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Amazon Web Services is such a profitable business that its CEO is already thinking about something more ambitious: competing with NVIDIA

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Andy Jassy is the CEO of Amazon and an advocate of artificial intelligence to the point that he expects AI to transform the company’s workforce in the coming years. It makes sense that he is the captain of a liner that has turned to the AI ​​business, since before succeeding Bezos, he came from leading Amazon Web Services. And in his last letter annual to shareholders, Jassy leaves several notes that give us clues about the future of the company. It plans to compete against NVIDIA and SpaceX. And they have 200 billion dollars to invest. The photo. The company is going like a rocket. amazon hill 2025 at 717,000 million dollars, exceeding by 12% the 638,000 million of the previous year. Operating income increased by 17% to 80,000 million and, for its part, AWS cloud business it also worked well, achieving 24% year-on-year in the last quarter. They have done so, according to Jassy, ​​without being able to meet the demands of some clients due to the current situation of the data centers, but even so, they are more than happy. Burning pasta. And those good vibes are going to reach Amazon to invest some 200,000 million dollars in the coming months. The CEO has commented that “they are not going to invest that amount in 2026 following a hunch,” also pointing out that they are not going to be conservative in their bets and that what they are looking for is to lead the artificial intelligence business. HE wait that 50,000 of those millions will end up in the pockets of an OpenAI that will need a boost after the NVIDIA “sit-in”he Sora’s closure and Disney’s withdrawal of investment. Those 200 billion will be concentrated on AI infrastructure, a bet on the future that can add pressure to margins in the short term, but from which they expect a lot.or when the business starts operating. For its part, OpenAI is going to invest 100 billion in AWS over the next eight years. The chickens that enter by those that leave, like almost everything in this AI market. business engine. What business? Well… the one with the chips. Amazon is one of the companies (like Goal, tesla or one’s own OpenAI) that buys from NVIDIA, but that also you are developing your own solution. There are three proper names: Graviton, Trainium and Nitro, training and inference chips (depending on the case) whose business is growing at triple digits year-on-year. Specifically Trainium, which is the chip used to train some of the company’s models, can “save tens of billions of dollars a year.” But it’s not just about saving money by having the chip made at home and do not depend on NVIDIA prices and market competition: it is about not depend on NVIDIA itself at all. The NVIDIA Garden. We have already explained on more than one occasion how NVIDIA is the engine of the artificial intelligence business. Not only do they have the hardware that powers the data centers of the main AI players, but they have the money to invest in both established companies and, above all, in the startups that can define the future of the sector. And Jassy aims, directly, to become a hardware rival, one that competes with NVIDIA, AMD and even with the reborn Intel. According to the CEO, if Amazon were to sell its chip on the open market, it could represent a market of about $50 billion annually, more than double its current chip market. It would still be well below some of its rivals, but it could sell its hardware in conjunction with its AWS software. It would be by selling that “complete AI package” where Amazon would be strong against its rivals. Amazon’s Starlink. Wanting to step on the hose of the strong hardware trio is not the only field in which Jassy wants to play. We already know that Bezos, founder of Amazon, has its space businessbut in parallel, the own Amazon is deploying its Kuiper project. It is its own constellation of satellites in low orbit for broadband Internet that aims to be direct competition to SpaceX and Elon Musk’s Starlink. The deployment began in 2025 with a modest 27 satellites, but this 2026 They want to launch another 3,200. In the end, as all mega-companies want, Amazon seeks to be ubiquitous and permeate absolutely every millimeter of the business. Now, although its capacity in AWS is indisputable, competing against NVIDIA is a big deal. Jensen Huang’s company is TSMC’s first customer -the great global factory-, has deployed very aggressively and intelligently in the AI ​​segment, creating a network that is difficult to replicate and, in addition, has ensured itself to be the main customer of Samsung and SK Hynixthe companies leading high bandwidth memory without which AI cannot take off. Image | Amazon (edited) In Xataka | If you think the internet was much better before AI, congratulations: they have created an extension for you

AI already dominated chess. Now it is forcing us to play in a different way to continue competing

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There is something almost universal in how we understand chess. We imagine it as a duel of pure intelligence, two players in front of a board, trying to anticipate, read the opponent and find the best response at all times. That image still holds true for most of us, whether playing at home or on an app, but in the elite the game has changed a lot. Not because chess has broken down, but because the emergence of increasingly powerful engines has altered the way it is studied, prepared and competed at the highest level. That change did not come suddenly, although it did leave a very clear scene in 2018. The world championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana ended with the 12 classic games in drawssomething never seen in the history of the tournament, which dates back to 1886. That result was not an isolated rarity, but the visible sign of a trend that had been maturing for years. The more the best players relied on analysis engines to prepare their games, the narrower the margin to surprise from the start and the more difficult it became to break the balance. The trick was to stop playing like a machine To understand what has happened you have to look at how professional chess is studied today. The great masters have been working with engines, programs for years specifically designed to analyze positions and find the best continuations with precision well above the human level. We are not talking so much about conversational models as ChatGPT either Claude, who according to Bloomberg are pretty bad at chessbut from tools like Stockfish or the legacy it left AlphaZero. The underlying issue is that these tools have homogenized part of the knowledge in the elite: many players come to the board with a very similar preparation in the first plays, and that reduces the room for surprise. This shared preparation began to have a very concrete effect in practice. If both rivals know in advance the strongest lines and the most reliable answers, winning requires much more than avoiding gross errors. For years, the feeling grew that classical chess was becoming more closed at the top, not because of a lack of talent, but because each important detour was much more studied than before. Bloomberg also recalls that the fear of a “death by draw” was not new, but the arrival of engines superior to humans, since Deep Blue in 1997 and later with increasingly stronger domestic programs, gave that fear a different dimension. Carlsen’s career helps to understand to what extent this change has weighed on the elite. After the 2021 World Cup, an exhausting duel that included an eight-hour game and seven draws, The Norwegian decided not to defend the title again and cited a lack of motivation. He did not abandon classical chessin fact won Norway Chess in 2025 and is still the highest-rated player in the world, but he was showing more and more interest in faster formats such as rapid and blitz, and also in freestyle chess, which alters the initial position of the pieces to neutralize the preparation. The message that this evolution left was quite clear: even the best player on the planet seemed to look for spaces where previous study did not determine everything. The interesting thing is that the most powerful response came not only by changing the format, but also by changing the way of playing within the board itself. A new generation of grandmasters, already raised with motors, began to assume something that sounds counterintuitive: always following the computer’s first suggestion does not guarantee an advantage over another human. The aforementioned media gives a very concrete example in the 2024 Candidates Tournament, when Praggnanandhaa chose a play considered suboptimal by the engines against Ruy López, took his rival out of preparation and ended up winning. That’s the key to change. In elite chess it is no longer enough to ask what the best move is in the abstract, it is also important what it is. the most uncomfortable for the person in front of you. Engines may consider several nearly equivalent options, but not all of them create the same type of practical problem on the board. On the other hand, the engine can show you an optimal line, but that does not mean that it has taught you to understand it. Seen this way, what we are observing is a much more interesting transformation. The engines remain unbeatable and have been far ahead of humans for years, but precisely for this reason they have forced the grandmasters to move the battle to another terrain. Precision continues to be essential, but it is no longer enough on its own if it is not accompanied by judgment, understanding and the ability to adapt. Images | Florian Cordier | Pavel Danilyuk In Xataka | A study says that AIs are “cheating” at chess. That’s what we want to think

OpenAI had to choose between “being the company that has erotic AI” or competing with Anthropic. And he has chosen the obvious

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Sam Altman wasn’t afraid to try things. That people want to create Studio Ghibli style images? Forward. AI Videos hyperrealistic? Go for it. A browser with AI? we have it. Wherever I saw an option to add AI, OpenAI added it. But that was before, because these projects are being put on the back burner or directly closed for a simple reason: they are blank bullets. ChatGPT is not going to flirt with you. According to the Financial TimesOpenAI has canceled its plans to launch an erotic chatbot, and now the goal is to focus its resources on its most important products. The decision is partly a response to tensions and internal criticism from employees and investors when offering sexualized AI content. One former employee noted that “AI shouldn’t replace your friends or family; you should have human connections.” Making an erotic chatbot is not that easy. In addition to the social impact, it seems that OpenAI has had to face really complex technical challenges when creating this type of chatbot. Training an AI model to do something that “normal” models were trying to avoid was causing problems. For example, when including data sets with explicit content it was necessary to eliminate illegal behavior, such as bestiality or incest. That adult mode, called “Citron mode” internally, could have required users to prove that they were over 18 years old. Too much risk. The move to launch an “adult mode” of ChatGPT was reputationally risky, and people familiar with the decision have indicated that OpenAI wants to begin a long-term investigation into the effects of explicitly sexual chats and the emotional bonds that this type of interaction can create in users. They point out that at the moment there is no “empirical evidence” about the impact, but for now they are clear. And yet, there is another great reason to cancel it indefinitely. Let’s focus on what makes money. In recent weeks we have seen how the new pretty girl of the world of AI is Anthropic, which with Claude has managed to conquer precisely the market sector that is beginning to generate income decent for AI: the companies. OpenAI had been especially focused on end users, but the steps it has taken to try to convince us to pay for ChatGPT Plus/Pro They don’t quite work. No ads, no shopping. A few months ago OpenAI announced that ChatGPT was already capable of buy things for you with its Instant Checkout. The feature was really promising and proposed a paradigm shift in the rules of traditional e-commerce, but this launch seems to have had much less impact than expected. The decision to place ads during conversations seems not going to make ChatGPT’s revenue skyrocket either, so the solution is becoming clearer: if we have to be like Anthropic, we will be more Anthropic, we imagine Sam Altman is saying. Goodbye Sora… The ads don’t quite work, neither does Instant Checkout, and many other launches have not gone beyond generating a fleeting expectation. It happened with Sora: that OpenAI I abandoned her It is a disturbing sign that the company prefers to completely recalibrate. …hello superapp. Another sign of this reorganization is the fact that OpenAI is preparing a desktop tool that will unify its chatbot, its code platform (Codex) and the Atlas browser. The objective, to create a super app with agentic capabilities, not only oriented to code, but also to productivity. It is not clear if they will launch it as a solution for end users or the destination will be the company, where Anthropic is winning the game. New ‘Spud’ model in sight. In The Information indicated this week that OpenAI had recently completed development of a new AI model called Spud. OpenAI is expected to launch it in the coming weeks, and Altman reportedly told his employees that such a model “can really accelerate the economy.” It is not clear what it refers to (agent capabilities?), but with it OpenAI may be able to regain some of the ground lost with Anthropic. If Anthropic lets him, which we doubt. Image | Universal Pictures In Xataka | Wikipedia has banned using AI to write or rewrite articles in English. Human knowledge begins to raise barriers

The bargain Xiaomi has died. Its new era goes through luxury, sports cars and competing in premium

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Xiaomi came into this world promising that the price was a conspiracy. That the absurd margins of Samsung and Apple were arbitrary, that a decent cell phone could cost two hundred bucks and that Democratizing was, in itself, a form of gainr. It worked and grew. It became the third smartphone brand in the world with a 14% global share, not so far from Samsung and Apple. And now, at the MWC in Barcelona, ​​he has set up a stand where there is no trace of that initial promise. There is a Xiaomi 17 Ultra for 1,500 euros with the Leica seal. There is a SU7 Ultra that breaks records at the Nürburgring. and there is a concepts of hypercar electric car called Vision Gran Turismo designed to appear in the PlayStation video game alongside Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes. The Xiaomi of the bargain has not died of success. He died, in part, out of necessity. The numbers tell the story that the statements do not usually explain: The average selling price of their smartphones fell almost three percent in 2025weighed down by the weight of Redmi in international markets. In China, its natural market, closed the year in fourth positionlosing ground to Apple and a Huawei that has returned with force. With an R&D budget that exceeds four billion dollars annually and the pressure to sustain that spending, selling more cheap mobile phones is no longer a viable strategy… …so the move to premium is an Excel thing. The photography with Leica and the SU7 Ultra we already knew them. What’s new in Barcelona is the Vision Gran Turismo, and it is true that it deserves some attention. Xiaomi is the first Chinese manufacturer to join Polyphony Digital’s Vision GT program, a club that for three decades has been the exclusive territory of large European and Japanese houses. The concept itself (a hypercar electric, 900 volt platform, power that could be around 1,900 horsepower…) will never reach production. Xiaomi knows that and we all know it. But that’s not the question. The question is why a company that sells mobile phones, appliances and electric cars dedicates resources to designing a video game car and also creates its physical version. The answer is that The Vision GT is not a product but a positioning statement executed in the only territory where Xiaomi still has no history to defend or expectations to manage: the one of pure fantasy. A place where a brand that Four years ago it didn’t even have a car division. can sit without raising an eyebrow at the same table as Porsche. Some photos of stand from Xiaomi at the MWC explain well where the shots are going: What is not seen because it is covered by people surrounding it is the Vision GT, Xiaomi’s biggest eye-catcher at this MWC. Image: Xataka. What you see when you enter the security area thanks to a convenient press pass. Image: Xataka. The queue to get on the SU7 Ultra is already a classic. Image: Xataka. Cell phones continue to attract glances… but they are not even close to the ones that their cars awaken. Or his car and his concept car. Image: Xataka. The move is very reminiscent of Hyundai when it launched Lexus, although with one difference: Hyundai had the discipline to separate the brands. Xiaomi is trying to ensure that the same logo that for years crowned 150 euro phones now supports an ecosystem that ranges from hypercar to the ultra-premium mobile passing through the connected home. This identity clash remains unresolved. And at the MWC stand it looks great: the main protagonists are Leica, the SU7 Ultra and the Vision GT. Redmi and POCO surely have a big place in the hearts of the staff of the brand, but they do not appear on any display, they are something that the Xiaomi of 2026 does not want to boast about. The bet is serious because the premium margins are much better. The vertical integration that Lei Jun pursues with its own chip, its own operating system, its own AI model, etc., It only makes economic sense if the devices that incorporate them sell at a high price.and the total ecosystem that Xiaomi is buildingfrom the pocket to the living room and from the living room to the garage, generates a blocking effect that the low price segment will never be able to offer. The risk is also serious: luxury always works by accumulation of credibility, a unilateral declaration is not enough, and Xiaomi still carries the shadow of having been for a long time the brand you chose when you couldn’t afford anything else. Or when you could, but you preferred not to, and you clung to that comforting feeling of getting something as good as your neighbor while paying half as much. Convincing that neighbor that you are now worth three times as much is one of the biggest marketing challenges in the tech industry right now. In Xataka | Leica is teaching Xiaomi everything it knows. When the student no longer needs the teacher, the agreement will have fulfilled its function Featured image | Xataka

Multimillion-dollar nannies for families competing for top talent

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In a private villa overlooking the almost unrealistically turquoise waters of the Maldives, Cassidy O’Hagan, 28, slides the bedroom curtain to check if the child is still asleep. He is not on a honeymoon or on vacation. It’s working. Hours earlier, the family had arrived on a private jet from New York. She, as part of the “child care team”, traveled with them. For many young people it may seem like an improbable dream. For her—and for a growing number of people her age—it is simply the strongest alternative to a corporate job market they feel is broken. In a world where layoffs are constant, trajectories are falling apart and artificial intelligence begins to compete for the same office positions, dozens of young people are choosing another path: becoming nannies, personal assistants or private chefs for the ultra-rich. An unexpected work turn that, far from being anecdotal, is becoming a global trend. The rise of “billionaire babysitters.” According to Business Insideryoung people from Generation Z are abandoning traditional careers to work in the world of so-called “private service”: from executive assistants and house managers to drivers, chefs or nannies for ultra-high net worth families. The salaries are impressive. Different reports describe salaries ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 annually for nannies and personal assistants in the United States, and £150,000 or more in the United Kingdom, as The Guardian documents. There are even extreme situations: Fortune described an offer of almost $240,000 for a tutor to prepare a one-year-old for future entry to Eton or an elite university. The message between the lines is clear: high-level domestic service has become one of the most profitable, dynamic and competitive employment sectors of the moment. The wealth that sustains it. Behind the boom there is an obvious explanation: global wealth has multiplied. Added to this is what UBS called “the rise of the common millionaire”: 52 million people in the world own between 1 and 5 million dollars in investable assets. All this wealth needs people: mansions, private jets, megayachts and extensive portfolios of residences require entire teams to operate. In certain epicenters of wealth, demand has skyrocketed to the point of absurdity. The New Yorker documents that in Palm Beach —recently converted into a laboratory of extreme capitalism— the salaries of nannies exceed 140,000 or 160,000 dollars annually, with partial housing included, bonuses and endless hours. The economy is literally being reconfigured around who can pay to delegate any task imaginable. Gen Z against corporatism. The other half of the equation is in the young people. According to the Deloitte reportonly 6% aspire to a managerial position. They seek balance, personal fulfillment and emotional stability. However, as shown a Bankrate surveytheir financial expectations have increased: many believe they need salaries close to six figures annually to feel “free” or “comfortable” financially. The reality of hiring, however, move in the opposite direction: difficulties in finding employment, entry-level salaries that do not cover rent, and companies where AI is already replacing human tasks. Buried in this contrast, many young people are choosing to work for the private service: money, stability, travel, benefits and — for some — the feeling of doing a job more human than any Excel. The price of luxury: what doesn’t appear on Instagram. Behind the extraordinary figures and photographs next to infinity pools, the reality is more complex. According to testimonies collected by Business Insider either The New Yorkerthese jobs are as lucrative as they are demanding. The working hours can exceed 70 or 80 hours per week, and during summers or international tours they are close to 100. “Absolute availability”—24 hours a day for consecutive weeks—is the true currency. And luxury does not lighten the burden: it intensifies it. In some cases, nannies fly first class, participate in exclusive dinner parties, or stay in five-star hotel suites. In others, as The Guardian explainsthey eat separately, they fly in economy class while the parents fly in business or they must follow strict protocols about how to enter a room, where to stand, what to say or what not to say. Added to this is the requirement for absolute discretion. The New Yorker documents confidentiality agreements, control of social networks, household manuals and rules on clothing, schedules or even the type of footwear allowed in certain rooms. The staff lives “on the edge of privacy and anonymity”: they know everything, but they can’t tell anything. And all of this results in a very high cost on an emotional level. Many nannies recognize that this type of employment makes it almost impossible to have children of their own, maintain a relationship or build a stable social circle. One of them sums it up like this, cited by the same medium: “It’s living other people’s lives, not yours.” Where is all this going? Palm Beach, London, New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Monaco. The geographies repeat themselves: where wealth arrives, agencies, waiting lists and competition for the best personnel appear. In some places, the pressure is so intense that qualified staff are in short supply even amid hundreds of applications. Families want experience, discretion, professionalism and, increasingly, university education. Domestic service has stopped being a job: it has become a career. But with this professionalization the distance also grows. They are jobs that require being inside without ever being part of the inside. Closeness without belonging. Intimacy without reciprocity. A silent frontier that defines the era. Meanwhile, another half of the care sector remains trapped on barely living wages. The contrast is brutal: the same system that raises one nanny to $200,000 relegates another, outside the elite circuit, for the minimum wage. What this phenomenon reveals. In a world where young people board megayachts to find the stability that offices no longer offer, the rise of elite nannies and assistants is not a simple job change. It’s a symptom. It speaks of an economy that is organized around those who can pay for time, attention and affection. It speaks of a generation that, … Read more

If this week you do not find who fixes your phone, maybe he is competing in the mobile repair World Cup

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If something can be gamified, we are going to gamify it. It is the best way to turn a daily task into something fun. Not surprisingly, there is a World Cup to collect garbage in Japan -How no-, but it is also something that allows demonstrating the skills in a program that many use, but not so many dominate: The World Cup. Cut by the same pattern is the CGC World Cupa competition that has become the World Cup to repair mobiles. It is an event in which knowledge is shared, workshops are held and in which the main course is a fight repairing a smartphone under very strict rules. CGC World Cup. During the last months, in countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Egypt or Indonesia, the qualifying phases of this competition have been held. The best talents of each region came with the hope of taking one of the squares in the final that will be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou Los next September 17 and 18and it will be then when they have to expose their skills in front of the public and a professional jury. 20 minutes. That is the time that participants have in the tests. The competition seeks excellence both in the precision of labor and in the most difficult in these conditions: to fulfill the clock. The evidence is nothing unknown to competitors: Screen reconditioningwhich includes the replacement of damaged glass. CPU microsoration, such as the replacement of welding spheres. Repair of other terminal components, such as Wi-Fi modules or more common elements in repair workshops. In each job there is a counter and a red button that the participant clicks when it is over. At that time, the jury comes to verify the correct performance in the evidence. There are evidence from two hours 40 minutes Nothing easy. They are situations in which we seek to simulate daily work in a workshop like we can go to to repair our smartphone, but the demand is that the greatest precision is sought at work and, above all, to fulfill a time that is really adjusted (it is not the same in your workshop than in a streaming and with people judging your work at half a meter). As if that were not enough, there are factors that influence the “game.” For example, temperature. Professional attendees to the event comment They have air conditioning, yes, but precisely a temperature that they do not control can make their times vary because they may be more accustomed to higher temperatures in the workshop where they usually work and, even if they are a few degrees, it is something that can affect processes like him receptive. In addition, each professional is accustomed to their tools (some even customize them), but in the GCG World Cup they all compete with the same weapons. The mobile repair Messi. If the mobile lights, it is functional and the work has been done with maximum precision, leaving the smartphone in optimal conditions, wins. These events have also had their controversies, but in terms of experience, it is not only a competition, but a meeting point for the more top professionals of mobile repair worldwide, with panels and courses live. It is also an interesting meeting point for brand tools and distributors brands, so a synergy is created between the different legs of the sector. The truth is that these videos of people performing microsolduras attract a lot of attention, and many of those professionals that we see on YouTube are those who compete and attend these events. Among all, it stands out Wyman Lauconsidered the best ‘repair’ of smartphones in the world and what is a show see to work. In the video below you are performing microsolures between processor pins A17 PRO of the iPhone 15 Pro. It is a repair of the most advanced. It is called ‘CPU Jumper’ and consists of bridging two specific points of the integrated circuit of the CPU by means of a conductive thread, and it is something that is done when it is detected that one of the clues of the processor has been damaged by a fall, humidity or excess heat. Wyman Lau, with its G-Lon brand, is one of the top exponents of the CGC World Cup and someone who has been seen in the events. The World Cup problem of mobile repair? That, as a public that attends live, or you look at the screen on which it is broadcast or surely do not find out about anything if you look directly at competitors, since they do work at the microscopic level. Images | CGC World Cup Egypt, CGC World Cup In Xataka | The World Cup to the Comba exists, it is a hilarious thing and for us the question is obvious: what do the breath expect

We do not even know if Trump’s ‘golden dome’ can be built, but there are already companies competing for the contract of the century

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At the beginning of the year we began to talk about the ‘golden dome’ or ‘Golden Dome’. It is the name of the antimile shield that Donald Trump wants to build For the United States. It seems that the thing is serious and that has intensified competition among many military technology companies that want a piece of the cake. The golden dome. Unlike antimile systems such as The Israeli iron domeTrump’s proposal is that he would use a satellite network capable of stopping Hypersonic missiles. Experts soon Show your skepticismarguing that it is not possible to create a shield that covers the entire territory as in Israel, a country 400 times smaller than the United States. The details of how it will be achieved do not seem to import Donald Trump, which in May assured that “we will have the best system ever built.” A very juicy cake. It is not clear how it is going to be built or if it is possible to do so, but the plan is that it is finished before this legislature ends, with the first test planned by the end of 2028. According to the administration, its construction will cost 175,000 million dollars, of which 25,000 million have already been invested. Business parade. As reported in the New York Timesmany companies are already doing tests to show their capabilities and be part of this project. This is the case of Varda Space Industries, the Californian startup created by Spacex former employees that was dedicated to manufacturing drugs in space. In May they did a test to demonstrate that they are not only able to track hypersonic missiles, they can also calculate their trajectory and that they can be intercepted. The Wild West. Companies that are selected will ensure a privileged position in the American defense. In statements to New York Times, Mark Montgomerydirector of a group of defense experts in Washington, said that “there are more than 100 companies with sensors, satellites or other devices that want to sell to the golden dome (…) this is the wild west, and it is a huge opportunity for those who are selected.” Several layers. The antimisile shield will have several layers, three land and one spatial, according to Reuters reported. The space shield will be the most complex part from the technological point of view and where many of these companies are focusing. In April we already talk about Spacex had proposed its technology for the creation of the golden dome. It is a network of up to 1,000 satellites to detect missiles and another 200 armed with missiles or lasers to destroy them before they reach their goal. Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industriestwo technological companies dedicated to defense, were also part of this initiative. Images | Wikipedia, Picryl In Xataka | The US has decided to try if Elon Musk was right. So he has placed two cybertruck in the desert as the target of his missiles

It’s not just talking, it’s really competing in conversation with Chatgpt and Gemini

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Anthropic has become one of the key names in the artificial intelligence career. So much so that Some see her as Apple’s great trick not to be left behind OpenAi or Google. However, his assistant Claude had a pending subject: the voice mode. A function that its main competitors had already integrated and that, finally, It also arrives at the Anthropic app. With this incorporation, Claude takes an important step to compete on equal terms. Claude already speaks: This is how the new voice mode works. Claude’s new voice mode allows you to hold complete conversations spoken from the mobile app, available both in iOS and Android. It is not simply to issue commands: Claude now responds in voice, shows the key points on the screen while speaking and maintains the context of the conversation even if it skips between voice and text. This function, which is only available in English, will be deployed in the coming weeks for all users, including those of the free version. Even so, payment plans offer more voice messages per session and access to advanced functions, such as integration with Google Calendar, Gmail or Google Docs (the latter exclusive for business users). Among the controls included are options to interrupt Claude’s response, send spoken messages, or easily change between ways. In addition, you can choose different voices to customize the experience. All chats are saved, just like text conversations, and voice transcription is shown in a summary way. Thought for occupied hands, fast ideas and spoken creativity. Anthropic highlights several scenarios to take advantage of this function: from organizing the day while having breakfast to maintain rain of ideas while walking or cooked. The voice mode seeks precisely that: eliminate the keyboard when the speed of thought brakes. It also allows you to practice interviews or record ideas on the march, something especially useful for creators or professionals who work in motion. To guarantee a fluid experience, the company recommends using the system in environments with little noise and good connection. In addition, it has incorporated security limits: voices are predefined to avoid imitations and the model avoids reproducing literal text to minimize supplant risks. Comparison with OpenAi was inevitable. The arrival of the voice mode to Claude occurs in a context where the bar is higher than ever. Openai has long presumed its advanced voice mode that reminds us of the movie ‘Her’. Other rival services have also opted for audio, such as Google with Gemini Live and Grok, XAIwith a dedicated voice mode in your mobile app. Images | Anthropic In Xataka | “As a pathetic that sounds, chatgpt is my only friend”: more and more people confess to having an AI like friendship

Desperate for competing with Chatgpt, Google has a plan for Gemini to be everywhere: pulling wallet

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We already know how many monthly users GEMINI has: the same as chatgpt in a single week. 350 million people using Google AI compared to the almost one and a half of OpenAi. And if we know something about Google, it has never liked to have competitors. He Progressive replacement of the Google Assistant By Gemini it was a statement of intentions: Google wanted Gemini to be in absolutely all phones. And no, the pulse has not shaken to get the wallet and force the pre -installation of this app. Google, Gemini and Samsung. A profitable exchange. Samsung is, by far, the manufacturer who More is betting on artificial intelligence in mobile territory. And the vast majority of these functions are behind Google, responsible for the Gemini Nano model of which it uses One UI 7. The a priori agreement could seem the classic Google-Manfabricaro android relationship, but Monopoly trial who is facing Google has made it clear that there is something else in between. Google paid Samsung to pre -install Gemini. Peter Fitzgerald, vice president of platforms and associations of Google devices, testified in the Federal Court of Washington as part of the antimonopoly case of the Department of Justice, According to Bloomberg. In his statements, he acknowledges that Alphabet Inc. paid Samsung Electronics Co. to preinstall Gemini on the company’s phones and devices. This contract, with a minimum duration of two years, establishes fixed monthly payments for each device with pre -installed Gemini, and a percentage of the income obtained by Google with the subscription to Gemini’s payment modalities. Paying to install is not legal. One of the keys to this case is in the precedents. In the past Google paid its partners so that its search engine was predetermined, something that was declared illegal. Since 2020, Neither Google Chrome nor the search for Google are the default options on Android. Google also paid Samsung 8 billion dollars for Google Search, Play Store and Google Assistant to be predetermined in Galaxy mobiles. The federal jury analyzed the case ruled that Google I was abusing his power with these policies. The judge will now have to determine whether Gemini’s pre -installation in exchange for money was legal or not. Gemini, Gemini, Gemini. Gemini is not just Google’s artificial intelligence, it is one of the largest doors at the income level that has been opened to the company in recent years. Although Sissie Hsiao herself is still a service without advertising, charge on Google at the head of Gemini, she has acknowledged that Google is the company to “monetize Gemini with ads as soon as possible. “Motorola cannot get rid of its obligations with Google and that is why they cannot change the predetermined assistant on the device.” Similar practices with other brands are reflected in the framework of the same antitrust judgment. Google’s contract with Motorola (Lenovo Group Ltd.) prevented perplexity AI as predetermined assistant on its devices. “A gun in the temple” according to Dmitry Shevelenko, business director in Perplexity. A trial that can change everything. The American justice, together with the constant persecution of Europe to Google for monopoly practices, have managed to make Android a somewhat more open system to third -party developers. If it ends up declaring illegal that Google Preinstal Gemini as an assistant, Google’s plan to compete from you to you with a GPT that quadruples its active users will be difficult to execute. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google Lanza Gemini 2.0 with a gift for users: free access to its reasoning model

The companies of AI know that competing is of losers. All seek to become the AI ​​monopoly

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“If you are creating a company, what you will aspire to create a monopoly and avoid competition. The competition is of losers“. Those words were pronounced by Peter Thiel In a talk that gave Stanford students on October 7, 2014. Who gave way to talk, by the way, It was Sam Altman. During those 50 minutes Thiel – Paypal and Palantir co -confounder, billionaire, successful investor, and obsessed with rejuvenation– It raised precisely that fundamental idea: that all companies aspire to become a monopoly. They do not say it publicly, of course – that entails legal and regulatory problems – but the goal is that. It has happened in multiple cases in the world of technology. Windows is a de facto monopoly in desktop operating systems, Android and iOS are an accepted duopoly in mobile platforms, and Google is an indisputable monopoly in the world of searches. In all those cases, those who have tried to compete – and there have been attempts – have failed. The competition was indeed of losers. Another monopoly in sight: that of AI And here we are facing a situation that reminds us of all the above. In the world of AI we are living fierce competition. One in which dozens of companies try to develop their models and applications of AI to win the items to the others. To become monopolies. OpenAi carries the lead. The question is whether you can maintain that leadership. What model of AI is better than others? It is not entirely clear. The appearance of Grok 3 seems to have opted the balance in its favor, but its theoretical superiority in some tests sounds like the same as other previous releases sounded: if it is really the best, it will not last long to be. In fact, competition between these models has made us in a situation in which, sincerely, they are all quite good. There will be, of course, use cases in which some will stand out on others – this best program, this writes better, this looks better – but everything seems to point to the differences will be less and less evident. The improvements we are seeing in the market are getting smaller and, above all, more expensive. Grok 3 has been trained in the Gigantic Supercluster of XAI with at least 100,000 GPUS H100 of NVIDIA, but despite all those resources and that investment, which has achieved the startup of Elon Musk is to put themselves at the level of its compeditors, not to offer A product that suddenly is remarkably better. The same With the imminent GPT-4.5. What are Ia companies trying now? Two things: Try to make your products simpler to use: Less variety of models, or at least hide that variety, as Openai proposes in the future and simplified chatgpt version. As traditional models do not advance so much, they raise New models reasoning (Deepseek R1, O3-mini) or agents (Operator) that encourage us to pay for increasingly faces. That strategy is once again intended for the same: that their products stand out on the competition and achieve the desired objective: create the next great monopoly. In that race there is for now an outstanding protagonist, at least if we take into account the number of usuals of each model. According to CNBC data and others collected By Ed Zitronthe estimated current situation is as follows: ChatgPPT: 400 million weekly active users Deepseek: 27 million active users monthly Gemini: 18 million active users monthly COPILOT: 11 million active users monthly Perplexity: 8 million active users monthly Claude: 2 million active users monthly Especially the few users that Claude has theoretically, but what is evident is that Today for millions of users IA = chatgpt. Arriving the first here has made the difference for Openai, which has also constantly iterated to maintain that leadership. Will they keep doing it? Will they become the de facto monopoly of AI? Of course they have ballots for it, but it is still very soon to be able to say it. The frantic advance of this technology makes it more difficult than ever who will win the race … if there is only one winner. In fact, here the situation is very different because there are forces that Openai does not control. And they are too relevant forces. Windows: there is 1,400 million active PCs with Windows worldwide. That number includes both Windows 10 Machines with Windows 11. Android: there is 3.5 billion active devices based on Android. iOS/iPados: there is 2,350 million IOS active devices. Do you think Microsoft, Google and Apple are going to let Openai take the cat to the water? Not much less. They will do everything they can so that the AI ​​we use on their devices is yours. That’s why The idyll between Microsoft and OpenAi FLUQUEAand that’s why Google and Apple are little by little –too little by little In the case of Apple – integrating more and more functions of AI in its mobile phones. These companies, de facto monopolies already in their markets, have as clear as Peter Thiel that competition is for losers. They probably have it much clearer, especially because they have been since before Thiel gave their famous talk. We are therefore facing a situation that is analogous to that of the rest of the digital businesses with which we have lived. In the spotify audio streaming world it is almost a monopoly (31.7% share), while in the video the thing is much more distributed for the moment although Netflix stands out. In the world of Electronic Commerce Amazon marks the passage, on social networks to Facebook there are almost no one to have more examples such as Uber, LinkedIn, Match Group (Tinder, Okcupid), or PayPal, which are also clear leaders in their respective markets. Is there competition? Of course. Does competition change things? Normally, not too much: Firefox has not changed them In browsers, mobile operating systems that They tried to give options … Read more

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