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The decision that opens a gap between China and the United States and will define the future of AI

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It is one of the hottest debates in the AI race and that is making the difference between the two most advanced powers. China is committed to Open Source with models such as Deepseek, while in the United States they lead private developments such as Chatgpt or Claude. Meta, on the other hand, has been defending the Open Source for a long time. Or we believed. According to the New York Timesnew Mark Zuckerberg Superintelligence Team I would be questioning this strategy in favor of developing a closed model. Flying. If confirmed, it would be a drastic change in the finish line. In 2023, goal It joined other companies To defend the creation of open source models and have not been few times when Mark Zuckerberg has said that his AI is Open Source (although not all true). Now that the new Superintelligence Team commanded by Alexandr Wang He has started working, they are considering whether to continue with the plan or choose to develop a closed model. Behemoth. It is the name of the AI Open Source that Meta was developing, its largest model to date. In fact, Behemoth’s bad results would have been The trigger for Zuckerberg decided to create the new AI team. Nearby sources claim that one of the first discussions of the team has been to leave its development. There is also the possibility that Behemoth’s development continues and that the new team focuses on developing a new model that points to the great goal of goal: Create a general artificial intelligence. What is an open AI. The Open Source concept is not new, but with the arrival of AI there has been enough debate about its definition. The AI models are very complex and the classical definition did not adapt to them, so in October last year the Open Source Initiative agency The Osaid published (Open source ai definition), a definition with which Target I did not agree. In order for an AI open source, it must allow the following: Use the system for any purpose and without having to ask permission. Study the operation of the system and inspect its components. Modify the system for any purpose, even to change your performance. Share the system so that others use it, with or without modifications, for any purpose. Chinese patience. The United States and China are the two most powerful players in the AI race, but although they play the same game, they do it with Very different strategies. With Deepseekhis most famous AI model, China surprised to bet on the open source, a strategy that has allowed him Avoid the zancadillas that your rival puts With vetoes and restrictions. And it is not the only oun source in China, there are many more: Qwen from Alibaba, Doubou by bytedance, Ernie from Baidu, Hunyuan Turbo of Tencent or Kimi From MoNshot AI. It is not a matter of giving in exchange for anything, behind there is a strategy of Soft Power Technological: Today I give you access, with the intention of being dominant tomorrow. China wants to create global dependence on its models and be an alternative to the payment models of the Americans. China has the future vision and patience to do so, we have already seen how invested for decades to form engineers And that today gives a clear advantage in the AI race. American immediacy. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google… The greats of the AI of the United States have opted for private development and subscriptions to access their most leading models. The exception to the rule was put by the goal with flame, the only one whose code is accessible (at least part), But if they focus on private development, that closed approach will be armed even more. The objective is clear: they have the most advanced models and resources to continue training them, so they can obtain an economic benefit by monetizing them. They do it through subscriptions to pro versions or with specific products such as AI agents, it is the case of the newly announced Chatgpt agent. The trap. China’s strategy makes all the meaning if we take into account that they were behind their rival (although They have managed to cut positions in record time). With open and free IAS they manage to create a great very fast user base and create that dependence. However, it is not a good long -term strategy from the economic point of view. If in the future they begin to monetize, that sooner or later they will have to do it, they face two problems: that their users come out in disarray and that the regulators put their eyes in them. The United States maintains strong control and obtains benefits from minute one. Has the most sophisticated models, but every time prices are higher And that makes a luxury within reach of a few. Many will look for alternatives and there will be China with their open and free models. They are two opposite visions: one focused on the present and one in the future. We will have to wait to see what vision is imposed. Image | Bibek ghosh, and Kaboomps (Pexels) In Xataka | Four AI companies are monopolizing the intellectual future of humanity. They are not good news

Sending electricity without cables seemed to the future. Darpa has done it again, and the test has gone better than expected

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What are 800 watts? More or less what a microwave consumes running at medium power. And 8.6 kilometers? It is an approximate distance between the stations of Atocha and Chamartínin Madrid. It is actually somewhat lower, but it serves to get an idea. That is the scale of Darpa’s last experiment: a system that managed to transmit real energy with a laser, in a straight line, without cables and with a receiver that turns the light into usable electricity. It may seem little, but it is not. The important thing was not the amount, but the test. And it worked. What exactly Darpa has done. The United States Advanced Defense Research Projects (Darpa) has successfully completed The first phase of a program called Power, designed to explore new ways of transmitting long distance energy. In their most recent test, carried out in New Mexico, they managed to send a laser beam that delivered about 800 watts for 30 seconds to a receiver located 8.6 kilometers. The figure is important because it exceeds the previous records: until now, the best documented result was 230 watts at 1.7 kilometers. Although the agency has not revealed how much power it was originally issued, it is known that the system was able to maintain energy flow for periods even longer than those officially reported. According to those responsible for the project, it was not about demonstrating efficiency, but viability. The essential thing was to check if it was possible to build a functional system in a short time. And they did it in just three months, from the initial design to the final execution. The receiver was developed by Technc Technologies and uses commercial solar cells already available in the market. The objective was not to optimize performance to the maximum, but to prove that this technology can be launched with accessible components and without complex manufacturing processes. How this technology works. The idea behind the experiment is simple to understand, although technically complex: send energy through the air with a beam of light, and that when it arrives it can be used as electricity. The DARPA system is based on an infrared laser that points directly to a receiver composed of a conical mirror and solar cells. The mirror captures the ray and redirects it towards the panels, which convert light into electrical energy. Part of the equipment used during the test The interesting thing is that no exotic components or photovoltaic cells were used to measure, as in many laboratories. Commercial cells were used, ready to use, which reinforces the idea that this technology can be viable out of paper. As we say, the performance, for now, was not the priority. Receiver efficiency is around 20 %. The Power Receiver Array Demo system achieved a new record by transmitting laser energy with more power and greater scope than ever During the test, diffractive optics were also used, an unusual resource in this type of transmissions, and an integrated cooling system was implemented directly in the optical parts, manufactured with additive printing techniques. None of these innovations was scheduled at the beginning. They were solutions that arose on the march, as they faced the challenges of the experiment. Why do it with laser and not with radio waves. Transmitting long distance energy is not a new idea. For decades it has been investigated how to do it with radio or microwave waves, but these technologies have physical limitations that include their effectiveness. As IEEE points outto work, they need large antennas and systems of Beamforminga technique that allows the signal to be concentrated in one direction. The longer the distance, the greater the issuer must be, and the more difficult it is to focus the beam with precision. Compared to radio waves, the laser can focus much better: a narrow beam can be created almost without dispersion, at least in ideal conditions, According to Eric YeatmanVice President of the College of Science and Engineering of the University of Glasgow. Of course, not everything is advantages. The lasers also disperse with fog, clouds or dust. In adverse atmospheric conditions, microwaves remain more reliable. But for certain applications, especially if we talk about aerial networks or transmissions in clear environments, the laser is difficult to match. For the Power project leader in Darpa, Paul Jaffe, if it does not work with optics, it will not work in any way. What does this advance mean (and what is not). Darpa’s experiment did not solve all the challenges of wireless energy transmission. Efficiency remains low, the system is not yet prepared to operate in adverse conditions, and the transmitted power, although notable, is far from what a commercial infrastructure would need. But that was not important. The important thing was to demonstrate that technology can work outside the laboratory, with accessible components and in realistic terms. Images | Darpa (the main image shows an earlier test in 2019, at a lesser distance) In Xataka | Antimony under another flag: the Chinese mineral that continues to enter the US disguised for Thai or Mexican export

The AI ​​industry has become a kind of ‘game of thrones’. And that reveals a worrying truth for your future

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Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, must be pulling the hairs. In recent days Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, “He has sneaked into his house” and has stolen no less than seven of his most valuable engineers. He has done it with the oldest tactics in the world. He money. In fact, the finish lines have shaken the foundations of the AI ​​industry, because it has not stopped spending true money with the aim of hiring all the talent of the IA that has been able. The situation has turned these engineers into the new superstars of Silicon Valley, with absolutely stratospheric salaries that are linked to the eternal promise that AI will end up changing the world. Goal is betting everything to that belief, and has decided to go for all spending huge fortunes Not already in data centersbut in talent. Let’s summarize: According to Altman himself, the Zuckerberg company offered initial bonds of 100 million dollars -although They were not exactly that – to some specific talents of AI to sign by goal. Fact offers reach 300 million dollars in four years According to Wired. Several of the “tempted” engineers per finishing have ended up accepting those millionaire offers. According to a internal statement From Zuckerberg himself, there have been 11 engineers who have signed by goal. Seven come from Openai, three from Google and one from Anthropic. Meta has also paid $ 14.9 billion for 49% participation in Scaleai, but above all for signing Alexandr Wangits CEO, which will now collect the new goal superintelligence division. They have also signed Nat Friedman, Exceiver of githubwhich will collect that new division with Wang. And they have just signed Daniel Gross, who Safe Superintelligence co -founded Together with Ilya Sutskever just a few months ago. For those last two target signings he has offered Buy a participation 49% in the Risk Capital Fund of Friedman and Gross, called NFDG. The value of the operation is unknown. Welcome to the Game of Thrones of the AI The last movements are nothing more than a confirmation of Zuckerberg’s voracity, which has moved quickly and with that irresistible hook of checks (almost) blank. And meanwhile, its competitors have been exposed to a reality: That AI has become a ‘game of thrones’. This industry is seeing from its beginnings and notable coming. At first, however, these internal movements were motivated by personal differences, visions or ambitions. Now many seem simply motivated by money. Thus, we saw how Openai’s origins became a new “Paypal Mafia” from which new startups arose. These first movements had a lot to do with a simple reason: some confudators and employees of OpenAi did not support Altman or did not share their vision. And that was how we saw several outstanding startups derived from those tensions: However, they all abandoned by OpenAi’s boat not so much for money – which probably also – as well as betting on another different vision. Of those “Morales” resignations We have gone to absolutely mercenary resignations in which money – and not the mission or vision of the company – is the clear factor of movement. That has made Altman recently said, there are two sides: that of the missionaries – which faithful to the companies in which they began their career, and that they believe in their vision and objectives – and the mercenaries that are sold to the highest bidder. AND According to Altman“The missionaries will overcome mercenaries.” The case of Sutskever, which confirmed yesterday the newsIt is especially painful, because now he runs out of his main adventure partner – Daniel Gross. The Sutskever startup is, as in the case of Murati, an absolute mystery: They have no visible productbut they have still achieved extraordinary investment rounds. It was in fact leaked that Zuckerberg came to make an offer to Sutskever To buy your startup, valued at 32,000 million dollars. Sutskever himself seemed to confirm that information by saying that “we feel flattered for their attention, but we are focused on our work.” Betrayals point to an awkward reality: AI is, above all, smoke These movements speak of a deeper problem in the AI ​​industry: those that can be trying to make their particular August, because it is not clear that the promises and the expectation generated by these companies end up becoming a reality. The clearest example is in the recent case of Daniel Gross, co -founder with Sutskever by Safe Superintelligence. In his message confirming the news of his partner’s departure, Sutskever said that “we have (the resources of) computing, the team and we know what to do. Together we will continue to build a safe superintelligence.” It is clear that Daniel Gross knew the same thing that Sutskever knows about the progress of that work, so, If they were so clear about the goal and knew how to achieve it, why change the side? If someone knew that he was going to win the race with his car, would he change it for another simply because they pay him for doing so? It makes no sense. And that tells us about the great truth of the world of AI: that despite all those expectations and all that money, nobody knows for sure if this technology will change the world as many believe it will change it. But in the meantime, the mercenaries will take advantage of it. Quevedo already said. Powerful gentleman is Don Money. Image | Max In Xataka | Four decades ago China decided to invest in forming millions of engineers. Today that plan gives it advantage in the race for AI

Zuckerberg has given the keys of the future to a child prodigy of 97

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There is the elite talent ecosystem in AI like a anthill in the rain by The 100 classes that Zuckerberg is disbursing (In some case even more) to be able to take a goal to not only scientists of a very high level, but to the type of people who are able to move the needle that matters most: that of the stock market capitalization of the entire company. In those, surely he is not doing all the noise that the person deserves in whose hands the real power of the goal has ended. It is the one who solved the most mundane and decisive problem: how to feed it. Alexandr Wang, 28 years oldHe did not create Chatgpt or Gemini, but he did built a fundamental infrastructure to make possible proposals. And now Zuckerberg has opted 14.3 billion dollars to this – insulting – young is the piece he needed to win the superintelligence career. Son of outstanding scientists in New Mexico, Wang is the founder of Scale AI, a company that does the dirty work, the one that nobody sees but everyone needs: label and prepare the data that train the most advanced AI models of the world. It is not glamorous, but it is indispensable. Like himself He explained“AI is reduced to three pillars: computation, data and algorithms. The computation is promoted by people like Nvidia, algorithmic advances come from great laboratories such as OpenAi, and the data is fed by Scale.” His great success was to understand something that in 2025 seems obvious but that a few years ago was: that the bottleneck of the AI ​​does not only go to algorithms or calculation power, but of quality data, something that We already count on Xataka In … 2019! And Wang, instead of pursuing a viral AI application, started selling shovels in full gold fever. And it turns out that everyone needed shovels. On Monday, Zuckerberg sent an internal memo that sounds more like a declaration of war than with simple reorganization. And it is fair to recognize that when Zuckerberg gets in visionary mode, he usually is right. Nine years ago he nailed him. Wang is a technical genius, but only explains a part of his meteoric ascent despite his youth. The least obvious is that Early understanding where the real value is. When researchers much more experienced than he focused on competing creating better algorithms, he realized that the future would be the one to control the data. “You can have the best algorithms in the world, but if you don’t have quality data, you have nothing,” said Wang. Scale AI became the data provider for OpenAi, Google, Microsoft and, of course, goal. Basically, It was placed in the modern AI supply chain center. Something that has earned more than 14,000 million. His business philosophy is also pure maturity and balance, not always present in entrepreneurs under 30 (Ahem). Keep personal control over each hiring. Also about each data delivery to its customers. “The quality is fractal, the high standards are filtered throughout the organization”, He said. It is also true that if Scale AI was in creditors, we would say that he could not delegate. As the scenario is very different, we praise its involvement. It is, in any case, obsessive to the extreme, but in the correct specific aspects and not with all the width of an organization. “If you really exceed something, if you go to 10 miles per hour of more and constantly go further, then you will improve faster than any other,” said. Pise the accelerator so as not to lift the foot from there. Meta needed Wang because his previous strategy has not finished working: Call 4 It has been a disappointment in a market in which a disappointment is lapidary. Eleven of the fourteen researchers of the flame team They have left target. Several of them have gone to Mistral. Zuckerberg has realized that he is losing a career he really wants to win. And his solution has been to buy the most valuable data ecosystem in the world and give the keys to its creator. Meta reorganization under the umbrella of ‘Meta Superintelligence Labs’ is much more than cosmetics. It is a tacit admission that AI cannot be another department within the finish line. It has to be a goal. And he has put a traditional one twenty -year -old Yann Lecun. It is a total commitment: that in the world of superintelligence, it matters more to understand how the AI ​​business works that the algorithms work. Wang has been selling shovels for years while others cavan. Now Zuckerberg has given him the treasure map. In Xataka | If in 2020 they would have asked us which technology would be more attractive in 2025 we would not have said ‘goal’. But here we are Outstanding image | Scale ai

China is building the fusion-fission reactor that the US canceled decades ago. The future of nuclear energy depends on your fate

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In the newly built Yoohu scientific island, next to the city of Nancheng, China advances discreetly in its plans to materialize a project that the United States explored and abandoned decades ago: the hybrid fusion-fission reactor. Xinghou-1. His name means “spark”, and is inspired by an appointment by Mao Zedong: “A single spark can set the entire meadow.” But it’s no small thing: it has behind An investment of more than 200,000 million yuanthe equivalent of 28,000 million dollars. The objective: build a hybrid central with 100 megawatts of electrical power, 300 megawatts of thermal power and, most importantly, a plasma energy gain factor (Q) greater than 30. An unprecedented achievement that could redefine the future of nuclear fusion nuclear energy. What all this means. To understand the magnitude of this objective, you have to put it in context. The nuclear fusion, the same process that feeds the stars, promises clean energy without the radioactive waste of current nuclear fission. The great challenge is get a fusion reaction to generate more energy of which consumes. The National Ignition Facility of the United States achieved in 2022 a historical milestone with a value q of 1.5demonstrating for the first time a net energy gain. The International Experimental Thermonuclear Reactor (Iter), a gigantic multinational project that is being built in France, aspires to achieve a Q> 10 to demonstrate the viability of large -scale fusion. Xinghuo, however, points to a Q> 30, the threshold that experts consider necessary for a merger plant to be commercially profitable. How does China plan to make this giant leap? The answer is in your hybrid approach. A fusion-fission reactor. That is, a reactor that uses the high energy neutrons generated by a fusion reaction (the “spark”) to bombard a mantle of fistible material such as uranium. This triggers a fission reaction that greatly multiplies energy production. In essence, use the fusion as a catalyst to make the fission much more efficient. The Xinghuo-1 project has already entered into the initial phase, which includes the tender and evaluation of its environmental impact. Its development is in charge of the state company Nuclear China Industry 23 Construction Corporation (CNI-23) and the private company Lianovation Superconductor. The road that the United States abandoned. The concept is not new. During the 1970s and 1980s, the United States Department of Energy investigated hybrid reactors before political priorities changed. Concerns about nuclear proliferation (hybrids can be used to produce plutonium) and a strategic commitment to “pure fusion” such as the definitive and cleaner solution led to the abandonment of this line of research. United States, and with it much of the West, They put all their chips on projects like the iter. China, on the other hand, has seen a shortcut in the hybrid model. While pure fusion follows decades away from its commercialization, a hybrid reactor like Xinghuo could connect a merger plant to the electricity grid much earlier. As soon as in 2030, According to SCMP. A coordinated national commitment. Xinghuo is part of a well -financed fusion ecosystem. China also maintains the East project, a Tokamak fusion reactor that has been able to maintain a 100 million degrees plasma for more than 17 minutes. The Huanliu-3 project, a newer and more powerful tokamak in experimentation phase. And the CFETR project, A large -scale pure fusion reactorconsidered the Chinese equivalent of Iter. The success of Xinghuo not only depends on its own advances, but also on the development of a complex industrial supply chain for key components such as superconductor magnets and the thermal vacuum chamber. If China makes Xinghuo work, either in 2030 or 2035, the implications would be seismic. They would demonstrate the viability of a route to commercial fusion energy that the rest of the world abandoned long ago. He could put Beijing years, if not decades, ahead in the energy race. Image | Xinhua In Xataka | The largest nuclear fusion project fails before the first ignition: Iter delays one of its key milestones at 2033

I have been on the PS5 for a month. My new console is Netflix and I am clear that it is the future of video games

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I love video games, but this last month it has been difficult to find a hole to play. I know I’m not alone in thisbut luckily we have many portable platforms (Nintendo Switch 2 He is giving me very good times) with which to play a few minutes when you can, but this last month he has not given me life to play console games on TV. Beyond for the Analysis of ‘Death Stranding 2‘, clear. Now, I have played a lot, and curiously on the platform that I least expected: Netflix. And he has returned to remind me with force that the future does not go through having a console connected to TV: it goes through not having a console and continuing to play video games. And I don’t like the idea at all. 7 tricks to make Netflix the most Turning TV into a console. Netflix does not need a presentation, but from a few years to this part, in addition to having series and movies on its platform, it also has video games. Recently, its application on televisions and devices such as Chromecast HE updated with a new menu which allowed to see more clearly the tab dedicated to video games. Just because, Netflix has mobile video games For a long time, but on TV it is more recent. And it is not that you need much to play them: simply TV, choose the compatible game (it is in beta and something tells me that it will never get out of there) and a mobile. These games are executed in the cloud and, when we click on which we want, we simply scan the QR code that appears on the screen with our mobile and it becomes the game command. So simple. ‘Oxenfree’ is a spectacular adventure The experience. Go ahead that 80% of the few games that Netflix allows you to play on TV convince me rather little. They are not for me, but there are about three or four that I have been playing a lot and I think they are a good gate to the world of video games for people who have not played so far. Because starting to play is very simple and the games that Netflix is ​​testing are nothing demanding with the controls. ESCANES THE QR WITH YOUR MOBILE AND MADE There is a crosshead, a couple of action buttons and voila. It is focusing on more narrative, puzzles or management experiences, and not needing great reflexes are, as I say, a good entrance door. In addition, although image quality is not the best, they work really well in the cloud. The experience and number of servers that Netflix have and is a very satisfactory plug & play experience. The good thing is also that you have games on the mobile included with your subscription. These do have to install them and they are somewhat more complex about their controls (spend something like ‘GTA San Andreas‘ either ‘Katana Zero‘Without a command I see it impossible), but they are quality games and that, as I say, allow someone who pay 8 euros per month and do not have a console or PC can enjoy video games. The command could not be simpler. And that is good The catalog mess. The problem is that, although in recent weeks I had a great time with Netflix’s video games, you never know how long they will last on the platform. Or how much will the platform itself last. This week we learned that, after a very strong bet of Netflix for video games, they were going to start withdrawing some of the best they had. 20% of the catalog disappearsbeing among those who strive balls like ‘Hades‘,’ Katana Zero ‘, the three’Monument Valley‘,’Death’s Door‘or the sublime’Braid‘. It is something that adds to closure of your AAA study In October of last year, which leaves us with the feeling that this great bet that the company made, investing a lot of money on servers, technology, titles such as’ and buying licenses as the aforementioned ‘GTA’ Or studies like Night School, staggers. And it’s strange when His initial bet was extremely upset And little by little, They struggled so that they were taken into account in this video game. But yes, it is the future. I do not mean that the future is Netflix in particular, but to this type of experience. We will see what path Netflix follows after the very bad news of recent days, but as someone who opted for Stadiawho has played a lot to the cloud games of Game Pass and PS Now and enjoy your Steam library with Steam Link and GeForce NowI am clear that the future is not a pot that consumes light and occupies a space in the Tele furniture, but something like Steam Decka Consolidated PC or Nintendo Switch 2 and, to play on TV, the game in the cloud. And think that this will be the future does not mean that I like it, since that implies the definitive death of a physical format that is very touched and that it is, although it does not always happen, the only thing that assures us that the games are ours. Because with the new albums that are launchersthe Game Key Card De Switch 2 or digital games, unfortunately there are more and more examples than The games do not belong to us As it happened before. But that is a topic for another day and something very personal. What I am clear is that someone who did not enjoy video games, with proposals such as Netflix or Amazon Luna They can get into the car. And that is great. Images | Xataka In Xataka | I’ve been playing video games for years and now the first thing I do before buying them is simple: look what they are in the cloud

The new obsession in gyms is also a clue about the future of the exercise

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It is the New Fitness World Fever: competitions that carry exercises and, therefore, very specific training. By comparison, although these exercises settle their bases in traditional training, make crossfit or calisthenics They look outdated or rough. A mixture of unique elements (competition, aesthetics and that philosophy of overcoming and stoicism so fashionable in the latest generation gyms) has become Hyrox In a phenomenon. We analyze Some of your keys. What is it. It is a competition that combines 8 kilometers of career with 8 functional exercises of strength and resistance. The exercises are always the same and include: skiing machine, thrust and drag of sleds, Burpees With long jumps, rowing, weight transport, strides with sandbags and medicinal ball throw. That is, a devastating mixture (but with exercises available to anyone) that combines strength, resistance and general athletic capacity. Worldwide success. Born in 2017 in Germany, in recent years he has experienced a great impulse (globally, more than 650,000 athletes train for competitions, and in 2025 more than 80 global careers are held in more than 30 countries and 85 cities). It currently has a wide margin of future growth: for example, it has just reached areas such as Canada, Australia and the Middle East, and the World Championships of discipline. Spain wants Hyrox. Spain is one of its largest areas of growth. The last edition, in Bilbao, congregated More than 8,000 competitors. In Malaga 2025 11,000 athletes from 40 countries participated, while in Hyrox Barcelona 2025 13,000 athletes were registered and 10,000 finished. In the 2024-2025 season, the discipline exceeded the 40,000 athletes registered in Spainconsolidating the country as one of the European referents in this discipline. The number of participants has grown by 1,900% since the first major national event in 2021, when 2,000 athletes were recorded. The secret of his fame. Why do you like a competition so much that is essentially a traditional fitness vitamin version? His hybrid nature It has a lot to do: the demanding of the competitions forces athletes to prepare not only force, with lifting and movements of large weights, but also resistance, with those eight kilometers that must be traveled between evidence. That makes it a Very complete and varied trainingand where no discipline should not be put aside. And also, without great technical demands: everyone can push a sled. On the other hand, the competition allows group or couples categories, which makes it more affordable. Class pride. Hyrox is one Registered trademarklike so many others associated with fitness. From the very Crossfit itself, which is not a generic word but a brand associated with official competitions and training, the popular Zumba, which has unleashed a real plague of imitators (in the end, it is the old man Gym-Jazz eighties in steroids). All this going through competitions that were ahead of Hyrox, such as Spartan Race or Ironman, and training systems such as F45 Training or Orangetheory Fitness. What does all this mean? That to train and compete in Hyrox you have to pay the fee that Hyrox architects decide to pay. This leads to official gyms and competitions of considerable price (the minimum cost of a career is usually around 70 euros), and by the hand, to the transformation of training into a piece of exhibition of good economic health that distance to Hyrox of formats (not registered) such as calistenia, which can be trained outdoors. Hyrox not only allows to show off a healthy way of life but also a well oxygenated portfolio. Training as Lifestyle. Linked to this last aspect, we have sport as an exhibition mode of a way of life, also vent, to which Hyrox international competitions help, in countries like Berlin or Rome. A circumstance that allows “healthy tourism”: travel to compete, and without neglecting what affirms Álvaro Taracena, CEO of the brand in Spain: “Nobody here looks at you badly for lifting less weight (…) to do something more dynamic, in the end you make friends with whom take“ Hyrox for Influencers. At a time when absolutely everything has to be Instagrameable To succeed, Hyrox has the elements to do so: It is completely training gamified and aimed at a specific objective (compete and improve brands in competitions, no abstractions such as “health”). His name resulton makes him Easy to google and labeland generates a feeling of belonging to a group. And lo Accessible competitions (With team modalities, without time limits) open the doors to anyone looking for more than sweating two days a week without a clear goal. As a business studied to the millimeter, of course, it is one of the elderly that has seen modern fitness Header | Hyrox In Xataka | Marathons are so extreme that our brain makes drastic decisions, how to consume itself

The future of his army goes through augmented reality

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The Chinese military state has been suffering for years An important process of technological modernization. The country led by Xi Jinping increased by 7.2% its defense budget by 2025, and is currently considered as The third largest military power in the world. For about a decade, China proves augmented and virtual reality technologies for military logistics. One of its most recent strategies goes through the Mars system (Military augmented reality system), one that seems taken from a science fiction film, or the last installment of ‘Call of Duty’. Inside a video game. Soldiers of the popular liberation army have augmented reality devices at their disposal. Teams that allow the units to use this technology to see through the walls, obtain third -party information (drones, colleagues, position of other combat elements, etc.) and expedite combat operations. They have thermal, night vision and cameras to track the environment They are able to delineate humanoid objectives for their best detection They can actually show 3D maps of the territory They label and establish markers shared with other team members They project a digital cross in the eye to point more precision Reading the device functions list, it seems closer to what we would find in ‘Call of Duty’ than what an average user would understand as military technology. Mars technology, from the beginning, is focused for real combat use. Through Chinese networks, such as Bilibili, The design and operation of some recent versions of the device has been seen. In test phase. China has been testing this type of devices for two years, and it is clear that the future of military operations goes through AI. Despite this, it is important to highlight that these types of technologies have not been deployed in real combat, and that both physical impact and cognitive load that entails using them is being studied in depth. They are not just for war. Although the most advanced own devices have combat guidance, China has been using augmented reality for other military purposes for years. In 2023, the Chinese Air Forces made the use of Hololens 2 for Areonautio maintenance tasks. AR devices have also been used for training Paracharidism units and out -of -combat tactical training tasksthrough completely virtual or live environments by augmented reality. An answer to the US. The United States, first military world power, has a calendar similar to that of China. He closed his first contract with Microsoft For system development Ivas (Integrated Visual Augmentation System) In 2018, one that has been in evidence since then. It is the system with which China tries to rival, and one that is also trying to finalize its test phases. The biggest challenge? American soldiers complained about the first final versions (2022) for dizziness, nausea and neck injuries after the continued use of these heavy devices. In 2024, the American army deployed about 3,000 test devices, in this case improved to avoid these problems. Intensive tests are being carried out in this first half of 2025, and conclusive results are expected before the end of the year. It is not the only plan. At the end of 2024, Reuters revealed that China had been using old Versions of the Meta Models for Military Purposes. Specifically, it was pointed out that Chinese investigation institutions linked to the popular liberation army used the publicly available goal model to create a chatbot with military applications called Chatbit. An unauthorized military assistant according to goal, since its technology can only be used with military applications in the United States and some agencies from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. China as a military superpower. China has been consolidating as a military and nuclear power for years, having deeply modernizing its nuclear arsenal in recent years. He US Department of Defense He estimates that China currently has an arsenal made up of More than 600 nuclear eyeletsand that plans to increase this figure until reaching 1,000 eyelets in 2030. Something that, added to the construction of the largest military center in the world 30 kilometers from the southwest of Beijing, it makes clear the strategic response to the arms development of the United States. Image | United States Army In Xataka | Online anonymity no longer has a place in China. His new virtual identity card is assured of this

The AI ​​has no future without nuclear energy when even Nvidia has begun to pray to Bill Gates reactors

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Data centers will be responsible for 10% of the increase in energy demand until 2030, according to the International Energy Agency (IE). The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) What we are living has triggered the proliferation of these facilities In the US, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Germany, Netherlands or Ireland, among other nations. And for the moment there is no indication that invites us to anticipate that this trend will be exhausted in the medium term. A data center dedicated to large AI can exceed 150 MWand, precisely, these are the facilities that are proliferating the most. In fact, in 2024 its global consumption amounted to about 415 TWH, a figure that represents around the 1.5% of global electricity consumption. To solve this challenge and guarantee to data centers the delivery of energy that more and more companies need nuclear. The last one who has done is Nvidia. And is that the company led by Jensen Huang has participated in a financing round Of 650 million dollars to support Terrapower projects, the nuclear energy company founded by Bill Gates in 2006. With this decision NVIDIA adds to the strategy that defends the use of Compact modular reactors (known as SMR for its denomination in English) with the purpose of delivering to the data centers the electricity they need. And, incidentally, put one more leg in a sector with an indisputable growth potential. Terrapower is already building the first Natrium nuclear reactor The nuclear fission reactor that this company has designed is a modular and compact design refrigerated by sodium that uses a molten salts storage system. Because of its characteristics, it is about A fourth generation machine That, according to those responsible, it will be able to generate electricity in half of the cost that a conventional nuclear fission reactor. Whatever the interesting thing is that the first Natrium nuclear reactor in Terrapower is being built in a Wyoming Mining town (USA), and, according to Bill Gates, will be completed in 2030. Nvidia has participated in a financing round of 650 million dollars to support Terrapower projects It sounds good, but we must not overlook that it is a new generation design, so a priori the five years that Terrapower manages seem too optimistic. However, this reactor has an important asset in your favor: on paper Its tuning should be faster and cheaper than that of conventional reactors. In addition, a Spanish public company is participating in the construction of this machine. It is called Ensa (Nuclear Teams, SA), is Cantabrian and has more than five decades of experience in the field of design and manufacturing large components for the nuclear industry. There is no doubt that the fact that Terrapower has decided to ally with it is a boost that will surely reinforce its international image. And, perhaps, he opens the door of other latest generation nuclear energy projects. “This is the first reactor of these characteristics that is manufactured following the highest standards of safety and quality in accordance with the most demanding nuclear regulations,” has declared A Enso spokesman. Interestingly, this Spanish company will participate in The manufacture of the Natrium reactor lid. A last interesting note: currently also intervenes in the construction of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experctor reactor), The experimental reactor of nuclear fusion that an international consortium led by Europe is pointing in the French town of Cadarache. Image | Terrapower More information | The Register In Xataka | “We are already on the last step”: how Spain has done with the key to realize nuclear fusion

A new future for Openai is opening. And Microsoft is increasingly out of it

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Things are not going well between Microsoft and OpenAi. What in 2019 began as a promising idyll Waters six years later, and both companies have been looking for their own way. The break is not definitive, but that process begins to be delicate and is making them begin to get the dirty rags of the relationship. Growing tension. In The Wall Street Journal They point how “tensions are reaching a boiling point.” One of the factors that contributes to the current situation is Openai’s intention to become a profit company. The current existing agreement that defines Microsoft’s participation in OpenAI is a reason for dispute. Microsoft wants more. The central debate is what participation Microsoft will have if Openai becomes a profit company. According to the WSJ, Microsoft is asking for a greater participation than Openai is willing to give it. If OpenAi does not complete your conversion before the end of the year, It takes a risk to lose 20,000 million dollars. Dangerous accusations. According to sources close to these companies, Openai managers They have accused Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior during his business alliance. Thus, while in Openai they claim that Microsoft did not offer all the computing capacity he could, In Microsoft they protested Because Openai did not give access to their most advanced models quick enough. New girlfriend. Openai soon began to look alternatives and new brides. He found one that has in fact promised much more than Microsoft gave Openai. It’s about softbankwhich will theoretically invest 40,000 million dollars in Sam Altman’s company and will contribute to Gigantic Stargate Project. On the one hand they say one thing … In a joint statement cited in WSJ, those responsible for Microsoft and Openai pointed out that “we have a long -term productive alliance that has offered incredible AI tools for all. Negotiations continue their course and we are optimistic when continuing to create things together in the future.” … but on the other they do another. OpenAI intends to close the acquisition of Windsurf for 3,000 million dollars. However, the agreement with OpenAI indicates that Microsoft has access to all the intellectual property of Openai. And the problem is that the latter does not want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property. They already have Github Copilot, and it seems that in Openai they are not willing to make Microsoft take advantage of that acquisition to improve their own platform. And meanwhile, they compete more and more. Microsoft has access to OpenAi models, but also Ear money Every time someone uses chatgpt. Sam Altman’s company continues to benefit from the gigantic infrastructure of Azure and his computing capacity. And yet, both have been taking steps to “decouple”. Microsoft continues to work In its own AI models —Phi 4 continues to progress – for example, and OpenAi is still looking for new partners And he is drilling Even with Google to also be able to take advantage of its cloud infrastructure. In Xataka | The Microsoft Agreement with OpenAI was just a first step. What they want (probably) is to get rid of them

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