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Spain has a plan to become the European green hydrogen leader. And it will cost us 1,214 million euros

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With the corridor of H2Med almost run by A recent conflicthe First Iberian Price Index From established renewable hydrogen and a recent millionaire injection of European funds, Spain has everything to emerge as a leader in this sector. The ambition has come to stay. Injection of funds. The Government of Spain has announced which will allocate 1,214 million euros of the Newgeneu funds to seven projects located in Aragon, Andalusia, Castilla y León, Cataluña and Galicia to develop hydrogen valleys. These European aid will be distributed among green hydrogen production and distribution projects to decarbonize several energy and industrial sectors, under the H2 Valles program. The companies that are behind the projects are Moeve, Enagás, Reolum, Repsol, Ric Energy, Capital Energy, Fertiberia or Ercros, among others. The goal. In a press release, the vice president and minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, He has highlighted that “it is a call for strategic relevance that advances on the decarbonization agenda.” Requirements such as the purchase commitment of at least 60% of production by industrial consumers have been established. The Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE), attached to the miteco, manages this line of incentives to integrate hydrogen into the energy mix and reduce CO2 emissions. Spain is consuming 500,000 tons per year of Gray hydrogen (of fossil origin), so this new form of hydrogen will help change to be dynamic. Hydrogen valleys. The seven selected projects will add 2,278 MW of electrolysis power for the production of renewable hydrogen in 11 facilities, since the bases of the call allow more than one cluster site if the distance between them is less than 100 km. These plants will use renewable energy (solar and wind) to generate green hydrogen, and many will be integrated with ammonia or ammonia facilities fertilizers to reduce industrial emissions. In addition, 90% of electrolyzers will be manufactured in Europe and most promoters They have opted by alkaline electrolysis technology, considered efficient and scalable. Aid distribution. The distribution of European funds is carried out prioritizing projects with greater impact. Starting with the community with the largest renewable cluster: Aragon, which will receive 384 million euros for two hydrogen valleys, one of them shared with Catalonia. They are followed by Andalusia with 304 million, Castilla y León with 259 million, Galicia with 170 million and Catalonia with 98 million. In addition, three of them will be located in municipalities with demographic challenges, such as Andorra in Teruel and Cubillos del Sil and Robla both in the province of León. All this to promote local economic development and job creation in these places where there is less industrial activity. It should be added that the initial budget of 1,200 million, framed on the Repower EU agenda of the recovery, transformation and resilience (PRTR) plan (PRTR) was extended to an additional 10%, reaching the current amount of 1,214 million euros. Horizon 2030. The development of these projects seeks to consolidate an advanced green hydrogen infrastructure so that within five years be integrated into sectors such as industry, aviation and maritime transport. Spain has invested more than 3,100 million euros in the last two years to consolidate its position in the green hydrogen sector in Europe. Image | Freepik Xataka | Nikola had everything to revolutionize the world of hydrogen trucks. Now is on the verge of bankruptcy

Alibaba had been left behind in the Tech China race. Now you will invest 52,000 million dollars to earn the AI

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A little less than a year ago Joe Tsai, co -founder of Alibaba and current president of the company, gave a worrying fact: China had a two -year delay compared to the US in AI. That disadvantage seems to have faded completely in recent weeks, but the company chaired by TSAI is not a protagonist in that segment. It is precisely what you want to change. THE TROZÓN DE MA. The company, one of the most important in the world in the technological segment, – and The 29 of the global ranking By market capitalization – it has had somewhat difficult years After what happened with Jack Ma. Now he has a clear plan to recover lost time. But Alibaba gets serious. The firm advertisement on Monday that plans to invest at least 380,000 million yuan (about 52.4 billion dollars to change) in cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence. He will do it in the next three years. It will have (a lot) competition. The announcement occurs just at the time the AI ​​segment in China It is especially hot. Bytedance, owner of Tiktok, hopes to have a capex of 150,000 million yuan only in 2025 (20,690 million dollars). Others such as Tencent, Baidu or Startup Deepseek They are certainly putting very interesting things in this area. The gold fever of the data centers. In recent weeks we have seen how technological companies in the US have announced astronomical figures for their budgets and their capital expenses (CAPEX) in the coming years. Except Appleall Big Tech will make colossal investments ranging from 65,000 million finish to the 100,000 that plans to invest Amazon. Most of that money will go to data centers for AI, and here Alibaba seems to not want to be left behind. With Xi Jinping’s blessing. The Chinese government has been maintaining its great technological government very at bay. However, the Recent meeting of President Xi Jinping With the top responsible for these companies, he has raised a change in Chinese policies, now apparently more open than their private companies – although closely linked to the Xi Jinping administration – grow remarkably. Up to rise. Alibaba’s announcement occurs days after their financial results, which were slightly above expectations. That has been a revulsive for their actions, which rose significantly and that seem to reflect the optimism of the investors, which is probably even greater. Image | Alibaba Group In Xataka | While all looks were heading to the US, China silently developed a very potent ecosystem AI

The “hypercarnivore” that lived 30 million years ago and today focuses the attention of paleontologists

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The Egyptian paleontologist Shorouq al-Ashqar and her team were about to conclude their work in the archaeological site where they worked when they noticed something that caught their attention. As explained by Al-Ashqar, it was teeth of considerable size that stood out from the rock. Bastetodon Syrtos. The teeth belonged to the fossilized skull of a mammal of about 30 million years old and belonging to a species so far unknown. The team responsible for the finding has cataloged the new species He has given him a name: Bastetodon Syrtos. The “almost complete” skull found has allowed the team to obtain valuable information about This new species. For example, let’s heal the animal would have had a size similar to that of modern leopards. B. Syrtos would have belonged to the order of the hyitodontes (Hyaenodonta), an already extinct group of mammals related to that of carnivores (Carnivora), The group in which there are species present such as cats and hyenas. The name Hyaenodonta It makes reference to these animals since, despite not having a direct relationship, the shape of the teeth of the extinct order is similar to that of the teeth of the modern species. Hypercarnivorous diet. The skull It has even served to get an idea of ​​what this animal ate. The team indicates that B. SyrtosIt would have been what we know as a “hypercarnivore” (this time in a non-taxonomic but strictly food sense), an animal whose diet would have consisted of at least 70% of meat. This species would have been, their discoverers believe, on the cusp of the “food pyramid” in its ecosystem. The team presented its finding Through an article In the magazine Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Etymology of a name. The choice of name is a wink in the history of the country in which it has been discovered. The Egyptian goddess Bastet embodied, Explain the teamprotection, pleasure and good health. Bastet was represented well as a cat well as an anthropomorphic figure with a feline head, similar to that that members of the newly discovered species could have had. “-Oode,” on the other hand, it is a usual suffix in zoology that means “tooth.” The fayum. Thanks to its oasis, the fayum is one of the few areas where the water dyes green the land beyond the Nile Valley, which makes it a key region for agriculture in Egypt. But there is another characteristic that makes this environment interesting: its deposits, both archaeological and paleontolocic. The new finding, in fact, has served to give context to some remains found in the region 120 years ago. From the skull found and fossils discovered in 1904 in the region belonging to hyitodars of a size even larger than that of B. Syrtos. They classify these remains into a different genre to what they have called Sekhmetops. Bastetodon and Sekhmetops. Until now these animals (whose new name also refers to an Egyptian god, Sekhmet) had been classified in the same group as European hyenodontes. The new classification places the origin of the two new genres, Bastetodonand Sekhmetopsin the African continent itself. According to the new study, these two genres would have expanded in successive waves from Africa to the adjacent continents and even to North America. In Xataka | They looked like mice, but they didn’t live as mice. This is what the denture of the Jurassic mammals has told us about them Image | Ahmad Morsi

Tesla had a contract of 400 million dollars from the United States government. They have had to reculate

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Elon Musk has become one of the strong men of the new Donald Trump government in the United States. Very involved in his electoral campaign, the owner of Tesla has also become the visible head of the government efficiency department (Doge) with which he aspires to reduce inefficiencies within state institutions. Since he took sides in the government, Musk has applied hard In the administration the same thing that has launched in its own companies: marathon days (including beds in the offices) and the elimination of all superfluous cost. To the point of withdraw the protection of career officialsthose who work for the State rule who governs. But at the same rate that Musk advances in reducing assumptions superfluous and expendable costs In state structures, questions about a possible conflict of interest have been repeated. Questions that have made sense following a controversial contract of 400 million dollars to get armored electric cars. Or should we say a controversial contract of 400 million dollars to get electric cars of Tesla armored? Tesla, the word that appears and disappears When talking about the possible conflict of interest between Elon Musk and its position within the United States government it has been to focus on the facilities that can be granted to accelerate tests with autonomous cars (in which Tesla has great hopes) or in the elimination of aid for the purchase of electric cars (which can prevent rivals from achieving sales of the Musk company). However, what was not thought of was directly on the purchase of Tesla electric vehicles for the United States administration itself. In an order of December 2024, the State Department contemplated a $ 400 million contract for the acquisition of armored vehicles as a part of the forecasts of ADisquisitions for the fiscal year of 2025. In that same document, the name of BMW whose BMW X5 and X7 armored uses the state administrations also appeared. They explain in Bloomberg that this contract has been modified to make the word Tesla disappear and, in this way, that a conflict of interest cannot be denounced when it comes to awarding it. What now appears in the drafting of the contract is the hiring worth 400 million dollars of “armored electric vehicles”. This situation, they point out from the American media, is just one of the possible conflicts of interest that can arise with the new Musk position within the country’s government. Spacex, its aerospace company, is responsible for providing rockets for the US army or launching NASA astronauts and has previously received contracts worth bills of dollars. For its part, Elon Musk has assured that it has no record that this has happened. In a message in xthe owner of Tesla has assured that he is completely sure that there is nothing approved about the possible purchase of these cars. What the American media highlights is to what extent Musk can exercise a neutral position in future contracts where their companies are involved. In this case, for example, although there were other brands involved the 400 million dollars item is the highest of the 320 items that appear in the purchase forecast for this year. In statements a ForbesState Department spokesmen say that last year Joe Biden’s government He requested that “the interest of private companies to produce armored electric vehicles” and that a single company showed interest in the contract. “It should have been a generic entry called ‘Electric Vehicle Manufacturer’” Without the mention of Tesla, they collect in the middle. Keep in mind that, if the contract is granted, the chosen electric car should be the cybertuck tesla of which precisely The company has presumed its resistanceeven before the bullets. The car began to sell at a good pace And the most expensive units were placed to get greater profitability but after the first months of commercialization, the huge electric pick-up It seems not being convinced to possible buyers. Photo | Maxim and The White House In Xataka | Tesla had no intention of selling Cybertruck in China. Is selling so few that it already rethinks it

The paradox that 150,000 million euros will try to solve

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Europe has announced An investment of 150,000 million euros in AI for the next five years, in an attempt not to be left behind the United States and China. The plan, the EU AI Champions Initiativeit is fixed to five years and is behind twenty investors. The announcement comes In the middle of AI in Pariswhere European leaders are showing a radical change in their speech on the regulation of the sector. The unexpected turn. The EU, pioneer to regulate the AI ​​with its Law of AI almost a year agonow it seems to regret having been too restrictive. President Macron has gone from Adalid of the regulation to defender of a more competitive European AI, criticizing the “punitive” norms that could stop the development of the sector. The advance of Mistralmacron countryman, it can be a good reason for this change of posture. France will invest additional 109,000 million euros. Between the lines. The European paradox in AI is quite evident: According to EU startupsnine of the ten most used open source AI models are European … … But no European company is among the giants of the sector, almost monopolized by the United States. Millionaire investment seeks to monetize that talent before it is late. That is, this is a macroinversion that does not only prolong development, but also monetize the existing one, build commercial and profitable products for the models already launched. The context. The pressure increases on several fronts: China has surprised the world and punch on the table with Deepseekdemonstrating that you can compete with less resources, and very well. The great American technology have approached the horizon of the AGI to one or two years seen. European regulation It could be born obsolete In a world that changes a lot from one quarter to another. Deepen. The European Plan represents a paradigm shift: from leader in regulation to actor that seeks not to be left behind. The question is if 150,000 million and a spin in the speech will be enough to compete in a race where others have been advantage for years. And there is another risk: that Europe, in its hurry to recover lost time, ends up abandoning the ethical principles that have characterized it so far, without achieving the objective of creating technological giants capable of competing with the United States and China. That is: lose your identity in bucket. In Xataka | You are likely to trust the AI ​​of the future than the current ones. The reason: they are showing us how they think Outstanding image | Ledingus with Midjourney

Elon Musk launches an unexpected offer to acquire OpenAI for almost 100,000 million dollars

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He already did it in April 2022 When he offered to buy 100% Twittermovement that ended up specifying In October of that same year after several ideas and coming. Elon Musk gets back in the center of the scene, this time with an unexpected Acquisition offer directed towards OpenAIone of the most important artificial intelligence (AI) companies. As the Wall Street Journal collectsthe businessman leads an investor consortium to buy the organization behind Chatgpt for 97.4 billion dollars. The proposal, which has a hostile nature because it comes without prior negotiation between both parties, has been presented this Monday before the Board of Directors of the company led by Sam Altman. “It’s time for Openai to force the open source And focused on the security that once was, ”said Musk in a statement released by his lawyer Marc Uberooff. The Tesla CEO, which was co -founder of OpenAi, retired from the startup in 2018 and Last year he sued her By, according to him, to have betrayed its foundational principles by moving away from its open approach. In development. Images: Ted Conference In Xataka | OpenAi wants to make the leap to the general public. That is why 14 million dollars have been spent to advertise in the Super Bowl

OpenAi wants to make the leap to the general public. That is why 14 million dollars have been spent to advertise in the Super Bowl

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It is the first time that OpenAIthe company behind Chatgpt, made a television ad. And for the premiere it has been launched to the most luxurious showcase possible: for 14 million dollars it has rented a space in the intermediate of the Super Bowl, where they can be seen advances in film premieres most important next year and great names and media personalities supporting the best known brands in the world. Stand out on competition. While big colossi of the Tech industry like Microsoft, Alphabet, Goal, Anthropic (from Amazon) or XAI (from Elon Musk) a relevant position within the panorama of artificial intelligences (and with China are disputed to the race with recent phenomena such as Deepseek), Openai has taken a step forward to stand out in front of its competitors. Its 300 million weekly users have to be noticed, and the Super Bowl is the best platform for the name to sound out of merely technological environments. The investment war. According to The Wall Street Journalcompanies dedicated to AI spent $ 332 million in ads in 2024, which is more than double what they invested in 2023. It is clear that as the IAS cease to be a niche, the investment must be proportional to its intentions If it becomes known, which explains such notorious (and expensive) movements as Openai. Some precedents in the Super Bowl. Companies such as Google, Anthropic or Microsoft had already walked through the Super Bowl last year to teach some of their latest advances, although always in the context of advertisements of other products, where AI is an addition. For example, Google talked about Guided Framean assistant for AI who helps users from their Pixel cameras with vision problems to take photos. Microsoft talked about his co -pilot. And Anthropic was limited to a brief five -second message: “Claude is a next -generation AI assistant” But … what is the ad? A spot of just a minute, produced in collaboration with the Accenture Song and Drug5 agencies, makes the ambitious decision to summarize the history of information and how humans have been linked. The spot is entitled ‘The age of intelligence’ and has a very unique aesthetic: two points connecting to animations with the use of tens of these points creating complex images. Of course, this evolution in complexity culminates with voices in multiple languages ​​interacting with chatgpt. You can see the full announcement in Adweek. A name behind everything. Behind this launch is Kate Rouch, OpenAi’s Marketing Chief, and who had developed very aggressive sales strategies on the global coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform: for example, an announcement also in the Super Bowl that won some notoriety for its use of a QR code on the screen. According to Rouch told The Vergethis new OpenAi announcement “is a celebration of human creativity and an extension” of it. Therefore, significantly, the announcement has been made (except in very initial phases of spot production) without the participation of any type of AI. Header | OpenAI In Xataka | Artificial Intelligence on your PC: The best free tools to install models of AI as Deepseek, call, mistral, gemma and more

Amazon prepares to invest 100,000 million dollars in 2025. All for AI, of course

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I was missing in combat, but it seems that he wants to resurface strongly. Amazon, the company that imperially dominates the electronic commerce sector (and the cloud) seems to have awakened from its lethargy and promises to put the batteries in the AI ​​segment. And he will do it by investing an irreverent amount of money. 100,000 million dollars in 2025. This Thursday Amazon presented its financial results, and at the conference with investors Andy Jassy made clear His aspirations for 2025. “We spend 26.3 billion dollars in Capex in the fourth quarter, and I think that reasonably represents what can be expected for the capex rhythm in 2025”. Or what is the same: they plan to invest 100,000 million dollars during this year. Almost everything for the. And the clear focus, explained the head of Amazon, will be in the field that is attracting almost all the investment. He said that “the vast majority of that capex will be spent on AWS.” This means investment in data centers, communications and hardware equipment to meet the enormous demand in generative. The Big Tech spending like Big Tech. It seems that talking about stratospheric investments has become contagious among the greats of the industry. Alphabet revealed Wednesday that would invest 75,000 million dollars In Capex in 2025k, and Microsoft indicated that he planned to spend 80,000 million dollars In 2025 for the construction of data centers dedicated to AI. Goal is also in that race, and those responsible said the company will spend up to 65,000 million dollars In Capex this year. Do these investments make sense of Depseek’s emergence? The model Deepseek R1 He has put the Sector upside down, especially by demonstrating that it was possible to train a model that competes with the best for very little money. It is likely that the six million of those who speak Deepseek are only part of the total expenditure, but still the companies seem determined to continue investing and burning money as if there were no tomorrow. The creation of data centers is for these key companies of the future: it will be in which theoretically all the requests that billions of users will end up doing (according to their plans) will be processed at all hours. The new Alexa, protagonist. Amazon It takes months —Who years – preparing the launch of a new version of Alexa enhanced by AI. The company has summoned the media on February 26 to Attend an event dedicated to Alexaand it will be then when we can know his novelties. A lot of this renewed assistant is expected, which could play a fundamental role in the Amazon ecosystem. Amazon has invested a lot in Anthropic. It must be remembered that although there have been no releases such as those raised by OpenAi, Google or Meta, the company has strengthened its position with multimillion -dollar investments. Here the specific case is that of the 8,000 million dollars that Amazon has invested in Anthropic, head of the Chatbot Claude that could be a fundamental part of Alexa or other proposals and platforms in the short term. And they have a gigantic (but inaccessible) model. The company also has been working on Olympus, a gigantic LLM that has double parameters that GPT-4 and that in theory it must be able to compete with the most powerful models today. Amazon has not launched it publicly or is available, but if the leaks are confirmed, we could be facing another of the great protagonists of this sector. Will they license it as Open Source as they have made a goal and deepseek with their models? It will be interesting to see what happens to him. Image | Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2014 | Microsoft In Xataka | Stargate impossible accounts: the challenge of finding 500,000 million dollars for the largest IA project

OpenAI will receive 40,000 million dollars

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In his eagerness to maintain leadership in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), OpenAi is burning money as if there were no tomorrow. Therefore, Sam Altman It has been immersed in a career for months collect all possible capital. Masayoshi are becoming a key piece of its strategy. SoftBank, The Japanese conglomerate led by Son and known for its role in the failed Wework Stock Exchangeis about to close an initial investment of 40,000 million dollars in OpenAI. The information has not been confirmed by the companies, But it comes from anonymous sources cited by CNBC. An investment of colossal dimensions According to the data shared by the American environment, the AI ​​startup would receive an assessment of 260,000 million dollars before receiving the new investment. Once the arrival of the new funds was finalized, the assessment would make a substantial leap to nothing less than 300,000 million dollars. According to Financial Timeswe would be facing the greatest investment in a startup in history, a relevant fact if one takes into account that Openai began in 2015 and it was not until the arrival of Chatgptat the end of 2022, when its impact became global. Interestingly, this movement would take prominence from Microsoft. In 2019, the Redmond giant disbursedThe first 1,000 million dollars For OpenAi. He did it within the framework of an ambitious agreement to “support the development of the General Artificial Intelligence (AGI)”And where it was located in a comfortable position like exclusive supplier In the Startup cloud. Openai had the vision, had the talent, but did not have the money to advance. Later new investments arrived from Microsoft, which allowed him to reach 13,000 million dollars, and an observer post was profiled In the Board of Directors before the first crisis broke out in the signing of AI. However, the relationship with the company led by Satya Nadella has begun to be diluted. Microsoft is no longer the exclusive provider of cloud services for OpenAI, which opens the door for the artificial intelligence firm to use Computer infrastructures of other companies Or, if you wish, develop your own. The news occurs shortly after Openai and Softbank announced the creation of a joint company called “SB OpenAI Japan”which seeks to market products and services in Japan, but also has international ambitions. And previously, Son and Altman were in the White House promoting Stargate. Something that should not go unnoticed is that the days it seemed that Openai had An unmatched technology They seem to be falling behind. Companies like Google, Anthropic, Mistral ai and Deepseek They have proven to have the AI ​​models robust enough to compete in better conditions. Images | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Some researchers claim to have created an AI as good as those of Openai and Deepseek for $ 50. And the data is real

In 2026 the AI ​​will be as powerful as “10 million Nobel Awards” (and that raises a terrible dilemma)

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The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has marked in red in 2026 in its calendar, as explained in a long interview with the Podcast China Talk. For then, The technological gap between the United States and China in artificial intelligence It could close, and that would lead to having to make a critical decision: to advance with prudence or accelerate without regard. Why it is important. The arrival of AI models equivalent to “10 million Nobel awards working tirelessly,” says Amodei, will propose an existential dilemma: if China reaches the US in capacity, no country can afford to stop the development to make it safer . “If things are matched, we will have to worry about what they build and at the same time because they dominate us with technology. That puts us in a terrible dilemma where there are no options,” says Amodei. Between the lines. True fear is not competition with China in itself, but it derives in an uncontrolled career that forces us to deploy potentially dangerous technology before being prepared to handle it safely. Some examples that Amodei points out: The development of biological weapons: Deepseek It has already demonstrated the ability to generate information about Bioarmas “that is not easily found in Google or in textbooks.” Although today the models are not “literally dangerous”, this could change “later this year or next.” The lack of restrictions: Amodei points out that The Deepseek model “He had the worst performance of any model that we have tested, without absolutely any blockage” against the generation of dangerous information. The argument against regulation: “If we stop, China will simply ahead us.” This mentality, warns amodei, makes it impossible to implement effective safety regulations. Military capacity: Advanced models will have implications “to control dwarfs or analyze intelligence information,” says the CEO of Anthropic as an example of technologies that could be deployed prematurely by competitive pressure. By the way, Google has just eliminated mention not to develop weapons with AI. In detail. Amodei proposes a strategy with two legs: Maintain a two -year advantage over China through export controls. Use part of that temporary margin to implement security safeguards. “My concern is that if the United States and China are matched in this technology, elbow with an elbow at each stage, there will be nothing that prevents both sides from continuing the technology forward,” explains the CEO of Anthropic. Deepen. The technological career raises a paradoxical scenario: American success in containing China could be the only guarantee to develop a safer AI. But that same success could accelerate an escalation that makes more dangerous technology. The main loser? International cooperation. Although Amodei does not rule out agreements with China, he acknowledges that “there has not been much interest on China” in the security initiatives proposed by the USA. Only a “really convincing danger for human civilization” could change this dynamic. The big question. Is this dilemma inevitable? Amodei suggests that no, but warns that avoiding it would require irrefutable evidence that AI is an existential risk. For now, he says, “the arguments are suggestive enough to worry and take it seriously, but not enough for two competitive superpowers to say ‘okay, let’s stop’”. Indeed, it seems unlikely. In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem Outstanding image | Techcrunch, Wikipedia

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