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Scale AI investment has put the two ‘goals’ at war

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In June, he invested 14.3 billion dollars in Scale AI and for the walked signed his CEO, Alexandr Wang. He made him an owner and lord of his brand new Superintelligence Division, in addition to surrounding him with a team of engineers With salaries of elite athletes. The movements have been so exaggerated and convulsive that they are having important side effects. The 100 million club. Mark Zuckerberg He shook the foundations of the AI ​​industry in early June, when he began to rob their rivals the best AI engineers. He offered them Salaries of hundreds of millions of dollars And soon companies like OpenAi confirmed that Someone had “cast at home”. The signings of high -level managers, such as Nat Friedman (Exceo de Github) or Daniel Gross (co -founder of Safe Superintelligence with Ilya Sutskever) confirmed that series of unusual movements. Sudden resignations. Among the signings was Ruben Mayer, who had already worked with Wang in Scale AI. Two months later Mayer has left the company, According to nearby sources. The executive worked five years in Scale AI, but soon discovered that he was going to work in an area outside the development unit of the Superintelligence Model. He has claimed that he was “very happy” with his experience in goal, but has decided to leave the company “for a personal matter.” He has not been the only one to take that step. The two “Goals”. That resignation is joined by others that occurred in recent weeks. According to Wiredat least three researchers have abandoned the company. Two of them returned to Openai, where they had previously worked, while the third, Rishabh Agawal, has not made clear Your destiny. The huge changes that the team has undergone has made adaptation to the new situation difficult. The two “goals” – before the signings and the one now – are having problems to get perfectly. But there is even more. Scale Ai Flaquea. The team that is working on the development of the superintelligence, called TBD Labs, is in turn collaborating with data labeling companies such as Mercor and arises, which are in turn competing of Scale AI. It is something strange considering that goal had already invested billions of dollars in it – although there was no talk In that agreement of exclusivities—, but sources close to the company indicate In TechCrunch That the quality of Scale AI labeling is low and prefer to work with these two firms. The situation of the company co -founded by Wang has changed. After the agreement with Meta, both Openai and Google indicated that they would stop working with her. Shortly after Scale ai He said goodbye 200 of its employees, although the new CEO, Jason Droge said they would compensate with hiring in other areas of the company. Much mess and a restructuring. Having signed all that talent has its good part, but it also has can complicate the goal organization chart. It is what seems to have happened according to all these data, and in fact target announced internally A restructuring of all that division. Four different subdivisions have been created, which will be led by Wang. Other senior managers will report to it, but those movements also caused some finishing employees before the “galactic signings” have ended up leaving the company to go to firms such as OpenAi, Cohere or Figma. Of the open to a closed model. The arrival of Wang has coincided with an apparent change of approach, they pointed out In nyt. Although goal was a pioneer to bet on ia open source models as callthe company seems to be exploring now other possibilities. For example, those of using third -party AI models on their platforms —Chatgpt in WhatsApp? – or even license “closed” models of other companies. But beyond that, the company is valuing to work In a closed model as their main rivals are doing in the AI ​​segment in the US. OpenAi, Google or Anthropic precisely adopted that strategy from the beginning, and it seems that in the finish line they want to have their own alternative. Image | World Economic Forum | Anthony Quintero In Xataka | Nvidia has become the most important company in the world. His problem is that he has all the eggs in the same basket

41,000 years ago, our ancestors survived an investment of the poles. We already know how they cope with this change

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About 41,000 ago, planet Earth became a much more hostile place than it is now. He magnetic shield that protects us from solar wind and Cosmic radiation It weakened until almost disappearing, and the magnetic poles, those references that the compasses use, abandoned the Arctic and Antarctica to roam all the globe. This event, known as the Laschamp excursionhe plunged the planet into An unprecedented radiation environment for almost two millennia. Our ancestors lived differently. The Homo sapiens I know They expanded by Eurasiaand the Neanderthals In their last millennia of existence, they lived under a very different sky. A new and revolutionary study published in Science Advances The space environment of the Earth has first rebuilt in 3D During this chaotic period. The results not only show us what the planet was like, but they offer fascinating clues about how our ancestors could have survived and even prospered. A broken magnetic shield and auroras about Ecuador. The Earth’s magnetic field is like an invisible shield generated by the planet’s liquid iron core. It protects us from a constant flow of charged particles emanating from the Sun. without it, The atmosphere would be swept and life on the surface, bombarded by harmful radiation. During the Laschamps event, This shield weakened until it reached just 10% of its current force. According to the simulation of the team led by Agnit Mukhopadhyay, this had two spectacular consequences related to the magnetosphere and the poles. The magnetosphere contracted dramatically. The protective bubble that surrounds us shrunk almost half of its normal size. At its weakest point, the limit of this shield (the Magnetopause) was only 15,500 km from the surface, a dangerously close distance. The poles went crazy. He Magnetic axis More than 75 degrees leaned. This caused the Earth’s magnetic field to become “multipolar”, with several North and South weak poles distributed by the planet, a configuration More similar to Uranus or Neptune than to that of our current land. Logically they had consequences. The most visible consequence of this magnetic chaos was the migration of the auroras. Normally confined to the polar regions, the lights of the north and the south expanded and wandered throughout the globe. The simulation shows that the Auroral oval moved from the Arctic, passing through Western Eurasia, until it reaches northern Africa. At the same time, in the southern hemisphere Las Auroras moved over Australia and New Zealand. In the peak of the event, the auroras were probably a global phenomenon, visible from almost any point on the planet. Adapt or die. See auroras From the Sahara it may sound poetic, but the reality was much more bleak. Those lights meant that the “open field lines” were no longer only on the uninhabited poles. They covered regions densely populated by prehistoric humans such as Europe. This implied a much greater exposure to Ultraviolet radiationwith all its associated hazards such as burns, skin cancer, eye damage or even fetal development problems. This is where the study connects geophysics with archeology in a fascinating way. The researchers point out that the Laschamps event coincides with notable changes in human behavior, which could be interpreted as adaptations to this new and radiant world. Appearance of custom clothing. The Homo sapiens From the Auriñaciense culture they developed tools such as bone needles and scrapers, associated with the manufacture of tight clothing. This clothes, unlike the simple skins or layers that are believed to use the Neanderthals, offered a Much more complete protection against UV radiation without sacrificing mobility. This innovation could have conferred on sapiens A competitive crucial advantage. Generalized ocher use. The ocher, a mineral pigment of iron oxide, becomes much more common in the archaeological sites of this era. It is known that ocher is an effective topical sunscreen. Its extended use could have been a direct response to protect the skin. The Boom of Rock Art. The event also coincides with the appearance of some of the first cave paintings known figuratives. The hypothesis is that, to protect themselves from radiation, humans spent much longer within caves, which could have encouraged the development of this cultural and symbolic expression in the safety of the gloom. The inevitable: the disappearance of the Neanderthals. This fact occurred just at the end of this period and that is why it was almost safely A multifactorial process. However, this study suggests that its possible inability to adapt to high levels of radiation, in contrast to the cultural innovations of the Homo sapiensit could have been another factor in its decline. If it occurred today, it would end up in Apocalypse. Although a geomagnetic event like Laschamps is not imminent, the Earth’s magnetic field It has weakened around 10% in the last 180 years and The magnetic north pole is moving at a record speed. If a similar event occurred in our current society, we would face an apocalypse. A weakened magnetic shield would leave our completely exposed communications and GPS satellites. The global electricity would suffer massive overloads that would cause generalized and lasting blackouts. And all this would be added to an alteration in the atmosphere that could lead to very important climatic changes. A look at the future of our planet. The Laschamp excursion study is not just a window to our deep past. It is a warning about the fragility of our world and a reminder that Earth is a dynamic and sometimes violent system. 41,000 years ago, our ancestors survived thanks to their ingenuity. Today, our survival would depend on a technology that, ironically, would be the first to fall. In Xataka | Amputations, cannibalism and dehumanization: the most violent and extreme killing of prehistory happened 4,000 years ago

Younger millionaires have found a more profitable investment than the S&P500: Pokémon’s letters

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Some years ago, YouTuber Logan Paul hit the nail With a formula for financial success: nostalgia + business = the new art. Take an element of your childhood, add a collecting component and the Business is assured. Ask Nintendo with their Pokémon cards. More and more young millionaires are betting on Pokémon cards as a form of investment away from the whims of bags and values that, to date They were considered refuge. It is a trend that we already saw with the Hermès bagsand now he is also emerging with the letters Pokémon collectibles. The power of nostalgia. The attractiveness of these letters not only lies in nostalgia, but also in their ability to generate benefits that exceed those of large stock market rates. Pokémon card fever is sweeping and leaving record figures in its path, such and As publishes Fortune. Collectible articles have always been likely to achieve surprising quotes, especially when they evoke memories of childhood. Pokémon’s letters, which are already approaching their thirtieth anniversary, have conquered young investors looking for more than investing in traditional actions. According to Cardder data, collectible card assessment portal published by Fortunethe annual average profitability of Pokémon letters is increasing almost 46%, exceeding the profitability of very powerful actions such as Nvidia or the average annual profitability of the S&P 500 stock market index, which is 12%. A consolidated and booming market. Since its launch in 1999, They have been manufactured more than 75,000 million pokémon cards. After a first decade of settlement, the market began to value these cards as authentic collectible assets, comparable to classic comics. According to Cardder data, the Japanese animation series cards have been revalued at 3,261% in the last 20 years. Only during the pandemic, the boredom of collectors caused the profitability of the letters to increase by 500%, as published by what was published by Business Insider. AND, according to The AthleticPokémon and Magic letters would have displaced part of the business of collectible sports cards. Almost three decades later, this business model continues to generate about 1,000 million dollars a year. Shortage increases the price. The success of Pokémon letters has generated unusual situations in retail trade. Great chains like Walmart and Target were forced toimitate the number of units By user due to high demand and violent incidents related to the purchase of cards. Pokémon’s letters have reached be the objective of theftwith thieves sneaking in stores and floors in the purest mission style impossible to get a booty of letters valued at several thousand dollars. The last one, without going any further, happened on July 12 at a Massachusetts store, where A thief took pokémon letters valued at $ 100,000. Celebrities and the attractiveness of investment. The fever for investment in Pokémon cards between millennials and the Z generation has grown even more thanks to the interest of celebrities Like elrubius either Justin Bieberwho have paid thousands of dollars for some of them. Famous youtubers such as Logan Paul have brought this passion to the extreme. In 2022, Paul He got the Guinness record When buying the most expensive Pokémon letter in history, for which paid 5.27 million dollars. “This card cost me more than my ranch. My 84 acres ranch,” Paul said. Capital and organized crime The value of Pokémon letters has reached such magnitude that even organized crime groups in Japan have used them To bleach capitalssimilar to what happens with works of art. The ease of transporting and selling these letters abroad makes them an attractive instrument for illegal activities, confirming that the phenomenon of Pokémon cards transcends Simple collecting And it has become A financial asset With global impact. In Xataka | Millionaires found in the luxury watches a refuge value. Now the bubble has exploded Image | Wikimedia Commons (Romer Jed Medina), Unspash (Omid Armin)

Altman’s plan to attract private investment to OpenAI has stayed halfway. It’s a victory for Elon Musk

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Openai has conquered a place at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) with products such as Chatgpt and GPT-4O. But there is a detail that escapes in many conversations: It is still a startup. It is several times smaller than Microsoft or Google and faces an existential challenge that does not have so much to do with its products, but with money. That challenge has its own name: its peculiar organizational structure. The openai part that generates income, directed by Sam Altmanis controlled by a non -profit organization. This unconventional model has aroused doubts among investors. Altman proposed to restructure the company to attract more private capital and accelerate the path to a General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). The problem is that this plan has just received a blow. A difficult governance to sell. The Board of Directors has decided to maintain control from the non -profit entity, after opening conversations with the general prosecutors of California and Delaware. These authorities monitor the legal status of organizations of this type and could have blocked change. The announcement has made it public Bret Taylor, president of the Board, In an official statement from OpenAI. A victory for Musk. Elon Musk had sued Openai for that attempt at reorganization. He assured that the company had diverted from its initial purpose of developing a safe and oriented the good of humanity. The decision to preserve the original supervision partially reinforces its argument: the structure remains, at least for the moment. New model, but with the same control. Despite the other way around, Openai maintains another important change. It is expected that its commercial organization will operate as a public benefit corporation (PBC). The difference is that, instead of separating itself from the non -profit organization, it will continue to have the last word. Now they are negotiating how that supervision will be articulated, but everything indicates that it will be the non -profit organization that designates the members of the Board of the New PBC. This could hinder future financing rounds. Because in this OpenAi, which has not managed to transform completely, interest is not measured only into dividends, as investors would like. Outstanding image | Sam Altman (X) + Photoshop | Ted Conference In Xataka | Silicon Valley has an obsession with “Todismo”: they begin by dominating a sector and then wanting to dominate them all

In times of fall in stock market, a luxury investment has become a “shelter”: bags

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In times of financial uncertainty, generalized falls In stock markets around the world and the dollar losing credibility as a reference currency, investors seek refuge values ​​to protect their assets. The gold It used to be the safeguard In times of crisis, but a new trend has gained strength in recent years: the Investment in luxury articlesespecially exclusive bags such as Hermès Birkin. Get out of the bag to get into the bag. The attractiveness of these high -end bags signed by Hermes, Louis Vuitton Or Chanel not only resides in its exclusivity and status, but also surprise by their profitability. While actions and gold experience ups and downs, Birkin bags have demonstrated a constant revaluation of their value in the second -hand market. During periods of financial volatilityluxury bags, and in particular Hermès Birkin, has positioned itself as an asset of investment at levels of artthe high -end watches or the Classic luxury cars. According to the report of Art Market Researchin the last two decades, luxury bags have gone from being an accessory to what is now “the only category of collecting women centered.” Scarcity marketing. This investment model is sustained thanks to something as basic as the law of supply and demand. Hermès, like most luxury brands, applies a deliberate scarcity strategy with a very limited production of their pieces in which, curiously, It is the brand who chooses What products sell to your customers. The high demand for these articles causes waiting lists among their clients that can reach six years. The perception of exclusivity increases the desire for the product, which causes automatically revalue in the second -hand market when leaving the store. This is a phenomenon quite common In markets. For example, we live it after launch of the Sony PS5when these consoles arrived with counts to stores and doubled their price in the second -hand market or, at another level, with The Purosangue Ferrari. More Birkin, less gold. The Birkin de Hermès, is considered one of the best investments in the world of luxury, even surpassing traditional assets such as art or gold in terms of profitability and stability. A 2020 study Prepared by Credit Suisse and Deloitte, he revealed that the value of the Birkin increased 38% on average that year, far exceeding the performance of the S&P 500, which grew 16.3% in the same period. A study Baghunter compared the value of Hermès’ bags with respect to the S&P 500 and gold since 1995. The results showed that the financial behavior of the Birkin was much more stable and profitable than the stock market index and the value of gold, with a less volatile market and greater interannual returns. While the S&P 500 offered an average annual return of 8.65%and gold just 1.9%, the Birkin registered an average annual increase of 14.2%. A second -hand birkin: from 9,000 to $ 200,000. As with the market of the Collection luxury watchesthe high demand for certain editions of Birkin has generated spectacular revaluation. A Birkin de Hermès costs between $ 9,000 and $ 12,000, but can reach prices of up to $ 200,000 In auctions or specialized platformsdepending on its rarity, state and materials. In 2015, a pink crocodile skin birkin was sold by a record of $ 223,000, consolidating the reputation of these bags as high performance investments. The most expensive birkin ever auctioned was a Birkin 30 Himalayas with diamonds, than It reached a price of $ 450,000 in 2014. The Chinese offensive: the true value of the Birkin. In a context of commercial warfare like the current one, the boom of the Birkin as an investment has not been exempt from controversy. After the imposition of tariffs by the Trump administration, Chinese influencers networks They have started a campaign To demystify the value of these bags. During the last days, Tiktok and X They have filled with videos of these Chinese influencers directing directly to the customers of these brands by analyzing the manufacturing costs in China. The message indicates the manufacturing price of a Birkin of Hermès around $ 1,400, while luxury brands sell their bags for a price up to ten times higher than its real cost, feeding the perception that there is a speculative bubble around these luxury items. In Xataka | A rare 900,000 clock has marked the end of moderation in goal: Mark Zuckerberg and his fondness for expensive watches In Xataka | Nicolas Puech: Hermès’s Swiss Millionaire who wants to leave a gardener with Spanish ties as the only heir Image | Hermes

Trump tariffs have caused the Big Tech debacle in the stock market. And propose a slowdown in investment in AI

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Apple shares closed almost 224 dollars yesterday. When the session is opened in Wall Street they will have fallen suddenly and porrazo more than 7%, up to 208 euros. That collapse will be the greatest among the Big Tech, but all of them They will be affected Notably for Tariffs announced by Donald Trump. And that makes another danger derived: that of investment in AI. Big tech fall to lead. As they point out In CNBCApple will leave more than 7% more to open the session in the US Stock Exchange, but others will also have very notable falls. Nvidia fell 4%”After-Hours” (after the closure of the markets), Tesla 4.5%, Alphabet, Amazon and goal between 2.5%and 5%, and Microsoft 2%. Thus Apple’s actions closed yesterday, and so they will begin the session at Nasdaq today. Source: Google Finance. Tariffs everywhere. Falls are due to tariffs announced yesterday by Donald Trump. The US president indicated that these import taxes would be “a declaration of economic independence” for his country. Base there will be 10%tariffs for all imports, but certain countries will be especially punished: China will have 34%tariffs, Vietnam of 46%, the EU of 20%, Taiwan of 32%, and Japan of 24%. The US is the great world importer. The huge consuming machine that is the United States makes the country the largest importer around the world. According to the Department of Commerce in 2024, the country spent 4.1 billion dollars in goods (3.3 billion) and services (814,000 million) imported. With these measures precisely wants countries that export more to the US to pay extra for being able to do so, but it can cause a dangerous domino effect. What about AI. Projects such as Stargate raise a colossal investment of 500,000 million dollars To create AI data centers in American field, and here the importance of semiconductors is evident. The United States will need to import chips and other components and materials to create these centers, and manufacturers such as NVIDIA or TSMC will precisely be affected by tariffs. Or continue to manufacture outside the US and pay tariffs or They create factories on American soil to avoid them, something that for example TSMC is already working. Tariffs with the point of sight in AI. In fact, a good part of the components and GPUS necessary to create these data centers are imported from Taiwan, Mexico and China, which are three of the countries that will be punished by tariffs. The punishment for these imports is remarkable, and can lead to a slowdown in the development of AI. Investments in danger. The investment in data centers is colossal by the Big Tech, and we have the example of Amazon that plans to dedicate most of its 2025 capex of 100,000 million dollars In these developments. How will tariffs condition that investment? Difficult to know, but both for Amazon and for the rest there are now new problems to make investment. That are added that perhaps They were oversized first of all. Image | Gage Skidmore | Microsoft In Xataka | The USA hits China again with a double purpose: to stop the development of its hypersonic superorders and missiles

Large technological ones begin to turn with their investment in data centers

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Everything was frenzy in the data centers segment a few weeks ago. The Big Tech fought to see What is the one that was spent more money facing the theoretical (and inevitable?) AI revolution. Microsoft was one of the champions of this bet, but the panorama is changing, and there are those who talk about how the segment has been oversized. 2 GW less. As indicated In BloombergMicrosoft has abandoned its plans to create several new data centers in the US and Europe. The joint power of these projects would be 2 GW according to analysts of the TD Cowen firm, and the reason attributed to the decision is singular: now it turns out that there is an excessive supply of clusters dedicated to artificial intelligence. Or what is the same: there will be enough data centers dedicated to AI. There is already talk of a “bubble of data centers”. Joe Tsai, president of the Chinese group Alibaba, He warned these days precisely from the potential existence of a bubble of data centers for ia. To this millionaire fever for these ambitious projects begins to seem indiscriminate, and highlighted how in some cases there may be no clear clients to direct those resources. Plan to invest 52,000 million dollars in data centers, but within three years, therefore therefore of the 100,000 million dollars of Amazonthe 80,000 of Microsoft, the 75,000 Alphabet or the 65,000 finish In a single year. An exaggerated demand is being screened. This manager also spoke of the hypothetical investment of 500,000 million dollars of the Stargate project. “I think, in a way, people are investing anticipating the demand they are seeing today, but they are projecting a much greater demand (of which there may be).” China in fact accumulates unfortunate data centers. In Microsoft they relax their strategy. Redmond’s firm, said these analysts, has made this decision shortly after loosen ties with OpenAicompany in which it has invested around 13,000 million dollars. That will cause the company led by Sam Altman to go to cloud services of other partners. Google and Meta take the opportunity. The withdrawal of these projects assumes that Microsoft has annulled some of those contracts and postponed others. Interestingly Google and Meta seem to have taken advantage and have appropriated some of the projects that Microsoft has abandoned in Europe. The details of the projects from which the firm has been withdrawn are not known, and neither if that change of plans could affect projects already signed such as data centers They are already announced in Aragon. We already have enough. A Microsoft spokesman indicated in a statement to Bloomberg how the company has already made a significant investment. “While we may reduce or strategically adjust our infrastructure in some areas, we will continue to grow strongly in all regions,” he explained. “This allows us to invest and assign resources to growth areas for our future.” In recent times we are also seeing how climbing no longer compensates so much, and GPT-4.5 is a good demonstration of it. What about ambition. At the beginning of the year we knew that Microsoft expect to invest 80,000 million dollars throughout fiscal year 2025 in the construction of new data centers. These intentions are maintained according to their spokesman, but they hope that the growth rate should slow down the next fiscal year, and the efforts will focus on filling those server data centers and other equipment. In Xataka | The B300 GPU is the new Nvidia beast for Ia. And we already know what prepares for 2026 and 2027

Playtomic has just lifted one of the largest investment rounds this year in Spain with a peculiar hook: paddle

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Pedro Clavería, Félix Ruiz (CEO) and Pablo Carro, co -founders and maximums responsible for Playtomic, smile in that image. It is not for less: your startup —which is not typical From the Spanish technology sector – it goes like a shot. The surprising thing is not that, but they have achieved it from the hand of the paddle, a sport that has gradually conquered fans in Spain, but now points much higher. Blades everywhere. The popularity of the paddle has grown spectacularly in recent years in our country. Sport is also living a vertiginous professionalization both among players and in the organization of tournaments, sponsors or manufacturers of sportswear or shovels, balls and accessories. In Xataka we continue to miss More support by smart watchesyes indeed. The new tennis. Tennis fans usually also enjoy this sport, which is especially accessible, and the follow -up of professional tournaments is also demonstrating that unique ascending trajectory. After the success of the World Padel Tour now the professional circuit has become called (and be managed by) PREMIER PDELand from an area that focused on Spain, Spain has passed to tournaments that are played in European countries, the Middle East and the entire American continent. The idea: globalize it and become a worldwide phenomenon. Playtomic knew how to arrive at the perfect moment. Playtomic’s emergence in this segment was vertiginous: before each club had its own methods and apps for reservations and the market was much more fragmented. Playtomic emerged as the unified app to review clues in clubs or to organize matches both on those tracks and on private tracks. Little by little more and more clubs have joined, and now in Playtomic there are 6,000 registered clubs and 1.5 million active users a month worldwide. Rounds that drive growth. The startup carries several rounds of accumulated investment, but in recent years the thing has gone more. In 2021 Playtomic he already lifted 56 million euros to continue growing, and now those responsible have just announced a new investment round of 65 million euros. The operation includes 55 million euros in investment and another 10 million in debt financing from Banco Santander. Playtomic’s is one of the largest investment rounds of the year in Spain, although there has been even more striking rounds, like Travelperk’s (200 million dollars). Expansion to the US in sight. This financing round will serve to boost Playtomic’s global presence in European countries, for example, but the focus is clear: to conquer the United States. As Ruiz pointed out Five daysapproximately a third of the money raised will be dedicated to that expansion in the US. There will also be expansion in European countries such as the United Kingdom or Germany. Miami marks the guideline. That American conquest has begun in Miami, where one of the great tournaments of the year is celebrated these days. The American city is being a shop window in that country, and in fact the current number one in the world, Claudio Coello – a part of Agustín Tapia, also number one – has moved there. Possible acquisitions. Those responsible for Playtomic also point to future acquisitions that will further reinforce their relevance in this sector. In 2022 They have already been made With a Finnish competitor, and Ruiz himself pointed to potential operations of this type. Good numbers. The company achieved revenues of 240 million euros in 2024, and it is expected to grow up to 350 million gross billing in 2025. The net net billing results in 2024 were 23 million euros, while the forecast is that it reaches 31 million in 2025. The company has more than 200 employees and the plan is to hire another 15 people throughout 2025. This is going. This investment round confirms the excellent state of health and the projection of the paddle, and here Playtomic has managed to do things very well and take advantage of that popularity to grow (and help to grow) to this sport. Spain is already conquered territory: now it remains to be seen if this new round effectively allows it to become a reference in countries like the US, where by 2026 it is expected that there are already 3,000 paddle tennis courts. Image | Playtomic In Xataka | Swim is fine. I do it with bone driving helmets and the experience is simply fantastic

Applying Jeff Bezos’ investment philosophy

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Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most beloved international athletes by the public thanks to the charism that has demonstrated both on and off the court. His 19 years of sports career contributed the most prestigious trophies and awards, but attributes his great fortune to A advice from Jeff Bezos. The Jeff Bezos effect. According to The American medium Celebrity Net WorthShaquille O’Neal has an estimated assets of 500 million dollars. The popular NBA player, revealed In an interview for The Wall Street Journal How he managed to multiply his fortune by four. The secret of its financial success lies in a significant change in its way of investing. O’Neal decided to adopt the investment philosophy of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. “I heard Jeff Bezos say once he makes his investments based on whether they are going to change people’s lives. Once I began to use that strategy, I think I probably quadrupled my heritage,” explained the former sportsman. Invest in what you think. The change of approach inspired by Bezos led O’Neal to assess the sense of investments and not so much short -term profitability. As explained in the interview, the athlete tries to invest in those proposals that are aligned with their personal values ​​and tastes. “When I do business it is never the economic aspect. It’s about changing people’s lives,” said the former Lakers player. That led him to invest in companies that did products that he liked. Among its investment portfolio we find the Apple technology, the Pope John’s pizzas, the Five Guys hamburgers or Krispy Kreme’s breakfasts. “Krispy Kreme makes fabulous donuts. I met them at the university and I have been in love with their donuts since then and now I have some of their franchises. I will try to get some more. I want to be part of that business, “O’Neal confessed. Google’s miracle. During his interview, O’Neal confessed that one of his best investments by far almost by chance. Someone came to tell him about a new technological company that was taking off. It turned out to be Google. The millionaire did not give details about the amount of investment, but according to data from the Investment portal The Montley Foolan investment of $ 10,000 in Google in 2004, today it would be valued at more than $ 300,000. “I invested in it and completely forgot. After time I read an article about the great success of the first investors,” said the four -time NBA champion. Jeff Bezos took Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ advice made, for the hazards of destiny, Shaquille O’Neal did a good business at the expense of Amazon. O’Neal wanted to improve the safety of his home, so he decided to try some Ring home products. What he saw so much that he not only bought the products, but also invested in the company. In 2018, Amazon bought ring for 1 billion, multiplying the initial investment of O’Neal. Invest in companies, not in benefits. The investment philosophy that has led Shaquille O’Neal to success It is not very different of which the fortune of one of the investors has been holding for six decades more respected from Wall Street: Warren Buffett. According to Buffett, the Secret to hit It is investing in business models, with stable economic characteristics and reliable managers, maintaining their positions for long periods, instead of operating based on short -term price fluctuations. Like O’Neal, Buffett has been investing in products that he personally consumes, as in Coca-Cola, the brand that manufactures Your favorite soda. In Xataka | Jeff Bezos has built a successful empire: six fears have defined his career Image | Flickr (Ukinusa, Techcrunch)

Anthropic lifts another 3.5 billion investment. It is just what they need to survive in an absolutely unleashed segment

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It’s as if money It is not over. At least in the case of AI, a sector in which spectacular investment rounds follow each other continuously. The confidence in startups and companies that work in AI models is extraordinary in the United States, and we have a last example of that AI fever. Anthropic lifts 3.5 billion dollars. The company has announced which has managed to complete a new investment round that will allow you to have 3.5 billion dollars from now on. It is not a figure as high as those they achieved OpenAI either XAI Recently, but it is still colossal. This time the great protagonists have not been Amazon or Google, but Lightspeed Venture Partners and other venture capital firms. It is worth more than Mercedes-Benz. That round makes the current assessment of Anthropic ascend to 61.5 billion dollars, an equally unique figure that would place it ahead of Mercedes-Benz (60,000 million dollars of valuation) if we equate that assessment with the market capitalization of the German automotive giant. But far from OpenAi. The investment round raised was going to be about 2,000 million dollars, but there was more demand than expected and finally raised much more money. Of course, its current assessment is still far from Openai’s, which is estimated to be around 300,000 million dollars. Money to continue working in AI. Those responsible for Anthropic point out how that new capital injection will allow them to continue developing “smarter and most capable AI systems that expand the ability that the human being can achieve.” Income is encouraged, but …. The projected income rate (Revenue Run Rate) of Anthropic was in 2024 of 1,000 million Ded Dolla, but now it is estimated that this rate has grown by 30%, a really fast pace. It is a remarkable figure, but it is probably well below what the company spends over a year to disappoint its models and maintain all its operational infrastructure. It is estimated which in 2024 spent 5.6 billion dollars. Claude 3.7 Sonnet animates things. The recent launch of its new hybrid model, Claude 3.7 Sonnethas once again demonstrated that the company is still a clear reference in this sector. The performance of this model is outstanding, especially in areas such as programming. But his future is complicated. Despite having one of the best generative products in the market, the company It depends absolutely on risk capital And of these investment rounds, at least for now. The competition is fierce And it also comes from companies with many more funds, which further complicates the thing for Anthropic. Investment in AI is unleashed. But for now it does not seem that the rhythm decays. The investment rounds continue to reach both these startups and companies already settled and the new ones that for example created recently Look Murati either Ilya Sutskever. The expectations about AI remain huge, and that continues to make money not stop. That is good news for the segment in general, but above all for Anthropic in particular. In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

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