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Anthropic has closed a financing round of 30,000 million dollars that doubles its valuation to 380,000 millionjust four months after being valued at 183,000 million. The operation is led by the Singapore sovereign fund GIC and Coatue, with participation from NVIDIA and Microsoft. Bang. The company has already raised more than $57 billion since its founding in 2021. OpenAI continues to have the leadership in valuation with half a billion after its last round of 40 billion at the end of last year, but now it faces a threat that is growing faster than expected. Between the lines. The numbers explain an uncomfortable paradox for OpenAI: ChatGPT processes 2.5 billion queries daily and takes the consumer market by storm… …but Anthropic controls 32% of the LLM business market according to Menlo Ventures, compared to 25% for OpenAI. And in programming, the distance is even greater: 42% versus 21%. OpenAI has seen its enterprise share fall from 50% in 2023 to 25% todayjust when this segment is emerging as the most profitable and predictable. If the consumer chatbot doesn’t turn out to be the winning horse in this race, Sam Altman has a big problem. The contrast. Sarah Friar, chief financial officer of OpenAI, acknowledged in Davos that they have gone from 70/30 consumer-business to 60/40, with the expectation of reaching 50/50 this year. The transcript of the interview CNBC Bring all the details. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, boasts of maintaining an 80/20 business-consumer ratio from the beginning. Anthropic reports recurring revenues of more than 14 billion, with growth multiplying tenfold annually for three years. And customers spending more than $100,000 annually have increased sevenfold in 12 months. Yes, but. Neither of them is profitable yet: Anthropic projected gross margins of 40% by 2025, but lowered his expectations by 10 points due to inference costs 23% higher than expected. The servers rented from Google and Amazon weigh more than calculated. OpenAI faces the same problem as both turn to the market every few months to fund the next phase. That is why both are considering IPOs between this year and next. Unexpected twist. The launch of Claude Code in December has accelerated enterprise adoption in a way that perhaps no one anticipated. The tool has not only doubled users in a month, but has consolidated the perception of Claude as “the serious option” for companies compared to ChatGPT. If companies value something, even more than the end consumer, it is stability and predictability. And Anthropic has been able to capitalize on that demand. Missing? Temporal context: By the time Apple reached a valuation of 380 billion, it had already been in existence for almost four decades. He sold Macs, he sold iPods, he sold iPads. It was already going for the iPhone 5s and its annual profit was 50 billion dollars. Anthropic reaches the same figure without being profitable, compressing decades of value creation into just a few quarters. It is not necessarily wrong, especially with the recent good dynamics of Claude’s company, but it remains to be seen if these models can sustain those explosive revenues and convert them into profits before the market loses patience. In Xataka | Featured image | OpenAI, Anthropic

A wind farm in Tudela is going to lose most of its wind turbines. And despite this it will produce much more energy

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The useful life of wind turbines is between 20 and 25 depending on the location and can reach up to 30 with some investments. The old blades are then removed and They are recycled in the most diverse ways and the wind turbines (some) are replaced by others. Or almost not, because the iconic Montes de Cierzo wind farm in Tudela is practically going to stay bald. Paradoxically, it will produce almost double. The skyline of Montes de Cierzo is going to change a lot. One of the autonomous communities that previously and most intensively opted for wind energy was Navarra, reaching become the Silicon Valley of wind turbines. Its deployment began in 1994 in the Sierra del Perdón, covering its territory from north to south that decade. What does that mean? Taking into account its useful life, in recent years there has been a renewal of its machinery. Latest, that of the Montes de Cierzo in Tudela. On the Statkraft roadmap is removing these veteran wind turbines from the Navarre park this year, removing 41 wind turbines to replace them with four latest generation models. Before, in the first phase of this renovation project, had already retired 44 machines to replace them with 10. In short, the park is going from 85 wind turbines to 14, with what that means in terms of visual impact. For this purpose, the company will allocate 40 million euros and has already been selected to receive aid of up to 24% from the IDAE. Less mills, more energy. Of course, the wind turbines will have a nominal power of around 6.5 MW (standardized by common companies such as Siemens Gamesa either Nordex). Thus, when the park is operational, there will be 84% fewer wind turbines disturbing the horizon of the Ebro Valley, but that will not mean that Monte del Cierzo takes a step back in energy supply, quite the contrary. We are facing a full-fledged repowering: the installed power will go from 60 MW to 90 MW, growing by 50%. Annually, the production estimated by the Norwegian company will go from 145 GWh/year to around 300 GWh/year, almost double. This change of wind turbines will be accompanied by storage systems. Repowering with hybridization. Having fewer mills and producing more is the standard for updates, but this project hides a technical singularity: the incorporation of a lithium ion battery system with 14.26 MW of power and 28.51 MWh of capacity. In fact, it is one of five projects by a Norwegian company to combine sun or wind and storage. only in the Spanish state. With a loading and unloading capacity of two hours, the park will be able to carry out peak shaving and energy shiftingor what is the same, smooth out production peaks and be able to move energy at times where it is needed or the price is higher. In addition to better peak management and improving efficiency, the company explains that this system will allow you to reinforce the security of supply. Why is it important. Because although there are fewer machines, power increases by 50% and production doubles. Furthermore, with this system the wind farm will function as if it were a bank: if there is excess energy, it will be stored for when the wind stops or there is high demand. In this way, it minimizes one of the endemic evils of renewable energy such as wind or solar, which depend on external and unrelated factors such as the climate. On the other hand, cleaning the horizon by almost decimating the number of wind turbines is also important from an environmental point of view. Finally, Statkraft has explained that will prioritize companies in the area in the construction of the project, which will directly generate employment in 2026. In Xataka | The solar miracle that went wrong: Spain produces more electricity than it can manage In Xataka | We have a problem with heat in buildings. A Navarrese investigation knows how to cool them without air conditioning Cover | Statkraft

taking Ozempic to lose weight is a thing of the past, Wegovy is already in pills

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The fight against obesity has just crossed a border that many were waiting for: that of comfort. Until now there are several medications approved to treat obesityas is the case with the famous Ozempicbut they had a problem: they were injections that had to be injected repeatedly. Now a big step has been taken by having a pill version of one of these options: wegovy. In the United States. The FDA, the drug regulatory agency in the United States, has given the green light to the oral version of Wegovy. Something that makes it the first drug in the GLP-1 family that does not require a weekly injection, but rather a simple daily intake of 25 mg. This move by Novo Nordisk is not only a change in the way of administration; It is a coup in a market valued in billions of dollars that until now relied on prefilled syringes and more complex cold chain logistics. The same results. The data supporting the approval of this new drug is actually quite good. Specifically, This new pill has been tested for 64 weeksseeing that those patients treated with this system strictly achieved a natural weight loss of 16.6%. This is something that is consistent with effectiveness in “real life”, where weight loss ranges between 13.6 and 14% The data being very similar to that obtained with the injectable version. And even other effects are also achieved, such as the reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events. Why has it taken? A priori, the logical thing is that these medications would have emerged as a simple pill that is taken daily, instead of an uncomfortable injection that also requires cold to be preserved. The problem in this case is that semaglutide (the component of the drug) it is a protein that the digestive system tends to destroy with its acids before reaching the bloodstream. This meant that it had to be administered directly into the blood to avoid this problem. Now, the Novo Nordisk company has managed to protect the molecule from gastric acids, although without reducing the classic side effects. In this case, patients have reported diarrhea and vomiting when taking this medication, as was already the case with the injection. Price and availability. The announcement has had a great impact, making the pharmaceutical company’s shares will shoot up more than 7%and much more that will surely do so when it is launched in the United States starting in January 2026. For the rest of the countries like Spain, it depends on the approval of local regulatory agencies that must verify the studies that support this pill to check if its effects are real. But the most disruptive may be the price. Novo Nordisk has suggested a starting dose of 1.5 mg at a cost of $149 per month. This is a considerably lower figure than current injectables, probably due to logistical savings, since manufacturing an injection is not the same as manufacturing a blister of pills. Its importance. With this pill, the barrier to entry that many patients had was eliminated: needle phobia. Although there is still the price issue ahead. In addition, it simplifies distribution and storage, alleviating supply problems that have been a major drawback in recent years. We are at the beginning of the “oral era” of GLP-1, where the competition (such as Eli Lilly) is already working on their own versions. For now, Novo Nordisk has taken the lead in the race to conquer the medicine cabinets of millions of people with obesity. It’s still not a miracle. Like the injection, this pill does not make you lose weight by ‘the grace of God’, but rather requires a very important personal process. The tablet can make us eat less, but if you stop the treatment we return to the beginning, little will have been done during the journey in which you have been medicated. Images | Haberdoedas danilo.alvesd In Xataka | For many people, food is a source of intrusive thoughts. Ozempic is able to “silence” them

Huawei lost to Google, Qualcomm and TSMC. What he didn’t lose was something more important: his reputation.

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Last week were the Xataka Awards 2025. Stella Li, global vice president of BYD, took the Xataka Legend. He Galaxy S25 Ultra It swept the super high range. Freepik was crowned as best Spanish technology company. It was a night of proper names, drinks and conversations with readers. But There is a prize that, for those of us who spend a lot of time in Xatakaas workers or as readers, has a special weight. Not because of its glamour, but because of what it represents. The Community Award is not decided by any jury. There are no internal debates. You, the readers, decide with your votes. It is the device that you liked the most, without filters. In fact, it is the only one that is not delivered by any employee of the house, but rather by members of the community who represent it on stage. In the image that heads this article, three of them with Cristina Isidoro, PR Manager of Huawei in Spain, who collected the award. Because this year he won it Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro. And when I saw the result, I smiled slightly: it was more than just a reward for a well-made smartwatch. It was pure symbolism. Look at the historical list of winners of this award: Almost all, Chinese devices or devices with a Chinese soul that share a pattern: focus on value for money, practical innovation, and in some cases, arriving wanting to break molds. But among all of them, Huawei is the only one that did not arrive yesterday promising a lot for little. It is the only one that was already in the world elite, disputing the throne with Samsung and in fact about to snatch it awaybefore the United States decided to use it as a pawn in its trade war. Because Huawei has not conquered the perception of premium quality by offering more gigabytes for fewer euros. It conquered it by being, for years, simply a great option. He P20 Pro It was the first mobile phone with a triple camera that really worked. The Mate 20 Pro was an unapologetic technical beast compared to the high-end greats. Their MateBook laptops have been worthy rivals of the Surface. And their GT watches already stood out for batteries that lasted weeks when Apple asked for a charger every night. They weren’t cheap. They were good. And that difference, in the technology market, is abysmal. Then 2019 arrived. EntityList. American veto. Goodbye Google, goodbye Qualcomm, goodbye TSMC. Sales outside China plummeted and the Western narrative was unanimous: Huawei was dead. Without the Google ecosystem, without access to the supply chain, it was impossible to survive in this business. But no one explained to them that it was impossible. Instead of giving up, they built their own universe. HarmonyOS on more than a billion devices. Kirin Chips own, then Ascend for AI. Huawei Cloud growing in Asia, Africa and Latin America. They didn’t beg to go back to Google Play like we might perhaps have expected them to do. They simply built another entire ecosystem. Without one word higher than another. At the beginning of the month I was in China and was able to try several of their devices, including some that just left there. The premium feel is real. And something that we do have here, the GT 6 Pro, is not a gadget 150 euros that promises too much and falls halfway. It is a watch in the 400 euro range that performs very well. and the community of Xataka has passed sentence with his prize. That doesn’t happen by chance. Xiaomi shines in value for money. Realme and Oppo play there. Nothing has its aesthetic indie. But Huawei is the only Chinese brand that, when you mention it, the European consumer automatically thinks of “serious quality”, without the asterisks that others have. And she did it right after they tried to destroy her. The Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro is a great watch. But winning the 2025 Community Award means something else: It is the recognition of the only Chinese brand that has come out of the perception low cost without giving up its origin. It is the prize that, in a way, China had been pursuing for decades. Respect without conditions. And it has been won by a company that they tried to annihilate. Sometimes vetoes don’t kill. They forge legacies. Featured image | Xataka In Xataka | The LG OLED Signature AI T4 is the best television of the year for a simple reason: we are saying goodbye to the black monolith

When you bought a car you were supposed to control it 100%. The industry has managed to make us lose our desire

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An owner of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N recently discovered that he couldn’t perform one of the most basic maintenance tasks on his electric car: changing the brake pads. The reason has nothing to do with how complex or not the task was mechanically, but rather with Hyundai’s proprietary software and the professional-level credentials necessary to access it. The episode has reopened the debate on the repairability of electrified vehiclesin an era in which we increasingly need professionals specialized in software and electronics in workshops, and carrying out maintenance on our own is increasingly more complicated. The underlying problem. Brake pads are wear components that any car needs replacing periodically, although in electric vehicles they last longer thanks to the regenerative braking. On most cars, this job can be done at home with more or less basic tools and moderate mechanical experience. However, the Ioniq 5 N incorporates an electronic parking brake that must be fully retracted by a computer to allow changing pads, and then recalibrated to adjust to the thickness of the new parts. What it cost the owner. According to shared user SoultronicPear on Reddit, no conventional diagnostic scanner worked on his 2025 Ioniq 5 N. After trying several options, he purchased a subscription to Hyundai’s J2534 software (costing $60 per week) and an approved adapter (about $2,000). Still, the system didn’t work. After contacting the software developers, he discovered that the Windows version was not updated for the 2025 models, while official dealers use a completely different program based on Android. a barrier. When I finally received the updated version of the software, a new obstacle appeared: the system requested credentials NASTF (National Automotive Service Task Force), a US organization that validates professional mechanics and regulates access to sensitive vehicle functions in the country. According to TheDriveHyundai’s technical documentation states in red that “access to two-way tests and special functions requires NASTF Diagnostic Professional or Vehicle Safety Professional credentials.” Therefore, the owner could not access this adjustment firsthand. Hyundai’s position. The middle consulted to the firm, which defended its procedure arguing reasons of security and functionality. “The official repair procedure requires placing the rear calipers into service mode using our Global Diagnostic System or the J2534 app. This ensures proper functionality and customer safety,” a spokesperson explained. The company he added that it is exploring ways to make routine maintenance easier by “balancing convenience with security,” and that its official tool is available for anyone to purchase, although it is worth mentioning that its price is around $6,000. Beyond legality. Technically, Hyundai does not violate the laws of law to repair because it offers access through systems compatible with the J2534 standard, not only through proprietary equipment. However, what has always been a task accessible to individuals with moderate mechanical knowledge who wanted to do it on their own, has been relegated exclusively to professional workshops, at least in this case. A growing problem. Although the case focuses on Hyundai, the Korean brand is not the only one that makes repairs on modern vehicles difficult. The electrification and digitalization of automobiles is creating new barriers for owners and even independent workshops, who also cannot access these functions. For many enthusiasts, this takes away autonomy over their own vehicles and creates confusion, especially for something that should be as accessible as routine car maintenance. Cover image | Tekton In Xataka | In 2001, Renault launched a car ahead of its time: it was a miserable failure that now has another chance

First it was the automotive industry, now Europe is going to lose another of its star industries to China

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The lights at the LyondellBasell plant in the port of Rotterdam went out for the last time on a September afternoon. The factory, which produced propylene oxide — an essential raw material for foams, mattresses and auto parts — had just been dismantled. A silent symbol of a fading era. The plant, barely 22 years old, became another victim of a storm that is hitting the European industrial heart: expensive energy, Asian competition and disinvestment. Europe, once a world chemical power, has lost its industrial pulse to China. The perfect storm. The sequence began with the war in Ukraine. The Russian gas cutoff energy prices skyrocketed in Europe and exposed a fatal dependence. “Gas costs in the Netherlands were between 15% and 66% higher than in other European countries,” economist Edse Dantuma explained to NRC. However, the decisive blow came from further east. From that same period, an avalanche of Chinese chemicals began to flood the European market. “During the pandemic, China completed all stages of its chemical value chain without us realizing it,” Manon Bloemer explained.director of the Dutch association VNCI. “Later, with domestic demand stagnant, they began to export their surpluses,” he added. Europe was paying the most expensive energy in the world and, at the same time, facing the lowest prices in history. In the UK, Ineos—Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s petrochemical giant— was forced to lay off staff due to “very cheap” imports from China, made with coal and with CO₂ emissions up to eight times higher. The same symptoms are repeated in Germany. According to ICISGerman chemical production (excluding pharmaceuticals) will fall by at least 2% this year. Economist Christiane Kellermann, from the VCI, warned that “Capacity utilization remains low, even with plants closed. More production shutdowns are coming.” The end of a European era. For decades, Europe was the world’s laboratory. The petrochemical complexes of Rotterdam, Ludwigshafen and Antwerp symbolized the industrial modernity of the continent. But now, warns the joint study by Cefic and Advancythe European sector “faces a historic turning point: structurally higher costs, regulatory overload and investment flight threaten its survival.” According to this report, Europe has lost 30% of its chemical production in the last decade and new investments have been reduced to historic lows. In Germany, Strategy&PwC estimates that chemical investments They have fallen by 90% since seven years ago and profits have been reduced by 12%. Incoming orders are at their lowest level in ten years. “Deindustrialization is no longer a risk, it is a reality,” this research warns. “Neither Europe nor Germany benefit from global growth anymore. Investment decisions are made on other continents.” China, the new epicenter. Meanwhile, the Asian giant is investing on an unprecedented scale. According to Global Datathe country will account for more than 60% of the world’s new petrochemical projects until 2030, with more than 500 plants underway. Analyst Bhargavi Gandham explains that this boom responds to “a deliberate policy of self-sufficiency, supported by cheap financing, state planning and domestic demand.” From Roland Berger point out in a recent report: “China not only produces more; it has become the global price setter in multiple value chains.” The consulting firm identifies unprecedented levels of overcapacity: with such a surplus, China could supply the entire Western market and still retain idle capacity. China’s dominance in petrochemicals reinforces its strategic influence over critical industries—from batteries to fertilizers—a lever of industrial power that Europe no longer controls. Beijing is aware of the problem. According to Bloombergthe Ministry of Industry plans to convert or close obsolete plants more than 20 years old and promote the transition towards advanced chemicals, used in semiconductors, batteries or biomedicine. AND, as detailed by Reutersthe Chinese Government itself called this October to the main producers of plastics and fibers to stop internal “destructive competition” in products such as PTA or PET. But the result, for now, is that the Chinese excess puts pressure on global prices. And Europe, caught between its energy costs and its climate goals, cannot compete. The old continent without defenses. “The system is like a Jenga tower,” Ronald van Klaveren told NRC. “Take away one piece and it holds. Take away three and it collapses.” Every closure in Europe endangers an entire ecosystem of factories connected by pipelines of steam, heat and raw materials. In Rotterdam, Chemelot or the Ruhr, the closure of a plant affects dozens of suppliers. In the industrial regions of the Rhine or Limburg, each blackout translates into hundreds of lost jobs and entire communities in decline, evoking the reconversions of the 1980s. Meanwhile, the political framework moves slowly. In the summer the European Commission presented its “Chemical Industry Action Plan“, that, according to Dutch industrialists“has good intentions but few concrete measures.” The industry is asking for three things: affordable energy, equivalent rules for imports and a competitive tax framework. In Germany, the Helaba bank warns of a “Chinese shock 2.0”: After China joined the WTO in 2001, its exports focused on toys and textiles; Today it competes in machinery, automotive and high-tech chemistry. “The result is enormous pressure on prices,” said economist Adrian Keppler. And in the UK, Ineos Acetyls director David Brooks was more direct for The Guardian: “The UK and Europe are sleepwalking towards deindustrialisation. If governments do not act now on energy, carbon and trade, we will continue to lose factories, talent and jobs.” What’s coming now? Europe wants to reinvent its chemistry, but it does not have the conditions to do so. The Cefic and Advancy report warns that 40% of European plants could close before 2040 if the transition to low-carbon materials and high-value products is not accelerated. To comply with the Green Deal, more than 2 trillion euros in investment would be needed until 2050, according to Consultancy. The problem is that no one wants to invest where energy costs more, the rules change every year and permits take months or even years. Some experts, as Alexander Baumgartner by Roland Bergerbelieve that the way out is to “abandon … Read more

How to block the update to Vega OS on Fire TV so as not to lose your favorite apps

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Let’s tell you how to block your Fire TV from updating to Vega OSto avoid losing access to your favorite Android-based applications. Vega OS is the new Linux-based operating system created by Amazon from scratch, which comes to replace the Android-based Fire OS. This new operating system brings many improvements in performance and fluidity, but you will no longer be able to use Android-based apps. Over time, it is possible that many of these apps will be adapted and created for the new system, but many will surely take a while to arrive. Therefore, now that Vega OS begins to arrive, we are going to tell you how to block update. Let’s tell you two different ways to block the updatealthough they are quite radical. There is no specific option to avoid it, meaning you will have to close internal doors in a different way. Prevent Fire TV from communicating with Amazon Perhaps the most radical option is to prevent your Fire TV from connecting to the Amazon servers that distribute operating system updates. For this, you will have to block some domains from your own router, something that is not complicated, but requires knowing enter router settings. To do this, you have to enter your router’s settings from your computer’s browser, typing the IP addresses 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 in the search bar. Once inside, put your Fire TV in the list of connected devicesand if possible assign it a fixed IP with the DHCP reservation. Now, in the configuration of your router you have to look for a section called Parental Control, Security, Web Filters or Firewall, depending on the model and manufacturer. In here, you will have to add Amazon domains to blockwhich would be softwareupdates.amazon.com, updates.amazon.com, amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net and amzdigital-a.akamaihd.net. Once you do this, go into your Fire TV settings, click on Aboutand then in Check for updates. If no new updates are detected or operating system versions, then it is because this restriction has worked. Disable update processes The other option is simpler, although also more delicate as it has to use third-party applications, which always poses an extra risk. It is about disable processes to check for and install updates from your Fire TV, something you can do with tools like TroyPoint Toolbox either TechDoctorUK Debloater from the device itself. Now you have to download and install the application Downloader from the Amazon App Store, Amazon’s app store. But don’t open it, before doing so go into Settings > My Fire TV > Developer Options and activate the options ADB Debugging and Unknown sources. Now open the app Downloader and write the code 250931which will take you to the TroyPoint Tools Installer. In this installer, download and install the application Debloater TechDoctorUK. Now you have to open the application and grant it permissions USB debugging when requested. Now, check the list of system processes in this application, and you should mark those that manage automatic updateswhich usually include terms such as system updates. When you do, click Reproduce in the upper right corner to apply the changes. Remember that this may also affect the correct functioning of the Fire TV. In Xataka Basics | Alexa+: what is Amazon’s new smart assistant, how it works and what is its price and availability

Thousands of people have been drinking apple vinegar for years before eating to lose weight. The fault has an erroneous study

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A couple of months ago, the last viral trend of social networks was taken on an empty stomach in the morning recently raised: the “morning sucks.” There were all kinds: apple vinegar, of grass Or even A tablespoon coconut oil. Everyone promises the same: flat bellies, express detox and accelerated metabolism. Under the appearance of natural remedy, the illusion of a quick solution was really sold. In particular, apple vinegar stands out as the biggest protagonist, since a study endorsed it, but it was a misinterpretation. The origin of the myth. We have always heard that phrase of “speaking people understand”, although quite simplistic it is that misunderstandings are the order of the day and in science they are usually given. To get to the origin of that study, the tracking takes you to a study published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. This research became popular to ensure that apple vinegar helped lose weight. However, According to Sciencedailythat study has been retracted after detecting inconsistencies in data and serious errors in statistical analysis. In science, a retraction is an exceptional mechanism: it means recognizing that the results are not reliable and, therefore, that the study should no longer be cited as evidence. It is a guarantee of self -correction, but it is late when the finding has already traveled media and viral videos. The viralization of myth. The networks did the rest. Under hashtags like #guthealth or #morningritual, vinegar It settled In morning routines with other “shots” that promise express benefits: ginger, turmeric, teas detox. As we detail in Xatakathis phenomenon is understood in the framework of the culture of immediacy: we live at a time when rapid and visible results are sought. A morning drink fits perfectly with that promise of instant change. The problem is that neither vinegar nor any of these mixtures fulfill what they promise. And in some cases They can have adverse effects: Excessive consumption of fasting vinegar can irritate the stomach and esophagus, damage tooth enamel and cause digestive discomfort. More studies. Beyond the retracting study, there are research that has analyzed the effect of vinegar on metabolic health, although scientific evidence remains low. A systematic review, Posted in Pubmed Central in 2021evaluated clinical trials on this product. According to this work, vinegar can have modest effects on the reduction of blood glucose and total cholesterol. But the same review warns: there is no solid evidence that it causes clinically relevant weight losses. In other words: vinegar is not a burning, much less a magical solution to lose weight. The mirage of detox. The rise of these “morning shots” also relies on the language of the detox. However, experts Remember that Detoxification does not work like this: the body already has organs such as the liver and the kidneys that fulfill that function continuously. Chupitos do not “clean” the organism, but they do perpetuate the idea that there are miraculous shortcuts to compensate for excesses. An even greater paradigm. The history of apple vinegar is, in the background, a lesson on how health myths are built in the digital age. A study with methodological errors, amplified on social networks, became a global ritual. And although today we know that there was no evidence behind, the practice was already installed in millions of morning routines. The lesson is clear: easy solutions are rarely, and health is not built with shortcuts. Image | Freepik and Pexels Xataka | There are people taking a “sucking” apple vinegar in the morning. Science has an opinion about it

We already had an ozempic to lose weight, now someone has created one for the eternal youth: NAD+ promises

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Of the six -digit operations In elite operating rooms to luxury serums That they promise to erase wrinkles in minutes, the eternal youth industry has always played with the same idea: that somewhere there is a shortcut. But what if the secret was not in a cream or in a scalpel, but in a tiny molecule that lives in each of our cells? This is how NAD+is presented, the coenzyme that has gone from being a laboratory concept to become the new biohacking grail. The ozempic of being young. As happened with the GLP-1 drugs in The obsession with thinnessNAD+ has become the aspirational shortcut towards youth. Hollywood and the aesthetic elite have embraced him within the call “Invisible luxury”: undetectable results, continuous maintenance and therapies that combine apparatus with cosmetic biology. In that stew of mass access, supplements and “shots” of NAD+ they occupy the biohacking story. From Hollywood A Amazon. A couple of years ago, Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner They popularized Intravenous NAD+therapies, a format that Miami and Dubai clinics sell as an energy and anti -aging “booster”. But it is not just celebrity thing: a search is enough on Amazon to find NMN or NR capsules that promise to raise cell levels. The problem is that, As The New York Times has warnedthe scientific evidence that supports these habits is still weak. In addition, what appears on the label often does not match what is in the bottle. A study led by the gerontologist Andrea Maier detected deviations of up to 100% in the real content of supplements, regardless of brand or price. Shining the NAD+. Better known as Nicotinamide adenine Dinucleotide, is something like the spark that allows our cells to work. It is everywhere, from the muscles to the brain, and According to the University of Navarra Clinic Participate in such critical tasks as producing energy, repairing damaged DNA or activating syruches, proteins linked to aging. The problem is that, over the years, NAD+ levels plummete and begin to relate to memory loss, muscle weakness and an increase in the risk of diseases associated with age. Therefore, raising those levels by precursors such as NR or NMN can keep mitochondria and favor cell longevity. Initial essays, collected by the confidentialThey have documented improvements in memory, movement and metabolism. However, they are small studies and experts They agree that they are missing Essays to convert the promise into solid evidence. Experts ask for prudence. Enthusiasm coexists cautiously. According to the webmd medical portalnicotinamide is safe to 900 mg per day, but high doses can cause headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal problems or enzymatic alterations. In the case of nicotinic acid, another form of related vitamin B3, can cause redness and decreases in voltage even in moderate doses. The University of Navarra Clinic Explain that Supplements can interact with medications that affect liver or coagulation, so it is recommended to use them only under medical supervision. In a more concrete way, they probably do not damage in moderate doses, but there is also no certainty that it is worth taking risks for something that still has no macros studies. A society in search of shortcuts. NAD+ fever fits into a broader cultural context: obsession with shortcuts against aging. Hollywood has gone from “Frozen faces” from Botox to the “Liquid surgery” And luxury invisible treatments, while the rest of society consumes supplements, Collagen powder and Digital filters as affordable substitutes. And perhaps that distance reveals something deeper: our obsession with shortcuts against the inevitable. The eternal youth industry blooms because we live terrified at the passage of time, as if aging were a failure that must be corrected. But old age is not an anomaly: it is the only certainty we share. Perhaps the real question is not how to avoid it, but why it costs us so much to accept it. Meanwhile, science continues to remember what it works –move, sleep well, Eat better– Although it never sounds as glamorous as a molecule that promises to stop the clock. Image | Pexels and Freepik Xataka | The elixir of eternal youth exists and we are seeing it in real time: luxury surgeons “at $ 100,000 the session

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care to lose $ 200,000 million in AI. The real risk would not be betting on it, ensures

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“We are going to invest aggressively. Even if we lost a couple of hundreds of billions of dollars it would be an annoyancebut it is better than being left behind in the race for superintelligence. “Those words recently pronounced Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO. The founder of Facebook does not tend to shake his hand when making risky technological bets. He already knows what it is to lose them: Metaverso is being a failure for the moment, but even if he does not seem to want to leave that bet. The company continues to invest in it even though It is estimated which has already lost 45,000 million dollars in that project. But for him the commitment to AI, although it seems exorbitant, is almost mandatory strategically. In the interview In the Podcast Access The Meta CEO explained how In fact the Risk for a company as a goal would not be aggressive enough. In the recent Trump dinner With the great leaders of the technological segment in the US, Zuckerberg promised to invest at least 600,000 million dollars in the United States until 2028. Analysts believe that The numbers do not fit: It is estimated that Meta will invest about 80,000 million dollars in the US in the second half of 2025 (including all its expenses). That would make it necessary that from 2026 to 2028 he spent 520,000 million, but experts do not see it feasible and some They think than these comments They are more business marketing than anything else. But what is true is that both goal and other large technology companies are investing extraordinary amounts of money in this field. We already saw that Capex’s forecasts of some of them are huge in 2025 due to that commitment to AI data centers: Amazon: 100,000 Millions of dollars Microsoft: 80,000 Millions of dollars Google: 75,000 Millions of dollars Goal: 65,000 Millions of dollars Apple: 12,000 Millions of dollars Thus, Mark Zuckerberg is not too frightened to lose 200,000 million dollars in AI, but he also knows what is something like that. In April 2024 their financial results were so disastrous That their shares suddenly 19%, which was equivalent precisely to a drop in the stock market capitalization of 200,000 million dollars. Of course, Meta recovered. In that downturn the goal shares were just 500 dollars. Today and a half later, they are at maximum, $ 778. The company has stumbled in the past, but Zuckerberg has risen again and again AI bubble: “I think there is definitely the possibility, at least empirically, based on large infrastructure constructions of the past and how they led to bubbles.” And even so, Zuckerberg is clear that this is a critical moment for this technology and it is better to bet on the big not to do it and lose. For him going too slow can make you lose a privilege position, and that would be fatal because according to him “it will be the most important technology that will allow the greatest number of new products, innovation and creation of value in history.” In Xataka | Big Tech have buried thousands and billions in AI. They are earning money, but not thanks to the AI

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