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It is the most symptomatic movement of the AI ​​boom

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NVIDIA it’s been a couple of years being the mortar of the artificial intelligence industry. There is a picture that explains it better than a thousand words: Their H200 chips feed the data centers that are used to train artificial intelligence and are object of desire even from some of the Chinese Big Tech, but they are already preparing a new generation called Rubin. And if there is anyone who is clear that these future chips should be the bricks of their new data centers, it is Mark Zuckerberg. The reason? They are necessary to achieve “personal superintelligence”. And that belief is what has inspired a multi-million dollar agreement. Yes, another one. NVIDIA’s future is bright for Meta There is no specific figure, but in The Wall Street Journal there is talk of an agreement valued at “tens of billions of dollars”. Goal is chasing a type of iartificial intelligence focused on everyday usebeyond with a chatbot. They trust it so much that They have assembled the AI ​​Team A and, to stop having promises and get products, they are going to make a all-in in future NVIDIA technology. Jensen Huang’s company has GPUs like the H200 with Blackwell architecture, but they are already finalizing the development of something else: Your new Rubin architecture And the Grace CPU. Grace is especially interesting because it marks the first massive deployment of NVIDIA CPUs based on ARM architecture. But it’s not just the GPU and the CPU: NVIDIA is going to provide all its ecosystem of hardware and software to Meta. “The complete NVIDIA platform”, as it has been called Huang. And there is something curious about this whole thing that perfectly exemplifies what is happening in the artificial intelligence arms race: companies are buying hardware that doesn’t exist to power data centers that only exist on paper. NVIDIA not yet is mass manufacturing its Rubin GPUs because it depends on Samsung provides HBM4 memories which are now starting to be mass produced. One of the leaders of SMIC, the great Chinese hope for semiconductors, described the process as “creating huge roads when there are no cars running on them yet.” He also noted that “no one has really thought about what exactly those data centers will do, but companies would love to build the entire capacity of the next 10 years in just one or two years.” As we said, there are no specific figures for this agreement, but Meta has dropped his wallet. In 2025 they invested 72 billion in AI and the forecasts were 115 billion for 2026. We say “were” because they have redesigned the plan to increase to 135,000 million to expand data centers and try to meet the Superintelligence Labs goals. At Xataka we always try to provide context when we talk about certain quantities, but it is so exaggerated that I can’t think of how to contextualize it. Well, yes: 135,000 million only Meta, it is less than the 650,000 million that will be spent this year between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. There’s the context. Images | NVIDIA, Mark Zuckerberg In Xataka | Western Digital has sold all its hard drive capacity by 2026: AI is devouring physical storage

The great plan of Chinese brands to open hundreds of dealerships in Spain: a movement against the current

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Search, compare and if you find something better, buy it It was the 80s and Colón’s detergents had snuck their famous slogan into every house in Spain. 40 years later, a BYD worker explained to me how they sought to break down prejudices in Spain: “We are letting people take the car home. We don’t want to do the typical 20-minute test with the salesperson inside the car. We tell the customer not to be afraid, to take the car and bring it to us the next day” BYD barely had a handful of points of sale in Spain those days in 2023. Shortly before we had attended the official presentation of the brand. The Chinese company arrived with three electric cars (two of them with a clear premium focus) and I saw it clearly: the brand had to attract the customer to the dealership. Let him sit in the car, touch it and feel it. It was the only way to dynamit prejudices. We are just over a month away from the end of 2025. At the end of October, BYD has sold 22,357 exclusively plug-in units in Spain according to data from Anfac. They easily double Fiat. They surpass Mazda and Volvo. They left Tesla behind a long time ago. They have Opel or Cupra on the near horizon. They begin to approach Ford. At the same time, BYD will close 100 dealerships this year (96 are already active throughout Spain) and they plan to open another thirty next year. At the same time, Chery has placed 31,493 cars in our country at the end of November between Ebro, Omoda and Jaecoo. And we are facing the first full year in which they have sold cars in our country. The sum of all of them also easily exceeds one hundred points of sale. MG adds 38,989 units between January and October 2025. With 11 points of sale available throughout Spain. The irruption is such that 10% of the cars purchased in Spain they are Chinese. It was a figure that was difficult to imagine just a few years ago. A figure that has been achieved by taking the customer to the dealership. And dynamiting their prejudices. The importance of being on the street There are many factors that explain the brutal growth of Chinese brands in our country. We can talk about its low prices, about offering a gateway to a technology (electric or plug-in hybrid) that has made the product more expensive or the extensive equipment offered in each car. But in addition to the price, which overrides all the previous arguments, we find an expansive effort by all these brands to be on the street, at the customer’s feet, with the dealers. “We had been waiting for its arrival for a long time. Already 15 years ago, in the brand’s first foray, we had one of its models, now I don’t remember exactly the name. In terms of volume, manufacturing capacity and development, it is a really excellent product. We think it is above the rest of the Chinese brands that are arriving in our country.” The speaker is José María Blitz, Project Director at the dealership that BYD has on Concha Espina Street in Madrid (next to the Santiago Bernabéu) and which belongs to Astara Retaila distributor with a presence in 19 countries and that sells you a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce as well as a BYD. This time it is the Chinese brand he is referring to. He tells us that the public has welcomed the company with open arms and that since they opened their first dealership, this one next to the Madrid stadium, interest has only increased. “The client It has already surpassed that of ‘unknown brand’. There could have been one at the beginning, three or four years ago, but I think it is practically expired. What’s more, the customer’s perception of the brand is excellent,” he explains. Added to that, “the European product was very expensive and the equipment was very fair. Chinese brands offer a quality product at a competitive price with a much higher level of equipment. We can easily be 20% or 25% below competing brands with higher equipment levels,” says Blitz. BYD is just one of the Chinese brands that sell in our country. Together with MG and the Chery Group (Omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro) they form a kind of quintet representative of the 28 Chinese brands that already sell in our country, according to Faconauto. The dealer association of our country says it has about 600 points of sale right now, between dealers and official services. Of course, they point out to us that “it is convenient to contextualize this figure: the majority of points of sale in Spain continue to correspond to consolidated manufacturers – European, Japanese, Korean or American – whose presence is structural and has developed over decades. Right now, Faconauto has 28 Chinese companies selling cars through 600 dealerships spread throughout the country. What happened to find us with this explosion? Blitz is clear, the product, he assures, is part of the success. But also who these brands have partnered with. “Their strategy has been to close agreements with large groups of dealers, people who are really professional,” they say from this dealership owned by Astara. The same is the opinion of Faconauto, who point out that “they have decided to enter our market with a ‘traditional’ model, taking advantage of the establishment of business dealers. And the key is the word ‘businessmen’, who choose where to invest their money. It is evident that many dealer groups have seen a good opportunity in investing in the distribution of Chinese brands.” This commitment generates trust in the customer, which has allowed them to grow “to the level of any other European brand,” for Blitz. The key: a disruptive product and good after-sales service. “They are very agile and they want their employees to be agile too. There is a sense of … Read more

Rosalía knows that we are in the post-woke era and she is reflecting it in every movement

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It is inevitable that every statement of Rosaliaone of the most scrutinized artists of today, raised dust. And as a woman with a success difficult to encompasseven more so. The curious thing is that she does not stop pecking at controversial topics: Palestine, Catholicism and, now, feminism. And of course, each of their positions entails the consequent wave of responses for or against. The question is whether his commitment to non-polarization is still polarization in itself. The conflict phrase. “I surround myself with feminist ideas, but I am not morally perfect enough to consider myself within an ‘ism’.” With this phrase pronounced on Radio3 Extra during the promotion of his ‘LUX‘, Rosalía once again evaded the issue regarding a conflictive issue. The Catalan singer has made ambiguity part of her business model, but it is not the first time: it is the second version of a tactic that she already put into practice five months ago. The pattern of neutrality. After the refusal of the Balearic designer Miguel Adrover to work with her for not speaking out about Gaza, Rosalía launched three paragraphs about the conflict without saying “Israel”, “occupation” or “genocide”. His strategy: vaguely condemn “what is happening” while arguing that “the pointing should be directed upward, not horizontally between us.” Some analysts they then observed that this form of protest is the complete opposite of activism (donations, NGOs, hiring of Palestinian personnel): a declaration of intentions without commitment. And it worked: after the statement, the controversy cooled down within a week. Adrover did not mention her again, the fans moved on to other scandals, and Rosalía was able to continue promoting ‘LUX’ without losing any advertising contract. In the age of the 72-hour news cycle, whoever holds out wins. And now, feminism. This verbal balancing act is repeated now: Rosalía “surrounds herself with feminist ideas”, in the same way that in July she felt “horrified” by Gaza: these are feelings without militancy. She protests when they pressure her for her silence, but It never gets muddy on its own initiative. And in both cases, avoid words that could be cited against him. It doesn’t say “Palestine”, but “what happens”, and it doesn’t say “feminist”, but that it is not “morally perfect”: it uses language designed not to remain. The importance of the United States. This linguistic engineering is explained by the key relevance of the US market, where controversies woke up in a particularly adverse climate they can sink careers (the commercial disaster of the new ‘Snow White’ after the pro-Palestine statements of its protagonist Rachel Zegleror the rejection of woke twists from brands like target, Jaguar either Bud Light). Rosalía has 70 million followers on networks and contracts with brands around the world. Saying “I am a feminist”, for example, automatically excludes it from conservative Latin markets or in Saudi Arabia, while the opposite position cancels it out in Europe. The solution: don’t say anything definitive. Let’s not forget that Rosalía’s business already functions as a company, a family business structure that turns over millions. Motomami SL entered 3.6 million euros in 2022 alone. In February 2024, Tresmamis SL was established, a real estate agency dedicated to managing properties such as a penthouse with views of the Mediterranean between Castelldefels and Sitges or a modernist apartment in Barcelona. Added to this are global contracts with brands such as Dior, Calvin Klein, MAC Cosmetics, Skims and Coca-Cola, which according to estimates generate between 5.3 and 7.2 million additional dollars annually. It is not surprising that each strategic silence protects an international investment portfolio. The Sydney Sweeney precedent. A clarifying precedent about Rosalía’s attitude is in the actress Sydney Sweeney, who in July 2025 starred in a jeans advertising campaign for American Eagle with the slogan “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” a play on “genes” that sparked accusations of promoting eugenics and white supremacy. Sweeney’s response was complete silence for weeks, followed by an interview for GQ where he declared with icy indifference: “When I have something to say, people will know.” He didn’t apologize, he didn’t qualify or explain. And it worked: American Eagle’s shares soared and she established herself as an anti-woke symbol. One more layer. Rosalía is applying the same tactic, but where Sweeney refuses to speak, Rosalía speaks without committing herself. And build an aesthetic alibi: ‘LUX’ is dedicated to historical female figures who are feminist icons (with their lace, as we will see): Joan of Arcwhich challenged patriarchal military and ecclesiastical structures; Hildegard von Bingenthe 12th-century Benedictine nun who documented the female orgasm in her theological writings; Saint Teresa of Jesusreligious reformer who faced the Inquisition; either Simone Weilphilosopher who denounced worker oppression. Rosalía can point out the pantheon and make her feminism understood through osmosis. Conservative turn. But there is more, and it is that refuge in more conservative aesthetics and discourses that do not fit with feminist statements. In ‘Motomami’, Rosalía cultivated a hypersexualized image: extremely long acrylic nails, school miniskirts, thigh-high boots, aesthetics that they became linked with the pornographic industry and hentai. With ‘LUX’, we have neutral colors, straight lines, veils, digital halos. It is what some have called “modest fashion“, associated with conservative religious movements. Rosalía goes from hypersexualization to Catholic devotion. The Catholic resurgence as a context. And as a final point of this conservative underpinning of Rosalía’s non-speech: religion is back in fashion. Although we are away from massive conversions that tries to sell Catholic propaganda, yes there is a “silent revival“which has caught on in countries like France or the United Kingdom, with more attendance at mass, Bible reading recovery and others celebrations among young people. ‘LUX’ arrives at the exact moment when declaring yourself spiritual but not religious is no longer countercultural, but mainstream. In Xataka | The real deal about festivals isn’t the music, it’s that you can’t bring your own food in. But that’s over

The last O2 movement is not a simple rate change. It is an unexpected turn that can shake the market

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O2 has surprised us this week with a change that, although it seems small, tells us a lot where the operator is directed inside The new telephone. A rate It has disappeared From its catalog, and with it, O2 has eliminated the 300 Mbps of its offer and the possibility of hiring fiber and mobile for 30 euros per month. It is not good news for the market, let’s see why. Goodbye at 300 Mbps. O2 decided to charge a few days ago the fiber combined of 300 Mbps + two mobile lines of 10 GB and 30 GB, and also eliminated the possibility of hiring only 300 Mbps fiber. The only option that remained with that speed was the fiber combined 300 Mbps + Mobile 50 GB for 30 euros per month. That rate has disappeared this week, so the minimum speed that O2 offers throughout its catalog has become 600 Mbps. It doesn’t matter if you want only fiber or mobile fiber, you can no longer have 300 Mbps. It is only possible to choose 600 Mbps or 1 Gbps, just like Movistar. A higher input price. By eliminating that package of 30 euros per month, the most cheaper fiber and mobile team of O2 costs 35 euros per month. Of course, you have two modalities to choose from that price: 600 Mbps + 60 GB mobile fiber. 600 Mbps + Mobile 10 GB + Mobile 40 GB. These two plans offer twice as a speed and more gigabyes that the rate eliminated by a little more, yes, but there will be those who agree with those 300 Mbps to pay 5 euros less. When an operator eliminates its cheapest plan, the access price is more expensive to its products and that is never good news for the user. Quiet, O2 is not going to upload the price. The strategy of O2 goes to keep the customer happy, so the price never uploads or change the conditions of your rate unless it is an automatic and free improvement. Therefore, if you have hired the team that has eliminated, you can continue enjoying it, at the same price and with the speed of 300 Mbps. The competition does offer 300 Mbps. O2 is a very important actor not only for Telefónica, but for the Spanish market. And we have already seen on several occasions that, when O2 takes the first step, others usually move file. But that the panic does not travel, for the moment, there are still several 300 Mbps options for that price (or even less): In areas with own coverage, Digi It offers 300 Mbps + mobile 25 GB for 13 euros per month (15 euros if you want 50 GB). In areas where there is no smart fiber, DIGI proposes the same thing that has just eliminated O2: fiber 300 Mbps + mobile 50 GB for 30 euros per month. Lowi It has a pair of combined with 300 Mbps fiber for 30 euros per month. One with a 50 GB mobile line (like the rate that has removed O2) and another with two mobile lines of 25 GB each. Pepephone It gives the possibility of hiring 300 Mbps + Mobile fiber with 50 GB cumulative for 30 euros per month. But attentive to its next movements, because Pepephone is usually One of the first to imitate O2. Moremobile It also maintains a 300 Mbps + mobile fiber rate with 40 GB for 29.90 euros per month. O2 moves away from the low cost. Since its launch, O2 has offered much more competitive prices than its sister Movistar. And many expected Telefónica to be even more aggressive with O2 after have been released from regulatory obligations that limited their commercial capacity. That is why this movement has caught us by surprise. Now you can’t have fiber and mobile with O2 for 30 euros per month. If you want O2, you have to pay a minimum 35 euros. That amount enters its reasonable price policy, but it moves a lot away from the cheapest proposals of many of its low cost rivals (read Digi). With Murtra in command, one of the unknowns is which strategy will continue with O2. And who knows, perhaps the objective of O2 with this change is precisely that: to move further away from the concept of low cost that, for many, is synonymous with poor quality. Images | O2 In Xataka | If someone believed that the optical fiber was at the limit of their possibilities, Japan has arrived to show him the opposite

There is a clandestine movement of Chinese women reading homosexual erotic literature. And China is repressing it

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Until mid -2024, if you lived in China and wanted to read some literature rise in tone, your reference website was Haiter Literature City. Millions of women wrote and read erotic stories with an incentive: they were starring men. However, at the end of last year, mass arrests of those responsible again condemned the genre to ostracism in the country. Although erotic literature has always had space in China, it seems that it is no longer a country for dirty pages. A libidinous history. Chinese erotic literature It is a genus of long historical tradition: already during the period Han (around 200 BC) circulated didactic manuals on sex, but with literary format of dialogue between the emperor and its tutors. This is the oldest erogetic literature, together with specific works in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, And it has always been marked by metaphors and poetic codes of great lyricism. China would not stop producing key works of the genre, such as The persecutive ‘Jin Ping Mei’, of the 16th century. The genre has always shone in China when it has used erotic scenes as an excuse to raise critical and satirical issues. Some of that remains in the current and digital incarnations of the genre, which transcend the mere accumulation of sexual acrobatics. Hurricane Danmei. The stories that present romantic relationships between male characters are known under that name. They are works of women and women: the majority of authors and readers of the genre are, which is born with the seventy sleeves (The famous Yaoiwith which so many features share), which arrived in China illegally translated into Taiwan. This generated a scene of young writers who created their own stories, thus modeling a Chinese adapted identity but very influenced by Japan. With the arrival of the Internet the Danmei became mass and came to see even adaptations to the cinema of some works, although with the high erotic voltage completely domesticated. The digital arrives. The Danmei, more prominent genre At the present time of Chinese eroticism, it experienced an unusual impulse with digital platforms, which allowed not only many authors to professionalize, but also a community of readers. After the almost clandestine circulation in forums, Danmei Digital was consecrated on websites as Jinjiang Literature Cityeven standing with all kinds of genres, although very trimmed in its erotic part Since the end of the last decade. Others relevant websites They are lianchenng readmei chinese web, although the most noticeable, without a doubt, is Haiter Literature City. The case of Haitang Literature City. Also known as Flower Market, she was specialized in erotic literature, and more specifically in Danmei, and had the servers located in Taiwan for run from censorship. It didn’t help him. In June 2024, Chinese authorities deployed an operation that affected dozens of websitesbut Especially afower market: They arrested several authors and distributors of material out of the web for continental China, accused of publishing and profiting with obscene and pornographic content. Flower Market kept financial records of Chinese authors, which facilitated things to the authorities. No one went well. On the one hand, it was clear to what extent censorship and Chinese repression did not stop within its borders: There was no space for the authors of erotic literature and queer. But also, it was clear that the first thing for Haitang Literature City was the business: The platform received criticisms for prioritizing their economic interests, delaying the elimination of accounts and promoting content even after arrests, which put the authors at risk. The lack of protection that they suffered was evident. Censorship in China. Although homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, the explicit representation of its relationships remains under strict surveillance, since pornography is prohibited and the definition of “obscenity” is very vague, which allows the authorities to intervene in very diverse cases, almost unpredictable. Periodically, the Erotic Materus Danmei It has been persecuted and forums and stores with material on the topic on the Internet have been closed. Not a few authors have been arrested in this context, although The best known case is Tianyi’sauthor that in 2018 was sentenced to ten years in prison. Debates and future of gender. This prohibition environment, with cases as recent as the closure of Flower Market and the imprisonment of Tianyi, have generated a climate of suspicion and fear. In this way, the Danmei has become a symbol of political resistance, although its content is not explicitly. Outside China, international platforms such as Archive of Our Own have allowed the genre to be increasingly known and Relevant Danmei works editions in countries like Spain. A fever that hides a very complicated political and social situation. Header | Nguyen Dang Hoang Nu in Unspash In Xataka | Bad Sex: The worst erotic scenes of literature

With ‘The family of TV’, TVE wants to look more than ever to Telecinco. It is a risky movement

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The program with which La1 wants to compete from you to you with Tele5 and Antena 3, ‘TV family‘, He has reached the chain’s grill. Does it after two weeks late (first by the Death of the Popethen for the Blackout that left Spain without electricity), and has been presented in society with a colorful ride that has guaranteed it A few criticisms. But after its premiere there is something else: TVE’s intention to compete for a younger audience What was the ride? The ride consisted of the arrival, one by one, of those who will be the great stars of the program. That is, Aitor Albizua and Inés Hernand, veterans of RTVE, along with María Patiño and Belén Esteban. The latter, together with collaborators such as Víctor Sandoval or Carlota Corredera, During yesterday afternoon there was time for everything, from detailed presentations of multiple collaborators to winks to the past. For example, in tribute to sadism with which ‘Save Me’ treated its collaborators, the program forced the collaborators to move by their own means from Torrespaña to Prado del Rey. Throughout the afternoon there were times for viral moments, such as the inevitable Chuminero dance from Lydia Lozano. And the ride surprised with the signing of two very young from the heart of the heart: Isa Pantoja and Rocío Carrasco. They are not light decisions: the bridge to the total connection with Telecinco is lying. The program was divided, as usual in the future, in two blocks: one that will go, approximately four to five in the afternoon, and after the series ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’, another block between seven less fourth and eight and a half. The audience, with doubts. It is complicated to determine the exact audience of the program by its dual nature: two differentiated blocks, separated by which it seems that the stars in the afternoons of the1 will continue: the ‘Wild Valley’ and ‘The Promise’ series, which made a phenomenal 14.5% of Share. The first block of ‘The Family of TV’ only 8.7%, being below both ‘afternoon’ and ‘dreams of freedom’, and very close to ‘everything is a lie’ of Telecinco. In the second block, it made 9.1%, also third option behind Telecinco and Antena 3, and being very close to Lasxta. ‘The family of TV’, with its arrival, eliminates from the grill to the series ‘La Moderna’, for both budget and audience reasons, as The director of RTVE explainedSergio Calderón. RTVE also definitely eliminates the ‘El Hunter’ contest, which was also having very low figures and had canceled on the paper since summer of 2024. From that point of view, ‘The family of TV’ is a safe bet: it serves as opening and exit parenthesis for two traditional series that still give up, and there is space to play with the blocks and make changes if the audiences do not improve. Battlefield: The afternoons. Interestingly, the afternoons of all channels have remained as a bliburrillo where all channels have distinctive offers, but with common points: Talk Shows and varieties (‘The family of TV’, ‘Late‘,’ The Jorge Jorge ‘), Series (‘ The Promise ‘,’ Dreams of Freedom ‘), Contests (‘ Pasapalabra ‘,’ Chain reaction ‘…). Until now, TVE remained on the sidelines with a block of cultural tone competitions and absolutely distinctive series of the public chain. Now, with ‘The family of TV’, go down to the mud of direct competition imitating the style of its rivals. TVE telecinquification. Regardless of whether ‘the TV family’ is paid with a success or with a failure, what we surely have here is another sample of the public channel approach to codes most typical of private chains. Embraceing the jester and acidic humor of ‘Save The Broncano program. RTVE wants to rejuvenate his audience and that Playz’s experiments are not in something isolated, and that is why Inés Hernand and Samantha Hudson are brought from there, and has the potential of ‘Save me’ as an ironic artifact for young people. ‘Save me’ in TVE? After a stage-person on the Internet and then a landing in Ten, the informal heir of ‘Save Me’ was ‘or that we were Shhh’, with a greater impact of the expected and audiences of more than 4% of Share. Before all this, he had a brief life as Netflix experiment in the form of reality that did not curdle. All this helped the program to become an ironic artifact for the youngest, alive especially in social networks and with a fauna with their own dynamics that do not need explanations and that will inherit ‘the family of TV’. It is undoubtedly a risky leap: does it make sense that on the set of ‘The Family of TV’ the fights, hysteria attacks or insults of collaborators as extremes as Kiko Matamoros are replicated? LA1 is risking, but deep down not much more than has risked all the eSCUDERÍA DE COMESO THAT IS AT THE PUBLIC CHAIN: First Broncano and Marc turned, shortly Buenafuente. It is a general RTVE plan that goes through a different audience from those traditional series and cultural competitions that had before, and in that sense, ‘The family of TV’ is a comprehensive bet for the afternoons. OBJECTIVE: Rejuvenate the audiences and give a washing face to the TVE grill. Header | RTVE In Xataka | 739 million euros: an audit of the Treasury points to a possible budget hole in RTVE

In full birth crisis, in the US there is a movement that aspires to turn its demography: pronatalism

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“I want more babies in the United States.” The phrase It’s JD Vance and matters especially for two reasons. The first, because although the Republican had shown before His obsession with birth rates, that specific comment released it in January, during His first public speech as vice president of the country. The second reason is that when Vance pronounced it, he did more than give his personal opinion: he connected with a movement that, although not new, seems to be gaining weight (and visibility) in Trump’s US: Pronatalism. And Vance is not the only media figure (not even in the Trump administration) in tune in with a speech that goes beyond the US and It arrives in Spain. What is pronatalism? Roughly, Pronatalism It is an ideology that advocates Increased birth rate of a country. This is defined by the Cambridge Dictionarywhich affects that its basic objective is to increase the population without having to rely on the arrival of immigrants. That, of course, is the definition with thick stroke. If we go down to detail, many more nuances and a mixture of ideologies that do not always coincide in the background or forms are appreciated. “It can be motivated by cultural, religious, geopolitical or economic imperatives,” comments on The conversation Céline Delacroix, professor at the University of Ottawa, adds: its policies “can manifest in various ways, covering from soft measures, such as stigmatizing those who decide not to have children, other hard, including restricting access to contraceptives.” An objective, several reasons While the pronatalist goal is clear, the argument that accompanies it (and justifies) is not always so much. Under his broad and diffuse umbrella conservatives are grouped with religious motivations that see a social pillar in the family, but also more coincident with Musk. In his case the key is not so much religious as the Fear of demographic collapse and its consequences at a social and economic level. The option to open the doors to migration It would be discarded For them for their fear that It ends up weakening The culture of the country that receives it. Perhaps the best known example of that last profile is the marriage formed by Simone and Malcolm Collinsthe drivers of the organization Pronatalist. Although neither of them arrives at 40, the couple already expects His fifth child and aspires to have at least two more. However, the most striking of their case is not the figures, but it is the ideology that has led them to embrace pronatalism. The Collins They are defined as Tecnopuritanosatheists, anti racist, defenders of LGBTQ+ rights and its vision of pronatalism contemplates the use of in vitro fertilization or genetic selection. Moreover, they themselves They have resorted to both, including the Preimplantational genetic test (PGT) to rule out embryos at risk of cancer or “mental health problems” for which there is no quality treatment. “” We obviously analyze the intellectual coefficient, “they add. Is it something new? No. Natalism or pronatalism exists For several decadesbut in the US it has gained remarkable visibility for several reasons, beyond the expectation that can awaken cases such as collins marriage. One of those reasons, fundamental to understanding its boom, is the Birth decline of the US. The other is the notoriety of certain figures in tune with the main objective of the natives: encourage the birth rate of the country. Vance is one of them. Another is Musk, who has At least 11 offspring and In 2022 came to tweet that “the collapse of the birth rate is, by far, The greatest threat that faces civilization. “Donald Trump himself He has recognized openly that he wants to boost a new “baby boom” in the US. The most revealing movement however has made another high position of Washington, the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy. Father of nine children, Duffy has gone from rhetoric to the facts when signing A memo which prioritizes projects aimed at communities with high marriage and birth rates. There are those He has interpreted it as a clear example of “pronatalist policy.” The decision of the Transport Department is interesting because, no matter how much Trump pursues a new baby boom or vance you share your desire to see more American babies, there is an issue that is still pending: How to achieve it? After all, the US is not the first country that intends to increase its birth rate and many others, such as Japan, China either South KoreaThey have proven how complicated it results. The jump from theory to facts is also relevant to the natives because it transparent their internal tensions and differences. The magazine The Atlantic reflects it well in An article entitled “The loneliness of the conservative pronatalist”. To encourage birth, there are conservative cutting formulas, such as promoting family values; But also other liberals, such as granting more subsidies to parents or betting on housing promotion policies, a solution that clashes a priori with the efforts of Donald Trump (and Musk) to achieve On the contrary: put the scissors in the administration. Another friction point is what the Collins represent: the use of in vitro fertilization and other practices that arouse misgivings among anti -abortion. The connection with Europe (and Spain) Pronatalism has supporters, but also detractors. And there are a few reasons that explain it. Although people like Collins try to mark distances with racism, even It is not so much The most active pronatals in the US were the white nationalists concerned that other communities surpass them in number. His recent boom is also closely linked to the speeches of figures on the right, such as Elon Musk or JD Vance, who pronounced his famous “I want more babies” during the Life marchan act against abortion. The result is that extreme right formations have capitalized the speech pronatalist as a reaction to feminism and the defense of sexual autonomy that It has been dominating for years In the public sphere. Also to immigration. Spain leaves … Read more

XAI of Elon Musk acquires X, also from Elon Musk: a movement that almost no one saw

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Elon Musk has announced that xai, The artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023 to compete with Openaihas acquired X, the social network previously known as Twitter. As explained, the operation has been closed through a exchange exchange. The assessment. During the last months, much has been speculated on the value of XAI and X, with figures that changed according to the different financing rounds. With this transaction, there is already a clearer reference, at least according to the Musk version: XAI becomes valued at 80,000 million dollars, while X stands at 33,000 million. This last figure amounts to 45,000 million if 12,000 million are added in debt, always according to the businessman himself. {“Videid”: “X8N07SL”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Elon Musk and his obsession with the letter x that you did not know”, “Tag”: “Webedia-Prod”, “Duration”: “495”} Musk presents Xai as “one of the laboratories of the leaders in the world”, although he is still far from his main rival. Openai reached an assessment of 157,000 million dollars in 2024 And it could reach 300,000 million With the support of SoftBank. Chatgpt It remains the reference, although Xai has updated Grok with functions such as image generation and their own app. What changes with the acquisition? According to Musk, the operation will allow “combining data, models, computer, distribution and talent.” In practice, integration was already evident: Grok was integrated into X for months. What changes is the legal and corporate structure. In Xataka The fever for the chatgpt images is “melting” the OpenAi GPUs: the company has already begun to limit access It will be necessary to see if this restructuring implies offices, transfers or equipment mergers. For now, the impact for users seems minimal. Of course, with Musk in command, everything can change overnight. The promise: offer more intelligent and personalized experiences. Images | xai | X In Xataka | AI is a great black box that prevented us from knowing how “I thought” inside. Until now (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news XAI of Elon Musk acquires X, also from Elon Musk: a movement that almost no one saw It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Marquez .

LEGO has been in video games decades, but its latest strategic movement suggests that it is now more seriously than ever

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LEGO has been present in dozens of video games, but most have been developed by third parties. That could change soon. His CEO, Niels Christiansen, has revealed in an interview with Financial Times that the company is betting again on a team of internal developmentan interesting movement in its strategy. The idea seems clear: having more control over your products. To understand the importance of this step, it is enough to review the history of Lego and how its relationship with the digital world has evolved. Founded in Denmark in 1932Lego began to manufacture plastic bricks in 1949. Over time, he expanded his catalog and consolidated himself as one of the most influential toy brands in the world, although without paying attention to the digital world. However, at the beginning of the 1990s, when computer science began to collect more strength than ever, a group of enthusiasts led by the artist Dent-de-lion du Midi (also known as dandi) thought it was the moment that LEGO would make the leap from the physical world to the films and, eventually, that of video games. Lego in the world of video games To convince the company was not an easy task. Dandi and his team worked for more than a year in the creation of a digital library that recreated Lego bricks in a virtual environment, an idea that was revolutionary at that time. But when they finally presented the project, The answer was a blunt not. Despite the rejection, the team did not give up. Instead of leaving the initiative, they decided to bring their proposal directly to Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, CEO of the company and grandson of the founder. The bet went well. Kristiansen was impressed enough to assign a budget for an in -depth study on the digitalization of Lego products. That study would end up paying fruits. With an initial investment of 11.5 million dollars (about 27 million adjusted to inflation), the “was born”Darwin Project“, an initiative that gave rise to four divisions, one of them dedicated to video games. From here, ‘Lego Island’ in 1997, the first video game for the company’s PC was helped. However, the initial enthusiasm did not take long to be eclipsed by the financial reality of the company. In the early 2000s, in full economic crisis, Lego decided to sell its division of video games as part of a strategy of a strategy Restructuring to avoid bankruptcy, thus delegating the development of their titles in external studies. Today, the situation is radically different. LEGO has not only avoided bankrupt Billing of 10,100 million dollars in 202413% more than the previous year. With its business more solid than ever, the company has decided to recover control over its digital strategy. “We can cover experiences for children of all ages, digital or physical,” says Christiansen. For that purpose, an internal game development division “It is something we are building” The bet is firm. LEGO has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to triple its template of software engineers since 2022 and in reinforcing its digital infrastructure. What remains to be seen is whether this new approach will mean a distancing from external studies with which he has worked for years. Give up developments like ‘Lego Star Wars‘ either ‘Indian Lego Jones‘, which have been key in their success in the video game industry, would be a risky play. Meanwhile, ‘LEGO Fortnite‘He has shown that the brand still has a huge pull, with 87 million players to his credit. The big question is: will this movement mark the beginning of a new era for LEGO video games, or will it simply be another piece in its global strategy? Time will say if the Danish company is willing to Build your own brick road to brick Or if, as until now, he continues to trust his external partners to shape his digital universe. Images | LEGO In Xataka | How ‘Fortnite’ is creating his particular “fortniteverso” thanks to Lego, with whom he is reformulating his foundations In Xataka | There is a fever for video games designed “for couples” because they get something unexpected: reinvent the ways of playing

There is an “anti-musk” movement in the US. And the concessionaires, cars and load stations of Tesla are paying it with fire

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It all started with some stickers. He continued with demonstrations. And ended with attacks on cars, dealers and load stations. The political positioning of Elon Musk has raised the anger of people who are clear that their way of protesting against one of the most controversial voices of the United States government is to directly attack its most recognized brand. And the owners of their cars. A first warning. “I bought this car before Elon went crazy.” That was the message that the owners of some Tesla began to send in November 2024. At that time, the United States elections had already occurred and Elon Musk was outlined as one of the singing voices of the new government of the country. Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos: The Galaxies War However, the figure of the owner of Tesla was going to fit in the new administration of Donald Trump. Had promised that I would lead Dogethe Government Efficiency Department dedicated to cleaning all expenses (supposedly) superfluous within the administration. But, in addition, during his electoral campaign he already defended that They will withdraw the aid to the purchase of electric cars and all support will be dismantled to jump to this type of technology. A measure that, in the short term, should benefit Tesla given Leadership in the market. “Extremely Hardcore”. They were the Words used by Elon Musk to define the future of his work at the head of Doge and the application of his measures in the state administration. But it could define, without a clipper, everything that has been experienced since Donald Trump took power in the White House. Let’s remember quickly: Concentrations. All these decisions have been heating the atmosphere in the streets. A week ago the movement Tesla Tekadown. The movement encouraged to get rid of Tesla’s actions to make them go down and try reduce the richest man portfolio in the world. Little by little they started join repentant to the campaign like those of those stickers on the political turn of Elon Musk. The movement also encouraged to concentrate in front of the company’s dealers and even has A map where you can see future demonstrations against the company. In Europe only four are counted for the next few days but in the United States there are dozens of them. And to this we must add the viral campaign in the United Kingdom where Elon Musk was compared with Hitler and pointed to Tesla as the company that would take you from “0 to 1939 in three seconds”. Click on the photo to go to the original tweet Of less to more. But of concentrations and messages in concessionaires (and even In the company factory in Berlin) It has gone to more violent actions. Messages of “Kill Elon” in a concessionaire who was broken all the crystals. The superior image corresponds to an Oregon dealership (United States) but also Cases have been given in Europe. In France, for example, an anarchist group has claimed the Fire of a dealership which has ended with several partially calcined cars. In California, a few weeks ago, a group of students published their notice: “The Tesla hunting season opens”. A few days later, in Florida, a good number of vehicles waiting to be delivered They vandalized. And if that were not enough, Seven Load Stations In the United States they have been burned as a boycott measure against the company. Click on the image to go to the original tweet Click on the image to go to the original tweet Pulling creativity. To avoid being victims of possible attacks, the owners of some Tesla have chosen to “disguise” their cars from other brands. Thus, it is possible to see Tesla Model 3 converted to Audi, Mazda U Honda cars. And instead of damaging cars, there are those who have opted for more creative solutions: project images in the Tesla Cybertruck found on the street. Taking advantage of the night, they use the rear of the electric SUV to launch messages that remember the number of vehicle reviews or the political drift of Elon Musk. Click on the image to go to the original tweet Polarized. All this has caused the community to divide even more among those who support Elon Musk, who are shown in favor of this type of protests and who simply, They try to separate the artist from the work. Other acquaintances influencers, Like Jerry Rig Eventhing (9.2 million followers on YouTube), they have assured that undoing all Tesla They have on their property. Chopped. At the moment, all this does not help improve the image of the company that has been facing a very hard correction in their actions. A fall that only time will say if it is the bad sales resultsadded to A 2024 that did not finish please to investors, and how much is related to Elon Musk’s political support. The drop in sales has a lot to do with the update of the Tesla Model andits great superventas, which is very likely that the plans to buy potential customers have delayed. However, the figures In China they are being bad And in Germany, the first electric car market in Europe, are being poor, with A 76% drop. Photo | Elon Musk in X and David Geitgey Sierralupe In Xataka | Tesla sales in Europe have sunk 45% and their shares are paying expensive. It’s not even your worst news

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