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Bitcoin boasts decentralization. But a third is already in the hands of large centralized actors

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Bitcoin’s “whales” are getting bigger. This is what it indicates A recent study of Gemini and Glassnode in which there is talk of the great “centralized treasury of Bitcoin”, which already control 30.9% of the bitcoins that currently circulate. The data is striking, but it is not entirely conclusive, and the decentralization of cryptocurrency remains high. 216 Ballenatos. In 2021 we talked about how Bitcoin’s 10,000 most important investors They controlled more than a third of all cryptocurrencies in circulation. They were the great whales of the market, people or entities that had accumulated huge amounts of cryptodivisas. That concentration was already worrying, but now it is more: According to the data From the aforementioned study, there are now 216 large centralized entities that controls a third of all bitcoin in circulation. An upward trend. The report indicates how the total number of bitcoins that have ended up acquiring the great institutional and custody entities has grown up to 6,145,207 bitcoins. That represents an increase of 924% in the amount of bitcoins that such entities had a decade ago. Of hate to institutional love. During the past decade the vast majority of the institutions remained away from Bitcoin, but in recent times we have lived a unique change in the mentality of these entities. Companies and governments have begun to invest in Bitcoins in an extraordinary way, and Institutional love It is now a clear exponent of the situation – and the price – of Bitcoin. Companies that bet strongly. Bitcoin’s value does not suffer great changes weeks, but the enthusiasm on the part of the great entities continues. Strategythe firm led by Michael Saylor, Keep buying as if there were no tomorrow and already has 592,000 of these cryptodivises. Far away are others such as Mara Holdings (49,179) or Twenty One Capital, which It already has 37,230 bitcoins. Tesla, by the way, has 11,509 bitcoins, although that unusual interest seems to have stopped. Companies such as Exchange Coinbase (9,267) or the “Mining” Hut 8 mining corp (10,273) group also demonstrate that interest in monopolizing more and more bitcoins. And the countries, too. Not only are companies: some governments have also made strong investments in this cryptocurrency or have obtained it from seizures. The US is a good example: almost all of its 207,189 bitcoins come from the operations carried out against Silk Road or what He recovered In 2022 after the Bitfinex hacking In 2016. The North American country is the one that has the most BTC ahead of China (194,000) or the United Kingdom (61,000). El Salvador, who was especially notorious to end up becoming Bitcoin into legal tender and then backwardyou have much less, 6,089 bitcoins. They are still many. A misleading concentration. Although Gemini’s data are striking, they are also somewhat confused, especially because in their definition of large entities the large markets for the sale of cryptodivisas and The ETF and Bitcoin -based financial products. But it is that in reality the cryptocurrencies that accumulate these centralized entities – which are certainly – are not one of those entities in their vast majority, but of the investors that use them and operate in this market through such financial products. A more realistic figure. Similar studies such as Made by Bitmex Research in April reveal a somewhat less worrying concentration. Of the 21 million bitcoin that will end up producing, 11.9% are in the hands of companies and governments, but above all of ETFs and funds, as well as Indicates Bitcintreasuries. The vast majority (69.4%) are in the hands of independent investors, and especially surprises how 7.5% of all bitcoins that have occurred have ended up being lost forever. That percentage was even higher in 2017but since then it seems that those who invest in them have taken many measures to avoid losing them. Outstanding image | Erling Løken Andersen In Xataka | A man threw his hard drive and lost 700 million euros in Bitcoins. Now you will have your own series

We believed that the large numbers of soldiers dead in combat were a thing of the past. Until the Ukraine War arrived

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This week a New report Updated from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. The data, by drudos, left the imagination a few doubts: just over three years after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict has reached low figures that place it between The bloodiest of modern history. We have attended historical statistics to find out how much. The human cost of a stagnant war. As we said, the CSIS study revealed that the total number of dead or injured soldiers amounts to almost 1.4 millionof which around one million are Russians and 400,000 Ukrainians. This figure is even more shocking if it is considered that Ukraine does not publish its official data and that Russia, according to Experts warnsystematically underestimate your losses. The study is based on estimates from American and British sources, in addition to satellite images and field analysis. The slowest war. The work tells more things. For example, despite the huge number of casualties, Russian territorial advances since January 2024 have been practically insignificant: less than 1% of the conquered Ukrainian territory, with an average advance rhythm of just 50 meters per day, even more than even the more expensive offensives of World War I. Today, Russia occupies approximately the 20% of the Ukrainian territorybut without achieving decisive advances. This slowness, together with the Mass destruction Of war material, he has turned the Russian campaign one of the clearest examples of wear war of the 21st century. Irreplaceable losses. However, if something betrays the brutality of the contest in Ukraine, that is the data of the CSIS that estimates that at least 250,000 Russian soldiers They have died in combat, which represents the highest military mortality rate of any Soviet or Russian war since World War II. For its part, Ukraine would have lost between 60,000 and 100,000 soldiers. However, the proportion of forces in the front It is overwhelming: More than 400,000 Russian soldiers in front of about 250,000 Ukrainians, with Russia benefiting from a much larger population and aggressive replacement mechanisms. As We have counted: Moscow has avoided declaring a new general mobilization, but has resorted to Recruitment of prisonersdebtors and people with criminal causes, to whom it offers lucrative contracts or the cancellation of charges in exchange for the military service. CSIS data shows a shocking Moscow casualties against other conflicts where Russia was The historical scope. With the figure offered by the CSIS We have attended the historical statistics of similar war conflicts (excluding civil or genocide wars), all after World War II, to measure the scope and impact of the losses that are taking place in Ukraine on the Russian side. The base is that estimate of 250,000 losses since the beginning of the conflict in 2022. A point and apart. The first data we found is that the estimation of the 250,000 losses makes the Ukrainian conflict The most lethal For Russian forces since World War II, surpassing the losses in Afghanistan (1979–1989), where the USSR lost Around 15,000 soldiersbut in ten years. Comparatively, in the Korean War (1950–1953), China (the main ally of North Korea) lost Between 180,000 and 400,000 fighters in three years of conflict, while the United States registered some 33,700 casualties in combat. Not even Vietnam. In the Vietnam War (1955–1975), United States He suffered 58,220 deathsbut, again, it happened in a period of twenty years. For his part, Northern Vietnam lost Between 400,000 and 1.1 million Of soldiers, although those figures, again, accumulate over two decades. Even in the devastating Guerra Iran -ira (1980–1988), with close to One million combined casualtiesonly Iran exceeded the current Russian figures in a longer period, with estimates of 200,000 to 262,000 dead. Therefore, the intensity of Russian losses, concentrated in a short period, is exceptional in the history of contemporary interstate conflicts. Deep consequences. It is the last of the legs to analyze. Russia, despite having a population greater than Ukraine and, a priori, a deeper human replacement capacity, faces a accelerated erosion of their professional military capacity. Unlike previous conflicts where deaths were distributed in longer campaigns, the current wear of wear (right now around 7,000 soldiers dead per month) threat with structural degrade to its armed forces. If these levels are maintained, Russia could exceed the psychological and logistic threshold that prevents you from sustaining the offensive. In front of wars such as the Gulf (1990–1991), where Iraq lost between 20,000 and 35,000 soldiers In just over a month, or the invasion of Iraq in 2003, where the United States suffered less than 5,000 casualties In eight years, the contrast is, if possible, even more extreme. The war in Ukraine, in terms of direct military loss and temporary concentration, has become an atypical case for its lethality and its potential for internal destabilization for the aggressor country. Image | Ministry of Defense of UkraineCsis, Worldindata In Xataka | The true magnitude of the Ukraine drones attack to Russia has revealed the space: the bombers were not alone In Xataka | A technology 20 years ago took Ukraine to the Russian bombers. Moscow’s response comes from China: a laser cannon

A country has literally found the bomb -proof solution to the large electrical blackouts: Ukraine

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It happened a few hours ago. Among the multiple calls that the Spanish Government has received from countries, worrying about the emergency situation after The national blackoutone did not go unnoticed. Zelensky, president of Ukraine, called Pedro Sánchezand not only to show your support, but to provide all the necessary help. After all, if anyone knows about blackouts, that is the nation of the East. They have learned to survive in the dark and Russian bomb proof. The devastation of the electrical system. From the beginning of the large -scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has directed a good part of its attacks against infrastructure Ukrainian energy. Last summer, Ukraine had lost and in just three months More than nine gigawatts of generation capacity, more than a third of the one it owned before the war. According to Ukrenergo dataThis would be equivalent to the total demand of countries such as the Netherlands at peak hours, or even the sum of Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Winter. All state thermal plants were destroyed and all hydroelectric plants had suffered damage to missiles or drones. The strategy of Russian attacks was clear: it was not only sought to destroy military capacity, but to break the soul of a society through forced darkness, interrupting the most essential: Heating, running water, elevators, communications, operating rooms or the simple possibility of maintaining an organized civil life. Today, and according to the UN agency for refugees, More than 60% From the country’s electricity generation capacity it has been destroyed or useless. In a country where winter is not only a station but an existential threat, running without energy is running out of heating, without water, without communications. For millions, electricity represents the last bastion between dignity and precarious survival. Survive blackouts. He told the last July the BBC that the blackouts in Ukraine had become a presence as constant as the war itself. In cities such as Odessa, Kyiv or Zaporizhzhia, electricity was an intermittent luxury, a resource that appears and disappears under the buzzing of the generators or the sepulchral silence of the fallen network. In that context, electricity ceased to be just a comfort to become the threshold between life and death. Cases like Tetiana’smother of a child with serious disabilities, who lives that truth every day: her son depends on breathing machines, feeding and receiving medication. Without stable supply, his life hangs from a thread. In your home, prolonged blackouts (sometimes twelve hours a day) force to constantly feed a gasoline generator that, in addition, must stop every six hours so as not to overheat. When your child convulses, the minutes without mobile or ambulance coverage are transformed into torture. In words to the British environment“You can die if you don’t receive oxygen. I am missing words.” Thus thin is the line between chaos and survival. Scheduled cuts. In August of last year there was a substantial change in the struggle of Ukraine to the blackouts. A Mondayhundreds of missiles and Russian drones fell on the nation. First the electricity was cut, then the water. That day marked the Greater Russian air attack against Ukrainian energy infrastructure since the beginning of large -scale invasion. The bombing continued the next day, raising the number of deaths to twelve and leaving millions of people throughout the country. The largest private energy company in Ukraine, DTEKmade a decision: Apply scheduled cuts In multiple regions: Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk. On the periphery of the capital, the neighbors began to live with six hours of blackout followed by two hours with electricity, in the early morning. A rhythm that allowed planning (even if not resting). Loading with energy. The result of the situation is that Ukraine has learned to live with the blackouts. What would have paralyzed the country before, today faced with Decentralized solutions. In Kyiv, the so -called “invincibility points” offer citizens electrical charge and the Internet during the cuts. But many do not even go to them: they have made portable batteries an object as essential as mobile phone or keys. Most shops, from street stalls to shopping centers, already have their own generators. In fact and as we said, that buzz of its engines has become the usual soundtrack of the blackouts. Examples Told the CNN Maksym Holubchenko, a 25 -year -old barista in the capital, that his cafeteria remains open thanks to one of those generators. However, it does not supply to cover all the demand: in winter you can maintain the operation, but in summer they must turn off the air conditioning and parts of the coffee maker so as not to overload the system. Adaptation is not comfortable, it is simply the result of an urgent need, and a resistance without alternatives. For Inna, an 87 -year -old woman from Odessa, the current situation arouses ancient echoes. “I already survived World War, so I have some experience … I bought candles,” He reported. His story underlines a painful paradox: a modern, European country, with full integration ambitions in the West, forced to technologically retreat, to depend on the rudimentary to face the essential. The candles, thermos, the portable loaders, the calendars marked by electric cuts … make up a new normality born of the energy siege. Go to the bank without light. Before prolonged blackouts caused by Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, the National Bank of Ukraine has also launched the Power Banking Projecta network of autonomous bank branches designed to operate without depending on the electricity supply. These “unwavering” offices will be equipped with generators, special communication channels, ATMs, additional and effective personnel available, allowing citizens to access essential services such as money withdrawals, payments, transfers, currency change and financial advice even during prolonged cuts. In addition, a “National Roaming System” Between ATMs, with unified limits and without commissions between banks, initiative already adopted by entities Like Oschadbankto guarantee equitable cash access throughout the country. Broken as a resistance symbol. In short, Ukraine applies preventive cuts Not only … Read more

‘A Minecraft movie’ is becoming such a large phenomenon that is causing disturbances in cinemas

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‘A Minecraft movie’ is in its second week in cinemas and we can stop considering it a day flower: His monumental box office He has already made it the film that has raised the most in what we have been from the year. But there are more: the passes are becoming authentic jungles, with disturbances, interrupted passes and a long etcetera of phenomena that have nothing passenger. We are facing the most noticeable movie of the year … although for reasons that have nothing to do with their quality. Second weekend. 80 million dollars in the United States has raised, which represents a 50% drop with respect to its overwhelming 162.7 million debut, but remains a figure that makes the film the success of the year: it has already been raised 550 million in the world, advancing to ‘Captain America: Brave New World’. The film has given a very welcome thrust to a loose box office for this start of the year and gives the starting gun for a series of expected successes: ‘Thunderbolts’, the new ‘impossible mission’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ The most popular game in history. Although the first advances were badly receivedkneading a spectacular amount of Dyslikes In Warner’s official channels on YouTube, there is a different phenomenon, but comparable to that of the film of ‘Super Mario Bros‘: A failure between median critics and spectators, but a success among its target audience. It is actually pure mathematics: ‘A Minecraft film’ is aimed at a number of potential spectators of 300 million (it is the last official sales data, October 2023), and many of them are responding to the call. Not everyone plays. And those 300 million (which today will be many more) are multiplied by a very simple issue: many of the game fans They do not playbut they consume videos related to the game. It is calculated that could be tens of thousands of Streamers of the gameeach of them with their own thousands of followers, who are not necessarily players. Recall that there are 600 million registered players (the fourth most popular game in the world). It is a real land paid to take the Z generation to the rooms. A complicated phenomenon to adapt. ” Minecraft ‘has successfully brought to the big screen part of its aesthetics, but it is a not very easy task on paper. This creation of Markus Persson and now owned by Microsoft (by 2,500 million wing) It has openly rudimentary but very versatile graphics, which allow constructions of all kinds to be carried out, and without pressures: for many players, the attractiveness is simply to enter the game and build, which has undoubtedly been key to attract very young users. Fanaticism was triggered in the early last decade, before even the launch of the first official version: At that time he already had 16 million players. The infinite. In fact, the secret that, on the way to two decades after its launch, the game remains fresh and attracting millions of players are the thousands of mods, mostly free, which generate new ways to interact with him. Not only that: the ability of the game to generate communities makes it essentially a collective game and, a large part, lacking the central narrative. What, beyond its values ​​as a film, makes this Warner bet a considerable achievement: they have turned an experience into a narrative. And successfully. The key to success: the winks. The reason why ‘a Minecraft movie’ has become a success is because it speaks of you to you with the players: overflow memes and tributes to the games that the staunch fans know how to decrypt, of the phrase “As a Child, I Yearned for the mines” to the iconic sound bang of the game, work of C418. And above all, to Chicken Jockey, a apparently harmless meme and is generating an unexpected response among the young audience of the film: disturbances in the movie theaters. A liberating cry. The cry of “Chickn Jockey!” comes from the scene streamer. There is only 5% chances that a zombified character will self -generate on the stage just above a chicken, creating the illusion that he is riding it. That is why it is so weird and is celebrated when it happens in a streamand hence the chain reaction that this character has unleashed when appearing in the film, and that went viral when he was filmed by a spectator, in the first weekend of life of the film, with a mobile. Followed by an explosion of jubilation of the spectators. The chaos. In an unheard of situation (since the time of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show‘Even the most recent’WICKED‘Public participation in projections is not entirely strange). The Descriptions and Videos of what happens in the rooms are Out -control projectionswith notices to the police and people putting in the fireworks artificial or, of course, chickens. The latest manifestations of the phenomenon have been starring the own Jack Black asking for calm In a surprise appearance in a projection, a New Jersey room warning that they will only allow the assistance of minors if they are accompanied and a poster of disclaimer warning the spectators of the consequences if they do not behave. Cinemas ON FIRE. The subject will still give us to talk, because the box office and success guarantees it. For example, they begin to proliferate 4xd projections Where the Berraco behavior (except for the part of introducing farm animals, dirtying the armchair or that the cinema burns) is more than welcome. At the moment, he leaves criticism in an awkward place when explaining these phenomena, because they are not an extravagance without further ado: they belong to the highest grossing film of the moment. Do we embrace chaos or cry out about the end of culture by moving the spectators of the consequences if they do not behave. Header | Warner In Xataka | The largest artificial society experiment is happening in Minecraft: what happens when you … Read more

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

Figure creates a system to make large -scale humanoid robots. And of course, there will be robots manufacturing robots

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We had something forgotten to robots, but for A few months We don’t stop to return to hear about them. There are important efforts from companies such as Nvidia – who just put All meat on the grill-, Boston Dynamics or Teslabut there is another company that is pushing strong in this sector. It is called Figure, and has just announced a promising project. Botq. This is the name of the mass manufacturing platform of humanoid robots Announced by Figure. The idea is simple: to create a totally oriented infrastructure to that production of high volumes of robots that end up being used in all types of scenarios. 12,000 humanoid robots per year. The first generation of Botq will be able to produce 12,000 humanoid robots a year, but the company highlights that this is only the beginning “and we will climb considerably from there.” Manufacture with vertical integration. The company will control the construction process and its quality to ensure that the robots that end in the market have according to them the highest quality. They have also been working on software solutions for months to attend these high volume manufacturing processes. Robots building robots. The Humanoid Robots of Figure They already caught our attention last summer, and now these robots will participate in the manufacture of other humanoid robots. That, they say, will happen this year, but in addition “the number of humanoid robots involved (in manufacturing) will grow substantially over time to increase the automation of production lines.” By the way: Elon Musk has an identical idea. Figure 03 on the way. Its current humanoid robot was complex both in necessary elements and in manufacturing processes, but with it they have learned how they can reduce the number of components and how to improve production. And more efficient processes. Thus, instead of CNC machines they will use techniques such as injection molding or pressure foundry that allow “thousands of hours of manufacturing.” In fact, in some components that needed a week to be manufactured with CNC machines, times have gone from only 20 seconds. Image | Figure In Xataka | China’s robots represent an existential threat to the US, according to semi -health experts

Telefónica’s plan to convert their networks into platforms against large technology

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In a huge stand of the MWC 2025 Get chaired by the slogan ‘Leading Change, Inspiral Progress’, Telefónica has deployed its arsenal of corporate alliances around Open Gateway. Chema Alonso, visible face of the digital transformation of the Teleco, has presented a series of agreements that allow to glimpse the real strategy of the operator: convert their networks, so far mere highways, on platforms that generate income. An old yearning. He has not done it alone: ​​the presentation has been a parade of managers of several companies and institutions supporting the projected. Open Gatewayin fact, it is not new. The GSMA initiative has been promising to transform telecommunications networks into open platforms through standardized APIs. And according to GSMA data, it is present in 28 markets. What is most striking is the accelerated rhythm with which Telefónica is closing agreements: more than 50 large companies and 20 commercial partners, according to the numbers that Alonso has shared. Chema Alonso during the presentation of Open Gateway at the MWC 2025. Image: Xataka. Among the most important ads is The expansion of your collaboration with Tiktok for Europe. The Chinese platform will use the numbers verification API to simplify the user registration, eliminating the SMS passage. But the really interesting thing is the joint creation of a new API called “AGE VERIFICATION“, which will arrive first to Brazil and then expand to other markets. Reading between the lines is clear: Telefónica has found a way to monetize its privileged position as identity validityan increasingly valuable asset in the digital ecosystem. The agreement with Cabify follows the same logic: provide identity verification to expedite records. In the demo there has been a saving of ten seconds: a message no longer comes, everything happens “inside”, automatically and invisible to the user. What was previously a simple SMS is now reconvigned in a premium service that companies will be willing to pay. Cabify is an example. Carlos Herrera, Cto de Cabify, along with Chema Alonso in the demo of the API. Image: Xataka. Telefónica is transforming what was previously an operational cost into a source of income. A good play … in the absence of seeing the real business volume it generates. Then there is the protocol with the Community of Madrid. What the administration wants with Open Gateway is to “optimize internal processes.” In Health, Transportation, Justice and Tourism. Movistar is positioned as well as Technological intermediary between citizens and public services. This is a space traditionally played by great technological ones, so Telefónica has found here a space to achieve one of its great desires: to be seen as another technological and not only as a telecommunications provider. The agreements with two heavyweights, AWS and Google Cloud close the circle: With Amazon, Telefónica will create an innovation center to develop SAAS products aimed at operators. With Google you will integrate Open Gateway in Firebase to offer authentication to more than 3 million developers. Christiaan Brand, from Firebase, along with Chema Alonso during the presentation. Image: Xataka. It is striking that other operators such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile and Telenor are also adding to this last initiative, indicating a coordinated effort of the sector to recover relevance against technological platforms. They have good reasons to form a common front. The question that floats in the Barcelona air is If these APIs will be enough to rebalance the balance of power. For years, telecos have seen how technology built multimillionaire empires on their networks while they were relegated to connectivity suppliers Comoditized. Open Gateway is its commitment to capture part of the value that passes through its networks. The challenge is to execute this vision in a usually slow sector when innovating. And above all, when displaying. APIS standardization through Camara Project (developed by GSMA and Linux Foundation) is a step in the right direction, but operators will have to demonstrate that they can move at the speed required by the industry. No one knows if this strategy will translate into the long -awaited year for relevance in the digital ecosystem, but we do know that Telefónica is clearer than ever its position: It does not want to be the highway, but also who controls a part of the traffic. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | Consolidation or irrelevance: Marc Murtra launches an ultimatum to the EU in his debut as president of Telefónica

Its large appliances will reach the global market in 2025

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Xiaomi has evolved a lot in the last decade. What began as a smartphones brand today is an ecosystem that covers From vacuum robots to washing machines. However, a good part of their products still does not leave the Asian market, which greatly limits its growth in other regions and leaves many users without access to its most advanced technology. But this is about to change. At least, that’s what has advanced William Lu at the Mobile World Congress. The president of Xiaomi has confirmed at the Technological Fair that is held these days in Barcelona that the company will expand its commitment to the connected home. As part of this strategy, in 2025 they plan to bring their large appliances to the global market. The expansion of the Xiaomi ecosystem continues The announcement has not come with too many details, but there are clues that help us understand what products will cross the borders of China. Three key categories could be seen on the auditorium screens: refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners. It is not clear what exact models will be available, but everything indicates that these will be the protagonists of this year’s expansion. At the end of last year, for example, the company presented one of its most advanced washing machines to date. Its great attraction was the ability to wash clothes with a minimum water consumption, in addition to incorporating multiple intelligent functions. However, however promising it seems, its availability was limited exclusively to the Chinese market, leaving out European users. It should be noted that, although Xiaomi has announced an expansion that aims to occur as soon as this year, it is not yet clear which countries will be part of this deployment. So there is the doubt of whether their large appliances will reach markets like Spanish or if availability will remain limited to certain regions. We will have to wait to learn more information. What is clear is that Xiaomi has gradually expanded its catalog beyond China, With an avalanche of new products They have reached different markets. This expansion strategy has paid off: at the end of last year, the company already had 861 million devices connected worldwide. Everything indicates that his commitment to strengthen his international presence is very serious. Images | Xiaomi In Xataka | The Xiaomi Su7 Ultra has registered 7,000 reservations in 10 minutes. They planned to sell 10,000 units throughout 2025

You have to put very large quotes on the "reasoning" of the AI: Welcome to the "irregular intelligence"

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The second definition of reasoning according to The Spanish Language Dictionary is to “order and relate ideas to reach a conclusion.” That is just what do models of AI such as O3-mini, Openai or Deepseek R1. They collect information, order it and build an answer in which they reach a conclusion. Are these models models that “Reason” really? It is an inevitable question with a difficult answer. From that term began to be used, in Xataka We often came to quote itbecause comparing the theoretician “reasoning” of these machines with human reasoning is delicate. And it’s how they indicate In Voxscientists are still trying to understand how reasoning in the human brain works. There are in fact various types of reasoning such as the deductive (from a premise we reach a conclusion) or the inductive (we perform a wide generalization from a series of observations). {“Videid”: “X95L504”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Counting with OpenAi O1”, “Tag”: “OpenAi”, “Duration”: “88”} Divide a problem into parts to solve it It is also reasoning about him. It is in fact the idea after which is the so-called “chain of thought” (“Chain-of-Thought”) of which OpenAI I already talked in September 2024when o1 was launched. It is a process that mimics to some extent to human reasoning in such problems, but is the machine reason as people do? For some experts one of the things that distinguish us (for the moment) of the machines in this type of tasks is that we can discover “a rule or pattern from limited data or experience and to apply this rule or pattern to new and unknown situations “ This was stated by Melanie Mitchell – of the Santa Fe Institute – and his colleagues In a study about the “reasoning” capabilities of AI models in November 2023. At that time there was still almost a year for O1 and other rival “reasoning” models, but the data remains valid, because the models of AI follow needing to be training with vast amounts of information. In Xataka O3 Rate as high as human programmers in a reasoning and abstraction. It is just what OpenAi needs But Mitchell analyzed The spectacular O3 performance in ARC tests a year later, and was surprised at how well he had behaved. He also caught the large amount of computer resources that required that “reasoning” capacity, and wondered if the machines were really using the type of abstraction that were really needed for those tests. There are studies that precisely question that AI is “reasoning.” October 1, 2024 signed by four researchers from the Institute of Technology of Israel and the Northeastern University wondered if the LLMS (Large Language Models, great language models) Solve these reasoning tasks learning robust and generalizable algorithms, or do so memorizing the data with which they have been trained. Do they use heuristics and experience, or “think”? The conclusion reached after their evidence is that there is apparently a mixture of both: they implement a set of heuristics – a combination of memorized rules – to carry out their arithmetic “reasoning”. They do not “reason”, or at least they don’t do it as human beings do. Above all, experts criticize, they apply heuristics and a series of memorized data to solve the problem. Their ability to extrapolar them and adapt to new problems is limited. They are applied students, but they are not “great.” The ARC-AGI test tries to raise evidence that for human beings are relatively simple, but with which the models of AI have a really bad time. For other experts, such as Shannon Vallor, from the University of Edinburgh, what AI does is once again, imitate human behavior. They do traditional chatbots such as Chatgpt when generating text, and also do these “reasoning” models by imitating RL human reasoning process, decomposing the problem and trying to solve it by stages. Some researchers They speak Of an irregular intelligence, because as Andrej Karpathy explained – Exoes ARC tests that for human beings are very simple. Until they stop getting stuck, of course. That is what all the companies of AI pursue with increasingly advanced and versatile models. Less irregular. And when they arrive (if they arrive) they may not have too much importance if they “reason” or not. And either Let’s quote That word. Image | Todd Martin In Xataka | Copilot, Chatgpt and GPT-4 have changed the world of programming forever. This is thought of programmers (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news You have to put very large quotes on the “reasoning” of AI: welcome to the “irregular intelligence” It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

NASA ends up announcing that this large asteroid has a 1% chance of impacting with the earth. That is not normal

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At the end of March last year, NASA launched a very special statement. The agency came to say that the biggest object that will happen near the earth will be An asteroid that will approximate 32,000 kilometers And it can be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. A few hours ago, NASA has given another “those” news. They have found a meteorite distinct To all we know. YR4: Impact risk. As we said, NASA has issued a statement About an asteroid called as 2024 YR4 Discovered at the end of December 2024 by the Atlas system in Chile. This object has drawn attention because it presents a probability of impact superior to all recent meteorites: 1% for December 22, 2032which makes it one of the asteroids with the greatest potential risk of collision registered to date. With everything and as we usually say in these cases, this estimate will possibly change as new observations are made, with expectations that the probability of impact decreases. Classification and risk. The asteroid has an estimated size of between 40 and 91 meters in diameter, similar to that of the object that caused the Tunguska event in 1908. Therefore, currently It is classified at level 3 of the Torino scaleindicating a real probability of impact that merits monitoring, although, again, its level is expected to be reduced as more data will be obtained. This scale, used to evaluate the risk of asteroid impact, goes from 0 (without danger) to 10 (catastrophic collision). In any case and for us to get an idea, before this finding there was no recorded asteroid with a score greater than 0 on the Torino scale. Closeness and probabilities of impact. The closest step of 2024 YR4 is estimated at 0.00001 Astronomical Units (AU) of the Earth, which is equivalent to 1,500 kilometers away, that is, closer than many satellites in terrestrial orbit. At the moment, The impact probability is 1 in 83 (Approximately 1.2%), which has generated that concern in the scientific community. However, and although we look repetitive, it is important to underline that the experience with similar asteroids indicates that these probabilities usually decrease after more analysis. Precedents There have been cases of asteroids that have reached higher levels on the Torino scale and were subsequently discarded as threats. An example is 99942 apophis, which in 2004 reached level 4 due to a probability of 1.6% impact in 2029, Although subsequent studies eliminated any risk In 2029, 2036 and 2068. Therefore, it is feasible to think that asteroid 2024 YR4 in the future is reclassified at level 0 As their orbital calculations are related. Possible consequences and monitoring. To put ourselves in the worst of the stage, with a possible impact, 2024 YR4 would not represent a global extinction event, but could cause significant damage if impacting a populated area, similar to the famous Tunguska event that swept a vast region in Siberia. Therefore, NASA and other space agencies will continue to track their trajectory and refine the calculations to confirm their destination. Although The American agency has emphasized its statement that the probability of impact is still low (about 1%) and that this type of initial evaluations tend to be corrected over time, also ends up underlining that it will adjust its predictions ensuring that any potential risk is properly evaluated and, if necessary, addressed With planetary defense strategies. Image | POT In Xataka | The biggest object that will happen near Earth is an asteroid that will approximate 32,000 km and can be seen with the naked eye In Xataka | The last asteroid located by NASA, giving up “close” of the Earth: a mole of the size of the giza pyramid

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