, general director in Spain of Deleo, has explained that “the logical thing is that this returns the price of the Aove to levels similar to those of 2021 and 2022, standing between three and four euros per liter.” In this context, the battle has begun to be another. Recover the oil culture. In the last decade, the consumption of olive oil It has been falling year after year. Crisis after crisis (and with the mediation of A deep cultural and gastronomic change), wide layers of the population have dropped from olive oil and the vast majority of them have not returned. It is true that demand has not fallen into that same proportion That prices have grown. But consumption has decreased 44.5% Less in the last three years and, following the previous logic, nobody knows if the industry will recover it. And if in recovering from the losses there was a short -term survival of the industry, in bringing all those consumers back is the future. Image | Vincent Eisfeld | Senate agency In Xataka | Spain faces its greatest agricultural challenge of the century: turn 1,901,529 hectares of olive grove before it is late

On March 19 we wait for you in the great event on generative artificial intelligence applied to the company

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Xatakeros, next day March 19 The event is celebrated in Madrid AI2030which will have as its central theme the real use and application of the generative AI in the business environment and of which Xataka is Mediapartner. If it is an issue that, like us, is passionate about or that you would like to know more to apply it to your professional environment, keep reading because this will interest you. AI2030 is a different event for format and content, and now you will understand why. As for the format, on the one hand there will be a place for people who want to learn and listen to how various leaders in the sector are working with generative artificial intelligence in their business fields, with practical and real cases of generative in action But also with all the challenges (and opportunities) in its implementation, in addition to a review of the trends of what we expect in the coming years. All accompanied with a small huequecito for networking. Here you can consult the full agenda. All these cases will be presented by first level speakers. Among those already confirmed is Jimmy Klein (Diageo Product), María José Barrera (Global Cdo & E -Commerce director of Massimo Dutti), Sofia Benjumea (Head of Google for Startups – EMEA) and Carlos Rivadulla (manager and lawyer in Écija) , among many others. The event organizes it Miraikureference sign in the development of generative, and is sponsored by Google Cloudso we will also have some of its executives. On the other hand, there will also be a more practical session, which will take place on March 20 in Hackaton format. This opportunity is reserved for a few selected startups but you are still in time to present as a candidate for yours if you are interested. Would you like to accompany us? Keep reading and we give you all the details. For all types of professionals and also for startups If you are passionate about the subject or dedicate yourself professionally to this: On March 19, from 10 in the morning until eating, numerous talks will take AI in business environments and various business sectors in particular. You can request your entry as an assistant here. If you have a startup: You can request to join the Hackaton that is organized on March 20. In that session, first -line companies such as Kia, Massimo Dutti, Estrella Damm or Diageo, among others, will raise a challenge to the participating companies and together they will work to give them a solution. You can get more details and register your startup selecting “Join As a startup” here. We are waiting for you! And if you can’t accompany us or you can’t follow streaming that day, don’t worry, because We will tell you the best of the event in Xataka And in our networks. As our friends from AI2030 say, “the future begins here!” More information and inscriptions | AI2030.AI

The most valuable company in the world has no interest in investing in data centers fever

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Big tech are investing Absolute fortunes in data centers. Almost all seem to be prepared to meet the colossal demand for computing capacity for AI tasks. And yet, there is a curious and surprising exception. Money, money and more money. In recent days, several large technology have announced their investment plans by 2025. In all cases astronomical budgets for the construction of data centers for AI: Microsoft were announced: Microsoft He spoke of 80,000 million dollars, Google of 75,000Goal of 65,000 And at the end of the week Amazon exceeded all those figures and promised to invest 100,000 million dollars In this area. To get a slight idea of ​​what that figure supposes, a comparison: GDP Bulgaria was of 102,407 million dollars in 2023 (that of Spain, 1.62 billion). Apple. However, in Apple things are very different, and their capex planned for 2025 will remain almost flat compared to 2024 and will be 12,000 million dollars. It is a remarkable figure, of course, but is far from its competitors in the field of AI. And it is the one that has the most money. It is also interesting to compare the investment that these companies will make regarding their Market capitalization. Amazon is the strongest bet here: its capex is 4.12% its current market capitalization, followed by Meta and Google. Microsoft is somewhat more cautious (2.63%), but it surprises again that Apple, which is the world’s first company for market capitalization, has a capex of only 0.35% of all its value. Wall Street rules. The decisions of these companies seem to be very influenced by the behavior of stock markets. The presentation of financial results and short -term forecasts has caused a kind of contagious effect: if we do not invest a money in data centers, shareholders are going to punish us a lot, they seem to have said the Big Tech with those colossal figures. The great beneficiary is Nvidia. Meanwhile, it is likely that the great beneficiary of these colossal investments is Nvidia, which will be the one that will receive a good part of that money if everything follows the current trend. There will undoubtedly other beneficiaries in this area, but the Capex de Nvidia is comparatively ridiculous, both with respect to these companies and Regarding its current market capitalization (3.18 billion dollars). It is estimated that in fiscal year 2025 it will be about 3,000 million dollars, a quarter of the Apple, for example. In 2024 his capex It was barely 1,000 million dollars. Apple goes to another rhythm with AI. The firm of Cupertino seems clearly to have a very different strategy than that of its rivals in this segment. He has barely offered news since he presented Apple Intelligencewhose options are limited and whose deployment is being slow. The feeling, even internally, is that In Apple they are clear followers And that at the moment will not change. Image | Ekapol With Midjourney In Xataka | Is Tim Cook the Apple Ballmer and Nadella is the Microsoft Jobs?

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