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January 21, 2026 by usatoday24

OpenAI has confirmed that it will launch its first physical device in the second half of this year. Chris Lehane, head of global affairs for the company, announced it at the World Economic Forum in Davos as one of the “top priorities” of the year. The leaks they point to headphones codenamed “Sweetpea.” Foxconn will manufacture them in Vietnam. The sales goal for the first year is quite ambitious: between 40 and 50 million units, approximately. half of the AirPods that Apple sells at the end of the year. Why is it important. OpenAI has more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, but relies on third-party devices and platforms to reach them. With their own hardware, they begin to control the entire chain: development, distribution and user experience. It is also a play against Apple. AirPods dominate the wireless headphone market followed by Xiaomi, and now OpenAI enters its field with a proposal based on conversational AI and cloud processing. The audio would be only part of the product, the difference is in the integrated conversational intelligence. The design. The headphones will have a different shape than conventional models. According to leaks from Economic Daily News (UDN)they will be placed behind the ears, closer to what we usually see in headphones than in AirPods-style headphones. The charging case will be shaped like a smooth stone and will house two metal capsules. All this according to the first leaks: it is confirmed that the OpenAI device will arrive, the details are not yet. Jony Ive, the former Apple design chief whose company acquired OpenAI in 2024, is supervising the project. His presence raises expectations regarding the aesthetics of these headphones: Ive was the father of many of Apple’s iconic designs during the first decade of this century. The technology. The headset will use a 2-nanometer chip for basic local processing (the simplest queries), but most of the AI work will be done in the cloud, following the usual OpenAI model. There will be adapted language models that will work on the device for light tasks and more complex ones will require an Internet connection and will run on OpenAI servers. Between the lines. OpenAI initially ruled out Luxshare as a manufacturer due to its location in China. The decision to produce in Vietnam seeks to avoid suspicions in the United States and avoid tariff problems. Yes, but. The history of native AI devices is full of failures: He Humane AI Pin It ended up being sold to HP and its owners were left with a paperweight. He Rabbit R1 It had a lot of initial hype but was soon forgotten. Replacing headphones that people already use daily requires a brutal value proposition, and without deep integration with iOS or Android, the device will have to prove that it justifies changing ecosystems. Nothing launched a headset with ChatGPT integration a while ago and beyond the initial hype, they have not shown any signs of being a special success either. Smart glasses have a similar approach and being able to use them to take photos and videos at any time without using your hands is winning them over. In Xataka | ChatGPT has been a tool. If you start remembering all our conversations, it’s going to be something else: a relationship. Featured image | Dima Solomin, Hostaphoto

Spain will go from an opposite olive oil crisis in less than a year. The industry begins to see the ears to the wolf

February 5, 2025 by usatoday24

Two weeks. Two weeks of consecutive falls in the price of olive oil in origin have enough to put the entire sector on red alert. But … why? Wasn’t high prices They were also suffocating To the industry causing millionaire losses? What are low is also a problem? Let’s go in parts … how much has the price of oil dropped? As reported Agroinformationas of January 31, the average price in extra virgin olive oil was 4,275 euros/ton, in the virgin oil of 3,701 euros/ton and in the lampante of 3,452 euros/ton. That represents a fall of 3.20%, 6.80% and 2.80% respectively compared to last week and a 50.55% drop, 52.55% and 56.55% compared to the year past. And why is this a problem? Because, As we explained a few weeks agothe historical profitability limit for the traditional dry land olive tree is around four euros. If the low price of that figure, the farmers (dry) will not be able to cover the fixed costs. And this would not be a problem if it were not because more than two thirds of the Spanish olive grove is dry (1.913,531 hectares in front of 874,553 of irrigation). From a crisis to the opposite. It is curious because, in recent years, the situation has been the opposite: but the result is the same. The Olivareros de dryo did not have enough olive to compensate for fixed expenses – although the price was in the clouds. In addition, the distributors could not impact all the rise in the final prices (deoleo, the largest oil company in the world, owner of brands such as hojiblanca or carbonell, It was left 34.3 million euros in 2023). Isn’t it a bit weird? The truth is that no. In recent years, we have seen exactly the same problem with The lemons, The almonds either bananas. The olive grove has been relatively protected because it is a product with a limited international competition: what was not protected is of climate change. In fact, those who have been (those of irrigation who have not suffered cuts) have not had this problem. The irrigation has been the great beneficiary (or the least harmed) of these successive crises: they had more olives when prices were expensive and have less costs now than prices are low. Can the olive grove be saved? That is the big question. If the industry continues to hook financially complicated years, the problems can be increasing. Therefore, the Olivar tendency has been “go passing“To irrigation (or to ultraintensive models). There is no water for everyone. “The difficult thing is to have water because the Guadalquivir basin is already deficient, so there are no new concessions,” explained in DAP Diego BarrancoProfessor at the University of Córdoba. These concessions do have “historical plots of other crops that were always irrigated or the olive groves that emerged” directly as “irrigation”. However, transforming 1,901,529 hectares of olive groves before it is too late one of the most important agricultural challenges of the century. And it is not clear that we can do it. Image | Kostas Morfiris | Visual Karsa In Xataka | Spain faces the problem contrary to a year ago: an olive oil so cheap that it is no longer profitable for farmers

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