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One day, someone thought that a mini with Rolls-Royce interior was a good idea. And what surprised the most were … his carpet

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The BMW group is particular. For just over 25 years, Bavaria’s firm has been taking other companies under his arms. In 1998, Rolls-Royce became part of it and only three years later, in 2001, Mini did the same. In the mid -50s, the world closely followed the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal. The decision derived, among other things, in a generalized rise in fuels that very hard to the automobile industry. Iconic models were born from that crisis. He Fiat 500 It was one of them. The British answer would arrive with the mini. Both cases shared many similarities: small cars that prioritized the interior space, very practical to move around and with very tight engines to position themselves as affordable and easy to maintain vehicles. Saving the technical conditions of those years, in Mini they managed to carry The engine in front and place it transverselya whole milestone that differentiated him from Fiat 500 himself but also from beetle, the other great supervants of the moment. In both cases, the engine was located in the rear. Almost instantaneously, the mini gained popularity for its extreme lightness and agility. So much so that in 1964 he managed more bizarrest preparations and foster the sports spirit of those light cars that are no longer left. Perhaps that is why it is not so surprised that with Rolls-Royce and Mini under the same umbrella, both companies joined to create a most special piece. Fit a rolls-royce in a four-meter car With the purchase of Mini by BMW, the brand was reborn but did it with very different hallmarks. He collected the retro aesthetics from his ancestors but he was reconverted to offer an urban coolan attractive car in the visual, of premium price but with a very distinctive driving dynamic. The success was immediate with the Company redefinition. The popularity of the first new Mini Cooper was immediate and attracted all eyes. The Cooper S or John Cooper Works versions would arrive. But far from the expected sports options, in 2011 Mini surprised with a most unexpected collaboration. With the Mini Inspired by GoodwoodRolls-Royce tried to fit all the company’s luxury in a car that at that time did not reach four meters .. a kind of miniaturization of the maximum luxury and the most select of the automobile industry that was framed within the Deportivo Mini Cooper S. The car reached the Spanish market with a price at the height of its interiors: 49,500 euros … in 2012. That is, today it would cost almost 65,000 euros if we apply the inflation corresponding to that period. Of course, one of the fortunate thousand who made one of these limited series sold the car last year for 31,000 pounds (35,740 euros) that, adding the corresponding taxes, cost more or less the same as the same as the same as the same as more than a decade. Inside, this particular mini had the classic leather upholstery in ‘Cornsilk Beige’ color typical of British luxury berlins and insertions in walnut wood. The roof was topped in Kashmir The sound system was signed by Harman/Kardon and added less common details in those years in small vehicles such as parking sensors or bi-xenon headlights. Even the browser and automatic change had to be asked as extras, increasing the price of the car by more than 3,000 euros. As a personal anecdote, a few days ago I shared a quick talk with Sergio Ríos (Autobild) and Héctor Ares (usual among our companions of Motorpasion). Both They have been able to drive at some time a rolls-royce And both made reference to a differential detail: the carpets. And is that in the test of Autobild For more than 10 years, its author also stood out from the mini inspired by Goodwood this aspect. In fact, In the article you could read the following: What caught my attention the most when I opened the door for the first time were … the carpets. Yes, you are going to laugh, it is not the element in which I usually look at a car, but those carried by this mini inspired by Goodwood are to take a picture and teach them: they are made of lamb skin, and they are so soft that you want to take off your shoes and drive barefoot. In addition, they are very warm; Of course, they have panic, dust and, of course, the mud Yeah, There were reasons to buy a mini inspired by Goodwood and pay for a four -meter -long car and 184 hp gasoline engine almost the same as for a Porsche Boxster In those years. The first, you had enough money. The second, that you will fall in love with some carpets that were like staying to live in them. Photos | Mini In Xataka | New MINI Cooper: Its electric revolution is eclipsed by a huge 24 -centimeter OLED screen

The three -day work week will bring us

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Artificial intelligence advances so fast that its arrival at the labor market has caught many with changed foot And he is already assuming The basic tasks that before carrying out fellows and recent graduates that began Your professional career. Far from seeing it as a negative factor for the labor market, some executive directors such as Jensen Huang de Nvidia, Eric Yuan de Zoom, Jamie Dimon de Jpmorgan or Bill Gates, see the arrival of AI as a complement that It will trigger productivity of employees. According to them, the work week It will not cut four days: It will be enough with a three -day work week. Bill Gates and the three -day week. Bill Gates was one of the first important names in technology to be convinced that The productivity would improve and would make the weekly days of five days unnecessary, being able to reduce them three days of work. He did it in an interview in the podcast “What now?” of Trevor Noahwhere he said “If we finally reach a society where we only have to work three days a week or something, there will probably be no problem if the machines can produce all the food and the other products and we do not have to work so much”, and add Bill Gates, “in the short term, the increase in productivity that the AI ​​provides is very interesting. Eliminating part of the heaviest work.” AI is already a reality. For his part, Jensen Huang, at the head of Nvidia, held in a Interview with Fox Business that we are “at the beginning of the AI ​​revolution” and pointed out that a broad adoption of artificial intelligence would make the passage to four days. Huang gave as an example the transition of the seven -day work week of the Industrial Revolution to the current one, and pointed out as an evolution the passage to a reduction from working hours to less than five days. Even so, he warns that we could be “more busy in the future than now“ Jamie Dimon, executive director of JPMorgan Chase, Provides a similar vision For the financial sector, one of the most demanding As for your workday. As Dimon acknowledged in An interview for Bloomberg TV“Literally they will probably work 3 and a half days per week” in the next generation, thanks to technology. Zoom CEO also aspires to work less. The last senior executive in positioning the side of the weekly day reduction to three days has been Eric Yuan, the general director of Zoom, who in An interview for The New York Times He assured that “I feel that, if AI can make our lives better, why do we need to work five days a week?”, Adventoring that this trend will free time by unnecessary endless working days. The impact of AI and the displacement of employment. The data on the impact of AI on the workplace does not paint a near future as optimistic as technological and CEOS millionaires predicted. The report ‘The Future of Jobs 2025’ The World Economic Forum indicates that about 92 million jobs will be destroyed by trends such as automation and the use of AI. However, at the same timethe study estimates the creation of 170 million New jobs Related to the technological development of that automation and AI, which would leave a positive net balance of 78 million jobs. In that same plot line, some of the main gurus of the current AI moves, such as Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, that I assured that many entry posts – especially in office work – are among the most vulnerable to total automation in the next five years. For his part, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, warns that half of the jobs They will suffer deep changes “In less than one generation” and that reconfiguration will be so fast that many of the current works will be deeply transformed or substitutable In a few years. Less days or more productivity. That the labor market will suffer A deep transformation It seems clear. What does not seem to be so much is whether that Improvement in productivity which supposedly contributes AI will be used to improve living conditions of workers as was done in previous industrial revolutions. For example, software engineers, one of the sectors most affected by AI automation, the evolution has been towards the Depreciation of the value of your workdemanding more intense days and worse remuneratedinstead of getting a shorter work week. In Xataka | Microsoft gets serious with the use of github co -ilot: its employees used it little, but that is about to change Image | Nvidia, Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Zoom

Telefónica will have its “day D” in November. The Teleco plays its future with Murtra behind the wheel

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Almost nine months Murtra as president of Telefónica. What lasts a pregnancy, which lasts a course. On November 4 will be born its strategic plan and Marc will have its final exam. That day will present the master lines that will define the direction of the centenary telecus for the coming years. The date is not accidental, it coincides with the results of the third quarter. Perfect occasion to combine the figures of the present with the promises of the future. And after that staging there is a company that is played much more than its next investment cycle. The scenario of the arrival to power of Murtra is, above all, a paradox: He inherited a financially sanitized telephone: Pallete reduced debt in half. But also a telephone punished by the market: the action lost 57% of its value in the previous era. The balance says the company is better. The stock market says that investors do not believe it. The market seeks growth stories, not survival. This contradiction defines the challenge of the Catalan engineer: it is not enough to be right in the accounts, we must convince those who move the silver. Speaking of silverMurtra’s great movement in his first months is the execution of The fastest exit of Latin America In the history of Telefónica. Argentina, sold. Peru, liquidated –not to say-. Colombia, more of the same. Mexico, with the “sell” poster. And at the same time, he has placed Europe at the center of his board with An aggressive discourse on consolidation. He talks about creating a “European champion” while he has in the spotlight, says the Rumore Rumoreto Vodafone Spain. With 1 & 1 in Germany in the bedroom. Is The commitment of who understands that there is no middle ground: o Telefónica grows based on acquisitions, or becomes a prey to more ambitious ones. And it has lost more than 80% of its value from its historical maximums, so it is no longer so inaccessible by price. On November 4 he will say if this strategy has a financial muscle behind or stays in speech. Local operators They have already raised the voice Against its concentration plan, Brussels has begun to leave behind its historical misgivings on mergers although the verdict remains an unknown, and the market expects to see concrete figures on where the billions that will cost these operations will come out. Murtra faces The question that defines all the great executives: Is it a visionary or a volunteer? In two months we will know. In Xataka | 100 years after his birth, Telefónica faces the greatest existential dilemma in its history: what wants to be older Outstanding image | Telefónica

The AVE to Andalusia once again suffers a cable robbery and anticipates another day of chaos and delays. It’s just the tip of the iceberg

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Entering the page where Adif collects information from high speed arrivals and outings serves to immerse yourself in the Infinite yellow of incidents. At the time of writing these lines, almost 11:00 am on Tuesday, September 16, each and every one of the trains with arrival in Madrid today have a possible delay warning. Someone has stolen a cable in the ADIF facilities near Córdoba. It is only the tip of the iceberg of an infrastructure that is suffering numerous delays in recent months. 40 minutes. They are not such, as we have learned in Xataka From the hand of one of its journalists who traveled in one of the birds that Córdoba connected with Madrid. Despite Adif’s notices that were discussed of an expected delay of between 10 and 40 minutes in the Andalusian line to Córdoba, the truth is that in this case it has lasted more than an hour. The reason has been a Cable theft between Córdoba and Guadajoz. The incidence was confirmed at the edge of 8:00 am and three hours later It was supposed to be. The problem is evidently the trains that has caused this breakdown that forces us to delay the usual paths for several hours. The last case. Today, Tuesday, September 16, it is just another case of cable robberies that Adif is suffering in recent months, with special incidence in the Andalusian corridor. Last May More than 16,000 passengers were thrown away for the theft of cable at various points of the line. This time, the bulk of the subtractions took place in the passage of the line through Toledo. Just a few days later, also the same month of Maythe section that connects Palencia with Catabria was also affected by a robbery of cables. Last June, Another robbery also caused delays in Catalonia. On that occasion, as in Madrid last Julythose affected were nearby users. A problem. Already in May, the president of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández de Heredia, left a phrase nothing optimistic in a Interview with Antena 3: “They cannot be monitored 24 hours 15,000 kilometers of network, but more means will have to be put.” Then, in Xataka We already wondered if it was so easy to steal in the train network. In 2015cable theft provided a group of thieves a booty that was valued at more than 800.00 euros. In 2022, another robbery also left some 135,000 euros in the pockets of another group of thieves. But in the case of the theft of Andalusian cable last May, the action was distributed by up to five points. And, despite this, According to the Government Delegationcopper had barely won worth 300 euros. So? Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport, said that robbery as “A serious sabotage act”. A few months later, the idea of ​​sabotage slipped again from the government. This time was the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, to which An open microphone “caught” saying that the delays in the bird could be due to these supposed sabotages. On that occasion it coincided with Another of the chaotic days That Renfe and the rest of the operators have lived in the Spanish high -speed lines and, specifically, in La Andaluza. That time, a breakdown on an Ouigo train caused the chain stop of the rest of the trains. One of them, from Renfe, overheated and burned his electrical systems. As a result, More than 200 passengers spent the night Within one of those trains. In the same sense, those who pointed out that they pointed out that The real culprit of his fault was of Adifwhose facilities caused the problem. On the other hand, from the Popular Party they already pointed out months before (coinciding with the theft of May) that the maintenance of the network was inefficient or insufficient, ensuring that they would ask “An audit of the entire network”. The tip of the iceberg. Worst of all, Spain has entered a maelstrom of delays and cancellations in Spanish high speed trains as not remembered. This morning’s cable theft is only the last case of a summer that already closes with other cancellations due to infrastructure problems, trains that crack and Fire affectations that, according to Minister Óscar Puente, could have been avoided. What the summer is demonstrating is that, for some reasons or for others, the ADIF infrastructure needs more investments or is being oversized. The bridge itself indicated a few weeks ago that the volume of trains in recent years He has shot but in ELECONOMIST They also pointed out that the investment has not gone hand in hand with such growth. Photo | Dariusz Sieczkowski and Xataka In Xataka | This megameter that joins Europe with a high -speed train sounds good. The problem is too good to be real

Only one game has dared to stand up to ‘Silksong’ and go on sale the same day. The result has been apocalyptic

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Among all the phenomena that have surrounded the very expected ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong‘, without a doubt, one of the most peculiar has been the delay of video games that had planned their departure on September 4. However, some irreducible competitor has remained firm before the media avalanche that knew that he was going to guide their looks exclusively to Team Cherry game. The result has been as predictable as unfair. We are used to seeing it with AAA games. When a mastodon arrives from a franchise like ‘Call of Duty’ or ‘Assassin’s Creed’, they leave a plot on the calendar: nobody wants to leave in the immediately previous or later weeks. In fact, we are already talking about seeing a phenomenon comparable to ‘GTA VI‘… and that there are still months to arrive. What is strange is to see it around An indie of 20 euros: But in this case it is not a matter of price, but of media attention. After years waiting, all its competitors knew that the news and attention of the players was going to orbit exclusively around ‘Silksong’. There is no space for others. Some games that delayed its launch. These are some of the most striking, in a phenomenon that in different forums has been known as “being silksonado”: Aeterna Lucis: It has been delayed a whole year, from September from 2025 to 2026, indicating that they will take the opportunity to polish the game. Demonschool: From September 3 to November 19, and expressly cite the launch of ‘Silksong’ as a reason. Cloverpit: From the beginning of September they go to September 26. And many more: Baby Steps, Faeland, Megabonk, Moors Protocol, Comfy Girl either Little Witch in The Woods and others have postponed their original launch date weeks or months. An exception. But there is a game that has decided to remain firm and not retire. This is another Metroidvania, such as ‘Silksong’ itself, and that comes from the hand of a video game classic, Atari. This is ‘Adventure of Samsara’, and he paid his daring expensive: while Team Cherry’s game beat records of concurrent, ‘Adventure of Samsara’ had a peak of peak Twelve simultaneous in Steam. Maybe buyers were busy with other things (playing ‘Silksong’, for example), but the equivalences of concurrent-sales players do not usually fail. Possibly Atari did not reach amounts of three figures in sales. It’s not fair. ‘Adventure of Samsara ‘is a very resulton game: it has absolutely delicious animations and a Pixel art Very worked, with that microscopic style that gives him a peculiar personality. The design of the bosses is excellent and although it does not invent anything in their development, pure coming and going by labyrinthine maps in search of improvements that allow us Shooter 2D in some action areas. A non -revolutionary game, but very defensible. Something happens with Samsara. In any case, the little attention that Atari herself has to her game is strange (which in 2021 appointed a new CEO But he has not done any relevant movement): he announced the game three months ago, he has not worried about giving him visibility in the press … Maybe they thought not to follow the current of the other games would it be promoted? It can, but … there has been no promotion. A true suicide against the colossus that has devoured all our attention in the last week. Header | Atari In Xataka | This cleaning products brand has launched the perfect promotion: a free horror survival to clean Moho Demoniaco

There is a renewable energy source that works 24 hours a day, and Japan has opted for it: osmotics

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Omnipresent wind and solar energies have the same problem: intermittency. The wind does not always blow and the sun does not always shine. This dependence on weather conditions It forces us to look for storage solutions OA depend on a 24/7 available source to have a constant supply. But what if that other source was also renewable energy? Japan bets on osmotics. In August, the Japanese city of Fukuoka launched the First osmotic energy center in the country. It is just the second installation of this type in the world and represents more than a pilot test for a technology that promises to revolutionize the energy mix. “I hope it extends not only in Japan, but throughout the world,” said Akihiko Tanioka, an expert in the field of the Tokyo Science Institute. The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatts-Hora a year to feed part of the desalination plant that supplies fresh water to the city. Although it may seem like a modest figure, equivalent to the consumption of about 220 Japanese homes, its true value is that it works continuously. It is not affected by the weather or time of day, and does not emit carbon dioxide. The power to mix fresh and salted water. Osmotics is a new generation renewable energy based on A natural phenomenon that we all study at the institute: osmosis. When two solutions with different salt concentration are separated by a semipermeable membrane (which lets the water pass, but not the salt), the water of the less concentrated solution flows naturally towards the most concentrated to try to balance the mixture. Fukuoka’s plant places fresh water (treated wastewater) on one side of the membrane, and salt water (sea water) to the other. Fresh water crosses the membrane to the salt water side, increasing volume and pressure on that side. The conression is used to move a turbine that, connected to a generator, produces electricity. Therefore, this renewable source is also known as saline gradient energy or “blue energy”. From the initial promises to the first problems. This technology is not exactly new. Already in 2017, in Xataka we echoed its enormous potential: The studies suggested that it could generate up to 40% of the world energy demand if it would be used in the mouths of all rivers. The challenge was the efficiency of the membranes and the cost of the facilities. The first systems, such as delayed pressure osmosis, suffered bioincructing problems: bacteria blocked membranes, drastically reducing their effectiveness. Other systems, such as “inverse electrodialysis”, were more durable but generated very little energy. The Fukuoka plant, like the first in the world inaugurated in Denmark in 2023 by the Saltpower company, demonstrates that progress in membrane technology is allowing to overcome these obstacles. Nanotechnological membranes. In France, the company Sweetch Energy has developed Much more efficient nanometric size membranes, capable of generating between 20 and 30 watts per square meter. In comparison, the most advanced systems to date generate 12.6 watts. The company seeks to install its first real -scale generator, Osmorhône 1, at the mouth of the Rhone River. The potential of this unique river would reach 500 MW, equivalent to mid -nuclear reactor capable of supplying two million people. And it would be just the beginning. All deltas and estuaries in the world release 30,000 energy from each year, a figure similar to world demand of electricity. Salina bachata in Fukuoka. In addition to the friction of the membranes, the osmotics also loses energy in water pumping. But, as he explains The Guardianthe new Fukuoka plant uses the concentrated brine that remains of the desalination process to increase the salinity difference and, thus, the energy potential available. The inauguration of the Japanese plant and the advances of companies such as Sweetch Energy mark a turning point for the osmotics. They are the first steps to stop being a laboratory promise and become an industrial reality. In a clean, permanent energy, which does not depend on the climate and that can be integrated into existing infrastructures such as ports, desalination makers or locks. Japan has made its bet: the mixture of fresh and salted water will be part of its energy mix. Image | Umi-No-Nakamich Desalination Plant (Obayashi) In Xataka | Japan has just made a monumental bet for Perovskita’s solar panels: they are his best chance against China

Aliexpress returns with a day day -full of technology offers and discount coupons of up to 65 euros

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We started the month of September and Aliexpress launches a new Choice Day. As usual, we will have at our disposal a lot of interesting offers in technology, including consoles, mobile phones, smart watches and much more. How is it difficult to find the best offers, we have made a selection of some of the most prominent: CMF Watch Pro 2 by 38.40 euros With the ESCD05 code, a very interesting quality-price option. Samsung Galaxy A56 by 242.60 euros With the ESCD30 code, the best telephone of the company’s range A to date. Honor Pad X8A by 75.90 euros With the ESCD10 code, an ideal tablet for the return to school. Little x7 pro by 227.99 eurosa very interesting phone with great autonomy. PlayStation 5 Slim by 420.99 euros With the ESCD55 code, the version with reader of the popular Sony console. If you are interested in any other device that is not on this list and want to take it home at the best price, you have a list of discount coupons to save more on your purchases: Discount Minimum purchase coupon 2 euros 2.02 euros CDES02 2 euros 19 euros ESCD02 5 euros 39 euros ESCD05 7 euros 59 euros ESCD07 10 euros 79 euros ESCD10 18 euros 139 euros ESCD18 30 euros 249 euros ESCD30 40 euros 349 euros ESCD40 55 euros 459 euros ESCD55 65 euros 569 euros Escd65 CMF Watch Pro 2 If we are looking for a smartwatch and we have A very tight budgetthis CMF Watch Pro 2 It can be great. Its price was already quite attractive to launch, but we can take it home for alone 38.40 euros With the ESCD05 code, which we will have to enter before the end of the purchase. What can we expect from him? It is a fairly light clock with 1.32 inches and maximum brightness of 620 nits. In addition to this, it also has A autonomy that can reach up to 11 daysIt has interchangeable bezels and 120 sports modes. * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Galaxy A56 Although most foci are usually taken by Samsung’s prémonic phones, we cannot ignore that their A telephones line is the most popular among the general public. Among all the mobiles that compose it, the Galaxy A56 5g is unmarked as the best option. If we were behind him, he can now leave Aliexpress by 242.60 euros with the ESCD30 code. With him, we are going to have with us an off -road phone that stands out for a large 6.7 -inch screen with 120 Hz, a 5,000 mAh battery that is compatible with fast charge of 45 w and six years of updateswhich implies that we will always have it up to date for quite some time. * Some price may have changed from the last review Honor Pad X8A A tablet is a device that can come great both to work and study, as well as for our children now that school returns. If we are looking for a very economical, This honor Pad X8a is ideal: We can take home for 75.90 euros With the ESCD10 code, a great price if we take into account everything it offers. We are facing a device with An 11 -inch LCD screenone that also has 90 Hz. It is fed by a Snapdragon 680 chip and offers good autonomy thanks to its 8,300 mAh battery. For less than 80 euros, difficult to find a better tablet. Honor Pad X8A (4 + 64 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review Little x7 pro We continue with the devices that stand out for their value for money with a phone, in this case a bit. We are referring to the model X7 proa mobile that does not carry too much in the market and we can find for much less than the price at which. If we take advantage of this aliexpress Choice, we can take it for 227.99 euros. This Xiaomi phone offers a 6.67 -inch screen with 1.5K resolution (2,712 x 1220 pixels). In addition, it has a good processor such as Dimensity 8400 of MediaTek And a huge 6,000 mah battery That, in addition, we can load in a sigh thanks to the fast charging of 90 W. * Some price may have changed from the last review PlayStation 5 Slim We close this selection of offers with a console, in this case of Sony. This is the Slim version of PlayStation 5, specifically the model that has a record reader. If we were waiting for a promotion to get it, this can be a great moment: it goes out for 420.99 euros with the ESCD55 code. Little to say about this console after taking so many years with us. Offers a hardware capable of moving 4K games and with up to 120 fps, as well as some Reduced load times thanks to your SSD. It is true that it is now available The pro modelbut this option is unmarked as a cheaper version that also gives us access to the entire console catalog. PlayStation 5 Slim (with reader) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Álvaro García M. in XatakaCMF, Samsung, Honor, Little, Sony In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best smartwatch: their analysis and videos are here

The most important of the day in technology in a single mail

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An email, five news and the most relevant readings of the day. Welcome to the New Newsletter Daily Xatakawhere every afternoon we will send you a complete compilation of everything that has happened within the technological and scientific news of the day. The summary that will allow you to close the informed day. The bulletin will be prepared by a servant, María Gonzálezand other editors of Xatakapreparing a handmade selection, with love, humans for humans. Without noise, without filling, that you have enough with yours. Simple, direct and at the foot, promised. To subscribe, you can do it directly from Our replacement profile introducing your email. You can see there too yesterday’s edition To get an idea of ​​what you are going to find every day. And, of course, You can get us Any suggestion of what would be useful that we include that we still do not. This newsletter adds to our weekly newsletter, which will continue to exist and without changes and in which we offer you every Sunday a complete summary of the week. If an email a day is too much, you can also subscribe to this one from The form that is on our cover. Link | Xataka in replaceck (daily newsletter)

The hours worked are falling so much in the Netherlands that, unintentionally, they are adopting the four -day week

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When talking about countries with high productivity, all eyes tend to Go to Germany or Ireland. However, the Netherlands has become a European reference when it comes to significantly reducing the volume of working hours in its days, naturally approaching the four -day week model. This trend attracts attention both for its impact on everyday life and for the country’s economic data, banishing alarmist theories About economic ruin. According to An analysis of the Financial Timesthe Dutch enjoy a high quality of life, partly thanks to their system of Flexible and well -paid employmentwhich has evolved to prioritize personal well -being over the traditional model Based on long days. Netherlands and its reduced day. According The published by the 4 Days Week FoundationThe Netherlands have structured its labor market so that the full day is not the most widespread model and a large part of the employees prefer to work less hours voluntarily. However, far from being conceived as a precariousness model, it has become an example of balance Between work and professional life. According to data Eurostat of 2023, the middle day in the Netherlands is the lowest in Europe with only 32.2 hours worked, compared to 36.4 hours in Spain or 35.5 hours in Ireland. According to the data published by the Financial Timesaround 50% of the Dutch work part -time, and the proportion is even greater among women, which reach up to 75%. Not only does you work less in part -time days. Beyond the obvious cut involved in working under a model of part -timefull -time days are also from the short ones in Europe with 39.1 hours, only surpassed by Denmark with 38.7 hours per week. In Spain, the Real full day It stands at 40.2 hours. Being shorter, the Dutch tend to compress it in four days instead of five. Bert Colejn, an Ing Bank economist, assured the Financial Times That “the four -day work week has become very, very common. I work five days, sometimes they criticize me for working five days!” Greater productivity and better salaries. The Eurostat data They emphasize that Holland is among countries with Greater productivity per hour worked, standing at 45.3 euros per hour, compared to 29.4 euros in Spain, but far from the productivity of the Scandinavian countries that or Ireland that exceed 60 euros per hour worked. This conjunction of high productivity and reduced days has caused a situation of salary precariousness to be generated, but, on the contrary, Holland has maintained wages above the European average. According to Eurostatthe average of the gross salaries of Holland, adjusted by purchasing power (PPA), is 16.2 euros per hour, while in Spain it is 11.8 euros per hour. The European average is 14.9 euros per hour. Netherlands does not have four -day work week. In strict terms, the Netherlands have not applied any day reduction policy (such as Yes, Spain tries to do it) or four -day workday. However, almost without proposing it, the Dutch labor market has adjusted so that, at the practical level, its companies have implemented the working day of four days without wage reduction after decades of conciliation policies. In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has changed more than the maps: it is making the Russians adopt the four -day work week Image | Unspash (Isaac Maffeis, Isaac Burke)

Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

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Deepseek R1 was eating the world At the beginning of the year. This Chinese model, apparently out of nowhere, caused A true shock In the AI ​​industry, but since then there has been movement. Actually there has been one, but the disturbing thing is precisely what that movement has been. Hi, Deepseek v3.1. The startup advertisement Last week the launch of Deepseek V3.1, a new version that stood out for being an improved hybrid of Deepseek V3 (fast response) and Deepseek R1 (reasoning). There was also good news in terms of their performance: according to the Benchmarks published by those responsible, it was significantly higher than their predecessors. Visible (but non -dramatic) improvements. In the “model card” (model card) that those responsible offers In Hugging FaceDeepseek v3.1 (in reasoning mode) proved to behave slightly better than Deepseek R1-0528, —Your previous version, more powerful-in areas such as programming or in mathematical tests, but some users who have tried it there comment That except in those areas, the model is worse and “it behaves poorly when following instructions or prompts provided by users.” Others confirm it and They assure which is useful for programmers, but not for other areas. It also has limitations on its multimodal support, and focuses on the text instead of providing more options for another type of interaction, for example from voice, image, video or audio messages. A Chinese model for Chinese chips. But even more interesting it was that Deepseek V3.1 has been designed and launched with a clear objective: avoiding the dependence of foreign chips. The FP8 precision used makes this model behave very well In the next -generation Chinese chips. The strategy seems very interesting for the startup, which could thus have a very aligned model with the priorities of the Chinese government. This is: use local models for local chips as much as possible. And R1, what? From there some doubts arise. The first, which affects Deepseek R1, the model with which the startup “broke” the market at the beginning of the year. The company has eliminated all references to this model in the characteristic of “deep thought”, which has generated doubts about the potential appearance of its expected successor, a hypothetical Deepseek R2. Loses users. But while that theoretical model comes – if it does – the company faces a more immediate threat. As they point out In SCMPDeepseek is losing users (or at least relevance) in recent months. In the first quarter of the year its market share within the scope of the IA Open Source models used on the PPIO cloud platform was a spectacular 99%. However, in the second quarter that percentage has dropped to 80%. Fierce competition. That fall relevance has an obvious reason: its local competitors are squeezing. And a lot. Among them is the family of models Qwen from Alibaba, but Also others like Kimi-K2-Instructof the startup Mosohot AI – in which Alibaba has also invested – which is becoming one of the most popular models of recent weeks. Delays and deceleration. Precisely the focus on being able to make the most of future Chinese chips seems to be the reason that this hypothetical Deepseek R2 is being delayed. At least that is the hypothesis that consider In Financial Timeswhere they revealed that the startup has failed when trying to train with Huawei chips. The situation has made them Training with Nvidia chipsand that are using the Huawei Asce for the inference stage, that is, the interaction with the model via web or API by users. But this attitude is “very Chinese”. We may in Western countries we are accustomed to a much more frantic pace and that we expect constant updates and improvements with an eye on the short term. In China, philosophy is usually the opposite, and companies adopt A long -term strategy even if immediate benefits are lost. Maintaining a low profile is also usual among those companies, which try not to make much noise … until they do, as Depseek has already demonstrated. Thus, we will have to remain very attentive to the activity of this startup, because surely he will be working to continue being one of the protagonists of the AI ​​panorama. Image | Tim Reckmann In Xataka | Deepseek has suggested that Nvidia chips no longer needs. We believe to know who is buying them

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