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Google is making money by betting on its rivals. Some already give you more profit than your own business

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Alphabet published a few days ago its latest quarterly resultsresults that break all their records with 112.1 billion dollars in net profit, 298% more than a year ago. The surprise lies in the origin of this profit: almost all of it comes from the accounting revaluation of two stakes in companies that Alphabet does not control: SpaceX, which is already listed on the stock marketand Anthropic, which doesn’t do it yet but he is expected to take the step soon boosted by a financially spectacular 2026. For Alphabet, advertising grows 24% in the company’s revenue. Google Cloud soars 82%. And yet, 88% of the quarterly net profit comes from the revaluation of two financial bets that today compete with central areas of the group. In detail. Participation in SpaceX goes back a long way. In 2015, Google invested 900 million when the company was valued at 10,000 million. After the June IPO, at a valuation of 1.77 billionthat package is worth 94.1 billion. A multiple of more than one hundred times the original capital that rewarded Google’s good eye more than ten years ago. Anthropic’s is a shorter story. And more expensive. Alphabet has injected 13.3 billion into it from April 2023with commitments for up to an additional 30,000 million. The private assessment of the laboratory behind Claude It has gone from 350,000 to 965,000 million in one year. In 10-Q, Alphabet’s private holdings total 124.3 billion. Virtually everything is Anthropic. Between the lines. On the B-side of the album, Anthropic is signing engineers from DeepMind quite regularly. Its model competes with Gemini in the same field (API for developers, programming agents, business assistants), and a good part of the companies that do not want to be tied to Google choose it precisely for that reason. Every dollar that Anthropic collects from Alphabet also increases the value of Alphabet itself. SpaceX instead operates starlinkthe satellite network that supplants the ambition that Google tried and left with Project Loon. Sundar Pichai has not sold a single share of SpaceX or Anthropic. And yet, the market has recognized almost 100,000 million in profit from them. Yes, but. Capital gains are not cash. Of the 94.1 billion in SpaceX, 80,000 cannot be sold in the short term. And 14,100 are blocked until the third quarter of 2027. Anthropic remains unlisted, so the valuation is worth until the next round or until the next cut. The royal treasury, meanwhile, is being emptied. Alphabet has raised its investment guidance for 2026 to the range of 195,000-205,000 million (from the 180-190,000 announced in April), and quarterly free cash flow has gone into the red. The accounting balance of the party is paid by the data centers. And now what. The restrictions on SpaceX are beginning to be lifted after its first presentation of results as a listed company, scheduled for August 4. With 94 billion in shares blocked and an investment plan that is close to 200 billion annually, Alphabet has obvious reasons to sell part of the position. As soon as possible. Doing so implies an uncomfortable admission because it recognizes what this quarter already leaves black and white: that the company has earned more by financing its rivals than by running its own business. And with his business it is not that he has earned little. Except that the free cash flow is negative due to the enormous investment that the AI ​​career requires. In Xataka | The EU has just fined Google 890 million for the DMA. The figure weighs less than a paragraph almost hidden in the statement Featured image | Xataka with Magnific

stop making strollers and diapers for babies and make them for pets

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Last year some 671,200 babies. It’s bad, terrible data. They are not only 15,000 less which in 2024, also consolidates the Japanese birth rate below the barrier of 700,000 births per year and represents a new historical minimum. Since the country began to compile statistics, back in 1899, so few births had never been recorded. The figure represents a blow for the Government, determined to reactivate the birth rate, but there is someone who looks at it with even more concern: the manufacturers of baby items. That’s why every time they pay more attention in pets. The new reality. If something tastes good Japan, South Korea, China, Russia or any other country buffeted by the winds of demographic winter (something that Spain is foreign) is that the collapse of the birth rate has multiple consequences. It affects demographic growth, but it also has social, political, health, economic and even consequences. at the defense level. Some of these effects will take years (even decades) to be clearly felt. Others are already perceived, as the difficulties that companies that for years have been dedicated to manufacturing child care items go through. How do you keep a business afloat when your potential customer base keeps shrinking? How the hell do you sell diapers, strollers, rattles, cribs… when there are no more babies to use them? That question has already been raised some companies of Korea dedicated to manufacturing baby strollers (now converted into strollers for pets) and more and more companies in the sector in Japan are considering it, as has just been revealed an article from the Al Jazeera network. @curatedbyangie Inside Interpets Japan 🇯🇵🐾 So many cute dogs & cats, instagrammable booths, and interesting pet products 👀 Also met one of our clients here, their toys are a favorite among pet owners in Singapore 😍 Excited to have them back at SG Pet Festival this year again! #interpets #japanpets #dogsoftiktok #sgpetfestival #AngieCurates ♬ pink blossom – nanako In the absence of babies, dogs. In his chronicle The chain talks about several companies traditionally linked to the child care sector that, little by little, have been showing interest in the pet business. One of the clearest cases is that of Lucky Industriesan old acquaintance in the sector, famous for its baby carriers, an item of which it has manufactured millions of units since the 30s. In 2022 the firm decided to take advantage of that background to launch Nu-ia line designed specifically for dogs. Its approach is very simple: for decades the company helped families travel with babies, now that there are fewer babies, but millions of petswhy not help them with them? A name: Interpets. Lucky Industries is just one example of a much larger trend that Al Jazeera reporter Genevieve Mansfield saw firsthand in Interpetsa fair held a few months ago in Tokyo that focused on the pet care market. One of the stands that could be visited was that of Unicharm, a Tokyo-based company that was successful selling disposable diapers (among other hygiene items) and 25 years ago decided to expand its business line by marketing pet diapers: Unicharm. There are so many for dogs as for cats. Add and continue. Other examples are AirBuggy and Sweet Mommy. The first company offers pet strollers; the second made headlines a few years ago by announcing portable fans to make heat waves more bearable for dogs and cats. It is not just about meeting new needs. The idea is to diversify the business, targeting an increasingly attractive market. A spokesperson for Unicharm has recognized to the Al Jazeera network that expects the pet care business to represent 17% of total sales from now on. And that’s for now. The forecast is to reach 20% by the end of this decade. What the numbers say. It may seem like a strange twist, but the figures show that it makes quite a bit of sense. The Japanese birth rate is collapsing while pets have been gaining weight in homes. According to the Japan Pet Food Association, between 2024 and 2025 the country’s dog population rose from 6.7 to 6.8 million. It is still below the 7.9 of 2015, although in general the country is now less populated. If we talk about cats, the association estimates that at the end of 2025 there were 8.8 million. They are somewhat less than in 2024, but more than in 2015, when they did not reach 8.3. “The second largest city”. “Japan was the first country in the world where pets outnumbered children: about 16 million compared to 14 million. If its 6.8 million dogs and 9 million cats were gathered in one place, they would form its second largest city,” illustrated in February Tom Feiling, author of ‘Alone in Japan’, in a column published in The Times. On an economic level, this means that the pet care market is already around 5.4 billion dollarswell above the 4.2 billion in 2020. But… Why? Japan is not the only country in which the number of pets already exceeds the number of children. In fact that’s the same we have lived it already in Spain, where the first official census speaks of 5.62 million of cats and 7.56 of dogs. The fact that the birth rate falls and the presence of domestic animals increases is explained by profound changes at a social, cultural, educational and educational level. “Lifestyle changes, such as remaining single, marrying late, and the rise of two-income childless households, have led to more people seeking emotional connections through pets. We are seeing a rise in ‘pet humanization,’” resume Isshu Uehara, from Unicharm. Companies seem to be taking note of this. Images | Unicharm and Luckynu_i In Xataka | Spain has more pets than children, so Malaga has inaugurated something inevitable: the first cemetery for dogs

In Alicante they are experts making works with ancient art. Until they found a Roman sphinx embedded in a staircase

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Recycling in the architecture of Antiquity (or the Middle Ages) was neither an ecological sensitivity nor an aesthetic trend. Rather, it was pure and simple economic survival. If you had good quality square stone, go ahead and build. It mattered little whether that stone had been part of a temple dedicated to Jupiter, whether it was the statue of a disgraced emperor or, as in this case, a mythological creature. It has a name: architectural cannibalism is known in the art world as spolia. And thanks (or because) of it, Spanish archeology has just solved a mystery that had been gathering dust in a warehouse for decades. In the archaeological site of El Monastil, located in the town of Elda (Alicante), researchers have “decrypted” a piece who had been camouflaged under a false identity for too long. The rain acting as an archaeologist. It all started in the year 2000, during the arduous excavation work of a late Roman wall located in El Monastil. Workers unearthed a three-step ladder that looked like a typical routine structural find. The following year, the Levantine climate worked its magic: torrential rains swept the area and caused the ashlars to collapse, exposing new features. Upon inspecting the damage, the team led by archaeologist Antonio M. Poveda discovered that one of the blocks was not conventionally quarried stone. The deliberate marks betrayed a previous history. Which? That someone, during the Visigoth or Byzantine occupation in the 5th or 6th centuries, mutilated a monumental sculpture, cutting it down with a sledgehammer to turn it into a simple step. Twenty years of confusion. Carved from local beige limestone, it was barely 31 centimeters high and 55 centimeters wide; what remains is a tiny fraction of its original volume. This sphinx was missing its head, wings and legs, with a surface so eroded by blows that its identification became a headache: an Iberian female figure or a random goddess? It wasn’t until last year, when the Archaeological Museum of Elda A thorough cleaning was undertaken when, in collaboration with Professor Ferrán Arasa i Gil, one of the greatest experts in Roman sculpture in Spain, remains were compared. And the shape matched too well with other sphinxes found in limes Germanic, from Romania and northern Italy. The verdict was unanimous: a Roman funerary sphinx from the 1st century AD The sophisticated security system for the afterlife. This creature of Egyptian origin and Greek traces is no ornament. And here is the key: it is a psychopomp, the guide in charge of collecting the soul of the deceased and transporting it. Its presence in the tomb fulfills an apotropaic function: the fierce gaze and hybrid posture, with the body of a lion and the torso of a woman, exist to scare away looters and protect the eternal sleep of those who rested beneath it. Have you seen ‘The Neverending Story’? His famous fulminating sphinxes are inspired by the same. Apparently, the owner of this piece was part of the rural elite of Ilici Augusta (current Elche). They were landowners who, in a time of great prosperity under Augustus and the Julio-Claudians, competed to display social status through monumental mausoleums. Built next to the Via Augusta. So the figure was another banner of power and prestige in full Romanization. He plunders well without looking at who. For the Visigoths, the sphinx was no longer a sacred symbol. The case of Elda, with this disdain for the artistic past in favor of pragmatism, rhymes quite well with other recycling imposed in Baetulo (Badalona), Segóbriga (Cuenca), Obulco (Jaén) or Carissa Aurelia (Cádiz). The most canonical example is found in the mosque of Córdoba: Abd al-Rahman I reused Roman and Visigoth columns and capitals, from the temple of Janus, from previous Christian villas and basilicas, to raise the forest of columns in the prayer room. In Toledo, the Christ of Light is the ancient Bab al-Mardum mosque. San Pedro de la Nave, in Zamora, was a 7th century Visigoth church dismantled and reassembled like a collage. And the same with the Basilica of Santa Eulalia, in Mérida, built on a Roman temple dedicated to Mars. Even the Almohad minaret of the Giralda in Seville was converted into a Christian bell tower by the braves. What makes special Monastil is that it is an inexhaustible “matryoshka” of civilizations. This Alicante site is a time capsule where the Bronze Age, the Punic presence, the Roman military base from the time of Pompey, the Byzantine monastery and the later Visigoth church overlap. In this immense network of strata it is easy to find history cut up and relocated, outside the contexts for which it was created. Many now lie in the warehouse of the Elda museum, treasures waiting to be reclassified and archaeological history rewritten. Images | FoxR for Wikipedia, Flickr (Santiago López-Pastor) In Xataka | If the question is how the Egyptian pyramids were made, science has an idea: hydraulic systems In Xataka | In a display of technical superiority, France has just invented traditional white towns. We, however, have forgotten about them

If the question is how to prevent our car from being an oven, some German experts believe that we have been making mistakes all our lives.

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Beach in the morning, visit to the beach bar and nap in the rented house. It doesn’t sound bad. You leave the beach bar with your belly full and your soul intoxicated with the sweet feeling of carelessness that invades you when dessert arrives and you say “why wouldn’t I eat that three-scoop ice cream.” But when going to the car, the harsh reality. The sun beats like never before. Touching anything inside the car is risking a trip to the hospital with a second-degree burn, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to lower the temperature inside. “But I put the parasol on”you will say. But… oh, friend. What if you have put it wrong? What if you have done everything backwards? That is what the German experts from the ADAC defend, a kind of German RACE famous for its reliability studies but they put the focus on everything that revolves around our cars. And his last publication is a good example of this. More “fresh” The automobile club ADAC has published an article in which it explains what temperature a car reaches in the sun and what measures we can take to reduce the temperature we will find inside. It must be taken into account that the temperature of the cabin in a car is not only important to avoid burns when touching the steering wheel or gear lever. According to the DGTdriving indoors that exceeds 30 degrees can have effects on our body similar to driving under the influence of alcohol. Therefore, when we get to a car that is parked in the sun, it is important to try to lower the temperature as soon as possible. The best idea is to launch what went viral as “the japanese trick”: open the windows and fan the car with the door itself to move the air inside and try to get it out as soon as possible. If you turn on the air conditioning, you must play with it to throw it at the feet or the ceiling depending on whether or not we are driving and the windows are open or not. But to make the task easier, it is very important to take precautions beforehand. One of them is, of course, the parasol. From the RACC they assure that using the sunshade can reduce the interior temperature of the vehicle by up to 11 degrees. We arrive at our destination, we grab the sunshade in the upper area and make sure that it covers the entire surface of the windshield, we close the car and we leave. Sure? What the ADAC experts say, this is not the best way to act. To do this, they have put five exactly identical Dacia Sandero in the sun and have looked for the best way to ensure that the temperature in the cabin is as low as possible. In his study, the car that was unprotected reached an internal temperature of 53ºC (blessed 53ºC if we compare it with the temperatures that the interior of our car can reach in the sun in Spain) and the lowest temperature had been achieved by covering the car with a tarp that reflects the sun’s rays. Obviously, this option is the least practical due to the size of the tarp that must be moved in the trunk and the inconvenience of putting it on and taking it off. Of course, the 43ºC achieved inside made the difference. The second least useful option was to put a white cloth over the car. In this case, the temperature reached was 50ºC. And here comes the interesting thing because it is the option that we use the most. The experts tried putting the sunshade inside the car, under the windshield, and outside the car, over the windshield. And the result was that putting it on the windshield reduced the temperature by 4ºC compared to putting it under the glass. In fact, putting the sunshade over the windshield left the temperature at 45ºC, very close to the best option. On the contrary, installing the windshield in the traditional way left the interior temperature at 49ºC. “Semi-garage” is Google’s translation of putting a tarp on the car to cover it The truth is that it makes sense. When the sun acts directly on the glass of the car, it heats up and acts as a magnifying glass, so the temperature in the cabin rises even more. Besides, his own glass emits more heat inside when it is hot, which is why it is not entirely advisable to buy a car with a sunroof without a curtain if you live in especially hot climates. In this case, the heat from the glass is projected onto the heads of the passengers. By placing the windshield inside we prevent the rays from directly hitting the glass and, therefore, its capacity to retain heat and raise the temperature further is lower. In that case, what we should do before leaving is to “grab” some ribbons from the parasol when closing the doors so that the parasol does not fly away. Photo | Andrew Bone In Xataka | The best way to use air conditioning in the car: the keys to fighting the heat

Making a robotic hand is “100 times more difficult” than building the entire robot. These Chinese companies are determined to solve it

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China has achieved let your humanoid robots run, they fight and even that execute choreographies with astonishing precision. That was the easy part. The key for a humanoid to stop being a fairground attraction and become a useful product is not in its legs, balance or its “brain”, but in something much smaller and much more complicated than it seems: the hands. The challenge of the hands. The human hand has 27 bones, 34 muscles and countless nerve endings. Replicating this in metal and circuits is the biggest bottleneck facing modern robotics. sums it up well Guardian Zhou Yong, founder of LinkerBot, one of the most advanced Chinese startups in this field: manufacturing a robotic hand is “a hundred times more difficult” than manufacturing an entire humanoid. “The dexterity required by a hand is ten times greater than that of any other part of the body, but its volume is only one-tenth the volume,” Zhou says. That is, not only is it the most technically complex element, it is also the smallest. The Chinese advantage. Pan Yunzhe, founder of Wuji Technology, studied in the United States and considered setting up his robotic hands company there, but soon saw that it was unviable. He tells The Guardian that “It was practically impossible to manufacture hardware in the United States due to the enormous limitations of the supply chain.” And China has an unmatched supply chain: it is agile, it is sophisticated and, above all, it is cheaper. This gives them a key advantage in hardware and allows companies like Linkerbot to already manufacture 5,000 robotic hands per month, a figure impossible to match anywhere else in the world. The problem is the software. Making the hand is only half the job, you also have to make it move like a human hand and there is still a long way to go here. Nathan Lepora, professor of robotics and AI at the University of Bristol, sums it up: “the challenge of making these hands is already being solved,” but controlling them “is a completely different game… no one knows how to do it yet.” The scarcity of data is one of the big problems and it is that, while LLMs have been trained with the enormous amounts of data on the Internet, there is hardly any data on how a human hand moves and, above all, what it feels like when touching something. To try to overcome this obstacle, Wuji Technology is testing a glove packed with sensors that captures all the movements of the human hand in everyday tasks. Its founder admits that being able to capture “how a person moves and what they touch or feel” is an “extremely complex and unsolved” task. The robotics market. The Chinese robotic hands sector had a turnover of $7.4 billion last year, almost four times more than in 2024. LinkerBot, one of the leading startups, aspires to a valuation of $6 billion. The case of this startup is just one example of the robotics boom in China, where more than a million companies are already registered, 40% more than last year. This translates into brutal dominance: China already manufactures 90% of the world’s humanoid robots and it is the country with the most industrial robotsby much difference with the rest. Yes, but. Robotics is advancing by leaps and bounds, but there are voices calling for calm, and not just any voice, but that of the International Federation of Robotics. In your report published in September last year were clear: “True multipurpose humanoids are still far away.” We are going to continue seeing more and more amazing demonstrations, but from there until they are sold en masse and we can all have one at home that is truly capable, there is a way to go. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | We still don’t know if humanoid robots will be the next great technological revolution. Yes we know that China will lead it

Wool is on the floor, so the ranchers of Ávila have found a way out: making umbrellas

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As an absolute fan of natural fabrics, I have several wool sweaters in my closet saved like gold because of how pretty they are, how warm they are, and how expensive they cost. Paradoxically, and although wool garments have significantly higher prices than others made with synthetic fabrics, the devaluation of wool at source is a worrying reality for livestock professionals. So in Martiherrero, a town of less than 400 inhabitants in Ávila, they have had an idea: covering the umbrellas of the municipal swimming pool with sheep wool from local farmers. Umbrellas made of wool. For this small-scale pilot project, they have used more than 160 kilograms of raw wool which, after selection and conditioning, is already working as a covering for the facility’s umbrellas, as collected by the Royal Spanish Federation of Select Livestock Associations. The initiative is called “Shadow of Origin” and behind it is the Martiherrero town hall and the Kerbest Foundation. Parasols covered with wool. RFEAGAS Why is it important. Because in summer the farmers have to shear their sheep and the calculations don’t work out: like Avicom Cooperative tellsthe shearing cost is 1.5 euros per sheep and the price that the farmer receives for the wool of the most common breeds, such as the Assaf, the Churra or the Castilian, is around 5 cents per kilo. The average wool per sheep is 2.3 kilos. The use of wool for clothing is not profitable in this scenario, so we must take a look and find new uses for this valuable sheep by-product. The problem is enormous, as much as the volume of sheep in Spain, absolute leader in the EU with 24% of the total: according to the MAPA economic indicators report for meat sheep and goats (2025)the sheep census was 13.47 million heads in 2024, 0.89% less than the previous year. And it is not something specific: the price of wool in Spain is at historic lows and has not raised its head since the pandemic, as They explained at the table Rethinking wool just a couple of months ago. Context. The fall in the price of wool is explained by a combination of causes: China was the main destination market before the pandemic, reaching to take 70% of the offer. However, with the pandemic, exports slowed down and there was excess stock, as ASAJA explains. Shortly after, the Chinese market was partially closed after the sheeppox outbreaks in Spain happened since 2022. It has also caused damage the australian wool competition. However and as detailed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environmentthe main production of sheep is meat and milk, leaving wool in the background. In detail. The idea of ​​wearing a woolen garment in summer may seem crazy, but sheep hair is a magnificent thermal insulator: the thermal conductivity of wool is 0.0324 and 0.0436 W/mKfigures that meet the regulatory standards for thermal insulation in construction and also offer good acoustic performance. In other words, the same thing works for a sweater, an umbrella or to insulate a building. Because wool is also good fireproof materialwhich brings out the colors of some synthetic insulators that emit volatile organic compounds. Yes, but. The project has its technical and economic reason for being framed within the circular economy, but its scale is minimal: they have only used 160 kilos compared to the more than 20,000 annual tons of wool that Spain produces in total (or the 9,500 tons of entrefine wool alone, the most produced variety), according to the MAP. On the other hand, the previous processes necessary for its use as a coating make the operation as is not profitable with the figures that the current market manages. A larger scale replication would require sustained public or private investment over time. In Xataka | A silent phenomenon is brewing in Madrid: people who go to live in Valladolid and return to work by train In Xataka | A town in Segovia with 3,700 residents has its own language with centuries of history. The reason: doing business Cover | Fadi Al Shami and Martin Schmidli

Peter Thiel believes that the Holy See is making a big mistake

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Peter Thiel doesn’t usually bite his tongue, and he didn’t do so a few days ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The investor and co-founder of Palantir and PayPal He participated in a talk in which he accused Pope Leo XIV of being (unknowingly) at the service of the Chinese Communist Party. The reason: his last encyclical, Magnificent Humanitas. Thiel’s argument. In this text the Pope advocated regulate AI to avoid misuse of technology. For Thiel, although this message may resonate with people around the world concerned about AI, it will hardly have a similar effect in China, where the Catholic religion is a minority. The Pope is “working for the Chinese communists”. For Thiel, this means that the encyclical only stops one of the two major sides in the race for AI, and leaves Beijing free to continue advancing without any type of moral brake. Conclusion, according to this magnate: the Pope “is working for the Chinese communists.” This comes from afar. A few months ago, in March, Thiel already offered a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. As it turned out later, this event bothered the Vatican so much that two Catholic universities they had to go out to clarify who had not participated in its organization. For the tycoon, the Antichrist might not be a person, but a world government who takes power promising to protect humanity from existential threats like AI. Thiel didn’t stop there. In addition to this accusation about the Pope, Thiel also warned that a “democratic-socialist coup d’état” is taking place in the United States. Without any evidence, he accused Anthropic (which he called “woke liberal”) that it would use its models to manipulate the 2028 elections in favor of Democrats. Interested speech. But this investor and entrepreneur has its own “agenda” and a few ideas quite pilgrims. He was one of Donald Trump’s first supporters in Silicon Valley, and as pointed out on CNN, he also helped boost the political career of the US vice president, J.D. Vance. The latter worked at Mithrill Capital, the investment firm co-founded by Thiel himself, before making the leap into politics. Image | Gage Skidmore | Catholic Church England and Wales In Xataka | If things go wrong for me, it’s because of the politicians; If I do well, it is thanks to me: the bias that damages democracy

We believed that Adobe was threatened with death by AI. It turns out that it is one of the few companies that is making money from it

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In the last year Adobe has lost almost half of its value. Twelve months ago it was trading at $382. Today your actions They are listed at $197.. Wall Street has clearly punished a company that certainly seemed to be threatened with death by new generative AI models. The surprise is that Adobe is not only not doing badly with AI, but it is doing really well. Wall Street says one thing, the data another. In the second fiscal quarter of 2026, the company achieved some historical results with record revenues of $6.62 billion (up 13% year over year). Earnings per share (EPS) have shot up 18% to $5.96, and although the NASDAQ charts say otherwise, Adobe is not only not suffering, but appears to be stronger than ever. A money making machine. Adobe is in fact behaving like a true software empire. In 2025, it managed to have free cash flow of $9.85 billion on revenue of $23.8 billion. Its operating margins are also the envy of the sector: they stand at 37% (47% in terms non-GAAP). Its subscription business is absolutely exceptional, with annual recurring revenue (ARR) already reaching $27.1 billion. Others burn money with AI: ADobe earns it. While most companies do not stop investing money in the hope that the bet will pay off very profitable in the future, Adobe is ensuring that its generative AI tools are already having a positive impact on its results sheet. Income ARR Dependents on “AI First” solutions have tripled in just one year, and the big driver here is Firefly, Adobe’s generative AI platform. She alone has exceeded $250 million in ARR and continues to grow. Companies trust Adobe. We users may love using Gemini or ChatGPT to create AI images, but companies that relied on Adobe products for their creative workflows continue to do so. 75% of Fortune 500 companies already use Firefly, but the company has also trained more than 2,500 custom AI models for large corporate accounts. Users do not stop growing. Another advantage that AI has brought is that the technical barrier to using Photoshop or Premiere is lowered because the integrated AI assistants help users create what they wanted. There are also simplified tools like Adobe Express (70 million active users per month), and the freemium approach has been another reason for the number of users to grow: in just 12 months Adobe has gone from having 700 to 850 million users. The vast majority are still users of the free features, but Adobe it is enough to convert 2% to paying users to ensure that all these efforts are profitable. But the competition is tight. Although things seem to be going very well, Adobe now faces a fragmented ecosystem with a lot of competition. These new rivals also take advantage of AI to “attack” very specific use cases. It happens with Canva, for examplewhich has become a real threat and already has a turnover of 4,000 million dollars. Midjourney, Runway and even the Spanish Magnific are platforms that have fully embraced the AI ​​revolution to offer services to both individuals and companies. Be careful with subscriptions. Adobe is not immune to market fluctuations. The company stands out for maintaining extraordinary profitability in a very specialized niche, but it has taken questionable business decisions recently. The notable price increase of your subscriptions last year and its limits to generative credits have been decisions highly criticized. This has caused users to flee to cheap or even free alternatives such as Affinity or DaVinci Resolve. Uncertainty. There is another striking detail that can critically influence the future of the company. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen advertisement who was leaving the company after 18 years at the helm. There is no designated successor and this comes in the middle of that transition to a world full of generative AI solutions. The risk is therefore notable, and whoever takes the reins of the business will have to make very important decisions to not jeopardize the future of an already legendary technology company. In Xataka | Adobe was not born with Photoshop. It started by solving a huge and inconspicuous problem: printing well

Today at Lidl this ice making machine that will save you from buying bags in supermarkets or gas stations this summer

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Although there are still a few days until summer officially begins, it is already hot almost everywhere. Whether we are alone at home or when a visitor comes, having ice cubes in the freezer becomes almost essential to have cool drinks. But this one ends and the molds that we all have in the freezer are not always enough (plus they take a long time to do their job). We have an alternative to avoid this with the ice cube machine that Lidl has: it is from the Silvercrest brand and costs 62.99 euros. Ice cube machine 105W The price could vary. We earn commission from these links If you are not convinced or you simply do not arrive on time, we leave you below two alternatives that you can buy on Amazon: Cecotec Ice Maker Machine by 89.80 eurosan alternative with more power and self-wash function. Songmics Cube Machine by 79.99 eurosthe best-selling machine of this type on Amazon right now. A machine to produce cubes in less than 10 minutes These appliances are a great ally in summer. They allow us to have different shapes of ice cubes without having to resort to the refrigerator freezer. This Silvercrest machine is capable of making 9 large ice cubes in less than 9 minutes, although we can choose to make 9 smaller ice cubes, thus reducing the time to 7 minutes. This is ideal for making batches and keeping them in bags in case we go to the beach, for example. Furthermore, this machine has its own built-in tank, so it does not need a water intake. In fact, since it is quite compact, you can take it to the patio or terrace if you have a plug on hand. It comes with a shovel to handle the ice comfortably and its control panel is quite intuitive, so it is not difficult to handle at all. ⚡ IN BRIEF: silvercrest ice cube offer ✅ THE BEST It is very fast making ice: Being able to have ice cubes in less than 10 minutes is great and saves you having to buy bags at the supermarket. You can move it to the garden or patio: Being compact and only needing a plug, you can move it around your house depending on what you need. ❌ THE WORST The basket is not a freezer: The basket where the ice that is generated is stored is not designed to store the cubes for hours. You have to take them out so they don’t melt. 💡 BUY IT IF… You usually consume a lot of ice in the summer and you want to avoid having to buy bags at the supermarket or gas station. ⛔ DON’T BUY IT IF… You don’t want another appliance for your kitchen or you have enough with the freezer at home. You may also be interested KeeGone Stainless Steel Ice Cube Machine with LED Display Cleaning Function 2 Liter Water Tank Includes Shovel and Basket 2 Sizes for Kitchen The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HOMCOM Ice Machine, Self-Cleaning Ice Cube Machine, 12kg/24H, 9 Cubes Ready in 7 Minutes, 2 Ice Sizes, 1.5L Tank, for Home, Kitchen, Office, Bar, Blue 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 | Lidl In Xataka | American refrigerator or 70 cm Combi? Be careful with making mistakes when buying liters that you may not be able to use In Xataka | Which home theater projector to buy, which is better?

An Air Canada pilot has been flying for 16 years without making a single mistake. And they have arrested him for one detail: he did not have a license

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Almost 20 years goes a long way, whether you are an airplane pilot or not. But if you are also one, you will have had time to accumulate almost a thousand international flights, take the controls of different types of aircraft and accumulate good money. It is the summary that Geoffrey Wall could make of his life when, once retired, he told this to his grandchildren or, who knows, told it to all of us in a book. One more story. Tasteless, without substance. But Geoffrey Wall may say otherwise. Yes, you can tell that He flew airplanes for decadeswho took the controls of the best-known commercial airplanes on more than 900 occasions and who accumulated millions of euros taking hundreds of lives from one place to another through the clouds. But he will also be able to tell how he managed to trick his airline into flying planes for 16 years without the relevant license to do so. Everything good, except for one small detail Because the future doesn’t look good for Geoffrey Wall. They count in cnn that the police knocked on his door and he was arrested. The reason: Air Canada notified authorities that one of its pilots was flying with a false license. Not only that, he had been doing it from 2009 until last year. The deception was discovered during a routine check. Nobody had reported irregularities in the controls, no aircraft had been put at risk. But in 2025, during a review of its documentation, it was found that there were some anomalies. By then, the pilot had been flying airplanes within the company for 27 years. However, the company points out that Wall began flying fraudulently starting in 2009. Then, the pilot was promoted to captain and was able to take command of the aircraft and direct operations. The small detail is that he falsified the ATPL-A, the highest level pilot’s license. At a press conference to explain what happened, Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich, of the Peel Regional Police (southern Ontario, Canada), pointed out that “It’s very similar to a doctor who is licensed to practice family medicine but is performing brain surgery in his office.” And he once again emphasized the importance of having the appropriate licenses to perform a job. Especially if in that job you have taken thousands of people through the air. The authorities have explained that the pilot left his job in 2025, just before “Project Icarus”, as the police work has been called internally, started rolling last January. months later They have managed to prove the falsification of the documents and on June 1 they arrested the pilot. However, Air Canada emphasizes that its pilots pass tests regularly and that at no time were passengers put in danger. They emphasize that Geoffrey Wall amply demonstrated his abilities to pilot the Boeing 767, 777 and 787 to which he had access during the last 16 years. During that time it is estimated that Wall earned more than two million dollars with his salary but will now have to face seven criminal charges, including fraud for money earned without a license and falsification of documents. In addition, it has already been fined by Transport Canada, the Canadian Government department in charge of ensuring compliance with all mobility regulations in the country. Photo | David Shypers In Xataka | Without a pilot or help from the ground: this is how the University of Munich has achieved the completely autonomous landing of a plane

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