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The delay of ‘GTA VI’ goes far beyond a mere change in the calendar. It is an earthquake for industry

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Not as expected, the Delay in the launch of ‘GTA VI‘He has stopped causing a stir in the video game industry. Rockstar’s title was announced in the Already distant December 5, 2023 With a trailer that gave us clues of where the shots would go, but that left us wanting more after the launch of a ‘gta v’ that dates back to 2013. In its first version. ‘GTA VI‘It was the great launch of 2025 and its absence is much more than the delay of one of the greats. It is an earthquake in the industry because it affects the rest of the calendarto the actions of your parent company and even console sales that do not go as they should. Momentum. In a strange way, on Friday, May 2, at 13.25 peninsular time in Spain and with a release Bug, Rockstar confirmed what was smelled to kilometers: ‘GTA VI’ was going to 2026. The company sets date: May 26 next year, and it is a fairly significant date, not so much because it represents something, but because the rest of the industry breathes relieved and knows what to stick to. But despite the ways, the way of communicating that ‘GTA VI’ will not be launched this year is not accidental. From the first 2023 trailer and that “will arrive in 2025”, we had not had more news about it. ‘GTA VI’ would sell even without advertising, but it was strange not to have seen anything else from the game. The players knew in the background that the game may not leave this year, and Rockstar itself knew it before that announcement. Why did he do so? Because we are in the middle of the year and they could not do it before April 1. Impact. It was that day that finished Take-Two’s fiscal closure, a company that Rockstar Games is filial and could not announce in any way that the game was delayed if they wanted to keep investors happy. For sample, a button: The value of the actions: The difference between half an hour prior to the announcement and later days is evident. Because, as we said, ‘Grand Theft Auto’ has long since stopped being a game to become the game, the one that raises passions and moves a lot, a lot of money. Not surprisingly, the fifth delivery has been released several times (in 2013 the original arrived for Xbox 360 and PS3but then relaunted for PC, Xbox One and PS4 and, later, for current Xbox Series and PS5), adding More than 210 million copies as of December 31, 2024. 2025 is again in the menu. Even ‘Red Dead Redemption 2‘, which is a game that has sold well below’ GTA V ‘, has managed to place more than 70 million copies since its launch in 2018, a barbarity in a supersaturated market. Because, as we say, Rockstar is a company that can paralyze the industry. So much that it has become a kind of joke within the sector. Because nobody wants to launch their game in the window of a ‘GTA’ and, after those sales of the fifth numbered delivery, the industry was waiting for Rockstar to specify a date -beyond the window given a year ago– To start moving marketing machinery. This, more than a personal appreciation, has been a recurring comment on networks these days. An example is Luke Dale, voice actor in ‘Kingdom eats Deliverance 2‘That he joked with the possibility that the game in which he participates, now, can opt for the Goty (the best game of the year) in the absence of the Rockstar title. Console sales. But, beyond public and private opinion of the sector, it is a fact that players have no money or time for everything. They are the two goods that the industry seeks to monopolize by all possible means, and the launch of a ‘GTA’ is a large black hole for the rest of the companies that, now, can place their games in the launch windows they estimate without worrying about the elongated shadow of the rockstar saga. But there are entities in the industry to which this sure delay that has not fallen so well. Xbox stopped being in the hardware race with Any device can be an Xbox. PlayStation, a brand traditionally linked to the ‘GTA’ saga, would surely have many hopes that the new installment gave both its PS5 and a Ps5 pro With more power to display the best visual quality of the video game. HE esteem That, between January 1 and April 25, Sony has distributed 3.2 million machines. Xbox, meanwhile, 730,000 consoles in that period and, although especially in the case of Sony is a good figure, It supposes One million units than those he managed to place in the same period last year. ‘GTA VI’ seemed like a breath of fresh air, especially when there are already rumors that point to A PS6 in 2027. 2025 was never realistic. At least, that states Jason Schreier. It is one of the most reputed journalists in the video game industry and, just after the announcement of the delay of ‘GTA VI’, he commented that none of the people he has talked about within Rockstar trusted 2025 as a viable date for the launch and that a delay to 2026 was inevitable. In their wordsthere is “a lot of work and very little time”, and this delay was an internal desire to Avoid a crunch -Term of the world that reflects extra hours to finish the development- inevitable if someone from above intended to launch the game in 2025. Now, it only remains to wait to see if that date of May 26, 2026 remains fixed, since like other developments – of Rockstar itself – they have shown us, it is that no date is marked in stone and that there can be one … or even two more delays from there. In Xataka | A ‘GTA VI’ I only ask … Read more

China’s future in the chips industry is in the hands of a single company almost unknown: Sicarrier

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Sicarrier is not a Chinese company. When we repair the country’s semiconductor industry led by Xi Jinping probably many of us think of companies like Huawei, SMICHua Hong semiconductor or Naura Technologyamong others. But not in Sicarrier. Until just a few weeks this company It was a real unknown Beyond China’s borders, but in a record time it has attracted the attention of the global industry of integrated circuits. And he has done it for a weight reason: it is the authentic responsible for China currently having the ability to produce avant -garde chips. Although it was founded in 2021, during the last four years Sicarrier has maintained a very low profile. Its origin is not entirely clear, but The most reliable sources They collect that this company is probably a huawei split. What we know for sure is that it is a state company administered by the Shenzhen government. Sicarrier’s soul are veteran engineers of ASML and Applyed Materials I will not prolong the mystery more: Sicarrier is dedicated to designing and manufacturing photolithography equipment and wafering processing machines. In fact, the more than 30 products that it has presented just a few weeks ago in SemiCon China 2025 competes with the solutions of the Dutch company ASMLthe Japanese Tokyo Electron or the American Apply materials. It is shocking that a company with just four years already has proposals capable of competing in the market of chips manufacturing equipment. But it seems to have earned it. Whatever this presumable success is not the result of chance. And is that his main team is led by engineers with more than two decades of experience in the ranks of ASML and Applyed Materials. In fact, these technicians are surely responsible for the milestone for which Sicarrier is probably in the spotlight of the US administration: the technology used by Huawei and SMIC for MANUFACT 7 NM INTEGRATED CIRCUITS derives from a patent that seeks to make the production of 5 Nm chips possible using equipment from deep ultraviolet lithography (UVP). The technology used by Huawei and SMIC to make 7 Nm chips derives from a patent from Sicarrier The most ambicious lithography equipment by Chinese integrated circuit manufacturers is the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine (UVE). ASML is the only company that produces them, but THE SANCTIONS TO CHINA DE USA They prevent you from giving it to your Chinese clients. The problem is that this equipment is necessary to produce on a large scale and with a competitive price semiconductors of 7 Nm or with even more advanced integration technologies. Sicarrier has not presented a UVE photolithography team in China 2025. It is very unlikely to have it, but, at the same time, it is reasonable to anticipate that their engineers will be working on a machine of these characteristics. The teams that this company has already made known, or, at least, has officialized, are A 28 Nm immersion lithography machinean engraving equipment for advanced nodes below 7 Nm, diffusion machines for rapid thermal processing, chemical vapor deposition equipment for nodes of 28 to 5 Nm, verification machines and test for advanced integrated circuits, etc. The retahíla of lithography and wafering processing that Sicarrier has presented in Semi -Con China 2025 is long. As I mentioned a few lines above, these products compete with the proposals of ASML, Applied Materials or Tokyo Electron, although the authentic Sicarrier fire test will be the tuning of a UVE lithography machine. Du liqun, the president of this company, has declared that its strategy requires betting on the development of avant -garde lithography equipment, selective deposition machines and latest generation transist technologieslike ga (Gate-alall-around), which is already part of the Porfolio of TSMC, Intel and Samsung. It is still early to identify if Sicarrier will live up to the expectations it has generated, but there is no doubt: there is a new actor in the integrated circuit industry. And it is worth following the track very closely. Image | Sicarrier More information | Nomad semi In Xataka | This is China’s big problem with chips: Huawei will manufacture its Kirin X90 for PC using the 7 Nm of SMIC

The triumph of the “artisanal” games in the industry

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Once it is an isolated phenomenon, two chance. But they are already too many times in the last months when a game that is not a triple A, but a relatively modest title, makes the heads of the entire industry turn for their quality and daring. Now is the turn of ‘Clair Oscur: Expedition 33‘, a wonder of Rolera architecture that has become a supervantant and the beautiful girl of critics despite not having the means of production of the greats Blockbusters. Everyone talks about ‘Clair Osccur’. And it’s not for less. Greeted as a Modern classic Of the role -playing games, it has been developed by Sandfall Interactive, French independent study founded in 2020 and based in Montpellier. The project is an RPG in classic shifts, a gender that In Sandfall they thought that was being mistreated by the great studies. It is not its only original detail: its atmosphere is based on the Belle Epoque French, and bets on a mature narrative and a certain complexity: every year, the mysterious Pentresse paints a number in a monolith, and all the people who reach that age disappear. People live knowing the exact date of their death, which generates a highly melancholic atmosphere. Modern classic. The combat system and its narrative daring have made the game considered a genre renovator. The result has been both critical and financial: in Metacritic it is already valued as The best game of the year And in just three days he managed to overcome The million copies sold. A milestone that is reinforced by the modesty of its development: just thirty people make up the study. Or not? Thirty -Pico. Since its launch, it has been said that ‘Clair Oscur: Expedition 33’ was developed by just thirty people, which turned the project into an almost handmade achievement, especially taking into account how polished the combat system and the findings of its artistic direction, at the height of the Japanese classics to which you mimic. However, A rapid calculation Like the one they have done in Jeux Urs allows you to go beyond those thirty people, which undoubtedly make up the hard -creative nucleus of the game. To them are added a good amount of essential external teams: at least, a Korean team of eight people dedicated to animations is accredited. In Poland, dozens of game testators reside. The entire audio part is: the dubbing cast and the orchestra of about thirty people who have interpreted the very large soundtrack. It is important not to make this type of contributions that since the beginning of this century add up to development, sometimes without accrediting, in teams often outside Europe or the United States, in countries such as Malaysia or China. The irresistible lightness of the medium games. The video game industry continually lives on its trends, and we currently attend a curious devotion to medium games. The events of recent years (framed in mastodon financial catastrophes such as Sony, EA either Ubisoft) have given a very notable impulse to medium games, as we did not see since the time of PlayStation 3. The public seems to have assimilated, wrapped up with the success of consoles that favor the No-Typically-Triple-A gameslike Nintendo Switch, that games do not need a team of three thousand people behind to be captivating, effective and fun. At the top. We talked about how ‘Clair Osccur’ had perched to the top of the games best considered by criticism this year, but let’s see who follows him: with his same 92 score, ‘Blue Prince‘, this one developed by a single person; With a 91, ‘Split Fiction‘, a modest production and indies airs, but that will soon have a cinemas version; In the twenty positions we see titles such as ‘The Rotters Are Dead’, ‘Bionic Bay’ or ‘Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders’, openly independent. And remember that two of last year’s greatest successes, ‘Space Marine 2’ And the winner of the game of the year, ‘Astro Bot‘, have been developed with limited resources. Brand and image. Being a “small” game is no longer an obstacle, but from a while to this part it is a more impulse at the image level. There is nothing more to see the expectation with which the tiny advances of an indie sequel like ‘Silksong’, whose potential as meme exceeds any Blockbuster. More reason for not minimizing the achievements of an extraordinary game such as ‘Clair Oscur’: thirty or one hundred, the size of the team matters little. The remarkable thing is the result. In Xataka | The great romantic novel of the year is not a book: it is a Chinese video game where you choose your own “digital husband”

Your dedicated button goes against the entire industry

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In Xataka we already have the CMF Phone 2 Pro between hands. The review will take a few days, but we are already testing some of its key points. This phone has a characteristic that, for the moment, no other Android smartphone has shown to date: a button dedicated to a space within the telephone software itself. The Essential Space. CMF is a nothing submarine, and shares software with the mobiles of this company. Essential Space It is one of the nothing mobile applications. It is a peculiar tool for saving ideas and reminders through audio notes, photographs and screenshots. To understand it better, imagine a super Google Keep of multimedia content instead of traditional notes. And now imagine that Keep is able to transcribe audios and analyze the multimedia content itself to establish reminders. The fast access button. Manufacturers are implementing two types of buttons, inspired by The steps that Apple is currently following. The first is a programmable button to be able to put the mobile in silence, launch applications or run any telephone function. The second is usually a camera trigger. CMF has not opted for one or another, its additional button functions as an integration in Essential Space. Its operation is as follows. Double pulsation from the desk: open the essential space A pulsation: screen capture + notes A long pulsation: screen capture + voice note. The integration of AI. The AI ​​in smartphones does not usually have a midpoint: either it works impeccably or is a disaster. In the case of CMF, I have to admit that I liked how this Essential Space works. Imagine you want to make a purchase list. You open the app of any supermarket. You give the Essential Key You add the note you want or the fast audio note Ready. When you go to the Essential Space, you will have a summary of the price, quantities and useful information about the food to buy, and the option to add reminders on it. This is applicable to any idea that you can think of. At least, in my particular case, I make enough screenshots and I have enough ideas too scattered (Instagram post, purchase lists, gift ideas, etc.). Being able to centralize everything in a single app that, in addition, is in charge of the reminders with the button, it seemed like a great idea. Image | Xataka In Xataka | CMF Phone 1, Analysis: To the “What mobile I buy me for 200 euros”? The answer is “this”

Samsung has lost a 30 -year leadership in the DRAM chip industry

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The artificial intelligence (AI) is drastically reconfiguring the hardware supply chain. Samsung has led the DRAM chip industry for more than three decades, but the AI ​​boom has triggered something that just two or three years ago would have seemed unthinkable: Now it is SK Hynix the manufacturer of integrated memory circuits that LEADS THE HBM Chips Market so much (High Bandwidth Memory) like that of the DRAM memories. The latter are those used by most of the devices with which we are familiar, such as computers or mobile phones. However, HBM memories are those that are integrated into those hardware solutions in which it is necessary to prioritize maximum performance, such as, for example, for example, The GPUs for ia. Samsung and Sk Hynix are South Korean companies, but the third in discord, Micron Technology, is American. And, as we are about to check, already steps on Samsung. We have a new leader and their figures are objectively spectacular During the last months Samsung has led the manufacturing market for integrated dram memory circuits with an approximate 40%share, while SK Hynix defended A very worthy 29%. Behind both was Micron Technology, with 26% approximately. During the first quarter of 2025 these figures have varied in a very important way. In fact, as I have anticipated a few lines above, now the leader is SK Hynix. SK Hynix is ​​the Nvidia supplier if we stick to its GPU for ia This last company controls no less than 70% of the Integrated HBM memory market market, so its leadership in this sector is overwhelming. In fact, SK Hynix is ​​Nvidia’s supplier If we stick to their GPU for ia. Samsung has an approximate share of 28%, and Micron touchs 18%. If we deviate our gaze towards the dram memory chips the figures are much more even, although SK Hynix leads for the first time. In one of the graphs that we publish on top of these lines we can see that during the first quarter of 2025 SK Hynix it has erected as the leader of DRAM memories with a fee of 36%. Samsung now occupies the second position with 34%. And Micron Technology follows them closely with 30%. Behind them, although they do not appear in this graph, They step stronger and louder Chinese memory manufacturers Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) and Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT). The second graph predicts how the HBM memories market will evolve over the next five years. SK Hynix presumably will maintain its leadership, although it will lose a part of its share due to the saturation of the hardware market for AI and the growth of competition. Samsung, meanwhile, about 25% will be stabilized market share. And finally, Micron will be the only one of these three companies that will grow up to 20% market share. These figures are just a forecast, but they allow us to get a rather accurate idea about how this semiconductor industry market will evolve. Image | Samsung More information | SCMP In Xataka | South Korea fears US reprisals. To avoid their old lithography equipment, they take dust on a warehouse

The US promised them very happy resurrecting its nuclear industry. Now a problem with tariffs has been created

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The commercial war that He has started United States this April has given much to talk about, especially for Tariff dispute with China. This situation has put an old energy problem on the table: the dependence of foreign uranium. An uncomfortable dependence. The policies of the current American administration They have made clear their position not to continue towards the change of the energy transition. The Trump approach is placed in fossil fuels, but in nuclear matters it was preceded by Biden. In this specific case the energy constant is has maintained Between both governments, which in the road map left that nuclear energy should triple. In this way, the United States has been importing 99% of Uranium concentrate to make fuel for your reactors. In addition, the 54 nuclear centrals of the country generate about a fifth of all the electricity it consumes, According to Ciphernews. Who are the suppliers? As detailed in the same medium, most of the uranium has come from Canada, Kazakhstan, Australia, Russia and Uzbekistan, and although this mineral It was exempt of tariffs, the situation can vary Seeing the stage. In short, the issue has generated a stir in the energy sector and has exposed a structural vulnerability in its nuclear supply chain. A bet towards national mining. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA)last year the national production of uranium concentrate multiplied by thirteen, but still is not enough to meet the demand. However, Scott Melbye, president of Uranium producers of America, He has assured that at least six companies have restarted mining operations in the country. It was not always like that. USA It was the largest uranium producer of the world in 1980, but in the following decades other countries ate the land, as was Canada and Kazakhstan because the extraction costs were lower. The situation worsened with a nuclear disarmament agreement of the USSR and for 20 years the half of the US nuclear fuel came from the recycling of Soviet uranium. After all this situation, in which it began more and more to depend on the uranium of others came the Fukushima accident in 2011. After this tragedy many countries, including USA, They reduced their investment in nuclear energy. Western mining companies paused operations, while Kazakhstan, with state support, Increased its production without worrying about profitability. Russia also continued to sell cheap uranium, even after the end of the disarmament agreement in 2013. Will it be self -sufficient? The orientation of Trump’s policies It seems to point towards the reactivation of its internal nuclear supply chain. Although uranium is still free of tariffs, global tension, technological advances and energy urgency are pushing the country again to look at their own subsoil. The big question is whether this rebirth will be sufficient and sustainable in the long term. Image | Pxhere and Gage Skidmore in Flickr Xataka | The uranium is listed up after the nuclear resurgence. And a company wants to start extracting it in Greenland

how “existential tired” has become the great industry of the West

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In season 9, the twelfth doctor and clear They arrive at a space station In orbit around Neptune. It is the 38th century, on Tuesday. The ship is deserted and only encounter a small rescue mission, but none of that interests us today. We are interested in ‘Morpheus‘, strange machines that allow rest in record time without sleep. A magnificent way of not losing hours with closed eyes, of using our time in little useful things. And “with all the chemical advantages of rest.” “Congratulations, professor. He has revolutionized the labor market, has conquered nature, has created an aberration,” Capaldi says When they explain how the machine works. An “aberration” is true. But one with which many have often fantasized. One that many have ever used. Because, after all, what are the energy drinkshe Recreational methylphenidate or the techniques for Learn to sleep just four hours but small ‘morpheus’ machines? What are they but Symptoms of an increasingly tired society? When the body asks to stop V2osk The problem is that the tiredness we are talking about is much more than not sleeping. Chronic stress, lack of sleep, the increasingly accelerated and hyperactive life rhythms, digital overload, anxiety, burnout … the idea that we live in an increasingly exhausting society has become not only A common place of contemporary discourse, but in An identity feature of our time. That is why there is no lack of theories that try to find the key that allows us to explain what is happening. Some are well documented and add up To chronic lack of lack of sleep: This is the case of nutrition. Some specialists They have proposed The hypothesis that part of the generalized fatigue that affects us is due to minor vitamin or mineral deficits. The best known example is vitamin B12. A deficit of this vitamin can cause anemiaweakness and persistent fatigue. In severe cases, It can cause problems To breathe, dizziness or neurological problems. And, although marked nutritional deficiencies are not very common in healthy young adults, they do increase with age and, in an increasingly worse food contextthey can go unnoticed for months. In this sense, a B12 supplement can help us be less tired and, on a certain level, it can be an explanation, yes. But When we talk about exhaustion We talk about something that “You cannot easily explain in physical terms“, something that” resides on the border between the mind and the body. “ Hyperproductivity, multitasking and digital overload It is enough to review the data to coincide in that fatigue has become an ubiquitous phenomenon, an epidemic, a conviction: from the worker Burnout to the student saturated with information, through those who live in permanent anxiety … everyone has in common that rare feeling of fatigue, tiredness and exhaustion. According to eThe report State of the Global Workplace from Gallup to 44% of the professionals surveyed said they felt high levels of stress daily. And it is something that can be seen in other similar work reports, like this from Adecco in which he pointed out that 40% of workers Spanish and global They had suffered Burnout during the last year. The data has dropped slightly from the posterior peak to the pandemic, but They are still very high. Too high. Being direct: everything seems to indicate that, to purely organic causes, we must add the constant impact of a lifestyle focused on hyperproductivity (Toxic productivity), multitasking and permanent overload. As explained Harvard’s psychologist Natalie Dattilo, “feeling the pressure of being productive at every moment of the day – always a list of slopes and guilt for not fulfilling it – is a sign of this phenomenon that leads to anxiety, insomnia and extreme exhaustion.” In the 90, David Lewis coined The expression of “informative fatigue” to talk about mental exhaustion due to excess information. Today, with smartphones constitiously claiming our attention, That phenomenon has been globalized: Constant notifications, dozens of open eyelashes, a permanent stream of emails, chats and social networks. Is the story of A very expensive way of life at the cognitive level, of loss of efficiency and generalized fatigue. Interior fatigue Gabriel Benois Because, as Schaffner pointed very wellwhen we talk about exhaustion we talk about something that “cannot be easily explained in physical terms”, something that “resides on the border between the mind and the body.” To the malfunction of psychophysiological machinery and excesses of the social environment, something else must be added: the deep emotional, cultural and even philosophical roots of contemporary fatigue. That is, the idea that exhaustion is still a ‘cultural symptom’ of our time. In “The Society of Tiredness“, To look for one of the introductions most accessible to these ideas, the philosopher Byung-Chul have stated that we have ceased to be a” disciplinary society “(as Foucault defined us) and we have become a bizarre evolution of it: incommunicado masses of ‘businessmen’s businessmen’. It is what Almost a decade has denounced Jose César Peralesprofessor at the University of Granada, that “positive thought” is problematic “because it responds to An ideology and concrete economic motivationsbecause it makes the unique people who are good for feeling good, under the threat of being tildos de Toxicbecause hides the true causes of psychological well -being or discomfort, and because it interferes with serious interventions aimed at promoting mental and physical health. “ The self -exploitation that Han complaint either The ideological frames that Jonathan Crary examines They would be the mechanisms that promote a “society of exhausted, depressed and isolated individuals,” a world where “emblematic diseases of our century are no longer viral infections, but neural disorders such as depression, burnout syndrome or attention deficit disorder.” Are we more stressed than ever? With all this on the table it is difficult not to repeat that “We are more stressed than ever“. And yet, something does not fit. Little after we fell, we realize that the history of fatigue is somewhat more complicated. “Many ages tend to present … Read more

The AI ​​industry is only sustainable violating Copyright laws. So you are trying to eradicate them

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Last Saturday Jack DORSEY, Twitter co -founder (now X) and Square (now Block), published a message in x With a overwhelming phrase: “Eliminate all intellectual property laws.” Elon Musk would answer shortly after adding to the idea with a “I agree.” The message has unleashed a debate on intellectual property laws, and does so at a particularly unique time. AFFORE Copyright. Jack DORSEY’s proposal is just the last of the movements in that same direction. Some companies and technology personalities in the United States are asking that the country discarding laws related to intellectual property, something that would be fantastic for those who have trained AI models with works protected by intellectual property. Demands everywhere. Comments arrive in fact just at a time when AI companies They do not stop being sued for copyright rape. The origin of these legal cases is always the same: these companies have been accused of training their models with works and contents Protected by copyright. “Fair use”. Goal, which downloaded More than 80 TB of bookssome of them protected by the laws of Copyright and intellectual property, recently participated in a trial for an older demand For this same subject. Your lawyers They assured that the company did not violate the laws of Copyright, and that they had made A “fair use” Of those books to be able to develop their AI model, call. OpenAi already asked for a white letter. The company led by Sam Altman is one of the most affected by these demands. In a proposal published just a month ago Openai requested that the laws of Copyright in the US be eradicated with the objective of “preserving the ability of American models to learn from materials with copyright.” For Altman, the training of AI models should be free of possible demands for copyright rape, and the same now express Dorsy and Musk. And Google also bothers the copyright. Google has also been accused of using content protected by copyright to train its AI models. In A statement last March the company requested “balanced copyright rules” and explicitly appointed “fair use and text mining and data” as exceptions for these laws. Justice is barely pronounced. The truth is that demands on copyright violation by AI models They started arriving Shortly after the launch of Chatgpt, but at the moment there have been few judicial sentences. Those that have, by the way, have been small victories for IA companies. And they continue, and continue. And the situation does not help control this legal collapse in which the world of AI is located. There have been no punishments or consequences for companies, which at most have been protected by reaching agreements with some editorial groups either Content platforms. However, the implications of these violations are clear for artists in all kinds of disciplines and content creators, who see how their works are used without consent –and without compensation– For something they can’t control while the world seems to turn a blind eye. In Xataka | 5,000 “tokens” of my blog are being used to train an AI. I have not given my permission

The commercial war has trembling the technology industry. Samsung plays in another league

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The recent one wave of tariffs imposed by the United States has unleashed a storm in the technological market. Apple, Google or Motorola have been indicated Directly because of its strong dependence on Trump, the main objective of Trump in this tariff war. But there is an actor who has barely appeared in the eye of the hurricane: Samsung. The silence around it is no accident, but a consequence of a competitive advantage forged for years. What has happened. Samsung left smartphones production in China in 2020. Since then, he diversified his supply chain in India, South Korea, Vietnam, Brazil and other countries. According to the consultant Counterpoint ResearchChina represents 80% of iPhone’s production, while for Samsung, it barely contributes mid -range with ODM designs premises. It is a very large contrast that has consequences. Why is it important. The commercial war is redrawing the hardware map. Whoever has the factory in the wrong country can see the price of their products triggered. In detail. Vietnam, a key country for Samsung (more than 60% of its mobiles are manufactured there), has received a 46% tariff waiting to see what happens after the extension. Even so, the Korean brand has maneuver margin. Its two factories in India – an unused capacity – can absorb part of the blow. On the other hand, South Korea could assume the production of high -end models if the situation requires it. Apple, on the other hand, does not have that agility: its diversification is still incipient. Between bambalins. Samsung He has been investing in Vietnam for more than a decade: 100,000 employees, 25% of the country’s total exporter and 220 million dollars only in R&D in 2024. This strategic alliance has become a double -edged sword. Now that Vietnam is in the tariff target, both parties negotiate against the United States to stop possible damage. But Samsung already had his plan B activated: transfer part of the production to India and Korea. In Xataka | Spain looked at Chinese cars as a salvation table. In the commercial war, the risk of dying drowning runs Outstanding image | Xataka

He has cast a giant in his beer industry

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The origins of what is today Asashi Group They date back to Japan at the end of the nineteenth century, but much of their future passes through the West and more specifically through Europe. And it has enough logic. The brewing group is no stranger to the serious demographic crisis that its country is going through, which translates into a local local market and the need to look beyond bars and Izayaka Japanese. Now, after years of bet and expansion, the brewer invoice thousands of millions of dollars in the old continent, its largest market after Japan, with More than 25% of its sales. In her own way, the Japanese birth crisis has led Asashi to become an outstanding figure in the beer sector European, in which it is not easy to open hollow. A silent advance. The news gave it A few days ago Fortune Taking the balances of the Japanese company itself: silently and without generating noise, Asashi has become one of the big names of the European beer industry. And that has merit. First because the origins of what today is the holding Asashi Group They are quite far, in Japan. Second, because although he had already harvested success in his country it is not easy to open a hole in the European market. What do the figures say? The accounts Asashi Group shows that in 2024 it registered total income in Europe of 5.4 billion of dollars, almost 27% of the total. These figures place the continent as their second billing market, only behind the Japanese already distance from Oceania or Southeast Asia. The volume of income in Europe also grew by 13% while in Japan it barely varied. The forecasts for 2025 It shows that, although a decrease can be registered, the weight of the European market will continue to be key in its accounting. Expanding borders. Those figures are not the result of chance. And it is not explained only by the expansion of its Premium Asashi Super Dry beer, increasingly present in the pubs of Europe. Over the last years the holding company has been expanding with new acquisitions until consolidating in the continent. The Japanese company incorporates other recognized brands For European clients: Peroni Nastro Azzuro, Kozel, Pilsner Urqell and Grolsch. In its catalog also includes Great Northern, Victoria Bitter, Carltron Draught, Tyskie, Ursus, Radegast, Fuller’s London Pride and Asashi Nama, in addition to without alcohol, soft drinks and other drinks, such as the Nikka whiskeyfounded 90 years ago. Pulling a carrier. It arrives with a quick search in the newspaper library to follow the track of that commercial expansion. In 2016 it reached A first agreement With the Belgian origin AB Inbev origin to get three of its best -known brands, Peroni, Grolsch and Meantine, for 2,550 million euros. Some time later, in 2019, Fuller, Smith & Turner accepted another millionaire offer, of almost 300 million of euros, which allowed the Japanese group to be among others with its flagship brand, London Pride. To those operations others are added Centered in Australia, New Zealand or China. In March and despite the tariff war, The Wall Street Journal revealed that the group wants to consolidate its presence in the US with Asashi Super Dry. For that purpose acquired A plant in Wisconsin. They are business … and demography. Some time ago Atsushi Katsuki, general director of Asashi, acknowledged Fortune That the bet of the Japanese company for the Complex Market of Europe was not accidental. And partly it is explained by the population crisis that drags For decades Japan. With birth in historical minimumsdeaths in record values ​​and a population increasingly agedmathematics does not make it easy for companies like Asashi. Yes in the 90s almost 70% Of its population was between 15 and 64 years old, in 2023 that percentage did not reach 59%. For a company like Asashi the implications of that evolution are evident. “If we observe the Japanese beer market, since 1995 it has contracted at a 1-2% annual rate. And we believe that it is likely to continue,” Katsuki comments. Europe also faces His own challengesbut with that backdrop his alcohol market It has aroused interest. Opportunities … and challenges. Of course, the market presents its own challenges. Asashi herself Point out that its goal is to continue betting on premium drinks and alcohol beer, a business segment on the rise and to which the Japanese firm wants to give greater weight in its results account. Its objective is that in 2030 the without alcohol or low graduation suppose 20% of their global sales, several points above the current data or from which they handle in Japan. Another challenge for Asashi is to compete with great weight and rooted rivals in Europe, such as AB Inbev or Danish Carlsberg, which move Milmillionaire Business Figures. That without counting the challenges that the holding of Japanese roots has been found throughout its international expansion, such as the effect of the Ukraine War on the supply of grain, inflation or Commercial War. Images | Norimutsu Nogami (Flickr) In Xataka | Japan is suffering a bankruptcy record from Ramen. And in part it is the result of the “1,000 yen barrier”

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