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Zara promised you happy with its pants for the summer. Until they ended the “killer pants” label

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Zara’s summer catalog it’s news. And for a reason that probably won’t be liked too much at the Inditex headquarters. Over the last few days, several TikTok users have published videos in which they report that by wearing one of their pants they have allegedly suffered falls and trips. There is no official confirmation or response from the company, but there are two undeniable facts. The first is that on networks you can find a good handful of videos on the subject that show falls and even injuries. The second is that the matter has escalated to reach media such as NY Post, cnn either Le Parisian. unexpected protagonist @cnn Some women are posting online about a pair of Zara trousers that they claim have caused them injury. People say the wide-leg trousers are so wide that they trip over them. CNN reached out to Zara, and they did not respond. ♬ original sound – CNN – CNN When a fashion brand launches a press, it expects it to leave its mark on the market, but due to its sales and success among customers, it does not. for its riskswhich is what has happened to some flowy pants Zara women’s clothing. The piece in question costs 22.95 euros and stands out for its design palazzo. Tight at the waist and with a loose leg, they are light, fresh and, above all, versatile. Depending on how they are combined, they serve both a casual and formal style. The problem is that, in this specific case, the designers seem to have opted more for aesthetics than functionality. According to shared videos by several users and media on TikTok, the pants are so baggy and long that when the person wearing them walks with them can trip. That is what several recordings published on the platform show and that can be found with the labels #zaratrousers, #zarattrousersdangerous either #deadlyzarapantsin which the garment is identified as part of the Zara catalog. In its official website At least one very similar garment can be seen. @camilariberaroca think a THOUSAND times before buying them @ZARA should have a warning on the label of these pants💀⚠️ #deadly #zarapants #falling #zaratrousers #fyp ♬ original sound – jojo.aitools Many of the recordings come from private accounts showing trips, often captured by security cameras. Some users even shows wounds supposedly caused by falls. Over the last few days, however, complaints they have been escalating until reaching international media, such as the chain cnn, Le Parisian, Telegraaf, NDTV, Metro, First Post either New York Post. They have also addressed the issue influencers with thousands of followers, like Shivani Khoslawho tried the pants in person two days ago. His piece already has around 14,000 likes. The Australian media Nine assures that in total they have been published more than 2,000 videos on TikTok about a phenomenon that some (including that same headline) have dubbed “deadly pants” either “murderers”. The truth is that the topic has generated a wide conversation on networks in which irony is not lacking. @gracewils0nx Thnx Tom for laughing after you’ve picked me up off the floor xxxx @tomorford2301 @ZARA #deathtrousers #zara #zaradeathtrousers ♬ original sound – € “There should be a Netflix documentary about them”, joke a user. Others slip that the garment should be sold “with helmet and knee pads” or, in a deeper tonereport the injuries that a bad trip can cause. From what the recordings show, the problem would be the design of the legsso long and loose that when you run the risk of tripping over them. At the moment neither Zara nor Inditex have commented on the matter. At Xataka we have written to both (both Zara and its parent company) without having yet received a response at the time of publishing this article. If this arrives, we will update the information. Images | TikTok In Xataka | It’s 2025 and millions of men around the world still refuse one thing: shorts.

living a happy and successful life comes down to three simple tips

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If only to survive the management of one of the largest technology companies in the worldBill Gates had to learn some productivity tricks to optimize your time as much as possible and prevent work from ruining your personal life. As Bill Gates himself has recognized on occasionhas been acquiring these habits to live a happier life throughout your career based on mistakes or receiving advice from your friends. With the publication of his latest autobiographical book ‘Source code: My beginnings’Gates has once again reflected on these same principles. The question is more important than the solution. One of the keys to problem solving is having the right answers, but much more important for Bill Gates is asking the right questions to find the right answers. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the millionaire published on his website some thoughts on how to find the solution. “Since I was a teenager, I’ve approached every big new problem the same way: starting with two questions. I used this technique at Microsoft and still use it today. I ask these questions literally every week about Covid-19.” According to Gates, two of the first questions we should ask ourselves are: Who has dealt with this problem well before? And what can we learn from them? Reinventing the wheel. In summary, what Bill Gates suggests is that it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel again and again, when someone has already found the solution to that problem. The best thing is to find a “wheel” that can adapt to your case and apply it. That approach does not require unlimited creativity, intelligence, or resources. It is simply about observe and learn in someone else’s head. Control time. Gates recognizes that time control, especially in the early years of Microsoft, was not his strong suit, and that is why he spent long working days programming and developing the brand’s first products. Until one day, his friend and investment magnate Warren Buffett: “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” In one intervention on the Charlie Ross showboth millionaires talked about the topic. Empty diaries. Bill Gates reflected on the veteran investor’s admirable command of time: “The fact that he is so careful with time, he has days when there is nothing on (his agenda)… sitting and thinking can be a priority much older. It is not an indicator of your seriousness that you have occupied every minute of your schedule.” This point is key since if you really want to achieve your goal, it is not enough to fill your work agenda. That will keep you so busy that it may prevent you from getting what you really want. So set priorities and say ‘no’ to the rest. Patience is the key to motivation. When Bill Gates founded Microsoft, he was barely a twenty-something with no knowledge about business or even notions of how to manage the company’s employees, so tended to be a somewhat toxic boss that with A look at the Microsoft office parking lot I could tell which employees were working and which had gone home. Over time, he realized that prioritizing results over always controlling what each employee did at all times was a better option both for his relationship with his staff and for his personal life. “Patience is a key element of success,” he said on one occasion. Learning lessons. Gates admits that this lesson was difficult to learn, but believes the key is to persistently work to put yourself in a good position and simply wait for the opportunity to arrive so you don’t miss it. This has also helped him improve his relationship with his employees. He discovered that by showing patience and trust towards them and their talent, improved their personal motivation and they wanted to do their best so as not to disappoint that person who had trusted them. In the end, both results and relationships benefited from the change in attitude. A version of this article was published in February 2025 Image | Lukasz Kobus In Xataka | “In five years they will have to pay taxes”: Bill Gates has pointed out the elephant in the room of AI and humanoids In Xataka | Bill Gates has been talking about AI for years. Now he thinks we are making the same mistake as with the arrival of computers

“I would rather 20,000 employees be happy and well fed than a few become millionaires”

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Three Kings’ Eve in 1914 appeared in The New York Times a surprising announcement: Henry Ford, Head of Ford Motor Company, will distribute ten million dollars among his employees throughout 1914. He will do so semi-annually and it will be an addition to the salary of each of the workers. The figure of 10 million dollarsas Henry Ford himself would confirm to the newspaper in an edition a few days later, was an estimate. He planned to distribute that amount at the end of the year but it could rise to 12 million dollars. Or it could be less. Those 10 million represented half of the profits expected at the end of the year. The day after the publication of the announcement, The New York Times echoed the madness: 10,000 employees showed up at the door of the Ford factory in Detroit to get a new job. That day, the company was already paying another 15,000 employees for whom entering the factory was more complicated than ever. “I think it is better for the nation, and much better for humanity, for 20,000 or 30,000 people to be happy and well fed than for a few to become millionaires,” Ford himself assured the journalist who went to cover the news. The announcement caused such commotion at the time that many changed jobs to form lines on the Ford Model T assembly line, as explained at the beginning of that same article in which the case of a 16-year-old boy who changed fields from the factory is told. But it also raised eyebrows among the competition to the point that it was questioned whether the owner of the company was not engaging in some type of anti-competitive action, they state in Barrons. “If Ford wants to have fun, so be it. He can afford it. Others can’t,” noted rival automaker Joseph J. Cole on Five Dollar Day. Five Dollar Day On Three Kings’ Day 1914, the day following the appearance of the aforementioned advertisement in The New York Timeshe Detroit Free-Press He referred to it as “Five Dollar Day”. This exemplified that Ford would pay at least five dollars to its employees with this new measure, double what it had been doing until now. As we said and as Henry Ford himself tried to explain in the article in The New York Times, It was not a salary increase. The worker continued to earn the same amount but, he calculated, this is what he would earn if a dividend of 10 million dollars was distributed among everyone. Ford was asked if he was a “socialist” for distributing profits among his employees, which was immediately denied. But he presented his theory: if workers performed at a good level, they should enjoy part of those benefits. And if they had the incentive to win it, they would work better. Furthermore, no exceptions were made, the sweeper and the person in charge of his line would collect the dividends that corresponded to them. That is, a payment strategy for objectives without distinctions. What Henry Ford discovered is that chain assembly was essential to impose his car on the competition. The higher the production volume, the lower the cost for the brand and the lower the cost for the customer. If the worker was attracted by the salary, there were more possibilities of attracting workers and continuing to feed the production chain. The result is that in a market where no one else could produce their cars at that rate and price, the Ford Model T became the best-selling car in the world. In fact, It is still among the 10 best-selling cars in history despite the fact that the production process has been perfected to the point of satiety. Car mass production completely changed the industry. He fordism It laid its foundations by rewarding workers. Much has been written about it, about Henry Ford’s intention to create a new middle class and for them to be the consumers of the products they manufactured. In Forbes They cast doubt on this theory repeated over time. By increasing the money to be received, they explain, what Henry Ford intended was to establish a workforce committed to the company and with a very low turnover. Employment was tough and in 1913 alone more than 52,000 people passed through the company despite the fact that 13,000 people worked in the factory. This high turnover prevented the assembly line from operating at full capacity because replacements had to be found and employees had to be retrained. They even claim that the assembly line came to a standstill due to the number of employees who left their jobs in search of a different job even though at that time charging just over two dollars was already good money. Doubling them and growing them to five dollars was a promise that was difficult to believe but also difficult to reject. Forbes He points out that Ford even hired people who went to employees’ homes to certify that the worker was behaving “in the American way.” That is to say, he kept himself from bad company and from getting drunk outside of office hours. And alcoholism was one of the biggest problems that the company’s assembly line was dealing with. Whether or not the corresponding part of the bonus was delivered depended on the verdict of these people. What they explain in this medium is that the theory that Ford wanted its own employees to buy its products is not true because, simply, it would have a very small impact on the company’s final accounts, but they do highlight that, sometimes, the quickest way to reduce costs is to increase salary costs, as paradoxical as it may sound. They say that John R. Lee, Ford’s advisor, defended his position by pointing out that “a man who comes from a well-balanced home, who does not fear for the basic necessities of life of those he cares for, who does not live in constant … Read more

If the question is how much money is necessary to be happy, we already have the answer for Spain: double

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We have all thought at some point that with a little more salary we would be happier. We wouldn’t have to worry about unforeseen events, vacations would have more “extras” and shopping wouldn’t be a constant search for the best price on meat or eggs. But to what extent is that true? How much money would it take to be happy? That’s precisely what they asked themselves. in a studio from Purdue University. Now, a report from Remitly has crossed the data obtained in that report with the real cost of living data and we can put concrete figures to happiness in Spain. Money doesn’t make you happy, does it? The Purdue University research analyzed data from more than one and a half million people in 164 countries and the conclusion they reached is similar to the one they reached other investigations: that happiness increases proportionally to the level of income. However, it only does so up to a certain income level. From this ceiling of happiness, what the authors of the study call “income satiation” occurs. That is, earning more money from a certain ceiling no longer improves how you evaluate the happiness in your life nor in your day-to-day emotions. However, the most interesting thing, and the part in which the Remitly payment platform has intervened, is that this economic ceiling for happiness is not the same everywhere. It depends on the cost of living, the culture and the purchasing power of each place. The key to understanding the figures: salaries adjusted to purchasing power. Before continuing, there is an important nuance. One of the key data in the study is the average salaries that people receive in different countries. That is why the income figures you are going to read do not correspond to real salaries as someone would see them on their payroll. These are adjusted figures for each country. according to your purchasing power (PPA). This means that a conversion has been made to compare very different economies with each other to more realistically represent each person’s ability to purchase products. A salary of 40,000 euros in Spain don’t buy the same than one of $40,000 in the United States, so these data seek to balance that difference. The Remitly team took the satiety points calculated by Purdue and adjusted them according to local purchasing powerusing International Monetary Fund ratios and updated inflation data. The result is a map that allows you to compare the “price of happiness” between countries in a realistic way. The global data: Iceland up, Ethiopia down. With this methodology, the country where it is most difficult to reach that happiness ceiling is Iceland, with $163,579 per year. However, their high salaries and the quality of life provided by the State position them as the second happiest country in 2025. Slovenia, with adjusted salaries of $42,800 per year, is the only country in the world in which, on average, the salary that its citizens would consider sufficient to be happy ($36,800) would be 16.3% higher. Luxembourg’s salaries ($109,900 per year) would cover 92.8% of that “happiness figure”, followed by Estonia and Singapore, whose salaries come close to covering 92.8% and 90.5% respectively of that happiness threshold. At the opposite extreme is Ecuador, whose adjusted annual salary of $6,500 per year would only cover 32.9% of the $19,700 per year that Ecuadorians consider an adequate figure to be happy. Spain: we need double. If we focus on Spain, the average salary adjusted for purchasing power is around $42,500 annually. However, the price of happiness is set at about $87,900 a year. That is, the salary would only cover 48.4% and it would be necessary to double salaries to reach the desirable threshold for money to bring happiness. Spain remains, once again, in the area where work does not translate into the economic tranquility that many seek and the concern to make ends meet It continues to be a brake on achieving full happiness. Happiness also depends on the zip code. The Remitly report goes a little further and analyzes the impact of salary on happiness even within each country, and has discovered that in Spain there are important differences between cities when establishing the amount of money they would be happy with. Madrid tops the list with a price of happiness of 89,759 euros per year, slightly above the happiness threshold established for the country as a whole. Barcelona (88,562 euros) and Palma de Mallorca (88,263 euros) follow very closely, three cities that also coincide among the cities with the most expensive housing prices in the country. At the opposite extreme we find Granada, with 73,153 euros per year. It is 18.5% less than in Madrid. The climate, architecture and a lower cost of living help lower the economic bar. That doesn’t mean that life is easier in Granada, but less money is needed to reach that ceiling of well-being and happiness that the study indicates. And now what? Beyond the numbers, what this report shows is that, in the majority of the planet, salaries are below what would be needed to feel fully satisfied. However, the authors of the Purdue study themselves warn that even if someone reaches that economic threshold for happiness, that does not mean they will suddenly be much happier. The researchers highlight that there is what they call “hedonic adaptation“, the tendency to always return to a similar level of spirit, readjusting our demand for well-being, no matter what happens and no matter what salary is earned. Money helps, a lot, to a certain point. But from there, it seems that happiness begins to also depend on other things. In Xataka | If the question is whether money brings happiness, a Harvard expert answers: it’s not having money, it’s what you do with it Image | Unsplash (Christian Dubovan), Remitly

The United States promised to be very happy manufacturing its own chips. Nvidia just spent 150 billion in Taiwan

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Houston, we have a problem. A couple of days ago the CEO of Nvidia stood on the stage at Computex in Taipei and said an inconvenient truth for the United States: “Taiwan is the epicenter of the AI ​​revolution. This is where chips and packaging are made. This is where systems are created. This is where AI supercomputers were created.” The setting was Computex 2026, Asia’s biggest tech event, and it wasn’t a compliment to the host, it’s a real depiction of how the industry works. It may sound paradoxical for an American company and at a time when The United States wants to reindustrialize with chipsbut he needs it. It is a structural issue. The harsh reality of profitability. Nvidia plans spend 150,000 million dollars a year in Taiwan, much more than the 100,000 million they spend now and with an abysmal difference compared to the 10,000 and 15,000 million five years ago. If it sounds silly, it’s because it is, but so is its billing: in the first fiscal quarter of 2026 billed 81.6 billion dollars, 85% more than the previous year in that same period. Also its benefit it’s already going off the charts: 58.3 billion, more than triple compared to the same period last year. That this money goes to Taiwan and not to the United States is due to technical and objective issues: Taiwan produces 90% of the most advanced chips in the world, according to a study by the Stimson Center. Of that Taiwanese production, TSMC controls 70% and is going to invest between 52,000 and 56,000 million this year. Bottom line: If Nvidia wants cutting-edge manufacturing capability, it has to be there. Why is it important. The best way to see it is to put Vera Rubin on the table, who In Huang’s words it is “probably the biggest product launch in Taiwan’s history.” Each system contains about two million parts and is assembled with 150 suppliers, almost all Taiwanese. This mechanism is not assembled by decree or in a legislature: it requires years and putting billions of dollars on the table. There is no factory in Arizona that can do something like this at least until 2030. Constellation will be Nvidia’s new headquarters in Taipei and will come to stay permanently: 4,000 engineering professionals will work in that center that according to Huang It will be operational by 2030. It is no longer that it buys in Taiwan, it is that the most valuable semiconductor company in the world is building the heart of its R&D in that core, an island 10,000 kilometers from the United States. A splash of cold water on Trump’s aspirations. Context. In January 2026, Taiwanese companies they committed to invest $250 billion in semiconductors and AI in the United States, as part of a trade agreement with Washington. Because Taiwan and the US are a symbiosis: each needs the other to maintain its position in the race for AI. The investment of a private company like Nvidia is another expression of this pact. In fact, Nvidia is not the only one: AMD is doing exactly the same: associate with Taiwanese manufacturers such as ASE, SPIL and Wiwynn with their Helios AI platform on the horizon (expected for the second half of 2026). That the two largest AI chip designers in the world strengthen ties with Taiwan is confirmation that the island’s industry is strategically necessary for the entire industry, not a particular bet by one firm. The elephant in the room: China. China’s role in this story is twofold: it is a threat and also a client. According to Reutersin 2026 Chinese companies have placed orders for more than two million units of the H200. Trade restrictions have made the operation difficult, but they have not been able to prevent it. One of the last cases point upon the arrival of a shipment of Nvidia AI chips to China via Japan. Nvidia lives in a contradiction from which it cannot escape: Its supply chain is on an island that China considers its own. China, which is its largest potential market, is blocked. Washington prohibits him from selling to Beijing while asking for independence from Taipei. And judging by his statements, Jensen Huang has bet everything on continuing to walk that wire. Yes, but. The Nvidia CEO forgot one problem in his speech: Taiwan makes the overwhelming majority of the world’s most advanced chips, but TSMC’s diversification into Arizona, Japan and Germany will not be ready before 2028 at best. That is to say, there are almost four years ahead in which Nvidia depends totally on Taiwan, a country that matters 97% of your energy. Furthermore, the atmosphere in the Strait of the same name is increasingly heated. Concentrating the production of its most critical component in a geographically hot spot is dangerous to say the least: if something explodes, there is no plan B. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has reminded us of this the hard way. In Xataka | Huawei has found a way to counteract US sanctions: overcoming Moore’s Law In Xataka | US companies have always had a hard time making a lot of money in China. One industry is the exception: chips Cover | freepik and Jimmy Liao

The manufacturers promised them happy with “Ultra” phones up to the top of specs. The RAM crisis has other plans for them

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Being an Ultra is not usually the best, unless you are a mobile phone. For years, manufacturers have been throwing darts at each other, launching models designed by and to demonstrate muscle. There was a manufacturer who threw the first stone, and the rest began to follow him. Today, with the component crisis that AI is causing, are in danger. The beginning of everything. The first “Ultra” mobile phone on the market was the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. The company did a fairly marketing exercise: 108 megapixel camera, 100x zoom… everything in a big way. Was it the best Galaxy to date? Yes. Was it a strategy to set a new industry standard through an even more striking surname? Also. China wakes up. China was quick to react to Samsung’s message. Xiaomi responded with the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultraa phone that debuted 120W fast charging (absolute nonsense a few years ago), 120x zoom to surpass Samsung, and even a transparent finish to show off its hardware. It was the first Chinese mobile phone to fully enter the war: “we are going to put absolutely everything we can into a mobile phone, whether it is useful or not.” And from then on, the party began. Raised to the absurd. The war to launch increasingly powerful Ultra models is beginning to move away from its original objective. Samsung launched a first model with oversized specs, but with a certain commercial purpose. Manufacturers like Vivo launch phones like the 300Ultra They are sold directly in a kit that makes their price practically unattainable, and some of the direct rivals of Samsung and Apple surpass Western brands in price. Chinese manufacturers do not want to sell them, they want to continue demonstrating technological leadership. in check. As pointed out Ice Universethe flagship Ultra is in danger, and some of the big Chinese brands are considering pausing this product line. The Chinese Ultra is not born to sell in volume, and the Pro models or series number (Xiaomi 17simply) are those who are born to sell, even in China. The increase in costs of components such as internal memory or RAM makes launching Ultra models even more complicated, unless the manufacturer wants to raise the price to the absurd. Yes, but. Despite Ice’s predictions, it seems unlikely that the RAM crisis could completely knock down the Ultra models. Manufacturers have been betting for years on a strategy that allows them to reduce costs and continue advancing in their product line: launching exactly the same mobile year after year, but with some additional touches. This allows you to contain costs, recycle parts and reduce R&D spending, while maintaining memory configurations that cannot be reversed. Be that as it may, it seems inevitable that the RAM crisis will completely affect the mobile market, and that in 2027 we will see progress in dribs and drabs. In Xataka | The best mobile phones (2026), we have tested them and here are their analyzes

BYD promised them very happy by putting very advanced ADAS in very cheap cars. Until the RAM crisis came

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In recent years, BYD had turned its brand new advanced driving system into one of the biggest arguments to confront Tesla. And having this type of technology in affordable cars can be attractive to the consumer, but it has a cost that other companies can hardly absorb. BYD thought so, but the RAM crisis It has stopped him, and the context is now much more complicated. Prices go up. BYD just announced in China a 21% increase in the price of the ‘DiPilot 300’ option (basically its “God’s Eye” in its version with LiDAR), which goes from 9,900 to 12,000 yuan (about 1,560 euros). The company justifies the measure by the “significant increase in global storage hardware costs.” In other words, DRAM memory and storage have become so expensive that they can no longer absorb the cost without passing it on to the customer. Until now, no major manufacturer had so explicitly linked a price increase to the memory market, according to collect South China Morning Post. In detail. The ADAS Modern ones (and especially those that integrate LiDAR like those from BYD) are very demanding on memory. They need high-performance chips to process LiDAR point clouds in real time, run driving models, and store route data. The problem is that this same type of memory is being absorbed en masse by artificial intelligence data centers, which account for most of the global production of DRAM and NAND. The prices of these chips have entered what analysts call a “supercycle,” with increases that according to TrendForce are around 55-60% in conventional DRAM this year, but that in premium automotive segments (which also use DDR5) have reached up to 300% in free market price. A problem of scale. BYD’s colossal deployment makes the problem especially bulging in its case. The company has installed your “God’s Eye” system in more than 2.85 million vehicles as of March 2026, generating approximately 180 million kilometers of driving data per day, according to own data of the signature. At that scale, every extra cent in memory multiplies into millions. On the other hand, BYD closed the first quarter of 2026 with its worst net profit in three years: 4.08 billion yuan, a drop of 55% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to figures published by the company. In this context, maintaining prices without making a move has become unsustainable for the company. They are not alone. Chery, Xiaomi and the Huawei Aito brand prices have also increased on models with similar advanced driving systems in recent months. William Li, founder and CEO of Nio, counted in January that the biggest cost pressure of the year would not come from raw materials, but from memory. What changes for the buyer. The founding promise of “God’s Eye” was that autonomous driving would no longer be an expensive privilege. As we counted almost a year agothe experience of the system on the highway (even in the most economical model, the Dolphin Surf/Seagull, which sells for around 9,000 euros in China at the exchange rate) was genuinely impressive. Lane keeping was impeccable, autonomous lane changes were well executed and traffic management rivaled other premium range systems. BYD even planned to distribute it as standard in all its models, regardless of the price. Although that narrative is not dead, it is beginning to have nuances. At the moment, the version with LiDAR (the most capable) is already a payment option that has just become 21% more expensive. And now what. From Counterpoint Research they point that the blow will be uneven: low-end models simply will not carry this technology, and high-end ones have less price-sensitive buyers. The greatest impact falls on the mid-segment, where BYD’s value proposition was most disruptive. As the markets are, we will have to wait to find out what direction the company finally takes. Cover image | BYD In Xataka | Cuba is experiencing a brutal energy crisis, so a Cuban has used ingenuity to fuel his car: charcoal

Larry Ellison promised them very happy with his new luxury yacht named after a Japanese goddess. Made a rookie mistake

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In the world of technology, there are more or less discreet billionaires and then there is Larry Ellison. He millionaire founder of Oracle has made ostentation his watchword: has a private island (where he wanted to feed the world with a sophisticated 500 million dollar irrigation system), a long list of properties distributed throughout the United States and other countries such as Japan, an exclusive private jetand is also investing in the search for eternal youth. Of course, he also has boats: he currently owns the Musashi, which is his fourth superyacht. Love for ships and Japan. Ellison’s love for the sea dates back to at least the 90s, at which time he even became a sponsor of the BMW Oracle Racingwinner of the 2003 America’s Cup. His current superyacht is 88 meters long, cost him about 160 million dollars in 2011 and its name is clearly of Japanese origin. In fact, it is a tribute to one of the most famous samurai. Its interior also shows Japanese influences. In addition to the Musashi, in its history of boats with Japanese names there is the Sayonara sailboat, with which won several world championships racing, or the 75-meter superyacht Katana. But his first motor superyacht was the Ronin and it cost him some headaches. Ronin It means lordless samurai, but that was not his original name. It was conceived as Izanami. The impressive Izanami. In the late 90s Ellison set his sights on a superb second-hand superyacht called Izanami. Designed by none other than Norman Foster in the early 90s, built at the German Lurssen shipyard and commissioned by a mysterious Japanese businessman, it stands out for its defined geometric lines and its aluminum hull. It combines modernist architecture with great performance: at 59 meters in length, it was capable of reaching an impressive maximum speed of 34 knots. Inside, five cabins to accommodate up to 10 guests and 14 crew members in total. The mistake that no one saw coming. The name chosen by its original owner, Izanami, comes from Japanese Shinto mythology: the goddess of creation and death, consort of Izanagi. On paper, it fits like a glove: it is cultured, it is evocative… it fits for such a superb yacht. Larry Ellison paid 25 million dollars for it and was preparing to enjoy it when, docked in San Francisco Bay, in Sausalito, his name made a splash. If you read the name “Izanami” backwards you find a tasteless surprise: “I am a Nazi”, especially considering the German manufacturing and Ellison’s Jewish origins. Change of name and owner. The tycoon tells it in his authorized biography “Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle” from 2003: “When local newspapers started pointing out that Izanami was ‘I’m a Nazi’ spelled backwards, I had to choose between explaining Shintoism to reporters at the San Francisco Chronicle or renaming the ship.” He did the latter: Izanami became Ronin. Ellison enjoyed the Ronin until 2013, at which time He sold it to the Venezuelan banker Víctor Vargas and this one would later be sold to the Italian businessman Alessandro Del Bonothe CEO of the pharmaceutical company Mediolanum Farmaceutici. Today is for sale for 28.5 million euros. In Xataka | In 1988, Larry Ellison rented a Concorde and filled it with journalists just to say that Oracle 6 was going at supersonic speed. In Xataka | Larry Ellison has overtaken Mark Zuckerberg as the second richest man in the world. Their secret: building a home for AI Cover | Flickr and Lidija Jakovljevic

OpenAI promised them they would be happy selling hype and memes. Until reality hits

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The news of the weekend is Sora’s closure. What was once the platform of the hype Regarding video creation, he says goodbye, leaving agreements behind millionaires with giants like DisneyOpenAI’s promise to be one of the big players in text to video, and doubts about the company’s strategy. The bet on hype. For some time now, OpenAI’s strategy has been to create hype, be the protagonist in the conversation, and wait for the user to assimilate its proposal. The problem? It is a strategy that worked in its initial phases, when OpenAI played practically alone. We saw it with Sora: the launch was the most talked about on networks, television and practically all media. Months after its launch, there was no way to use the app without VPN outside the United States (and in a very controlled way through its app in countries such as Canada, Japan, Korea or Vietnam) and was still in the experimental phase. The closure. Sora hasn’t lasted even two years. It was born in February 2024 and says goodbye in March 2026. What was born as the reference model for video creation remained a half-baked experiment, while Chinese giants or Google itself with their models I see They advanced and landed their models on the plane that really matters: the one that allows the average user to access it. The competition tightens. OpenAI promised them happiness two years ago, when ChatGPT had hardly any rivals and companies like Anthropic were in their early product stages. But photography has changed in just a few months: Claude is becoming, with almost daily iterations, the most complete chatbot (it is already much more than that). Gemini has been starting to eat his toast for a year. China is absolutely unleashed launching spectacular video models like Seedance 2.0. AI solutions are no longer promises and hype: they are rapid and controlled launches, integrated into platforms that any average user can access. If you don’t integrate, you don’t win. Seedance 2.0 has not even been running for three months and already It is beginning to be integrated into editing programs such as CapCut. AIs like KlingAI have been integrated into gigantic platforms like HighsfieldAI for months. Releases that materialize a few days after seeing the light, and that lay tangible foundations for the state of AI in text to video. OpenAI assumed that a minority of professionals would be willing to pay for the more expensive versions of GPT to access Sora. The reality: the competition is managing to create much superior mass-use tools, and OpenAI cannot afford tools like Sora. The money is on the other side. Sam Altman need to redefine the strategy. For the moment, he wants double the company’s workforcecenter everything in one superapp that reduces catalog and he has his eyes on Spud. This is the name given internally to the next great AI model they are preparing, one aimed at making OpenAI finally a profitable company. After years without a fixed direction, and with its rivals eating its toast, OpenAI faces its most complex stage: one in which selling hype is not enough. In Xataka | Sora’s closure is a sign: OpenAI takes a step back in the AI ​​race to completely recalibrate

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