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This is the launch of the most anticipated artificial intelligence of Openai in an increasingly fierce race

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For months, the feeling was clear: OpenAi needed a blow to the table. GPT-4 had raised the bar, and GPT -4 -or reinforced that base with concrete improvements in performance and multimodality. But GPT –4.5 He did not convince: for many, it was a false step, With few real improvements and too many promises without compliance. Today, With GPT -5, the company seeks to recover impulse. The new model is now available and arrives in three versions. Openai has profiled GPT -5 as its most complete model to date. His training puts the focus on three great pillars: understanding more precision instructions, managing longer contexts and working hand in hand with external tools. The ambition is not less: transforming the model into a kind of digital agent that not only responds, but acts, plans and adapts. The clearest difference is how we interact with him. GPT -4 forced to choose: speed, vision or reasoning. GPT -5 breaks with that barrier. Now it is the model who decides in real time if he must respond instantly or stop to think. The result is a more fluid experience, without the need to configure modes or activate specific functions. GPT -5 is already the new default model in the free chatgpt plan. It is the first time that anyone can access an advanced reasoning system without going through a box. In payment plans, the model is deployed with more powerful versions: Chatgpt plus ($ 20 per month): access with extended limits Chatgpt Pro (200 month): unlimited access to GPT -5 Pro, a variant reinforced with more power, better answers and extended functions (voice, search, canvas, deep reasoning) Enterprise, Team and Edu plans will receive it next week as a base model. In development. Images | OpenAI In Xataka | I have tried the new OpenAI models. It has been a small odyssey with prize: I have a chatgpt at home

Steam gift cards have become an unequivocal symptom of something increasingly worrying: love scams

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“I work in a store where we have Steam gift cards. Today an older lady came twice and bought cards worth $ 500. It turns out that $ 1,600 has been spent in recent days. How is it possible for someone to need so much money for Steam? “ The message published it A Reddit user that he showed his concern for the lady, and suspected that he was perhaps being scammed. Most like that it was happening just that. It is a case of book of Scam of love. One that over the years, of course, has adopted several forms and has ended becoming an epidemic. These types of scams usually have the same modus operandi: The scammer creates a false identity to gain the trust and affection of a victim. Many of those victims are older people who feel alone and find a company (and hope of something more) in those conversations. They usually use attractive profiles and create intense emotional relationships. The scammers dodge a personal meeting at all costs. They always live outside, on an oil platform, or work in the armed forces in some country in conflict. Once they earn that trust, they request money under various excuses. For example, medical emergencies, trips or investments. Precisely the way in which these payments require is what varies. One of the methods used by some scammers It is cryptocurrency paymentbut that is usually a complex way for older people and without computer knowledge. In recent years a method has especially imposed on others: Gift cards. These gift cards – for example, of Steam, but also from Google Play or Netflix, among others – are a perfect way to request money because, in the first place, they are irreversible transactions, and secondly, because they allow scammers to hide their footprint since they are anonymous and very difficult to track. A dangerously ideal means for scams These cards are simply codes that are once held by the scammer can be converted into money in different ways: They can resell them in gray resale markets online or in forums such as Telegram. They also usually resell them to attract buyers They can redeem them in false or third -party Steam accounts, and then they can sell those games as gifts to other people. They can even recharge false accounts and then resell them to gamers interested in them. They may also convert the balance of these cards into cryptocurrencies. Not directly, but through intermediaries They do accept gift cards as payment method for cryptoactive. Or use those cards legitimately and buy games or digital content that they then give. That serves to appear that they are generous in later scams in those that use those gifts as bait. In those scams of love, this type of Steam cards therefore become an ideal way to “facilitate” the victim to send money and do so in a very difficult way to monitor. Older people are the favorite victims of scammers –They have seen cases by everywhere, some that go from Notable Simply extraordinary– And that’s why it is important to try to alert them. Here the stores and shopping centers that sell these types of cards should have some type of policy to detect too frequent purchases of these cards and for Notify potential victims of this type of scams. For the rest of the users, a petition: do not buy gift cards through unofficial roads: otherwise, we are likely to contribute to the problem not mitigating. In Xataka | A “fine” on the windshield, a QR and a false website: thus begins the scam that tries to steal money from your card

China increasingly dominates technology on earth. There is a place where they are still far from Occiden

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A recent report The New York Times He has evidenced the Chinese difficulty to compete with Spacex in the deployment of communications satellites. While Musk’s company already accumulates 8,000 Starlink satellitesthe two main Chinese networks just add 120 units in orbit. Why is it important. Low orbit satellites are strategic for autonomous cars, war with drones and military surveillance. China considers Starlink a direct threat and has planned two megaconstellations with 27,000 satellites between them. Qianfan, the constellation of low orbit satellites developed by China, anticipated having 650 operating satellites at the end of the year. Shanghai Spacesail Technologies, the company after the project, has only managed to put 90 in orbit since August. Guowang, an alternative born in 2020, is even worse: 34 satellites of the 13,000 planned for the next decade. The context. The Popular Chinese Liberation Army See Starlink as something “deeply integrated into the US military combat system”. It is not empty paranoia: this network is essential to coordinate drones in Ukraine and Spacex has government contracts for spying and missile monitoring. The background. China has not solved the key problem that Spacex solved years ago: reusable rockets. Chinese companies continue to wear single -use pitchers, which multiplies costs and reduces the frequency of launches. The Falcon 9 can reuse its first stage up to 20 times, greatly reducing the costs. After five hundred missionsit is still the reference. Chinese candidates –Long March 8R, Zhuque-3, Tianlong-3– accumulate failures and delays. Yes, but. China is negotiating Contracts with 30 countries to access Qianfan. He has already signed agreements in Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, taking advantage of certain misgivings towards American technology dependence. The rhythm of Chinese launches accelerates: more than thirty missions in the first half, putting 150 satellites in orbit. But they need to multiply by five or six the rhythm to fulfill their international radio frequency commitments. In addition, there are some counterparts to your proposal: The decisive moment. Chinese megaconstellations must launch half of their satellites in five years after obtaining the frequencies, completing the deployment in seven. Not fulfilling could force them to reduce the size of the networks. Main loser? China dominates manufacturing, batteries, solar panels and traditional (non -advanced) semiconductors. But in sectors that require maximum risk assumption – Biotechnology, the space – the United States maintains a decisive advantage. Getting smaller in some scenarios, but maintains it. The business mentality that rewards rapid and cheap failures against guaranteed successes makes the difference between Spacex and its Chinese rivals. Outstanding image | Spacex In Xataka | What types of satellites exist: guide not to get lost in a gigantic network of which we are increasingly dependent

In an increasingly aging country to become old, it is a condemnation of poverty

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G. Young Soo has done everything reasonably well In life. At least in work. At 23, she began working as a office worker in an insurance company and throughout the last three and a half decades, she has gradually climbing in the organization chart, through the positions of a branch director and team leader in several departments. Now, with 59 years, his future is quite black: his salary has been trimming during the last five years until he stayed in the middle of what he charged at 55 and in a few months, when he reached 60, he will have to leave his post. It is not that Young Soo has angry at its bosses or that has been accommodated after 36 years of loyal service. No. His employment situation is explained simply and plainly by the complex (and controversial) Employment Laws of South Korea based on age. “Alone on a road with curves”. Young Soo is a pseudonym, but its history is real and reflects the situation in which many South Korean workers are about to turn 60. We know it because it is one of the 34 employees in the country Interviewees By Human Rights Watch (HRW) to know the work overview (and vital) they face. All share several characteristics: they are between 42 and 72, they work in Seoul (some in the public sector, others in private companies) and will have to deal with the country’s labor policies. Their stories often go along the same lines as G. Young Soo: after years (or even decades) of work their professional/financial/vital perspectives darken as they approach their sixty birthday. Another similar case is that of Young Sook, 59 too and that has been working as a nurse for almost four decades. At 60 he will have to retire, yes or yes, a perspective that causes authentic unease. “I can’t imagine outside this organization”, confesses The woman during her talk with HRW. “It would be like being alone on a road with curves.” “Punished for aging”. His stories are part of A report of 72 pages in which HRW warns of the serious consequences that Corea’s laws and policies have for the oldest population. The document is so critical that its tone already advances in the same title: “Punished for aging”. It may seem exaggerated, but the analysis indicates that the country’s regulations often end up condemning its elders to a gradual loss of purchasing power, worse quality jobs, low remuneration and undercurred mental health. “The laws and policies of South Korea to protect older workers from age discrimination actually have the opposite effect,” Bridget Sleap warnsHRW researcher. “They deny older workers the opportunity to continue working on their main jobs, they are paid less and force them to accept precarious jobs and with lower salaries, all simply because of their age. The government should stop punishing workers just to age.” In your report there is an idea that slides several times: “Remove Ageism“ A percentage: 38%. The report of HRW not only exposes specific cases. It also slides some figures and percentages that help to better understand the situation that the elders live in the country. According to the data it manages, in 2023 the relative poverty rate among people of 65 or more years was 38%, The worst result of the countries that make up the OECD. In practice, that means that almost four out of ten elders have 50% (or less) of the national average income, which in 2023 stood at approximately $ 28,200. HRW quotes another report that reveals that the average monthly salary of 60 or more years were 29% lower than their younger colleagues. The percentage is not too surprising if we take into account two factors. The first is that in the country there is a system that allows to reduce wages in the years before retirement. The second, that 69% of people over 60 who worked in 2023 did it in precarious jobs. If we talk about the South Korean population as a whole, that data does not reach 40%. A problem with three legs. The big question arriving at this point is … Why are so many older ones attached to that situation? Although there are many factors at stake, there are three keys, three laws or labor policies based on age for HRW. The first is the mandatory retirement age. South Korean legislation is fixed from the age of 60, which means that companies can force a work to retire when they are fulfilled. No need to claim more reasons. They are the companies those that decide whether or not they set a retirement age, but the measure is widespread. Both in the public sector and among private companies. Especially in organizations of more than 300 employees. According to the South Korean Ministry of Labor, they accept that possibility 95% of companies With that last profile, signatures that usually set forced retirement in the 60 years. Among small businesses it is not so normal. In the country I already has opened the debate on the need to rethink (and increase) retirement age. In fact, President Lee Jae Myung has committed to approximately 65 years old, but HRW’s study slides that the key is not when the elderly are withdrawn, but how they do it. The maximum salary rule. The other standard that HRW quotes is the “maximum salary” system, which marks the last years of the elderly in its companies. “It allows employers to reduce workers’ salaries during the three or five years prior to their mandatory retirement,” says the agency, recalling that this practice “causes financial and psychological damage” to those affected, in addition to “based on a discriminatory stereotype.” Without counting on its impact on the quotes, compensation for dismissal or unemployment payments. And why does that system apply? The initial idea was to reduce the cost of hiring major personnel in a salary system based on antiquity and at the same time favor the creation of … Read more

They are not your imaginations, the seat of airplanes is increasingly uncomfortable. He began to shrink in 1978 and since then he has not stopped

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The scene It is familiar For any passenger of a commercial flight in “tourist” class: backpack between the legs, knees embedded against the frontal back and a failed attempt to reach the floor of the cabin without hitting the forehead. What was previously an experience of discovery or luxury has degenerated, for the majority, in An uncomfortable struggle for the most elementary physical space. It happens that this transformation is not fortuitous, and began in the United States. The free market. Before 1978, airlines in the United States functioned as regulated public services. Basic rates, routes and standards (including the space between seats and customer treatment) were supervised by the federal government. The tickets were more expensive than today, but included services such as billed luggage, food and seats with dimensions Chords to the human body half. The problem? That the frame changed drastically with THE AIR AUTLINE ACTlegislation that opened the sector to the competition on behalf of the free market. The promise was that The rates would fall and the service would improve. In practice, after a brief explosion of new companies, the market was rapidly consolidated to the Current oligopoly: four airlines (American, Delta, United and Southwest) They control 80 % of the US market. In that new competitive environment, operational efficiency was imposed as an absolute priority, and the reduction of passenger space became one of the most effective tools for Increase margins Without raising prices. My seat diminishes. Evolution has been progressive but constant. In the eighties, traditional airlines offered an average of 90 cm space between seats (the called pitch), while today an average of 80 cm is reached in regular airlines, and only 70 cm in low-cost companies such as Spirit or Wizz Air. By the way, the seat width has also fallen around 5 cm. This reduction has reached a critical point: studies They point out that more than half of the passengers already They do not fit comfortably In standard seats. The effect is especially dramatic for overweight people, the elderly or those who travel with young children, groups that have also been Excluded from the tests Evacuation officers that FAA has used to justify the current regulations. It is not an illusion, this way it was traveling in economy class in bread in the 70s The reduction in Europe. In Europe, the “to the worst” change for passengers, that is, the progressive loss of space, services and comfort on board, began a little later, in the 1990s, although its regulatory trigger is located a few years earlier, with the European air liberalization which developed in three phases between 1987 and 1997. The clearest inflection point was the call Third Liberalization Package (1992-1997), which culminated in the creation of the Unique European skyallowing any EU airline to operate freely within the community space without restrictions on routes or rates. From there, several effects were triggered, mainly: the massive entry of Low-Cost airlines (Ryanair, Easyjet or Wozz), standardization down and the indirect deregulation (The EU maintained certain standards, but did not impose minimum seat dimensions). We are bigger. Over the years the problem has been aggravated by a purely “natural” issue. The reduction of space coincides with a demographic transformation and, above all, physiological and very human: our body has evolved “more”. A fact: According to the CDCsince the 1990s the average weight of American adults has increased In more than 7 kg. Today’s women weigh the same as the men of three decades ago, and although height growth has stabilized, body size has increased. Despite this, the dimensions of air furniture have not only grown up, but They have diminishedchallenging the tendency of other sectors such as car or entertainment, where the seats have adapted to the new size of the public. In the words of Flyersrights, Paul Hudson, The airlines “They have gone in the opposite direction to the human body.” The business of making. In the background, the Progressive compression of space responds to A clear logic: Sell more tickets by plane and segment the offer to the maximum. Basic tickets are announced with prices artificially lowbut once in the purchase process, passengers are forced To pay supplements For additional space under labels such as “Economy Plus” or “Comfort”. This has created the closest to a system of Aerial casteswhere a minority of frequent or business travelers accesses acceptable conditions, while the rest must choose between supporting claustrophobic conditions or paying more for something that was previously standard. According to William McGeeexpert in economic freedoms, this logic generates “A kind of torture against a moderately human class.” This duality not only affects comfort, but it raises ethical questions on air service equity. Health risks. He problem transcends The scope of comfort. Prolonged immobility in small spaces (especially in long -term flights) increases risk of deep venous thrombosis, a condition that can lead to potentially fatal pulmonary embolisms. The CDC recommends moving Every two or three hoursbut this is impracticable in flights with turbulence or in overalls. In addition, overcrowding seriously complicates the possibility Evacuate a plane In 90 seconds, the limit that FAA demands. Tests carried out by the agency concluded that the seat size It does not influence significantly, but experts who observed the experiment point multiple deficiencies: It was carried out in a parking lot, not in a real aircraft, and children, adults and people with disabilities were excluded. In addition, the test group was composed of just 60 people, well below the real capacity of a commercial flight. How to survive. Before institutional inaction, responsibility falls, of course, In passengers. Experts recommend (if the budget allows) to acquire seats with more space for long flights. Some travelers even acquire two contiguous seats (although be careful, because airlines can reassign them without prior notice). It is also suggested, the time, get up and walk Every time the opportunity arises, and, in high risk cases, Take anticoagulants Light under medical supervision. These strategies are mere palliative in … Read more

It is increasingly difficult to distinguish whether the last viral chorra video is made with the or not. And it gives us exactly the same

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Open any social network that we have installed on our mobile phone, run into a video created by AI and … split the box. That entertainment has changed in recent years was as inevitable as logical. We no longer see the comedy club, we listen to Juan the fishingman by WhatsAppand we no longer wait for the news to interview students recently out of the PAU, We hook ourselves to your reactions in Tiktok. So far, they are only the same usual realities taken to the new consumption platforms. The key is that we are starting to entertain ourselves without knowing if what we see is real or not. And it gives us absolutely the same. The reporter, the hole, and the pig. If you have opened X or Instagram in the last week you may have encountered A video that has three key elements. A reporter telling the last minute news live A couple of motorists who fall into a huge hole A pig that appears running from behind and the one pursued by the reporter The key is not in the video. It is in the conversation. Do not look for more plot, because there is not. Nor does it seem necessary to stretch the gum: this video accumulated more than one million downloads in X a few hours from its publication. And it is just the tip of the iceberg. The new YouTube. YouTube is the best example of how the culture of the video generated by AI is reaching unimaginable dimensions a few years ago. Rabbit’s Journey It is one of the strongest channels in entertainment by AI. They are simply absurd stories, in which we see stories at the level of: A rabbit is a baby in the middle of the field He is friends with a cow It takes a milk bottle He gives it to the baby and dances cheerful It ends up facing a gigantic threatening gorilla who ends up being shot by a man who passed by More than 640 visits has the video, and almost three million subscribers have the channel. Calling you “crocodile bombardino” The probabilities of success are 100%. Tum Tum Sahur. When a few days ago, at the Corpus Christi Fair of Granada I saw in the classic street post a tung tung sahur, I knew that the joke was out of hand: it had transcended outside the Internet. Tiktok fever of characters created by AI and with names as rimbombantes as Trallero Tralala, Tung Tung Sahur or Crocodile Bombardino. The tung tung videos dancing Broken 100 million downloadsabsolutely remote figures from what the most powerful youtubers in Spain are achieved in shorts such as Mikecrack either Vegeta 777. Its content? Always brief and most absurd. It is not something new. The entertainment contents by AI are beginning to end up exploding in 2025, but we have been with some most particular attempts. YouTube had to eliminate copyright (and how it was growing) the channel of Ai sponeboba channel that transmitted in 2023 spongebob contents modified by AI. WatchmeForever He has been broadcasting on Twitch for two years uninterruptedlya pixel-art channel generated with AI that accumulates more than 143,000 followers. It does not matter if it is real or not. The entertainment is consumed rapid and, the AI ​​is at a point where this consumption Fast food He doesn’t even let us think if what we are seeing is real or not. And this, deep down, has never imported. The phenomenon is similar to the rise of fake news in 2016. studies such as “The Science of Fake News” They demonstrated that false beliefs do not maintain because people believe them: they stay because people want to believe them. A good example are the millions of people who are now hooked on Olympic Games in which cats participate. Cats that, of course, do not exist. Towards the indistinguishable. Videos such as the reporter and the pig are created with the latest versions of VI, the Google video generation engine. The key here is that the interannual advance of these models is more than remarkable. Recently I could try I see 2 in Geminiwith my mobile (the latest version is I see 3), and the results were already brutal. The next generations of text to video leave us before a clear future: one in which we will have no idea whether or not the content is created by an AI, and in which it will give us absolutely the same as so. In Xataka | Free mega-guide: 45 artificial intelligence tools without cost to help you with all kinds of tasks

It is increasingly easy to see from the road a crop that had never been dominant in Spain: the pistachio

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Its production volume is still far (far) from which the US, Iran or Türkiye, the heavyweights of the sector, but Spain is increasingly A pistachio country. And it has all the meaning that is so. Your cultivation adapts well to certain regions From the Iberian Peninsula and above all it offers background penguins to farmers, who have been planting hectares and more hectares of pistachers for years, hoping to cover a global market In full expansion. “Many people have opted for this crop as a substitute for others less profitable, such as cereal,” They recognized Recently from the sector. Pistacho “Made in Spain”. If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, Castilla-La Mancha It probably leaves the best reflects the accelerated expansion of the pistachio cultivation in Spain. A walk comes through the province of Toledo to see hectares of soil that until not so ago they were dedicated to cereals or the grass of cattle and have now been converted into pistachio plantations. Castilla-La Mancha agglutina more than 80% of the national surface and production of the fruit and has achieved put on the top 5 of the great pistache regions of the world. A few days ago, in a forum dedicated precisely to the pistachio, the regional government explained that the community already dedicates about 65,000 hectares to its cultivation and in 2023 reached the 5,600 tons of dry fruit with peel. A figure: 78,500 ha. To understand how the speed has extended pistachio plantations in Spain, it is good to take a look at the report that the agricultural group dedicated last year Agrouptimum: If in 2016 there were barely 15,000 hectares dedicated to its cultivation, in 2022 that surface was already risen to 70,000 and in 2023 it touched 78,500, 68% in the dry land. Last season it is estimated that the 79,200 hawhich explains that the pistachio monopolizes 10.3% of the soil dedicated to producing nuts in Spain. “Win by win”. The success of the pistachio among farmers, especially Castilla-La Mancha, is explained for a very simple reason: his juicy profits. He was openly recognized recently Juan Gallego Arroyo, founder of the Iberopistacho group, to electionomista.es: With gross bottling per hectare that leave a profitability between 10 and 20%, the pistachio is much more attractive to farmers than other traditional crops, including cereals. “The pistachio wins by a win in terms of profitability within the crops in open and permanent. The comparison is with the olive tree, the almond or the vine, for example,” Clarify Galician. Translated into figures and according to the data handled by the manager, “with the pistachio plantations a gross hectare turnover is being achieved that can reach up to 12,000 euros in the case of using irrigation. In the case of dry dryland, we are between 5,000 and 6,000.” “Very profitable alternative”. He is not the only one who has drawn attention to the benefits of this fruit, increasingly demadiated. In 2022 Balam Agriculture made A balance of the most profitable crops of the year looking for the income, expenses, investment and risks assumed. The list was listed by the plantations of olive groves, those of Almendros and (exact) those of pistacheros, which despite requiring a notable initial investment offers benefits and profitability in the medium term. “Its high sale price, close to € 6/kg (with average production of 1,000 kg), as well as the increase in demand for this product, make it a very profitable alternative,” Balam stands out. In optimal conditions, with intensive irrigation and in ecological pistachio crops, electionomista.es Precise that the annual income generated per hectare can even be higher and move between 8,000 and 10,000 euros. The final net profit is lower, but depending on the case, it ranges between 1,200 and more than 10,000. A millionaire market. Although Spain is betting on the pistachio its production is far from what they reach Heavyweights of the cultivation, the USA, Iran and Türkiye, that a large part of the cake of a millionaire and growing business are distributed. Data Bridge estimates that market size reached 4,350 million of dollars in 2024 and will continue to grow to exceed 5,800 in a few years. There are consultants convinced that It won’t take long In passing that figure. With that backdrop, Spain and more specifically regions Like Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, Extremadura, Aragon, Castilla y León or Catalonia, they are positioning themselves to participate in that world cake and The increase of domestic demand. “The evolution of pistachio cultivation in recent years has been very large,” Recognize To Efeagro Mario González, from Pistachopro. “Many people have opted for this crop as replacement for others less profitable.” Images | USDA (Flickr), Marcos Paulo Prado (UNSPLASH) and Brad Spry (Flickr) In Xataka | For more than a thousand years Spain was a world power in pistachio production. Then disappeared completely

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

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

is that these types of events will become increasingly frequent

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Since the end of May the meteorology in Spain has been A roller mountain in which summer heat days have alternated with days of thermal drops and abundant storms. And if the last of these episodes of instability has been characterized by something has been for the intense hails seen in some points of the peninsular center. After the beak. After reaching Wednesday its peak of activity, the last stormy episode begins to love the Peninsula. However, the chronicle of a hail leaves us that in some places reached the ground with a considerable size such as three centimeter balls Views in Madrid. And suddenly, Pedrisco. The big question is how we have come to see such a situation in the middle of June, when the weather spring has come to an end. The key may be precisely in the thermal oscillations that we have lived during these weeks. According to they explain from Eltiempo.essurface heat generates ascending convective currents. These are entered into clouds of great vertical growth and raise water drops to large heights. From water to ice. These drops, in their ascent they can reach very cold layers of the atmosphere, when reaching the -15º Celsius They begin to form hail. Ice falls by gravity, but can rise again trapped by convective currents. When descending, hail captures moisture dragged by the warm air that returns it to the high and cold layers. The result is hail balls that increasingly accumulate more water, more mass and greater diameter. Finally, atmospheric instability ends up unleashing storms in which accumulated hail is precipitated against the surface. End of the stormy episode. Meteorologists point out that the last stormy episode has come to an end: the Dana responsible for instability seen these days moves away from the peninsula. However, storms will not complete has issued several notices For storms and possibility of hail. Among these notices are orange notices due to an important risk of storms, in force tomorrow on the Ebro banks in Zaragoza and in the province of Huesca. In some areas, storm notices of these days will coexist with notices due to high temperatures. A problem that will go to more. Climate experts point out that the frequency and intensity of extreme weather phenomena will increase as a consequence of climate change. Although we associate storms to instability and cold, heat plays an important role. The heat not only generates ascending currents that alter the structure of the clouds, there is also the fact that hot air causes the atmosphere to accumulate more moisture. More water in the atmosphere means greater rainfall associated with storms such as those lived during these days. In Xataka | The time of truth of the Spanish reservoirs: how are they going to endure the heat after rains that has left them overflowing Image | ECMWF/ David Trinks

We increasingly understand the relationship between intestinal flora and sleep quality

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Many researchers ago They have been pointing That the intestine is not limited only to digesting food. It has neurons, produces substances that the brain also uses to communicate and, most curious, seems to be in direct contact with it. Hence some call it “The second brain”And maybe it does not sound so exaggerated if we think it can also influence how we sleep. Sleep badly affects digestion (And vice versa). It happens to many: after a heavy dinner it costs to sleep, and after a bad night the stomach seems more sensitive. Even if they seem like unrelated, they are actually connected. When one of the two fails, the other also shows it. Sleeping badly stresses the body, more cortisol is released and that can alter the functioning of the intestine. And if the digestive system does not do well, send signals to the brain that complicate relax and reconcile sleep. It is like a silent talk that happens all the time between what happens in the head and what it feels in the belly. The scientific support. There are more and more research that confirms something key: the quality of sleep is closely linked to the state of our intestinal microbiota. One of the most interesting studies was published in 2023. The scientists used a fairly accurate technique – called “bidirectional Mendelian random” – and showed that the dream and the intestine are in constant communication. When that balance is broken, either by a bad rest or by a digestive mismatch, both systems are affected. In addition, the most curious thing is that the key hormone to regulate sleep occurs in the intestine: melatonin. According to an investigationhaving an intestine in equilibrium could be one of the keys, sometimes invisible, to be able to sleep well. But … And stress? Stress is another great actor in this story. When you are stressed, not only costs you more to sleep. The digestive system is also altered. And most interesting: the intestinal microbiota is also affected. In fact, a recent study He has found That the intestine reacts to stress and, dependent on how it is, can calm or worsen it. If the intestinal flora is unbalanced, more anxiety, more irritability will be felt, and will cost more relax. In the end, it is a vicious circle: stress alters the intestine, the intestine responds badly, and all that interferes in sleep. The focus on food. The diet is key to maintaining a balanced microbiota, which helps regulate sleep and mood. A study He has revealed The importance of eating with regular schedules, avoiding heavy or late dinners, incorporating fiber -rich foods, natural fermented ones such as yogurt or kefir, and reducing outraprocesses can have a real impact on your rest. I even know has observed That certain probiotics, such as Bifidobacterium brief, can improve sleep quality by influencing the hormonal axis that regulates stress. Sleeping is not a matter of a good pillow. That too. Sleeping well is an act of balance. Not only mental, also intestinal. Understanding that invisible connection between the brain and the digestive system can be the first step to recover rest. Because sometimes, taking care of the belly is also taking care of sleep. Image | Pexels Xataka | We are increasingly clear that our microbiome is key to our health. Our protein sources can also alter it

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