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Xbox Project Helix, information

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Several years have passed since Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S They landed in living rooms around the world, and Microsoft is beginning to show the cards for what comes next. Project Helix is the code name for the next generation of Xbox, a console that, judging by how little (and how much) is already known about it, is not going to be too similar to what the company has offered us so far. Under these lines we bring together everything we know about the next generation of Xbox to date. What is Project Helix? Project Helix is the official codename for the next-generation Xbox console. Microsoft confirmed it publicly in March 2026, when Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Xboxwho came to office after the Phil Spencer’s retirement At the end of February, he announced it through his X account. According to counted Sharma at the time, the console “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games.” As is common in the industry, this is not a definitive brand name. As happened with Project Scarlett and Lockhart, which eventually became Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S respectively, Project Helix will receive another name when Xbox confirms it. Until then, this is how we will refer to the device. What has been clear from the beginning is that Microsoft has ambitions that go well beyond a simple generational update. According to Jason Ronaldvice president of Xbox’s next-generation division, the team has been working hard on the hardware for some time and at GDC 2026 in March confirmed that they are “in full development” of the console. What type of console is it? This is perhaps the most striking feature of Project Helix, and the one that has generated the most stir in the industry. Unlike its predecessors, the console will not only run Xbox games, but It will also be able to run PC titles. And supposedly not only from the Microsoft store, but also from other digital platforms such as Steam or GOG natively. Microsoft has been moving towards the idea that “everything is an Xbox” for some time, erasing the boundaries between console and PC. Project Helix would be the most ambitious materialization of that philosophy. Ronald himself counted already at GDC that “the days when people defined themselves as console, PC or mobile gamers really don’t exist anymore.” Xbox Series X For developers, Microsoft is preparing a unified development kit (GDK) that will allow them to release a single version of a game and reach both console and PC users, something that would considerably reduce the effort of studios to adapt their games to multiple platforms. According to Wccftechthe user interface will be built around an evolved version of the Xbox Full Screen Experience, similar to what already exists on laptops ASUS ROG Xbox Ally. In addition, in April 2026, the so-called “Xbox Mode” began to be deployed in Windows 11, a full-screen, controller-optimized experience that acts as a preview of the Project Helix environment. It is only available on Windows 11 and serves both to mature the ecosystem and to familiarize PC players with what is to come. What are its technical specifications? Microsoft and AMD have been deliberately brief with specific numbers, preferring to talk about design philosophy rather than TFLOPS. But what has been officially confirmed, combined with what internal sources have revealed, already offers a fairly clear profile of the hardware. What is officially confirmed: AMD Custom SoC: Project Helix will be built on a custom chip designed jointly by Microsoft and AMD. AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh confirmed which uses the RDNA 5 GPU architecture and is manufactured in TSMC’s 3 nanometer process, which represents a huge leap in efficiency compared to the 7 nm of the Xbox Series X. New generation of DirectX and FSR Diamond: The console is co-designed for the next generation of DirectX. AMD has also confirmed that Project Helix will incorporate FSR Diamond, its new scaling and frame generation platform, which integrates a dedicated NPU for multi-frame generation, neural texture compression and neural rendering. dedicated NPU: The console includes a Neural Processing Unit integrated directly into the SoC, independent of the GPU and CPU, to handle all artificial intelligence-driven rendering tasks. Next level ray tracing:Microsoft has described Project Helix’s ray tracing performance as “an order of magnitude jump” over the current generation. This is supported in part by the new RDNA 5 architectures, which include so-called “Radiance Cores”, a specific hardware block for ray tracing, and “Neural Arrays”, a new approach to grouping GPU computing units as a unified artificial intelligence engine. What the leaks point out: Known leakers such as Moore’s Law Is Dead and KeplerL2 have stated on several occasions that the chip is internally called “Magnus” and would have: CPU: Hybrid design with up to 11 cores, with up to 3 high-performance Zen 6 cores and up to 8 efficiency Zen 6c cores. The frequencies of the performance cores are estimated to be in the range of 5.5-6 GHz. This would represent a huge generational leap over the Xbox Series X’s Zen 2 cores. GPU: 68 RDNA 5 compute units. Although only a 30% increase in units over the 52 Series Memory: GDDR7, according to industry analysts. According to Wccftech, if these leaks are correct, Project Helix could offer between 5 and 6 times the rasterization performance of Xbox Seriesand up to 20 times in ray tracing. However, we have no choice but to wait for official information to corroborate these data. When is Project Helix coming? There is no official date. What Microsoft has confirmed in the latest GDC is that the development units in the alpha phase will begin to arrive at the studios from 2027. From there, the calendar is speculative. The launch window that industry sources most point to is end of 2027although some analysts do not rule out 2028 either. In part, this will depend on when exactly the development kits arrive … Read more

Steam Machine, information, technical sheet

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After years of rumors and a first failed attempt back in 2015, Valve is back at it with the Steam Machineits cube-shaped desktop console (or PC, depending on how you look at it) designed to bring the entire Steam library to your living room. The company presented it in November 2025 along with the new Steam Controller now the virtual reality glasses Steam Frameforming its own hardware ecosystem that revolves around Steam OS. Regarding its launch, however, things are still not going as well as Valve would have wanted. The global RAM memory crisis and components has disrupted its plans, delaying both the price and the final date. Despite this, the machinery is already in motion, because at least we already have the Steam Controller on sale and, according to Valve’s latest update, the console aims for release this summer. Below these lines we tell you everything that is known to date about the Steam Machine. What exactly is the Steam Machine? The Steam Machine is not a normal console, but a compact cube-shaped PC that runs SteamOS, Valve’s operating system based on Linux. The idea is that it works like a console (you plug it into the TV, take the controller and play), but with the flexibility of a computer underneath. It is, in essence, the tabletop older sister of the Steam Deck. In fact, Pierre-Loup Griffais, SteamOS developer, compared the experience with that of playing a Steam Deck connected to the dock, only with much more graphical muscle. Valve estimates that the Steam Machine offers about six times the power of the Steam Deck. Unlike the 2015 attempt (which depended on external manufacturers and never caught on), this time Valve has developed everything in-house: hardware, software and accessories. When is the Steam Machine released? This has been the great unknown for months. When it was announced in November 2025, Valve was talking about an “early 2026” release window for all three devices. However, the component crisis forced the company to be more cautious, starting to talk first about the “first half of 2026.” However, Valve has calmed the waters and in an official publication in Steam they assured that both the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame They will arrive this summer of 2026. It did so by expanding its Verified program to include both devices, where the company itself stated that both devices will go on sale during the summer. The Steam Controller was ahead of the rest and hit the market on May 4, 2026 for 99 euros. Valve decided to release its controller first, in part, to not force PC users to wait for the console and, according to explained Steve Cardinali, the company’s hardware engineer, because the controller does not depend on the RAM memory, which is strangling the production of the rest of the catalog. How much will the Steam Machine cost? Valve has not yet announced an official price, and The reason is directly linked to the memory and storage crisis. The company has acknowledged that the escalation in component prices has precisely delayed the confirmation of the cost. What Valve has dropped is its pricing philosophy. And the idea is to be in the range that it would cost to assemble a PC in parts with equivalent performance. In the initial presentation it was estimated that, due to the components it includes, the console could cost around $700. The problem is that, since then, DRAM prices have soared more than 170% year-on-yearas the VGC medium recalled, which makes it difficult to maintain any previous figure. Added to this is the information from journalist Mike Straw, from Insider Gaming, who point because Valve has been debating internally about the price and whether it would be willing to sell the device at a loss, at least in the short term. There will be two models depending on storage (512 GB and 2 TB), so a price range is foreseeable. Likewise, any number should be taken with caution until the official announcement. What specifications does the Steam Machine have? Image: IGN Inside, the Steam Machine features custom-designed AMD hardware. These are the specifications that Valve has confirmed: CPU: Semi-customized AMD Zen 4 with 6 cores and 12 threads, with a frequency of up to 4.8 GHz and a TDP of just 30 watts. GPU: Semi-custom AMD RDNA 3 with 28 compute units (CUs) and sustained clock speed up to 2.45 GHz, accompanied by 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. RAM memory: 16 GB of DDR5 (independent of VRAM, unlike the unified memory of the Steam Deck). Storage: NVMe SSD in 512 GB or 2 TB versions, expandable via microSD slot. The SSD goes in an M.2 slot accessible in the base. Performance goal: 4K at 60 FPS relying on AMD’s FSR scaling, with support for ray tracing. Refrigeration: a single 120 mm fan. Feeding: source integrated into the chassis, without external thief. Regarding its positioning, it is advisable to moderate expectations. Valve counted that The console will have the price of an entry-level gaming PCavoiding selling it as a graphic beast. Its advantage over the current generation of consoles is in the architecture, since Zen 4 and RDNA 3 They are much more modern than the Zen 2 and RDNA 2 that they mount PS5 and Xbox Series. The route designed for 4K, of course, involves generating the image at an internal resolution close to 1440p and scaling it using FSRmore than by moving that resolution natively. What design and size does it have? Image: Tom’s Hardware The Steam Machine is a compact black cube that measures approximately 156 x 152 x 162 mm and weighs about 2.6 kg, designed to go unnoticed under the television. In The front incorporates a customizable removable plate and a configurable LED stripin addition to the USB-A ports and the microSD slot. Video, network and power connectivity is concentrated behind it, next to the fan grill. According to they count from GamersNexus, that faceplate is magnetic plastic and … Read more

It is called Anthropic and it is going to pay you 200,000 million, according to The Information

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Anthropic has agreed to pay Google about $200 billion over five years for more computing power, according to has published The Information. The figure would thus place the AI ​​startup as Google Cloud’s largest individual client, representing more than 40% of the backlog of earnings that Alphabet communicated to its investors last week. From commitment to commitment. A revenue backlog reflects contractual commitments already signed by a cloud provider’s customers. That Anthropic occupies more than 40% of Google Cloud says a lot about the extent to which the startup has become a structural piece of Alphabet’s business. There is also another nuance to highlight: that large AI companies like Anthropic or OpenAI still need the hyperscalers to continue growing, so in this sense, both Microsoft and Google can afford not to have the best AI models as long as they receive such an amount of income from offering such computing capacity. What the agreement consists of. According to they count In The Information, the pact, signed in April, includes massive capacity of TPUs (Google’s own AI chips), supplied in collaboration with Broadcom. However, this infrastructure will not be ready after 2027. Anthropic, for its part, not only works with Google hardware, since also uses Trainium chips from Amazon and Nvidia GPUs, playing its cards well to diversify suppliers and not depend on a single company that supplies computing capacity. The now classic circular financing. Alphabet has been investing in Anthropic for years: first it was $300 million in 2023, then another 2 billionafter 1 billion more in 2025. A few days ago we also discovered an investment of up to 40,000 million additional payments by Google, of which 10 billion would be disbursed immediately and the rest would be conditional on objectives met. In exchange, Google Cloud will provide an additional 5 gigawatts of computing capacity. This way, Google invests in Anthropic and Anthropic spends that money in Google. Is called circular financingand it is the key to how the foundations of AI are made of promises. According to account In the middle, the contracts signed between large cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) and startups like Anthropic and OpenAI already add up to more than two billion dollars in committed backlogs. Hyperscalers invest in AI startups and AI startups spend that money on the infrastructure of those same hyperscalers. Anthropic can’t afford it… and yet they do it. Estimates suggest that Anthropic’s server costs could reach 20 billion dollars only in 2026. The company is not yet profitable, but demand for its model family Claude continues to grow strongly in the business segment, which forces it to secure long-term computing capacity before infrastructure shortages prevent it from doing so. The agreement with Google adds to another recent one with CoreWeave and the forecast of securing almost a gigawatt of additional capacity through Amazon chips before the end of the year. Almost symbiotic relationship. Alphabet is at a time of maximum competitive pressure in AI. Your cloud business grew by 36% last year, and Anthropic is one of its most intensive clients. Losing that relationship, or seeing it migrate to other providers like AWS, would be a significant blow. Furthermore, with an Anthropic valuation that Bloomberg situates around 800,000 million dollars, and with a possible IPO Before the year is out, Google’s accumulated stake in the company could become one of its most valuable financial assets. It is not just infrastructure: it is also a capital bet. Cover image | Wikimedia and Fortune Brainstorm Tech In Xataka | If at some point NVIDIA has to choose between giving its best chips to the US or China, its choice is very clear.

One piece of information perfectly summarizes the book bubble in Spain: 95% of those published do not recover costs

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The Spanish publishing sector closed 2025 with historic figures: 76 million printed books sold and a turnover that was close to 1,250 million euros. A record. The cold water came a few weeks later, at the annual booksellers’ conference, where it was certified that almost half of the titles available on the shelves had sold absolutely nothing. Who says so. The data was presented by CEGAL, the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers, in theXXVII Congress of Bookstores held in Valencia in February 2026and has been extracted from LibriRed, the confederation’s own tool, which monitors in real time the final sales in more than 1,000 independent bookstores and chains throughout the country. The figure includes novels, essays and comics, both new releases and catalog contents, but (importantly, we are talking about physical bookstores) Amazon and school textbooks are excluded. The specific data. They are that revealing: 13.2% of the titles sell a copy throughout the year. 19.4% do not exceed ten. Only 4.5% of the books that reach bookstores reach 100 copies sold, a threshold that often does not even cover the costs of a launch. In other words, 95.5% of the books available in Spanish bookstores do not have the slightest economic impact on the publishing industry, not to mention that they are directly deficient. In Xataka If you hate justified text, we have good news: you’re most likely right You bill more, you sell the same. This is the paradox that the CgK consultancy put on the table with its Book Market Data 2025 report: The sector reached close to €1,250 million in turnover in 2025, 4% more than the previous year, which represents a historical record. However, total units sold rose just 0.2%, and novelty units sold on average 2% less per title than in 2024. Further analysis of the report They spoke of a statistical illusion typical of inflationary markets, because what has actually grown is the average price of the book. And this benefits the large groups, with catalogs in high rotation. Why is this happening? In its analysis of the Cedal report, El País collected statements from editors such as Enrique Redel, from Impedimenta, who affirms that there are titles that are not published to sell, but to take up space on the shelves, especially by large groups. The strategy is to publish many titles assuming that most will fail, hoping that one or two best sellers compensate for the losses of the rest. More than 90,000 books are published each year in Spain, about 240 newspapers, and theReturn rates range between 30% and 40%. It is a feverish cycle of full-speed rotation, paradoxically inconsistent with the calmest of cultural activities. {“videoId”:”x7zmsee”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”11 WEBSITES to DOWNLOAD FREE EBOOKS for your KINDLE Xataka TV”, “tag”:”Kindle”, “duration”:”321″} Who can afford it. The two large publishing groups, Penguin Random House and Planeta, in whose shadow it has been for decades the Spanish industry, and which account for more than 40% of the copies sold in bookstores. Fleeing this suffocating single direction are independent bookstores, which offer more than twice the variety of titles than the large chains: more than 525,000 titles compared to 229,633. In this way, visibility is concentrated in a few titles that rotate for a longer period of time, while the rest are buried in excessive catalogs. Some reasons. When looking for factors that exacerbate this situation (the two large groups can suffocate the market with their continuous rotation, but there must be more compelling reasons for so few sales of so many titles), CEGAL points to self-publishing: publishing has been democratized, but the reader’s attention has not. A book without a publisher behind it, without distribution, without promotion and without prior prescription is born practically invisible to the market, and it is normal that many of these launches do not sell anything. ¿AI provides tools to multiply these throws effortlessly? The percentages skyrocket exponentially. In Xataka They are not your imagination: the best-selling books are increasingly simpler and contain less elaborate sentences The difference with other cultural media is in the abundance of second chances. A film that does not perform in theaters can recover the investment in streaming, where consumption already rivals that of theaters. The book that does not sell in its first weeks on the shelf returns to the publisher, returns to bookstores in negligible quantities and is often physically destroyed after months languishing in warehouses. Perhaps finding new ways of dissemination and renewed lives for books would be the solution to this veritable overdose of books without readers. Header | Photo ofBree AnneinUnsplash (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news One piece of information perfectly summarizes the book bubble in Spain: 95% of those published do not recover costs was originally published in Xataka by John Tones .

How to add AccuWeather to ChatGPT to request the best weather information

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Let’s tell you how to link AccuWeather to ChatGPTso that you can use all the information from one of the best weather apps for your queries. With this, the artificial intelligence OpenAI no longer searches the Internet when you ask about the weather or future forecasts, but will search directly in the information in the app. You will be able to do this because AccuWeather has been included in the list of applications ChatGPTwhich allow you to interact with them and their information. With this, you will be able to have hyperlocal weather informationforecasts, and even see any weather alerts there may be. You can even ask about the chances of rain and when it is most likely to occur. Add AccuWeather in ChatGPT The first thing you have to do is open ChatGPT and Click on the section Applications in the left column. This will take you to an index with a search engine. In it, you have to search the term AccuWeatherso that it appears as the only result. When you see it, click on the name of the application. You will enter the AccuWeather tab, where you will have all the information about what you will be able to do with this application. Within this tab, press the button Connect to proceed to add the application. When you go to connect, you will go to a screen where allows you to activate the consultation of memories and chats when using AccuWeather. This is optional. If you activate it, you will be sending AccuWeather information about everything you talk about with ChatGPT, but also other information such as the city where you live, so that you do not need to say it when you ask for weather information. Use AccuWeather on ChatGPT Once you have linked the application, you can use it. To do this, when you open a new chat with ChatGPT, before doing anything, click on the + button to open the options window, click on Furtherand Click on AccuWeather in the list that appears to activate it within this conversation. When you do, you’ll know the app is activated because it will stay still below the writing field. This means that whatever you are going to ask ChatGPT now, the AI ​​will look for it in this application. Now, with AccuWeather activated you can ask ChatGPT to tell you any weather information you want. The AI ​​will look for the answers in the application, and will give you the information it has collected. AccuWeather will remain activated in this ChatGPT conversation, so you can return to it when you want to ask a new question or continue asking about something you had asked before, even ask it to update the information. In Xataka Basics | How to create an image of yourself and a Pixar character with your face using artificial intelligence, with Gemini or ChatGPT

If the question is how to survive the tsunami of information in the age of AI, the answer is simple: learning not to read

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This morning I counted the open tabs on Day, my browser. Twenty-five. There was a Counterpoint analysis there that I opened five days ago to read “as soon as I can” but that I haven’t touched yet. A very good looking thread from X. Three newsletters to medium scrollwaiting for me like half-done homework. And so on a few more things. I’ve been writing about technology for fifteen years. My job is literally to read, filter and think about what I read. And yet, or precisely because of that, it is increasingly difficult for me to distinguish when I am informing myself from when I am simply moving my eyes. We have been treating reading as a virtue in itself for centuries. “Read more” has always been the universal advice, the automatic response to almost any shortcoming. AND tmade sense when the problem was the scarcity of sources. But the problem began to be different and we continued the same, with the same reflection. The mistake is that we have transferred the respect and moral inertia that we had for a good book to formats that do not deserve it. We read an endless thread of X, a marketing PDF or a newsletter inflated feeling that passing your eyes over that text is a meritorious act by default. It is no longer. Or at least, not always. I know this goes against me. AI has broken the equation in a way that borders on absurd comedy. Today anyone generates a ten-page report on any topic in three minutes. Any creator inflates an idea of ​​a paragraph until it fills a thousand words without adding a single new piece of information, just trash. And the great paradox is something we saw coming a long time ago: Our best defense is to use that same technology. We live in a loop where A machine lengthens a text to make it seem important, and we use another machine to summarize it for us in three bullets and thus save us the procedure. Some give the badge and others neutralize it. The amount of text available is no longer related to the knowledge it contains. There are more words than ever because it is easier than ever to generate them, but It is not at all clear that there are more ideas. What is growing is the pressure to consume them all. I feel like, often, that fear of being left out seems like intellectual curiosity when what’s underneath is simple FOMO. Traditional functional illiteracy consisted of deciphering the letters but not understanding a word of what they said. The new one looks more like the opposite: We understand each text perfectly, but we have lost the ability to decide if it deserves to be read.. We don’t filter. We do not rule out. We don’t say “this is bullshit that doesn’t give me anything.” Not enough. And we don’t do it because discarding information is something that we continue to feel like a loss, like an act of laziness that gives us away. But it is just the opposite. The ability to not read (identify in three seconds that something is not worth your next ten minutes) is today an act of intelligence that contributes almost as much as reading itself. And for that you need to develop your own red flag. In my case, if a text promises a revelation but the first paragraph is pure introductory nonsense, get out. If I sense grandiloquent adjectives and filling robotic structures, out. If there is not a single piece of data before the first scroll, on the run. I don’t even mention the monoline structure so common in X and LinkedIn. There, it directly catapults. When ChatGPT arrived, many of us thought that the risk of AI was that people would stop reading. It may be worse: that you read more than ever without thinking more than ever. Let it process without digesting. Accumulate information like someone who accumulates open tabs, with the vague promise of returning to them. We know he won’t. We never go back. I know this because I haven’t closed those twenty-five tabs all week and in the end I will close them all at once, without reading them, with a mixture of relief and guilt. But I have begun to understand that closing tabs suddenly after having selected the most interesting thing is a very healthy practice. In the end, the new functional illiterate is too much like my browser this morning: overloaded with tabs, full of promises to read, and completely unable to process a single more idea. In Xataka | There is a generation working for free as a documentarian of their own life: they are not influencers but they act as if they were. Featured image | Xataka

what is this European alternative to X and Threads, what it is not, and all the information

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We are going to tell you what exactly W Social is, the European social network project that aims to compete with X and Threads. It is not a social network that is going to start from scratch, but rather it will join an open protocol of another existing network, but from European servers. At the moment, W is just a project announced at the Davos forum, but it is not yet open to the public. Of course, we already have a few important data about it that allow us to know what it will be like. Even so, we will update this article as we know more and as the opening date arrives. What is W Social W Social is a project to create a European social network of micromessages. So that you understand, it is like seeking to create an alternative to the old Twitter, and to current networks such as Threads or X, both American. W Social is not a closed and completely independent social network, but rather it is like a European instance of Bluesky. Therefore, will be based on Bluesky and in the AT Protocol. If you are in, remember that you can follow us on this social network in the account xataka.bsky.social. Think of this as two networks that speak the same language and they are interconnected with each othersomething similar to the instances of Mastodonbut with another technology. You will be able to access Bluesky accounts and read posts and all content, and users of this network will also be able to follow you. Bluesky has more than 42 million users, although there is no figure for how many of them are active. In any case, this will mean that W Social will join forces with this alternative network, so it will not start from scratch and its users will not have to deal with an empty timeline. One of the things that W Social has confirmed to us is that we will be able to completely migrate our existing Bluesky account. Its objective is for us to be able to migrate all our content, comments, interactions, followers and followers, and all other information. But they have not yet clarified the steps, although they assure that they will explain the step by step when this function is available. Finally, say that W Social wants as its fundamental objectives to be a network based on verified humans, transparency, privacy and freedom of expression. All this, they say, believing that we need a global and reliable social network, and one that is managed, hosted and owned in Europe, with all the benefits that this entails for privacy due to the strictest European regulations in this regard. What W Social is NOT W Social It is not a social network created by the European Unionbut by a European company. Yes, a company like Meta or X, but based in the EU and with our rules. This also means that It is not a decentralized or open network like those that are part of the Mastodon ecosystem. It will be a network belonging to a company, which will be the one that makes the decisions. Come on, just like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X. Main features One of the main characteristics of Bluesky is that it is a social network where You can decide or create the algorithms. By default you only see the content of the people you follow, but you can add your own custom algorithms, whether themed, by language, whatever you want. Although it is still too early to know if W Social will inherit this unique and beneficial function. But the characteristic that will make W Social different is that Your users must have a verified identity. You will have to send your ID and your account will be linked to your identity. This measure has something positive as a clear way to end trolls and online abuse and threatssince the user can be identified to expel him or his actions have criminal consequences just as in life outside the Internet. This will promote a less toxic environment and no bots or fake profiles. All accounts will be real, although this does not mean that you will show your first and last name, because you will be able to choose a username that you want. But this also has a dangerous sidesince there is a danger that this verification turns into surveillance of users, something that would endanger activists and other types of legitimate resistance. We will have to wait to see how they achieve this balance. The other fundamental pillar of W Social will be moderation. Just as X is a free space, but quite wild and where abuses and misinformation run without any type of effective moderation, W Social will be a more controlled network with clear rulessuch as not being able to insult, avoid coordinated campaigns or the creation of permanent noise. Moderation is always a delicate topic, although the platform promises neutrality. We will have to wait to see how they carry out these tasks, how much is done by algorithm and how much is done by people. Moderation is important for creating a healthy digital environment, but it can also be dangerous. How to register on W Social W Social has not yet opened its doors, although You can now sign up for a waiting list. In it, you will have to add your email, and optionally you can add the username you want to use, your country of residence and your Bluesky or LinkedIn profiles. It is expected that W Social beta phase starts in March 2026which will be when the first users start receiving invitations.

NVIDIA will not launch new graphics this year, according to The Information

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Being a PC gamer today is more like a test of patience than a simple hobby. After years marked by skyrocketing prices and shortages, the rise of artificial intelligence has added a new layer of tension to the hardware market. Memory has become a particularly disputed resource and its effects are no longer limited to data centers or large companies: they are beginning to be felt directly in the game ecosystem, right where users expected at least some stability. what’s happening. The current doubts stem from a chain of information that must be located precisely. The Information points out that NVIDIA does not plan to launch new GeForce graphics cards for gaming in 2026, a decision that this source links to the memory shortage that the industry is experiencing. This is not, in any case, a public confirmation from the company, but it comes from two people with knowledge of the matter who spoke to the aforementioned media on condition of anonymity. What NVIDIA says. The American manufacturer has not remained completely silent. In fact, speaking to Tom’s Hardwarehas revealed part of the problem: “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is high and memory supply is limited. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and work closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability.” Understanding pitches. NVIDIA’s historical cadence combines two different rhythms that should be separated. On the one hand there are architectural changes, spaced over time and associated with clear leaps in performance or functions. On the other hand, the intermediate versions that refine what exists through memory, consumption or frequency adjustments, keeping the range alive. This hybrid strategy explains why we see a constant annual presence of new cards even when the technological base remains intact. The best way to understand this cadence is to look at what has happened in recent years, with architectural changes every 2-3 years and refreshes or expansions the rest of the time. Under this pattern, what was expected for 2026 was precisely another intermediate refresh of the RTX 50 series, the one that is now in doubt. The component that really sets the pace. The discussion about new cards usually focuses on the power of the graphics chip, but the current bottleneck seems to be located elsewhere in the chain. NVIDIA usually provides its partners with a complete set that combines GPU and memory, so the lack of sufficient GDDR7 modules prevents closing that package and, therefore, distributing new units. Under this industrial logic, memory shortage stops being a secondary problem and becomes a determining factor. Memory for data centers. The aforementioned material limitation does not appear in a vacuum, but at a time when the technology industry is rearranging priorities around artificial intelligence. Data centers dedicated to training and running advanced models demand huge volumes of memory and largely share the same supply chains as consumer hardware. When that pressure increases, available resources tend to shift toward the business segment. Searching for normality. With the present conditioned by available memory, the great unknown becomes when the true generational change will arrive. According to the information collected by Tom’s Hardwarethe internal roadmap would place mass production of the RTX 60 beyond 2027, which could shift its effective arrival to the market towards 2028. There is no direct confirmation from NVIDIA on these dates, so it is best to treat them as estimates from sources familiar with the planning. Images | Xataka In Xataka | The CEOs of NVIDIA and TSMC sat down for dinner and dessert was a request: the world needs wafers and RAM memory

that the US has its “nuclear” information

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Since the Mao timesperiodic purges have been a common tool of power in China to reassert Party control over the military and eliminate real or potential threats. In fact, every generation of leaders has turned to them in moments of internal tensionalmost always wrapped in accusations of corruption or disloyalty, as a reminder that in Beijing political stability has always outweighed military continuity. Unknown territory. If these military purges have been part of the DNA of the Chinese system, the Zhang Youxia’s falluntil now the most powerful general in the country and historical ally of Xi Jinping, marks an unprecedented turning point. It is not only the breadth of the cleaning (the deepest in decades) nor the fact that it has left practically dismantled the leadership of the army, but the strategic context in which it occurs, with China facing the United States in a systemic rivalry and with Taiwan as a backdrop permanent. The radically new element. But what makes this purge something different from all the previous ones is the accusation, leaked in internal briefings, that Zhang had given the United States critical information about the chinese nuclear program. If even partially confirmed, the scandal would not be a simple case of corruption or political disloyalty, but a direct breach in the core of strategic deterrence from Beijing, something unprecedented in the modern history of the PLA and potentially devastating for the balance of power between the two superpowers. Decapitation of commanders. I remembered the BBC that the simultaneous purge of Zhang and Liu Zhenli has reduced the Central Military Commission to an almost empty structure, with Xi and a single active general, with a political rather than an operational profile. That emptying breaks the model collegiate body designed to plan and direct war, creates a leadership vacuum recognized even by Chinese and foreign analystsand leaves millions of soldiers under a weakened chain of command at a time of maximum external pressure. Corruption and power. Officially, most of the media agree a simple summary: explained by corruption and violation of party discipline, but how do we count a few months ago, recent history suggests that the anti-corruption campaign also functions as a mechanism to eliminate rivalsdismantle personal networks and guarantee absolute loyalty to the leader. The result is a almost total control of Xi on the army, comparable only to that of Mao, but at the cost of generating a climate of suspicion that can translate into paralysis, extreme caution and less professional military decisions. Taiwan in the background. In the short term, the elimination of experienced commanders (including some of the few with actual combat experience) seems reduce capacity of the Chinese military to carry out complex operations such as an invasion of Taiwan. However, the experience of previous purges suggests that the replacements tend to be younger, more ideologized and dependent on Xi, which could lead, perhaps in a few years, to a less professional force but more aggressive and less able to question risky orders. The final message. There is no doubt, by sacrificing even a personal ally and “red prince”, Xi sends an unmistakable sign at the forefront: no position, relationship or history protects against suspicion of corruption, disloyalty or, of course, leaking of strategic secrets. If you want, also project a disturbing image abroad: if Washington has had access to chinese nuclear information (that remains to be seen), the rivalry between both powers would enter a much more dangerous and unpredictable. That is why this purge is not just another episode of internal control, but an event that introduces the Chinese armed forces (and the global geopolitical pulse) in a truly unprecedented setting. Image | President of Russia, US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE In Xataka | China’s military is becoming one of the largest in the world. The only problem is the purges In Xataka | 200 drones in the hands of a single soldier: China is advancing very quickly in a type of war that seemed like science fiction

OpenAI is very clear that ads on ChatGPT are going to work. So much so that they are going to charge more than TV for them, according to The Information

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A few days ago we knew that OpenAI was going to draw up a plan to insert advertising in ChatGPT. Now, according to they point Sources from The Information, the company is already establishing the rates that it is going to start charging advertisers, and the truth is that they are going to give something to talk about. The media shares that OpenAI asks for approximately $60 per 1,000 impressions (CPM), a very high figure when compared to other media, including television. The problem is that OpenAI does not yet offer anywhere near the same measurement tools as Google or Meta. The price thing. The figure of 60 dollars is at NFL levels, according to reflects Gennaro Cuofano, founder of The Business Enquineer. OpenAI has not yet specified what data it will provide to advertisers, only that it will be “high level”, so there is some skepticism if we take into account that companies like Meta and Google allow us to track very specific and detailed metrics when we see an ad through their platforms. Vender access, without results. The company is betting for capitalizing on its audience of more than 400 million users before building the necessary infrastructure to offer this type of service. As Cuofano details, it’s about “selling reach now, building attribution later,” similar to what Facebook did in 2010, when it had a massive, fast-growing audience and opted for ads without yet an advanced metrics infrastructure. Time has ended up proving Zuckerberg’s platform right, but we will have to wait to see if the move is worth the same to OpenAI. Nfinancial need. The strategy can also be seen as an attempt by OpenAI to reverse the economic situation through which it passes. And as we knew through internal documents, the company projects operating losses of $74 billion by 2028, driven largely by AI operational costs. The idea is that the ads appear in the coming weeks only for free and download users. Go plan in the United States, while Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscriptions will be free of advertising. OpenAI affirms that the ads will not influence the chatbot’s responses and that it will never sell conversation data to advertisers, in addition to avoiding sensitive topics such as mental health or politics. And now what. OpenAI will now have to demonstrate that it can scale this model beyond experimental budgets. And to scale a platform towards revenues that exceed tens of billions of dollars in advertising, it will be necessary to build a very solid measurement infrastructure and establish relationships with advertising agencies that it does not have now. It remains to be seen if the same promises that feed your ecosystem of products also allow them to build an advertising ecosystem as large as Google, Meta or Amazon have demonstrated in recent years. Cover image | OpenAI In Xataka | “The assemblies are not going to be done by AI”: we talk to the kids who have become carpenters, truck drivers and tinkerers

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