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Steve Jobs’ widow is squandering the fortune she inherited. You have good reasons to do so.

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Laurene Powell Jobs was already a brilliant business woman with a promising future before she met, almost by chance, the person who would be her life partner for the next 22 years. As chance would have it, one day he arrived late to a conference in 1989 and sat next to the main speaker: Steve Jobs. What happened from that moment on is part of the history of technology. After the death of jobsLaurene inherited much of the Apple founder’s fortune, which she only had to share with Steve’s first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Lisa, in addition to giving the name to the failed Apple projectwas the result of Jobs’ relationship at age 23. Most of Laurene’s inheritance was Jobs’ shareholding in Apple and Disney. In 2011, these shares were valued at around 10 billion dollarsbut Jobs’ widow was very clear about what she was going to do with that money: “I am not interested in building on the legacy of an inheritance and my children know it. Steve was not interested in that. If I live long enough, that inheritance will end with me.” The latest movements of Laurene Powell Jobs indicate that Jobs’ widow will keep her word and spend the entire fortune she inherited as Steve would have liked: dedicating herself to philanthropy until her death. Goal: donate $3.5 billion over the next 10 years Just like MacKenzie Scottex-wife of Jeff Bezos, Laurene Powell Jobs did not want to join her multimillion-dollar charity project to the The Giving Pledge Philanthropic Clubled by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. He has preferred to go it alone and spend his entire fortune on his own philanthropic projects that improve people’s lives and reduce the impact of climate change. Graduated in political science and with a master’s degree in business from Stanford, the millionaire widow She is not a novice managing funds.. In addition to creating his own healthy eating company, Powell Jobs has been able to make impact investments which have allowed it to support social and environmental projects without its fortune being significantly reduced. The value of Disney and Apple shares has increased tenfold in the last decade, however, Laurene’s current fortune is estimated at around $14 billion. That gives an idea of ​​the volume of donations he has made in recent years. Since the death of Steve Jobs, Laurene has created two charitable foundations on which she concentrates all her philanthropic efforts. The first is Emerson Collective which focuses on educational projects that seek to offer equal educational opportunities for groups at risk of exclusion. The second pillar of your charitable project is Waverley Street Foundationan international initiative aimed at protecting the groups most vulnerable to climate change, supporting education, health and preservation projects of natural spaces so that people can survive in the communities where they were born. Jobs’ widow’s project is invest 3.5 billion dollars in the next 10 years in this latest project. “I inherited my wealth from my husband, who didn’t mind accumulating it. I do this in honor of his work and have dedicated my life to doing everything I can to distribute it effectively, helping people and communities sustainably.” This investment objective is far from 10 billion dollars that Jeff Bezos proposed to investthe $45 billion from Mark Zuckerbergthe most 160 billion from Warren Buffet or the 90% of Bill Gates’ fortune. Laurene’s philanthropic spirit and discretion does not prevent the widow from enjoying her fortune visiting Mallorca on the Venusa family yacht designed in 2009 by Jobs himself, valued at 120 million dollars. Jobs’ fortune does not concern the couple’s three children either, since all of them already have established careers outside the media spotlight. Reed Paul relegated his father’s last name to the background to pursue a degree in oncology at Stanford University. Erin Siena is an architect and designer. Eve Jobs has a degree in Science, Technology and Society from Stanford, although she currently makes her living as model on the main catwalks. In Xataka | “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it”: Steve Jobs’ technique that used emotional intelligence when no one was talking about it In Xataka | It’s not Steve Jobs, it’s Mustafa Suleyman: Microsoft’s AI CEO who joins the trend of dressing “Jobs style” Image | Flickr (TechCrunch)

between 1.7 and 2.3 million jobs at risk

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The shadow of job destruction due to automation that the arrival of AI promised has been hanging over the labor market since companies like Anthropic, OpenAI or Google demonstrated that AI was much more than a chatbot to which you can ask everyday questions. The massive rounds of dismissal that were taking place in the big technology companies of Silicon Valley seemed like something distant that did not go with the Spanish labor market, until some experts asked themselves what real impact AI is having on employment in Spain. He first study focused on the Spanish labor market has just shown that that distance from Silicon Valley was nothing more than an illusion. AI is here, is being adopted at an accelerated pace in Spanish companies and its effects on employment will begin to be noticeable in the coming years. A tsunami called IA. The study ‘Artificial intelligence and the labor market in Spain: Occupational exposure, effects on employment and business adoption’, published by the Funcas study center and prepared by Francisco Rodríguez, director of Financial Studies at the foundation, quantifies for the first time the impact of AI on the labor market in Spain. The research estimates that, between 2025 and 2035, AI could destroy between 1.7 and 2.3 million jobs in Spain. At the most optimistic end, the impact figure of AI drops to about 700,000 jobs. In their most pessimistic forecast, they could exceed a gross job destruction of up to 3.5 million jobs, a range that reflects the real uncertainty about how quickly AI will be implemented in companies. Destroying is not the same as displacing. The study highlights that gross destruction is not the same as net destruction and the main difference is that, in absolute terms, there will be a displacement of employment, destroying employment in some sectors, to generate new vacancies in others. Therefore, this range of 1.7 to 2.3 million jobs does not mean that these workers will not have access to another job other than the one they held. The creation of new occupations linked to AI could reach around 1.61 million positions in the 2023-2033 horizon, which would leave the estimated net loss in the central scenario at around 400,000 jobs. This displacement of employment remains in line with what the ‘Report on the future of employment 2025‘ prepared by the World Economic Forum. Who is most exposed? The problem that the Funcas study reveals is that the positions that disappear and those that are created are not the same nor do they require the same training profile, so accessing new occupations requires a different training. The bulk of this impact is concentrated on administrative, intermediate and senior technical profiles, profiles that perform repetitive tasks of information processing, document writing or data management. Something in which AI is demonstrating its best abilities. On the other hand, between 2.8 and 3.5 million workers will not see their jobs disappear, but will They will work more productively thanks to AI tools, doing more work in less time without your job disappearing. Spain still depends a lot on physical employment. Spain also presents a somewhat particular position compared to its European neighbors regarding the impact of AI on its labor market due to the nature of the Spanish business fabric. The study places the real risk of automation in the Spanish labor market at 5.9%, well below the OECD average (12%). This difference is explained by the greater weight of physical tasks in traditional professions in the Spanish economy, which are more difficult to automate. Even so, in terms of general exposure to AI, Spain stands at 27.4% compared to the OECD average of 26%. In Spain, more and more work is being done with AI. In the first quarter of 2025, 21.1% of Spanish companies with ten or more employees already used at least one AI technologycompared to 12.4% who used it in 2023. This data represents a jump of 8.7 points in just two years. By sectors, technology companies are the ones that have most integrated the use of AI into their processes with 58.7%, followed by the Services sector (25.7%), Industry (17.5%) and, surprisingly, Construction (11.4%). Companies that have integrated AI have an average productivity that is 27% higher than those that do not use this technology, although the report warns that the most productive companies They are also the most likely to adopt technology, so that difference cannot be attributed entirely to AI. “This acceleration is an indicator that the process of technological diffusion has reached a critical mass and that its effects on employment will begin to materialize in a perceptible way in the coming years,” says the Funcas report. In Xataka | “They blame AI for layoffs they would do anyway”: Sam Altman confirms that AI has been used as an excuse to lay off Image | Unsplash (Lala Azizli)

They believed they had found jobs in large companies. In reality they were being deceived: this is how the trap works

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Looking for a job is already hard enough without having to be suspicious of every message that arrives in your inbox. And yet, that is exactly what the campaign that has warned about proposes. NordVPN: a trap set up to look like a real opportunity. We are not talking about a clumsy email or a sloppy website, but rather something much more refined, with names like Meta, Disney, Coca-Cola or Spotify as a claim. That’s the key to everything: they play with the illusion of those who believe they may be on the verge of an interview or a new job, when in reality they are entering into a fraud. The investigation alerts of a campaign of phishing specifically aimed at job seekers. The attackers have set up an attack chain in several phases that impersonates large brands and seeks to take the victim to a very specific point: a false login screen with which they intend to keep their Facebook credentials. Let’s see in detail the strategy of these cybercriminals. The mechanics behind fraud that imitates real selection processes It all starts with cold recruitment emails, carefully written and with a professional tone that seeks to resemble real human resources communications. It is not a minor detail that some of these shipments are made through legitimate services such as Google AppSheetbecause not only can that help you avoid spam filters, it also helps make the scene more believable to the person on the other end. The trap, at least at the beginning, is not presented in a crude way, but with a very careful appearance. From there, one of the most peculiar pieces of the entire chain appears: the so-called “HUB” domains. According to the investigation, these are pages that do not show their most sensitive content to anyone who enters directly. If a security analyst or an automated system visits that domain without coming from the specific link included in the email, what they find is a generic website, with hardly any visible activity. The truly important part is only activated when the visit arrives from that specific reference, which acts as a key and reveals the next step of the deception. The next move of the campaign is to give the victim exactly what they expect to see after a convincing recruitment email: a website that looks like a job portal. The research explains that, after that first access, the user lands on a intermediate domain which simulates a legitimate job offer portal and where you can consult positions that seem real and associated with the company whose identity they are impersonating. The more the scene resembles a normal job search, the easier it is for the person to interpret everything that comes after as a logical part of the same process. Campaign replicates legitimate job pages and uses Facebook login as hook The decisive moment comes when the victim clicks on “Request” or “Send request”. That click does not open a job form or a next phase of the supposed selection process, but rather a phishing page that asks you to log in with Facebook to continue. That’s where the trap stops insinuating itself and begins to execute its true purpose. All of the above was designed to lead to that exact point, one in which the request may seem like another simple verification within the application, when in reality what is being delivered are the account credentials. The supposed job opportunity was nothing more than the decoration of an operation with a much more specific purpose. According to the research, the final objective is steal Facebook credentials and thus obtain access to the victim’s account, with the possibility of also compromising other services connected to it. That’s why it’s a good idea to stick with a practical idea: before entering any credential, you should check the URL carefully, check that you are on the official domain, and be wary of any strange login. Images | Xataka with Grok | NordVPN In Xataka | AI is crucial for the US military. So he’s naming OpenAI and Palantir leaders as lieutenant generals

Steve Jobs preferred to recover them and bury them in a landfill

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In 1983, Apple launched Lisa, a revolutionary computer for its graphical interface and its innovative use of the mouse, both features ahead of their time. However, several factors worked against it and made it a commercial failure: its exorbitant price of 10,000 dollars (equivalent to about 30,000 euros today), its hardware failures and the tough competition with IBM… and with Apple’s own Macintosh model, much more affordable. So only 30,000 units were sold before Apple canceled production in 1985, leaving the company with a surplus of 7,000 copies stored without a clear destination. The visionary reseller who didn’t see Apple coming That’s where Bob Cook, founder of Sun Remarketing, a company specialized in reselling technology products, especially those from Apple, comes into the picture. After having achieved success reselling the Apple III, Cook decided to bet even bigger and acquired the remaining 7,000 Lisa at a bargain price with the intention of updating and relaunching them to the market as ‘Lisa Professional’. Thus, Cook and his team invested $200,000 in improvements to solve the Lisa’s problems. The floppy drive, RAM and hard drive were optimized, in addition to installing a more modern version of the Macintosh operating system. Everything was ready for a relaunch that promised to give new life to a computer condemned to oblivion. Today, the Apple Lisa is considered a collector’s item and a milestone in the history of personal computing. A drastic decision However, what seemed like a great deal turned into a nightmare for Cook. Apple had a clause in the sales contract which allowed him to recover the computers at any time, and he decided to activate it in 1989, just before the renewed ‘Lisa Professional’ hit the market. Cook couldn’t do anything to prevent it: preferred not to legally confront the powerful Cupertino company and saw his investment disappear in a few days. It is speculated that the company did not want these computers to compete with its new products, in addition to the fact that the image of a failed model recycled by third parties did not fit with its strict brand control policy. Apple did not limit itself only to recovering the Lisa, but also took an even more radical decision: he destroyed them and buried them at a landfill in Logan, Utah: the company even benefited financially from the destruction of the computers thanks to tax deductions for inventory depreciation. A technological burial that has gone down in history The case is reminiscent of the famous burial of cartridges of the Atari’s ‘ET the Extra-Terrestrial’ video gameanother famous failure of the technology industry. But, unlike this one, Apple’s decision generated criticism for the waste of technology which, with a better approach, could have been recycled instead of buried (and we complain today about the planned obsolescence…). On the other hand, there are still doubts about the exact number of computers that were destroyed: while some sources speak of 7,000 units, others leave open the possibility that some updated Lisas “escaped” the fate that the company had prepared for them. Image | Photomontage by Marcos Merino In Xataka | You can now emulate an old Mac from the 80s in your browser In Xataka | This impressive collection of classic computers is made of paper – and there are templates for you to assemble them too This article was originally published in Genbeta in February 2025 and is part of Genbeta’s “greatest hits” that we will discover here in the coming weeks.

Spain awarded 20 million euros to Stellantis to create jobs in Galicia. Europe has prevented the money from being delivered

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20,660,434 euros. That was the aid that the Government of Spain granted in 2017 to PSA (now Stellantis after its merger with FCA) as “regional incentives for the correction of territorial economic imbalances.” Just two years later, the European Commission already doubted the appropriateness of this aid. Almost a decade after its delivery, Stellantis will have to return the money. 20.7 million euros. It was the money given by Mariano Rajoy’s Government in 2017 to the automobile conglomerate PSA. The company, then directed by Carlos Tavares, had been looking for money framed within the “Industrial Plan 2014-2020” in which funds from the European Union were available. The Spanish subsidiary of PSA, known as PCAE, requested aid of 392 million euros in 2014 to carry out the necessary actions to modernize the plant and launch a new model. The aid program was expanded, with another 100 million in subsequent years because PSA was going to produce a new vehicle platform and a new SUV car in Vigo. In 2017, shortly before Mariano Rajoy left Moncloa, the Government of Spain provided the aforementioned aid of 20.7 million euros since it corresponded to the maximum percentage allowed with respect to the investment that was planned to be used. many doubts. In 2019the European Commission was already beginning to doubt the legality or compatibility of this aid. In a document submitted thenquestioned whether the subsidies provided were meeting the criteria to create employment in the area. In said letter, PSA was already invited and the Government of Spain has explained the reason for this aid. In that document, the European Commission questioned whether the positive effects of the aid outweighed the negative ones and, therefore, that the decision to financially support the company with those more than 20 million euros was not economically doping its commitment to our country instead of taking production to the Trnava plant (Slovakia) with which Vigo competed. According to the European Commission, it believed that both plants were competing on equal terms and that the socioeconomic context of the Slovaks was no worse than that of Vigo. Furthermore, they pointed out that the defense that this aid helped preserve employment in Galicia in the face of a possible relocation to Morocco (a position defended by Spain) was not sufficient because PSA had already previously relocated other vehicles that were previously manufactured in Spain. Seven years of research. Already in 2020, Europe continued to defend that the Commission had its doubts “regarding the contribution of investment projects to the development of the region in question”, as they stated in elDiario.es. Then it was thought that the company’s true intention was to improve the factory facilities with the sole objective of improving the company’s competitiveness but that it had nothing to do with an improvement in innovation and local investments. There were even doubts about the compatibility of being able to deliver these aid to a company like PCAE (the Spanish subsidiary of PSA). One of the most compelling reasons presented by the European Commission is, as they point out in The Worldthe choice of the Vigo company to the detriment of the Slovaks. And it is considered that opting for a more economically developed region to receive aid contravenes the principles of cohesion of the European Union, which prevents the delivery of this type of subsidies. Case closed. Now, the Government of Spain has notified the European Commission that it is withdrawing the subsidy of 20.7 million euros. He has done it because he cannot prove its legality. As the money has not yet been delivered, the European Commission has closed the investigation, they explain in the Galician media. praza.gal. At this time, Spain has not been able to demonstrate that the number of jobs increased after the aid was granted nor that it represented an economic boost in the region. In fact, it was possible that the number of jobs could even be reduced, as they point out in Motorpassion. During this time, the money has not been delivered because it remained frozen with the European investigation. Now we know that Stellantis will not charge it. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | The Stellantis factory in Figueruelas has been looking for a reconversion plan for years. You already have it: make Chinese electric cars

We believed that AI was killing jobs in the tech industry. It is actually changing the rules of the game: Crossover 1×41

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It is possible that in the future AI will take away our jobs, but at the moment it is being taken away from very few. This was stated in a recent Anthropic study on the impact of AI on the labor market, and this is a perfect perch to present the debate that concerns us in Crossover 1×41. And it is a special edition because we have as a guest Jordi Arrufiof Talent Arena. This event, which is held within the framework of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​is aimed at future developers and also senior profiles, and with it we had the opportunity to talk about how AI is changing the rules of the game for professionals in the sector. To begin, we must dispel myths. At least for now, because although there was a time that AI was going to replace programmers, what is being seen according to Arrufí is that The demand for technological talent is increasing. In fact, what is expected is that the impact of AI will cause this technology to begin to create jobs that we cannot even imagine. We also couldn’t imagine that with the rise of the Internet there would be frontend and backend developers or web designers: the same in this case. Many professionals may fear that future, and here the recommendation to be prepared for the future is that these professionals combine your technical capacity (‘hard skills’) with human capabilities (‘soft skills’) such as critical thinking, leadership or communication. The frenetic advancement of AI also makes the ability for continuous learning and adaptability key in these changing times. He vibe coding has changed the paradigm, and has opened this area even to users without basic programming knowledge. Plus there is something striking here. A real opportunity for current professionals and those to come, because if something is clearly taking off it is interest in technological sovereignty. Europe seeks to recover ground against the US and China through investments in chipsFor example. Public funding is especially critical to retaining talent and prevents professionals from emigrate for higher wages. We also had the opportunity to talk about another of the areas of greatest projection: robotics. It is expected a imminent adoption of humanoid robots in industry and in logistics processes. Domestic robots will take longer, no doubt, but what seems clear is that by 2035 the world will be dominated by AI agents and massive advances in fields such as biotechnology. This is not just about AI: It’s about talent, money and who adapts faster and in a more accurate way. On YouTube | Crossover In Xataka | A startup from Malaga is the most used European AI app in the world according to Andreessen Horowitz. It’s called Freepik

Volkswagen is going to eliminate 50,000 jobs by 2030: it is the price it pays for having fallen asleep

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The German giant closed 2025 with the worst result in almost a decade. It is no wonder, because right now Volkswagen is in the middle of several open fronts, among them China’s pressure and USAwave transition to electricwhere it is putting special focus. But the context has not been the only reason. The blow in figures. The Group had a profit of 6.4 billion euros in 2025, 44% less than the previous year. In fact, it is the lowest since 2016, the year of the diesel scandal. Total revenue remained stable at around €322 billion, but operating profit fell almost by half to €8.9 billion. On the other hand, the group’s operating margin stood at 2.8%. Why is this happening? Context doesn’t help, but it’s not just context either. Volkswagen has had structural problems for years that the current crisis has amplified: your internal software it is expensive and slow; China, its largest market, it slips out of your hands; The Trump administration’s tariffs hit its sales in the US and Europe is buying fewer cars than before the pandemic, specifically some two million fewer vehicles per year than in pre-pandemic. In Xataka The electric car revolution has an absolute winner: the Chinese battery giant is becoming more and more giant The adjustment plan. Oliver Blume, CEO of the group, communicated in his annual letter to shareholders that “in total, around 50,000 jobs will be eliminated before 2030 in the Volkswagen Group in Germany.” The cut exceeds 35,000 positions that had already been agreed with the unions at the end of 2024 within the restructuring pact ‘Zukunft Volkswagen’ (The future of Volkswagen). This agreement, signed with the IG Metall union and the works council, prohibits the reduction of staff and guarantees employment until the end of the decade, but in exchange it freezes salaries in 2025 and 2026 and reduces productive capacity by 734,000 units per year. The company estimates that these measures can generate up to €15 billion in annual savings by 2030. The additional 15,000 positions now announced come from brands such as Audi and Porsche, and software subsidiary CARIAD. What’s wrong with China. Volkswagen was the best-selling manufacturer in China for decades. In 2024 lost that position to BYD; in 2025 it fell to third place, also surpassed by Geely. The group’s total sales in the country fell 8% in 2025, and those of electric vehicles plummeted more than 44%. To answer, the group works with XPeng on a specific electrical architecture for the Chinese market, the CEA platform, which is now ready for series production. Blume described the process as transforming “an idea into cutting-edge architecture in just 18 months.” {“videoId”:”x9tnvi4″,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”Why YOUR NEXT CAR WILL SURELY BE CHINESE”, “tag”:”Webedia-prod”, “duration”:”614″} The software problem. One of the group’s most expensive burdens has been CARIAD, its internal software division in which it invested around 12 billion euros without the expected results. The group has pivoted, with CARIAD now primarily managing external alliances. The most important is the one it maintains with Rivian, the American manufacturer of electric vehicles, in which Volkswagen has committed 5.8 billion dollars. Rivian’s technology, its zonal architecture and its software, will debut in the VW ID.1scheduled for 2027. Last week, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough told investors that the relationship is “very strong” and that work is progressing faster than VW could have done alone. In Xataka Renault has encountered a problem: it does not know how to grow. And he believes that his solution is to become premium Porsche, the other source of tension. The Stuttgart brand, usually the most profitable of the group, has also been affected. Its commitment to electric power has cost it nearly 4.7 billion euros, a figure that has practically absorbed its entire operating profit. Sales in China have also suffered. What’s coming now? “We can only achieve this if we continue to rigorously reduce costs. That is what we will focus on in the coming months,” counted the group’s CFO, Arno Antlitz. The group also is studying cuts of 20% in the costs of all its brands before the end of 2028. However, there are signs of improvement: the fourth quarter of 2025 was better than the previous ones, and the group foresees an operating margin of between 4% and 5.5% for 2026. Cover image | Volkswagen In Xataka |Renault wants to become bigger than ever before 2030. And to achieve this they are going to copy the philosophy of the Chinese brands (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 Volkswagen is going to eliminate 50,000 jobs by 2030: it is the price it pays for having fallen asleep was originally published in Xataka by Antonio Vallejo .

More and more Spaniards use AI in their daily work. They also fear losing their jobs because of it.

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Artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technological promise and has become something that more and more Spanish workers already have installed in their daily routine. Not long ago, talking about AI at work sounded like science fiction and, on many occasions, it was even seen like a trap at work. Today, the data tells a very different story and adoption not only growsbut it does so at a speed that surprises even the analysts themselves. A report from the InfoJobs platform highlights that in the last year not only has the percentage of employees who use AI in their work grown, but increasingly understands them better. It is increasingly used at work. According to the IV InfoJobs Artificial Intelligence Report63% of professionals in Spain regularly use AI tools in 2026. This figure represents an increase compared to the 52% recorded in the 2025 report and 50% in 2024. Within this increase in the presence of AI in the workplace, the report highlights that the spontaneous use of AI stands at 51%, 17 points more than in 2025. The data indicates that the difference between the total use of AI and that declared has been reduced from 18 to 12 points. That is, workers not only use AI more, but they also better identify what technology they have in their hands and what they can do with it. They have an AI and they know how to use it. In 2025, 48% of professionals said they did not know or did not know how to use AI tools. In 2026, that percentage has fallen to 28%, a reduction of 20 points in just one year. In this sense, the generation gap becomes more visible. Among those under 35 years of age, the declared use of AI reaches 63%, compared to 47% among those over that age. Mónica Pérez, Director of Communication and Studies at InfoJobs, summarizes it like this: “Artificial intelligence has gone from being an emerging technology to being progressively integrated into normal work processes. Beyond the increase in its use, the data reflects greater identification and awareness of the use of this tool by professionals, which points to an increasingly consolidated adoption in the work environment and a paradigm shift.” ChatGPT leads, machine translation goes down. Among the most used AI tools in Spanish companies, ChatGPT-type chatbots stand out, which have gone from 37% in 2024 to 52% in 2026 and already top the ranking of the most used. The integration of AI in design tools and as a programming assistant does not go unnoticed, with a significant increase in use in the workplace, standing at 17% and 16% respectively. For its part, automatic translation, one of the main uses of AI at work in 2025, it drops from 58% to 51%. The percentage of users who claim not to use any specific tool in their work has been reduced from 7% to 4%. All this fits with what is happening globally that, by eliminating friction at work, employees tend to take on more tasks, generating more fatigue and workload if it is not managed well. Fear of dismissal grows. Having a greater understanding of the potential of AI tools and knowing what they are capable of also increases the uncertainty about your future job. 39% of those interviewed for the InfoJobs report believe that AI will cause some specific layoffsalthough without replacing specialized work, a percentage higher than 30% in 2025. 23% predict more widespread substitution, while the same percentage considers that the workforce is not easily replaceable with AI alone. This perspective varies depending on presentation of your position to AI. Among those who already use AI regularly in their workplace, 46% see the scenario of specific layoffs as likely, compared to 26% of those who do not use it. The AI ​​gap between companies. According to the study ‘Digitization of the Spanish company‘ Prepared by the UGT union with data from the INE, 21.1% of companies with more than 10 workers used AI in 2025, which represents a considerable increase compared to the previous year in which 9.55% was registered. Among large companies with more than 250 employees, the percentage rises to 58.2%, an increase of 13 points year-on-year. The data from the report indicates that Spain exceeds the OECD and EU average in AI integration, with 20.3% of companies regularly using AI. However, Spain is still very far from the implementation of this technology in Denmark (42%), Finland (38%) or Sweden (35%). Despite the general increase in the use of AI, there is data that indicates that this progress is not being transferred to internal talent since the percentage of ICT specialists in companies it has been reduced from 16.44% to 15.67%, a figure that UGT describes as “unexpected and disturbing.” In Xataka | The biggest fear was that AI would take our jobs. The reality is that it is replacing those who are learning to work Image | Unsplash (Anastassia Anufrieva)

Someone has paid 2.4 million for a check for 500. It bears the signatures of Steve Jobs and Wozniak

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Turning $500 into $2.4 million could be anyone’s wet dream cryptobro, but the story at hand It has nothing to do with investment. The protagonist is a small piece of paper, and not just any one, but one that was key in the creation of one of the most important technology companies of our era: Apple. lto auction. It occurred a few days ago via RR Auction. The object auctioned was the $500 check that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak signed in March 1976 and its final price was $2,409,886, 4,800 times its original value. The check is encapsulated in a plastic casing and its authenticity and quality is certified with a “MINT 9” note, which indicates that it is in a perfect state of conservation. The first check. Throughout their time together, the Apple founders signed many checks, but this one is special because it is the first of all. Furthermore, getting the money was not easy. At that time neither of the two steves He was rich, so Jobs had to sell his van and Wozniak his HP 65 calculator. At the time of his signature, there were still 16 days left before the official birth of the company, so we can affirm that he was a key player in the birth of Apple. The assignment. We already know who the senders were, but who was the receiver? The check is made out to Howard Cantin, who at the time was designing printed circuit boards at Atari. The commission for which he received this amount was to create the plaque that would carry the Apple Ithe company’s first computer that went on sale a few months later. When it was time to get paid, Steve Jobs offered Cantin shares in Apple, but Cantin preferred money. Little did he know that the company would be worth $4 billion. It was not the only thing that was auctioned. The check was the star object of the Apple 50th anniversary auctionbut there were many others such as the opening document for Apple’s first bank account, which sold for $828,569. The Apple poster that Jobs had hanging in his living room was also sold for $659,900 and the most expensive: the prototype of the Apple I board, which reached $2,750,000. In total, the auction has raised more than $8 million. In Xataka | Einstein’s first violin had passed unnoticed. Until an auction house put it up for sale. Image | Wikipedia

The jobs that will grow the fastest in the next decade, in a revealing graph about the future

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Knowing which professions are going to be the most in demand is always a good idea: either because you are in the academic period and want to better outline what to study or because you want a professional change or specialize. Of course, if it is also accompanied by the best conditions. The winning combo: demand and wages. Every era has its challenges, but undoubtedly the emergence of AI generates more uncertainty: from its usurpation of junior positionsnow you can program without knowing how to program and translators already live with the sword of Damocles on. Whichever phase you’re in, this graph of data on the fastest-growing jobs through 2034 is quite revealing in terms of bringing together both demand and salary range. The graphic is provided by Visual Capitalistwhich in turn uses information from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics collected by USAFactssomething to especially take into account due to the issue of salaries: Spain is not exactly in the United States in the rankings of salary from all countries in the world. What’s more, it is not even in the high area in the salaries of the states of the European Union. Care at the center. If there is an area that stands out in the coming years, it is those related to care, with home care and personal care assistants increasing abysmally compared to the rest by 740,000 new positions until 2034. A little further down, health classics such as medical and health area managers with almost 143,000 more positions and nursing, which both in internships and already qualified exceed 260,000 positions. Of course, this increase in auxiliaries does not go hand in hand with a huge salary: it is well below what can be achieved in nursing and medicine in particular, and the list in general. Technology is balance. If you are looking for a profession with demand and a good salary, the technology sector meets both requirements. The job that appears at the top of the graph is software developers, which will increase by 268,000 positions and will have an average salary of $133,000 (we insist, in the United States). A little further down, those responsible for computer and information systems, with just over 100,000 new positions between now and 2034. The jobs that will grow the most until 2034. Visual Capitalist Money, money, money. If you are looking for the positions with the best remuneration, a no-brainer: managers, specifically those in computer systems, which increase by 100,000 jobs and have an average salary of $171,000. However, in general the payrolls of data scientists, software developers, IT and financial systems managers, financial directors and nursing specializations stand out. Beyond the numbers. Leaving aside salary differences, there are readings of the figures and the graph that cross borders. As the population ages, the need for care of all kinds inevitably increases, whether in residences or at home. On the other hand, it is true that AI is already affecting the IT sector: big tech companies are already slowing down hiring and there have been layoffsbut also that it will take someone who knows how everything works to implement it in different industries. In fact, one of the most in-demand profiles is AI engineering: it has increased by 278.5% since its lowest point in 2023 and currently has 24,957 vacancies open, according to data by TrueUp. In Xataka | What salaries are like in Europe, explained in a revealing graph In Xataka | The main companies in each province of Spain, on an interactive map that says a lot about the country’s economy Cover | Visual Capitalist

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