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Saudi Arabia has signed a check of 7,000 million dollars for Nvidia. Jensen Huang is now 12,000 million richer

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In his Official visit to Saudi ArabiaDonald Trump has been accompanied by an entourage of technological entrepreneurs including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Lisa his and Jensen Huang. The presence of all these technological executives is justified within the framework of A GREAT COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT Between both countries valued at 600,000 million dollars, which includes the sale of more than 18,000 GB300 Blackwell GB300 chips in NVIDIA. After knowing the agreement, Nvidia’s shareholders launched a trip to buy shares of the manufacturer, causing Jensen Huang’s personal fortune to have increased by 12,000 million dollars in just a few hours. A breath of air for Nvidia. The agreement with Saudi Arabia arrives as A breath of fresh air After weeks of uncertainty about commercial limitations With China for tariffs, which underlines the strategic importance of this movement. “The AI, like electricity and the Internet, is an essential infrastructure for every nation. Together with Humain, we are building an AI infrastructure so that the people and companies of Saudi Arabia make the bold vision of the kingdom come true,” Huang said after the signing of the agreement. According to A statement of Nvidia, the agreement includes a first phase with the supply of 18,000 processors for AI GB300 Grace Blackwell For Saudi Arabia to develop Your data centers. Such and as they said From NVIDIA, the objective is to enhance the Saudi technological infrastructure and accelerate its digital transformation as part of the Vision 2030 Plan of which also It is part of neomand whose objective is that the country’s economy stop depending on your deposits of oil and gas. Humain and Saudi Arabia. The key partner of Nvidia in this agreement is Humain, the Saudi state company of artificial intelligence, Backeddirectly by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of the Saudi kingdom, which also Finance the pharaonic works of neom. Humain was created with the aim of developing AI technology. The company is directed by Tareq Amin, a exexecutive of Aramco Digital, and has the direct support of the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The agreement with Nvidia is Humain’s first great step to materialize this vision and an important capital injection for Nvidia, which opens a new booming market for its chips for ia. A joy for investors. According The published by CNBCthe announcement of the agreement has had a Immediate and very positive effect In the quotation of Nvidia. Their shares rose 6% in a single session after the news is public, and maintains its upward trend adding an increase of 16.78% in recent days. With this announcement, the recovery of the technological giant price rhythm is consolidated, which recovers 37% from its minimum of 2025 registered in April after the uncertainty generated by the USA tariffs to China. Bank of America analysts They estimatedthe total value of the agreement at 7,000 million dollars, which together with the estimate of Chips sales to United Arab Emirateshas returned optimism to technological investors. Well for Nvidia, well for Huang. Jensen Huang cannot be more satisfied with the agreement signed with Saudi Arabia. Thanks to the response of his shareholders, the assessment of his fortune has increased by 12,000 million dollars in a single afternoon, achieving the Greater gain in dollars In a single day for an executive of the technological sector that controls 3.5% of Nvidia’s actions. This fortune places Huang at the doors of the top 10 of the world’s largest fortunes, with an estimated total heritage of 118.2 billion dollars, turning Huang into the eleventh person richer on the planet. The Nvidia CEO is just one step behind figures like Amancio Ortega – which occupies the tenth place In the Forbes ranking-; Steve Ballmer, Excus from Microsoft; or the founders of Google Serguéi Brin and Larry Page. In Xataka | The secret of Nvidia’s success does not hide in her chips: she is in the emails that Jensen Huang Lee every day Image | Nvidia

Bie million years ago symbiosis between two cells created a new kingdom in nature. We are trying to replicate the meeting

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About one billion years ago an event happened that would change our planet forever. It was not the first time that an event of this Tupo was happening, in fact, when something similar happened millions of years before, the ban was opened to the appearance of complex life on earth. This time it was the time of the plants. All because one cell managed to swallow another. 1+1 = 1. A team of researchers He is trying to recreate In a laboratory the conditions that gave rise to the appearance of the unicellular organisms of which all past and present plants evolved. The project, baptized as 1+1 = 1, has an objective that goes beyond the study of the evolution of these organisms, could give rise to new tools to use both in biotechnology and medicine. A first radical change. To better understand the experiment, we must return to these two key moments in the evolutionary history of the Earth’s Vira. The first of the events that would mark these changes took about 2,000 million years ago, although the estimates vary. This change occurred when a simple, prokaryotic cell, swallowed another and turned it to its organelle. The engulmed cell had the ability to produce energy from chemical compounds, which became a useful tool for the “host” cell, which made it its private energy center, The mitochondria. Having such a source of energy was what allowed this cell to evolve, generate an independent nucleus and then give rise to complex life. Second act. About a billion years after the appearance of the first eukaryotic cells, the story was repeated again: one cell swallowed another and turned it into something of its own, another organelle. On this occasion, the swallowed cell was cyanobacteria, an organism capable of performing photosynthesis. When integrating into a eukaryotic cell, cyanobacteria went to become a chloroplastallowing his guest to enjoy the advantages of photosynthesis. This change gave way to a new kingdom of life, that of plants. From symbiosis to total union. The integration process between cells was slowly surely: first individual cells would have become a symbiotic relationship. A relationship that, over the years (millions, perhaps) would give rise to total integration. Replicate the process From beginning to end in laboratory it may not be feasible, so the work focuses on the first steps, in creating a “synthetic symbiosis” that allows us to investigate the processes that gave rise to the formation of complex cells. The team responsible for this project wants to observe the process closely, Replicating this synthetic relationship between two organisms in controlled conditions. The chosen microorganisms are a bacteria, Burstar Parameciumand a unicellular algae, Chlorella vulgaris. The relationship they seek to replicate the nature symbiosis, in which the bacteria acts as a algae host. New tools. To carry out the experiment, the team turned to microchips designed specifically for this, which allow studying cells closely maintaining control of light, temperature and nutrient availability in these cells. To “force” symbiosis, the team put the bacteria under stressful conditions and studied interactions with the other organism involved. Methodological details can be consulted In an article Posted in the magazine Lab on a chip. More common than it seems. We have proof of two occasions in which these advanced symbiosis changed the course of life, but the relationships between unicellular organisms that give rise to endosimbiosis do not seem to be something strange. In recent years We have seen similar cases discovered in nature, for example The case of the algae Braarudosphaera Bigelowiiwhich absorbed a newly discovered cyanobacteria called UCYN-A. In Xataka | Luca, this was the ancestral microorganism that all current living beings emerged Image | Witting et al. (2025), Forschungszentrum Jülich / Degleex Ganzorig

A youtuber has a car that is worth four million euros. To drive it you have to pay 7,000 every 60 kilometers

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If there is a brand that has understood that maxim of whether you can put a price on exclusivity, that is Bugatti. Luxury brands play with the lists of people Millionaires who aspire to have the object in question to their credit, and part of that exclusiveness It is achieved both with the price and with the very scarce units. Of the Chins Super Sport? Just 30 units. What do you want Centodieci? Too bad, s10th 10th were manufactured. Even with their very high prices, Volkswagen every bugatti sold It cost him moneyso they had an idea: make the difficult thing not to buy the car, but to maintain it. Also Sell ​​customization packages with which customers They invest 500,000 euros on averagebut that is another topic. And within the exclusivity of Bugatti, there is a specific model that is not the most expensive of the concessionaire, but yes It costs a kidney and part of the other as you want to do kilometers. The reason? Their wheels cost a money and you have to change them every 60 kilometers. This is the very exclusive Bugatti Bolidewhich is also not made for roads. You’re going to remember every time you want to change the wheels The Bolide was presented as a concept in 2020 and began to be delivered in the middle of last year. It costs about four million euros and we return to the issue of exclusivity: there are only 40 units worldwide. It is a car that is very similar to the rest of his family, but with a peculiarity: he is not approved to circulate by road. It is a luxury hyperdeportivo, yes, but its natural atmosphere is the circuit. Changing anything in Bolide costs a moneyas in any bugatti and the rest of the supercar. The reason is that it is not as simple as lifting the hood, loosening a couple of nuts and making the change: you have to disassemble part of the car to, for example, make an oil change. And this is something that must be done frequently because the engine consumes more oil than that of a normal car. But Bolide’s issue are, as we say, the wheels, because in this case it is like a Formula 1. When you buy the car, the manufacturer includes four very fine tires that only serve to transport the car of the circuit asphalt. Once there, the main tires are mounted, Michelin specials who are like the slicks (without drawing) of those of competition cars. There is also rain version. These tires should be preheated before starting the car (again, as in the maximum engine competition) and degradation is bestial. The Bolide weighs about 1,300 kilos, but generates A suction force of more than 1,800 kilos. This makes the car stick to the ground, Like a vacuumto face the curves better, but also degrades the tires. Acceleration of 0 to 300 km/h in 7.37 seconds, 1,850 hp and total traction You eat some wheels that have to be changed every 60 kilometers. And what does that translate? The YouTuber Manny Khoshbin, a car lover, collector and who does not mind informing about the money that each of them costs him, Comment In one of its last videos that these changes at 60 kilometers cost about 7,000 euros. In the end, these extreme benefits entail the very short life of the tires in a car that is absolutely brutal. You just have to listen to how the engine roots when many lights it (just turning it on sure it costs more than filling the tank of my car). And the comfort that we have left is that … that of Lego costs less than 50 euros. Something is something. Images | Santaclaus93, CALREYN88, Bugatti In Xataka | They are founders and ultra -ups, but they have not always driven luxury supercoches: a review of the cars of the Tech millionaires

Harley-Davidson wanted to move from thunderous noise to electric silence. The joke has cost him 20 million dollars

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20 million dollars. It is what It has cost Harley-Davidson The experiment of offering an electrical alternative to its classic custom motorcycles. Livewire, the brand that created by and to offer a different path to that of combustion motorcycles, has only managed to sell 33 motorcycles in the first quarter of 2025, 72% less compared to last year. A Lousimo Year Start. In the first quarter of 2025 Harley-Davidson sold 38,000 motorcycles. In the same period, he sold 33 Livewire. In the case of its electric motorcycle division it is a 72%drop, although 2024 was not a good year: they sold 117 Livewire compared to 57,000 Harley-Davidson. The company itself recounts in its account report that there is no demand for electric motorcycles, and that losses in this division amount to 20 million dollars. What Livewire offers. The world of motorcycles is passionate, even more so if it fits in the case of buying a Harley. They are faces, little efficient and with dynamic qualities at least debatable. Even so, they fall in love with thousands of users worldwide for their aesthetics, thunderous sound and quiet travel philosophy. It is not something they have managed to convey with Livewire. Although its slogan is that of “Electric motorcycles with soul”the reality is that the state of the electric motorcycle beyond the urban scooter, is gloomy. Models such as Alpeist S2 have a price of 19,148 and an official 194km autonomy in city, just over 100km on open road. Figures that make practically impossible to bet on one of these motorcycles to the minimum that we want to leave with them. Harley is not alone in this desert. Ego, one of the pioneers in electric motorcycles and the main protagonist of the Moto E category (the electric GP motorcycle), announced its bankruptcy in October 2024. Pioneer marks such as Zero, with barbarities such as SR/S (a motorcycle with 275km autonomy, recharges in an hour and a tip of 200 km/h), are sold in Spain for 23,790 euros. They are especially high prices compared to any of their combustion alternatives, practically double. The passionate element. The electrification in the car is inevitable: it is, for the most part, a utensil to move from point A of point B (a separate question is how much we want to spend on it and how fans we are of motor racing). But, on the road motorcycle, the thing changes. The only rational motorcycle is the scooter. Everything else is the result of passion for motorcycling, weekend routes and, on a great extent, sound. According to Anesdor data, as of April 2025, the electric motorcycle is 4% of the Spanish Total Spanish Park, completely starring scooters (both particularly and, mainly, rental fleets). The future of the motorcycle. Motorcycles, due to their low displacement, are usually much less polluting vehicles with respect to cars. It is something that will increase even more with the new regulations, Much stricter in noise and emissions. Associations such as Anesdor fight for a legal framework in which the motorcycle is protected and can function as a sustainable mobility alternative. The surcharge of electric motorcycles is especially notable, with products that double the price at their combustion alternatives even in the simplest models. If we add that, with current technology, The autonomy is around 100kmthis segment is especially difficult to open hollow. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The 11 cheapest and most autonomy electric motorcycles: the best quality-price options

Volkswagen has put $ 6,000 million in Rivian to grow in the United States. Tariffs are truncating their plans

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At the end of 2024, Volkswagen confirmed that Inject almost 6,000 million dollars In Rivian. During the previous summerThe Germans announced that they invested 5,000 million dollars in the US car and electric vans company. Then they defended this measure within a generalized adjustment Within the company as the way to gain presence in the United States and, at the same time, learn in software matter of what is worked on the other side of the puddle. An especially important facet for Germans who have been looking for alternatives in other companies, including China Xpeng. Almost a year ago, in Volkswagen they claimed that this decision would allow them increase your sales in the United Statesa country where the company has more problems to satisfy a market that demands huge vehicles whose production is available for a hand for the Germans. That promise, to continue growing in sales, was especially important in the Context of cuts mentioned above. In fact, the workers’ representatives came to wonder what guarantees were that the last and new party committed was not A new way of burning another 1 billion dollars. To this difficult situation, Donald Trump’s tariffs have been added. The commercial barriers of the new president of the United States have led Volkswagen to look for solutions to alleviate economic damage to their finances. From having hundreds of audi units stops on the border until a conversion of one of their plants In the country. Now, Rivian already adjusts his sales goals. Down. The excuse is the tariffs Rivian should deliver 51,000 units of their cars, pick-up and electric vans at the end of the year. But he already announces that he will not fulfill the plans. The figure has been adjusted downwards, reducing forecasts between 10 and 20%. According to their new accounts, they will put in the market Between 40,000 and 46,000 vehicles. They ensure that the reason is the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s government in the United States. Collect in Bloomberg that the company manufactures all its cars in the country and that the vast majority of the pieces are also local but that they warn that the company “is not immune to the impacts of world trade and the economic environment.” Of course, the company ensures that it can meet the objective of offering a gross benefit at the end of the year. Once taxes and other items are discounted, Most likely, Rivian continues to give losses. Tariffs are assuming a real headache for the industry and even is a problem for who manufacture in the United States. Tesla, for example, is the company that Less impact will suffer With these commercial barriers but Elon Musk himself wanted to make it clear that They were also affected by them. Giants like Ford or General Motors have been Looking for formulas To alleviate the economic blow to its accounts but the situation is especially complicated for two types of companies: those that export to the country most of its production or pieces (such as Japanese and Europeans) or those of smaller. The largest companies have giving way to a stock they had already accumulated. Applying great discountsit is certain that they have not achieved the benefits per unit that they would expect but at least it has allowed them to move forward until knowing the possible new conditions. However, for small companies such as Rivian the situation is much more complicated. We have already counted to start a car company forces to lose money for years and that it is only sustainable if other companies and Investors They are willing to Leave your money until you see benefits. In this case, a commercial sway is much more pronounced than in any other situation. Now, Volkswagen has no choice but to maintain the road map and continue supporting Rivian although the economic context that makes it even more complicated. The Germans aspired to learn their company from this company Secrets around softwarea division that is Bringing the entire Volkswagen Group and? He already expelled some of his CEO. Photo | In Xataka | The sensitive data of 800,000 electric cars from Volkswagen have leaked: from homes to the routines of its owners

Pegasus will have to pay 167 million for damages

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Large technological ones presume to shield their ecosystems, but the reality is more complex: there are no infallible systems. And if there is an expert company in finding the right crack, That is nso Groupthe Israeli firm responsible for spy software Pegasus. Now, goal has achieved a historical judicial victory after six years of litigation: a federal jury He has condemned to pay more than 167 million dollars in punitive damagein addition to others $ 444,000 in compensatoryfor affecting WhatsApp users with their espionage tool. Goal declared the war to Pegasus. The demand was filed in 2019after discovering a massive attack that took advantage of a critical vulnerability in the WhatsApp call system. The Pegasus spyware could be installed on the devices through a simple call, even if the user did not respond. From there, it was able to activate the microphone and the camera, access messages, emails, locations and all types of sensitive data of the device. Suspicious infection attempts collected from the phone of a goal (Citizen Lab) The investigation was carried out in collaboration with Citizen Lab, that helped identify the possible affected: More than 1,400 users, including journalists, human rights and diplomatic activists. WhatsApp says that it directly notified each of these people and displayed urgent security patches. It was the first time that an encrypted messaging provider brought a private company to the courts to use espionage tools against its platform. Secrets that came to light. During the judicial process, NSO Group was forced to admit something that had been avoiding confirming: that his software is capable of silently compromising “the entire content” of a telephone. Pegasus can be infiltrated both in iOS and Android using different vectors – including zero day exploits, browsers and messaging services – and once installed, communicates with external servers to send the data. The trial forced, for the first time, to high positions to declare under oath. It was exposed how its salary surveillance system works, which operates as a service sold to governments and agencies. In addition, Meta made it clear that WhatsApp was not the only objective of NSO: its infrastructure was used to attack other services, and its activity affected users in at least 20 countries, according to Citizen Lab. Pegasus, in fact, it can compromise other applications encrypted as a signal, which expands the scope of the threat. The verdict that marks a precedent. As we say, the decision of the recently announced jury forces NSO to pay 167 million dollars for punitive damage and more than $ 444,000 for additional dollars for compensatory damages. It is the first judicial judgment in the United States that holds a Spyware company for the illegal use of its tools against technological platforms and civil users. Meta has not hesitated to point out this movement as an important advance for privacy and digital safety, and believes that the sentence acts as a deterrent for the entire spy software industry. Apple also tried to take them to trial. Apple presented its own demand against NSO Group in November 2021. He claimed that the company had used the Forcentry Exploit to compromise Apple devices through a manipulated identification system. The objective: install pegasus without user knowledge. The company solicitated a court order that prohibited the use of its software and services by NSO. However, it transpired that last year Apple decided to withdraw from the case. According to the motion presented before the Courtcontinuing with the process was a risk: they feared that confidential information about their threat intelligence system could be exposed. Apple argued that the current environment – more fragmented and with malicious actors more diverse than when the lawsuit was filed – made the potential benefits of the trial no longer compensate for safety risks for its users. Images | Boliviainteligent In Xataka | WhatsApp the privacy seemed pump proof. Until a state prosecutor tried to erase incriminating messages

More than 2.5 million people have attended a concert by Lady Gaga. It is not excellent news for music

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If someone wondered if THE FIASCO AT CUP OF ‘JOKER: Folie à Deux’ I was going to have a negative impact on Lady Gaga’s career, this weekend the artist has been in charge of demonstrating that she has not been beating a worldwide record: about two and a half million peopleaccording to sources from Lady Gaga, they gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a direct artist. It is the largest amount of audiences ever gathered for a female singer, thus exceeding the figure that Madonna had previously held with 1.6 million people. Free abracadabra. The artist played on the beach of Copacabana before these two and a half million spectators, and came to thank the presence of the crowd live. In the previous days, the fever by the singer, who has been preparing the event since last Tuesday, has taken over Brazil. Lady Gaga had been seen for the territory for 12 years, and took the opportunity to review all her great successes, including some of her last supervants, ‘Mayhem’. After being a sign in Coachella and giving this historic concert, the singer addresses Singapore. Shortly after the world tour will begin to promote his latest album. More macroconcientes. The echo that Lady Gaga’s concert has had nothing strange: the macroconciente is, paradoxically, The new music expression unit. Media mastodon with a media deployment only within reach of the largest and that are the musical equivalent of Marvel’s-evidence. Its profitability is beyond doubt: in Spain in 2024, live music entered 25.32% more than the previous year, 725.6 million euros. This upward traction is only possible in terms of great events and concerts in giant enclosures. The authentic business. We can jump to a global scale: According to Pollstar dataonly the 100 most successful tours in the world (that is, all macroconcientes) reached a joint collection of 9.5 billion dollars. If we take into account that the music industry globally billed 29.6 billion dollars in 2024we can get an idea of ​​how important this part of the business is: practically a third of the total. Let’s add another nuance: in 2023, concerts and macroconcientes They generated 304 million euros in Spainbut its real economic impact was 2.2 billion euros. The figures are multiplied in proportion to global scale, and it is understood why the industry is interested in supporting the great events, however expensive they are. The roller of the macroconciente. Macrofestivals and macroconcierts have become a completely autonomous monster and outside the industry movements. Undoubtedly, this new normality of the industry has affected, above all, the smallest concerts and the most modest proposals. As Cruz saysauthor of the ‘macrofestival’ essay, “the penalty is that the possibility of enjoying live music is only in enclosures with 40,000 people, video screens, overlapping groups. We should be able to have other ways to consume live music because I believe that this does not generate public for music, but in any case for more festivals.” More money does not imply growth. Or said with figures, Pollstar numbers of 2024 they throw a paradox. While concert revenues increased by number 8.7 % compared to the same period of 2023 and the number of shows increased by 16.7 %, which suggested an expanding industry, that growth is not uniform. On the other hand, the average gross income per show fell 6.9 % and the average number of tickets sold by show decreased by 14.9 % (what does this mean: that in a year the tickets have risen notoriously at the price). Obstacles for the rooms. All these figures point to a domination of macroeventos and macroconciertes in the musical panorama. And it is not necessary to go to the specific numbers: in Madrid, institutional efforts are turned into the Reopening of Santiago Bernabeu and in a fight with Barcelona to see who organizes the most gigantic event. Meanwhile, legislation for small rooms and events is extremely demandingwith very noticeable capacity limitations, and the most modest concert organizers find continuous obstacles to access specific subsidies or to guarantee the survival of their businesses. The artist loses. The artists themselves in groups not only small (who often have to pay rates for the rental of concert rooms), but of medium impact and sometimes international reach, they lose with the comparison. British Kate Nash talked about how after a medium -sized room tour I could lose 50,000 pounds. A few weeks ago, the group of Wales the peasants! He took off the costs of turning out of his country, and no matter how successful they had, the accounts They hardly square. The Spaniards Viva Belgrade talked about how La Riviera and Tokyo Salas filled and They couldn’t live from music. They are just some examples that give away a situation that may not be reversed. The monster of the macroconciertes devours the most modest scene, and it is not so much a popular impact problem (two and a half million people!) Or income for the industry, but of something so simple and essential for the survival of music as there are still groups that compose new songs, and that make the medium beyond the castle of fireworks. Header | Ralph_ph – Peter e In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

We thought that the olive oil sector was so broken that the olivers were losing 270 million euros. Is more than double

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When Jesús Cózar, general secretary of UPA Andalucía, gave a press conference saying That “the olive growers have stopped receiving 270 million euros in the month of March, or what is the same, more than 8 million daily, due to the current situation of ruin prices in origin,” many raised an eyebrow. That’s the milkmaid accounts, they said. Now a team from the University of Jaén, the University of Córdoba and the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training has calculated the alleged imbalance of the oil market and a clear conclusion has arrived: Cózar fell short. Market imbalance? In general terms, we can conceptualize the olive oil market as if it were a huge equilibrium machine: the final price of the oil arises from a balance in which many things intervene; But above all, the total stocks and the expected demand. If there is little oil, as happened in recent years, the price tends to rise until the demand fits the amount there is. If there is a lot of oil, it occurs just the other way around. Well, with that principle in mind, we can evaluate whether the market is unbalanced: that is, if the price is above or below what it should be. That is what they have measured. After weeks and weeks with the fly behind the ear, the Provincial Council of Olive Oil of the Provincial Council of Jaén requested a report on the current market situation. To evaluate the real situation, the UJA/UCO/IFAPA team has used a series of new computer analysis models of imbalances. According to your conclusionsthe price of the AVE in origin should be between 5.55 and 6.14 euros/kg. The fork is due to the fact that some data are still missing and the final production can reach between 1.29 and 1.5 million tons. What does this translate? Basically, the 270 million euros spoken by the Secretary of the Andalusian UPA are an anecdote: what the Spanish olive groves are ceasing to receive are 626 million euros. From October to March, the average price at source in these months has been € 4.49. That is, one euro below the minimum estimated price in the study. What is happening? They don’t even know. A few days ago, Juan Luís Ávila, the head of the Olivar de Coag sector He wondered “What is happening in the market so that prices remain artificially low.” In fact, he is preparing a complaint with the National Markets Commission and the competence to find out. Why is it interesting? Because All this situation (That arrives, remember, at a particularly delicate moment for the olive industry after years of crisis and hoping that this year would be resolved) is very complicated: it is still clear that, Despite the weight of Spain in the sectormarket mechanisms are easily alterable. And not even in contexts Where we have the “pan for the mango”there are useful instruments to have it controlled (or even know that everything is working correctly). Image | FERI TASOS In Xataka | In the middle of the largest commercial chaos, olive oil seems immune thanks to a factor: consumption in Spain

Apple anticipates 900 million dollars of tariff impact. It is equivalent to the cost of producing almost two million iPhone

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Apple has released the financial bomb that Wall Street was waiting for: 900 million dollars in extra costs For Trump’s tariffs. The figure, although considerable, is less devastating than feared by analysts, a possible sign of the stealthy preparation that Apple had been executing for months. The backdrop. Apple has exceeded expectations with 95.4 billion dollars in income, but The commercial war Draw a complicated horizon. Actions, in fact, fell 4% after closing. Not because of the present, above the expected, but for what will arrive after June. The market was waiting for clear answers about the future from Apple, but instead received well -calculated evasive. The money trail. Apple has also reduced its sharing repurchase program by 10,000 million compared to the previous year. It is the typical financial movement that goes unnoticed between tariff holders, but betrays a defensive position: Apple is accumulating effective before the commercial storm that is coming. The company that presumed from its treasury now protects it more than ever. Between the lines. “I don’t want to predict the future because I’m not sure what will happen to tariffs,” Cook said in The subsequent call with investors. It is not very common for a CEO to expose its uncertainty, and even less if we talk about Cook, known for its meticulous planning. Perhaps it is a symptom of the real problem: neither an all Apple can foresee the turns of Trump’s tariff policy. Emergency logistics reorganization, diverting iPhone manufacture towards India And from the rest of the products to Vietnam, it is impressive, but improvised: a plan B for which the deadlines have had to be accelerated. At stake. The battle goes beyond 900 million in a quarter: it is for the future of Apple’s business model. It is the sale of premium products with margins far superior to the average of its sector manufactured in Asia. If India is 5% or 8% more expensive than China, as analysts anticipate, it could lead to a blow to profitability. And would go far beyond a quarter. It is the first act of the threat of change for the technological value chain. In Xataka | Apple loses the war against Epic. Fortnite returns triumphant and Spotify already prepares its rematch Outstanding image | Rashed Paykary in Unspash

530 million euros for sending users to China

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Tiktok It has been sanctioned with a fine of 530 million euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). The social network, owned by Bytedance, allowed remote access from China to data from European users, without guaranteeing a level of protection equivalent to that of the European Union. In addition, in February 2025 it was discovered that part of that data had been stored in Chinese servants, contradicting what the company itself had declared during the investigation. The blow is not there. In addition to the economic sanction, the Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) has given Tiktok a period of six months to adapt the data processing to the RGPD requirements. If you do not do it within that period, all data transfers to the Asian country will be suspended. What has happened exactly. The investigation has been led by the DPC, main authority by having Tiktok Technology Limited headquarters in Ireland. The final report concludes that Tiktok did not guarantee a level of protection equivalent to the European in data transfers, and did not properly evaluate the risk of access by the Chinese authorities. Graham Doyle, an attached commissioner of the DPC, summarized it as follows: “Tiktok did not carry out the necessary evaluations and did not address the risk of access to personal data by the Chinese authorities in accordance with anti -terrorist laws, counter -signs and other norms identified by the company itself as materially divergent of the EU standards.” Breakdown of the sanction. The fine imposed is broken down into two concepts that respond to two different articles of the RGPD: 485 million euros for violating the Article 46(1), by making data transfers between the European Economic Space (EEE) and China without adequate safeguards or guarantees of equivalent protection. 45 million euros for violating the Article 13(1) (F), by not informing properly in its October 2021 privacy policy about the data recipients of the data, including China. This infraction extends from July 29, 2020 to December 1, 2022, at which time Tiktok updated its policy. Background: A suspicion of 2021. Research dates back to 2021When doubts arose about whether engineers in China could access European user data. Then, the DPC opened a formal investigation to verify the legality of data transfers outside the EEE. At that time, Tiktok said he did not store European data in China, although he acknowledged that there could be remote access from the country. Version and contradiction changes. In April 2025, Tiktok notified the DPC that he had discoveredtwo months before, a case in which a limited amount of European user data had been stored on Chinese servers, contradicting their previous statements. The company indicated that these data have already been eliminated, but this finding has weighed in the regulator’s final decision. Why this is important. The RGPD establishes that personal data can only be transferred outside the EEE if the receiving country guarantees an essentially equivalent level of protection. In the absence of a “adaptation decision” by the European Commission (which China does not have), additional measures must be applied, such as standard contractual clauses and risk assessments. Tiktok did not meet these requirements. Tiktok defends himself. The company has announced that the decision will resort. According to BloombergTiktok states that he has never received a request for European user data from Chinese authorities, and that he has not provided any information. Ireland’s role in all this. Although the European Data Protection Committee (CEPD) includes about twenty authorities, the Irish DPC leads this case because it is the main Tiktok regulator in Europe. It is not the first time he does: in 2023, I fined the social network with 345 million euros for not properly protecting the privacy of minors. Images | Mourizal Zativa | Christian Lue In Xataka | Apple loses the war against Epic. Fortnite returns triumphant and Spotify already prepares its rematch

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