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The Government says Palantir is a risk to national security. NATO, of which Spain is a member, has put it in charge of its own

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Moncloa has begun to ask public companies not to sign new contracts with Palantir, according to Agustín Marco has advanced in The Confidential. The order is not official nor is it in writing, but an agreement has already been reached with the Civil Guard and another with Navantia. The panoramic. Spain joins France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands in distrust towards the company of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. The unofficial argument is the usual one: not to risk sensitive information in the hands of an American company with close ties to the Trump White House. The veto affects Telefónica, Indra, Correos and Navantia, all of them under the umbrella of SEPI. There is no statement, no press conference, no official note. They are indications transferred internally to boards of directors. In detail. The contract that really matters still stands. Defense signed with Palantir in 2023 a 16.5 million euro agreement for the Armed Forces Intelligence Center, and that contract expires in November of this year. According to The Confidentialthe chiefs of the General Staff have pressured Margarita Robles to renew it because there is no comparable alternative. Either Palantir or nobody. The decision remains unmade. The contrast. While Moncloa slides the veto inside, NATO announced this week that Palantir’s Maven Smart System becomes its operating system for military data management. Spain is a partner of the Alliance and has had to approve this decision, like all allies. So he voted yes in Brussels but has chosen the opposite direction behind closed doors. Why is it important. The veto does not touch the only thing that really counts: the Defense contract. Everything else (the Civil Guard and Navantia) were negotiations in progress, but not consolidated relationships. Cutting them costs little. Touching the CIFAS contract (Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces), on the other hand, would require replacing a tool that, according to sources in the military sector itself, has no rival in the market. Again: either Palantir or nobody. Yes, but. The gesture has a clear recipient: the US government. Pedro Sánchez has not received the US ambassador in Madrid, Benjamín León Jr., for months and Its Executive has invested 115 million euros in Openchip and another 5,000 million in a chip gigafactory as a commitment to European technological sovereignty. The Palantir veto fits that narrative. What doesn’t fit so well is that this same story coexists with a Defense contract that no one dares to cancel. And now what. The end of the current contract in November will test whether this was signaling or conviction: If the CIFAS contract is renewed without making much noise, the veto will have been a diplomatic gesture. If it is dropped without an equivalent replacement, Spain will be left without the tool its own military considers irreplaceable. The middle way, replacing it with European or national technology, does not yet exist. In Xataka | AI is crucial for the US military. So he’s naming OpenAI and Palantir leaders as lieutenant generals Featured image | Palantir, Wikimedia Commons

The new Chinese gem of semiconductors is called Enflame. This is the new member of “the four chip dragons” of China

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The name Enflame may not ring a bell yet. But it is very likely that in the coming months it will end up giving us a lot to talk about. And this Chinese AI chip company just got the go-ahead to go public on the STAR market in Shanghai, the preferred market for the country’s large technology companies. After this, we see how the scheme of large chip manufacturers begins to take shape. Enflame enters the select group of the four big technology companies that are dedicated to AI chipsand that are already listed or are about to do so on the public markets. Who is Enflame and where does it come from? The company was founded in Shanghai in 2018 by Zhao Lidong, an engineer who came from AMD, where he led the development of high-performance processors at the American company’s R&D center. Together with his co-founder Zhang Yalin, Zhao set out to replicate that knowledge in Chinese territory and build a domestic alternative to Nvidia. In seven years has developed five AI chips distributed across four generations of architecture, and has built a catalog that includes processors, accelerator cards, computing clusters and software platforms. Its most recent chip, the L600 module, has passed silicon verification testing, although it has not yet entered large-scale commercial production. Why this IPO matters. Enflame plans to raise up to 6 billion yuan (about 888 million dollars) selling between 10% and 15% of its shares. The money, as could not be otherwise in these times, will be used to accelerate the development of its next generation of AI chips in the cloud and build the software that surrounds them. However, the operation also has a certain symbolic character, since it is the fourth and final addition to the group known as the “four little dragons” of Chinese chips. The other three (Moore Threads, Biren Technology and MetaX) have already debuted on the STAR market, and have been received enthusiastically by investors. In fact, Moore Threads, nicknamed “the Chinese Nvidia”, rose 425% on its first day of trading in December of last year, according to Bloomberg. Restrictions. The reason China is betting so big on these manufacturers is that the United States has been applying restrictions on chip exports for years advanced towards the Asian giant. Nvidia’s most powerful models are blocked, which has created a real shortage in the Chinese market and a strategic urgency to develop its own alternatives. Beijing has responded with public moneyincluding a relaxation of STAR board rules to allow loss-making companies to list, and a $295 billion plan to build data centers that do not depend on American chips. In this framework, Enflame and its groupmates become part of an infrastructure of technological sovereignty. What does it look like? Tencent. Enflame’s greatest asset is also its greatest vulnerability. Tencent owns about 20% of the company and in 2025 it represented 84% of its income, compared to 38% the previous year. That is, almost everything that Enflame sells is bought by Tencent. The Chinese tech giant uses its chips to power large-scale data centers, recommendation systems, chatbots and generative AI infrastructure. The company itself acknowledged in its IPO prospectus that “Tencent’s demand has far exceeded its supply capacity.” That’s good in the short term, as it guarantees income. But how they point out In The Next Web, a chip maker that relies on a single customer for the majority of its sales ends up being exposed if that customer changes priorities. The numbers. Enflame is growing at breakneck speed, as revenues have multiplied a compound rate greater than 80% between 2023 and 2025, but still in losses. Net losses were reduced to 1.2 billion yuan in 2025, compared to 1.5 billion the previous year, and the company plans to close the first half of 2026 with losses of about 600 million yuan. For the same period, it expects its revenue to grow more than three times compared to the previous year, reaching between 10.6 billion and 11.5 billion yuan. On the other hand, investment in R&D has exceeded 100% of sales over the last three years, which says a lot about the phase the company is in (still building, not harvesting). Before the IPO, the Hurun Index valued the company at around $2.8 billion. Where Enflame fits in. Not all dragons are the same. Within China, Enflame competes in a market where Huawei and Cambricon They continue to be the benchmarks in the sector and are already profitable. Enflame, Moore Threads, Biren and Iluvatar CoreX make up a second, younger layer that is trying to break through. Technically, Enflame has opted for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), a more specialized architecture, rather than the general-purpose GPUs used by Moore Threads or Biren. Xu Dawei, of Jintong Private Fund Management in Beijing, points out Bloomberg that Enflame “benefits from solid comparatives,” given that its Chinese competitors are already listed on the stock market with valuations well above what their revenues would justify. Companies like ByteDance are actively looking for domestic alternatives to Nvidiaand second-tier manufacturers, including Enflame, are on the radar. Cover image | Enflame In Xataka | TSMC is on the ropes and its biggest problem is not competition: it is water

A crew member of the International Space Station lost his speech and NASA does not know why

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Last January, four astronauts had to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical emergency. At the time it was pointed out that it was due to the health problems of one of the astronauts. However, at no time was it clarified which of them it was, in order to preserve their privacy. Over time, NASA has dropped some new data in dribs and drabs. Now, we know who it was and why, but the cause of his illness remains a mystery. The facts: At the beginning of January, NASA announced the cancellation of a space walk that astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman should have done. Just a few hours later, the imminent return to Earth of the entire Crew 11 was announced. That included both Fincke and Cardman as well as Kimiya Yui, from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platanov, from the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). The return trip was planned to take place in February, but it finally took place on January 15. At that time, NASA had not yet announced which of the crew members was sick. It was only noted that he was stable and that he would have to undergo more tests. Without words in space. Shortly after that mysterious medical emergency, NASA announced that the sick astronaut was Mike Fincke. However, at that time he still did not provide information about the illness that led him and his companions to return home early. Now, finally, we know what happened. As stated by Fincke himself in statements to the mediaon January 7, while eating with his companions, he realized that he could not speak. Thanks to the quick intervention of his colleagues and the remote support of NASA doctors, he was immediately stabilized. However, it was urgent to return to Earth to perform the relevant tests. The episode has not been repeated and it has been ruled out that it was a heart attack or stroke. More tests. Fincke will possibly have to undergo more tests so we can find out why he temporarily lost his speech. However, he himself has reported that NASA suspects that it could be an effect of his stay in space. For this reason, the medical records of other astronauts are being reviewed, looking for an episode similar to theirs. space brain. Living in space can affect your health in many different ways. All organs are susceptible to the effects of microgravity. In the case of the brain, It has been proven that it can even move inside the skull. It is not known for sure what could have happened to this NASA astronaut. However, it seems quite likely that his medical emergency was for this reason. And now what? If all goes well with Artemis II, NASA hopes to travel to the Moon more and more regularly and even build a space base there at some point. Other companies, like SpaceX, have the same dream. Therefore, it is vital to study how microgravity or cosmic radiation can affect the health of future colonizers. All astronauts of Crew 11 Astronauts on the International Space Station have been testing these types of events for a long time. What has happened to Fincke at the moment is a mystery, but logically it is something that must be taken into account. What happened to him will have to be investigated to prevent it from happening again, whether on the International Space Station, on the Moon or at any other point in outer space that humans reach. Image | NASA | Unsplash In Xataka | Spanish technology in the return to the Moon: the system designed in Madrid that NASA will use in Artemis II

Taking money from a family member just before their death seemed like a great idea to avoid paying taxes. It wasn’t

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Why should an additional tax be paid for receiving money in inheritance for which the deceased already paid taxes? Many people ask that question and They decide to jump into the mountains (prosecutor) trying a thousand and one tricks to avoid payment of the Donations and Inheritance Tax. The most common trick is to empty bank accounts of the family member before he or she dies. Spoiler: it goes wrong. A solved case by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid shows that this belief can be very expensive, and that the attempt to avoid the treasury can end up exactly where one wanted to avoid arriving: paying the Treasury even more than what they would have paid in the beginning. Money, what money? A woman was listed as the owner or authorized person on several of her sister’s bank accounts. In September 2017, this died without leaving a will. When the General Directorate of Taxes of the Community of Madrid began to investigate the case, it found that the deceased’s assets were much larger than what her sister wanted to make out. As of December 31, 2016, the three bank accounts of the deceased accumulated considerable balances: one with 9,217.08 euros, another with 51,216.58 euros and a third with 132,644.53 euros, in which the sister appeared directly as joint owner. In addition to these savings, the deceased had received 45,000 euros in April 2017 for the sale of her part of a property that she shared with her sister. By December 31, 2017, all the money in the accounts was gone. The Treasury calculated that the total money and assets that should have been declared in the inheritance amounted to 122,931.67 euros, to which was added the value of 50% of a property in Hoyo de Manzanares valued at 1,812.50 euros. ​No resignation possible. The sister responded to the first requests from the Treasury by assuring that the deceased had died without assets. Some time later he provided a notarial document of renunciation of inheritance dated September 29, 2020, more than three years after death occurred. His argument was that he did not know that his sister had assets, and that the only movements he had made in the deceased’s accounts were payment procedures for the residence where he received care his sister in her last month of life. The court that reviewed the case in the first instance initially agreed with him, considering that this payment could be interpreted as timely management. However, the Community of Madrid, in charge of collecting the tax, appealed and the TSJM resolved differently. Although in theory you can renounce an inheritance at any time during the process, doing so after having acted on the deceased’s assets has tax consequences that no notarial deed can erase. What does it mean to accept an inheritance without wanting to do so?. In Spain, you do not need to sign any paper to legally become an heir. The law includes in its article 999.3 the figure of tacit acceptance, which occurs when someone acts on the assets of a deceased as if they were already theirs, even if they have never confirmed acceptance of inheritance. Withdrawing money from your accounts, selling your property or simply managing your assets are examples of actions that, in the eyes of the law, are equivalent to saying “yes, I accept”, even if no paper has been signed.​​ The problem is that many people are not aware of this rule and believe that as long as they do not sign anything before a notary, they are safe. In reality, what matters is not what is signed, but what is done. The Supreme Court takes decades establishing that any act that unequivocally reveals that someone he is behaving like an heireven if informally or even unconsciously, has the same legal and fiscal effects as an express acceptance of the inheritance.​ What the law says about disappearing money. The TSJM applied the article 11.1.a of the Inheritance and Donation Tax Lawwhich establishes that the assets that would have belonged to the deceased up to one year before his death They are considered part of the inheritanceunless proven otherwise by solid evidence. Not only did the sister not provide any explanation as to what had happened to that money, but she did not even try throughout the entire process. The court also assessed that the deceased was admitted to a nursing home and was receiving special care, which made it highly unlikely that she would have been able to manage the withdrawal of the money from her accounts on her own. Given that the sister was the owner or authorized owner of all of them, the judges concluded that moving that money was equivalent, in the eyes of the law, to having accepted the inheritance. Pay the tax, but get rid of the fine. The TSJ of Madrid confirmed that the woman had to pay 26,217.11 euros as settlement of the Inheritance Tax for her sister’s inheritance. However, the judges annulled the fine of 17,999.73 euros that the Madrid treasury demanded, because the Community of Madrid failed to prove that the woman had acted with the deliberate intention of deceiving the treasury, something that the law requires before being able to impose a financial penalty of that type. In Xataka | The “Great Transfer of Wealth” is not only a thing for the rich: demographic change will concentrate wealth among the youngest Image | Pexels (cottonbro studio)

The “additional member” complement is already a reality in the US

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The time of sharing accounts without restrictions begins to be left behind. Netflix was the first big platform to launch an open offensive against the shared use of accounts, and Disney+ soon followed its example. Now it is Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service, who adds to this trend with a measure that is already being applied in the United States: the official activation of the “additional member” complement. Although the news may surprise some users, the truth is that the maneuver was announced for months. At the end of last year, JB Perrette, president and CEO of global streaming and games at Warner Bros. Discovery, made it clear that it was just a matter of time. And that moment has arrived. The company has begun to deploy its own strategy to limit shared accounts, in line with an industry that seeks to increase income by adjusting access to its services. A specific function to add external users. The new system is based on a complement that allows the owner of a main account to invite a friend or relative who does not live at his usual home. This user, considered an “additional member”, can access the service through a linked account, but with own credentials and their own adult profile. For practical purposes, it is a secondary account within the original plan, although with certain limitations. For example, it is only allowed to add an additional member on behalf of and the use is restricted to a simultaneous device. However, this new user can enjoy all the benefits included in the plan hired by the holder: image quality, available content and personalized configuration, among others. An added cost that already begins to add. The complement price is $ 7.99 per month, which add directly to the base plan. For those who are signed to the standard plan (which costs $ 16.99 per month in the United States) the total amounts to almost $ 25 per month. This places Max in a strip similar to that of other services that have already taken similar measures, such as Netflix, and is a new step towards more rigid models in terms of number and type of users on behalf of users. How it is activated and what changes in account. Users who want to activate the additional member complement can do so from the configuration of their subscription, both on the web and in the mobile app. Once the extra, the holder of the account can be invited to the new user and manage its access from the usual control panel. Integration is intended for the process to be simple and without friction. Unlike creating a new account from scratch, the additional member becomes part of the original subscription, although with its own login. You may not change the hired plan or access administrative functions, but use the service as if it had your own account. Profile transfer: a Netflix inherited function. Max has also incorporated another function that many users will already recognize: profile transfer. This option allows a user who was already sharing an account (and now becomes an additional member) can keep his full profile. That includes your visualization history, your personalized recommendations and all stored settings. The process is carried out automatically during activation, and seeks to facilitate the transition without losing the previous experience of use. Waiting for Europe. For now, this first step to limit shared accounts in Max is being applied only in the United States. At the time of publishing this article there is no official information about its deployment in other markets, including Spain. We will have to wait to know when this measure will be extended. Now the message is clear. “Your Max account is for you and the people who live with you,” can be read on the help page dedicated to additional members. Images | Boliviainteligent | Max In Xataka | LaLiga breaks with mediopro. Production passes to Telefónica and a Swiss giant who comes from retransmitting world

The influence of the richest man in the world about Trump is making a fortune to another member of the Musk clan: his mother

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Canadian Maye Musk began to put a model in a model to carry out her three children, as she said In an interview In 2020. However, in recent years, his career has risen like the foam influenced by the business success of his son, and has accelerated even more since Elon Musk has such an influential position in Donald Trump’s government. Although Maye Musk has traveled the world for years to model, give talks and promote their memoirs, recently it seems even more requested, especially outside the United States. Above all, the assiduity with which Musk’s mother participates in events in China, Kazakhstan or the United Arab Emirates has attracted attention. Maye Musk’s growing influence abroad Such and as he published The New York Timesthe enormous international interest that Maye Musk, mother of the richest man in the world. At 76, this model and lecturer has visited several countries to attend different fashion events in brand campaigns for China, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates. The striking thing is that these trips coincide with a time when foreign leaders seek to influence the Trump administration, in which Elon Musk has An important role and influence To advise on how billions of dollars will be spent on military expenses and external aid in the Trump government. Maye herself shared a golf day With Donald Trump during his visit to Mar-a-Lago. In the last months of 2024, Maye Musk visited China on at least four occasions to participate in events of up to seven different brands. Its activities include promotions of makeup products, jackets and massage devices. Elon Musk enjoys a Huge popularity in Chinawhere he is used to receiving like a rock star for his citizens and Like a head of state for his leaders. His mother has received the same reception during his visits, but with the nuance that the Chinese state media have promoted these visits, and in the past they have cited it asking better Relations between the United States and China. Touch the image to go to the original message In addition to its activities in China, Maye Musk has also been present in other countries. In October, shortly before the presidential elections of the United States, Musk participated in a forum on women in Kazakhstan where, According to the press agency local KazimformHe talked about the success of his son. In January, just before the second investiture of Donald Trump, Maye Musk participated in a government conference in Dubai About influencerstogether with former Fox News Tucker Carlson presenter. His talk was titled “How I raised three amazing children, including the richest man in the world”, As reported the official press agency of Arab Emirates. The political implications of your trips Maye Musk’s trips have occurred after Elon Musk became one of the main Trump campaign donors. On several of these trips, Maye Musk has played issues related to the policy of the United States. This is relevant because several of the countries where they have recently appeared have important issues to negotiate with Washington. For example, Beijing He opposes To the new US tariffs about their products, and Chinese leaders seem to see Elon Musk, which has important Commercial interests in Chinaas a friendly mediator with Trump. Kazakhstan, meanwhile, expects the Trump administration Eliminate trade restrictions. The United Arab Emirates have been a strategic USA in the Gulf, and are maneuvering as a lobby to prioritize their interests with the arrival of Donald Trump to power, as He revealed an investigation of The Washington Post. Another member of the Musk clan with conflicts of interest Although there is no evidence that she has tried to influence the policy of the United States Government, Maye Musk’s international activities have raised some ethical concerns for having accepted works linked to the Chinese government. Ethics experts, such as Scott Amay of the government supervision project, expressed to the New York Times His concern about the possible conflicts of interest of Elon Musk’s mother. “Fear is whether in those countries they would be using it to obtain a degree of separation with their child and two degrees of separation with the oval office,” said the expert. The questioning about the ethics of Maye Musk’s travel are added to the fronts for conflicts of interest that Elon Musk already faces for his companies. The FBI usually thoroughly examines contacts abroad of the presidential advisors and their relatives before granting security authorizations, emphasizing their trips to countries cataloged as “adversary potentials” of the US. However, the NYT has not found indications that any of that is happening with the mother who has been classified as “Special Government Employee“With the ability to stagge the foundations of The main state agencies. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Luan Luu)

Apple will present ‘a new family member’ next week. Everything points to the iPhone se 4

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Tim cook has announced An Apple launch for next Wednesday, February 19. “Prepare to meet the new family member,” he says in the publication he has made through social networks. And, yes, we are also thinking about the iPhone Se 4, a model that was rumored for this week or next. It will not be a keynote to use. In fact, there will not even be a presentation that we can follow through YouTube or the Apple page. It is expected that, throughout the day, the company will surprise both in its Newsroom as in the device section. Rumoring the iPhone is fourth generation for weeks, all eyes point to the fifth family member. We expect a phone with a single camera, the front of the iPhone 14 and the processor of The iPhone 16 with 8 GB of RAM to be able to execute Apple Intelligence. This phone, with 6.1 -inch OLED screen, action button, and focused as the access iPhone, has a rumored price of 599 euros in Spain. We can meet it on the Apple website between 14 and 17 Spanish time. Image | Xataka In Xataka | iPhone 17: All the information we think we know so far

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