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GPT-5 is being a tortuous path for OpenAi and points to an uncomfortable reality: the era of the head is over

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Chatgpt-5 is falling. They have not confirmed it directly, but Sam Altman is already in ‘Hype’ mode and all Rumors They point out that the new model will be presented this month. That GPT-5 It will improve its predecessors is evident. However, as has happened in other industries (Did anyone say smartphones?) The rhythm of the advances is slowing down and everything indicates that GPT-5 will not be the revolution that were previous versions. A discreet jump. They tell it in The Information. Sources close to OpenAI say that, although with improvements, the qualitative leap will not be as great as it was with GPT-3 and GPT-4. This contrasts with Altman’s constant mentions The close thing that is to achieve a general artificial intelligence (AGI), an AI capable of matching the smartest human being in all areas of knowledge. But Chatgpt-5 is far from being AGI and also OpenAi has encountered numerous obstacles along the way. The GPT-5 that was not. At the end of 2024, Openai was working on an internally nicknamed model and that was the candidate to become GPT-5. However, the jump with respect to the previous version was not large enough and finally OpenAi decided to launch it as GPT-4.5, an intermediate version that Nor was it a great improvement With respect to its competition. In Xataka A group of experts in AI attended a party in a mansion. The topic of conversation: what will be when AI ends humanity The one that will be. Openai has continued working on what GPT-5 will be and is about to launch. According to internal sources, the new model improves especially in programming and also does so more efficiently; It is able to produce higher quality code without consuming more computing power. Openai wanted to improve this area, where Anthropic takes a lot of advantage with Claude Code. GPT-5 will also improve its agricultural skills and will be able to follow complex instructions to function without human supervision. In The Information they cite an example about a customer service agent. Giving it a list of rules, GPT-5 can decide when a client must receive a refund, while in previous models they needed to see many complex cases to do it well. Although there will be improvements, The shadow that will not be surprising continues to fly over. Obstacles. The Tensions between Openai and Microsoft They have hindered the advance of the new model. There have been internal friction between both companies, especially for intellectual property issues. Openai accused Microsoft of anti -competitive behaviors. Microsoft accused Openai of not giving access to his most advanced models. They also faced a shortage problem of quality training data and, more recently, the Discompassed talents to the team of Zuckerberg Superintelligence and Google by removing Windsurfhis commitment to the Vibe-Coding. {“Videid”: “X9N4GWC”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “OpenAi has presented chatgpt agent”, “Tag”: “chatgpt”, “duration”: “47”} The challenge. Openai has encountered a problem: that specialized reasoning can be taken to a chat with which we can talk naturally. It is what happened to them with O3, the reasoning model that They presented in April and that will feed GPT-5. Both this model and O1 were trained by reinforced learning, but O3 provided much more processing capacity and obtained surprising results. However, by turning it into a version of chat, that performance fell into chopped and I lost many capabilities. The reasoning model is so powerful that the response time increases a loteven for very simple questions. GPT-5 is expected to be at an intermediate point. Continuism. GPT-5 improvements may be more than enough for OpenAI continues to feed your machinerybut it seems clearer that there is a deceleration of the generative AI. At the end of 2023 Bill Gates already said that I did not believe that GPT-5 would be much better than GPT-4 and that the generative AI was close to its roof. It is an almost natural process and that we have seen with other industries such as smartphones: a lot of innovation and qualitative leaps in the first years, followed by a continuous stage in which the novelties are lower and the sensation is progress, but much slower. Image | Wikipedia, Pexels In Xataka | There is a chatgpt fever among public officials. What we do not know is how it will affect us as users (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news GPT-5 is being a tortuous path for OpenAi and points to an uncomfortable reality: the era of the head is over It was originally posted in Xataka by Amparo Babyloni .

Sydney Sweeney stars in a new announcement of jeans. And for some it is the end of the “era woke”

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The campaign that Sydney Sweeney has starred for American Eagle He has raised an opinion polcareda in the United States, with accusations of racism and even Eugenics Defense that are rarely made to clothing marks. On the surface, criticisms accompanied by the moment of special sensitivity in the country; If we deepen a little more, an authentic thermometer of the Anti-Woke wave that deployed throughout the state since Donald Trump won the elections. American Woman. That Sweeney star in a campaign for American Eagle has nothing strange: one of the actresses with a more canonical beauty of the current Star System Hollywood Juvenile at the service of a purely American jeans brand. The ads have an erotic and fashionable point, almost Vintage In his shameless contemplation of Sweeney’s physicist, and at the same time self -conscious, to parodic of pure topic (checking the engine of a typical American car, recording with a video camera, I made a casting …) Good genes. The problematic is the slogan: “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans”, an intraductible misunderstanding set between genes and jeansthat in English they pronounce the same. In one of the clips The misunderstanding comes to make explicit, and the protests have happened. Articles like this room They speak of commentators strange that it is precisely a blonde, white and blue -eyed woman, which is described as’ good genes. “It is a speech that many find, as the article details, uncomfortably similar to the discourse on The “upper race” of the Nazissince “good genes” is a message that has traditionally wielded ideology groups related to eugenics. Eugenics Today. The eugenic movement in the United States was An important social and scientific phenomenonmainly active from the end of the 19th century until the mid -twentieth century, and aimed Improve “genetic quality” of the population through selective breeding and reproduction control. It was greatly fed by beliefs in biological determinism and The racial hierarchy And he frequently pointed to groups considered “not suitable”, as poor, disabled, certain racial and immigrant minorities of the southern and east of Europe. Today, the movement does not exist in an organized way, but has experienced resurgence Thanks to certain political and social groups auged by Trump’s conservative ideas: beliefs in “genetic purity”, opposition to diversity efforts and hard migratory positions framed in statements pseudo-biological about “bad genes.” Even today laws persist in the country based on eugenic principles, such as norms for “usual criminals” or The laws of three crimes. Ozempic Empire. Some observers They also point to Ozempic consumptionwho has grown up significantly in the United States. The medicine has become a social phenomenonwith a boom auged by Influencers and pressure on social networks that encourage its use to lose weight. This has done that The movement Body Positivity that claimed diverse bodies and not adjusted to traditional canons of beauty has entered into decline: in front of a new cult of thinness and an “era of self-injection.” In Tiktok, this Return to the ideal of very thin bodies Similar to 2000, disguised as inclusion and self -acceptance, it already has a name: “Skinnytok”. Woke decays. All this panorama (claim of canonical bodies, toying accusation with defiantly ultra -right -wing root ideas, the theoretical undercover racism) is under the umbrella A broader and more complex phenomenon: The recent wave that groups politicians, influencers, podcasters and Leaders of the technological sector that They oppose the policies and speeches associated with the “woke ideology”. For example, an icon of this movement, the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, has promoted laws to combat the teaching of the critical theory of the race, which enters with the theories we have seen above. Antiwake wave critics denounce that, disguised as Fight for Freedom of Expression (which is undoubtedly what allows American Eagle to launch campaigns like this), this rhetoric serves to preserve white and conservative power structures, attacking narratives that promote racial and social justice. That is, very in line with criticism of this new campaign starring Sidney Sweeney. Header | American Eagle In Xataka | Hildegart, the “red virgin” designed by her mother to eugenize Spain and ended in tragedy

There are more and more people summarizing books with chatgpt instead of reading them: Welcome to the era of post-alfabetization

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@alz_zyd_ In X: Spending an hour asking Chatgpt about Adam Smith generally teaches you the triple to spend an hour reading ‘the richness of nations’. University students use because it is a better and more efficient way to learn. The comment of Doug Henwood: We have fully entered postalfabetization and this is really alarming. They talk about A silent transformation but quite fast and, apparently, massive: Students have discovered that they can “read” ‘The richness of nations‘, The academic manual of economy par excellence, talking with Chatgpt. According to the first – University Professor – an hour of dialogue gives them more processable information than weeks battling with Adam Smith’s original. Efficiency is overwhelming. In Xataka The new illiteracy has nothing to do with knowing how to read or write: it is to use AI as an oracle instead of as a tool AND Many students are adopting this practicesomething endorsed by Papers. They do it without fuss. They have simply found a better method to absorb complex knowledge: They load the PDF They ask for the main ideas. They throw specific questions. They ask for clarifications. They request contemporary examples. The result: Understanding the fundamentals of the economy in a fraction of the necessary time so far. The problem is that they learn to read manuals in a very different way. This cognitive mutation has been baptized by Henwood as “postalfabetization.” We continue to have the ability to read, but we have outsourced intellectual digestion. As with spatial orientation and the use of GPS, we are delegating a basic brain function at AI. From this There was already talk More than fifteen years ago. Deep reading It demands mental resistancetolerance to ambiguity, gradual construction of criteria. Chatgpt Instead, it offers instant clarity and immediate synthesis. {“Videid”: “X9N4GWC”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “OpenAi has presented chatgpt agent”, “Tag”: “chatgpt”, “duration”: “47”} The generation that grows with this practice will develop other cognitive skills: On the one hand, higher processing speed, better synthesis capacity, perhaps broader conceptual connections. On the other, a huge dependence on algorithmic intermediary. When all the information comes pre-processed, the muscle of critical thought ends up atrophy. Postalfabetization is surely inevitable, probably irreversible. Those who dominate both modes – traditional lift, dialogue with AI – will have an advantage. The rest will be trapped in their own efficiency: brilliant on the surface but vulnerable in depth. Outstanding image | Thought catog In Xataka | The “superpower” of reading a lot in a short time is less overlap when you hear how Bill Gates gets (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news There are more and more people summarizing books with chatgpt instead of reading them: Welcome to the era of post-alfabetization It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

This is how the ‘Paypal Mafia’ became the largest quarry of Tech millionaires in our era. That and much more in 1×13 crossover

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Elon Musk was already obsessed with the letter X a long time ago. Her particular fixation with her has a lot to do with nostalgia And with a 1999 waitressbut the truth is that this letter was already the germ of something very big. In fact, in March 1999 We had a first version of X.com. It was very different, and Musk’s goal was not to change Twitter’s name – which did not exist at that time – but to create a financial startup. The funny thing is that the offices of X.com were glued to those of Confinity, the company co -founded by Peter Thiel with a similar objective. After a while competing, both decided that it was best to join forces, and from that alliance PayPal was born. That at first he did not curb, but that he ended up doing it with some “thugs” techniques and with the work of one of the teams with the greatest talent in history. Those boys, yes, soon realized that they wanted to be their own bosses. When Ebay bought PayPal in 2002the mission, leadership and objectives no longer convinced those engineers. So they decided to ride it on their own. AND This is how the famous “Paypal Mafia” was borna group of entrepreneurs who fled from PayPal with counting and sound money and who used it to found their own projects. Thiel set up his Founders Fund and Palantir, Elon Musk launched Tesla or Spacex, and other employees ended up joining each other or founding their own mega projects: YouTube, LinkedIn or Yelp are among them. The conclusion: Paypal was the germ of an entire Internet revolutionbecause these services began to change our conception of the network of networks. That is the central theme of Crossover 1×13an episode that is always led by Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia and that brings a few fun sections. We have images generated by the converted into videos and “plausible technological lies” that will surely generate debate. We hope you enjoy it! On YouTube | Crossover

The designer company who marked an era in Cupertino will buy

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For years, Apple was synonymous with boldness. He made quick decisions, broke conventions and challenged the entire industry. Now Apple has become a Big Tech that moves much more caution, but some see an echo of that attitude today in OpenAi. Now, in a way, the firm of the led by Sam Altman is connecting even more to the roots of the Cupertino company. OpenAI He has just announced An agreement to acquire IO, the Startup of devices co -founded by Jony Ive, in an operation valued at almost 6.5 billion dollars. According to Bloombergthe agreement is completely structured in shares: 5,000 million dollars correspond to the purchase of 77 % of the company, and the rest comes from an earlier investment of 23 % that Openai made in 2024. A designer who scored an era in Apple. Jony Ive was not one more designer. He joined Apple in 1992 and, together with Steve Jobs, helped shape a generation of iconic products: the IMAC, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch … even the controversy Magic Mouse with its load port at the bottom. His aesthetic vision defined Apple’s design language for decades. After leaving the company in 2019, IVE founded the Lovefrom creative study. And a year ago, IO with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan, three key figures in Apple’s products. The IO team brings together more than 50 experts in hardware, software and manufacturing processes, many of which have worked together for years. Now they will be integrated into Openai. OpenAi is thrown at the hardware with an ambitious vision. Until now, Openai has been a software -centered company. Chatgpt and its language models, such as GPT-4O, are virtual tools. Some of them have been made up of other companies in tangible products, such as Microsoft’s co -pilot, but OpenAi had not directly approached the creation of devices. That is about to change. According to a letter published by Altman And IVE on the official OpenAI website, the collaboration between both parties began two years ago, discreetly and motivated by “friendship, curiosity and shared values.” From those first conversations, ideas and prototypes arose that, little by little, took shape. The objective, they say, is to create a new family of products “that inspire, empower and train.” What can we expect now? Although concrete details have not been shared, the first device is expected to be the result of this union to see the light in 2026. In statements collected by Bloomberg, IVE has indicated that consumer technology has not been really new, and that people are looking exactly that. The IO team will continue to operate from its offices in Jackson Square (San Francisco), but already collaborates closely with Openai engineers and designers. Lovefrom, on the other hand, will assume new responsibilities in design and product experience for both software and future devices. A path with obstacles (and recent learning). Openai’s jump to hardware does not arrive in an empty context. In recent months, other IA -promoted devices projects have failed loudly, such as the Human Ai Pin or Rabbit R1. The operation must still be approved by regulators and will be completed foreseeably this summer. From there, the challenge begins: demonstrate that Openai can also mark a before and after in the hardware field. The wait will be worth it, “Altman told the aforementioned American media.” It’s an ambitious and crazy idea. “ Images | OpenAI (1, 2) | Apple | Colin Davis In Xataka | The latest Google event makes clear what the true future of accessories is: glasses connected with Android XR

Now the era of Chinese propaganda has begun

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The Commercial War It is fought on the parquet of the bags, in the Cultivation fields, Factories and portsbut also in the networks. In fact, one of the key battles in the struggle between Washington and Beijing is played: that of the story. We saw it not long ago with the Viral videos Created with which they make fun of Donald Trump’s effort to reindustrialize the United States via tariffs. Now that struggle to guide discourse in networks seems to have gone further, with A Video Cascade in Tiktok that affect China’s benefits against the supposed decline of the USA. His propaganda approach is clear, just like his leitmotiv: Show China as a kind of Tecnoutopía futuristic. The (another) Great Pulse. He Tariff pulse Between Washington and Beijing, which has raised above 100% The rates that each country applies to the exports of the other, is already being felt in the fields, factories and ports. In those of the US, in those of China and even in those of third nations that have come out in some way favored, Like Brazil. Beyond government offices or large corporations, there is another ‘battlefield’ in which the struggle between China and the US seems to have aggravated: the networks. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok @schbachlq Urban Greens #Foryupage #USA🇺🇸 #China #Americandream #chinatravel #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Schbachlq “Maga”, in the spotlight. A few weeks ago, in full escalation of the commercial war between the two nations, it went viral in Tiktok A series of videos elaborated with the in which Americans were overweight working in Nike, Tesla, Apple or Nvidia assembly chains. Everything between posters of “Make America Grate Again” or “Made in USA”, fried potatoes, soft drinks and an environment that even invited to think about clandestine factories. The message was powerful because one of the arguments wielded by Trump to justify the tariff war just that: Revitalize the US manufacturing industry. “Confrontative and mocking”. Bloomberg a few weeks ago It echoed From another campaign displayed in Tiktok, a platform in the hands of China bytedance and whose property (and the influence that the Xi Jinping government can exert on it) has generated An intense debate legal and political in the US. So much, in fact that the Supreme Court He came to veto her In the country if Bytedance did not sell it, a measure that Trump’s return to the White House He left in suspense. According to Bloombergnow Tiktok has served Influencers Chinese to encourage Americans to buy directly in the Asian giant with titles such as “China exposes the truth.” “These publications are much more confrontative and mocking with the US, instead of showing it as a threat,” Explain to the agency Tom Harper, professor at the University of East London, before remembering the videos generated with the Americans working on Nike, Tesla or Apple assembly chains. Apart from his ironic tone, the virality of these pieces demonstrates something else, such as Remember Bloomberg: The capacity of Chinese content creators to reach the US society through the Tiktok algorithm and other Asian networks, such as Xiaohongshu either Rednote. @zhiwen.Shen Which World Do you want to live in? #China #USA #chinese #fyp #Worldtody#chinalife#COTAST ♬ 困住你的不是别人 (李羲承进行曲) – Dj 阿智 @mindblowndai1y Use vs China Cars 🚘 #chinavsusa #fyp #tiktok #China #USA #Car #Cars ♬ Original Sound – SocialCreditgod China, year 3,000. With that backdrop it arrives A quick search In networks, especially Tiktok, to meet other types of videos that seem India either Even Europe. Their approach is clear and replica one and the other with hardly any changes: the pieces show images of depressed or saturated areas of the US and then contrast with others from China that reveal the opposite, a society Tecnofuturista. An eloquent example leaves it The @Schbachlg accountwith some video on that line that exceeds the million of visualizations, @worldstory75, @mindblowndai1y either @zhiwen.Shento cite some examples. In all, several videos can be seen that contrast the American society, cities and economy with China, leaving a clearly favorable balance to the last one. Among all add up to hundreds of thousands of reproductions. Some of those pieces, with a more parodic tone, add up in fact Millions of visualizations. @schbachlq #Foryupage #USA🇺🇸 #China #Americandream #chinatravel #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Schbachlq @boy_dylan17 #China #USA ♬ Original sound – Dylan 肖宇梁 🇵🇪🇨🇳 Is it something new? Yes. And no. The videos that extol Chinese society, heritage and culture are not exactly new in networks. They existed, as in other countries, including the US. The striking is its frequency, its impact and its approach, focused on showing a modern, advanced, urban and ecological society compared to that of other regions of the planet. Of course in Tiktok they can also find themselves Other pieces in a radically opposite sense. The interesting thing is precisely your message. And the context in which it arrives. Images | Tiktok 1 and 2 In Xataka | China approaches energy self -sufficiency: it activates 10 new reactors and reinforces its nuclear domain

Microsoft is already the largest editor in PlayStation. It is the era of Xbox Sin Xbox

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The Latest Xbox financial results They consolidate their strategic turn and change forever the video game industry: Microsoft is now the biggest editor in PlayStation… While its physical presence, the console that gave name to the brand, sees its sales fall by 6%. It couldn’t be more symbolic. The Redmond giant has achieved what seemed impossible: to grow Xbox gradually eliminating its original reason. In figures: Game Pass for PC It has increased 45% year -on -year. Content and services grow 8% (it is the third best quarter in its history). Minecraft, driven by Your moviehas reached 75% more weekly users. The cloud records 150 million hours of play transmitted. And meanwhile, that black box that was previously the epicenter now languishes little by little. Is The definitive dematerialization of a platform. What began as a commitment to hardware a quarter of a century has evolved to become an ethereal entity that blooms better in Comanche territory. And also the culmination of Phil Spencer’s vision, which has piled the most radical change we have seen a console manufacturer: go from competing for exclusivity to expand through ubiquity. The interesting thing about this success is that it contradicts the dominant account of the industry, which insisted that Game Pass had touched the roof. But the strategy was not understood because it was measured with old parameters. The great revolution It has not been technical but conceptual: Abandon the idea that a platform needs its own device to exist. In emerging markets such as Brazil, Where taxes make hardware prohibitivethe cloud already exceeds consoles and PC. This mutation changes the stage. The Consoles Warthat tribal narrative that held the culture of the video game for decades, is reduced to an anecdote in the quarterly reports. Doom, Indiana Jones and Forza shine more in PlayStation than in their original home. The future that Microsoft has drawn is here: An omnipresent Xbox that paradoxically does not need to be Xbox to succeed. They have understood before anyone who in the digital era real power is to control the content and not the device that reproduces it. In Xataka | Microsoft rises strongly the price of Xbox consoles and their controls worldwide: they remain in Europe and the USA Outstanding image | Xataka

We have just lived the first great blackout of the renewable era. The debate is now how to get the last one

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The debate in public opinion is served for the coming weeks, at least Until the conclave arrivesat which time it will be limited to the specialized circles of the energy sector. Bloomberg analyst Javier Blas, He has baptized What happened in Spain and Portugal as “the great green blackout of the era of renewable energy.” Although the authorities have not yet offered a definitive version, the debate has intensified. Until now. The official version is still preliminary, but Red Eléctrica de España has offered a technical reconstruction of what happened. According to the latest information, the fall was not the product of a cyber attack or sabotage, but of the failure chain of several systems in a context of high renewable penetration. In a matter of seconds, about 15 gigawatts were disconnected, approximately 60% of the consumption of electric demand, due to a sharp drop in voltage, known as “voltage hole.” This type of active fall automatic protection systems that disconnect power plants and substations to avoid greater damage. According to Financial Timesthe lack of inertia – the capacity of certain infrastructure such as turbines to stabilize the network— He worsened the problem. And since Portugal partially depends on the Spanish supply, the blackout immediately extended to the entire neighboring country. Despite this, Beatriz Corredor, president of Red Electrica, He has warned that “it is not correct to relate the incident to the penetration of renewables”, defending that these technologies work stable and that the Spanish electrical system is resilient. He also pointed out that millions of data are being analyzed to clarify the exact causes of the blackout and reinforce the response protocols. Debate is reopened. A few weeks ago, the discussion in the energy sector revolved around Scheduled closure of the nuclear centrals planned for two years. However, the blackout has catalyzed a more visible ideological shock: renewable vs. nuclear. Such as has detailed eldiario.es, what happened has fed tensions among those who defend the energy transition against those who want to keep nuclear as stable support. In that same article, Jorge Sanz, the former president of the Commission for Energy Transition, has declared that one of the factors was the massive disconnection of renewables before a voltage hole. However, like has pointed out Renewable expert Xavier Cugat in his networks, Sanz has omitted a relevant fact: The existence of the Srap (Automatic protection response system), already operational and with several real and solar wind capacity gigawatts. A crucial tool that, although it did not avoid the blackout, is part of the effort to improve the technical response of renewables in these situations. But there is an unstoppable reality. According to Irenain 2024 92.5% of the new electrical power installed worldwide was renewable. That is, twelve times more renewable than nuclear, gas and coal together were installed. Clean energies are already the norm: they are cheaper, safe and in many countries, almost the only option that is being expanded. There are already concrete examples: countries like Paraguay, Iceland or Norway They work with 100% of renewable generation. The address is clear; What is at stake is how to manage this transformation without compromising system stability. What is the way? As has explained for RNE The head of the Rey Juan Carlos University, Eloy Sanz, which the Iberian Peninsula is an “energy island” with Very little international connection. Spain and Portugal need an integration much stronger With the rest of Europe to share surpluses, balance demand and strengthen system safety. To this is added the need to continue investing in storage, such as batteries, Reversible pumping plants either Green hydrogen. Finally, the development of technologies such as Synthetic inertiaalready deployed in countries such as Denmark, which simulate the stabilizing effect of old thermal plants or other strategy such as Synchronous Power Controlwhich allow renewables to also contribute to the stability of the network without the need for batteries or physical inertia flyers. Ignoring this has a price. As He has summarized Javier Blas in his column with crudeness: “The design of the network, the policies and risk analysis are not yet up to the management of an excess of renewables.” It is not an attack on clean energy, but a call of attention. The error would be to abandon renewables by a blackout, nor were fossil fuels left after Blackout New York in 1977. But we must learn. The future of energy will be renewable, but it cannot be naive or ideological. Image | Unspash Xataka | The problem is not that Spain depends much on renewable energies: it is not interconnected with Europe

Huawei is beating income record thanks to China. It is just the beginning of his new era

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Huawei has presented Your annual results report corresponding to 2024. The third smartphones manufacturer in China has achieved strong acceleration in its consumption business, with a significant increase in income, and not so good news in regards to its net benefit. But the key to Huawei’s results is not in the numbers. It is in how it is being reconvirt as a company to deal with the sanctions imposed by the United States. How is he going to Huawei. Since the Trump administration Break completely with the Chinese giant in 2019the company has drawn different action plans to rekindle its consumption business. Strategies that seem to be operating, since in 2024 Huawei increased by 38.3% the interannual income of this division, reaching a total of 339 billion yuan at the end of the year. It is the second best in income in the company’s history, behind the record reported at the end of 2019. Huawei sales last year have two main responsible: telecommunications infrastructure and the consumption area. Two pillars representing about 82% of the company’s total income. Huawei advances in semiconductor matterdodging a good part of US restrictionsnext to Strong support of the Chinese government They have significantly promoted sales. In the mobile phone market, Huawei experienced an interannual increase of 37%, while the telecommunications infrastructure division grew 4.9%, driven by the deployment of 5G networks and the start of the commercialization of 5.5g networks. Despite the record in income, Huawei’s net benefit has fallen by 28%. There is a weight of weight for it and it is good news: the company is making more investment than ever in innovation and development. Diversify, the new key to the company. Huawei plans to increase investment in R&D in the next three years to seek opportunities for growth and differentiation with respect to its competitors. The area of ​​consumption and telecommunications remains the main pillar for its income, but diversifying will be one of the keys to Huawei within three years. Huawei is making investments in new sectors, such as infrastructure for electric vehicles and renewable energy. Related to the engine scope, the company is offering automotive solutions for smart vehicles, such as ADAS and software systems. This last business grew by 474.4% last year, and projects such as Avat 11 either Luxeed S7companies that develop luxury vehicles with Huawei support and technology, are the sign that this will be one of the next income pillars for the company. The foreigner, the main barrier to overcome. The commercial war between China and the United States He has shown that the Asian country can maintain the profitability of its companies without depending on foreign partners. However, Huawei still faces difficulties to expand outside China. In Europe we are still waiting for movements such as Harmonyos Next in China, the first operating system developed 100% by Huawei outside the Android nucleus. This movement will be key to determining whether the company can consolidate its technological independence globally, depending on the partners to capture in our territory. He achieves it or not, the key is that Huawei does not need success in any other country outside his to remain profitable as a company. Although, of course, to compete with the best you have to be where the best. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The long goodbye of Huawei in Spain: of strategic partner to Technology Non Grata

In the era of hybrid work there is a new unicorn of business management: the Barcelona factorial startup

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In 2020 and in full pandemic a technological startup of Barcelona called Factorial He lived his particular turning point. The company had an attractive and versatile online platform for human resources management, and the confinement gave a unique opportunity to make potential clients known: it offered its platform for free until confinement passed, and that made many known and realized how well that platform could work while the teleworking became strength. His CEO, Jordi Romero, explained So how many of the new clients who registered in factorial maintained their management in local files or at most “in a dropbox folderbut nothing more. “In April the firm achieved an investment of 16 million dollars of CRV, but that was a stressful round. Just before the pandemic came the company had” an agreement between knights (with CRV), so to speak, “Romero commented,” but the money had to be transferred yet. “ The decision to offer its platform for free was a success, and many companies verified the benefits of that comfortable online management that allowed everything very well organized and accessible in a simple way. At that time that round was the largest that was seen in Spain, and it happened at a time when the labor market was in a certainly strange situation. Factorial took advantage of something that no other company in the sector had previously taken advantage of: His platform was perfect for companies that or did not have HR professionals for being too small, or that if they had them were overcome by the workload or by having to make those tasks with others of management. The factorial solution precisely solved the problem, and that marked a before and after for her and her clients. New and important investment rounds After that round starring CRV, 18 months later factorial became one of the protagonists of the Spanish technological sector. In September 2021 the general investment firm Catalyst bet 80 million dollars for her and confirmed her remarkable projection. This bet was a success: the factorial growth has made it one of the most promising technological startups in our country. A year later, factorial lifted another 120 million dollars in a round with the majority participation of Atomico, but also of GIC, Tiger Global, CRV, K-Found and Creandum. That made it a de facto “unicorn”: its valuation was already 1,000 million dollars, twice what was a year earlier with the previous round. The company, which then had 7,000 clients in Europe and in Latin America – where those first years had its great focus— has not stopped growing And he has had a especially notable 2024. His number of customers is now 13,000 SMEs, and has just given another great news: General Catalyst, which as we said already invested 80 million dollars in it, has expanded that investment at $ 120 million, so that the total bet It becomes 200 million dollars. It is striking that this extension of the investment is carried out without diluting the capital of its shareholders. Jordi Romero, CEO of Factorial (on the left in the image with Bernat Farrero, another of the co -founders) explained how that is “something uncommon in hypercrection companies that, in addition, are financially sustainable.” Pau Ramón, the third co -founder and exco from the company, abandonment Factorial in 2023 for personal reasons. The funds, as those responsible for Factorial point out, will go to the expansion of the firm in Germany – where it is growing especially fast – France and Italy. Not only that: they will allow this firm to give the final impulse in a transition in which they have been working for years: to go from being a human resources software to a large business management platform. SANNED ACCOUNTS AND OWN RISK CAPITAL FUND They hope to reach about 20,000 clients before the end of the year, Romero said In the countryand its forecast is to exceed 100 million dollars of recurring income this year. As indicated in that article, 2024 has been the first year in which the company has grown up without consuming its own resourcessomething especially important to consolidate the profitability of the company. Bernat Farrero, Pau Ramón (now outside the company) and Jordi Romero, co -founders of the company. Source: Factorial. The firm had at the end of 2024 with 90 million dollars of cash reserves, something striking because it shows the financial solidity of a company that is capable of growing without practically boxing of cash. The investment round seemed almost unnecessary, but according to Romero that allows factorial to “continue its expansion without compromising its financial stability or diluting the capital of its shareholders,” as we mentioned earlier. The company has no immediate plans to go over – “We are not in a hurry,” Romero explains – and does not seem interested in inorganic growth inking or buying other companies. What they do, explained those responsible In araIt is to bill 1,000 million euros in five years. And although the exit to the parquet is for now an unknown, what those entrepreneurs have done has been, as they pointed out In the avant -garde, Create a risk capital fund of 15 million euros with which they want to finance emerging companies. It’s called Itnig Capital, and He has already invested One million euros in nine Spanish companies. The “Startup factory” of Factorial seems to have started with good foot, and is helping that new firms created by former factorial employees take their first steps, as pointed out expanding A few months ago. Growing, but with comparatively low wages During all this factorial time it has evolved. Its creators began working on a human resources platform to manage both employees and various administrative tasks, but in recent times they have become a “Comprehensive Business Management Platform“That allows the management of projects, training and control of expenses. Romero, Farrero and Ramón shared the same frustration when creating factorial: that in many companies there was little technology that helped to climb … Read more

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