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In Madrid there are 24 tons of Canarian volcanic sand giving tumbos. So they will become a “dry garden”

July 29, 2025 by usatoday24

Every summer has its informative soap opera. That is no novelty. What is less common is that, As is happening In La Palma, a few sacks of sand star. It sounds strange, but after all it is the history of the 24 tons of volcanic sand that in May 1,800 kilometers traveled to value the Canarian culture and then ended up abandoned. From the case we already talk to you A few weeks ago. Now we finally know its conclusion, which is no less surprising. Volcanic sand … and traveling. A few months ago, in May, the Canary Authorities had a peculiar idea: they collected more than 20 tons of sand from Tajogaite volcano (La Palma), prepared it and put it in large bags and then uploaded it aboard a ship that transferred it to Cádiz, from where she traveled again on board trucks to Madrid. It took several days to cover the entire journey. Once in the capital they opened the sacks and scattered those blackish grains in the middle of Callao, drawing a huge, dark and bright circle. And all that, for what? To value the Canarian struggle, a popular sport on the islands, but that many do not know in the Peninsula. Coinciding with the Month of the Canary Islands, on May 17 the outdoor playing field was prepared in the Plaza de Callao and everything arranged so that two of the teams with the most footprint in the islands, the Saladar of Jandía and the Candelaria de Mirca, dispute in Madrid one of the most emblematic days of the DISA Government of the Canary Islands. As was in charge of emphasizing The regional government was the first time in the very extensive history of the island sport in which an official fighting day was held in the center of Madrid. But even so, to give it more epic, they decided that the fighters were measured on authentic volcanic land of La Palma. Hence the whole logistics deployment of sacks, permits, ship, trucks and crane. First stop: Callao Square. The experience was a success. In addition to the Arena, in Callao, stands were installed and the appointment attracted a nourished audience that included some authorities, such as the island president, Fernando Clavijo. “Fighting about the sand with which so many palm trees continue to fight to get ahead was a spectacular moment. We were recorded in memory,” Recognize in The Spanish newspaper (EPE) Lorena Hernández, general director of native sports of the regional government. At first, the sand, he remembers, sounded like “crazy”, but the idea went ahead for his “romanticism.” And what do I do with all this sand? That was the next question. Once the competition is over and the experience is over the next question was what to do with those 24 tons (some versions speak of 20) expelled in their day by the Tajogaipe volcano. They could take the way back to the palm. Or they could stay in Madrid as a gift, which was the idea that ended up. There were those who thought that the grains would be divinely in the Madrid volleyball pigs and for that purpose they reserved, but there was a problem: the sand was heated too much, so it was not a good idea to dedicate it to that end. Second stop: Torrelodones. The history of those volcanic sands ended A report With a suggestive headline: “Without a trace of the 24 tons of sand from the palm volcano that Canary Islands gave to Madrid for beach volleyball fields.” The newspaper said that the Consistory had no evidence that they went to dedicate volleyball sand to its volleyball fields. Apparently the material was lost track. The mystery did not last little. A day later the same medium revealed That the sand of discord was actually in a Torrelodones warehouse, where they accumulated dust waiting for the City Council to ultimately accept the sacks formally and look for a new use. Discarded the Volleyball fields and without short -term plans that the Canarian struggle was to take root in Madrid, then it was pointed out to be given a third use: environmental. Third stop: “Dry Garden”. The story seemed to conclude there, but EPE He has just contributed A new fact that (at least apparently) puts the end to the soap opera of volcanic sand, at least for the moment: instead of allocating sports clues, the sand will be dedicated to gardens. And not any kind. There is talk of “dry gardens.” One of the ideas on the table is to create a garden with low water consumption species and a typology similar to those that exist in the Canary Islands. Another option is to use it in other green spaces to take advantage of the properties of the material, of porous structure, good for drainage and that prevents the land from flooding. “It is a high material in minerals, in the Canary Islands it has worked wonderfully. If the sand can have a second use and create a green space with the sand of the palm, it will be wonderful,” Recognize Hernández. Why does it take so long? Simple: bureaucracy. The Cabildo had already prepared a document with the details of the donation, but now it is time to modify it: instead of allocating the sand to sports uses, it will be dedicated to the parks and gardens of Madrid. “Being a donation between public institutions, it requires a lot of paperwork. With this, we believe that we can put an end to management in one or two weeks,” they explain to EPE after specifying that a few days ago new documentation was requested. While the procedures advance in the offices, in the Torrelodones ship follows the one that is probably the most traveling sand in the history of the palm. Images | The Government of the Canary Islands (X) In Xataka | The Canary Islands have seven islands, but only one has escaped from the … Read more

Renfe trusted the Avril trains to face the Low Cost of Ouigo and Iro. They do not stop giving problems

July 28, 2025 by usatoday24

When the competition has pressed, Renfe has seen how his commitment to a low -cost service to the AVE had been as necessary. The problem is that this service, called Avlo, is operated by trains that in just over a year have not stopped giving problems. Retired avlos. It has returned to normal with the five Avlo trains frequencies between Madrid and Barcelona for the month of August but for a few days the cheap offer of the company in the corridor faded completely. First the five trains retired. Then the frequency was in three options in the day. Finally, they can already be bought normally. It is what Víctor de Elena accountjournalist electionomista.eswho had written an article last Friday explaining that Renfe had stopped offering his services of the Avlo line between Madrid and Barcelona. Since last Friday, when the information was published, the sale of tickets has been returning to normal. What happened? Everything indicates that Renfe has been putting patches to a complicated situation. He explained about Elena that Renfe had found a fissure in one of the components of the Bogies of an Avril train. This would have caused that, temporarily, it would be suspended The sale of all Avlo tickets in Madrid-Barcelona. Hours later, Renfe sources would confirm to the medium that during one of the maintenance reviews last Monday, July 21, one of the five 106 series presented “a fissure in an element of the tractor bogie called a bast.” Subsequently, a review of the five trains that serve and the affected systems were replaced. Now, according to Renfe “trains are operating without any anomaly.” More slowly. The trains operate, yes, but below the expected speed. They point out in electionomista.es That according to the State Railway and Adif Security Agency, Renfe operates the trains at 250 km/h of maximum speed, instead of the 300 km/ha those who were operating in a stretch of 190 kilometers that extends between Puerta de Atocha and Ariza (Zaragoza). In your communicationRenfe points out that the company “through its Renfe Travelers and Renfe engineering and maintenance, as a railway company and entity in charge of maintenance, respectively, as well as Talgo in its condition as manufacturer and the State Railway Security Agency, guarantee that the circulation and operation of trains is carried out with total security for travelers.” In the statement they point out that the offer is being reorganized with the S106 trains but do not specify anything about the speed at which trains circulate and emphasize that the sale of tickets is being made “normally.” In Xataka We have contacted the company but so far we have not obtained an answer. The Avril. The S106 series in which the fault has been detected corresponds to the trains known as Avril. Trains that since they were launched in 2024 They have caused various incidents. The S106 series It is designed by Renfe to fight the lowcost but also to be able to offer a service in Galicia that You will not have competition in the short term. For this last line, Renfe has 15 trains in his hands that can change the wide track automatically. Then, it has another 15 trains to operate between Madrid and Barcelona. Of the latter, they carry the specifications to operate as AVE but in five other trains the places have increased from 507 to 581 seats and thus be able to compete as a low cost option. A controversial arrival. When the Avril trains made an appearance they have already arrived surrounded by controversy. They launched in May 2024 but The material had been delivered with three years delay. Then, of the 30 trains, 12 of them had been delivered in a first lot. The first steps of the Avril were not the best. They promised to improve the connection between Galicia and Madrid but in the first days they registered delays of more than two hours and in later days of more than 30 minutes. Neither In the Asturian line The promised time sales were being fulfilled. But, in addition, the trains did not like among the experts either. Accounts in social networks that follow the current world of the train and its novelties portrayed the excess noise and vibrationsas well as They questioned the quality of some materials used in the rolling material. More incidents. The incidents did not stay here. Above all, Avril trains are remembered by the fault in the Galician line that on the first day of this year he left thousands of passengers on the ground or in the middle of nowhere. In a kind of “2000 effect”, trains were retained by a software problem With the year jump. And Barcelona-Madrid has not been the only one. Just a few days ago, a S106 series train collapsed at low speed at the Gijón station without consequences for travelers. At the moment, Renfe has not given explanations about what happened. Photo | André Marques 432 In Xataka | “In 1961 it took Bilbao for three hours and five minutes. Now it takes three and ten”: Cantabria and the drama of Spain with the train

If the question is what China is giving Russia in the Ukraine War, we have news: a complete army

July 23, 2025 by usatoday24

At the beginning of July Bloomberg he took Some documents They showed how a little known firm based in Khabarovsk, at the eastern end of Russia, had emerged as one of the main drone manufacturers of the country. I did it thanks to a dense cooperation network Covering with Chinese companies. Now, Ukraine’s intelligence has shown something much bigger: Beijing is giving Moscow a 100% Made in China complete army. A new generation. The Ukraine Defense Intelligence Directorate (Gur) He has revealed The existence of a new type of Russian decoy drone manufactured entirely With Chinese componentsa disturbing milestone that shows the growing implication of Beijing in the Kremlin war machine. Although for years it is has documented the use of foreign pieces (including Chinese) in Russian arsenalthis would be the first time that an unmanned aerial system used in the Ukrainian front is completely built with technology from a single country: China. Chinese shahed. The drone, of the delta and reduced size, reminds superficially to the Shahed-136 Iranianbut it works mainly as a decoy to saturate Ukrainian aerial defenses, although it can also incorporate an explosive load of up to 15 kilos. The existence of this platform confirms that Russia has not only perfected its saturation tactics With drones, but has also consolidated new technological supply chains that avoid international sanctions. All the components and blocks of the drone are of Chinese origin Commercial components. Of the two drones recovered by the Gur, one of them contained exclusively Chinese pieceswhile the other included two still unidentified components. According to The investigationalmost half of the pieces of the first came from a single company: Cuav Technology Co., a Chinese firm based in Guangdong that It specializes in open source created systems. The components were flight controllers with autopilot functions, navigation modules, antennae and air speed sensors. The most notable is that this company, which in 2022 had publicly announced restrictions on the sale of products both to Russia and Ukraine to avoid its military use, has ended up starring in The technical nucleus of a new Russian weapon. The paradox. The contradiction is even more striking to know that Russia had previously presented a supposedly native vertical take -off drone that turned out to be a direct adaptation of a Cuav acquired product acquired Through Aliexpress. The fundamental difference with the new lure does not lies in the origin of its parts, but that it is now a Russian endogenous production based completely on Chinese technology, not a simple direct purchase. Some of the Chinese components found in a new Russian decoy drone AI and tactical expansion. Chinese involvement is not limited to passive electronics. Ukraine has documented The use of artificial intelligence in Russian drones as the V2Uwhich uses algorithms to Identify and select Objectives autonomously. This drone used a Chinese Leetop A203 minicomputer and a central processor with Jetson Orin de Nvidia module, which reveals a combination of Western and Chinese hardwareused by Russia to incorporate AI capacities in its operations. In addition, Beijing has contributed to the development of fiber optic drones long journey, allowing Russia to extend the scope of these platforms up to 50 kilometers. This technology offers immunity against electronic interference and signal blockages, in addition to overcoming geographical obstacles that limit control via radio frequency. Thus, Beijin has endowed Kremlin with key tools to maintain Your tactical advantageespecially in an increasingly conditioned conflict for The electronic war and the saturation of enemy sensor. Foreign pieces war. We had gone counting In the previous months. Actually, the drone lure manufactured in China is only one more piece within the vast Russian war gear assembled with foreign components. The Gur has recovered multiple Russian arms systems (such as Shahed-136 drones, cruise missiles S-8000 flagcommand vehicles with Radar 9S932-1attack helicopters KA-52 and missiles KH-101) that They contained pieces Native of the United StatesIran, Taiwan, Switzerland, Japan or South Korea. In all cases, the parties escaped the export controls and ended Integrated in armament deployed on Ukraine. Even complete systems have been detected, Like a laser of Chinese origin designed for Brink Ukrainian droneswhose presence in Russia was confirmed after circulating videos on social networks. This transfer, identical to systems already provided By China to Iranreinforces the hypothesis of an active and sustained collaboration between both authoritarian regimes in the development of sophisticated weapons. China and implications. Although Beijing claims to maintain a neutral position before the war in Ukraine, its behavior seems the opposite. Filtered statements This month in CNN they revealed that Foreign Minister Wang Yi confessed to a meeting with the EU Foreign Policy Head of Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, which Beijing “cannot accept a Russian defeat” because it would allow the United States to focus their attention on containing China. In private, admitted that a prolonged war could benefit Beijing by distracting Washington from their strategic interests in Asia. This geopolitical calculation does not seem trivial: it reflects that for China, Ukraine is not a secondary issue, but A key piece on the global power board. His strategy seems to focus on keeping Russia sufficiently strong to erode Western influence, without compromising enough to become target of direct sanctions. The axis and the transformation of the conflict. Plus: unlike North Korea support (focused on Artillery, missiles and troops), the Chinese contribution It aims to silently mold the technological architecture of the conflict. The supply of microelectronics, complete platforms, AI tools and critical components has allowed Russia reconfigure your economy In war code and adapt your military industry to resist in the long term. A pattern that suggests that the flow of Chinese technology will not only continue, but will probably intensify, extending, perhaps, throughout the Russian arsenal. With Moscow Diplomatically isolated and financially pressedthe convenience alliance with Beijing is emerging as one of the most decisive variables in the future of war. Image | Gur In Xataka | It is not that the war is asymmetric, is that Russia is attacking with … Read more

Four years later, still giving blind sticks

June 26, 2025 by usatoday24

Netflix will stop offering some of its most notorious games to the subscribers of the service: a total of 20 titles among which are some of those of which more fame had won the catalogjust those who had made many who were facing an entry operation in the video game industry comparable to that with which Netflix broke into the film and series business. The fall of these titles, however, puts the entire plan in question. They leave. The quality of the games that Netflix has offered its subscribers as part of its plans always has been on the rise. Began with a few Very modestbut soon included undoubted packaging titles And that they had already had an important and very awarded career on traditional platforms, such as ‘Hades’, ‘Katana Zero’ or ‘Braid’. Now many of them leave the platform from next July 14. This is the complete list of those who disappear. Battleship Braid, Anniversary Edition Carmen Sandiego Cocomelon: Play With JJ Death’s Door DID OUT: MERGE CAFE Dumb Ways To Survive Ghost Detective Hades Katana Zero Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed Ludo King Monument Valley Monument Valley 2 Monument Valley 3 Rainbow Six: Smol Raji: An ancient epic Sponebob: Bubble Pop Fun Ted Tumblewords The Case of The Golden Idol The Rise of The Golden Idol Vineyard Valley Down in ambition. This movement enters into what has been Netflix’s recent relationship with video games: officially sold a commitment to the very important environment, and was indisputable with catalog games such as ‘Hades’, ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Sonic Mania Plus’, ‘Oxenfree’, ‘Reigns’ or ‘The Almost Gone’. To this certain steps were added to go beyond mobile phones, with games on televisions using A smartphone like command. However, in October of last year this ambition He received the first stick: Netflix announced that it closed its only AAA study, Team Blue. Looking for a voice. At this time, Netflix has been playing all the sticks: he has entered known franchises as ‘gta’ (which withdrew almost entirely a few months ago of its catalog) or ‘Street Fighter’, has published modern milestones and classics of the indie, mobile entertainments for all audiences and adaptations of their own series. In March, Alain Tascan entered as president of this area of the platform and was clear: “We need to find our voice“. They have not yet made it clear if they are doing well with being a (remarkable) Publisher of indie prestige games or want something else. Because that more, with the closed AAA study … What would it be? The netflix of video games. On paper, that is the logical aspiration of the platform: differentiate from giants such as Xbox or Sony without specific associated hardware, and settle as a platform without platform. A huge catalog of titles that can be played on any device. Tascan declared The Verge A couple of days ago That the key to the success of monsters such as ‘Fortnite’ is in the cross-play that makes the same profile and departure can be continued on different devices. But technically that is not quite simple … And above all, who needs to do that with ‘World of Peppa Pig’ or the ‘Buscaminas’? Cheaper technology. A loss of access to exclusive titles can give rise to possible changes in the perception of service valueso that is what Netflix may need to work below. But Tascan points in his statements that in the next five years the technology of streaming It will improve enough to set their ideas: a first step they have taken it with the aforementioned launch of titles that are played only on television with the mobile as command, but its impact has been very limited. Will you continue trying to new Netflix options or will you wait for technology to live up to your ambitious ideas? In Xataka | Streaming is first and foremost a western industry, but who is dominating it is a Japanese art: anime

China is giving them to control the future standard

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

It is no longer enough to chat with AI. We want you to do things for us, and AI agents They promise precisely that. It is the new frantic race in which everyone competes, but attentive because the Chinese strategy is overwhelming. Chinese ia agents everywhere. In recent months, large technology companies and Chinese startups have launched various AI agents. Among the protagonists are the still small Butterfly Effect and Zhipu, who have “deep research” agents that manage Openai Deep Research to overcome in Some metrics. And they are added giants such as Alibaba or Bytedance, who have announced agents based on their foundational models. Machine, do everything for me. Those agents are of all kinds. There are as we say dedicated to deep research – “make me a report of the current state of X” -, but also to areas such as travel planning or, of course, the development of the Autonomous Code with the supervision of a human programmer. Four protagonists. As they point out In Rest of Worldalthough there are several Chinese companies working on this type of technology, there are four that are now outstanding: Manus (Butterfly Effect) Quark (Alibaba) Autogglm Rumination (Zhipu) Coze (bytedance) But they are cheaper … At least, competitively and if we attend to its benefits. Manus It has a subscription of 199 dollars a month to use its AI agent. That gives access to a certain number of credits (19,900) to execute tasks autonomously. OpenAI and its Chatgpt Pro plan It also costs 200 dollars, but it is more a conversational assistant with deep analysis, programming and research, but at the moment it does not offer that guidance to Agent of Autonomous that allows you to complete tasks from the beginning to the end, which is what Manus presumes. … or free. Zhipu, one of the most promising AI startups in China, launched its agent, called Autogglm Rumination. Demo videos showed how it served to compare services prices of food sendingbut also to generate Research reports through web searches. The agent is based on Zhipu’s reasoning model (GLM-Z1-AIR) and its founding model (GLM-4-AIR-0414). The company presumes that its reasoning model is as good as Deepseek R1, but it runs up to eight times faster and only needs 1/30 of the resources used by its competitor, which was already considered especially efficient. That is important, but this particular agent It is free. Bytedance. Something similar happens With Cozethat more than an AI agent is a platform to create ia agents and bots in a relatively simple way. The proposal is similar to the one Openai offers with its personalized GPS store, but here the objective is to create the aforementioned agents of the IA specifically oriented to what the user needs. And it’s free. Spectacular growth. These Chinese ia agents are having a spectacular success in the market. It is demonstrated by the statistics of mobile apps that have precisely come out to boost them. Quark, from Alibaba, has 149 million monthly active users and is in the world top 6 In just a few months. Other AI platforms such as Doubao (more than 100 million monthly active users) or Deepseek make more than 325 million users among the three. This remembers Android. There is a curious simile, and it is that of how Android managed to conquer mobile telephony with that “free” model – for users, not for manufacturers – that allowed it to grow like foam. Startups and large AI companies in China also offer free access to these AI agents and platforms with that same goal: to gain volume and end up becoming de facto standards. But chatgpt also follows that strategy. That tactic of offering access to AI models for free is not something new: Chatgpt has been doing it since it went on the market, and here the Freemium model is absolute dominator. You can use part of the functions in a limited way without problems, But if you want to use more, you have to pay. Its rivals – Gemini, Claude, etc. – follow the same scheme, and in the meantime we won we users. Image | Alejandro Luengo In Xataka | Four AI companies are monopolizing the intellectual future of humanity. They are not good news

The world’s most popular video platform is giving failures (updated)

June 7, 2025 by usatoday24

Update 06/06/2025 21:08: The video platform has re -operated normally If you were planning to finish the week watching videos in YouTube And you are not getting it, calm: the problem is not on your computer or in your Internet connection. The world’s most popular video platform is experiencing failures at the moment, with several users reporting errors to access or reproduce content. In our tests from Spain, trying to enter YouTube.comthe page loads partially but shows no miniatures or content. The only thing that appears is the usual skeleton of the interface: gray blocks where videos should go, without images, without titles and without descriptive text. It is not a punctual failure: the interface directly does not work. Reports about YouTube failures too They are appearing in Downdetectora platform that includes incidents in digital services from the alerts of the users themselves. According to visible data at this time, the peak of problems began few minutes before 20:00 (Spanish peninsular time), with more than 5,000 notifications in a very short time. For now, the origin of the failures that are affecting YouTube is unknown. Neither the platform itself nor its parent company, Google (owned by Alphabet), have offered explanations about what happened nor have any official statement issued. There is also no technical information that allows us to understand whether it is a specific problem on servers or a global fall of the system. At the time of publishing this article, The official YouTube account in X (formerly Twitter) has not done No mention to the problems that are affecting the service. The last message posted dates back approximately 24 hours. The falls of this type may be due to multiple factors: from errors on the servers of the platform itself to service denial (DDOS) attacks or failures in fundamental third party services for the operation of the Internet, such as the content distribution network suppliers (CDN) or DNS. In Xataka | There are thousands of people hooked to True Crime documentaries on YouTube. The only problem is that they are generated by AI

There was a war in Europe for giving the second -hand digital market and we already have a clear winner: Vinned

May 19, 2025 by usatoday24

Percentile, the Spanish startup, of resale of fashion items, has been for two months In a bankruptcy processin search of a lifeguard. Wallapop continues to compete in that market, but without clear leadership in it. And Vinned, meanwhile, sweeps. The resale sector in Spain and in Europe is in a change of cycle. The panoramic. The second -hand clothing is a hypercompetitive market, and Vinted not only survives in it: it is dominating it. It has managed to grow where others are going back or searched for a place where they settle without finding it. To achieve this, Vinned has diversified its catalog and has also done something not so common: to earn money with its activity. The context. Percentile was a pioneer. It was founded in 2012, thirteen years old, and operated in four countries, with almost a million customers and more than a dozen millions of garments sold. However, and despite the heavyweights of the risk capital they invested in it (François Derbaix or Cabiedes & Partners between them), has not resisted the price war of the Fast Fashion. Not even the increase in the second -hand clothing market, increasingly popular and widespread, has been able to compensate for that pressure. And now look for a buyer to avoid disappearance. Between the lines. The Percentile model contributed a lot of comfort to the user, because he did everything for him: collection, classification and sale. But it was more comfortable than profitable. He only accepted half of the garments and offered rather low margins. Now its founders They speak to focus on “higher quality brands”, but maybe it’s too late. In figures. Meanwhile, Vinned in 2024 … It has tripled its benefit before taxes: 95.4 million euros. 813.4 million euros in revenue, 36% more than in 2023. He managed to reach 23 markets … … already the 2,200 employees. It is valued in 5,000 million euros. In detail. A part of his secret is in the invisible: Vinted Go and Vinted Payits own logistics and payments units. Also Vinned Ventures, his investment arm. Vinned’s ultimate goal is not just selling clothes. That is just a part. The idea is to build a complete ecosystem around the resale. Yes, but. Wallapop competes and has millions of users, true. But his generalist approach has not allowed him to emerge in the resale of clothing. It is too broad to compete in a concrete niche, as Vinted does. It has a very large catalog, but its brand is not associated with the style, and that weighs in an environment (sell used clothes) in which trust is key. In addition, Vind has many filters to locate garments (size of any part of the body, color, etc.) of which Wallapop lacks. The alarm signal. As a percentile slid, the sector grows, so the problem does not come from a lower demand. The threat is in the Low Cost from Zara, Shein and company, which have changed the rules. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy new than second hand. Only platforms with a lot of scale, focus and efficiency can survive and be profitable. Percentile is staying the way to see if a new owner can correct his course, and Wallapop resists, but Follow in losses. Who wins is Vind. And now what. Vinned wants more: he has long opened his doors beyond clothes, and now he is going something beyond electronics or luxury. Although it runs the risk of opening so much that Wallapop’s problems to lead in fashion move to it. Predictably, “circular fashion” will continue to grow and European regulations will add pressure to the conventional textile industry. In Xataka | I am a seller with five stars in Wallapop. Thus surviving in this second -hand jungle Outstanding image | Vinted

China wants to win the career of AI giving the services that others charge

April 30, 2025 by usatoday24

Alibaba has just launched Qwen 3his family of AI models with “hybrid” reasoning capabilities, just three months after Deepseek shook the industry with R1. It is not a coincidences: both Chinese companies have adopted a diametrically opposite strategy to that of the United States. While Openai reserves the best functions and expands limits to those who pay at least $ 20 per month (with more permissiveness if they are 200), and Google reserves their advanced functions to subscribers, Chinese giant publish open source models with almost restrictions, free for personal or commercial use. It is not altruism, but A direct attack on the western business model, based on the fact that the mere access to a great model justifies the payment. Qwen 3 arrives in eight variants: from light versions of 600 m parameters that fit on a mobile to a 235 b titan that rivals O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. They all allow alternate between fast answers and step -by reasoning —The trait that opens Sell as differential-, but without tolls. We are facing the “Linux” of AI. China does not want to lift fenced gardens, but to dynamite the commercial logic that supports great American technology. Each open launch that touches the level of owner systems erodes its perceived value. Why pay $ 20 per month for chatgpt if you can mount FREE QWEN 3 with a similar yield? The pressure on OpenAI, Google or Anthropic grows with each Asian iteration. Marc Benioff He summarized it after The Deepseek earthquake: “The models and interface are already commodities; the value is in the data.” China has internalized it before Silicon Valley. The play involves clear advantages: It partially raffers chips restrictions by squeezing efficiency. Mobilizes a global community that improves and displays its technology. Set standards de facto That, over time, they will channel the entire ecosystem. The thesis is clear: Basic models will be one more utility. The business will be in the applications and in the data that nourish them. It is no accident that Alibaba Alardee that Qwen already accumulates more than 100,000 derivatives, above those based on flame. Silicon Valley faces a dilemma: persist and risk irrelevance or open and sacrifice short -term income. The paradox is also clear: the free western market is being challenged by Chinese firms under the flag of the Open Source. While Musk accelerates with Grok 3.5 and OpenAi continues to show the way to pass through month to month, China advances without brake: more power for less cost until paying for the is as absurd as paying for an operating system. In Xataka | Deep Research is not just a new AI function. It is the beginning of the end of intellectual work as we know it Outstanding image | Alibaba, Xataka

Pedro Sánchez is confident in recovering the “soon” supply without giving deadlines and asks for caution and “a responsible use of the mobile”

April 28, 2025 by usatoday24

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared after six in the afternoon after the National Security Council meeting to address The mass blackout that affects Spain and Portugal From 12:32 a.m. on Monday, asking for caution and avoiding moving hypotheses about its causes. “The causes are still being studied. It is better not to speculate,” said Sanchez during his brief intervention of seven minutes, without admitting questions from journalists. The EU, in any case, has ruled out the theory of a cyber attack. The Portuguese operator has mentioned “A strange atmospheric phenomenon“ The current situation. The president has placed the origin of the incidence in “a strong oscillation in the European electrical system” that has triggered the interruption of the supply throughout the Iberian Peninsula and parts of France. Sánchez has confirmed that the Executive has declared the electricity crisis and will assume the management of the blackout in Andalusia, Extremadura and Madrid after the request of these communities to activate level three of Civil Protection emergency. “We will spend a few critical hours until we recover electricity,” he warned. What is happening. Sanchez stressed that the operation of hydroelectric plants is already restored, expressing his confidence that the supply will recover “soon”, although without giving concrete deadlines. The recovery of the supply in areas of the north and south of the country has been achieved, according to the president, thanks to the collaboration of the authorities of France and Morocco, to whom he thanked his “solidarity.” Official recommendations. The president has transferred three recommendations to the citizens: Minimize displacements. Follow only official information and not disseminate information from “doubtful origin.” Make responsible use of the mobile, making short calls and contacting emergencies only if it is strictly necessary. Next steps. Sanchez has announced that the National Security Council will meet again at seven in the afternoon, an hour after its appearance, to continue evaluating the situation. He also reported that the government is in permanent contact with the King’s house, parliamentary groups, European partners and NATO. “The priority is to work so that the sooner we recover normality,” he stressed at the end of his appearance. In Xataka | What is the “energy zero” and why the supply can go suddenly but it takes hours to recover Outstanding image | Moncloa

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