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Video games have grown a lot this year. But the money goes to China, Roblox and the owners of mobile platforms

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The global video game industry had a turnover of around $185 billion in 2024 and continues to grow. But there is a catch: this growth does not reach the studios or the area that traditional players look at, those of the console wars and the old PC Master Race. Matthew Ball’s usual annual report leaves a less complacent diagnosis: revenue is concentrated in China, on platforms like Roblox and on the owners of mobile operating systems. The rest survive as best they can. The Old Times (2021): There is still talk about how great the year 2021 was for video games. It seems like it was yesterday when the pandemic (insert meme of Grandpa Simpson telling stories to the kids here) confined hundreds of millions of people to their homes, and games (mobile, console, PC, free, subscription) absorbed the benefits of that confinement. As Ball, CEO of Epyllion, analyzes in The State of Video Gaming in 2025the factors that drove that peak were an extraordinary sum of factors: mobile platforms, free-to-play models, games as a service, the cross play and new genres like battle royale and social play. Downhill. The flip side of that was a much bigger recession than expected: global spending on video games fell 3.5% in 2022 and barely recovered a few percentage points towards the end of 2024. According to the consulting firm MIDiA Research, the sector had enjoyed growth of 26.3% in 2020 and 9.8% in 2021, and the rebound was inevitable. According to Ball, the engines that had driven the industry between 2011 and 2021 stopped all at once: the smartphones They were no longer surprising with each interaction, social networks were paralyzed, the free-to-play was normalized. 6.5% of total gaming time in 2023 corresponded to new video games, says Ball, and only four titles shared half of that percentage. Layoffs in full force. He report also speaks how the sector’s layoffs since 2022 illustrate this adjustment: more than 44,000 jobs, 61% of them concentrated in North America. This does not mean that it is the end of the industry or that the same pattern is being repeated. crash 1983, as has been said (the industry is too diversified and globalized to repeat a systemic collapse of that magnitude). What we are paying is the cost of having built a structure designed for an industry in continuous growth during the pandemic. The Chinese monster. Ball puts on the table that global spending on video games grew by approximately $10 billion between 2021 and 2025. But… where did that money go? The report assures that to Beijing: about 4,000 million of that growth is from the Chinese market, and another 1,500 million are from titles developed in China sold in international markets. In total, Chinese publishers have racked up about half of global growth since 2019. And there are more data: Gamer spending in China reached $49.2 billion in 2024, with a base of 722 million active gamers, more than double the total population of the United States. China is already the first market in the world by income. Not foreigners. Very significantlythat market remains almost closed to foreign games. 84% of Chinese gamers’ spending goes on titles produced in China, and that percentage has increased, as unusual as it may seem: 20% of Chinese domestic spending goes on imported titles (a figure that also registered a decrease of 5% between 2023 and 2024). It is comparable to what happens with cinemawith local films devouring foreign ones at the box office. A situation favored by a combination of factors: First, the Chinese regulatory framework favors national titles through a licensing system; second, development costs are substantially lower than in the West; Finally, the work culture of the country’s studios allows for more intensive production cycles. You don’t have to dig far to find examples of great Chinese international successes: ‘Genshin Impact‘, from miHoYo, raised more than $3.5 billion in its first year70% outside China with a character design rooted in anime. ‘Honor of Kings‘, from Tencent, dominated the Chinese mobile market for years before making the international leap with adaptations of character names. AND ‘Black Myth: Wukong‘, developed with support from Tencent, sold ten million copies in its first three days launching in August 2024, betting on the opposite of assimilation: an unequivocally Chinese mythology without thematic concessions to Western taste. Roblox sweeps. The numbers sing: 70% of the growth of the video game market outside of China in 2025 was absorbed by ‘Roblox‘. Which is an infrastructure on which millions of creators build interactive experiences using the platform’s own tools. Players access it for free and spend real money on cosmetic items and access within these worlds, transactions that are carried out in Robux, the ecosystem’s virtual currency. Of every dollar spent,’Roblox’ historically retained around 70% leaving the creator with approximately 25 or 30 cents. In September 2024, ‘Roblox’ announced a new delivery model for paid games that increases the creator’s commission up to 70% on titles that sell for $49.99. What does this translate into? In 2024, ‘Roblox’ paid around $923 million to its creators (an increase of 25% compared to 2023), while its total revenue grew by 29% until reaching 3.6 billion dollars. Its intentions are colossal: CEO David Baszucki stated that the company’s goal is to capture 10% of the global video game content market. Some more questions. Just to finish outlining the portrait: ‘Roblox’ registers sustained net losses (a accumulated deficit of 3.5 billion) with the logic of the platform in the expansion phase, sacrificing immediate profitability. Some observers they point because ‘Roblox’ has become the video game equivalent of YouTube, a platform that extracts value from the work of its creators in the form of data, advertising and infrastructure. And one last thing: two titles on the platform (‘Blox Fruits’ and ‘Brookhaven RP’) each accumulate 60% of the monthly gaming hours of all of Electronic Arts. 30%. If the global video game market reached an all-time high in … Read more

If the question is how much money Ryanair can ask you for for messing up on a flight, the answer is: a lot.

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Making a mess on a plane is expensive, very expensive. At the beginning of the week, Ryanair fined one of its passengers a fine of 15,000 euros as compensation for damages and losses on a flight. The decision comes at the hands of the Dublin Court, and although the amount is one of the highest in recent years, it is far from being an exception. what has happened. According to Ryanair in his statementone of its passengers forced the plane he was traveling on to divert to Porto, after attacking passengers and crew on a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote. No specific details about the attack itself have emerged, but the Dublin Court has imposed a penalty of 15,000 in damages on the accused. The lawsuit was filed in January 2025, Ryanair is not fooling around. In this case, it was Dublin that imposed the amount of the penalty, but the airline has a rigid policy of sanctions for non-exemplary passengers. In June 2025, the company warned about fixed fines of 500 euros for any passenger expelled for misconduct before the flight. In the event that the flight has already started and results in a forced diversion, the policy is clear: legal persecution. It is not the first fine very high. Ryanair has been able to ban passengers for five years and obtain compensation for damages due to value of 3,000 euros on recent Berlin-Marrakech flights. He also managed to get sanctioned 2,000 euros to a passenger who decided to smoke on the plane. The measure fits within the framework of a company with a clear policy: squeeze every penny out of each clientwith a solid margin thanks to its aggressive strategies. The finer, fined. Ryanair has just received one of the highest fines in recent years (not the largest, estimated at more than 100,000 dollars and a lifetime ban by Jet2), but it is also the one that has the record of having suffered the highest fine to an airline by the Government of Spain. A profitable business model, focused on squeezing every penny from its passengers, and a clear policy regarding inappropriate behavior: pay. In Xataka | Spain and Ryanair are in a legal battle over the charge for hand luggage. Ryanair’s best ally: Europe

If you’ve ever thought about “leaving everything and going to the mountains,” these thinkers have a lot to tell you

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In recent days it has gone viralMrinank Sharma’s departurehead of AI Safeguards at Anthropic (that is, the company’s team focused on security, misuse and model safeguards). In the letter that Sharma made publicafter explaining that “the world was in danger”confessed that he was going to the United Kingdom to study and write poetry. The idea of ​​”taking back control of your life” has been in the air for years and has an incredible capacity to mutate and adapt. Yes in 2021 lthose who left work spoke of low pay, lack of progress and feeling disrespected, now we talk about ethical issues and existential anxiety. What persists is that “leave everything and go to the mountains.” AND There are good philosophical arguments for this.. The philosophy of sending everything to hell Cristian Bortes – British Museum Or at least that is what many philosophers throughout history believed. Among the great practical philosophical traditions of Hellenic culture, Epicurism and its proposal to retire to live in peace is perhaps the best-known example. Although it has often been the product of stereotypes and misunderstandings, the school of Epicurus and company understood philosophy as a kind of philosophy of the soul: a kind of, following the ideas of Christopher Gill, a preventive psychological medicine. In this sense, withdrawing, stopping depending on the external, was not a way of being right, but rather of living without anxiety: of dedicating oneself to pleasure. At the end of the day, the epicurean garden that has been painted as an ode to hedonism is, in reality, a search for a friendly place that reduces stimuli, comparisons and needs. In the end, and translating it to our days without all the ontological scaffolding behind it, it is realizing that we are leaving our lives in a race whose goal we have not chosen. Is build a good place to live. However, it is not the only way to see it. independent people Rafael Sanzio Other Hellenic schools, such as the Stoics or the Cynics, were much more radical. Or, rather, hard. With their doctrinal differences, they sought internal independence, autarky. Imported to our days consists of going beyond building a shelter and going on the offensive. Modern life chains us in a thousand different ways (mortgage, career, reputation, schedules, etc…) and, for this reason, retiring goes far beyond a healing practice: it is a practical theory of freedom (liberation). This connects directly with another tradition: that of the hermits and ascetics that goes from Valerio del Bierzo to the eastern saints. There are many ways to justify it, but the idea is always the same: if to sustain your life you need to be liked, be productive and be available, you are not free; You are functional. And being functional to the material world, being functional to the system prevents you from aspiring to higher goals. think better With the birth of the modern world, we began to think about retirement in a different way: as a way of thinking well, of thinking better. The Montaigne tower or Rousseau’s walks have often been seen as a form of misanthropy. But, in reality, they were a way to get away to gain perspective, calm the soul and practice some mental hygiene. It has a lot to do with the idea of ​​disconnection retreats, although since the time of the French solitaries, society has spread its tentacles so much that it has become much more difficult: our minds are always foxes. Withdraw in protest The arrival of modernity also brought us political retreat. That is, leaving as a protest. When you can’t reform the world, sometimes the only lever is the way out. Or, what is the same: if in classical antiquity ostracism was the punishment par excellence, now it emerged as a tool. Refusing to cooperate with an unjust, corrupting or downright absurd order. It is true that much literature considers this type of flight as a sign of cowardice, but it is also true that (lucid or not), it is never neutral. Many reasons, the same gesture Be that as it may, we must not ignore that, in the background, there are always structural reasons: historically, the impulse to withdraw usually intensifies when certain collective sensations invade society: the feeling of the end of the era, acceleration, saturation, existential anxiety, problems of legitimacy. Just what we suffer today. And in the face of this, tranquility emerges as a rare commodity to seek and pursuea way to recover in the current mare magnun. For this reason, many people have begun to understand that ‘going to the mountains’ does not have to be a gesture of evasion, nor a way of disengaging from reality: it can perfectly be a “moral relocation”: a way to become better, to start again, to gain momentum. In Xataka | Seneca, philosopher: “It is not that we have little time to live, but that we do not stop wasting it”

There is a lot of criticism of Cruzcampo in half of Spain, but it is one of the few breweries that are growing right now

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Heineken has announced an epoch-making global adjustment: up to 6,000 jobs will disappear amid a series of drastic cuts and a simplification of the structure around the world. All over the world? No, a village populated by irreducible Sevillians still and always resists the crisis in the sector. Despite the alcohol crisis and the general joke, Cruzcampo endures. The question is why. A market in recession. The beer market he is not living his best moment in Spain: per capita consumption fell from 55.5 liters to 52.8 in 2024. And, in fact, if it holds up it is thanks to the 90 million tourists who visit us every year. This is very clear when we see what is happening in the mass consumption sector: the sum of inflation and the boom of private labels (or distributor) has meant that, for the first time, commercial brands do not reach 70%. Faced with this, Heineken Spain is going like a shot. Cruzcampo (and the rest of the group’s brands) have managed to fight very well on several fronts: they have been leaders in share gain in the food channel (a growth of 0.8 in 2024), but they have also managed to position themselves in the premium sector (under the idea that they do not sell beer, but moments). Furthermore, we must not forget that Spain is one of the markets where the sin and 0’0 have the greatest power with up to 14% of total consumption. And, in that context, Cruzcampo is one of the greats: the first beer with lemon (one without for all intents and purposes) was the shandy of the brand and it came out, pay attention to the fact, in 1986. And not only that: Cruzcampo has become international. In the United Kingdom the figures are clear: Sevillian beer managed to find its way into one of every four bars and nine of every 10 supermarkets (always according to Heineken itself). It is not the only one, of course: Mahou or Estrella Galicia are in the same play. And the results are clear: imports of Spanish beer into the UK have grown by 155% in ten years. He who laughs last laughs best. Because we already know that Cruzcampo has become a meme and there is half of Spain that prides itself on rejecting it on an identity level. And yet, at the brand level Cruzcampo already appeared as the only Spanish one that rose slightly in value in a Brand Finance ranking. Something is happening under the radar: it is the spearhead of a group that is gaining momentum because it is growing right where it needs to grow. Image | Adam Jones In Xataka | A German abbey had been producing one of the oldest beers in the world since 1050. Now it has had to be sold

Meteorologists expected 80 mm of rain in Grazalema, which was already a lot. They are already going for 180 mm

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This Wednesday the storm Leonardo is showing all its strength in a good part of Andalusia, something that has forced to cancel classes or even to mobilize the UME due to the possible floods that may occur. One of the focuses of this storm is set in the Sierra de Grazalema in Cádizone of the places where it rains the most in Spain. The point here is that a large number of liters per square meter was expected to fall, but reality has surpassed everything previously calculated. The data. As collected the user in X @Vigorrothe discrepancy between what the model “saw” and what has fallen from the sky is massive: from a forecast of 60 to 80 mm accumulated at 7 in the morning, has moved to a reality of 180 liters per square meter. And this makes us have many questions in our heads… How is it possible that in the era of Big Data and high-resolution models, we fail by more than double in such a short-term prediction? The answer is in the orography. Harmonie’s failure. The technological protagonist here is in Harmonie-AROMEthe mesoscale model used by the AEMET to predict local phenomena. Unlike global models such as the European IFS, Hamonie is designed to see detail down to resolutions of a few kilometers to calculate, for example, how many liters will fall in a specific location. However, today it failed in the Sierra de Grazalema with the differences that we have seen before. And although the AEMET reacted activating the red warningwith an extreme risk of receiving up to 200 liters in one day, the real-time evolution during the early morning hours was much more explosive than the model output indicated. And the worst thing is that there is still a day ahead. A “wall”. To understand why the software falls short, you have to look at the mountain, and the Sierra de Grazalema acts as a formidable physical barrier against the humid winds of the Atlantic. In this way, when these storms hit the mountains, the air is forced to rise abruptly, cooling and condensing all its moisture in a very small space and gives what is known as orographic enhancement. In this peculiar storm, two factors have come together that have undoubtedly magnified it. On the one hand, we have had an atmospheric river which acts as gasoline for the clouds, intensifying precipitation much more than models anticipate, especially when they collide with a mountain. It fails on the scale. On the other hand, we also have the limitations of the numerical models that we use on a daily basis such as collected in the Stormchaser forum. Here they point out that these models continue to have problems resolving short-duration, high-intensity events in complex orographic areas. And they are good at saying that it is going to rain a lot, but they fail when we talk about the magnitude of a specific flood. It rains in the wet. The problem of this underestimation is not only meteorological, but also hydrological since this torrential rain falls on terrain that no longer supports even one more drop. The context in this case is critical, since the month of January already broke historical records in this area with accumulated amounts of around 1,300 liters per square meter. That is why the soil, which is composed mainly of clays is completely saturated, which means that the infiltration rate is zero, causing everything that falls to immediately run into the bed of the Guadalete River and others. Images | Freysteinn G. Jonsson In Xataka | Spain is preparing for a “festival” of storms in February: with more rain than normal and hardly any cold

Get ready because NVIDIA “needs a lot of wafers”

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The foreign relations of the United States are no longer a solely governmental matter. Figures like Tim Cook they have acting as ambassadors in recent years, receiving treatment and baths from political entities worthy of a high-ranking politician, and the baton in both the global technological and economic conversation has been taken by another CEO of a ‘Big Tech’. Jensen Huang He is the boss of NVIDIA, and recently has visited Taiwan to remember something key: Nvidia would not be possible without Taiwan. And he has taken the opportunity to put pressure on the factory that moves the technological world: TSMC. The Billion Dollar Dinner. Huang has been touring his home island of Taiwan. Curiously, it is also the epicenter of the global technology industry as it is home to companies as powerful as asus or MediaTek, but also from Foxconn and those who create most of the advanced chips in our devices: TSMC. To close out the trip, Huang met two dozen people for dinner at a local restaurant in the event dubbed by the press as “the billion-dollar banquet.” More than a dinner with friends, it is an institutional event because NVIDIA is the one that is calling the shots in this current era of AI, but TSMC is the one who has the upper hand. Get your batteries. In that environment, and in an improvised manner, a press conference was held in which Huang made it clear that 2026 will be a crucial year, but he also gave an interesting headline: TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers.” Local media reported it. crossed out It may be a joking comment, but it is one of those jokes that are not jokes. The CEO of NVIDIA added what TSMC is doing”an incredible job” and predicted that they will increase their capacity by more than 100% over the next decade.” No pressure, go. TSMC is key. Just a few weeks ago, TSMC announced that its spending would increase by almost 40% to reach $56 billion in 2026, with additional increases planned for both 2028 and 2029. It makes perfect sense considering that it is the company that factory not only almost all of the world’s advanced chips, but it is the heart of NVIDIA’s graphics cards that have become the standard of artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese company is not only manufacturing in its country, but is taking steps to expand throughout Europe (with the Germany’s vaunted factory) and you already have a plant in the United States that will expand in the short term. And NVIDIA itself will be one of the first customers of the advanced chips that TSMC produces on US soil. If the chain fails, the AI ​​gets into trouble. The problem is that Huang doesn’t just need wafers: he needs RAM, and we are in one of the component crises deepest in history. That unbridled spending on components for powering data centers for AI It has left us consumers without the opportunity to buy components for our PC at a consistent price. First was the RAM and then the SSDs because companies like TSMC, Micron or Samsung cannot cope with production. Some -the aforementioned Micron- has left the component market for consumers because they need to run all their plants for only one purpose: powering those data centers. And the chain cannot failsomething that Huang himself has stated, pointing out that they will need a lot of memory this year – graphics cards also have memory inside – and that “the entire supply chain will be a challenge in 2026 because demand will be much greater. In short: a challenge for manufacturers, a headache for users. For Huang, a blessingsince your company is the one that leads the way in an artificial intelligence that, according to him“it has become something really useful.” Images | TSMC, NVIDIA In Xataka | The situation with RAM prices is so desperate that there are already those who build their own memory at home

This 65-inch TV drops (again) and reaches a historic low price with which you can set up your home theater without spending a lot

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For those who enjoy watching movies, series (or even football and other sports) at home and are thinking about taking the leap to do it in a big way, Hisense has a very interesting 65-inch TV. It is about the Hisense 65E63QT which stands out in features, but now also in price, since on Amazon, it has reached its all-time low: 359 euros. Hisense 65E63QT – UHD 4K, Smart TV 65 Inch The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A TV with which you can set up your own home theater will not be expensive For some time now, Hisense has been one of those firms that are surprising us with their smart TVs with a moderate price and good features and this model is a good example of this. For those looking to set up their own home theater, what is most striking is its panel 65 inch VA. This offers 4K UHD resolution and 178º viewing angles. Although it is also characterized by being compatible with image formats such as Dolby Vision and HDR10. In the audio section, on the other hand, its two speakers offer an RMS power of 14W and are compatible with DTS-X and Dolby Audio. Integrate the voice assistant Alexa and works under the operating system VIDAA (version 8.5). It also works for gaming, since it integrates a Game Plus mode and comes with a good connectivity section, since it has Bluetooth, WiFi, two USB-A ports, headphone output and three HDMI 2.1 ports. You may also be interested in these accessories for this TV PERLESMITH Tilting and Rotating Articulated Wall TV Stand The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense HS3100 – Sound Bar 3.1 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Hisense In Xataka | Best home theater projectors. Which one to buy and five recommended models from 299 to 18,000 euros In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more

Two cell phones with a lot of battery, an eReader as big as a tablet, offers on TVs and more. Hunting Bargains

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Today is Bargain Hunting Friday, the last of a month of January in which we have seen discounts that could rival other times in which the price of devices tends to drop a lot. Therefore, in this article we have gathered the best of the best in technology offers with a couple of cell phones with battery life for several days, a very large e-book reader and much more. PocketBook InkPad Eo by 390.73 eurosan eReader with a 10.3-inch color screen. Honor Magic8 Lite by 359.10 eurosthe brand’s new mobile phone that comes with gifts valued at 257.99 euros. Fire TV Stick 4K Plus by 39.99 eurosagain it is about the dongle from Amazon with the best quality-price ratio. Oneplus 15 by 959 eurosa mobile phone with a battery that can last you three or four days without using the charger. Hisense 65E63QT by 359 eurosa fairly low price for a 65-inch TV. PocketBook InkPad Eo Normally eReaders are between six and eight inches in size, but there are some with larger screens that can be interesting for reading comics or magazines or simply to have larger print size. He PocketBook InkPad Eo is precisely where it stands out: it costs 390.73 euros on PcComponentes and comes with a color screen of 10.3 inchessimilar to the format we find on tablets. Your Wacom screen is colorwhich together with the size is ideal for reading comics and magazines. It includes a stylus to draw or paint and as icing on the cake its operating system is Androidwhich allows you to download a good number of apps. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Honor Magic8 Lite Honor launched a new mobile yesterday that is not only attractive in its Reddish Brown color, but also comes with a good battery. He Honor Magic8 Lite right now it’s on sale for 359.10 euros with the coupon ADTO10 and includes three gifts valued at 257.99 euros: Honor Earbuds Clip headphones, a 66W Honor SuperCharge charger and a pack with a protective case, magnetic ring, magnetic wallet and strap. One of its strong points lies in its 7,500 mAh battery which, as we were able to verify in our analysis, reaches a autonomy of two and a half or three days. It also has resistance to drops from 2.5 meters in height and has the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor. Not bad for a “Lite” mobile. Honor Magic8 Lite (256 GB) + headphones + charger + accessory pack The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fire TV Stick 4K Plus After a few weeks in which we only saw the Fire TV Stick 4K Select with a discount, Amazon has finally decided to lower the price of the rest of the models. Again, the one that has the best quality-price ratio is the Fire TV Stick 4K Pluswhich for 39.99 euros offers a great experience. This is the standard model that I would recommend to anyone (unless we want the power of 4K Max). It offers 4K resolution and is compatible with formats Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. Plus, its performance is pretty good and of course it comes with Alexa built-in. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Oneplus 15 If the Honor mobile battery runs out, be careful because the Oneplus 15 It is one of the best in this section. At Powerplanet it has dropped to 959 euros in its 512 GB configuration and it is a mobile perfect if you are looking for power, battery and an exquisite design. Perhaps the 7,300 mAh battery has fewer milliamps than that of the Honor, but after analyzing it we were able to verify that it reaches a autonomy of between three and four days. In addition, it comes equipped with the processor Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5the best in processors for Android mobiles. Oneplus 15 (16GB, 512GB) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Hisense 65E63QT Finally, if you are looking for a good television that also has a fairly large screen, and you don’t want to spend a lot of money, Amazon right now has a smart TV on sale Hisense 65E63QTa TV that stands out mainly for its 65-inch panel. Its price is 359 euros. Beyond its size, it is also worth mentioning that it is a television compatible with Dolby Vision and HDR10has three HDMI 2.1 ports and comes with the voice assistant Alexa. In addition, it includes a Game Plus mode dedicated to video games. Hisense 65E63QT (65 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | PocketBook, Honor, Amazon, Oneplus, Hisense In Xataka | The best mobile phones, we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best Amazon Fire TV. Which one to buy and recommended models to convert your TV into a smart TV depending on use

charge a lot to Big Tech that uses it for AI

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The world’s largest free encyclopedia is celebrating. Wikipedia turns 25, and to commemorate this event they have prepared content and activities for all its users that give context to the beginnings of this non-profit project. However, perhaps the most striking thing about your statement It has to do with the new vision that the Wikimedia Foundation will take from now on: a Wikipedia in the age of AI. For this reason, those responsible for managing this digital library have also revealed that Microsoft, Meta and Amazon joined other Big Tech companies such as Google to be able to use Wikipedia content to train their language models. To do this, companies pay good money to the foundation for having premium access to that content. What is happening. The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity and Mistral AI have joined Google as paying customers of Wikimedia Enterprise, a commercial platform launched in 2021. According to Lane Becker, senior director of revenue at the foundation, this initiative offers a version of the Wikipedia API “optimized” for commercial use and AI companies, with functionalities customized according to the needs of each company. Why are they paying? Tech companies rely massively on Wikipedia to train their AI models. 65 million articles in more than 300 languages ​​are essential for chatbots like ChatGPT or virtual assistants. However, Wikipedia says that this use has also increased the maintenance and server costs of the library, whose traditional financing comes from small donations from the public. “Wikipedia is a critical component of the work of these tech companies that need to figure out how to support it financially,” explained Lane Becker told Reuters. In detail. Wikimedia Enterprise is not simply downloading Wikipedia. The platform allows these companies to access content at a volume and speed specifically designed to train large-scale AI models, with structured data formats and custom functionality requests. Microsoft, Perplexity and Mistral AI joined forces over the last year, while Meta and Amazon were already partners although their participation had not been publicly announced until now. Between the lines. It is a financing model with which the Wikimedia Foundation would benefit more, in addition to individual donations. It’s also a change in how Wikipedia sustains its nonprofit mission. For years, the platform has relied on individual donations while large corporations benefited from its knowledge for free. Now, the foundation has found a balance: keeping access free for the general public while monetizing heavy commercial use. “Reaching a new sustainable balance with these new companies is critical for our continued existence, but also for yours,” pointed out Becker to The Verge. Wikipedia in the age of AI. Just like account Foundation, Wikipedia continues to be created and maintained by approximately 250,000 volunteer editors around the world who write, edit and fact-check information for free. Tim Frank, corporate vice president of Microsoft, counted that “together, we are helping to create a sustainable content ecosystem for the AI ​​internet, where contributors are valued.” On the other hand, Selena Deckelmann, Director of Product and Technology at Wikimedia, assured that “Wikipedia proves that knowledge is human and knowledge needs humans. Especially now, in the age of AI, we need Wikipedia’s human-powered knowledge more than ever.” Cover image | Oberon Copeland In Xataka | The Apple Intelligence and Siri disaster has caused something unusual: Apple gives the keys to its kingdom to Google

It has a lot of autonomy and is water resistant

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Although I feel a certain predilection towards Rakuten’s Kobo brand, the truth is that The current generation of Kindle seems most interesting to meespecially the model Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition. It is a very complete eReader, and I would choose it over its lesser brother, the Kindle Colorsoft. Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition The price could vary. We earn commission from these links With wireless charging and great autonomy Some of the particularities that interest me most about Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition is that it has wireless charging and adjustable front lightsomething the Kindle Colorsoft lacks. In addition, its theoretical autonomy is up to 8 weeks, a very high figure to not depend so much on the charger. As its name indicates, this model incorporates a color screen that offers a resolution of 150 dpi, although it also allows reading in black and white with a 300 dpi resolution (the same one that we see in the rest of the models, like the Kindle Paperwhite). Its screen is seven inchesso it is somewhat small for reading comics and manga (although by proxy you can). I find the usefulness of its color screen most useful for viewing the covers or illustrations of a novel, as well as the possibility of underline text with various colors thus representing different characters. You may also be interested Kobo Libra Color eReader | 7″ E Ink Kaleido™ 3 Screen | Adjustable Color Temperature and Brightness | Blue Light Reduction | eBooks and AudioBooks | 32 GB Memory | Water Resistant | Black The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Amazon Kindle Scribe (64GB) | Redesigned screen with uniform edges. Write by hand on your books and documents | Premium pencil | Tungsten gray The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Javier PastorAmazon In Xataka | Best eBooks. Which one to buy and nine recommended models In Xataka | Kindle Colorsoft Vs Kobo Libra Color. Which eReader with a color screen to choose according to your tastes and needs

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