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Nuclear energy has generated electricity for decades. China is reinventing it for something else: the industry

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For decades, nuclear power plant cooling towers symbolized one thing: electricity. However, off the coast of Jiangsu province, China has just begun a maneuver that will change the usefulness of fission. It’s no longer just about turning on light bulbs; It is about feeding, with clean steam, the voracious thermal heart of heavy industry. The first concrete of a new era. According to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)the first concrete was poured for the nuclear island of Unit 1 of the Xuwei project. This act is not just another procedure, it is the first nuclear project to break ground in the inaugural year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, symbolizing a strategic shift towards diversified energy applications. The project, developed by CNNC Suneng Nuclear Power, is strategically located near the Lianyungang petrochemical hub, an area that requires a staggering 13,000 tons of steam every hour to maintain its operations. The concept of the super boiler. Xuwei’s great innovation lies in its technical architecture. As explained by Global Timesthe project is the first in the world to couple two different generations of reactors to maximize thermal efficiency: The Hualong One (Generation III): Two units of this pressurized water reactor (PWR) provide the base heat to convert demineralized water to saturated steam. The High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR – Generation IV): This unit acts as a “super boiler”. The steam produced by the Hualong One is superheated a second time by the primary steam of the HTGR, reaching the necessary extreme temperatures. for complex chemical processes such as petroleum refining, distillation and cracking petrochemical. This “double coupling” system allows, according to NucNetthat the plant will be useful for applications ranging from refining to desalination and steel production, sectors that have traditionally depended exclusively on fossil fuels. Cleaner than coal. The urgency of this project responds to a critical climate need. The petrochemical industry is one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize due to its constant heat demand. The figures provided by CNNC yvsupported by media such as World News Nuclear They are compelling: once the first phase is operational, the plant will supply 32.5 million tons of industrial steam per year. This will reduce standard coal consumption by 7.26 million tons and avoid the emission of 19.6 million tons of CO2 annually. Advances in cutting-edge technology. To manage the complexity of joining two very different types of reactors, Chinese engineers have turned to Artificial Intelligence and robotics. The design team used hierarchical digital simulations to create the system’s control logic, allowing heat and electricity to be balanced based on grid and industry demand. In the field of construction, progress is not minor. Li Quan, project manager, explained to Global Times that automatic metal active gas (MAG) welding systems with intelligent laser tracking are being used, a technology three times more efficient than manual welding. In addition, they emphasize that the localization rate of equipment (100% Chinese technology) exceeds 95%, promoting a national high-tech supply chain. Towards a global standard? Beyond its borders, China sees Xuwei as an export model. The CNNC has described the project as a “Chinese solution” for the low-carbon transformation of energy-intensive industries around the world. The goal is to demonstrate that heavy industrial development does not have to be tied to coal smokestacks. This move aligns with the 2025 white paper titled “China’s plans and solutions for carbon neutrality”which advocates for safe and orderly development of nuclear energy not only for the electrical gridbut for clean heating and desalination. The European contrast. While China is betting on nuclear energy to power heavy industry, in Europe the approach to waste heat is taking a digital path. Cities like Helsinki are finding an unexpected source of heat: data centers. As we have explained in Xatakacompanies like Telia or Microsoft are recovering up to 90% of the heat generated by their servers to inject it into district heating networks (district heating). A single data center in Finland can heat up to 20,000 homes. Although the scale is different – ​​China seeks heat to make steel and plastics, while Finland seeks shelter for its citizens – the philosophy is identical: in a world in climate crisis, wasting heat is a luxury that no one can afford anymore. Both models demonstrate that the energy transition depends on taking advantage of every calorie produced, whether it comes from a uranium core or an artificial intelligence processor. The end of thermal waste. The start of work in Xuwei marks a turning point. As the CNNC analysis concludesthe project is a “strong and clear beat” towards deep decarbonization. China is trying to show that nuclear power is the missing piece of the puzzle to reconcile mass industrial production with net-zero emissions goals. If Xuwei’s model is successful, the image of the nuclear power plant as an isolated island that only produces electricity will become history. The future of the atom seems to lie, rather, in its ability to become the invisible “heat engine” of modern civilization. Image | CNNC Xataka | In Finland they already know how to deal with excess heat from data centers: convert it into district heating

The chaos that AI has generated in personnel hiring has revealed a type of hidden talent: “invisible developers”

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For years it has been repeated that to have a good work in technology It was necessary to cultivate a good public personal brand and maintain an updated and complete professional profile. However, more and more voices within the technology sector are dismantling that idea, ensuring that many of the most valued developers They don’t do any of that. They are not going to apply to dozens of job offers or optimize their visibility. “Invisible developers” are simply brilliant at their job. This invisibility is something that was put on the table Gergely Oroszengineer, analyst and author of ‘The Software Engineer’s Guidebook’ in a recent message in his X profile, in which he pointed out that this profile of “invisible developers” flies under the radar “the only way to find them is through references and specific searches”, assured the expert Candidates with AI have broken everything. The increase in responses generated by AI to job offers has completely broken the hiring system. They explained it perfectly from the Manfred technological employment platform, where a few years ago they received between 20 and 50 applications a day for each job offer, and now they receive more than 500. Various recruiters they explained on Reddit that this saturation of applications lowers the average quality of the applications and makes it difficult to detect real talent through this route. The situation is so extreme that, as Orosz indicated in an analysis from the tech job market posted on his blog, “many companies hire most engineers through contacts and referrals.” Internal recommendations matter more than ever. In this saturated scenario in which true talent goes unnoticed, word of mouth has become the most reliable hiring filter. It is estimated that around 80% of existing job offers are not made public and are filled internally or through references and recommendations from the employees themselves. In fact, many companies use referral incentives among their employees so that, when a vacancy opens, they recommend their former colleagues and acquaintances as candidates. As Orosz details in his analysis, recruiters increasingly look for candidates more among the pages of their agenda than among the applications that come to them. The myth of the hypervisible developer. Public attention usually focuses on profiles with a lot of activity on networks or with highly visible projects. However, different examples and testimonies reveal the rising trend of “invisible developers”: brilliant workers at their job with little or no activity on their public profiles. A clear example is found in the message published by Max Spero, co-founder of the AI ​​company Pangram, in which he compares the GitHub contribution profile of an unemployed 22-year-old developer, full of activity and contributions, and that of a prominent Google engineer, with a practically empty history. In response to that post, Konstantin K, a software developer from San Francisco, confirmed Spero’s message. “The top 1% of engineers I’ve worked with over the past 10 years didn’t have GitHub, LinkedIn or LeetCode, they don’t speak at conferences or publish podcasts. But they built systems that no one else can,” he wrote. Trust networks between colleagues. Other testimonialsamong which Orosz is also foundreinforce this idea of ​​”invisible developers” and agree that the most effective way to open job doors in the future is to be valuable to colleagues in the present. “From the outside you cannot know how good an engineer this person is until you ask former colleagues. There are many cases like this,” wrote Orosz in X. Even academic research suggest that internal networks—those formed by real collaborations, not superficial digital connections—have a direct impact on career opportunities. In other words, the professional prestige that these “invisible” employees generate within the teams in which they participate weighs more than any public presence and their colleagues become their guarantors to obtain a job in the future. Real contact in a digital setting. It is still paradoxical that, faced with the saturation of digital channels and the implementation of AI-based systems, the technology sector is returning to a classic model: relying on real recommendations to reduce uncertainty. Research reveals that recruiters prefer to spend time on references validated by employees or former colleagues, rather than analyzing hundreds of clone resumes generated with AI. In Xataka | Job interviews have always been a game of cunning: AI is just taking things to another level Image | Unsplash (Vitaly Gariev)

This song is number one on the Billboard chart in the US. And it has been generated by AI

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The new artist that is triumphing on the charts in the United States is called Breaking Rust, but it is not a person, but an AI. Your song’Walk My Walk‘ has become number one on the Billboard list of song sales of the genre countryand we are not surprised because it is wonderful. And that raises again an increasingly loud debate. Why is it important. Music generated with artificial intelligence platforms has already sowed other controversies in the past, such as the one we experience with famous fake Drake song. Models and services like Suno AI They have evolved so much in recent months that today the results that can be obtained are as good as those of songs played and sung by human artists. And if not, tell this song by Breaking Rust, which has managed to convince people enough to make it number one in the prestigious Billboard magazine of hits in the US. Who is Breaking Rust?. In Newsweek they claim to have contacted the person behind the virtual artist Breaking Rust, but he has not made any statements. The artist has a profile in Linktree and on Instagramwhere 39,000 people are currently following him. In that account, videos made with AI appear in which the image of a cowboy is presented in different situations and with his songs in the background. Meanwhile, on Spotify has Right now more than two million monthly listeners. It is not clear who is behind said virtual artist, although some analyzes have tried to reveal that mystery. It is not the first and it certainly will not be the last hit of AI. What ‘Walk My Walk’ has achieved is striking, but in recent months we had already seen some virtual artists with songs generated by AI They end up being a hit on Spotifyalthough there are suspicions in this success (and probably, many bots). Replicating any style has long seemed like a piece of cake for AI models… even before ChatGPT appeared and it will change everything. We can no longer distinguish if a song was made by AI. It is already difficult to detect whether a text or an image has been created by an AI. The video seemed to be somewhat easier to identify, but the latest versions of Veo or Sora make it really complicated. With music we have reached a point where human music is indistinguishable from that generated by AI. This is what it indicates a recent study linked in Scientific American. It became clear that the majority of participants in this study could not distinguish creations made with Suno AI from human compositions. Rejection and worry. Music generated by AI, as in other types of content, is generating rejection in certain sectors. Josh Antonuccio, from Ohio University, explained that AI-generated content “creates more noise (…) The only thing that will continue to distinguish human artists is those who have remarkable music, a captivating perspective and a story that attracts fans.” Meanwhile, the truth is that this makes it more difficult for artists, especially independent ones who are trying to be successful in this segment. They also wonder if AI will ultimately I shouldn’t pay them a commission considering that he has (probably) trained with his works. In Xataka | The war over AI-generated music continues to escalate: Major labels sue Suno AI and Udio

The amount of nuclear energy generated by each country, detailed in this interactive map

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The World Nuclear Association esteem that there are about 430 operational nuclear reactors worldwide. In full Era of renewables and the decarbonizationnuclear energy remains a important energy source for many countriesso much that China, India or France depend largely on it and even private companies resort to their “own” reactors to feed the glottone artificial intelligence. And in This interactive map We can see not only what are the countries that produce more nuclear energybut how many reactors have or the participation of nuclear in its energy mix. The US giant. The color leaves no doubt: the United States is the country that most GWH from gender nuclear energy in 2024. The estimate is 823 TWH and, although the separate data may not tell us anything, put into context represents about 30% of global nuclear energy. It is the country with more active nuclear reactors -94- and it is estimated that the nuclear participated in just over 18% of its energy mix. It is a remarkable figure if we take into account the impulse of renewables in recent yearsas well as the Importance of gas and oil in its energy matrix. And it contrasts a lot with the 85 TWH of Canada or only 12.3 TWH of Mexico, countries with 19 and two reactors respectively. China. The next darker color is China. Your case is curious because, if there is a Example of impulse to renewableswith immense importance of both wind as of the Photovoltaicbut also with the largest hydroelectric dam in the world (and another under construction), that is China. The 57 reactors in the country are estimated to generate about 450 TWH of electricity, placing themselves as the second power in this area. However, unlike the United States and other countries that we will see below, although they are investigating to have more reactors (with some latest generation on the horizon), the participation of nuclear is still very low in the Asian giant. The calculation is that less than 5% of China’s energy in 2024 arrived from a nuclear reactor. France, Top 1. The French neighbors are those who complete the podium of nuclear energy production and, if in the case of the US we talk about an important participation, in the Frenchman we have to refer to this source as fundamental. It is estimated that the nuclear generated 380.5 TWH for 2024, but the most relevant data is that 67.3% of the energy consumed by France was nuclear. With its 57 reactors, it is the country most dependent on nuclear energy worldwide. France has made huge investments both in nuclear energy and in Nuclear weaponsbeing one of the European shields in this aspectbut perhaps more attention figures from other European countries that, with less reactors, are almost as dependent as France. Slovakia (five reactors) with 60.6%, Belgium (five reactors) with 54.5%, Hungary (four reactors) with 47%, Bulgaria (two reactors) with 41%or Czech Republic (six reactors) with 40%also depend on nuclear energy. Another curious case is that of Slovenia, which has only one reactor and 35% of the country’s electricity depends on not failing. Countries ordered by its dependence on nuclear energy Blank countries. As curious as seeing what countries use and depend on the electricity generated from nuclear energy is to pass the mouse on those that are completely blank. One is Germany. If you have traveled by plane from Spain to Colonia or Berlin, you will have seen the occasional central, so it is rare to see that it does not produce electricity through nuclear. The country had its maximum in 2006, when it generated about 170 twh that would put it together with the giants of today, but after a series of political decisions and step on the accelerator after the Fukushima’s tragic accidentGermany closed all its centrals in 2023. Another absent is Australia, where it is prohibited by law. Also Italy, which prohibited it in referendums made in 1987 and 2011. Dynamic. However, all this can change. The use of nuclear energy remains a hot topic both for those who argue that it is a cleaner source of energy than coal or gas (which They seem to resurface strongly due to Consumption of data centers) as for the detractors who They allude to accidents and problems with Waste management. There are political voices in ItalyAustralia, Poland or Germany that ask for a return to nuclear energy, and the truth is that there are countries that continue to investigate to expand their “arsenal” of reactors. India, South Korea, Japan or China itself have a positive trend in the use of nuclear and it is estimated that there are about 70 reactors under construction. The interesting thing will be to take a look at this map within a few years, since among the plans for Reactivate nuclear centrals that meet the needs of the technological industry, the increase in Investment in giants such as India or China and research in SMR reactors and of nuclear fusionthe panorama can change a lot in the coming years. In Xataka | China was the great pollut the planet: now it is emerging as the first “electrostate” in history

The amount of nuclear energy generated by each country in the world, exposed in this graphic developer

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The use of nuclear power It is still one of the most controversial issues in the energy debate. It is worldwide due to economic, social factors and concern for something very concrete: Waste management. It seemed like him Huge deployment of renewables would end the debate, but the truth is that there are countries that follow depending greatly on nuclear energy. And this graph reflects it clearly: Three blocks. The graph is the work of Visual Capitalist with data of the ‘Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy’ and the estimate is that nuclear plants generated 2,818 THW of electricity in 2024. Approximately 10% of the electricity generated worldwide during the world during the last year, but beyond the total, which allows us to see is that there are three very even and perfectly identifiable blocks. On the one hand, that of the United States and Canada. Here Canada has ‘little’ to say, and also its centrals generated 3.6% less than the previous year, but The United States is still a giant. It generated 823 TWH that, put in context, represents about 30% of all global nuclear energy. It has 94 operational reactors and that huge amount of electricity accounted for 18% of the national total. In the Asian block we have China standing out With 451 TWH produced, 3.4% more than the previous year, South Korea with 189 TWH and both Japan and India contributing, but with lower productions. And in the European bloc, France and Russia stand out above all, which among them have a much more similar production. The interesting thing here is to see the speed at which the world in a nuclear question moves. Promoting nuclear. Because we have already seen that, although the US generated more electricity with the nuclear, it was a small percentage. If we look at the European block, we have that there are those who grow 4% (Sweden) and who decreases 4% (Spain), But we have a France that increased the production of its centrals by 12.2%. With 57 operational reactors, if there is a country that depends on nuclear energy, that is France. HE esteem that 67% of its electricity comes from nuclear. Countries such as Slovakia, Belgium, Hungary or Bulgaria also depend largely on nuclear energy. In the case of Spain20% of their energy comes from these centrals. But if we look at the Asian block, the thing changes. China impulse Its nuclear generation These last monthsbut Japan did it in 9.3% and India, who wants to consolidate as a new technological core worldwide, generated 13.3% more. In the Middle East highlights United Arab Emirates that, whose four reactors generated 22% of their electricity. Old reactors. In total, I know esteem That there are 416 operational plants worldwide (France has the same as China, a fact that reflects the importance for the neighboring country) and a problem is that most are quite old reactors. Around two thirds of them are over 30 years old and, although the estimated life is usually between 30 and 40 years old, it is easy to prolong it more time with modifications and extensions. New reactors. There are also about 70 reactors Under construction. They are distributed, but most are concentrated in Asia, especially in the two countries that are leading that world nuclear expansion: China and India. New reactors use refrigerants that can operate with more energy safety and efficiency, also generate less waste and have an estimated useful life of more than 50 years thanks to modular designs. As we say, China is one of the countries that is best betting on this energy (despite the impulse that is also giving to renewables), and within its new plants, the fourth generation reactors stand out, like the one used by molten salts or thorium. They are not the only ones, as the US, France and India are also investing in research programs to develop reactors that generate electricity from the thorium (three times more abundant than uranium) Data centers. The truth is that, although sources like RENVOABLE EXPOSEDit seems that We are far from folding both fossil fuels and to nuclear energy. Much of the fault is very demanding data centers in energy terms that even need Punctual gas supply or even coal in demands of demand peaks. In fact, some of the main technological ones such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft announced Plans to create or reactivate nuclear centrals to satisfy the energy need for your data centers for artificial intelligence. And all this while we look at a future in which the norm should be the SMR reactors… And the nuclear fusion still is on the horizon. In Xataka | Europe and Japan are working side by the greatest technical advance of humanity: the nuclear fusion reactor

Bad Bunny has decided not to take his tour to the United States. And so it has generated 196 million dollars for Puerto Rico

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Bad Bunny is, in all likelihood, The most important Latin artist in the world. And among its most striking characteristics is not only not having renounced its roots, but to show them: we all know that it is Portarriqueño because its music presumes its origin incessantly. And that is what has made him one of the most notable financial assets in his country, despite his international draft. An example. One of his greatest recent successes, ‘Newyol‘, it’s a Dembow that sample a song of Andy Montañez and the great combo of Puerto Ricoimportant Portive interpreters of salsa. His video clip shows scenes of the daily life of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York and shows the statue of freedom with a country’s flag. The lyrics speak of the portorriqueña identity and its traditions. It is just another example in a discography full of winks, but very notable since THE MEME IN SOCIAL NETWORKS He ran like gunpowder, precisely, among Porician immigrants in the United States. 30 days in Puerto Rico. Aware of his power of convocation (in Spain we have also suffered it with the Deluste Fraticide fighting to get tickets For his concerts), Bad Bunny began a 30 -day residence in San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, which will end on the 14th day before renauding his world tour of Japan and Europe. He does so to compensate that he has not entered the continental United States (many see it as a sign of protest for anti-immigration policies in the country, the artist does not comment and has described his passage through the country as “unnecessary”). Consequence: It has carapacted the tourism and cultural life of the archipelago. 200,000 visitors. They are those that are estimated that this concert will attract Puerto Rico, and at a time when he needs it: when the fertile summer season has just finished. In a The Wall Street Journal article On the subject, a series of fans of the artist talk about how concerts to travel to Puerto Rico far beyond the mere night of the event. Someone will spend six days on the island; Another is going to spend seven thousand dollars on the trip; And relevant personalities such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, LeBron James, Kylian Mbappé Peélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Jon Hamm have been seen by concerts, with what he has of media echo and advertising for the island. Money for the people. The Non -Lucrative Association Discover Puerto Rico encrypted in 196 million dollars that this flow of visitors will generate in the island’s economy, which is a considerable impulse and that Bad Bunny is perfectly conscious. First -line artists know that their performances move a very important amount of money not only around concerts themselves, but to everything that implies the experience of attending it (consumption, restaurants, hotels). What artists move. Last year, for example, There was talk of the Swiftnomicsthe economy generated by Taylor Swift in its concerts and that in 2024 came to the United States figures. Specifically, around 10,000 million dollars. Bad Bunny has decided that comparable amounts emphasize in his country of origin, which, he says what he says, gives a very special meaning to his decision to dodge the land of the United States for the second consecutive year. In Xataka | Will Smith’s last concert has resulted in enormous public success. Public made with ia

Spring rains have generated an unexpected problem to Spanish farmers: Cereal too cheap

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Cereal cultivation continues to live convulsive times. Like many other crops, cereals suffered the consequences of last droughta drought that came to put the sector against the sector in 2023, transforming the dream of become the barn of Europe In a bitter awakening. Prices fall. Now the lament of the sector comes from another place: prices, collapsed after the recovery of the offer, a consequence of the recovery of production. A recovery that could hardly have occurred without a hydrological year as favorable as that of 2024-25. However, it never rains to everyone’s taste. From León. Perhaps the best example we find In the Leon Lonja. There last week the price of cereals such as wheat, rye or oatmeal saw slight falls in prices. The problem is more pressing if we consider the price two years ago: € 247/t. This implies that, in the last two years the price of cereal has dropped by more than 20%. Oats, in free fall. Another striking fall It has been oatmeal: if two years ago the price of this cereal was in the € 285/t, the price has dropped from then to € 136/t, 52.3% less. A year ago the price was € 183/t, which implies that only this year the drop in the price has been around 26%. Corn, the exception. Corn is the only cereal that seems to escape this trend. Their prices remained stable in fish markets such as León, while getting up in others, Like Salamanca. Lost opportunity A fall to which the sector has responded with pessimism since in the province the harvest is already practically finished. Farmers point out that these prices barely serve costs and They talk about “Lost Opportunity” When referring to this campaign. Supply and demand. The sector indicates the origin of the problem in a simple equation, that of supply and demand. Prices have fallen significantly since 2023, when the drought put in the middle of the agricultural sector against the ropes: the absence of rains and restrictions limited agricultural production. Now, production has recovered, but the problems continue. The increase in supply has not been equated with greater demand, which has facilitated a collapse in prices. To the precarious situation other external factors must be added, such as changes in international trade patterns, among which They are included The new tariff war between the United States and Europe, a conflict still to be resolved that adds firewood to the fire in the form of uncertainty. In Xataka | Before increasingly hard droughts, we are looking for answers in something discarded 10,000 years ago: perennial cereals Image | Heyzeus I write

Netflix premiered the first scene generated with AI in an original production, and nobody realized: the moment has arrived

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It seems that it was eternity when we were amazed with the images of Dall · E 2. ‘The girl from the pearl’ reimagined. An avocado in a spoon therapy. It was 2022, and the artificial intelligence Openai left us speechless with each new occurrence. In seconds, anyone could generate images that previously required technical knowledge and many hours of work. What seemed like a visual curiosity was only the beginning. Then the synthetic voices arrivedthe videos generated and, later, the tools designed directly for professional productions such as Sora either Gen-3 alpha. The scene of a building falling in Buenos Aires marks a milestone for AI His appearance raised new ways to create, but also old doubts about the future of creative work. And, as expected, they soon arrived at the great stages. This week its use has been confirmed In one of the most important series of the year in Netflix. Confirmation came directly from Ted Saraonds, Netflix executive co -director, During a talk with investors. “We are still convinced that artificial intelligence represents an incredible opportunity to help creators make better movies and series, not just cheaper,” he said. As he explained, they are already seeing concrete results in the phases of preview and shooting planning. But the most striking happened during the production of ‘The Eternaluta‘. In one of the key sequences, creators wanted to show A building collapsing In full Buenos Aires. To achieve this, the creative team worked together with the Eyeline Studios innovation group, using tools promoted by generative. The result was not only visually shocking: that sequence was completed ten times faster than with traditional effects and with a cost that, according to Saraonds, would have been unfeasible with conventional methods for a series of that budget. And it is not an isolated experiment: it is the first scene generated with AI that reaches the final footage of an original Netflix production. “The creators were delighted with the result. We were delighted with the result and, more importantly, The public was delighted with the result”Saraondos finished off. According to the Executive: the generative tools are not displacing the creators, but expanding the screening possibilities on the screen. Beyond the technological milestone, ‘the Eternaluta’ has also been a resounding success for Netflix. According to Forbesthe Argentine series reached the number one position of Netflix global for non -English speech series on April 30, date of its premiere, with 10.8 million views and 58.3 million hours reproduced in its first seven days. Based on the iconic graphic novel by Héctor G. Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, the story takes place in a Buenos Aires swept through a toxic snowfall that ends the population. From there, a Fight against an alien invasion that puts collective resistance. Production opted for virtual production techniques to create hyperrealist and interactive funds that immerse the viewer in a post -epocalyptic city. The use of generative allowed to go one step further and achieve a result that, until now, was only available to projects with the highest budget. What is clear is that this does not stop. In just a few years we have gone from generating curious images with ia to see how those same technologies begin to be part of the final footage of first level productions. ‘The Eternaluta’ is just a first step, but a significant step. It remains to be seen what other series or films will follow this path, How will it affect industries such as the video game And, above all, what will be the position of the creators in the face of this paradigm shift. There are still many questions without answering: from the use of human works to train generative models to copyright, through the real impact on creative employment. Cases such as the National Electoral Institute of Mexico, accused of using the voice of José Lavat without authorizationoriginal narrator of ‘Dragon Ball Z’, or The protests of the audiovisual sector in HollywoodThey show that we are still trying to dimension the impact of this technology. Images | Netflix In Xataka | It is not you, YouTube is filling with more and more ads. Especially if you see it on a smart TV

This album has been reproduced millions of times in Spotify but has not generated absolutely no benefit

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‘Crisis (The Worthless Album)’ by Valentin Hansen It is not, of course, a normal album. Because Hansen is not a normal musician. It is rather A performative artist that he plotted this conceptual album with a single objective: not generating benefit, not leaving a trace on Spotify, demonstrating how absurd streaming They are getting used to us. 30 songs. In 2021, the artist based in Berlin Valentin Hansen launched this ‘crisis (The Worthless Album)’ which consisted of 30 tracks, all of them of 29 seconds. Why this duration? He stayed for a second to monetize them, generate Royalties or to be registered in the metrics of the platform, according to the rules of use of the platform. But here comes the amazing: he used a smartphones hacked to reproduce the album countless times. And demonstrate that it would not even generate benefits. A design issue. As They count on contemporary100‘Crisis (The Worthless Album)’ won zero euros in total, but “not by accident, but for a matter of pure design.” Its purpose was to generate exactly that benefit. It’s about a criticism of the economy of streamingwhere an artist earns $ 0.004 per reproduction, but algorithms favor mainstreamto what is already established purely economic interests, which falls into a very complicated mousetrap to make profitable. “I want to show how broken the system is,” Hansen said about his experiment. Real songs. Hansen is a real musician. It makes a self -conscious and hyperproduced indie (in fact, ‘crisis’ has eight real songs, only that the tracks are interrupted every 29 seconds, as has been said, thus starting each song in three or four pieces impossible to make profitable) and, in fact, ‘crisis’ arose as a reaction to its most popular song, ‘Killing a Friend’, after 1,7 million reproductions, only got 2,000 euros. Hence the criticism of the Spotify payment system: said in an interview than the initiative Bandcamp Fridayin which the platform gives all its income to artists, is the most reasonable way to make money with music in streaming. Other experiments in Spotify. It is not the first attempt to play with Spotify’s legal possibilities and vericuetos: Royalties). All completely silent. The band encouraged their followers to reproduce the album in continuous repetition while they slept, generating royalties. The goal? Finance with that money a tour of free concerts. And it worked: in seven weeks and after about 5.5 million views, ‘Sleepify’ generated $ 20,000. Of course, Spotify did not like this sympathetic hairmade and eliminated the album of its platform, adducing violations of its content policies and commenting that, as an effect of the media impact of ‘Sleepify’, they had received a large number of silent albums. Spotify ended up modifying its legal section, prohibiting issues in full in silence. Spotify mandates. For what Hansen’s experiment serves is to talk about the absolute dominance of Spotify in the industry and how unfair it is, therefore, that he has so much power and can decide how artists are rewarded and in what terms. And how that benefits the platformbut not to musicians. Therefore, it is important that in the face of the propaganda that Spotify is democratizing and verticalizing musicdiscordant voices such as Hansen still dare to denounce an unfair situation with artists. In Xataka | We already know what the key to something that seemed impossible, to earn money in Spotify was: being an AI

I have generated this video in less than a minute and from the mobile. This is how I see 2 in Gemini’s app

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Yesterday he had Google as protagonist, and between all the news that presented was I see 3. His artificial intelligence generative text to video advanced on the right to all its competitors, being the first capable of generating audio next to the video itself. With the arrival of I see 3, I see 2 becomes an accessible version. So much, that you can try it in Gemini’s own app in both iOS and Android. In Xataka we wanted to test it, and the results are … good, very good. How to access See 2. I see 2 now part of the Google AI Pro plan, for 21.99 euros per month. This includes access to Gemini’s model 2.5, I see 2, flow, notebooklm, gemini in apps such as Gmail or Google Docs, and 2 TB of cloud storage. Access to see 3 will require the 250 dollar planfrom what I see 2 automatically becomes the most mainstream option and accessible to users that do not Look for professional uses with this AI. In iOS and Android. If you have the Gemini Pro Plan, as soon as you open the app on Android you will now see a video option, next to those of Research and Canvas. Just press this option to access the mode of video creation, with a generation of up to eight seconds. In the case of iOS, we have to go to the upper section of the app, and change the model that we have selected (2.5 flash, 2.5 pro or deep researc) to I see 2. Once you are configured thus, we can introduce the prompt. The instructions. Using I see 2 in Gemini is quite easy: we just have to be as descriptive as possible. The more detailed the description, the better the result will be. For its correct operation it is not necessary to write the Prompt in English, it works perfectly if we give the instruction in Spanish. Testing I see 2. One of yesterday’s great memes had to do with a challenge that is still choking many IAS: that of a person eating Spaguetti. This benchmark of the absurd implies complex understanding of textures, movement, deformation … and yes, I see 2 solves it. Not perfectly, but solves it. It is not a perfect. In a petition as simple as the “drone flight about Paradisiaca Beach. There are people surfing, palm trees, floring seagulls” has generated a fairly poor result. An idea to improve it? Having asked him not to be people, since generating so many elements has distorted the result. In this last example, two people dancing flamenco with a black background, surprise hair quality, how it has taken care of makeup, gestures … having made such a close plane the dance is not well appreciated, but it is another proof of how this AI works. There is no open bar. There are no more examples not because I don’t want to, but because Google has not left me. After generating a few videos (3,4) he has told me that he could not generate more until after half an hour. After half an hour … he hasn’t left me either. It is clear that paying 20 euros is not enough to create infinite videos, so we will have to use this tool with a certain moderation. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google first taught its new glasses with a real demo: an unforeseen live and a bet that points away

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