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Now face a murky future

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During the last decade, building wind turbines in the sea was glimpsed as a decisive change for the energy transition in Europe. In the middle of the sea, where the wind blows more strongly and constancy, the promise was to guarantee more clean and competitive large -scale electricity. However, that hope is getting rid under a storm of uncertainty. The crisis in the old continent. The great European bet for marine wind has encountered an uncomfortable reality: the auctions begin to get empty. In Germany, two areas of the North Sea with 2.5 GW capacity They did not arouse interest. Denmark offered 3 GW And neither were there biders. And in the United Kingdom, the fifth round of contracts per difference (CFD) failed because the maximum price set did not cover construction costs In a context of inflation. From Windeurope, The European wind employer cited by the SpanishThey have warned that marine wind remains cheaper than new coal or nuclear plants, but they have denounced that regulatory insecurity and current auction design are suffocating the investment appetite. As a possible solution, the organization claims to extend contracts by bilateral difference, which would give income stability and reduce financing. A common factor: Trump. On the other side of the puddle, the setbacks have their own name: Donald Trump. According to an extensive report by The New York Timesthe Republican Administration has paralyzed three wind projects already approved by the previous government: Revolution Wind in Rhode Island, Empire Wind in New York and Lava Ridge in Idaho. Official justifications allude to vague concerns of “national security”, but legal experts point out that the foundation is “surprisingly weak” and that there are no precedents to stop works with federal permits in order. Immediate consequences. As The Guardian has detailedthe Ørsted shares, the largest European wind company, fell 17% in a single day after the suspension of Revolution Wind, a project already completed by 80%. Analysts described the measure of “political hostage” and recalled that Trump’s animosity towards wind energy dates back more than a decade, when he tried to stop visible turbines from one of his golf courses in Scotland. The coup has forced Ørsted to announce a capital extension of 9.4 billion dollars, almost as much as its stock capitalization, According to Financial Times. Political voices in Denmark have even asked that the company reduces its exposure to the United States, where it also maintains development projects. Reality in front of rhetoric. Meanwhile, the US president intensifies his rhetoric criticizing wind infrastructure on his trips to Europe, According to Euronews. However, the media confronts those statements with data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena): Earth’s wind is the cheapest source of electricity generation, with a useful life of 20 to 25 years, and up to 95% of its materials are recyclable. The Chinese mirror. In parallel, the best example of what could be the transition is China. The country It has become the first “electrostate” of the world after a decade of strategic planning. It already generates more than a quarter of its electricity with renewables and exports large -scale clean technology, displacing Europe in a field where it was supposed to lead. The consequences for the future. The result is, As Spanish has summarizeda western crisis rather than global. While Beijing dominates the supply chain and exports renewable technology at competitive prices, the United States and Europe are trapped in unattractive political battles and regulatory frameworks. The effect is double: project financing is more expensive and investors confidence is eroded. According to NYTeven if companies manage to reverse blockages in court, delays increase costs and sow doubts that can stop new investments. Staying behind. Beyond the political pulse, the crisis reflects a geopolitical change. How my partner has pointed out in Xatakawe are entering the era of “electrostatics”: countries that build their power not over oil, but about renewable capacity gigawats and the control of critical supply chains. China already occupies that role, while Europe, despite its climatic ambitions, runs the risk of staying halfway. Marina’s wind promised to be the jewel of the crown in the Western energy transition. Today, however, its future is marked by political blockages, investment insecurity and deserted auctions. While Europe doubts and the United States slows approved projects, China accelerates and consolidates its leadership. Image | Pexels Xataka | The Era of Petroestados is ending: China is the first “electrostate” of the world and not because of its climatic moral

decide if you want forests before or forests of the future

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Spain has been facing a wave of historical forest fires for weeks that has raised more than 415,000 The hectares razed since the beginning of the year, but ahead has an even more complicated challenge: decide what to do as soon as the fire is extinguished. Restock? Let nature follow its course? And if you choose to restore forests, how to do it, with what species and what to take into account? These are new questions that can be summarized in A dilemma Simple: Do we want the ecosystems before the fires or others adapted to the future? A figure: 415,000 hectares. It is not being a good year for the mountains of Spain. Especially for those of the northwest. The tables of Effisthe European Fire Information System shows that so far from 2025 they have burned in Spain more than 415,000 hawhich exceeds the calcined surface in other countries, such as France, Portugal or Italy. The flames have devoured homes, farms and places like the medulla. They have also left a question: And now, what? “Look for something different”. The previous question may seem simple (recovering the mountain, right?), But it opens the door in turn to many other issues. What is the best way to act in the devastated forests? Is it the same mountain in which we have today that the one that had been half a century ago or the one in another 50 years? Should it be? “It costs us a bit to accept that there are species that are no longer adapted and they will not return, such as chestnuts,” Reflect in The world Ruth Domènech, fire expert at the University of California. “The species are adapted to climatic features that, if they do not have, cannot resist. And that is a change that comes with climate change and we must acepar,” abounds. In a very similar line, Víctor Resco, Professor of Forestry Engineering by the University of Lleida (UDL), insists that there is an even more important issue than when forests will recover the state they had before the fires. “The question of the times is a bit trap because we don’t have to think about recovering what we had, we have to look for something different.” Much more than fire. Forest fires affect the mountains, but they are not the only element that enters the equation. Talking about reforestation also implies making changes in meteorology or even native or alóctonian species, a topic that is frequently spoken. “But what native? What was there when the Romans were? What do we see on television, that idyllic image of Central European forest?” Doménech points out in The world. “We demonize certain species, such as eucalyptus or Carrasco pine reason The expert, in favor of “leaving the species that are already adapted, which are the ones that will grow.” It is not the only one who insists on the relevance of these issues. In 2021 resco warned already that pines and eucalyptus were being used as “scapegoats.” THE GREAT KEY: THE CLIMATE. In An article Posted three years ago The conversation in which he warned about the dangers of “deforestation and scrub”, especially given the growing threat of Megaincendiosthe UDL teacher stressed that before reforesting the former is to consider what he wants to get. “We must clarify what type of forest we want to restore: the ecosystem from before the fire or one adapted to the climate of the future? And, to choose the latter, to what future? To the year 2050, 2100 or another even further?” “The forest restoration has always looked back, sought to establish the most mature forest type possible, based on the soil available and past climate. The word itself restores to recover or put back in the state that it had before,” Comment. “But in a changing climate scenario, the melancholic reincarnation of a past that will not make it meaningless. Nor does it have it to create the ecosystems that have brought us to the current situation. What can we do? And what is the answer? That is the million dollar question. Resco Recognize that there are certain cases, such as the areas punished by erosion or lands of land, in which repopulation after fires is “an urgent need”; But he warns: “When there is no urgency, it is convenient to give a chance to natural regeneration and wait a few years.” About species, its posture is clear. “It has been discussed for the repopulations must be with native or foreign species. Under a climate change scenario this debate is meaningless. If we plant the species adapted to the climate of the past, we run the risk that they die in a few decades. Therefore, we must select the plants adapted to the climate to come, which can be species that currently do not grow in that site, but in others hot Add the expertwhich slips options such as opting for species from warmer areas or the so -called “assisted migration.” And natural regeneration? Even in those cases, the professor warns, the recovery of the forest will face the “future climate dilemma.” As an example, remember what happened after tragic fire that Guadalajara shook in 2005, a “fire hurricane” that devastated 13,000 hectares and left 11 dead. The oaks recovered before the Pinos thanks to their ability to rebound and in fact the latter were in a delicate position against new fires. The problem is that future projections show that in just a few decades the heat and drought in the region will lead to the oaks “beyond the limit”, so that the fire will end the pines and the global warming will do so with the oaks. Environmental diversity. There is another factor that comes into play: not all species are equally adapted to the flames. In fact, like remember The Pau Costa Foundation, in the Mediterranean forests there are many organisms so accustomed to the fire that have ended up adapting to it. “Some species … Read more

Silicon Valley prefers to buy herself rather than invest in the future

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Great American technology They swim in money in cash but to a large extent they are preferring to spend it repurchase their own actions rather than invest. How the mechanism works. A shares is simple: the company uses its cash to buy its own market shares and withdraws them. If a company has 1,000 million shares and repurchase 100 million, there are 900 million. The trick is in arithmetic. If the benefits are the same but there are fewer actions, the benefit per action Go up. A company that earned 10,000 million with 1,000 million shares showed 10 dollars of benefit per share. With 900 million shows $ 11.11. The metric goes up even if the company has not improved at all. Executives charge on actions on actions. Your compensation increases. The funds see the value of their portfolios without waiting for years to mature real investments. The company avoids the risk of investing in projects that can fail .. It is capitalism without capitalism: financial returns without real value creation. Why is it important. The further reason towards the tendency to an increasing repurchase of actions can be inferred: fear. The American political climate has become especially complex for large industrial investments. Bureaucracy, regulations. It is safer to return money to shareholders than to risk building something real. Meta tried to expand his campus in Menlo Park next to a plan to create affordable homes and He crashed into years of bureaucracy. The project has been in pause for some time. Amazon He left his plan to open a second headquarters in New York for the strong political protests that unleashed his announcement. Intel has been trying to open factories. And seeing how China ends them in a couple of years. The financial refuge. Act repurchases have become the bunker where technological ones hide their cash. In 2025 They will exceed the billion dollarshistorical record. Warren Buffett himself, nothing suspicious of anti -capitalist, has once said that Many repurchases are “stupid”. Explained that they benefit more than paid executives in Stock Options (Actions options) than long -term shareholders. The context. The repurchases They were illegal in the United States until 1982when under the presidency of Ronald Reagan they were authorized. Until then they considered a form of market manipulation. They are now the main way to give back shareholders. They exceed traditional dividends. A Study of the Roosevelt Institute of 2018 He showed that S&P 500 companies then spent 94% of their benefits on repurchases and dividends, leaving barely margin for productive investment. And now what. In the United States, some Democratic senators proposed a couple of years ago a 4% tax on repurchase programs to discourage them. What came from the hand of Biden It was 1% that has not had a great effect. For Europe, which depends technologically on the United States, this trend is worrying. If Silicon Valley prefers financial engineering to real, vulnerability against Chinese advance increases. In Xataka | The agreement with the US seemed to pave the way to Nvidia in China. Now is the Asian giant who begins to close the door Outstanding image | Roberto Júnior

The future of the Internet is flooding of ia. And there are those who have already seen a business niche: content made by humans

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Internet has been filled with Searches results generated by artificial intelligence and of ‘Slop‘. The first is already reducing clicks to halfand points to collapse for the media. The second is something that users will have to live if the platforms do not get more serious to improve the filtering. Among all the tangle of new and ancient actors, an old Google opponent has returned to position itself as an alternative to the current in this era. Forks Duckdukgo. What are they doing. Duckckgo is an alternative search engine focused on offering the greatest possible privacy to its users, and for this, use, for example, the Bing searches. After 16 years since its foundation, the company has launched a Filter of images generated with AI that frames in its philosophy of the “private, useful and optional” functions. For the end user, this means being able to see or hide the images generated by the general search of images, something that is already problematic in Google where, for example, we come to see distorted results, even in examples as recognizable as ‘The young woman of the pearl’. The company has already shown that it can be differentiated, with Duck.aian own chatbot that anonymizes conversations and does not use them for training. How do they. To use this filter, the company is not using an engine driven by artificial intelligence or something similar. Those responsible have detailed the method, and is based on using manual open source block lists that the popular content blocker provides Ublock Origin and the Ublacklist’s Hage AI Blocklist, a browser extension created so that users can manually filter concrete websites of their Google results. Effectiveness. One of the big problems of the contents generated with AI is that they not only come from repositories that clearly indicate it, such as Midjourney explore, for example. In this sense, from DuckDuckgo They recognize That the filter “will not capture 100% of the results generated by AI”, but “will considerably reduce the amount of images generated that are shown.” Examples of images generated by AI that do not come out when activating the filter. Some of them is not as obvious as the largest in the first row. In our case, for example, we have sought “dog jumping” without activating the filter so as not to see. And he has found the image of a dog jumping with a suspicious origin: Freepik. It was an image generated by AI that has stopped appearing when activating the filter. Next to him was more of the same source that he has also leaked. The challenge. The filtering works well, but the challenge for companies such as Duckduckgo is capital, because Freepik already serves as “generated with AI”. But what happens when a random image that we find in media like this has no label to indicate it? There they have to play methods that use verification system with detailed analysis of the image, which makes the resources required to do so effectively fire. Beyond images, the difficulty is in the filtering of websites with texts generated by artificial intelligence. Openai, for example, launched A tool to detect plagiarismand then He withdrew it silently. Although according to leaks now they have a tool that operates, They do not throw it. The problem. Detectors do not just work well, and after reaching accuse students of using and erruniversity professors are suffering the phenomenon: To make undetectable texts, students are resorting to rewriting tools that worsen their quality. Google, a strong defender of the generative AI, has opened Its Synthid water brand technology. The inconvenience? We continue needing a universal standard that at the moment does not arrive. And even if it arrives, users will not always want to mark their creation as done with ia. For example, the images generated with Google image indicate its nature with the “AI” icon, but erase or cut it is very simple. The snowball does not stop, The hole. According to the Empty Internet Theory either ‘Dead Internet Theory‘, Much of the content that exists in the network is created by automated bots and algorithms, and with generative intelligence, the thing is going more. In addition, Google’s preview has only been the first step: now it touches Ai mode, which no longer delivers a results, talk. So, although we win comfort, there will be a huge hole for companies such as Duckckgo, looking for that the basic unit of communication on the Internet is still aliveor that knowledge remain something democratized without Loot all Internet content. As an idea, DuckDuckgo can deepen including filters throughout web navigation: it can be distinguished from browsers with AI with a different approach to Your browser. Images | Xataka In Xataka | People did not stop hacking virtual work interviews with AI. Solution: We want to meet you in person

O Solve these four big problems as soon as possible or Intel will be condemned to a very dark future

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“I think it is too late for us (to achieve the position of Nvidia in the field of artificial intelligence), Although we have other opportunities in this market (…) twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies. We have to be humble. ” These words of Lip-Bu Tanthe general director of Intel, are aimed at the company’s employees in a clear attempt to expose what challenges they face. The challenges with Those who are dealing Intel They exceed the other challenges that he has faced during his more than half a century of history. The leadership that has sustained for decades in the manufacturing industry of integrated circuits is in the hands of The Taiwanese company TSMC Since the mid -2000s. In addition, the stagnation during the last years of the PC market and the slowness with which Intel has participated in the AI industry have placed it in a very compromised position. It is necessary to compete from you to compete again with AMD. Intel and AMD compete on several fronts. Three of the most important are the processors for servers and work stations, the GPUs for artificial intelligence and the CPUs for PC. The company led by Lisa supports a very solid position in these three market segments, and if we stick to CPU for PC enthusiasts During the last generations it has been very successful among users. In fact, to us your chips Ryzen 7000 and 9000 We love. In this Intel scenario you have no choice but to fight from you with AMD and recover a technological leadership that lost a long time ago. His future is in the hands of lithography 18a. Intel’s short -term competitiveness is closely linked to the success of a single semiconductor manufacturing technology: 18A photolithography. Ben Sell, Vice President of Intel Technology Development, confirmed At the end of last September that the 18A node already has the maturity necessary to enter large -scale production in 2025. and also assured that it will benefit from the resources that have been reallocated since the 20A node. In the current scenario the 18A node will be the true protagonist. That is not the slightest doubt. The 18A node already has the necessary maturity to enter large -scale production in 2025 The internal division should be left behind. The possibility that the Board of Directors of Intel decides to split the chips manufacturing subsidiary of the company’s matrix and put it in the hands of another company has triggered a deep internal division in the company. Joseph Bonetti, main manager of Intel engineering programs, expresses it in this way: “Intel leaders, Board of Directors of Intel and Donald Trump administration, please do not sell or give the control of Intel Foundry to TSMC just when Intel is taking the technological front and starting to take off. It would be a terrible and demoralizing error.” Bonetti also maintains that Intel is not lagging for its competitors, and that the advances that their engineers are achieving in the field of chips production are very important. Lip-Bu must recover government confidence. Lip-bu Tan, the general director of Intel, is in a very compromised position. Before arriving at the company that Cadence Design Systems currently led, an American company specialized in the development of software and hardware tools to design and verify integrated circuits. The problem is that just a month ago, in July, the US Department of Justice condemned her to pay a fine of more than 140 million dollars for selling commercial secrets to China. According to this US institutionCadence Design Systems delivered this critical information to the National University of Defense Technology, a Chinese teaching and research center that is supervised by the Chinese army. Lip Bu-Tan Intel leads since March 2025but there is a crucial fact that we should not overlook: although this conflict has taken it out of Cadence Design Systems directed this company between 2009 and 2021. And this was the period in which According to the US Department of Justice There were export control violations by which this company has recently been convicted. Image | Intel In Xataka | Intel has confirmed that the 20A node will be skipped to reduce expenses. The 18A node will enter production in 2025

It is not that Russia does not find the F-16 of Ukraine, is that kyiv has discovered the perfect hiding place for the future of wars

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The problem of modern wars is that they have ceased to be A geographical matterand the current technological abilities, with the drones and the AI in the lead, are eroding the physical barriers that previously existed. That was clear, for example, with The Spiderweb operation of Ukraine on the Russian air bases. In fact, in the first 18 months of the war, Ukraine lost Very few planes On land in front of the Moscow number, and the last movement predicts an even lower figure. The mobility war. The Arrival of the F-16 To the Ukrainian Air Force has been accompanied by a parallel effort to create a mobile ecosystem capable of sustaining continuous operations in a scenario where each base is a potential white of aviation and Russian missiles. Solution? The Ukrainian Foundation Eat Back Alivein cooperation with the state conglomerate Office 61 and with the financial support of the UKRNAfta energy company, recently delivered a set of vehicles specifically designed to provide the F-16 of the necessary logistics flexibility. Four wheels and fighters. The acquisition It included workshop trucks for armament preparation, crane trucks for missile and pump load, pickups for personnel transport and, above all, a missions planning complex on wheels composed of A 6×6 truck and a habitable towing module, which will allow briefings, plan operations and move quickly where it is required. With this investment, encrypted in just over 1.2 million dollarsUkraine obtains not only a technical improvement (for example, reducing from a dozen to three the number of operators necessary to assemble ammunition in each plane), but also a Operational advantage in an environment where speed and dispersion are survival synonyms. The concept of distributed operations. The logic behind this innovation is simple but strategic: prevent Russia from being able to anticipate or destroy on land Western manufacturing fighters. Ukraine had already developed the custom of Alternate air bases and even use highways as impromptu tracks, an inherited practice of the Soviet design to operate in austere environments, but now amplified by the high -tech character of the F-16. This ability to Move with infrastructure Wheel support converts each road into a potential base and each mission into a concealment game. In this sense, new vehicles are not simple trucks: they represent an adaptive doctrine in which aviation abandons the notion of fixed bases and embraces total mobility as a shield against missile attacks, drones and enemy bombers. NATO and American learning. The lessons that Ukraine applies in extreme conditions are being observed carefully by the United States and its allies. It We count The other day: the doctrine of AGILE COMBAT EMPLOYMENT (ACE), which seeks to disperse combat aviation in multiple locations Temporary, is nourished directly from the Ukrainian experience. USAF generals They recognize that Ukraine has managed to avoid the mass destruction of his aviation thanks to not taking off or landing in the same place twice in a row, forcing the enemy to waste intelligence and ammunition. The counterpart of this agility is Logistics demand: Each site needs fuel, ammunition and maintenance equipment that must be compact, transportable and fast to install. The United States Marines itself has started projects To provide air-terrifying trucks on C-130s and lighter and more modular equipment that can accompany squadrons in constant movements, which marks a deep turn in the conception of the air war. Aviation future. What’s doubt, what is today Test in Ukraine It has global implications. In a eventual confrontation with China in the Pacificno power could guarantee the protection of all its air bases, and mobile dispersion will be the key to survival. The fighters will not be able to remain in the same airfield without dense anti -aircraft defense; Their operations will be measured in hours or days, with specific deployments for refueling and rearming before returning to main main bases. This will require redesign support equipment lighterto think about new sustaining architectures and maximize land and aerial mobility. Ukraine, again laboratory. In short, the incorporation of these Ten vehicles At the service of the F-16 it may seem a lower detail in the heat of the war, but embodies a deeper transformation: that of an aviation that can no longer rely on the solidity of its bases and that depends on speed, dispersion and Logistics creativity. Ukraine thus becomes Test field of a doctrine that west, and in particular the United States, contemplates as essential to survive the high intensity conflicts of the future. Thus, each workshop truck and each rolling planning module are not only metal pieces, but symbols of how war forces to reinvent the way of conceiving today’s aerial power. Image | “Come Back Alive” Foundation In Xataka | A new challenge has arrived to Ukraine: it measures 4 meters, it has 75 kilos of explosives and uses AI to hit Russia In Xataka | The last Russian tactic are not kamikaze drones: their soldiers carry a helmet with antennas that is surprising Ukraine

After achieving what seemed impossible, Nvidia sees his future in China threatened by something terrifying: the bureaucracy

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What is happening to Nvidia with the GPU to artificial intelligence (AI) H20 It is a real odyssey. Currently this chip is its best asset to protect its position in the Chinese market, but at the current situation it is not clear that the company led by Jensen Huang go survive In this gigantic Asian country. Interestingly, the beginnings of this GPU in China were extraordinarily promising because Their sales grew by 50% quarter to quarter since it arrived in this market in mid -2024. However, everything was complicated for Nvidia in the middle of last April. And is that the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions To the export to China of the H20 GPU, which in practice caused this chip to stop reaching the Chinese clients of this company. This news Nvidia’s shares sank 6% in the bag because I could no longer attend the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that it had acquired. At the beginning of July there was another unexpected turn of events. Jensen Huang met with Donald Trump and got something that seemed impossible: the trade department would allow him Sell again in China the H20 chip. Since then four weeks have passed and Nvidia continues to wait. He has not yet received the export license you need to sell this GPU in China, and, According to ReutersThe problem is that the Commerce Department is mired in the bureaucracy, which has originated a delay in the concession of export licenses that has not occurred for more than 30 years. The future of Nvidia in China is in the hands of the Chinese government This delay comes at the worst time for Nvidia. Among Chinese clients who have bought great amounts of this GPU, and that presumably plan to continue doing itare Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance. But if the Department of Commerce takes much more the delivery of the export license to NVIDIA these commercial operations could be canceled. And it is that Jensen Huang’s company has another very important open front. The CAC is responsible for the censorship and control of the contents published in the network As We explain to you last weekthe administration of the cyberspace of China, usually known as CAC for its English denomination (Cyberspace Administration of China), he has decided Thoroughly investigate the H20 GPU. This institution is the main Internet regulatory body in China and is responsible for the censorship and control of the contents published in the Network, the supervision of technology companies and compliance with the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law. The problem that Nvidia faces now is that The CAC has decided to investigate it Because he suspects that the H20 chip could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. If so, the possibility of China to use this GPU could be possible. At the moment the CAC has limited himself to questioning those responsible for NVIDIA in China and ask them to demonstrate that the H20 Chip does not represent a threat to the interests and security of the country led by Xi Jinping. As expected, Nvidia has immediately responded to the Chinese authorities and is collaborating to dissipate as soon as possible the doubts that loom about the H20 chip. According to SCMPthose responsible for the company in China have assured CAC researchers that the GPUs for the develops They do not incorporate any “back door” implemented to facilitate espionage by the US government. “Cybersecurity is of vital importance for us”, has declared A NVIDIA executive. “We have no rear doors in our chips that can give someone remote access or the ability to control them.” Probably during the next few days we will know how this conflict ends. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

The commercial war between China and the US also goes from airplanes. The c919 comac already threatens the future of Boeing and Airbus

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The aeronautical sector has become another battlefield of commercial tension between Washington and Beijing. The C919the first narrow fuselage commercial plane developed completely in China, He is winning traction In Southeast Asia while Boeing and Airbus fight against delays in their deliveries. An opportunity born from despair. Malaysia has confirmed that Airsia and Air Borneo are valuing C919 as an alternative to Western manufacturers. It is no accident: the waiting lists to receive Boeing and Airbus airplanes extend years, and the airlines They desperately seek to diversify their suppliers. Malay Transport Minister Anthony Loke summarized it thus: “All airlines look for faster deliveries and cheaper options. COMAC is one of the manufacturers they are considering.” The Chinese pride Achilles heel. Despite its ambition, the C919 drags a critical dependence on US components that could be lethal. LEAP-1C engines (Manufactured by the Joint Venture between GE and Safran), Honeywell’s navigation systems, the rockwell collins meteorological radar and multiple critical components come from the United States. Tariffs and prohibitions. The Tariff climb It has raised the cost of the US components until they make them almost unfeasible. Just a couple of months ago, China applied tariffs up to 145% in response to tariffs applied by Trump, shortly before The 90 -day truce that both countries occurred. At the same time, Beijing has prohibited its airlines from acquiring US suppliers equipment, although this restriction does not yet affect manufacturers as Comac. The race against time towards autonomy. China has not been still in this critical situation. And it develops the engine CJ-1000A through AECC as the National Substitute for Western LEAP-1C. The evidence has been advanced since 2018, although the commercial certification will not arrive before 2030, and in the worst scenario it would be delayed until 2035. Meanwhile, the Chinese domestic market offers an extraordinary mattress: Boeing estimates that China will need 8,600 new airplanes commercials in the next two decades. And now what. The United States has recently reactivated licenses to sell engines to C919, but this movement can also mean China’s reinforcement to achieve technological autonomy in the sector. The European C919 certification could arrive between 2028 and 2031which would open the doors to the global market. If China manages to combine a competitive plane with aggressive prices and fast deliveries, the historical Boeing-Airbus duopoly could have its days counted. Cover image | Comac In Xataka | In his crusade to manufacture the iPhone at home, the US has achieved something historical: that most of its smartphones come from India

AI has just taught us the future of the most important application of our life: subscription browsers

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How much of what you do on the computer do it in the browser? Exact. A lot. We don’t think too much about it, but The browser is the application by antonomasia of our time. Not so much on the mobile, where native apps – which are often browsers disguised as something else – triumph, but of course in desktop and laptops. The Internet has been the indirect guilty of this transformation of the browser in one of the pillars of our life. The greats of technology know it well, and for more than three decades they have tried to conquer with their browsers to dominate the world. Of that mythical Netscape We become absolutely dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorerand after the occasional scarce with Firefox —Now in really low hours– We end up yielding to a Wonderful and disturbing Google Chrome. This company, by the way, was clear from the beginning how important the browser was. So much that they created an operating system absolutely focused on that idea: they called it Chrome Os. During all this time, yes, there was something inherent to all those browsers: They were free. Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and of course Google gave them to us. They did not need to charge for them because they earned (and earned) a lot of money indirectly with their integration of search engines, especially Google’s. They tell Apple: Google pays about 20,000 million a year so that your search engine is the native in Safari. If you pay so much, imagine what you earn through the searches made by users of the iPhone, iPad or Mac. Thus, using the browser has always been something we have done without thinking that it could cost us money. That will change very soon. Hello, subscription browser And it will change because before us a new era opens in which browsers want to be much more than that. And to achieve this they have allied with AI models that allow interaction with websites to be much more powerful. The promise of browsers with AI It is exceptional. One of the first, Perplexity Cometit autocalifies as “the browser that thinks with you.” Like him, browsers with AI are able to summarize that article that you are reading or answer questions about it, integrate conversational engines and little by little they are beginning to integrate something especially promising: AI agents What do things for us. That click alone and fill for forms and that they even overcome captchas without help. But do that this time will not be free. Not at least if we want to use those options intensively. This is what The Browser Company is already raising, the company that first developed Arc and? He abandoned it To launch your own browser with the call day. Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Companyhe confessed in An interview With The New York Times that in the coming weeks will launch subscription plans that will go from five dollars a month to hundreds of dollars a month, depending on how much users want to take advantage of the NA of the browser. There will still be a free version that will allow a limited use (probably very) of these options, but the future of this browser is not to be a browser, but to be a subscription browser. The decision made by this company is totally logical: Using AI is not cheap, and using it is still less cheapso if you want to do it, you will have to pay. It is the same as we are seeing with the different models: Chatgpt, Gemini or Claude can be used for free, but if you want to use them intensively and access their most advanced options, it is time to pay by pointing to their subscription plans, as is the case with Chatgpt Plus, Google Ai Pro or Claude Pro respectively. Browsers are already the most widespread way to interact with AI, so it is logical to think that all of them – Hello, Firefox? – will end up integrating these functions. He has done it day, he has done it, he just did it Edge with your co -pilot mode And it is expected that Integration between Gemini and Chrome So it is much more direct. All of them will remain free in their basic versions. We can normally navigate as we have always done, but if we want to go further, if we want to use all those attractive AI options, Touch to pay a subscription. One that will be increasingly expensive. We will have to go to the idea. In Xataka | Anthropic has seen that their users do not stop using the 200 euros plan a month of their AI. They had to stop their feet

Google has shown the future of our videos and photos in Google Photos. A future full of false videos

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Google just announce what seemed inevitable after The power of its models of artificial intelligence (Ia) generative In photos and video: Creation of photos and videos in Google Photos from the images of our reel. A novelty that speaks for itself of the future that awaits our content. What’s new. As an AI giant, Google gradually carries all its new advances to the set of services of its catalog. Google Photos has always been a place to experiment with AI, as is the case with the Magic editor or mode Reimagine. Now goes beyond “small touch -ups”, and proposes to create short videos from the photos stored on the reel. At the moment there is not much to indicate to the assistant, who will accept as options “subtle movements” or the classic “I will be lucky” to create a video of up to six seconds. Another novelty of Google Photos is “Remix”, a function that transforms the style of the images we select, being able to choose between styles such as anime, comic, sketches. Google’s anime example remembers Ghibli at Chatgpt. It is a movement that remembers Ghibli moment of Openai, that “Servers melted. Unlike Chatgpt’s global availability, in launch the function will only be available in the United States. Where are we going. With the movement, Google turns a strong trend into personnel and mass: that of the generated videos that seem realistic And social networks and YouTube are flooded. And beyond fun, it presents serious consequences. In Tiktok, for example, there are more and more young people using their mobile to watch mental health videos, with a problem: The most viral are false. The platforms are becoming “Lays of AI“, and far from fighting these trends, they are amplifying them. Meta, for example, has integrated tools such as Advantage+ To create different versions of an ad with little investment. When they try to warn us that the content is created by AI, They are not sure what it is. In text, Openai had its own detector, but ended up closed after admitting that It was not necessary. Our false photos are already a millionaire business. Pieter Levels He is a well -controversial developer and entrepreneur who climbed very soon to the wave of the generative AI with two tools that generate huge amounts to be the only developer, and all using Models ‘Open Source’. One of them, with which he says to enter $ 139,000 Photoai.com. Its function is simple: after training a model with our selfies, we can create an AI model based on us, and then take pictures in the place or possess we want. It goes further that the proposal starts from Google photos, and is already able to make realistic videos of many types, including modeling sessions. Under the slogan “say goodbye to your photographer” points to a future (not very distant) where AI can take care of all the photos we want in paradisiacal enclaves. Fake places where to posture On Instagram, but without the need to move at home. The Spanish Freepik It also has Your alternative. And there are people doing chilling things: inventing their own memories From photographs. Apple plays to improve our memories, without creating them. With iOS 26Apple has presented a function that “gives life to our photos, but in a different sense. The company showed from its inception to Vision Pro as a platform to remember family moments with fidelity. Now it allows photos captured with any iPhone in normal mode become a spatial scene with depth (visible on our mobile, without the need for a virtual reality kit). Image | Xataka and Google In Xataka | How to create images from photos with artificial intelligence

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