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Unitree is doing with robots what DJI did with drones: becoming inevitable

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Not long ago we marveled at what quadruped robots were capable of doing. Today, humanoid robots monopolize all the spotlights and the stunts they are capable of performing left on the floor what seemed impressive to us at the time. Although There are several companies in the humanoid robot race, There is one that is leading this transformation and is one step away from gaining global dominance: Unitree Robotics. Its strategy closely follows what other giants such as DJI or BYD did previously. 10,000 units. It is the key figure to understand Unitree’s advantage in the emerging market for humanoid robots. Tesla and Figure have surprised us by showing what their robots are capable of, but neither has achieved something key: putting them on sale en masse. According to Semianalysisin the coming weeks Unitree will have distributed 10,000 units of its robots. Unstoppable growth. The Unitree empire began with quadruped robots and it was not until 2023 when they introduced their first humanoid, the Unitree H1. The financial growth of recent years perfectly reflects this explosion: in 2022 they invoiced 122 million yuan (about 15.5 million euros) and in 2025 they invoiced 1,167 million yuan in the first nine months alone, almost 150 million euros. The combination of high-performance solutions at competitive prices has made Unitree the first company to begin to democratize a technology that until recently was the realm of science fiction. The path that DJI started. What Unitree is doing with robotics is the same thing that DJI did with drones. In 2013, DJI Phantom launcheda very cheap and incomplete product, but at that time the alternatives were toy drones or professional drones with a much higher cost, DJI was creating the market for consumer drones. With each new generation they added functions and opened more submarkets, from research, photo and video professionals and of course amateurs. Vertical integration. It is the key strategy of DJI and other Chinese giants such as BYD. It is about controlling the supply chain as much as possible, manufacturing critical components in a way that allows them to technically iterate much faster and, in the long run, drastically reduce costs. In addition, DJI took advantage of the huge Chinese electronics ecosystem, in which prices dropped a lot in a short time. They say in Semianalysis that GPS went from costing 800 dollars in 2003 to less than 14 dollars in 2013flight controllers cost $2,000 in 2006 and only $400 in 2011. DJI started by manufacturing the largest and most complex component, the flight controller, and BYD made the same with batteries. This is how they ate up the market, controlling critical components and creating a cost structure unattainable by any competitor. Unitree’s strategy. The company, which by the way was founded by a former DJI employeeis following DJI’s lead in that they manufacture the critical component (the actuator, which is what is responsible for moving the robot’s limbs) and have opened new markets for robotics. First they perfected and they made quadrupeds cheaperand then they made the leap to humanoids. Its first model, the Unitree H1, cost about $90,000, but today the Unitree G1 can be had for only $13,500. They have encountered many problems along the way, such as overheating when the robot held weight for a few minutes, but controlling many of the key parts has allowed them to quickly iterate and solve it. In other words, it may not be the best robot, it is its ability to improve it that is unrivaled. The Pentagon blockade. Just yesterday we said that The US has added more Chinese companies to its blacklistamong which is Unitree. The reason they have given is that they consider it to be directly linked to the Chinese army. Being on this list means that, from now on, the Pentagon is prohibited from contracting directly with these companies and starting next year they will not be able to do so through third parties either. All of the companies on the list compete directly with other American companies, so there seems to be an intention to slow their progress. Maybe they’ll be late. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | Humanoid robotics are striking, but China is clear about which robots make money

Anthropic’s AI already writes 80% of its own code because it was inevitable that AIs would improve themselves

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“As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we integrate into the Anthropic codebase was created by Claude.” Those who reveal this information are two Anthropic researchers who have published one of the most revealing texts about the present and future of the company’s AI models. One that tells us about a fascinating and disturbing concept in equal parts called recursive self-improvement. Code multiplier. The impact of these agentic programming tools on the work of Anthropic engineers is being spectacular. According to internal Anthropic data from May 2026, this autonomous code generation has caused an Anthropic engineer to produce eight times more lines of code per quarter today than during the 2021-2025 period. Anthropic’s human programmers they no longer program– Direct and review AI-generated code. A frenetic evolution. The changes we have experienced have been fascinating, they explain in Anthropic. Between 2021 and 2023, engineers wrote all code by hand on their computers. In 2024 they started using chatbots to generate small snippets of code that they then copied and pasted. In 2025, agents capable of work autonomously on entire files. Longer time in a row. According to the METR benchmark which measures the ability of AI to complete complex tasks, in 2022 GPT-3.5 could barely last about 35 seconds operating autonomously without making serious errors. By mid-2026 Claude Opus 4.6 is already capable of working 16 hours in a row on complex tasks. At Anthropic they point out that the length of tasks that an AI model could undertake doubled every seven months, but now it doubles every four. If this trend continues, “tasks that take a person days could be automated with AI. By 2027, AI systems could be able to work on tasks that take a person weeks.” Superhuman performance. Industry benchmarks are being “saturated” by new AI models, which already reach almost 100% of the possible score in many of them. For example SWE-bench, which measured the models’ ability to program, was almost is surpassed for the most recent models. In 2025 Claude pus managed to optimize the code they gave him by making it ran 3x faster. In April 2026 Claude Mythos Preview already achieved a 52x speedup of that code. AI that improved itself. This concept of recursive self-improvement presents a scenario in which an AI model generates data, corrects its own failures, and trains itself continuously. This opens the door to exponential growth in its capabilities, but at the same time reopens a debate on the risks that this type of evolution generates. Source: Anthropic infinite loop. Traditionally, human engineers analyzed the responses of a model, cleaned the data, and adjusted parameters to create the next version of that model. With recursive self-improvement AI takes on that role and evaluates its own performance, generating more complex problems to test itself and generating synthetic data for your next generation. Danger. This autonomy implies a potential risk: that humans lose control of where the AI ​​goes. That we do not know or can assure if it is aligned with our ethics and ideals. The biaseshowever small, can be amplified with this type of iterative process, but the model itself may have mutated its original ethical reasoning mechanisms and security protocols to become something totally unpredictable. The Terminator scenario. Isolation and arbitration. To avoid these risks, at Anthropic they implement this evolution in isolated environments to then verify that everything works as it should. In addition, the company uses independent evaluation models that act as independent arbiters that audit these models. that evolve by themselves. They do this by checking each change in the code to prevent its impact from being harmful to the system or to those who use it. The new bottleneck is the human being. The Amdahl’s law is a formula that is used to find the maximum performance improvement of an information system when only a part of that system is improved. At Anthropic they point out how as AI continues to write more and more code, the real bottleneck is the human being who has to review that code. In Xataka | Anthropic is one step away from being worth as much as Samsung. And what the market is buying is not Claude

With the RAM market impossible, the inevitable happened: counterfeit DDR5 tablets

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Make a reference to ‘The Simpsons‘At this point it’s complicated because the new generations may not get it, but there is an episode in which Springfield declares the dry law and, when they knock it down, the mayor asks the mafia how long it will take for alcohol to flood the city. The answer: five minutes. And that is exactly what is happening now with the RAM memory: where the market does not reach, counterfeiters enter Because after the DDR5 memories that are really DDR2 come the DDR5 memories with plastic chips. In short. The truth is that I did not imagine that we would reach a point where there would be well-crafted scams with all the intention of deceiving buyers of a RAM memory stick, but the truth is that we have been there for a few months. It was at the end of 2025, at a time when the RAM crisis was beginning to tighten (but it was far from the current moment) when it was reported that an Amazon Spain buyer received a kit of supposed DDR5 memory from Ireland that was nothing more than a DDR and DDR2 chip with a sticker on top. It was quite tacky, but you realized it instantly and you could always claim a refund because Amazon covers it in these cases. The problem is that there are scams that may be a little more ‘worked’ and that involve unsoldering the chips from a RAM tablet and replacing them with plastic parts. This is what, as we see in Digital Trendshas just happened to some users in Japan, who report the sale of memory tablets that do not correspond to previous generations, but are carefully designed to appear to be legitimate RAM when, as we say, it is a PCB with imitation chips. Or directly the entire pill being fake. An example of an auction stick ram. He original message It has moved a lot on Twitter and describes a full-fledged scam. Through stores like Yahoo Japan, users sell used RAM sticks as “junk” or “untested” in batches and at affordable prices. This is a practice that is also done with processors that we can find in stores like Wallapop and it may work… or it may not. That is why there are those who risk buying. In this case, a frog came out. The SO-DIMM modules (for laptops) had stickers that looked legitimate from Samsung or SK Hynix, but were nothing more than labels cloned from real memories used to cover the supposed chips. Instead of being DRAM memory as such, these are modules made of fiberglass that obviously do not work. In some cases, there are real circuits, but they correspond to lower-grade recycled chips. The important thing is that, be it one case or another, it is obviously not what you are paying for, but they are made well enough so that a person without knowledge cannot identify why the new memory module they have paid for does not work. Even a quick inspection can fool someone who has changed a few of these pads. It is no longer that they clone real stickers with their serial number and so on, but rather the dedication to produce those fiberglass “chips” screen printed like a legitimate one. One supposedly made by SK Hynix Another from Samsung (with SK Hynix chips, curiously…) One of the chips made with fiberglass Meteoric. Unlike the December 2025 fake RAM case, these pills are being sold in auctions on Yahoo Japan and there are already users with the fly behind their ear, which causes them not to bid and the modules to no longer be sold. But in the end it is the consequence of a market that is really impossible and in which scammers enter with promises of components at better prices than those we can find on the market first-hand. Because building a PC today is extremely expensive due not only to RAM that has been able to increase up to 400% in some cases, but for some SSDs that have also explodedgraphics cards that are beginning to be scarce and segments such as processors and the motherboards that are moving to the hoarder we’ve been talking about for months: AI hyperscalers. As I say, with prices through the roof, scams appear. with head. And (again, I didn’t think I had to give recommendations to avoid falling into a scam when buying a RAM pill), the important thing here is to have common sense. It really is like any other scam attempt: if the thing is too good to be true, we have to tune our antennas to see if they want to sneak it in. The first thing is to buy in stores and platforms that provide certain guarantees to the customer, but also look closely at the photos, compare serial numbers and ask for more photos from the seller if we are not 100% sure. And if the price is very good and we are not convinced by the explanation that the person may not know the market situation, ask as much as possible and do not trust the first thing they tell us. The RAM with a sticker that appeared in December last year. Image from VideoCardz. In the end, it is curious, but buying second-hand memory pills can become something that validates criminology, just like buy retro games on cartridge through Wallapop. Images | Taki, ri In Xataka | Nothing will be the same again: the price increase of the Nintendo Switch 2 in less than a year draws a new horizon

The “shitification” of the internet is everywhere and seems inexorable and inevitable. Norway does not agree

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When we say that any time in the past was better, perhaps we are erring on the side of idealizing the past, but when it comes to the Internet the phrase becomes more relevant. We have normalized online experiences to degrade with fewer features, more ads, new subscriptions… The only thing missing was the AI ​​garbage to finish finishing it off. It seems like nothing can stop the shittification of the internet. Nothing less Norway. A day in the life of a “shitter”. This is how it is titled the video that the Norwegian Consumer Council has published to report a situation. It shows a man who makes holes in his socks, saws the leg of the table so that it is limp, dries some markers with a hairdryer… He defines himself as a shitter: “What I do is take things that are perfectly fine and make them worse,” he says. The video is very funny and is part of a campaign against a not so funny problem: the degradation of digital services. The organization has developed a complete report in which they describe the problem and propose a plan to address it. Shitification. It is a term coined by writer Cory Doctorow and declared word of the year by Macquarie Dictionary in 2024. The definition is as follows: The progressive deterioration of a service or product caused by a decrease in the quality of the service provided, especially in the case of an online platform, and as a consequence of the search for profits We are not talking about natural degradation, but something deliberate that responds to an economic objective. A clear case has been that of Netflix, which not only chased shared accountsbut eliminated functions such as the possibility of casting from the mobile phone to the television. Not to mention the ads on payment planssomething that has spread to practically all streaming services. Theard everywhere at once. But this phenomenon reaches all types of services, not just streaming. We see it in the form of more ads on apps like Instagram (many of them of scamsby the way), It happened to me with the security camera app I had at home and there are even those who bought a connected refrigerator for thousands of euros so that they could start ads appear on the screen. Of course, companies offer you a solution to remove annoying ads: ✨pay a subscription✨. The phases of shitification. It is not something that happens overnight, but first they attract you with an attractive service, that works well and offers advantages. Once they have a solid user base – when they have caught us – the party begins. A good example was Uber, which in its beginnings offered very low prices to present itself as a more attractive alternative to taxis and now it’s more expensive. Generative AI makes it worse. According to the Norwegian report, far from solving the problem, AI is making it even worse. He junk content made with AI It is the most visible face, but they cite many more examples, such as Google AI Summarieswhich are often inaccurate and weaken the information ecosystem. There are also the AI-based advertising algorithms that make more ads reach us, platforms that are forcefully integrating AI everywhere, sometimes taking advantage of it to raise prices. Norway’s proposal. The use of this type of practices is widespread and its advance seems unstoppable, but Norway proposes three lines of action to reverse it: Give power back to users: that we can decide which operating system to install on our devices, that interoperability is mandatory, protect “de-shit” tools such as ad blockers and alternative recommendation algorithms. Stop depending on big technology: force them to “open the doors” and use open standards, finance and promote free software, using public administration as a lever. Apply the law: Norway proposes raising sanctions even further and tightening controls. The European Digital Markets Act has already taken steps in this direction, such as USB-C on iPhone or the sideloading on iOS. However, managing to end this degradation completely seems like a titanic task. Norway has sent letters to fourteen countries, including the United States, asking them to take action. Image | YouTube In Xataka | Thanks to AI we can now stop reading and writing as much as we used to. According to science, it is the worst for Alzheimer’s

For the first time, electrified cars are outselling gasoline cars. It is the beginning of the inevitable

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We already have the data on car registrations in 2025. And the inevitable has become reality: the electrified car has prevailed. Driven by countries like Germany or the United Kingdom, the alternatives to the combustion car make it clear that the future of the industry depends, yes or yes, on a plug. A discreet recovery. EU registration data for 2025 shows a clear trend: a significant increase in the registration of both electric and hybrid vehicles. Overall registrations rise by a discreet 1.8% but the change is not in the total volume, it is in the type of car that is sold. The data. The pure combustion vehicle is beginning to reduce its share in the European market. HEV (hybrids and microhybrids): 34.5% Gasoline: 26.6% BEV (pure electric): 17.4% PHEV (plug-in hybrids): 17.4% Diesel: 8.9% Others: 3.3% He electric car It already occupies third place in the ranking, doubling sales of diesel cars but below hybrids. Adding figures, the year-on-year variation (YOY) in December 2025 was an increase of 51% for pure electric cars and 36.7% for plug-in hybrids. The key countries. Figures from January to December 2025 show a substantial increase in electric car registrations in countries such as Germany (+43.2%), the Netherlands (+12.6%) and France (+12.5%). The data in countries like Spain is striking, which lead the growth in hybrids (+23.1%) and plug-in hybrids (+111.7%) in the latter case. The decline of combustion. At the end of 2025, gasoline car registrations fell by around 20%, and 24.2% in the case of diesel car registrations. If these figures are sustained in the short term, it will not take long for purely electric vehicles to surpass gasoline vehicles at the European level, placing them in second place in the ranking below HEVs. A bit of a trick. The photograph is clear: the electrified vehicle is growing at a rapid pace, but in cases like Spain there is some fine print. We are the country that has grown the most in adoption of HEVs (hybrid vehicles), but this category also includes MHEV. These are vehicles that combine a combustion engine with a small electrical system (generally 48V) and a low-capacity battery. They never circulate in 100% electric mode, but the small electrical system helps reduce emissions and consumption. Yes, but. It is also worth remembering that the total number of registrations does not only tell us about the preferences of individual users: the data reflects the registrations intended for companies and renters. Specifically, passenger car registrations in 2025 were quite distributed, with 50,213 in the case of channels for individuals and 43,362 for companies. The Transportation electrification is moving companies to buy electrified vehicles in volume, to comply with future European restrictionswho have recently lowered their forecast of reducing carbon emissions by 100% to now talk about 90%. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The Prosecutor’s Office believes that Moeve has saved 7.7 million euros in taxes. And the punishment is clear: dissolution of the company

The death of the Custom Roms was inevitable

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There was a time when customizing an Android mobile was popular, very popular. I remember the fervor of the Custom Roms, the movement that was in Spanish forums such as Htcmania In Roms sections, and how Xda Developers It was a bible for the pot. Increasingly polished systems, obstacles by manufacturers so that users do not personalize the phone, and Middlek boom and its consequent incompatibilities with drivers have ended up making this paradise a whole moor. The golden age of the pot. Talk about Custom Roms boom It is to go back 10 years ago, between 2010 and 2015. During this period, the community of developers and users willing to put hand to their device. We always talk about small numbers, at that time Cyanogenmod (the best known rom) exceeded one million users. Spectacular number for such a niche product, but minimal compared to the thousands of users that Android has. The big names. There are several names that will put the hair from Punta to more than one regular at the Custom Roms. AOKP (Android Open Kang Project), Resurrection Remix, Paranoid Android, Carbonrom, Dirty Unicorns … All of them had in common that they were based on “pure Android”, the Android AOSP code with its native visual lines. Each of them added different degrees of customization, some to brutal extremes. Years later, with the launch of the Google Pixel, the Rom Pixel Experience was popular, I still have installed in me Little f3. This ROM carried the pixel system to phones with other systems, adding additional customization that even Google allowed. Deaths begin. Little by little, most of these projects have died. AOKP died in 2018Resurrection Remix carries Without climbing anything to Sourgeforge from 2020, Dirty Unicorns turned off his servers in 2021last year We said goodbye to Pixel Experience. Of the few survive are lineage (former Cyanogenmod), with quite updated ROMs and giving a second life to those phones that no longer have official support by the manufacturer. And it makes sense. Changing ROM has, mainly, two advantages. The first is to enjoy the latest version of Android before the official manufacturer gives us, if it does. But, for a few years, this is no longer of interest. Android’s versions come with more and more discreet changes, and move from Android 13, to 14 or 15 does not involve draft changes. More advantages. The second advantage is customization, something that manufacturers have been working for a while. There are terrible roms (we are not going to give names, it is known), but there are also manufacturers making very good quality software and with a magnificent support. Third, the bookstores and APIs of the manufacturers have more and more weight: the cameras pay as pay thanks to the behavior of the NPU, native integration of AI … Elements of closed code to which we dispense if we work on a generic kernel. A perfect cocktail for a terrible outcome: the death of the Custom Roms. In Xataka | I’ve been trying mobile for 10 years and this is the only customization layer that has managed to convince me

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