SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has just announced the purchase of xAI, founded by Elon Musk

Until very recently, this was just a rumor. Today, SpaceX just told it as a fact. The aerospace company has published an official statement in which it states that it has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. The text does not go into details of the operation, but it does set the tone: it talks about integrating AI, rockets and space connectivity as part of the same strategy. And, although the announcement is forceful, it leaves many important questions in the air that still have no answers. SpaceX frames the operation as part of a vertical integration. The official statement is signed by Musk and has a more ideological than corporate tone, with references to “freedom of expression” and an almost existential mission. But, beyond the story, the document leaves out some elements that are important to understand this movement: there are no figures or details of how the agreement materializes. In development. In Xataka | Genie 3 is awesome at creating worlds for video games. But the problem with video games was never creating worlds

The only town founded and built by Chinese and for Chinese

In the month of March We count A curious and unexpected movement, one that, in addition, had already happened in New York and that was now extended throughout Japan: neighborhoods with Chinese than Japanese. The truth is that if we have to talk about surprising migratory movements with Beijing as the protagonist, none as the one occurred a century ago in An enclave of the United States. Origins and context. The story remembered this week The BBC. On the banks of the Sacramento River, in the heart of the fertile but once inhospitable Californian Delta, Locke was born in 1915 as the only town in the United States By Chinese for Chinese. Its history goes back in the mid -nineteenth century, when gold fever attracted thousands of search engines from the province of Guangdong, in China, with the promise of A “GAM SAAN” or “Mountain of Gold”. Soon, hostility, discriminatory taxes like him Foreign Mine’s Tax from 1850 and violence pushed them towards other trades: the laying of the transcontinental railroad And, above all, the agricultural transformation of Delta thanks to his experience in draining marshes and building dikes. Between 1860 and 1880, they recovered more than 35,000 hectares, laying the foundations of an agricultural emporium, although without property rights by laws such as the Alien Land Law 1913 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Lockle Foundation. In October 1915, A fire He razed Walnut Grove Chinatown, displacing hundreds of families. Among the victims was Lee Bing, prosperous merchant of Zhongshan origin, who led with others an agreement with the landowner George Locke Jr. to lease nine acres and lift A new settlement. So Locke emergedinitially known as Lockeport, under a system of “Ground Rent” which charged 5 dollars per month for residential lots and 10 for commercials. Between 1915 and 1917, 45 wooden buildings were built, mostly unpainted and with sheet metal roofs, which still retain the rustic aspect of the old west. The community grew rapidly with workers used in farms and conserves, and was endowed Chinese schoolshops, hotels, restaurants and game rooms that would operate for decades. Cultural and economic splendor. During its peak, between the 20s and 40s, the enclave housed some 600 inhabitants, almost all Chinese, and it was described as The “Monte Carlo de California” for its intense activity in the clandestine casinos. It had nine grocery stores, six restaurants, a cinema, a hotel, mills and guest houses, in addition to male associations such as the Jan Ying Association. The Chinese school not only taught calligraphy and language, but preserved Cultural identity in an environment marked by discrimination. That community fabric allowed Locke inhabitants to prosper despite not being able to possess the land they occupied. Demographic decline. The repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act In 1943 he opened opportunities outside the Delta, and the new generations They emigrated to cities close. In the 60s the population decreased dramatically, but social cohesion kept the people alive. In 1990, Locke was declared National Historical Monument for being the most complete example of Chinese-American Rural Agricultural Community. At the beginning of the 21st century, problems such as the collapse of the septic system and the lack of ownership of the land threatened their future, until in 2004 the Housing and Revitalization Authority sacrament bought, repaired and resorted The plots to residents and descendants, ensuring their permanence. Preservation, tourism and new life. Today, Locke keeps standing much of its original buildings, converted into museums such as The Dai Loy (former game hall), the Joe Show School House wave Jan Ying Associate Building. The restaurant To The Wopsinaugurated in 1934 as the first non -Chinese business, it remains a meeting point. Artists and new settlers live with the descendants of the founders in a bohemian and quiet environment, visited on weekends by tourists who arrive by the panoramic view of River Road. Thus, more than an architectural vestige, Locke is a resistance symbol And adaptation, testimony of how a discriminated community managed to build its own refuge, preserve its culture and leave an indelible mark on the history of the Delta de California. Image | Wayne Hsieh In Xataka | A phenomenon that has already happened in New York is spreading throughout Japan: neighborhoods with younger than Japanese In Xataka | The labor crisis in China takes many young people to the same challenge: living with less than $ 70 per month for food

ELON MUSK: “If the Demential Project of Expenditure is approved, América Party will be founded the next day.” It has just been approved

Just a month ago, Elon Musk left The Oval Office giving a virtual door to Donald Trump, who reproached that without the millions he had donated to his campaign Today would not be president. In addition, he accused the president of appearing In Epstein’s listlinking Trump with the networks of prostitution and abuse of minors. More calm the spirits, the CEO of Tesla said that its political stage had come to an end And he was going to dedicate all his energies to solve the serious difficulties that the car manufacturer is going through. The promise It has lasted a month. Musk now not only returns to the political field, but has even proposed to create a new political party: America party. It will be that the goat always pulls the mountain. The origin of the idea: a survey. The distancing between Musk and Trump was made public when both They starred in a discussion in X. In that context, Musk launched A survey to your followers asking them if he should create a new political party that represented 80% of voters who do not feel identified either with Democrats or with Republicans. The result was overwhelming: 80.4% of the participants supported the idea of ​​a new game, although the proposal was pause at that time. In Musk’s words: “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice.” Musk’s criticisms of Trump’s “great and beautiful law.” Since the presentation of Trump’s new budget law, popularly known as the “great and beautiful law” (One Big Beautiful Tax Bill), Musk was especially critical. Touch the image to go to the original message Such and As you collect the BBCMusk denounced that these regulations perpetuate the United States dependence on the debt, raise the expense roof and expand tax exemptions for large fortunes and companies, while cutting health benefits and services for the most disadvantaged. Musk did not hesitate to qualify the law as “a disgusting abomination”, And he added: “Shame for those who have voted it, they know they have done wrong. They know it.” While the new budget law is being debated in the Senate, Musk insists on his offensive and attacking this law on this occasion on this occasion. With A message in xthe millionaire has threatened to boycott the re -election of all those who support the new law in the next primary of the Republican Party, ensuring that “they will lose their primaries next year even if it is the last thing he does on this earth.” For Musk, who have campaigned to reduce government spending and now vote in favor of the greatest increase in debt in history “they should bend the head of shame.” Trump without hair on the tongue. Donald Trump has not remained silent before Musk’s attacks to his bill. From your social networkTrump recalled that Musk “has had more subsidies than any other human being in history, without subsidies, should close the store and return home in South Africa.” In addition, the president has threatened to send to DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency that Until now Musk had directedto review all the Magnate contracts, ensuring that Cularing on satellitesrockets and electric cars “would save a fortune.” Trump has also stressed that Musk knew from the first moment that the Budget Law was a fundamental part of his campaign, a campaign that Musk himself “had supported with such vehemence.” Vox Populi, Vox Dei. Making use From the popular judgment in Latin, “the voice of the people is the voice of God”, Musk took the survey on the creation of a new party again out of the manga ensuring that If the law is approved, the next day it would found the America party. “Our country needs an alternative to Democratic-Republican Unipartisanism so that people really have a voice,” wrote the millionaire. Touch the image to go to the original message As advances The avant -gardethe law has just been approved, so we are waiting for the next Musk movement. Of course, one of the options does not seem to be to keep your attention In Tesla’s problems either of Spacex. In Xataka | We knew that the CEO of large companies were very well paid. What we didn’t know was how much their salary had risen Image | Flickr(Gage Skidmore)

He founded a promising platform and ended up accused of washing 500 million

The case of Sam Bankman-Fried He left an open wound in the crypto sector. His meteoric ascent in front of FTX and its subsequent fall They marked a milestone in public perception on these platforms. But it was not the only one. Now, another tycoon of cryptocurrencies has been accused of starring in a massive laundering scheme. Iurii gangnin, founder of the companies Evita Investments and Avoid paywould have provided about 2,000 million dollars in transactions, of which more than 500 million passed through the US financial system. The authorities believe that he turned his company into an undercover financing network for sanctioned Russian banks and sensitive technological exports. A platform in the sights. According to the accusationGugnin founded two companies in the United States: Evita Investments, based in Delaware, and avoids Pay, based in Florida. Through them it would have moved approximately 530 million dollars through banks and cryptocurrency exchange houses in the US, hiding the real origin and purpose of the funds. Being Evita Investments the main road, with about 365 million of the 530 moved in US territory through Tether. The Department of Justice accuses him of a total of 22 crimes, including: Bank fraud (maximum penalty: 30 years in prison) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (up to 5 years) Money laundering (up to 20 years) Violations of the Law on Economic Powers in International Emergencies (IEEPA) (up to 20 years) Operation of a money transmitter company without license (up to 5 years) Do not apply an effective program against money laundering (up to 10 years) Do not present suspicious activities reports before the authorities (up to 10 years) Gugnin was arrested in New York. If it is convicted, it could face several decades in prison, according to the combination of charges. Payments on the name of Russian, Chinese and Emirati customers. The accusation details that many of their clients had accounts in sanctioned Russian banks, such as Sberbank, VTB, Tinkoff, Sovcombank and even Alfa-Bank, where Guggnin himself maintained personal accounts. There were also clients in China and United Arab Emirates. Gugnin received cryptocurrencies, mainly in the stablecoin tether (USDT), turned them into dollars or other fiduciary currencies, and then made payments on behalf of its customers. How Financial Times points outsome of these payments would have served to acquire technology subject to export control, as servers designed by US companies, pieces for a French yacht company and components for Rosatom, the Russian state corporation of nuclear energy. He would also have channeled payments to Yiwu Vortex, a company sanctioned for exporting maritime equipment to Russia. A facade of legality. According to the Department of Justice, Guggnin registered Evita Pay as a company transmitting money before the state of Florida and the Finnn Network, but made it falsify the information about the true nature of its business. That license, obtained fraudulently, served to induce cryptocurrency exchange platforms to process operations. In addition, he cheated banks and exchanges ensuring that he did not work with sanctioned entities or Russian clients. The accusation states that it never applied an effective capital laundering prevention program, did not activate internal controls, did not report suspicious activities. The “serial entrepreneur” that he was looking for in Google how to know if they investigated him. Gugnin resided in New York and presented himself publicly as a “serial entrepreneur.” According to judicial documentation, he was fully aware of the illegality of his actions. The authorities had access to their navigation history, finding consultations related to how to know if it was being investigated, the penalties for money laundering, related sanctions and how to act in case of being under police investigation. Images | Avoid | Drawkit Illustrations | DOJ In Xataka | Hunting for cryptocurrencies: a wave of kidnappings and violence put them in the spotlight worldwide

founded two republics of which he was president

At present, millionaires are focused on Your own space career for “save humanity“Of itself. In the nineteenth century, the millionaires concentrated all that impetus in conquering territories of third countries independently, using Your own private army and governing their colonies as former feudal lords. That was the case of William Walker, considered by many as “last great filibuster“, which acted as an independent mercenary that conquered territories in Mexico, Nicaragua. William Walker: The Central American dictator The story of William Walker is a story of ambition, power and the formation of Latin American identity. Born in Tennessee in 1824, Walker was the son of very influential entrepreneurs in local politics. He studied medicine, journalism and law. However, he abandoned these professions to become a filibuster, a kind of private mercenaries that encouraged revolutions not authorized by any country in order to take the territories and their resources. To understand the context of private invasions of countries, it is important to know the concept on which the DOCTRINE OF MANIFESTO DESTINATION. This doctrine, one of the pillars United States foundational. This 19th century doctrine justified the territorial expansion of the United States through North America, based on the belief of being a “chosen” nation with the divine right to extend its civilization. This idea is associated with annexation to the United States of territories such as Texas and California, and wars such as Mexico and Spain, promoting the idea that expansion was obvious and predestined, reflected in the phrase “by divine or God authority.” This ideology influenced intervention and expansionism policies, whose maximum expression It is the famous phrase of Thomas Jefferson: “America has a hemisphere for itself.” The Sonora desert, part of the Republic of Sonora. With only 29 years, in 1853, Walker recruited 32 American slave mercenaries and launched into the conquest of the southern borders of the country which Hernán Cortés, in search of power and wealth. The incursion were not bad and the cities of La Paz and Ensenada in Mexico conquered, self -proclaiming president of the Republic of Sonorawhere he hastened to impose a new permissive legislation with slavery to obtain a rapid profitability of his conquest. His presidency lasted little, since five months later, the Mexican resistance and the lack of supplies forced him to withdraw. To a scrambled river, invading gain Far from demotivating itself after the failure of the first foray into private colonialism, William Walker allied with the Democratic Party of Nicaragua, which at that time was in full territorial dispute over the control of the Central American country with the legitimist party. Walker saw the opportunity to put a trick in the matter and offered to the local bourgeoisie to help them militarily to achieve their goals, and incidentally, to gain their own economic interests a little more. After winning the battle in Granada with an army of mercenaries called “The immortals“He was symbolically elected president, imposing American policies and customs. William began to apply his colonialist policy in the area by initiating a government policy by decrees, in which slavery was restored, the English as an official language And the arrival of Americans was encouraged, in addition to changing the constitution and flag of the country. It also established by decree that all the assets of the “enemies of the State” would be confiscated in favor of the Republic and distributed by a specially generous special board with the interests of William Walker and the United States. There is in fact the “germ” of the Panama Canal. Given the strategic nature of the area, this conquest did not go unnoticed by the United States, which rushed to recognize the legitimacy of the new republic created by William Walker. The US interest in the control of this area was based on the importance of creating a Interoceanic Commercial Route that will connect the Atlantic with the Pacific. Immediately the traffic route that connected both oceans through the San Juan River in the south of the country was established. The return of the hero. Attenny by the pressures of commercial interests and their neighboring countries, the Walker government is overthrown and the millionaire must return to his native Tennessee acclaimed as a victorious hero. His banishment would not last long, since, three years later, William Walker returned to the streets and already planned the conquest of Honduras. This coup adventure lasted less than the previous one. Walker is arrested by the British troops settled in the area and is quickly delivered to local authorities in Trujillo, where without further delay he is judged and sentenced to death. In Xataka | Gregor MacGregor, Prince of Poyais: The Scottish soldier who became a millionaire selling (twice) a false country Image | Wikimedia Commons (Mathew Benjamin Brady, Nicaragua-Cia_wfb_map.p), Pexels (ABODI VESAKARAN) *An earlier version of this article was published in May 2024

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