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Intel need a breakand Panther Lake could give it to him. The company has just presented its new SoCs, which boast 18A photolithography and will begin to appear in laptops and other devices – portable consoles are clear candidates – in early 2026. We are looking at a promising chip that will also be manufactured massively in the US and that now must face its greatest challenge: meeting expectations. Why is it important. These new chips from the Panther Lake family (Intel Core Ultra Series 3) are the first created with a 18A photolithographic node (roughly equivalent to 2 nm). This is a critical advance for a company going through the biggest crisis in its history and what you need before achieving success with this launch. According to the manufacturer, this 18A process allows up to 15% more performance per watt and 30% more chip density compared to its predecessors. Made in USA. The official press release Intel highlights how these chips will be manufactured at the recently opened Fab 52 in Chandler (Arizona, USA). It is expected to be massively produced there at the end of the year, thus achieving that boost to “domestic” chip manufacturing that the US wants to achieve to avoid dependence on China. We are facing a potential milestone for the aspirations of the US Government, which recently bought 10% of Intel to, among other things, try to strengthen the country’s “chip producer” role. What is Fab 52? It is a mega manufacturing complex that occupies an area of ​​more than 280 hectares (we would have to join together about 400 football fields to cover that area). Kevin O’Buckley, head of the manufacturing business at Intel, Indian that this complex that has cost 32,000 million dollars “has the most advanced semiconductor production technology today on planet Earth.” It is a bold statement, especially considering that TSMC or Samsung have managed to surpass Intel’s technological capacity for years. We will see without with this Fab 52 Intel also manages to fulfill its role as “chip factory for third parties“. A very promising CPU. The Panther Lake Socs arrive with a CPU configuration that can reach 16 cores that combine high-performance Cougar Cove cores (P-cores) and high-efficiency Darkmont cores (E-cores). CPU performance is up to 40% higher than its predecessors (Lunar Lake) in single-process, and up to 50% higher in multi-process. If it keeps that promise, we will be looking at truly exceptional chips in terms of the leap in performance. And the GPU will not be left behind. If we want graphical power, there is also good news. The variant with 12 of the new Xe3 cores is theoretically 50% more performant than the Lunar Lake variants with 8 Xe2 cores. Here the number of cores has an influence, of course, but also the behavior of each core itself. More leeway for AI tasks. The new NPU 5 of these Panther Lake SoCs also promises a notable performance jump and according to Intel it can reach 180 TOPS, when in the past the figure did not exceed 50 TOPS. This is a clear advantage if we want to run local AI models. Support for up to 96 GB of LPDDR5 memory with the new LPCAMM format It’s another demonstration of how these ambitious chips want to make the most of their opportunity. The most ambitious version of the Panther Lake SoC has 16 cores in its CPU and 12 Xe3 cores in its GPU, among other advanced features… We do not know models or prices. This preview of what awaits us with Panther Lake has not been complete. The company has not revealed the exact models or prices they will have. These SoCs will be intended for laptops and even portable consoles, and it is very possible that during the CES electronics fair in Las Vegas we will see the first machines based on these chips. Everything to prove. On paper, of course, these new Intel chips have a promising future, but it will be when they hit the market that they will really be able to demonstrate whether they actually have a chance in this ultra-competitive market. Intel and its leader, Lip-Bu Tanare facing one of the moments that can define their future for two reasons. The first, due to the performance of the chip itself, which we hope does not disappoint. The second, due to this massive commitment to manufacturing in the US, a radical turn for a company that clearly aligns itself with its government in this new stage. In Xataka | Intel has been making chips just for itself for decades. His only salvation is to make chips for everyone else

A Spanish giant is about to make history going out in the United States: Travelperk

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Travelperk has hired Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies, he published The Informationto prepare your IPO in the United States. It would be the most relevant Spanish -to -the -Spanish of recent years and a Wall Street appetite test for European startups. The company of Catalan origin manages trips and corporate expenses for companies. Its last assessment reached 2.7 billion dollars in January 2025, twice a year earlier. The context. Travelperk is not any startup: You have investors behind SoftBank Vision Fund, Capital Sequoia and Blackstone. Its CEO, Avi Meir, has built a company with more than 1,500 employees that has multiplied its income from before the pandemic. He Timing It seems favorable. Business trips have recovered the pulse after the pandemic: the world market reached 1.5 billion dollars in 2024, 6% more than before COVID. Yes, but. The IPO of European technology companies in the US have had disparate results. The US market is demanding, and competition, fierce. Travelperk has to demonstrate that he can grow sustainably in a sector dominated by American giants such as SAP Concur or American Express GBT (in addition newly allied). The company has been preparing the land: in June acquired Amtrav to reinforce your presence in the American market. He also closed the purchase of the Switzerland Yokoy to expand to financial services. Between the lines. The movement responds to a clear strategy: Travelperk identified A 200,000 million market Between the US and Europe, where half of the trips are still without centralized management. Medium -sized companies reserve on their own in Booking or Expedia, losing control and money. The platform promises to solve that chaos with technology and IA. Although the CEO does not fear autonomous agents of AI as Openai Operator, it recognizes that technological competition intensifies, according to an article by CNBC In January. At stake. A successful IPO would send a powerful signal to the Spanish ecosystem, in need of success cases that show that global companies can be created here. Travelperk could become that reference, especially after few Spanish startups have reached assessments of that level in recent years. And now what. The company has not confirmed dates or details of the operation. But hiring three first level investment banks suggests that the process is advanced. The next months will be key to knowing if Travelperk can achieve a virtually unpublished feat. In fact, the question is not so much if Travelperk will go over (it seems clear that), but when and what price. The answer will say a lot about the future of Spanish startups in international markets. In Xataka | Something is changing in Spanish startups: they are increasingly thought of global from the beginning Outstanding image | Travelperk

In 1896 a man decided to lead to the reckless speed of 13 km/h. And received the first fine in history

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Speed ​​fines in Spain vary from 100 at 600 euros. The table in which the economic amount is collected also serves if the driver will also be punished with the subtraction of driving card points. In the best case, the sanction It does not entail the subtraction of points, while in the worst you can detract a maximum of six. All this information can be consulted in your own DGT website or in the Traffic LawMotor vehicles and road safety. And it is useful, according to data from Associated European motoriststwo out of three fines that are imposed in Spain are motivated by speeding. But although speeding fines look like something modern, what is necessary to invest most sophisticated media To register the infraction and judicially demonstrate the breakdown of the norms, its history begins before The first car in Spain will enroll. The first fine of history for speeding Fines for committing some kind of Flying infraction They have a lot of history. Some suggest that the first punishment related to a traffic infraction was recorded in Egypt more than 2,800 years ago, after a drunk driver run over a girl and collided with a statue. However, the basis of this information is, at least, doubtful. But what is a general consensus is in the registration of the first penalty for speeding. In fact, those responsible for Guinness Record They make it record as the early infraction of this type. And they put date: January 28, 1896. The fine also has a name, surname and place of origin. Specifically, the offender was Walter Arnold who in the United Kingdom, and fully aware of what was played, promoted one of the first cars built by Karl Benz until the devilish speed of 13 km/h. Arnold exceeded the streets of Paddock Wood at full speed, in Kent Count “Horses without horses”. Arnold had broken four rules in a single moment: Drive a car without horses along a public street Drive a car without horses without the intervention of three people Do not show the name and direction of the vehicle Quadruplica the maximum permitted speed Yes, according to the fine, Arnold was traveling at a speed of 8 mph (about 13 km/h) when the maximum allowed limit was 2 mph. Of the means to calculate this speed, nothing is said. What we do know is that the result was immediate. Put before Justice, Arnold was convicted of each and every one of the accusations that were awarded. What Arnold had in mind is that the payment of 4.7 pounds were just an investment. With his stumbling he showed that the speed limits were completely outdated for those Combustion vehicles And, therefore, shortly after the speed limit was extended to reasonable 14 mph (just over 22 km/h). But this was not here. Arnold, in addition, was known for its handling of vehicles. He got the license to sell in the United Kingdom the vehicles of Karl Benz slightly modified with a local production under the name of Arnold Motor Carriage. A car with which he managed to win in the first race of emancipation in it was linked to London with Brighton (separated by 87 kilometers) and served to multiply car sales. The first fine was, in short, a marketing trick. In Xataka | The Mercedes T80, the car mounted on the engine of a hunt with which Hitler wanted to reach 750 km/h Photo | Clare Black and Knowledge of London

Now it is emerging as the first “electrostation” of history

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For years, China was the country of gray skies and masks in the street. Today it is time to look at it with other eyes and follow the trail of a transformation that The video we have just published in it Xataka YouTube channel Describe as historical: move from the great pollut to something very different. What has really changed, how much of structure and how much of the situation, and what does it imply for the new map of energy power? This work adds to the proposals that we continue to develop in the channel, where formats such as 24/7the series Domotize or die in the attempt, Science and apart and reports that explore technology from very diverse angles. On this occasion, Angela Blanco It addresses a topic that connects energy, industry and geopolitics. Our partner summarizes it clearly: “China, the great pollutant, is reducing its emissions and is starring The greatest energy transition of history. ” The starting point to understand how a country identified for decades with pollution now seeks to place itself at the head of the electrical revolution. The video recalls that the energy transition became one of the priorities within the quinquenal plans of the Asian giant. A political decision that soon resulted in industrial strategy: “Beijing designed an industrial strategy they called ‘Made in China 2025′”. Movements that sought not only to clean the air, but also reinforce the country’s energy independence. But there is more. The story also brings unexpected prints: “The most symbolic case is in the province of Qinghai with a solar park of 610 square kilometers and 7 million photovoltaic panels. Its capacity is such that it can give electricity to 5 million homes. ”And it does not stay there:“ The transformation is even talking about photovoltaic sheep. ”In the video we count why these animals receive that particular nickname. Angela does not keep any detail of the transformation. “Only in the first half of 2025, China added 212 GW Solares and 51 winds,” he explains. And behind those figures appears another decisive fact: “It produces 80% of the world’s solar panels, 60% of wind turbines and 70% of electric vehicles batteries.” They are data that help to understand why the Chinese industry has so much weight in this field globally. Coal remains the great friction point in this story: a resource that guarantees supply and employment, but that It clashes with the ambition to become a renewable leader. How China manages that contradiction depends much on the world energy future. On the Xataka YouTube channel you can watch the full videowhere this theme is described in more detail, with its lights and shadows. Images | Xataka In Xataka | China is intractable in the electric car race, and is on its way to repeating with load trucks

‘Universalis V’ Europe is the most ambitious strategy game in history. And brings surprise: he was born in Spain

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‘Universalis V’ Europe, the last installment of the legendary Strategy saga of Interactive Paradox, is an ambitious jump in depth, realism and complexity for the Fans of the genre. The series, venerated for two decades and competing face to face with giants as civilization It reinvents itself to offer unprecedented historical simulation. But the most interesting of all is that, after four deliveries developed in Swedenthis fifth part is being developed entirely in Spain by the Paradox red study, based in Barcelona. It goes more. We attended the presentation that Paradox red carried out in the Comic-with Malagajust a few weeks after its launch on November 4, and between Sonia Linares (Director of Operations), Álvaro Sanz (Head of Content Design) and Matías Tiscornia (2D Art Coordinator) made it clear that the title was, above all, “” Ambitious. We have people with 7000 hours played at our games, people who live the saga. ” And it is from a superficial first glance: “The fourth install 500 years of simulation. And so with everything: in ‘EU4’ there were 900, and here, 2,000. In the previous delivery, 16 combinations of land (climate, topography and vegetation), and now we will have 672. in ‘EU4’ there were 367 cultures, and in ‘EU5’, 2,000. And if there were only 27 religions there, we will now have 300. 16,000 kilometers of map and more than 500 years of history, from 1337 (the beginning of the War of the Hundred Years) until 1837 (the dawn of the Victorian era). That is, the players will live the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the absolutism, the revolutions and other key periods structured in six ages (traditions, rebirth, discovery, information, absolutism and revolution). Exhausting but infinitely stimulating. Three pillars. To stand this ambition, the game has been based on “three organic pillars: first, A credible world based on systems, mechanical, etc. simulations; Second, an almost infinite rejugability, that thousands of hours occur for the family’s freedom of action; And third, that the game is really from the community: we have spent the last year and a half of development going to the forum every week to be part of the creation of the game, talk to the community directly, ask what they want, to make fixes and changes instantly, all thanks to the community. “ Maximum detail. All this sets in an obsession with absolutely demential detail: for example, the team presented us with a panoramic view of how the game in 1337 was contract according to variables controlled by the player. ” There are mechanics for exploration and colonization of territories, “with the possibility of sending populations to colonize, create commercial companies and exploit resources.” And of course, possibilities of diplomacy and war. Even music. In total, “more than 100,000 lines of content, more than 60 countries with unique content made by hand, more than 8,000 events, 2,000 decisions, hundreds of forms of government, laws, privileges and situations. More than 1,300 historical characters have also been investigated. And that only in 1337 dynamic that changes according to the player’s actions. And much more. And with this we are only scratching the surface of what the game contributes, since decisions have been made of enormous complexity. For example, “if there is an empire that includes different ethnicities within it, it is tried to reflect the genetic and cultural burden throughout the country.” And all this embodied, as the art coordinator told us, in “Illustrations of events, disasters and dynamic organizations, showing the cultural diversity of the game and how the same event can manifest itself differently in different cultures.” That is, a huge and even effort to the ambition of the project, for an entirely developed game in Spain but has an absolutely international scope. So much, which covers five centuries. In Xataka | This war strategy video game has a very special player: the pentagon

Microsoft has never been so valuable throughout its history. And he has never been so close to the abyss

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The first computer of Satya NadellaCEO of Microsoft, was a VAX manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec) in the late 1970s. That machine excited him in such a way that Nadella was clear about her future: she wanted to devote himself to computer science. More than that: I wanted to devote yourself to computer science and work for DEC. That could not be. The concept of microordoring the company was based on its own architecture, called Virtual Address Extension (hence Vax), but that technology ended up being crushed by which it would succeed at that time: the RISC architecture. The company tried to survive, but ended up being acquired in 1998 by Compaq and, a few years later, disappearing. The lesson that Nadella learned with Dec By the time the debacle started, Nadella had moved. After a brief period in Sun Microsystems, he began working in Microsoft in 1992 and was climbing positions until it ended becoming the company’s CEO in 2014. The funny thing is that now That past with Dec pursues him. This was recently confirmed at a meeting with Microsoft employees in which it confessed something important: “Our sector is full of practical cases of companies that were in their day and that simply disappeared. There is one in particular that persecutes me, called Dec.” In fact, he explained how “some of the people who contributed to Windows NT came from a DEC laboratory that was closed.” The Microsoft CEO thus answered an employee’s question about the moral situation in the company, which according to indicate in The Verge It is in historical minimums. Not in vain Microsoft has just suffered a massive round of layoffs with 9,000 affected employees. The curious thing, Nadella admitted, is that after 51 years in the market some metrics indicate that Microsoft is at its best. This shows Its stock market capitalization is around four billion dollars and places the Redmond company like the second or third —Intercambia positions with Apple, Nvidia remains unstoppable – company of the world in relevance. “But at the same time, when I think of the degree of difficulty that awaits us, to be able to navigate a changing industry, a changing technological sector and a changing economy, we have a very hard job ahead.” And they certainly have it. What happens if the software doesn’t matter when you are the largest company in the software world The main external threat for Microsoft is not that IA improves existing software products. It is to make them irrelevant. Nadella himself admitted it to saying at that meeting with employees that “all the categories we could have loved for 40 years may not matter.” Days later he talked about all this in a post on the official Microsoft blog. He titled it “Recomproming us with our why, ours what and ours“. The implications of paradigm shift are colossal for world software giant: Office and Windows: Traditionally its great sources of income, the productivity suite and its operating system can end up having no place in our world. If an AI agent can end up managing all office tasks, creating documents, analyzing data and coordinating the work without the need for the Office suite or even a traditional operating system interface, the base of the Microsoft business would be eroded. We would no longer use an application to do the job. We would say to an AI to do it, how is it starting to happen. Competitors without ties: The new AI companies are not weighed by the legacy of an office suite or a 40 -year -old operating system. These startups can design lighter, fast and totally native solutions in the AI ​​era. For Nadella it makes no sense “to be in love with what we create in the past.” The situation for Microsoft is certainly disturbing. Despite its multimillionaire investment in OpenAi, The relationship has evolved To turn both companies into uncomfortable allies that are sought their own B plans Like softbank, Nvidia or Oracle. For Microsoft, things have not gone so well: it has injected billions to end depending on the technology of another company that is also becoming direct competitor. He has bazas in his favor as his gigantic Azure infrastructure, but not even that ensures survival. The Microsoft’s pressure to reinvent itself It is huge. He already achieved it after the failure in the segments of Internet search engines, social networks or finally mobile phones, but now the black clouds appear again with the AI ​​boom. The funny thing is that Microsoft was the Big Tech that adopted the AI ​​paradigm shift with the necessary intensity. His bet – especially, by OpenAi – was extraordinary, but for them the threat is not that of a company that ignores the change, but that of one that perhaps made the wrong bets. At the moment it does not have a competitive foundational model, and that co -driver overload has not just set in the market. What will Nadella and your company do to react? You move, Microsoft. In Xataka | The marriage between Openai and Microsoft is broken at times. The problem is that both are still needing

It is not just the finest iPhone in history. It is a declaration of intentions

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He iPhone Air It has something. Before I imagined it, but now that I have been able to have it in my hands and play a little while with him, I have it clear. It is the thinner iPhone that the firm has made in its history, less than the iPhone 6 of which It is impossible not to remember When you hold it in your hand and think “because it is fine.” We will have to wait for the analysis to issue a more resounding verdict on the terminal, but while it arrives, and after having had the opportunity to try it in Apple’s central offices in London, here are first impressions. A surprise. Holding the iPhone Air for the first time is strange. Accustomed to mobiles of 180-200 grams, such as iPhone 16 Pro With which I have taken the photos that accompany this text, it is surprisingly pleasant to grab a mobile and discover that it weighs only 156 grams. It is light, very light, so I expected it to transmit a certain sense of fragility, but no. It is one of those difficult things to explain with words, but despite its small thickness the iPhone Air does not seem “to break.” On the contrary. Yes, it is very finite and yes, the plateau stands out enough | Image: Xataka Obviously, I had no occasion to try to leave it because it is something that no user in their healthy judgment would. If I could take it in my pocket of jeans and do things like sitting or moving my legs fast, and the feeling is positive. Honestly, although the initial reflection is to treat it carefully, the truth is that I lost fear quite fast. Is it comfortable? Another important issue when we talk about fine devices is that they may not be ergonomic. Because? Because they are nailed in the palm of the hand, through the area under the thumb, when holding them. This does not happen with the iPhone Air. It is true that it shows different from a normal iPhone, but at no time has it seemed uncomfortable to use it for a long time. Anyway, we will see it calmly in the analysis. Under this relief there are practically all the components of the iPhone Air | Image: Xataka The Plateau. You have to recognize that the name is much more Fancy that “cameras module”, but this time makes sense. This generous protuberance located at the top of the device not only hides the (unique) rear camera, but inside everything is, or almost everything, what gives life to the mobile. It is the most compact and dense motherboard that Apple has made to date on an iPhone. Everything else, everything we normally call “back”, is for the battery. The firm has done an impressive miniaturization and compaction exercise, but has also made sacrifices. Apple is aware that the autonomy of the iPhone Air will not be, by far, that of a iPhone 17 or a iPhone 17 Prohence the Battery pack It seems like a necessary accessory. The camera, of course, is also limited in quantity, while it has neither telephoto nor wide angle. Is it a problem? It will depend on the user, but I don’t think anyone who expects an incombustible battery and the best market camera even think about the iPhone Air. That, and the imperative need to use a esimof course. Image | Xataka Eye to the touch. I could get used to Ceramic Shield, the material from which the rear is made. It is very pleasant to the touch, very soft, and the footprints are not marked. Another story is the upper plateau crystal that, especially in dark models, full of footprints just looking at it. And dances? A bit. As in the Google Pixel 10that the camera module covers the entire width of the mobile helps the terminal not dance so much, but the lens excels slightly from the plateau, so when they leave it face down on a table it is possible that a tad moves. If we are going to put a cover, which most users will do, this will not be a bigger problem. However, buying the finest iPhone in history to put a cover is, as little, paradoxical (although not less necessary). The colors available | Image: Xataka The camera. Carets outside: The new square sensor of the iPhone 17 is absolutely insane And I have no evidence (no doubt) that it will end up becoming a standard in the industry. It makes sense, all the meaning of the world. Such a sensor allows us to record video or take out horizontal selfies holding the mobile vertical, but also gives us advantage in terms of stabilization. We will try it in depth later, but what we have seen points out. The rear camera, meanwhile, has 48 megapixels of resolution. We have neither great angle nor telephoto. Apple ensures that the camera offers optical quality in Zoom X2 and, although it is true that we are not making cropping to use, the truth is that this camera loses versatility. In black is beautiful | Image: Xataka The beginning of something else. The iPhone Air is a statement of intentions. When you see it from the front and side, it is impossible not to think about how well another iPhone Air would sit next to a hinge. We do not know if we will see a folding iPhone somedaybut if we see it surely this is your seed. Time will tell if the iPhone Air Cuaja and gets break the curse of the fourth iPhone. At the moment, Apple has a very well -finished and interesting device in hands that, however, we will have to look with a magnifying glass to see how we give it a little more of the account. The thickness and weight are fine, but there are obvious sacrifices in autonomy and photography that, surely, play against them. Be … Read more

The most detailed gravitational waves in history have just confirmed the great prediction of Stephen Hawking

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After ten years Perfecting the detection of gravitational wavesLigo sensors achieved such a precise observation which has allowed physicists to confirm one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions: the black holes area theorem. Ten years. A decade has passed since the scientists of the Ligo Observatory The universe listened for the first time in a completely new way: by detecting gravitational waves. On September 14, 2015, wrinkles in spacetime tissue Predicts by Albert Einstein a century earlier inaugurated a new era in astronomy. What was then an almost imperceptible cosmic whisper, today has become a symphony that sensors can clearly hear. And on the tenth anniversary of that milestone, the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) collaboration has captured the most clear gravitational wave signal to date. GW250114. Detected on January 14, 2025, physicists believe that these gravitational waves were caused by the collision and subsequent fusion of two black holes to about 1.3 billion light years from the earth. Interestingly, the event is almost a twin that ended using Ligo’s physicists the 2017 Nobel PrizeGW150914. In both cases, it was two black holes with masses between 30 and 40 times that of our sun. But there is an abysmal difference: the signal quality. An unprecedented sharpness. Thanks to a decade of technological improvements and advances in quantum engineering, Ligo detectors are now almost four times more sensitive. While the first signal had a signal/noise ratio of 26, that of GW250114 has a 80. “We can hear it high and clear, and that allows us Physical Review Letters. This sharpness has been key to unraveling the secrets that were hidden in the vibrations of the black hole resulting from the merger. Hawking theorem. In 1971, Stephen Hawking proposed that the total area of ​​the event horizon of a black hole can never be reduced. It can increase or remain the same, but never shrink. This, which is known as the Hawking area theorem, is analogous to the second law of thermodynamics, which says that the entropy (the disorder) of an isolated system always increases. Therefore, the area of ​​a black hole is a measure of its entropy. Trying it is complicated. When two black holes merge, part of their mass becomes an enormous amount of energy in the form of gravitational waves (the famous E = mc²). In addition, the new black hole can turn much faster, and a larger turn implies a minor area for the same dough. Does the increase in mass compensate for these losses so that the final area is always greater? The analysis of GW250114 has been settled by the matter bluntly. Hawking was right. In this case, the two initial black holes had a combined area of ​​about 240,000 square kilometers. After the merger, the new black hole, with a mass of about 63 times that of the sun, it had an area of ​​400,000 square kilometers. If in 2021 a first test with the 2015 signal showed a 95%confidence, the new data raises that certainty to 99,999%. As Kip Thorne recalls, one of Ligo’s parents and Hawking personal friend, the British physicist called him right after the first detection in 2015 to ask if they could try his theorem. Hawking died in 2018but today his theory has been verified in a way that would have left him very satisfied. Einstein too. Thanks to this new signal, scientists have been able to analyze the moment just after the merger in which the new black hole vibrates like a newly hit bell before stabilizing. The frequencies and speed with which these tones are attenuated. It is the most solid test to the date that black holes are seemingly simple objects that can be completely described with only three properties: mass, spin and electric charge. All other information of the material that formed them is lost. But each detection of gravitational waves is one more piece in the puzzle of the cosmos. And as GW250114 demonstrates, to understand them we travel on the shoulders of giants such as Einstein and Hawking. Image | Aurore Simonnet (SSU/edeon)/LVK/URI In Xataka | Everything to know about gravitational waves: what they are, where are they and why we will not stop talking about them

Microsoft has just made the greatest investment in its history. And not in Openai, but in an unknown Dutch company

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Nebius Group, an unknown company based in Amsterdam, has signed a surprising multiannual agreement worth $ 19.4 billion with Microsoft. It is in fact the largest investment ever made by the firm of Redmond, and the question, of course, is why. What is Nebius Group. The company was founded in 1989 as Yandex NV, Yandex’s legal matrix, the well -known search engine that was a rival of Google in Russia. After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Nebius Group Yandex sold to a group of Russian investorschanged his name to the current one and focused on a key segment: that of artificial intelligence. Data centers to power. Specifically, in the field of servers and data centers. Since then Nebius Group has been dedicated to providing cloud infrastructure for companies that develop and run AI models. Your rivals They are companies such as Coreweave, Crusoe or Lambda Labs, which are a step below the “hyperscators”, Aws, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle. The agreement. In it Document registered in the SEC The US indicates that Nebius will yield the computing capacity of the GPUS of its data centers in varisa phases this year and the one that comes, and that the total value of the contract will be 17.4 billion until 2031, with an option for Microsoft to extend those services worth 2,000 million additional dollars. Microsoft cloud reinforcement. The agreement will allow Microsoft to access the computing resources available to Nebius in its Vineland Data Center (New Jersey, USA). It is a movement clearly for solve the shortage of resources that is coming when managing AI workloads: more and more users make use of this type of technology and Microsoft current data centers have a limited capacity. More than OpenAi. The operation is even greater than the one that Redmond’s firm He did in Openai Estimated at $ 13,000. This alliance has allowed Microsoft to have exclusive access to OpenAi’s models and reuse them in the form of its Copilot platform. Meanwhile, Openai has been able to use the Microsoft infrastructure to train and serve those same models to the general public. Nebius rises to the beast in the stock market. The agreement has triggered the value of Nebius’s shares, which had already folded their value in what we had been, but after the news They have grown 60%. The effect is contagious, because one of its srival, Coreweave, has also risen 5% in the stock market without having made any announcement: it has simply become possible candidate for Microsoft or any other large company to invest in its services soon. European taste centers. Although it has roots in Russia, Nebius seems to want to leave that past behind to settle definitively in the European Union. The company current account with five data centers: three operations (Helsinki, New Jersey and Kansas City) and two in development (Keflavik, in Iceland, and Paris). The focus on the installation of data centers in European territory is clear, as these last two projects in full development demonstrate. Another great “European” unicorn. After the creation of its Data Center in Paris – which will presume to have N200 N200 chips – Nebius announced its intention to invest more than 1,000 million dollars in mid -2025 in its AI infrastructure in Europe. Its new data centers in Paris and Iceland demonstrate that vocation, and the company is managing to capitalize on that commitment to AI. It is undoubtedly one of the last protagonists of the European technological scene, which little by little begins to raise alternatives. Freepik did it in Spainthey have done it Mistral and ASML with its unique agreement This week, and now Nebius does. Image | Nebius In Xataka | The ASML-Mistral alliance reveals the European plan B: if we cannot manufacture chips, we will at least control how they are manufactured

Trump’s dinner with Big Tech leaders has not been a dinner. It has been the greatest act of technological vassalage in history

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On Thursday a unique act of vassalage took place. In him CEOS and leaders of the main technology companies Americans attended a dinner in which they paid supplies, without exception, to the president of the United States, Donald Trump. The scene, Continuation of another recentit was almost feudal and it was a spectacular demonstration of what is the balance of current power in the United States. What happened. Last week the White House advertisement That the first lady, Melania Trump, organized a meeting with the aim of creating a “shock force” to promote education in artificial intelligence. To that event They went The CEOs of the great US technology companies, among which they stood out: Tim Cook, Apple CEO Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft SUCBUL PICHAI, CEO of Google Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO Alexandr Wang, Excueo de Scale Ai Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Grek Brockman, president of OpenAi Smooth his, CEO of AMD Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM Sergey Brin, Google co -founder Elon Musk, the great absent. They went to dinner 33 guests Among those who were those technological leaders, in addition to some administration officials and risk capital investors. There were nevertheless several notable absences: for example those of Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of Amazon – but did David clean (CEO of Blue Origin) and Jamie Siminoff, director of the firm – or that of Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. The most striking was Musk’s He said in x that “I was invited but unfortunately I could not go” although there are data that suggests that I wasn’t on that guest list. Your relationship with Trump, Before idyllicis in the last times going through a much more complex phase in which both They have clearly distanced themselves. Thanks, Mr. President. During that dinner the CEOs of the great technological ones had a brief intervention that in all cases included a thanks aimed at President Trump. Altman, Gates, Nadella, Pichai or Zuckerberg left him evident in his speeches. The OpenAi CEO, for example, said “thank you for being a favorable president to business. It is a very refreshing change.” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, followed that same line when heading to him: “” Thank you very much for gathering everyone and for the policies she has launched for the United States to lead. “ Tim Cook and his eight “thanks” in two minutes. The most striking of these participations was that of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, who in two minutes said “thanks” to the president. The shared viral video on social networks has caused the occasional Meme For the surprising submission that Cook showed in his speech. The relationship between the two It is singular From the presidential elections. Modern technological vassalage. The scene was especially striking and in the shared videos on social networks, Trump is seen and the first lady sitting in the center of the table as dominant figures, while the people who currently shape the global economy. The scenery was spectacular: Silicon Vally giants basically went to a dinner in which they transmitted their total subordination to the US president. It was an even more forceful symbol that the one who lived at the investiture ceremony by Donald Trump. Looking for the president’s favor. These acts demonstrate what is the balance of power in the United States. It does not matter that the managers of these companies are responsible for much of the world economy: They all know That regulations, tax sanctions or vetoes can stop their innovation and billing, and Trump does not hesitate to play those letters if he considers it necessary. Political power is able to impose a regulatory framework, and companies know that they depend on that framework to operate. What times those on Facebook (for example) blocked Trump from his social networks. Silicon Valley is afraid. What is also evident is that the technological world in the US cannot be separated from state power. They depend on him antitrust regulations, digital infrastructure and of course gigantic and juicy government contracts. Being good with the US president is crucial for their businesses, and if you have to fold, they fold. That was not an exchange of impressions: it was a demonstration of who directs the score. Strategic calculation. The submissive position of technological leaders probably also responds to a strategic calculation: It is better to be docile in public and then negotiate regulatory benefits in private. The choreography shown at that dinner was full of meaning, because despite the power of the Big Tech, these companies are still anchored to the fact that the US president is a thickery of modern king to which they must pay vassalage so that they do not change the rules of the game in a second. Not so different from what happens in China. The scene also reminded us of a situation much more forceful: The one that is lived in China, where the government and its president, Xi Jingping, hold absolute power. Companies know it and for years have paid an absolute vassalage to their rulers, which intervene and make decisions in the operation and management of private companies. And those who try to rebel pay very expensive: to tell Jack Ma. 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