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Google has put a price on the future of AI: $ 250 per month

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It has not been the first, but the most forceful. Openai took the first step in autumn, asking 200 monthly dollars per chatgpt pro. Google has responded by raising the bet: $ 250 for its ultra plan. A subscription that not only monetizes capabilities. Also marks hierarchies. Do you want the most capable? Pag. And it is not a way of speaking. At that price, it is not accessed only to a smarter chatbot, but to the hard core of the near future: Deep Think, The new mode of reasoning of Gemini 2.5 Pro. Preferential access to video and audio generation tools (I see 3, Image 4). Project Mariner: Agents who understand, plan, act, execute. Flow, the cinematographic creation tool with camera control and video generation in 1080p. Whisk animate, a tool to turn images into animated videos of 8 seconds. Notebook LLM with higher limits and advanced versions of the model. Gemini in Chrome, with context of the page, with early access. Gemini integrated into Gmail, Docs, Chrome and Search, with persistent context and priority use. 30 TB of storage in Drive, Photos and Gmail. And a premium YouTube subscription. Gemini is no longer just conversation. It is the interface of the world. Image: Google. And the most important thing is not what Ultra includes. Is what leaves out. Google has taken everything that defines this new stage of AI – agency, autonomy, deep reasoning, extended multimodality – and has encapsulated after a payment wall. In that gesture there is not only business model. There is vision. Intelligence becomes a product, but also on border. By the way, there is a 50% discount for the first three months. And the previous plan is now called ‘Google Ai Pro’. On the other side it remains Flash. The free version – or low cost – designed for most. Fast, competent, useful. Like a car without a steering wheel. An AI without memory, without tools, without hands. It serves to respond, not to act. Do not create flows, it does not automate anything, it does not think beyond a few seconds. Flash is the promise of democratization that is still maintained. Ultra, the true pilot. The Google movement does not surprise, but confirms. The mass access phase is over, open experimentation. What is now built is an economy of computational performance. Whoever wants more context, more persistence, more power, will have to pay it. And soon. Because if 2022 was the year of glare, and 2024 that of the co -pilots, 2025 will be that of digital classes. And this time, the border will not be technical. It will be economical. What Google is not just a commercial movement. It is structural. Institutionalizes restricted access. If for years the knowledge tended to open —wikipedia, Google, YouTube, Moocs– Now it begins to fold in high -end products. With this, productivity, creativity and the ability to compete are also replicated. The digital elevator continues to go up, but is getting more and more to get on it. Because it is not paid only for technology. It is paid for an advantage that is not seen, but that decides: the right to think with more help, in more directions, with less friction. The right to automate before others. To have an assistant who does know how to program, who does understand video, which does remember, that does act. As always, intelligence – human or artificial – tends to concentrate where capital accumulates. And the rest? The average user is on the other shore. With a AI that responds, but does not decide. Who attends, but does not anticipate. That summarizes, but does not build. That is the new gap: not between those who use AI and those who do not, but between those who have it in their favor, and those who only see it from behind a crystal. Google has made official what Openai has already hinted: access to automated knowledge will be priced, threshold and owner. And if the future is made of intelligent interfaces, reasoning engines and agents who execute for us, then: the future costs $ 250 per month. In Xataka | The new great models of generative the AI ​​do not stop delaying. It is a dangerous indication that we have touched the roof Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa in Unspash

How many books a month are too many books? The debate about reading as another form of extreme consumerism

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The mixture of the need to create constant content and the search for new forms of validation has generated a new controversy in the Tik Tok literary sector. Creators cross accusations with others about the legitimacy of reading without stopping, where is the real enjoyment and if reading more or less determines the real quality as a reader. They have not reached any conclusion, but the question is on the table: how much do you have to read to read good? Readers shock. The booktoker Beautifulone of the most often of the Spanish booktokersfera, with almost 350,000 followers She was accused by another booktoker, Palomo Gamyito erroneously normalize reading dozens of books per month. According to this other Booktoker, this infernal rhythm of readings hides a much more critical reality: we must maintain that rhythm of readings to follow the crazy rhythm of launch of the great publishers, accusing many of the main creators of content about books of being spokesmen at the service of the industry. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok What this clash hides. Gamyi is, in fact, a booktoker who instead of talking about the Latest novelties of Romantasy and literature Young adultcomments more serious novels, such as ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ or ‘The Conjure of the fools’. In addition, it combines comments from books with videos about your own love for writing. His defense of reading little but “better” also hides an ethical positioning and a claim of gourmet readings above literary fast food. Where everything is kneaded. All this happens in the BookTook digital subculture, an increasingly numerous group of users that recommends and promotes books: from recovery of classics to comments from novelties, going through tricks to read more and/or better. Many observers believe that this current our way of reading has changed and is transforming The customs of generation Z. He Hashtag that Group these users It already adds 200,000 million visualizations, enough to consider a cultural force that conditions the large publishers, who see how gender sales like Romantasy rise when recommending them Booktokers. What have the booktokers have done. Convert the accusations of Palomo Gamyi into a viral issue, of course: it has been put on the table how many books it is reasonable to read a month, all overlooked with tips and humor. It is an issue that was already commenting Since 2024so it is not new, but the video of Palomo Gamyi has brought up what this activity has to follow the editorial rhythm together. That is, a matter of creation of novel content to grow in social networks. Too many books? From this conflict two primary themes come out. The first is whether in Spain they are published Too many books: In 2024 were 89,347according to the Ministry of Culture: an increase of 2.6% compared to the previous year already levels similar to the pre-pondemic years. It is a very high figure and puts us at the head of Europebut it generates problems: a fierce competition for the care of the reader and a very short life for the news. A problem that, perhaps, compulsive readers such as beautifulbooks are helping to prolong. A validation. The other problem of the Booktoker community that hides this conflict is the search for personal validation through quantity, something similar to Likes psychology: A reaffirmation is sought through that acceptance of strangers. The mountains of read books are also a way of generating admiration and envy by a community with which tastes are shared, no matter how much reading is not very repossed and, as Gamyi complaint, does not generate a real reflection on the work, but a mere to pass pages. The discussion has not caused the blood to the river, and most of the booktokers participating in it seem to agree that each one must read what he can (and want). Which does not prevent a long and sinister shadow on such a simple and, beneficial hobby, benefit, such as reading for pleasure. They are also readers. The BookTokers They are not a promotional creation of the industry, but a spontaneous movement born in social networks (they have their equivalents in others, such as Booktubers), and they are a sign that in post-pandemic reality, there is a generalized fever by reading. Microeditorials arise consecrated to the publication of authors and projects outside the great industry, reading clubs They have ceased to be an extravagance For library mice, and books are relief from the saturation of screens we live, even in our leisure times. Conflicts like this are the least, because in the end they refer to the important thing: we like to read. Header | Patrick Tomasso in Unspash In Xataka | There is something in the book by José Breton that has crossed a red line although we have been hooked for years to True Crime Crimes

Every month that passes, Tesla’s breakdown is greater. And that begins to be a real problem for the company

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We begin to have sales data in European countries. The acea data will arrive in the last week of May but, little by little, we are knowing sales in the main European markets. And, once again, the data for Tesla are dramatic. It was expected. It was almost waiting. With each new quarter that begins, Tesla lowers its sales. The company has long followed a registration strategy that leads to enroll a greater number of vehicles in March, June, September and December. Consequently, January, April, July and October, when the quarter begins, pays the consequences with a good hangover. Spain. The data in our country confirms it. In January the brand already gave evident symptoms that something did not march well. Neither the Tesla Model 3 nor the Tesla Moda and sneaked into the 10 best -selling electric cars of our country which gave an idea that the company had cars stored in stock After a final push in 2024 to make up the photo of the year. Now, three months later, Tesla Model 3 loses the first position again. In March he had recovered ground (and is still the best selling car in what we have been) but the Renault 5 and Kia Ev3 They have overcome them again. Right now, Tesla is leaving in our country more than 16% fall. The damage in the case of Tesla Model 3 is lower. It is 9% compared to the accumulated of January-April of 2024 and it is not a bad figure if we take into account that the Tesla Model and is falling 25.46%. The electric SUV was its best selling car and right now it has placed almost half of the units that a model 3 in setback. Still worse. The data They are still worse Out of Spain. Our country does not cease to have a relatively small electric market, so the oscillations are more evident and represented by larger numbers. However, the fall of Tesla in the main markets are striking. In April 2025, the following falls are counted with data from Bloomberg: Sweden: -80.7% Netherlands: -73.8% Portugal: -33% France: -59.4% Germany: -46% United Kingdom: -62% In April, the company only grew in Norway and Italy. In the accumulated of the year, Tesla has fallen 60% in Germany, more than 50% in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and the only reason why it barely falls in the United Kingdom is because They could have diverted cars from other markets with a right -hand flyer to the islands. In a very bad time. So far we have been talking about the Tesla Model and Juniper hangover. The electric SUV update has undoubtedly slowed the sales of the new car. Because the production has reduced, there is a stock of the outgoing model to which it has had to leave and because there will be clients who have waited for aesthetic update to buy the most affordable models (it arrived exclusively wearing the most expensive option). The problem is that after a year in which the electric car noticed the first symptoms of wear, Europe has put the direct With this technology. We still have no official data from the entire continent but it is palpable that the number of electric cars in what we have been over is higher than 2024. The electric car market share has gone from 12% to 15.1% in the continent and have registered 412,997 units for 333,428 last year in the first quarter. We are at a growth of 23.9%. The competition squeezes. That means that competition begins to eat ground to Elon Musk’s company. Every day that passes is market share inside the electric car that is being left in Europe. With data from the first quarter of 2024, in Europe Tesla has gone from 2.4% market share of 1.3%. A 45%drop has been left. Volkswagen It has become the Super Survents of electric cars. After many problems with a Volkswagen id His secret has been the sale of the Great Electric Berlina. But, in addition, to these sales we must add those of Skoda, Cupra and Audiwhich improves the general photography of the group. At the same time, Kia Ev3 has entered the market very force And the Renault 5 is being a sales success in these first measures of the year, especially in France. A bump? As we say, it remains to know if what we have in front of Tesla is a bump, if it is going through a bad time that will remain as mere anecdote or if it really begins to have problems to place their cars. The arrival of Tesla Model and Juniper should end these sensations but the doubts begin to emerge. Because although in our test we count that the Electric SUV of Tesla remains a product that is above Of the competition, the truth is that there are more and more alternatives that move in about 30,000 euros and there Tesla is missing. It seems urgent for the company that can put a more affordable electric car on the market. Begins to be urgent. Seen what last numbers presentedfor the company it is urgent to lift the flight. The company has opted in recent months that it would begin to generate money with its autonomous driving systems, either with Robotaxis or with Sales to third parties. A commitment to which they have not taken revenues yet. At the same time, sales figures are not being expected. For the first time, in 2024 Tesla did not sell more cars than the previous year. Start worrying about 2025, just when competition You need to sell more cars electric And we have no 25,000 euros car Not one cheaper version of the current Model 3 or Model Y. The perspectives, of course, are not the best. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Tesla begins to discover what happens when you lose your competitive advantage: its benefits have collapsed 71%

The kindness with chatgpt is coming out of OpenAi. The “please” and “thanks” have an absurd cost every month

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Probably these days, doing Scroll In social networks, you have crossed with one of those memes that say everything with an image: a man about to be eliminated by robots is saved at the last moment because, according to one of them, he “always said thanks.” A minimum, almost automatic gesture, which redeems it to machines in the dystopic future and that starts a smile in the meantime algorithm. Obviously, we do not expect robots to take control of the planet. But it is no accident that this idea has become viral. Cinema and literature have been feeding that imaginary between fascination and fear. The funny thing is that, beyond fiction, there is something real in all this: being educated with artificial intelligence (AI) is not free. Our kindness, however routine, costs money. And not precisely little. The functioning of AI is not exactly cheap. When we use an artificial intelligence chatbot, we rarely think about the consumption of resources that each of our requests implies. Chatgpt and other similar systems work thanks to large language models, also known as LLM, which operate in data centers equipped with high performance hardware, such as NVIDIA H100 GPU. The execution of these models, which is technically called inference, requires enormous processing capacity and, therefore, a considerable amount of electricity. To all this we must add the necessary investment to build and maintain these infrastructure, as well as their environmental impact. We know, for example, that many of these centers consume large volumes of water to cool the systems, since this type of computer generates heat. Very hot. There is no consensus on how much each request costs, and the figures vary according to the company. Even so, Sam Altman has given a track. The amazing cost of kindness. A few days ago, a user asked on social networks how much money Openai would have lost just because people add “please” and “thank you” to interact with their models. CEO’s response did not go unnoticed: “Dozens of millions of dollars well spent.” He did not speak of a single interaction, of course, but about the accumulation of millions of friendly messages over time. Click to see the original message in x It is curious that, despite the high energy and economic cost that this represents, Altman considers that it is a justified expense. Should we be kind to an AI? As in any other area, there are people who prefer to go directly to the point and others who choose to maintain a more careful and educated tone. This difference probably also has to do with the way each one communicates in their day to day. And in this context, kindness is not just a matter of manners. A study entitled “Should We respect LLMS? A Cross-Linguistic Study of Prompt Politeness in Academic Performance”Analyzed the role of courtesy in the indications and left some interesting conclusions. Among them, that unfortunate messages tend to generate a worse performance. Although, yes, excess courtesy does not guarantee better results. What seems clear to those who use this type of chatbots daily, and more now that they are able to learn and remember more precision, they can adapt to the user’s tone. If we want a more respectful, more coherent and a little more human interaction, we should probably start by taking that step. Images | X screen capture In Xataka | The hallucinations are still the Achilles heel of the AI: the latest OpenAI models invent more of the account

A salary of $ 5,400 a month for abandoning the university and getting to work

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In recent years, the idea that obtaining a university degree was synonymous with Professional success. However, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Jack Doresey or Amancio Ortega did not complete their university studies and that has not prevented them from becoming some of the world’s greatest fortunes. Peter Thielco -founder of PayPal and Palantir has promoted a controversial “Antibeca” for students in their company’s practices. Instead of encouraging Approve everything and be the best of the promotion as they do the usual scholarships, their objective is for students to stop studying and devote themselves full time to work in their company. $ 5,400 for not studying. Peter Thiel’s data analysis company has presented an initiative for its fellows that defies conventional standards. Instead of encouraging the academic training of their beneficiaries, Palantir meritocracy scholarshipoffers them a salary 5,400 dollars a month for a period of four -month practices for those students who have finished high school and have not enrolled in the university. This initiative starts from the position maintained by the company’s directive, with Peter Thiel to the front, on the value provided by university education. “Everything you learned at school and at the University about how the world works is intellectually incorrect,” said Alex Karp, co -founder and executive director of Palantir In an interview For CNBC. Protest and capture talent in a movement. Beyond being a strategy to capture technological talent before it is put in the radar of the Universities recruitersPeter Thiel scholarship is only one more step in the crusade than the founding millionaire maintains against the US education system. The Palantir meritocracy scholarship is nothing more than the extension of the Thiel scholarship that, as collected Techcrunchthe millionaire has been granting young talents that they want to undertake, under the condition of abandoning their university training. In return, they get $ 100,000 financing to start your company. “The opaque standards of admission in many American universities have displaced meritocracy and excellence. As a result, qualified students are denied an education based on subjective and superficial criteria. Without meritocracy, campus have become culture broth for extremism and chaos,” says the call. In addition, he points out that at the end of the scholarship, candidates will have access to full -time hiring interviews to work in Palantir. “Forget about debts. Forget about indoctrination. Get the title of Palantir “, reads in the Pliego of conditions of the scholarship. Risks to the future professional. Although abandoning the university may seem attractive thanks to the competitive salary and the work experience offered by Palantir, this decision is not exempt from risks, As he remembered Entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa in Forbes. According to data From the US Labor Statistics Office of 2024, who have a university degree they earn up to 86% more a year than those who only have secondary studies. In addition to the financial impact, leave the university It implies losing opportunities valuable to establish professional and social networks. Connections with colleagues and teachers are usually fundamental to access future jobs or references. To cite an example, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer They were university colleagues. Although Gates left Harvard months later, his stay served to generate those contacts. University and work reality. Peter Thiel is not the only one who doubts the usefulness of the educational programs of the universities. According toReport data Knowledge and Development Foundation of 2024, 35.8% of university graduates occupy low qualification work, due to disconnection between Competencies acquired at the University and the labor market demands. For its part, areas with high professional demand by companies, such as software engineering and IA engineersthey register A high number of vacancies Because universities are not offering adequate training to cover those vacancies, and it is the companies themselves who assume the internal training of their employees. Less titles, more skills. The study ‘DISMISSED by Degrees’ Prepared by Accenture, Grads of Life and Harvard Business School, he points out that many companies require university degrees for positions where the necessary skills could be acquired through work experience or technical training. This “practical” approach to skills is closer to Model adopted by the FPthan to the traditional university. Hence his success. To deal with this hiring bias, companies such as IBM or Amazon have adopted approaches to Skills -based hiringthat Specific skills value more than traditional university titles. An approach to which It is very supportive Mark Zuckerberg. In Xataka | Some millionaires did not like the ideology of universities, so their own university has been created: an anti-woke “ Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Cory Doctorow)

It leaves 1.99 euros per month

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How many hours of the day do you spend on the Internet? The answer will vary according to who answers this question, but I am convinced that we all pass some, whether you are due to work or leisure. When at home or in the office, we know the network to which we are connected, although that does not mean that it is entirely safe. To do this, it is best to bet on a VPN And this Surfshark is now thrown in price: costs 1.99 euros a month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review Surfshark’s anniversary is the perfect time to get its VPN This discount arrives on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of Surfshark. Thanks to it, we can get its most economical plan (called Starter) for just what a coffee costs a month. This has a VPN that we can use both at home and everywhereprotecting us thus, for example, we connect to A Wi -Fi network of a cafeteria. Free VPNs can save us at a timely moment and have those that work quite well. However, these do not offer the same level of security or connection speed than the payment options, as is the case of Surfshark. One of these tools is very useful in almost any scenario. For example, it can serve us to make a banking movement safer that we are going to do with the mobile or the PC. In addition, it is advisable to use it as long as we connect to a network that we do not know its origin. The cheapest plan not only comes with the VPN, but also brings a very interesting additional tool. This, which is called Alternative ID, allows us to create an alternative email linked to which we want, so that we can use it to register on web pages No need to introduce ours. The Starter Plan, as we say, has a price of 1.99 euros right now. To enjoy this price, we have to get 24 months of subscription, so it will cost us 53.73 euros. Taking into account that its price without discount is 417 euros, the truth is that it is a golden opportunity to get this VPN. There does not end the thing: It comes with three months extra gift. If we don’t mind paying a little more, we also have the plan on offer Surfshark One by 2.49 euros a month. In addition to including both the VPN and Alternative ID, this plan comes with very interesting additions as a good antivirus, a system that will notify us of possible internet leaks of our data and much more. Surfshark One Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Surfshark In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

It leaves 1.99 euros per month

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Navigating the Internet is something we do all the time. It doesn’t matter if it is using the PC at home or the phone In a wifi network of a cafeteria: We will always be exposed to certain dangers that it is difficult to avoid. A good solution is to use a VPN, where there is a lot to choose from. Free options are fine, but a payment is always better. Quality-price, difficult that a surfshark right now: Sale for alone 1.99 euros a month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review Surfshark’s anniversary arrives with discounts This new price for Surfshark VPN arrives on the occasion of its 7th anniversary. Only until April 30, we can get the Starter Plan, its most economical subscription model. It comes with a VPN that is very simple to use And that will allow us to have an extra security everywhere, either at home or outside (very useful if we plan to travel during Holy Week, for example). As we say above, free VPNs can save us from trouble at specific times. Now, using them is not always ideal: They are much less safe options and Nor the same speed when navigating on the Internet. Just for that reason it is a good idea to get one of payment, especially if it is as economical as that of Surfshark. Using a VPN is ideal for all types of actions that we are going to do on the Internet. At home, it can be used to have more security if we are going to make a transaction where we are going to use our credit card, for example. Outside, it is even more useful, since most times We do not know the security or origin of the Wi -Fi networks. This starter plan does not come alone, but also includes a useful tool called ALTERNATIVE ID. This will serve us to create an alternative email and virtual data that will allow us to register on any portal without giving our real information, thus protecting it from possible internet leaks. As we say above, we can get with the VPN and its alternative ID complement by 1.99 euros. To do this, we have to bet on its 24 -month plan, which means that we will have two years of the service for 53.73 euros. It is a considerable discount if we take into account that its price is 417 euros. And Eye: We will also receive three extra months. As an alternative, for a little more a month (2.49 euros) We can opt for the plan Surfshark One. This, in addition to the VPN and Alternative ID, includes other functions such as an antivirus, a system that will notify us of possible leaks of our data on the Internet and much more. Surfshark One Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Surfshark In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Antivirus in Windows 11: What are, differences between free and payment and the best for your PC

Manus is the Chinese startup of AI that has just launched a 200 dollars a month. It is a bad sign for the industry

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Some called him the other “moment Deepseek“From China. This new model, called Manusquickly became viral for its ability to do deep analysis looking for sources of information and then synthesize clear but detailed answers on any issue. It was a direct competitor of OpenAI and its “Deep Research” modeand after being available limited and free, now its creators have decided to market this product big. With subscriptions, of course. Manus. Although its creators describe it as an AI agent, in reality Manus is fundamentally aimed at giving more meditated responses and after a deep analysis of various sources of information. It is true that this process automates, but does the same as Other “AI agents” such as Openai Deep Research mode and also those who also offer Claude or Gemini. Its performance, of course, is comparable to that of these services, and was initially available (under invitation) for free. That is over. Face subscriptions. As they point out In Bloomberg Manus now offers a public version of payment for $ 39 per month to be able to use its benefits with 3,900 credits, but also has a higher plan of 199 dollars per month for version with even less limits (19,900 credits) when it comes to exploiting those deep research modes. Taking into account that the service has just appeared, those prices of course They are aggressive and even controversial. Be careful with this. Manus’s decision is surprising for several reasons. To start, it is a company with hardly any market penetration and practically unknown to the general public. Come from good 200 dollars a month It seems to risk sinning for excess confidence. Not only that: the worrying thing is that this can be the canary in the AI ​​mine. This is: a precedent of what comes to us, with subscriptions of business companies that ask us for true monets for services than more reputed ones (such as Openai) also offer and without a clear differential factor. Committed virality. With the Internet boom and social networks virality was achieved with free massive products that were monetized Through advertising. Google and Facebook nurtured those models, but AI seems to depend on the freeemium model: we can access basic functions, but we do want to take advantage of the models, we have to go through a subscription model. And there is a clear reason for it. The generative AI is very expensive. The cost of each consultation we made to chatbots of AI is comparatively much greater that for example have traditional search engines. Training these models is also exceptionally expensive –It is estimated That GPT-4 training cost about $ 100 million-and you have to try to recover the investment. IA companies know how to do it: increasingly faces. And we are getting used to subscribing to everything. With the “era Google” We did not pay for the product but we were the productbut little by little payment subscriptions have been taking force with the rise of content streaming. We are already very accustomed to paying for services we use, and AI wants to take advantage of that trend. The problem, as is the case with the aforementioned streaming segment, is that There must be differentiating factors to bet on a payment service and not for another. And there Manus has it especially difficult, because he competes with very reputed models and that can be perceived as more confidence for users. No own model. Manus is a “Wrapper“, a platform that is built from the functions of other AI models such as Claude, from Anthropic, or Qwen, from Alibaba. It does not depend on itself. Its creators do not seem to have their own model, but even having the problem is that they will not be able to invest in it the amount of time, money and resources (as talent) necessary for the models to be especially remarkable. Too much competition. But Manus faces true giants. It is a situation analogous to which Anthropic and his chatbot claude livethat do not have the financial muscle of Google, Microsoft or even OpenAi. Manus has both that competition in the US and especially important rivals in China. There Deepseek is the main protagonist, but Alibaba, Baidu or Tencent They will not let a newcomer steal their wallet easily. In Xataka | Now the competition to overcome Depseek is also fought in China herself: Alibaba has just announced QWen2.5-max

There are young Spaniards earning $ 10,000 a month in the Australian coal mines. But everything that shines is not gold

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“I’m going to show you how $ 5,000 every two weeks in Australia.” This is how a young Spanish named ‘Tonylopezz13’ opens a Video on Tiktok which was published a few days ago and that went viral. The premise is attractive, especially when we have the 13,81.33 euros of minimum salary in Spainbut it turns out that ‘Tony’ is not such an isolated case. There are more young Spaniards, but also from other countries that move to Australia with a goal: work in a mine. Of course, it has a small print. The Australian dream. Foreign immigrants in Australia represent a low percentage compared to other nationalities, but since 2015, when visa ‘was created’Working Holiday‘, fate became something more attractive. Australia has a high cost of life, but also one of the Base salaries higher in the world ($ 24.10 per hour, depending on the sector, becoming much higher in technological, health or mining jobs) and this visa allows a young man between 18 and 30 years to spend 12 months in the country. There are another series of visas, such as students who allow you to work certain hours per week or those who are issued to qualified workers who are hired by an Australian company. Since then, it is estimated that some 5,000 young Spaniards access the Australian labor market, many in this way and, as we see on social networks, some to work in Mines. Coal. Australia is one of the most muscle countries in the production and export of coal. Mainly, their mines are located in the state of Queensland, where there are giant mines such as BHP Mitsubishi Alliance or the mine of Carmichaelone of the largest in the world with a production of 60 million tons per year. In recent years, the Australian mining industry has faced criticism due to underground water pollution, the possible contamination of the coral barrier and, in general, due to the environmental impact that these mines have, but the activity remains one of the most important, at the economic and foreign trade level, of Australia. FIFO. And you also pay well. In a mine there are many types of positions and we can say that, depending on the role, the salary It moves between 70,000 and 150,000 Australian dollars a year. If it is a qualified position, that range is limited to between $ 90,000 and $ 150,000. These works for which a lower qualification is required usually follow a model called Fly-in Fly-out Or FIFO, which is nothing more than an attractive name for conditions that involve working about two weeks in a row with 12 -hour day day and then go home to rest … to wait for you to call you again. Temporary or casual, go. Influencers miners. The works that are usually done consist of cleaning of rooms and rooms, in the dining room or in the kitchen of the mining installation. It works, but you also earn a lot of money and it is something that young people from all over the world are making known in networks such as the aforementioned Tiktok, but also on Instagram or on YouTube Shorts. There are many publications under hashtags like #Miningalia either #FIFOAUSTRALIA in which they show their day to day and where money for only a few days of work almost always has a leading role. And they are true Influencersnot so much because of the virality of one two concrete videos, but because of the effect they have on people who want these conditions. Sienna Mallon. It is an example. This young Australian gained popularity, precisely, for giving visibility to her day to day as an employee of a mine. He studied agronomy and has played several roles in coal and gold mines, speaking in his networks about the challenges and benefits of the FIFO model and accumulating in the process about 450,000 followers among Tiktok and Instagram. Effect called. There are hundreds of comments in Mallon’s videos in which you ask how it can be applied to these jobs, something that we can also see easily in ‘Tony’, with Spanish people, but also Latin American asking for information on how to access these jobs. “When I met these videos on Tiktok, I told myself that I had to take the opportunity,” says a 25 -year -old in Lemond. All paid. And those salaries are really attractive. The first thing is that they are so high for both qualified personnel and without training because the mines are They locate in remote places. That is, they have to offer an incentive for people to want to go to those places very, far away from the cities and where you will have to make life during the working hours. But it is also attractive because there are practically no expenses. In the videos of these influencers you can see how they have private rooms with everything you need, free food, entertainment rooms, gym and, obviously, field to walk around, so you can save everything possible or invest in trips to meet the country during the rest week. Asterisk. But before you start looking at how much a ticket to Australia costs, there are other details to know. “The pay is good, but the day is exhausting,” says another young man in Lemonda, and it is something that goes in the line of people like ‘Tony’ who do not hesitate to affirm that they do not want to sell “the motorcycle to anyone: life during those 14 days is shit” focusing on ‘Tony’, on the video of 5,000 dollars every two weeks clarifies that the salary is high because it is a temporary worker. That is, you work two weeks for ten hours a day for 4,898 Australian dollars – about 3,000 euros – and then … it’s over. If you like you, they may call you again, but they may not do it. 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March is already the rainiest month since we have records in several areas of Spain. And only 10 days have passed

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The other day I spoke with known that I told me that, when I was little, in the Ayamonte of the 60s and 70s, they went to school with water boots. Not only that, he told me, “I remember the white houses putting green because it kept raining.” At that time, I was not sure if it was true or it was nostalgia altering the memories of childhood, but seeing what is happening at the southern end of the peninsula, I would not surprise me anything. And it is that March 2025, just It has just converted in the most rainy month in several places in the country. Among them, the Aaemet Huelva Observatory – Ronda whose maximum historical data, since 1985, had been 164.6 mm. Yesterday, at 20:30, I had already collected 169.2mm. And there are 20 days left. Huelva, however, is simply a metaphor of Spain. An poisoned gift. Although the type of rain that is reaching us from the Atlantic is fantastic and does not have the torrentiality levels of the Danas, there are a point also begin to give problems. First because we have no infrastructure that can collect, accumulate and distribute all that liquid. As we commented a few days agothe red basin, the Odiel and the stones was above 94% of its capacity. That placed it at the level of the interior basins of the Basque Country and above Galicia or the Eastern Cantabrian. It is true that these data have trap (not only have little storage capacity, but in the area many coexit dead reservoirs Cargaditos of mining waste), but is indicative of what is happening in the rest of the country. Floods throughout the country. The clearest case has happened in the Toledo municipality of Escalona and its region. There, the Alberche River (just the one who, As we said yesterdayhe was going to receive an unprecedented amount of water) has overflowed and has caught many people with the step changed. However, more than 15 tajo stations They were yesterday Above the red warning threshold. And, if we expand the frame, we will see Floods in Sevillein The Golden Costain Vitoria or in Cartagena. Catalonia, for the first time in years, seems to drought endemic that lives. Are they good news? Yes, but with nuances. Obviously, water will come very well to face the next summer months. It gives us an irreplaceable margin to decide whether we want to learn from our previous mistakes. As explained in Datadista“From the deep drought of the 1990s, each dry period has served to implement emergency measures (…) or allow practices that were not eliminated when the rains returned, they were used to expand irrigation, increasing the problem of overexploitation and contamination of aquifers and wetlands to which they feed.” What are the nuances? The first is that ‘too much blow water’ also creates problems. Citrus flowers or Strawberry crops can begin to rot (or infect with fungi) in full campaign. That is, climate changes catch crops in different phases of the usual ones and that has impacts on the productive system. But the second nuance is perhaps more important: that the incentives not to take advantage of this blow of luck and not Implement the changes that The Spanish Water System needs. And, in the meantime, it does not stop raining. Nor does it seem to stop doing it. Image | Karel Roose | ECMWF In Xataka | Aemet special notices are just the beginning: everything points to an extremely rainy March in Spain

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