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This is your asset so as not to depend so much on Nvidia

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OpenAI has announced A multiannual agreement with AMD so that the chips company supplies artificial intelligence processors that will feed part of its AI infrastructure. The pact includes the hardware deployment equivalent to 6 gigawatts of power and gives the ChatgPT creators the option to acquire up to 10% of participation in AMD. A colossal dimensions agreement. The plan contemplates that Openai begins to use the AMD Instinct Mi450 chips in the second half of 2026, with a first installation of a gigavatio. The New York Times Compare The magnitude of the total deployment (6 gigawatts) with the equivalent of electric consumption of all Massachusetts households. AMD ensures that the agreement could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual income and more than 100,000 million in four years, telling the drag effect on other customers. Beyond the economic. As part of the pact, AMD has issued a purchase option (Warrant) that allows Openai to acquire up to 160 million shares from a cent. This option is unlocked by sections as specific objectives are met, which include the first sending of MI450 chips and AMD contribution objectives that scale up to $ 600 per share. AMD’s actions shot More than 20% In operations prior to the opening of the market after the news is known, adding 80,000 million dollars to its capitalization. OpenAI diversifies suppliers. The movement arrives just weeks after Openai closed An agreement of 100,000 million dollars With Nvidia, the technological giant who has the domain of the chips of AI. With Nvidia, Openai promised to deploy hardware equivalent to 10 gigawatts. According to ReutersSam Altman has set expectations of reaching 250 gigawatts of total computing capacity by 2033, which explains this multiple suppliers strategy. The company also works with Broadcom in The development of their own processors (Xpus). AMD looks for its hole in front of Nvidia. For AMD they are great news, since the agreement represents the validation of its chips and software in a market where Nvidia prevails almost completely, controlling approximately 90% of the quota in processors for AI. “We consider this agreement certainly transformative, not only for AMD, but for the dynamics of the industry,” declared Forrest Norrod, Executive Vice President of AMD. The company has been collaborating with Openai for years, contributing ideas in the design of previous generations such as MI300X chips. Hunger of AI infrastructure. OpenAI and other great technological plan to spend More than 325,000 million dollars in data centers only this year. Unlike giants such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google, which finance these projects With your available operational cashOpenai, which according to the latest reports It has generated about 4.3 billion dollars In revenue in the first half of 2025 while burning 2.5 billion in cash, it needs to look for creative financing formulas. The agreement with AMD, like Nvidia, allows Openai to ensure more supply while aligning its strategic interests with its suppliers. In Xataka | Everything you ask the goal AI on WhatsApp or Instagram will be used to sell you things: this is the new mandatory clause

All commercial relations between the European Union and India depend on one thing: Basmati rice

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For years, Brussels and New Delhi negotiate a free trade agreement. It is a historical, tremendously ambitious and, above all, necessary for all parties: for India because the union is its third commercial partner (and represents 10% of its total trade); for union because it desperately seeks to diversify partners in an increasingly aggressive and polarized context. Well, negotiations They are about to derail and all by grain of rice. Basmati rice, to be concrete. Basmati is a highly appreciated rice. Of long and delicate fragrance, this variety of rice has been growing at the foot of the Himalayas, between India and Pakistan. Even today. In fact, According to 2019 dataIndia produced 65% of the world’s basati. Pakistan, the other 35%. Something perfectly normal in two countries that have 3,323 kilometers of border. The problem is that, in short, They are India and Pakistan. Why not be friends? In 2018, India requested the label of exclusive protected geographical indication for the Basmati in the EU. There the problems began. Pakistan, as was predictable for anyone who knew the rivalry between the two countries, fell flatly and claimed it for himself. Although it seems a minor issue, a decision in favor of one country or another could seriously affect exports of the victim. And India wants to take advantage. No one can recriminate it to New Delhi: the current geopolitical situation has cornered a European Union. And it is not that the previous situation was great strength. It is only enough to remember that before the pandemic (and probably after) it was not manufactured Not a gram of paracetamol throughout the continent. Therefore, what was some common sense, in the middle of the commercial war, has become pressing: Brussels needs to expand the pitch and India is its great trick to do so. We live rare times (or not so much). For years, the international commercial consensus that gave the World Trade Organization and its standards the pivotal nature of world economic dynamics. Today, between Bravuonadas and Wars, we have discovered that this consensus was nothing more than a fiction. The economic fragmentation, the collapse of multilateralism and the growing uncertainty have led to such crisis of the system that even a grain of rice can put it in check. Image | Kanesue | Joshua Olsen In Xataka | India to Pakistan: “I’m not going to give you more water from my rivers.” An unprecedented climbing of the conflict

Goal is living in the first person a world reality. You may want not to depend on China, but you actually depend on it

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Although Mark Zuckerberg’s speech about the importance of American dominance in the face of China has adopted an increasingly aggressive tonethe reality is to stop depending on China in this regard It is complicated. And is that his strategic commitment to Smart glasses It depends almost completely on Chinese suppliers, especially on Gortek. According to sources of Financial Timesit is a company that has consolidated its control throughout the sector supply chain in Shandong. China dependence. Sources close to the company They assure that Zuckerberg has held meetings with Trump to talk about the importance of the United States leading the technological career against China. However, at least today, your company cannot manufacture your most promising devices without these Chinese companies. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which have sold More than two million units Since its launch, and the new Hypernova that aim to show during the Meta ‘Connect’ event, depend on Gortek for its production. Control. Goertek has not been a simple manufacturer. According to The medium, the Chinese company has executed an aggressive acquisition strategy to control key points of the chain: it has taken control of Shanghai Omnilight, specialized in micro/nano devices optics for smart glasses, and has financed the purchase of Plessey, a British optical supplier that also works in the finish line. “Goal has no choice but to work with them because they are the most stable and reliable supplier for key components,” They assure Sources close to the company. Failed diversification attempts. Goal has tried to reduce its Chinese dependence, moving part of the production of its Quest headphones To Vietnam. But even there, Goertk is still one of its main partners, as they point out from Financial Times. The Chinese company seems to have intuited the opportunities that it would have intuited very early The metaverso (who would say it) and its smart glasses, becoming an indispensable supplier. Past and present tensions. The relationship has not always been simple. According to affirms The medium, in 2022, tar The Quest. Meta executives came to discuss legal actions, but finally decided not to do so. Goertek denies having sold its own VR glasses and ensures strictly complying all agreements with its partners. The future also passes through China. According to the medium, the new Hypernova glasses, which will incorporate for the first time A small screen In one of the lenses to show notifications and responses of the Meta’s assistant, they are also being manufactured by Gortek. Fuentes say they would have a price close to $ 800, and represent the next step in the goal strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into portable devices. The premise is similar to what Google showed in its event Google I/or with that concept of smart glasses that already We could try in advance. It seems that we will have to wait for the event ‘Connect’ of Meta that will be held in the next few hours to learn more information about it. And now what. The company assures Having a “robust and diversified supply chain” and that does not depend solely on a manufacturer, but the information indicates that Gortek has become practically indispensable. A good part of the technology that drive this kind of glasses depend on Chinese manufacturers, so if this type of products end up being a massive success, it will be interesting to see what the strategy of Chinese companies around this other key sector will be. In Xataka | The Meta Ray-Ban have turned anyone into spy for 329 euros. Barcelona’s detainee is only the first visible case

is that we depend on the Caribbean to correct it

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The heat wave It is leaving us very striking figures: yesterday six weather stations recorded temperatures above the 45º Ceslius, with almost a hundred collecting maximums above 42º; Red notices due to extreme risk associated with heat have spread by north and south. The heat wave is about to finish and we do not know what will happen later. To know, meteorologists already look at what happens in the atmosphere, not only in our environment but also in places as far away as the Caribbean. First twenty. The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) foresee that the first twenty of August this year is The warmest In historical records. Until now, the year in which the average temperature between August 1 to 20 had reached its maximum value was in 2003, when the average temperature in peninsular Spain first exceeded the 26th. The agency’s forecasts indicate that this year we will exceed this barrier. It should also be noted that in addition to the 2003 registration, the years with the first twenty of August were the years from 2022 to 2024. Aemet data indicates an upward trend in temperature for this period: since 2008, only three years have seen records below the average temperatures of the historical series. Touching the 46º. We pointed at the beginning that temperatures exceeded 45º in various parts of our geography. Among these recordsthat of the Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) airport can be highlighted, which yesterday reached 45.8º; considerably above the 45.4º collected in El Granado (Huelva), or the 45.3º of Montor (Huelva). From tomorrow the situation is expected to improve. An imminent thermal downturn will bring us temperatures that will not only be colder than those we have seen in recent weeks, they will also be cooler than what is usually usual at this point in August. The least friendly face of this cool will be brought by storms: They are expected accumulated rainfall above 50 mm in large part of the north and east of the Peninsula. Precipitation also seem to dodge the areas most affected by fire during these days. A brief relief? The meteorological change will be welcome by many, but perhaps it does not last long. The models indicate A new rebound of the temperature during the next few days. Uncertainty is high and the evolution of the situation will depend on what happens in the atmosphere in the coming days, not only in our environment but also in the North Atlantic. This summer has been marked by a static atmospheric circulation that has allowed the stagnation of warm air masses on the peninsula. Looking at the Caribbean. That is why meteorologists Look now What happens in places as far away as the Caribbean, where tropical storm Erin continues its progress. This storm is not expected to have a direct impact on our environment, as has happened on some occasions, but its indirect effect could affect us, as explained by the Aemet researcher and German JJ disseminator. The storm that now advances north of the Antilles will turn, predictably to the north and towards the second half of the week could end up taking a northeast direction, standing in latitudes already close to ours. A storm of these dimensions could condition atmospheric circulation, even if it does not approach the European continent. In Xataka | Fire have made a new high -risk activity today in Spain: living near the mountain Image | ECMWF

More and more programmers depend on AI to program. And every time they trust her

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Programmers love AI, but they don’t trust her too much. This is confirmed by a recent survey that Stack Overflow has done and in which 49,000 professional developers in their community have participated. That conclusion is as contradictory as logic, and points to a potential transformation of this sector. Each time they use it more. According to him Complete study84% of developers already use AI as part of their workflow, when last year that proportion was 76%. The proportion is in the line of a survey conducted in 2023 in the github community, although in that case of the 500 programmers surveyed, 92% confessed Use AI tools to program. But every time they trust less. The other prominent data of the survey is the one that indicates that programmers trust somewhat less in the Code generated by these AI tools. If last year the confidence in precise solutions was 40%, this year that confidence is only 29%. I spend the day correcting mistakes. The most important frustration of developers is that they are working with AI solutions that gives a rather correct, not completely correct answer. That implies that in the end developers must devote much more time to detect and correct those errorsand in fact 66% of them confess to investing longer to fix that “almost correct” code of AI. I trust more than human experts. When correcting errors there is another unique conclusion: in complicated code fragments, 75% of respondents claim that They would ask another human programmer (and not to another model of AI) when they do not trust the answer or the code generated by the machines. AI agents do not set so much. Although tools “Vibe Coding“As a cursor or Windsurf, they have positioned themselves as a very interesting option even for new programmers, that theoretical revolution is far from being a reality. Of course: they gain productivity, and 69% say they have seen said metric increased thanks to agents. Will I replace an AI? Programmers continue to see these tools more as a help and assistance than as a possible substitution. The majority (64%) do not see this technology as a threat to their work, but it is also true that this percentage was somewhat higher, of 68%: there is a small increase in that threat than For Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, it is inevitable. Learning to program. This community also made it clear that it does not stagnate: 69% of them have invested time in learning new programming techniques or a new language. Here is another relevant fact: 44% have learned new things thanks to AI tools, when 37% did it last year. Work correcting the code of a machine. The survey seems to point to a future in which programmers end up programming less and less to become something like project chiefs or software engineers. His work will no longer be the one to chop code, but probably that of Check the code generated by these systems of artificial intelligence. Image | Sigmund In Xataka | The AI is opening the doors of a radical revolution on the Internet: that we can all create apps without knowing

Three essential pieces of current cinema depend on its success

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There are hardly a few days left for the premiere of ‘Superman‘, a movie whose premiere we have been waiting since James Gunn announced the plans for his renewed DC universewith which Warner would borrón and new account with respect to everything that his superhero cosmos had meant so far. That is, ‘Superman’ plays much more than it seems. Its success or failure can bring consequences that do not dissipate for many years. Good prospects. To begin with, it should be clarified that a flattering future is opened to Gunn’s movie. It is true that your Budget has been very considerable (It is estimated that between 225 and 363 million dollars). To be profitablesome sources point out that they would need to exceed 500 million global dollars to be considered a success, and others raise that figure to more than 700 million to justify the relaunch of the DCU. Gunn has rushed to Define the size of those figures. In any case, the forecasts are good but not extraordinary: in principle, and depending on the source, there was talk of collections between 125 and 200 million dollars, but the presale has reduced expectations a bitthat now are between 90 and 145 million. The first receptions of criticism, yes, They have been excellent. Essential for three key pieces of current cinema. In short, the success of ‘Superman’ can affect three important cinema pieces mainstream Hollywood. On the one hand its success is key to Warner’s maltrecha. On the other, it is the starting point of a new superhero universe, with all that implies. And finally, ‘Superman’ is framed in the genre of superheroes, which has been going through ups and downs. The success or failure of ‘Superman’ will mark the future of all these variables. Warner needs it. Warner has been submerged in a Very delicate financial situation. His caresses with HBO have long since They bring tailbut they don’t raise their heads Nor in the film division: In the first quarter of 2025, Warner Bros. registered net losses of 453 million dollars. And eye, it is still a 53% reduction compared to the same period of the previous year, since in 2024 the losses were fired up to 11.3 billion dollars, compared to the 3.100 million of 2023. Because despite adding 110.5 million users in Max, the streaming business fails to compensate for losses from other areas. Superman, that symbol. More specifically within Warner, ‘Superman’ has special relevance within the superhero universe of DC. It is not surprising that the first film of this relaunch of the seal is ‘Superman’ (not Batman or Wonder Woman): the Kryptonian is a clear symbol of Warner’s vision of the genre (different from Marvel’s, more realistic, those of DC are full heroes, of a piece, more fantastic). A box office failure would be not only a puncture for this film, for this hero, but for a whole philosophy: Superman, as a symbol of the DC universe in its entirety, needs to succeed to boost the seal. What comes behind. If Superman is successful there are already future prepared premieres, such as ‘Supergirl’ (June 2026). Very sensitively, the DC calendar is being deployed much more slowly and carefully, Warner clearly wants to be cautious and distance from what has ended up condemning Marvel: excess premieres. This long parenthesis until the next premiere of DC makes it clear to which Superman is not a link in a chain, but a founding stone that Warner needs to work and make badly forget badly too recently as disastrous’The Flash‘ either ‘Black Adam‘. The emporium of the superheroes. For a long time, the one who was the Dominant genre in Hollywood It crosses a serious phase of ups and downs. It is true that there is still a box office, but we are no longer facing the great guaranteed successes of Marvel’s early days, and that Disney itself was responsible for burning. We have gone through one year of Impasse (where there was only one premiere, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’, which was a capital success, yes, but Out of the continuous MCU), And Marvel has returned this year with ‘Captain America: Brave New World‘ and ‘Thunderbolts‘, which add the whopping of 800 million dollars of collection … but they are insufficient to be profitable. And now we are faced with great expectation: ‘Superman’ starts a new stage for Warner, and ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘It also opens this year, with very good expectations and a possible face washing for Marvel. And in 2026 two possible box office pumps such as the new sequel to Tom Holland’s’ spider-man and the Return of the Avengers with ‘Doomsday’. Despite these expectations, superheroes are no longer the dominant force in the box office, as demonstrated by films like ‘NE ZHA 2‘,’Lilo and Stitch‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie‘, away from superhero cinema but that have been the greatest successes of 2025. Little heroic superheroes. That is the superhero cinema situation, after two years of very specific successes. Hence the importance of ‘Superman’ and ‘The Fantastic Four’, not only for their respective franchises (as seen in the case of Superman), but for the Hollywood industry itself and the public, which begins to be tired of cyclic stories and people with super powers. Superman, essential piece. In the same way that happens in his fictional universe with the character, the ‘Superman’ film is perhaps the most important film of the year from the point of view of the industry. The relevance as creative of James Gunnwho is trusting to give a face washing not only to the DC universe, but to the whole superhero genre, turns this film into a very special bet. The great investment that Warner has made, one of the largest in recent years for the company, also puts in check the accounts of the producer. A series of bets to which the entire industry now looks closely. In Xataka | We have analyzed the scores of Marvel and DC movies to solve … Read more

It did not depend on humanity

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There is still the second half of the year, but at this point we can affirm (and without fear of being wrong) that 2025 is not being easy. Commercial wars. War in Ukraine. War in Gaza. War In Iran. For not leaving us, 2025 does not even leave us the comfort to relieve penalties with chocolates or good coffee, both subject to a inflationist spiral. With everything and no matter how bad face that has 2025, something is clear: it will hardly be worse than the 536 AD, the worst year in history. Never in attractive already a bloody history of humanity has been worse to be alive. And that is something that there is enough consensus. The worst year in history? There are titles for those who do not lack applicants. And the “worst year of history” is undoubtedly a clear example. If we look back, we find a few candidates of infamous memory: 1347, when the plague epidemic (“Death megra”) began to expand through Europe; 1914, the year in which the World War I; 1918, marked by the beginning of The flu pandemic or 1939, when the world went back to war. You don’t even have to go back so back in time. In March Of 2022, WHO declared that COVID-19 had become a pandemic that, throughout the following years, would lead to entire countries to the edge of paralysis and would charge millions of lives. According to the UN, only between January of that year and late 2021 died 14.9 million people for causes related to the virus. What has been the worst then? A few years ago the magazine Science He asked that question To the historian Michael McCormickHarvard’s professor, and his response was as forceful as it is necessary: ​​the worst year to be alive was the 536 of our era. Your answer is interesting for several reasons. The first, because beyond its academic prestige, McCormik is has dedicated to study In detail what happened that infamous year of the seventh century. Second, because is not the only one That believes it. “It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” McCormik insistsat the head of the university initiative for the science of the human past in Harvard (Sohp). The most curious thing is that unlike what happened in 1914 and 1939 (when both world wars exploded) or even during the pandemics of Spanish flu and Covid-19, largely propagated thanks to people, in what happened in 536 AD Humanity played a minor role. What happened that year? A natural catastrophe that affected sunlight and temperature of much of the world. As Remember em Sciencethat summer the average values ​​in Europe 2.5ºC descendedwhich marked the beginning of the most cold decade in a period of 2,300 years. It is said that China even saw how it snowed in summer. That sudden change resulted in ruined crops, famine and testimonies that even account for the astonishment of the contemporaries. “The sun seems to have lost its usual light and has a bluish tone. We are marveling not to see the shadows of our bodies at noon and feel that the powerful vigor of its heat has weakened,” I wrote In 538, Roman senator Casodoro. Even more mysterious was the historian Procopio, who that same year He spoke From “a fearsome omen”: “The Sun emitted its light without brightness, just like the moon, all year.” And what was the cause? That the second third of the sixth century DC was unusually cold is no novelty. The experts had been suspected for a long time, and not only for testimonies such as those of Casodoro or Procopio. In the 90s the Rings studies of trees (Dendrocronology) They already suggested to the experts an unusual drop in temperatures towards the 540s. The big question is … why? The study of the polar ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica threw a fundamental clue: the phenomenon could be related to massive volcanic eruptions. When a volcano erupts, it throws large amounts of sulfur and bismuth into the atmosphere, among other particles that act as a gigantic veil that reflects sunlight, which in turn derives in less time of clarity and a decrease in temperatures. In fact, remember in Sciencethe study of glaciers and tree growth rings suggests that a good part of the most “icy” summers recorded in recent centuries have been preceded by eruptions. But what happened in 536? Years ago, researchers concluded that what happened fifteen centuries may be related to a massive eruption registered between the end of 535 or early 536 in North America and which years later (540) followed another. The wind and meteorology were responsible for making the rest and extending the particles to Europe and Asia. Over time that explanation has been profiling and In 2018 A quip directed among others by McCormick already spoke of a cataclysmic eruption recorded in Iceland in early 536 to which, throughout the following decade, another two were followed, in 540 547. It is not the only theory. There are those who speak of the effect of the dust of the comets or an unknown underwater eruption, a conclusion to which a group of experts arrived Not long ago After studying the ice of Greenland. How serious was it? Yes. Let it clear Thousands patternhistorian of the University of Oxford, in An article Posted in The conversation: “Wherever it was, the eruption precipitated a ‘volcanic winter’ of a decade in which China suffered summer snows and the average temperatures in Europe fell 2.5ºC. The crops did not prosper. People went hungry. And they rose in arms against each other.” A year and a half marked by a mysterious fog that extended in Europe, the Middle East and part of Asia and whose impact soon was aggravated by other factors. In 541 the bubonic plague arrived at the port of Pelusio and marked the beginning of the Justinian plaguedevastating for … Read more

Humanity’s plan was to depend less on gas to generate energy. The AI ​​think something very different

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When The alarms jumped by him temperature increase globally, it was launched The decarbonization plan. Countries, large technology and automotive companies marked objectives for reduce your carbon emissions with goals set for 2030 and 2050. Have been applying measures for itbut with what the industry – and the planet – did not have the rise of the artificial intelligence and his Energy voracity. One so extreme that there are those who rub their hands: companies that create gas turbines. The threat of renewables. 2024 was a Good year for renewables. Although it is something that has caused an authentic War between Chinese companiesmarket saturation has allowed the panel price Lower considerably. This facilitates the Installation of self -consumption systemsbut it has also allowed huge parks to flourish even in such oil -dependent as Texas. We have witnessed Sorpasso of renewables in Europethere are countries that have worked for months only with renewables And that push of solar panels is making progress in the race for the Green hydrogen. Artificial intelligence. Companies have also adapted their systems to be more efficient, consume less water and even build more respectful and sustainable facilitiesbut in the same way that 2024 was the year of the explosion of renewables, it was also for AI. That is why the main technological have begun to Expand and build data centers all over the world (something that It doesn’t look good everywhere) to be able to meet the current demand for this technology. Change of plans. That high energy consumption has pushed some of the Big Tech to opt for something striking: Operate your own nuclear power plants. Giants such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft have shown their plans to Create or reactivate nuclear centralsbut it’s not the only thing. European oil companies have readjusted your renewable support strategy And there are already seen that, during the AI ​​consumption peaks, the coal burning as gas to meet energy demand. Gas interest. That renewed interest in gas is something that already has consequences, and Siemens is a perfect example. How can we read in Bloombergthe German company estimated a financial result close to balance for this fiscal year, but after the growing interest in gas, they now estimate that their income could grow up to 15%. Siemens Energy manufactures, among other things, gas turbines And in recent months they have seen how this avalanche of investments in data centers with high energy demand has promoted turbine orders. In fact, contrary to what we might think in mind that we wanted to stop depending on the gas, the company has seen that the orders received have doubled during the first three months of the year. And price increase. According to the International Energy Agency, The energy demand of data centers HE will duplicate By 2030 due to AI workloads and, although renewables are in clear expansion, as the supply is intermittent, there are times when they do not meet the constant demand of these data centers. Gas is here a safety net For companies, since it provides constant energy for artificial intelligence infrastructure and coal would be used for peaks of demand. And there are already those who predict that this increase in gas demand will result in an increase in its price for the next winters. And also of carbon emissions, as we are already experiencing with cases such as Microsoft and Google, with Increases of 30% and 50% respectively in recent years. Images | Pexels, Balticservers In Xataka | Putin’s not so secret plan to survive without Europe: a giant gas pipeline to China

European banks have already defined their plan to depend less on Visa and Mastercard

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Bizum It is a sensational tool for online payments in Spain, but it has a problem: it is not international. Or at least not much. International online payments in the European Union depend largely on two big names: Visa and Mastercard. There is no European system Made in Europe that allows the rapid shipping of money, but it is something that the European payments initiative (EPI) wants to solve. His proposal already has a name, Wero, and his plan is as follows. Context. The European Payment Initiative It was founded in 2020 by 16 banking entities such as BBVA, Santander, Deustche Bank, Grupo ING, Unicredit and BNP Paribas. Its objective is to create a payment system and a European interbank network or what is the same, a platform capable of competing against Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. These are of American origin, so the idea of ​​EPI is to promote the independence and sovereignty of payments. For members “it is no longer a future project, but a need facing all European countries,” as they have exposed in a letter. The problem. That there are many local solutions, but none at European level made in Europe. For example, if we think of payments and money shipments between individuals in Spain and Andorra we have Bizum, but in Italy they have Bancomat, in Portugal they use MB Way, in Sweden it has Swish, in Switzerland they use twint and in other places, such as Germany and Austria, the use of PayPal It is widespread. The proposal of EPI with Wero is “to respond to this challenge through a unique payment solution, all in one, instantaneous and paneuropea, capable of covering over time all cases of payment use that consumers and professionals require.” A second, Wero? That is the name that this “European bizum” received in September 2023. It makes a certain sense: the word consists of “We” (us) and has similar pronunciation to “euro.” In addition, he approaches the word “Vero”, which is “truth” in Latin. He threw himself First in Germany Back in July last year, in France in September and in Belgium in November. Wero is integrated into the banks of the banks, so the experience is, for all purposes, nailed to Bizum’s. Image | Wero And what does it propose? According to exposes the EPI“A unique, safe and avant -garde paneurpea payment platform, with multipurparacities, which can work in all European markets for local and cross -border transactions.” That is, a kind of visa and bizum of Europe for Europe. Although it is not well known yet, Wero has the endorsement of the European Commission and 40 million registered users. In addition, it is already fully functional in both P2P and P2Pro transactions (individuals to companies). However, the reality is that the deployment is being slow. It is normal to be a project of these characteristics, however. For summer of 2025, the EPI plans to launch the payments in electronic commerce in Germany and Belgium to later do so in France and the Netherlands “laying the bases and test points for a viable European solution.” At the end of 2026, EPI intends to add the omnicanal payments, payments at the point of sale or in stores and invoices payments. The idea is to use QR codes and NFC technology. Bizum is international. The efforts are there and Wero is promising. However, and as far as Spain is concerned, it should be noted that Bizum has been international for just a few weeks. At the beginning of the month, Bizum confirmed that it was going to be integrated with Bancomat and MB Way, the payment solutions of Italy and Portugal, respectively. Banco Santander, Abanca and OpenBank already support international shipments. Caixabank, BBVA and Banco Sabadell will do it soon. Cover image | Wero

How Europe will depend on China even more

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A few days ago, the European Commission advertisement In social networks a survival kit of at least 72 hours in case of war or natural disaster. However, behind all this uncertainty, an even greater problem is hidden: fierce competition for strategic resources that will define the future of security in Europe. Mineral crisis. In recent years, certain niche minerals have been affected by a combination of high demand, supply restrictions and international policies. The elements required for defense are also used in the aerospace sector and technology, so its shortage is causing a bottleneck for Europe in its prices, such as He explained Ellie Saklatvala, senior metal analyst of the British raw material consultant in Argus Media. The most demanded. In your analysis For Financial Times, Saklatvala, has detailed That among the most critical is antimony, renio and hafnio, materials used to manufacture from bullets to combat aircraft components and advanced medical systems. To these are added other metals, such as tungsten, titanium, chromium, niobium, cobalt, molybdenum and vanadium, which are used for the manufacture of weapons, missiles and technological equipment of high precision. In addition, minerals such as Gallium, Germanio and rare earths are important for the production of advanced electronic semiconductors and components. A considerable increase in critics. The growing demand for these metals by the military industry, combined with scarcity, has caused a price escalation. According to Saklatavaa clear example is the antimony, a key mineral for hardening bullets and manufacturing firepro export controls Taxes by China. This same pressure for supplies has affected the Rhenio, used in Jet turbines, and the hafnium, essential in the aerospace industry. In both cases, scarcity has caused That prices rise unexpectedly, affecting both the military industry and sectors such as aerospace and health. A few dominate production. The control of these resources is not equally distributed in the world. China It has consolidated As the main producer and refining of many of these critical minerals, which has allowed him to obtain a considerable strategic advantage over other economic actors. China Master the extraction and processing of key raw materials, which represents a challenge for nations that seek to reduce its dependence on this Asian giant. In addition, the domain has increased due to China’s strong investment in mining assets in Africa, Latin America and other regions rich in resources. A few countries dominate the production of critical raw materials | Bloomberg An answer from Europe. The EU has begun to implement strategies to diversify its supply sources and reduce China dependence. Through the “Critical raw materials law“, seeks to facilitate the financing of new mining and refining projects within Europe, such as the future Site of key elements in Extremadura. In parallel, the European Commission has promoted the “Clean Industrial Pact“To consolidate the demand for critical materials at the regional level, although there is still a long way to reduce the dependence of China, which continues to control in some cases 100% of the necessary matters in Europe. Forecasts. The growing competition for critical minerals highlights an unavoidable truth: Europe’s economic and technological security is at stake. The diversification of sources, strategic investments and regional collaboration are essential to ensure that the continent does not depend exclusively on global actors such as China. However, everything will be to be seen since the demand for minerals will continue to grow before the last measure of the EU. In it, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has proposed an increase in military expenditure of the Member States by 1.5 points of GDP, which would result at additional 650,000 million euros in the next four years, According to the medium expansion. Image | Pexels Xataka | Spain, with a treasure under his feet: how his mining potential makes him a key pawn from the EU in front of China

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