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All Big Tech are betting the money they have and the money they don’t have on the future of AI. All but one: Apple

February 18, 2026 by usatoday24

650 billion dollars. There it is nothing. That is the total amount that Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are going to invest in data centers for AI. That amount of money is astonishing and is similar to the current GDP of countries like Argentina or Israel. But the curious thing is not only that: there is a Big Tech that is totally ignoring this fever to spend on AI as if there were no tomorrow. Apple against the current. The company led by Tim Cook is the only one of the group of large technology companies whose capex (planned capital expenditure) was reduced last quarter. Based on FactSet data compiled by SherwoodApple’s forecasts for that quarter were not to spend more, but attention, spend (quite a bit) less. The numbers don’t lie. According to the data provided by these companies, Amazon expects that in 2026 its capex reaches up to 200,000 million dollars. Google wants to go from 175,000 to 185,000 million. Meta estimates that the expense will be between 115,000 and the 135,000 million. And although Microsoft did not give a specific figure, it surely exceeds the $114 billion estimated by Wall Street. And Apple? Apple will not spend more, but 19% according to its latest estimates: about $12.7 billion. Amazon: +42% YoY (vs. previous year) Microsoft: +89% YoY Google: +95% YoY Goal: +48% YoY Apple: -19% YoY Cupertino goes from AI. While its competitors spent record sums last quarter (which ended December 31) on the purchase of material and properties linked to the AI sector and data centers, Apple continues not to invest in this sector. It is something that makes it clear that the company seems to have definitively decided that this is not its war. Siri+Gemini is the best test. Confirmation of that “surrender” is in the recent announcement that Gemini will be the AI on which the new version of Siri will be based. Apple’s new AI assistant is expected to hit the market this spring with at least some initial features, but the fact that it does so depends entirely on Google’s AI model makes it clear that Apple here prefers to delegate rather than invest to have its own foundational model. AI will be a commodity. Instead of participating in this costly war of language models, Apple is clear that AI is going to end up being a commodity, something that is going to become a basic standard technology like the PC, mobile phone or laptop is now. Model prices plummet as the capacity of those models grows, and benchmarks make it clear that no model is better than another for long. Apple as a gateway to AI. As usual, what Apple will do is take advantage of the fact that has the “gateway to AI. With 2.4 billion devices worldwide, it controls the most valuable distribution channel on the planet. It has the luxury of not making “the engine,” but rather acting as an avenue to bring AI to the masses. Here agreements like the one it has completed with Google are just the beginning. It doesn’t matter being late. It is something that is in the company’s DNA. He also did not want to fight the search engine battle, but it did not matter: he reached an agreement with Google, which has paid him billions of dollars for years to be able to put its search engine as the default engine on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Apple prefers that others pave the way and absorb the costs of early learning. Then she usually arrives with superior integration and a refined experience (iPod, iPhone) or directly with deals like the one she completed in the search engine space. AI will be invisible and ubiquitous. Apple’s goal doesn’t seem to be to offer its own chatbot on the web, but to make AI invisible and ubiquitous. It doesn’t matter which model runs behind it, but simply that this AI works transparently for the user. And it does so, of course, seamlessly integrated into Apple services and applications. Privacy by flag. And of course, with that vaunted commitment to privacy that Apple always boasts of. Its Private Cloud Compute is the best proof of this. By not relying on advertising (hello Google, hello OpenAI), it is able to offer advanced features without collecting massive data from users. But there is risk. Still, the strategy has a critical risk: if AI models become a commodity and end up creating technological monopolies, Apple could be permanently at the mercy of its suppliers. If these competitive advantages end up being consolidated in the model layer – the one controlled by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google – and not in the integration layer – which is Apple’s – the dependence on third parties will be a dangerous strategic weakness. Room for maneuver. Apple has annual benefits close to 100 billion dollars, which gives it an enviable financial position to wait for this “hype” cycle to cool down. It is clear that there is an AI bubble and that bubble will probably end up exploding and leaving many victims. If it does, one of those that will undoubtedly have room to maneuver to survive will be Apple. Image | Xataka with Freepik In Xataka | China does not have a spending problem with AI. What it has is a huge income gap compared to its main rival

There’s a reason why the Japanese don’t need to dust as much as we do. And you can apply it easily

February 17, 2026 by usatoday24

When I was little and living in Switzerland, there was an unspoken rule that we all knew: the shoes They didn’t go beyond the doormat. It was common to see small shelves outside the doors, on the landing, where footwear that had walked on the street was abandoned. For us it was the norm, but when we crossed borders, that custom faded. Today, however, the situation seems to be changing globally. What we previously saw as a cultural curiosity of Japan or a Nordic eccentricity is beginning to make sense in the rest of the world. The contrast is fascinating. While in many Western homes cleaning is understood as a reaction (cleaning what has become dirty), in other cultures it is a preventive lifestyle design. In Japan the secret is not to clean for hours, but to prevent dirt from getting cross the threshold: “Cleaning is not a reaction, but a life design based on prevention.” This philosophy even extends to the air they breathe; Japanese residential ventilation technical documents highlight the critical importance of creating “air passages” by opening opposite windows to expel suspended particles, an obsession with environmental hygiene that invariably begins at the front door. And it’s not just a matter of visual perception. A study from Macquarie University in Sydney, puts it in perspective: until 60% of the dust and the dirt that accumulates inside a house comes from outside, and enters precisely through our feet. The architecture of custom Why is the world divided between those who barefoot and those who don’t? The answer lies in a mix of climate, architecture and philosophy. In Japan, the border is physical. According to the digital media Nipponthe houses have the genkana specific area at the entrance with a step called agari kamachi. This step marks the sacred boundary between the “outer world” (dirty) and the “inner world” (clean). Furthermore, traditional Japanese architecture uses floors tatami (straw mats), a delicate material that would be destroyed by rigid street shoes. In the Anglo-Saxon world, resistance it’s cultural. Journalist Jeff Yang tells in The Guardian a revealing anecdote about his Taiwanese aunt, who told him a lapidary phrase when she saw him enter wearing shoes: “When you enter my house with shoes, you are walking on my heart.” This clash illustrates the division: for some it is respect; for others, as indicated Real Simplewhere only 31% of Americans always barefoot, is an uncomfortable imposition. In Spain, the story is different and has its own peculiarities. There is no deep-rooted tradition to take off your shoes when entering. Historically, doing it in someone else’s house could even be interpreted as a lack of education or excessive trust (“taking too much confidence”). Unlike Nordic or Asian countries, Spain relies on reactive cleaning, something that users on discussion forums such as reddit rsummarize with humor and irony: “We can afford that custom because we invented the mop.” However, the trend is changing after the pandemic. More and more hosts are imposing the “zero shoe” rule for hygiene. It is the case of the influencer of lifestyle Patricia Fernández who, cited in Readingsassures that “removing your shoes at the entrance is your number 1 rule”, always offering comfortable options or baskets with slippers for your guests. Beyond the visible dirt, taking off your shoes has a profound psychological and symbolic impact. It’s not just hygiene, it’s a transition ritual. Dr. Manuel Viso explained that taking off your shoes sends a powerful signal to our brain: “Let’s change the environment, relax, we’re home, we’ve left work behind.” It is a physical switch for mental disconnection, how to change clothes. From an energy perspective, Feng Shui expert Gloria Ramos details in Interior Magazine that the main door is “the mouth of Qi“(vital energy). Leaving your shoes lying around or entering with them blocks that energy and the well-being of the home. Even the way you do it matters, in Japan etiquette requires not only taking off your shoes, but turn them so that they point towards the door (ready for departure) and do so without turning your back on the host, a gesture that denotes respect and consideration towards the community that inhabits that house. Science tips the balance decisively This is where the cultural debate collides with microscopic reality. If you thought your shoes were clean because you didn’t step in mud, experts have bad news. “99% of the shoes analyzed test positive for fecal matter,” pharmacist Álvaro Fernández flatly states. in The Aragon Newspaper. This is because we walk through streets where there are invisible remains of animal excrement and dirt from public toilets. Microbiologist Jonathan Sexton, from the University of Arizona, confirm in Very interesting that almost all soles harbor bacteria such as E.coli (present in 96% of cases) and Clostridium difficilea bacteria that causes serious intestinal problems. But it’s not just bacteria. According to The Conversation, Shoes carry pesticides from gardens, lead from urban dust, and carcinogenic asphalt sealants that end up in the air in our living rooms. It is important not to fall into alarmism. Although shoes are centers of dirt, they are not the only culprits. A published study in Scientific Reports warns that mobile phones are also “dangerous microbial platforms“that harbor a wide spectrum of organisms, often resistant to antibiotics, and that we constantly carry on our faces. It is another reminder that objects such as cell phones or kitchen sponges can have as much or more bacterial load than footwear. Still, experts like Kevin Garey they clarify thatalthough for a healthy adult the risk of infection from the floor is low (since we do not live at ground level), the recommendation is strict if there are crawling children or immunosuppressed people at home. The trend is clear: the frontier of the doormat is hardening in the West, but with our own style. we don’t have genkanbut we have learned to adapt our halls. More and more homes are incorporating benches, wicker baskets or narrow shoe racks … Read more

Tech companies don’t want new graduates because they believe that AI is going to annihilate them. IBM is hiring non-stop

February 16, 2026 by usatoday24

The business world is so terrified of AI that recent graduate hiring is in crisis. However, there is a company that is just going in the opposite direction: IBM not only has not frozen these hirings, but is tripling them. And his argument is powerful. IBM wants new graduates. “We are tripling our hiring of junior positions,” explained Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s top human resources officer, in a interview at Charter. In fact, he highlighted, those positions they are filling “are for software developers and for all those jobs that they tell us AI can do.” It is a surprising statement, especially considering that the market trend is just the opposite. Unemployment among recent graduates—and among young people—is at record levels in the last decade in the United States. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The problem of unemployment in Gen Z. The young people of the generation Z (Born between 1997-2012 approximately) face one of the most complex times when looking for a first job. In the United States, the unemployment rate for recent graduates is at 5.6%, the highest in the decade except for the time of the pandemic. Managers of technology companies have been warning for some time that AI is going to greatly impact work, and especially in the field of programming. Junior profiles with a new focuseither. While competitors appear to show growing interest in replacing entry-level positions with automation — 37% plan to do so according to Korn Ferry—, IBM is changing the mentality. Newbie software engineers won’t spend their days chipping away at routine code that an AI can generate. Instead, they will focus on interacting with clients and monitoring model results. AI no longer replaces the junior, but forces him to be more strategic from day one. IBM is not the only one to think this way. Although it seems that the trend towards automation is clear, IBM is not alone in this flight forward. Dropbox is doing the same, and its head of human resources, Melanie Rosenwasser, believes that Gen Z has a fundamental advantage: they are better prepared to work with AI than veterans. According to her, “it’s as if (the young people of Gen Z) were on their bikes in the Tour de France while the rest of us are on training wheels,” she said. on Bloomberg. But. IBM’s move is not without a certain cynicism. The company made this announcement a week after carry out a mass layoff to focus on growth areas. It is as if they have created a revolving door in which they have removed expensive seniority to let in cheaper youth. AI as an amplifier. Be that as it may, the CEO of IBM, Arvind Krishna, defends this strategy – logical – indicating that AI is not a substitute for human capacity, but rather an amplifier. The speech, whether we believe it or not, represents a unique commitment, especially now that companies seem to propose that they will do the same with many fewer employees. For IBM, the bet is on loyalty and knowledge cultivated from the base instead of subordinating everything to algorithms. “Developers, developers, developers!”. At the .NET event that Microsoft organized in 1999, the famous viral moment occurred in which an overexcited and sweaty Ballmer sang that from “Developers, developers, developers!” non-stop. The company was trying to attract talent again with that speech, but in reality that work had been intense years before. Hiring recent graduates worked very well for Microsoft. Steven Sinofsky, who led the development of Windows 7, told on Twitter how Microsoft became what it was thanks to its strategy of hiring recent graduates—even if they had not completed their degree. The development of Office, for example, was especially nourished by these young people, but that strategy was stopped. As Sinofsky explains, “The ‘dark times’ were accentuated by a forced pause in hiring recent graduates, and the consequences were felt five years later.” In Xataka | “They are much more daring”: Gen Z is overturning all labor consensus in its massive entry into work

Great white sharks are appearing off the Alicante coast. The problem is that we don’t know if it’s good news or bad news.

February 11, 2026 by usatoday24

On April 20, 2023, by pure chance, some fishermen caught a juvenile-sized white shark. No one would have been surprised if it weren’t for the fact that the fishermen were in Spanish waters, right in front of the Alicante Cape of La Nao. Two meters 10 centimeters of white shark in the middle of the Mediterranean, what was happening here? Do we have to worry? That is the question that was asked at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and, in collaboration with the University of Cádiz, has carried out a deep review of the presence of white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. It is not something superficial: they have collected all the records (direct and indirect) from 1862 to 2023 and have reached a surprising conclusion. The presence of this type of specimen has been “persistent” (although “extremely rare”) in the Spanish Mediterranean. It is not something, a priori, worrying. As explained José Carlos Báezresearcher at the IEO-CSIC, “we have only found two attacks: one in 1862, in which a person died in Malaga who was swimming, and another in the eighties, when a shark bit a surfer’s board in Tarifa and caused serious injuries.” But the problem is not that. And, although “with the available data, it is not possible to affirm that the Mediterranean white shark population is recovering”, it is inevitable to think about what will happen in an increasingly warmer sea. In the end, “the presence of young individuals provides key information about the demographic structure of the species” and, one way or anotherthis leads us to seriously consider the risks of having breeding spaces in Spanish waters. However, everything seems to indicate that there is a relationship between the presence of the shark and the routes of the bluefin tuna. If so, it would be another symptom of the problems that sharks have to keep their populations healthy and robust. Should we worry? It doesn’t seem like it. Against the media angle about the “return of the monster”, international evidence tells us that attacks are extremely rare and the role of sharks in the conservation of aquatic ecosystems is very important. Be that as it may, monitoring and conservation programs must be developed. And it has to be done soon. Image | Oleksandr Sushko In Xataka | The white shark is an exceptional swimmer. Its secret is in its “teeth”

If you’re in a hurry to upgrade your PC, NVIDIA’s CEO has bad news: don’t be in a hurry

February 10, 2026 by usatoday24

Talking about artificial intelligence is talking about Jensen Huang. The CEO of NVIDIA has become the figure of an industry: that of artificial intelligence. In large part, it is your company’s products that are driving the engine of the data centers and, at the same time, enormous semiconductor industries and memory are the essential components of NVIDIA GPUs. And if Huang has been commenting for a few weeks that this 2026 it’s going to need wafers and a lot of RAMhas now asked for patience with AI. Because he has another seven or eight years of unchecked climbing left. In short. When we talk about artificial intelligence, there are two poles. On the one hand, those who see signs of a bubble that will burst in the short term. On the other hand, those who defend the billion-dollar investment against all odds. In that boat is Jensen Huang, who recently noted in CNBC that this massive spending is “necessary and appropriate” because a “once-in-a-generation infrastructure” is being shaped. The most interesting thing is that, for him, this career will continue for several years, pointing that the investment and construction of infrastructure for AI has seven or eight years left. Mortars of money. In his statements, Huang pointed out that companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are making money despite everything invested and that their current brake is not so much the budget as the limit of computing power. That is why you want your suppliers –Samsung in HBM4 memories new generation or TSMC with the processors- increase the pace. It remains to be seen, however, if the pace can be maintained over the next five years. On CNBC, the CEO of NVIDIA pointed out that, despite the astronomical amount of money, the spending is sustainable. And proof of this is that it is increasing. If in 2025 the total spending of Big Tech did not reach 400,000 million, wait that this year the number of American companies will rise to 650,000 million. Only between Amazon and Alphabet -Google-, they will invest about 385,000 million. They see the AI computing race as the next “whoever wins the most,” and none are willing to lose – DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria speaking to Bloomberg Parallel career. And that, as we say, in American companies, since China is the other pole in this race for artificial intelligence. The Asian giant is the birthplace of several extremely capable models, but also something that is missing in the United States: energy to feed the enormous needs of AI. China is betting on AI, but also on robotics, and all this at the same time buy NVIDIA products and develop your own semiconductor network with the goal of achieving technological sovereignty. It is another race parallel to that of the United States, and apart from the two poles of infrastructure development, we have particular names. That so much money is being invested means that opportunities are being created, and there are companies that have gone through a bad patch and want to surf the wave. For example, a Intel that, after needing a rescue by the United Statesis positioning itself as one of the great foundries in the United States. In addition, they are putting their foot in a segment that they had not explored, that of DRAM memory, and They are doing it with the Japanese giant SoftBank. Japan has not had a say in the memory industry since the 80s, when South Korea snatched their positionand now they may have another chance. Translation for the user. These are a couple of examples of companies that are taking advantage of the conditions to obtain financing and expand, seeking to position themselves in what they have determined is the future of the technology industry. With that amount of money and investment, there is a question you may be asking yourself: will I be able to buy a PC? The answer It is not hopeful. Giants like Micron -one of the heavyweights in the RAM segment- They are investing a lot to expand facilities and be more capable when creating memories, but they will not be for us: they will be for data centers. If the end of 2026 or 2027 was targeted as the end of the component crisis like the RAM or SSD (which are still components with memory modules), now it is Lip-Bu TanCEO of Intel, who states that It won’t be until 2028at the earliest, when we can see a horizon in the current panorama. So, yes, the entire tech industry has turned to AI and those that can increase their production of key components will do so over the next few years. The issue is that they are going to focus on components that users neither care about nor care about, neglecting those that we really need on a day-to-day basis. AND an example is NVIDIA itself. Image | NVIDIA In Xataka | Apple has been the industry’s first customer for decades. AI is relegating it to the background

We already know how ads work on ChatGPT. If you don’t like them, go to checkout

February 10, 2026 by usatoday24

He who warns is not a traitor. From December 2026 ChatGPT hidden code showed the imminent arrival of advertising. It’s something that has just become a reality. OpenAI recently published that it is already testing ads in the United States, something that will affect all users of the free version and some of the paid version. Announcements come to ChatGPT. USA firstbut no one will be free of them. The ads have officially arrived for the free version of ChatGPT and the Go plan. Taking into account that the cost of Go is 8 euros per month, the debate is revived as to whether a paid app is legal or not to have advertising load. Users of the Plus and Pro plans are saved from ads. At the moment, they are in the testing phase, hoping that they will reach the rest of the world in the coming months. Because. Because OpenAI needs moneyit’s that simple. The company’s accounts are not working out, and it stands out in its press release that in order for ChatGPT to continue improving and offering free features, it is necessary to start showing ads. If you want to use ChatGPT for free without any type of advertisement, it will be possible, in exchange for limiting the number of free daily messages. How ads influence responses. They don’t, according to OpenAI. The responses will continue to be oriented to the user’s demands and the training we have done on the model. Ads will always be labeled as sponsored content, and visually separated from the GPT response itself. If you’re wondering how the ads you’ll see will be selected, according to OpenAI they will match ads sent by companies to conversation topics. If you’re searching for a recipe, you may be shown food-related ads. About privacy. Advertisers will not have access to our chats, history or personal data. They will only receive information about the performance of their ads. Products from sensitive categories related to politics or health may also not be advertised. Likewise, from the app’s own settings, we can configure whether we want to personalize the ads (whether our history and chats are used to improve the suggestions or not). The party is over. Advertisements on ChatGPT were simply unavoidable. The key now is whether OpenAI, faced with Antrophic’s explicit refusal to introduce advertising in Claude and a Google that can afford not to depend on it, will be able to integrate ads without degrading the product or breaking the perception of neutrality. Image | OpenAI In Xataka | ChatGPT pretends to know everything even when it has no idea. Stanford University believes it has the solution

Russia has a tank so ugly it seemed like a joke. And the most surprising thing is that Ukrainian drones don’t know what to do

February 9, 2026 by usatoday24

Since the first months of the invasion, the war in Ukraine has become in a laboratory military “tuning” in real time: armored civilian trucks with steel doors, cars with improvised cages against anti-tank missiles, artillery protected with logs or bars welded in haste. As in other long conflicts, when technology does not arrive or is not sufficient, armies resort to bungle creative. From this ecosystem of ugly, urgent and desperate solutions is born the story of the strangest tank of this war… and also one of the most disconcerting for its enemies. Strange but armored. It we have counted other times. On the Ukrainian battlefield, Russia has led improvisation to an extreme almost cartoonish, deploying tanks covered in cagesspikes, cables, rods and metal layers that have earned them nicknames such as “turtle”, “hedgehog”, “furry” or, now, “dandelion”. At first glance they seem like a joke or a symptom of industrial decay, grotesque artifacts closer to scrap than to modern military engineering, but their proliferation responds to a brutal reality: Ukraine’s FPV drones have made classic armor insufficient, forcing Russia to add outer layers whose sole objective is to gain centimeters, time and confusion against attacks that were previously lethal. Origin and evolution. These protective screens, popularly known like “cope cages”began to be seen months ago, when the proliferation of drones transformed land warfare. Initially they were installed only on battle tanks and armored vehicles, but soon they spread to a wide range of systems. Your designs vary greatly: Some structures are crude and heavy, others are better planned, incorporating metal cages, steel plates, chains, spikes, camouflage nets and even reactive armor to reinforce the most vulnerable areas. In the Russian case, some tanks have become completely coveredwhich has earned them the nickname “turtle tanks” due to its resemblance to the shell of these animals. The simple principle that unsettles drones. The logic behind these designs is so rudimentary as effective– If the drone explodes before hitting the main hull, the shock wave loses much of its destructive power. In that sense, the “latest” model, the “dandelion tank”, with branched metal rods and tensioned meshes, works as a three-dimensional barrier that detonates the FPV from a distance, while there are already versions with cables, chains or spikes that seek the same effect from different angles. There has even appeared a sort of brush cutter tank Russian. Every extra centimeter between the explosive charge and the armor increases the chances of survival, and in a front saturated with cheap drones, that minimal advantage can make the difference between a disabled vehicle and one that continues fighting. In fact, this Russian anti-FPV system has migrated to its UGVs. In a video Seen on networks, the Russians claim that this “Courier” UGV survived the attack by a Ukrainian FPV and was recovered, although remembering that the additional weight of the cables will reduce the capacity vehicle loading. From the initial mockery to the silent cup. Yes, because what began as an object of ridicule among Ukrainian soldiers laughing at the welded cages and absurd profiles, has ended in imitation. The Ukrainian forces themselves have begun to equip some of their vehicles with similar protections, and the concept has even spread to NATO armies, with Western French vehicles. testing solutions inspired by these “dandelions”. The implicit message is, above all, uncomfortable: it may be ugly, crude and inelegant, but in real war is working better that many sophisticated solutions that have not yet come to the forefront. Hidden costs and obvious limits. There is no doubt, like so many other extravagant designs in the Ukrainian war, these improvised capes are not a panacea. They add weight, raise the profile of the vehicle, reduce mobility and they offer no real protection facing precise artillery or attacks from below, a tactic increasingly exploited by Ukrainian drones. Furthermore, and here the modus operandi of war, the more time passes, the more operators learn of FPV to identify gaps, adapt trajectories or use new techniques to avoid these metal shields. They are temporary defenses, effective but doomed to lose ground as the adversary figures out how to break them. An absurd race that defines modern warfare. Still, the central fact remains: Russia has created tanks so strange that they seemed like a jokeand for a time they have achieved something unthinkable, leaving enemy drones without a clear answer. In a war of attrition, cheap and experimental, where every day they look for emergency solutionsthese grotesque layers symbolize the current conflict better than any doctrine: a constant race of trial and error, in which even the most absurd can become, even for a moment, the best defense available. Image | Telegram In Xataka | The cold is so savage that Ukraine has activated the most kamikaze option: the “50,000 Russians per month” or giving Moscow what it wants In Xataka | “A human safari”: going outside in a Ukrainian city is now equivalent to being a shooting target for drones

They don’t have the AI but they already have the energy

February 8, 2026 by usatoday24

In the AI race, The United States has the chips and China has the energytwo different starting points that make them follow divergent trajectories. But both chips and energy are essential for the technology industry from a broader point of view. Guaranteeing supply is the first step to dominating emerging industries and China has taken it very seriously by stepping on the accelerator in the construction of energy infrastructure. The figures. According to data from the China National Energy Administration of which echoes BloombergIn 2025 alone, the Asian giant added 542.7 GW of capacity to what it already had to reach a total capacity of 3,890 GW. As collects China Newsthis is 16.1% more in just one year. In perspective. The cold data may not give an idea of the magnitude of the Chinese attack, but those 542.7 GW added in the last year is more than the total capacity of powers such as India, Germany or Japan, according to data from the International Energy Agency. Only the United States and its 1,373 GW available on the electrical grid surpass it. However, if we extend the time frame four years ago, we find that in that period China expanded its capacity by 1,515.3 GW, more than everything the United States has today. Among China’s objectives With this ambitious commitment to energy, we are guaranteeing a stable and abundant supply, minimizing dependence on fuel imports and making it a competitive advantage in growth and intensive industries such as AI, robotics or advanced materials technology. Why is it important. From an engineering point of view, what China is doing in recent years is a feat: it has replicated the West’s largest power grid at lightning speed. What took the United States approximately a century, China has only required less than half a decade. But building electrical infrastructure (What happens with Data Centers?) is neither easy nor immediate: it requires planning, logistics and a highly qualified workforce. Not to mention permits or environmental evaluations. This level of manufacturing and installation involves overcoming a learning curve that reduces technology costs for global implementation. How has he done it. Achieving that capacity in record time is difficult, but it is not only how much but how: a good part of this growth comes from solar and wind energy. This type of energy, unlike fossil fuels, is intermittent. That is, it is not limiting itself to installing panels and wind turbines, but it is also redesigning the management of the network in the event of eventual events such as no sun or wind. However, coal and gas thermal power plants are also in record numbers. China has not forgotten nuclear and hydroelectric energy either, with more modest increases. What the graph doesn’t say. That China’s current capacity is immense does not mean that, for example, solar or wind plants are producing 24/7: their plant factor It is lower than those of gas or coal plants. Hence they need to build much more to achieve the same. And to move all that energy from one side of the country to the other, for example from the sunny Gobi Desert to industrial Shanghai, China has set up a kind of energy highway: the High Voltage Direct Current network, with the largest ultra-high voltage transformer in the world. You have another challenge ahead: where to store the excess energy. For now, is investing big time in lithium batteries and also in hydraulic pumping. In Xataka | The race for AI has placed China in an unthinkable scenario: forcing the United States to leave its comfort zone In Xataka | China needs chips and the United States needs energy: in the AI race the two great powers have divergent paths Cover | Raisa Milova and Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra

Microsoft has finally realized what the community has been shouting at it for months: we don’t want so much AI

February 3, 2026 by usatoday24

The people are fed up with the avalanche of AI that has flooded Windows and Microsoft turned a deaf ear to the numerous community complaints. They have put AI even in Notepadwhich is saying something. Microsoft’s obsession has caused the Windows image to sufferbut finally it seems that they are listening to the users. We are still passing. One of the things Microsoft has been doing in its pro-AI crusade is add Copilot buttons everywhere. It’s in Paint, in Notepad and even they want to put it in file explorer. Although Microsoft has not commented, according to Windows Central fontsthe company is rethinking its AI strategy and one of the things that is under review are these buttons that they have been adding almost indiscriminately. Maybe they end up eliminating some or just being more selective from now on. Windows Recall. “It’s like having a photographic memory.” This is how Microsoft sold what aimed to be the PC+Copilot star feature. What followed were many doubts about your safety and so many criticisms that Microsoft had to delay the project for more than a year. Recall is already implemented, but according to Windows Central the company is not satisfied with how it is working and wants to correct course. How they will do it at the moment is unknown. There will still be AI. Microsoft still has a lot of AI features in the works and nothing indicates that they will stop, so if you were rubbing your hands at the idea of a Windows 11 without AI, that is not the case. Some of the initiatives they have underway are: agentic functions which they announced in November of last year (to which The community flatly refused.by the way) and developer features like Windows ML or semantic search. The complaints have been heard. There will probably still be more AI features than the community would like, but it seems that Microsoft has heard the feedback and they are going to take their foot off the accelerator. The obsession with AI has not been the only reason for discontent, there have also been highly criticized decisions such as force to use an online account to upgrade to Windows 11 or the stability problems after updating. Despite everything, Windows 11 is advancing unstoppably and It is already on more than 1 billion devices. Image | Microsoft, edited In Xataka | I have decided to become independent from all US technology and embrace European technology. This is how I’m getting it

This tool blocks all AI features and other elements you don’t want from your browser: and it does it without installations

January 25, 2026 by usatoday24

Installing a browser is very simple, and companies have taken charge to keep it that way. The really complicated thing is to use it without all the extras that we don’t want and that hinder us when browsing the Internet, which is precisely its original purpose. With that seemingly crazy idea of using a browser only for browsing, a developer has launched “Just the Browser”, a tool that allows you to disable artificial intelligence functions, sponsored content, telemetry and other features that many of us hate in the main browsers. I’ll tell you how it works, because you might be interested. Browsers increasingly saturated with functions The creator of this initiative is Corbin Davenport, software developer and technology writer. Davenport starts from a simple premise: modern browsers have moved away from their basic function to become feature-packed platforms that many users consider distractions. And if you don’t want AI in your browser, it’s becoming increasingly difficult, since both Chrome, Edge and even Firefox They point towards a future full of AI generative, whether you like it or not. Luckily we have measures to solve thisand “Just the Browser” is one of them. The key to Just the Browser: enterprise group policies What’s ingenious about Just the Browser is its approach. And instead of creating a fork of another popular browser (as projects like LibreWolf, Waterfox or Pale Moon do), it uses the group policy settings that Google, Mozilla and Microsoft provide for companies and organizations. These corporate policies allow IT departments to block certain functions on work or school computers. Davenport has taken advantage of this functionality to make it available to individual users who want a cleaner browser. The process does not modify executable files or require additional extensions. It simply applies settings that browsers themselves are designed to honor permanently, something that doesn’t always happen with the settings that companies provide to home users. In Xataka Opera Neon promises to be the future of the browser. It is an ambitious vision yet to mature What exactly does it remove? Just the Browser disables several elements of your browser: Most generative AI features, both cloud and on-premises, with the exception of page translation in Firefox. Shopping integrations: price tracking, coupon codes, loan offers. Sponsored or Third Party Content: Suggested articles on new tab pages, suggested promoted sites. Reminders to set the browser as default. Experiences when launching the browser for the first time and automatic data import. Telemetry and data collection (maintaining crash reporting when the browser allows it as a separate option). Autostart functions with the operating system. According to Davenport, these settings are limited in scope because each user has their own definition of what they consider bloatware. The project does not aim for extreme minimalism or install additional privacy extensions. Simple installation using scripts The tool is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Your official website offers automated installation scripts that work by running a single command in the system terminal. Users can also download the configuration files directly from their GitHub page to apply them manually. Active policies can be checked at any time by accessing ‘about:policies’ in Firefox or ‘chrome://policy’ in Chromium-based browsers. You may see a “Your browser is being managed by your organization” message, a common browser warning when group policies are applied, but nothing to raise suspicions. The project is completely open source and Davenport hopes the community will help keep configurations up to date as browsers evolve. {“videoId”:”x883ph8″,”autoplay”:true,”title”:”From CHROME to VIVALDI: the 7 BEST BROWSERS to CHOOSE”, “tag”:”webedia-prod”, “duration”:”475″} Limitations At the moment, the tool only works on desktop computers. There is no support for mobile devices, although there are already users who have published requests on the GitHub page to add compatibility on Android and iOS systems. Keep in mind that the effectiveness of Just the Browser depends on browsers continuing to respect these group policies. If Google, Mozilla, or Microsoft decide to remove or modify these business controls, the settings may stop working. However, since these policies are designed for corporate clients, they are unlikely to be removed without notice. Cover image | Denny Muller In Xataka |ChatGPT Atlas: what it is, how it works and how to use this internet browser with artificial intelligence (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news This tool blocks all AI features and other elements you don’t want from your browser: and it does it without installations was originally published in Xataka by Antonio Vallejo .

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