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All that was needed was a subsidiary in Malaysia

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The US Government has suspected for several years that Chinese companies and research centers dedicated to artificial intelligence (IA) acquire Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs through Singapore and Malaysia intermediary companies. In 2022 it decided to ban the sale to China of the most powerful AI GPUs designed by Nvidia, AMD and other American companies in an attempt to stop the use of this technology by the Chinese military. Since then, the US and Chinese Administrations have maintained a constant pulse that not only affects the integrated circuit industry; It permeates everything to the extent that AI chips support a critical technology for both nations. Be that as it may, the biggest obstacle that the US faces in this scenario is parallel import routes. The Commerce Department is trying to make it harder for cutting-edge American chips to reach China, but surprisingly, the Trump Administration hasn’t made it easy. In May 2025 the Government led by Donald Trump decided to freeze the AI ​​Diffusion rulean AI GPU export control regulation that the Biden Administration approved in its final days in office, in January 2025. This regulation established a three-tier system for global access to advanced AI chips. In this way, US allies could obtain them without limitations, but China, Russia or Iran had access completely blocked. Malaysia: the biggest legal loophole in the chip war between the US and China AI chip designers led by Nvidia reacted strongly against the AI Diffusion rule. Their argument maintained that this regulation was essentially bureaucratic and penalized sales to allied or neutral countries. Donald Trump’s government responded. In May 2025 it announced that it would develop its own regulations, and that it would be “bolder and more inclusive”, so it left the AI Diffusion rule not applied. The Trump Administration unintentionally created a legal loophole that has been taken advantage of by many Chinese companies Here comes the unexpected turn of events. By suspending its application, the Trump Administration unintentionally created a legal loophole that has been taken advantage of by many Chinese companies. The AI Diffusion rule required the granting of a license by the US Department of Commerce to be able to sell chips to foreign subsidiaries of Chinese companies. Since this regulation did not prosper, according to SCMPDuring the last year, many Chinese companies have freely purchased Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, and AMD’s MI350x, from their subsidiaries in Malaysia. Just 48 hours ago the Office of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce public a guideline that seeks to close that legal loophole. What it does is simply require compliance with licensing requirements for advanced chips destined for entities based in China, even when those entities are physically located outside the country. However, this new guideline does not require data centers to stop using chips already purchased, so according to Chris McGuirea technology expert and former State Department official, “closes one loophole, but leaves another open.” McGuire does not specify what that second loophole is, but experts point out to the path that remains open through TSMC: Chinese subsidiaries can also access the manufacturing capacity of the Taiwanese semiconductor giant without the new guideline explicitly regulating it. Image | Nvidia More information | SCMP In Xataka | We can forget about AI without hallucinations for now. Nvidia CEO explains why

the technology needed to spy and make military decisions from the sky

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) carries many benefits, but also many risks. Therefore, eliminating human supervision can be a very bad idea. It is a fairly recurring topic that has been put back on the table after China announced that it is testing the use of AI to advance its satellite-based surveillance systems. Many experts have expressed concern about the possibility of these systems being used for military purposes. Other countries, such as the United States and Israel, have set a worrying precedent, so there is some fear that these technologies could be misused and end up being lethal. The steps of China. China has long stressed the importance of AI always having human supervision. However, the announcement that have collected media such as Interesting Engineering follows a different premise. The Asian country intends for its satellite AI systems to be capable of breaking down complex tasks, coordinating workflows and recovering independently from possible failures. In short, they would use algorithms capable of analyzing information, making decisions and acting without the need for humans. Satellite observation can have many uses, from analyzing animal behavior to aiding weather forecasts. However, this emphasis on AI being able to act on its own is inevitably reminiscent of what we are already seeing in the United States for military purposes. The case of the United States. The US military is suspected of having several AI-based targeting systems, although there is a lot of classified information about them. Broadly speaking, these would use data obtained through optical cameras, infrared, radar, LIDAR and other sensors to locate military targets and subsequently shoot if deemed necessary. Last February, the attack on a school classified as erroneous opened the debate on this issue. In it 175 people diedmostly girls. As it was recognized as a misguided attack, suspicions grew that AI was behind it. As this is classified information, it cannot be known for sure, but it is a more than tangible risk. USA has hired currently to SpaceX to improve the connectivity of the shooters so that they receive the information as soon as possible whether to shoot or not. It is clear that they want to continue advancing in this aspect and it is something that, logically, is of great concern to experts. The case of Israel. It is not exactly the same, but Israel has also left war decisions in the hands of AI, with worrying results. For example, they have a system that uses data from phone calls, social networks, metadata, visual information or contacts, among other sources, to determine who may be targets. According to an investigation by +972 Magazinein the first weeks of the war against Palestine detected 37,000 targets as Hamas members. The army itself recognized that the algorithm has a 90% probability of being right. This gives us clues about how catastrophic it can be. More transparency? China has assured that it will have more transparency than other countries by introducing AI in the management of its satellites. However, this does not minimize the concerns of experts. For now, it seems that the algorithms have managed to avoid obstacles independently in the testing phase. For them to be able to shoot, if they are used for that purpose, there is still a long way to go. But it is viable. Therefore, it is urgent that measures be taken to regulate the use of AI without human supervision as much as possible. There are too many human beings with few scruples, but even those may have some more qualms than machines. An AI cannot show concern, conscience or ethics. He also does not ask before shooting if he is not told to do so. Therefore, if we want it to operate satellites capable of observing and controlling what we do on the planet, it would be advisable for us to ensure that someone with scruples remains in charge. Although in some contexts that is difficult to find. Image | Kevin Stadnyk (Unsplash)/Magnific In Xataka | There are planes dropping food into Gaza from the air. It is a worse idea than it seems to fight hunger

To move the cutting head of the ‘Monica’ tunnel boring machine, a 152-wheel truck was needed. It’s the key to Australia’s ‘water battery’

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Transporting a gigantic tunnel boring machine to the work point is no small feat, and Madrid has a few things to say about this. However, in Cooma, a small town in the Australian state of New South Wales, they seem to have gotten the hang of it. And the colossal piece of steel crossed its streets at a snail’s pace on a 152 wheel truck. The cargo was part of Snowy 2.0one of the largest energy storage projects in the world. What is it about?. The piece was the central block of the cutting head of the tunnel boring machine named Monica. According to Snowy Hydro, the public company behind the project, this component weighs more than 137 tons and measures seven meters wide. The head is the part that really matters in a tunnel boring machine, since it is the rotating disc that faces the rock and crushes it as it moves. Media deployment. Monica’s head is too big to transport in one piece, so it had to be divided into five parts. Still, just moving the center block required months of preparation. The entire transport reached 73 meters in length, and was moved at night facing the last stretch along the Snowy Mountains Highway, heading to the Marica site, north of Kiandra, where the machine would be assembled. A colossal engineering project. This move was just one piece of a much larger puzzle. The company indicates that in the previous weeks more than 140 large loads were delivered to Marica from the port of Port Kembla, south of Sydney. The tunnel boring machines do not arrive assembled, as they are transported in sections (head, drive system, shields, support platforms) and are assembled on site. In fact, last October, the transport of Monica’s motor system (a component about 207 tons and eight meters wide) brought more than 1,500 people to Cooma, in what Snowy Hydro called one of the largest loads ever transported by road in New South Wales. What is all this for? Snowy 2.0 is, in essence, a gigantic water battery. The project will connect the Tantangara and Talbingo reservoirs through some 27 kilometers of tunnels and an underground power station. The idea is to generate electricity by turbineing water when demand is high and, in times of surplus solar and wind energy, pump it back uphill for reuse. The company assures that it will have a capacity of 2,200 megawatts and enough stored energy to supply about three million homes for a week. Start-up. Last February, Snowy Hydro announced that Monica had been commissioned and would be responsible for excavating the section of the tunnel that crosses the Long Plain fault zone, a geologically complicated area. Designed by the German firm Herrenknecht, the machine advances at one end of the tunnel while another tunnel boring machine, Florence, does so at the opposite. The idea is that both are underground before being dismantled. For those dates the project exceeded 70% execution. Snowy 2.0 has not been without controversy with news of cost overruns and delays, and completion is now scheduled for December 2028. Images | Snowy Hydro In Xataka | Canada is going to debut the residential skyscraper with the most floors in all of North America: it has 12 sides and 351 meters high

A free program was the snitch I needed on my PC to see what was stealing my storage

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Windows can be fine for many things (although it is understandable that more and more users have your doubts taking into account the state of the operating system), but its waste management is questionable. Mac (and now Linux) are my main computers, but I have a laptop to play and edit video with Windows 11 and it is torture to see that the disk fills up more and more… and I don’t install as much either. You go to the uninstall applications section and you don’t want to remove any because you use them, but what you see doesn’t add up and you start searching through folders seeing, manually (by clicking on ‘Properties’) how much the suspicious folders weigh. After a long while, you find something: a game you uninstalled two years ago keep taking a good bite out of your SSD and you wonder why the files weren’t deleted when you uninstalled it and why you hadn’t seen it until now. And searching I have found a couple of tools to free up space ghost on your PC in a very visual way that is so useful… that it does not surprise me that current Windows does not include it as standard. Your PC’s trash tree The applications are WizTree and TreeSize Freealthough there is also another one called WinDirStat. They both do the same thing: analyze very quickly the space occupied by everything you have in your PC storage. Both show it in various ways and both have something special: the “tree” view. To clean the PC I have used both although the screenshots are from TreeSize, but in fact I recommend WizTree because while TreeSize is an app with trial periods, WizTree is free and you decide if you donate to the creators. There I see that I have large folders like Twitter history or Nintendo Satellaview files. I don’t want to delete them, but I have already missed some GoG games that I haven’t deleted and I am interested in deleting them That said, what makes these tools special and more useful than a list with weights is that they actually show the size that files and folders are taking up on your PC. For example, if you have a PC with a 512 GB SSD and you install ‘Forza Horizon 6‘ and its almost 120 GB, that folder will appear taking up a quarter of the screen. In that case, you can easily identify which folder is eating up the PC storage and you can act accordingly, but what I was most interested in was seeing where did those GB come from? that they were slowly colonizing the SSD without my being aware. After the first pass, which takes no time at all, TreeSize identified and classified all the folders and files on the PC. By default it does not do so in that tree view, but in a more traditional list of folders ordered by weight, but in the options at the top you can choose to show the tree view and indicate how many files it has, the percentage it occupies in your storage or what I prefer: GB. And yes, I saw known evils (the Windows folder takes up a lot), but I also saw what I wanted to see: what was eating up my storage. There were a couple of residual folders of games with several MB and even some silly GB, but the rest of the ‘garbage’ I have to admit was my fault. Almost 16 GB of Steam clips folder on laptop Before delete TwitterI downloaded my file with photos and it turns out that I left it there, taking up a whopping 12 GB. I had completely forgotten about it and it was eating up the space of a couple of good indie games. On the other hand, there was a Steam folder of almost 60 GB on a PC and about 16 GB in another that did not correspond to installed games: they were captures and recordings. How to do screenshots with Steam It is the app itself that manages them in internal folders within its directory (and each video file is divided into several files because they use a peculiar format), I had not realized that, little by little, that folder was filling up. I also had there the files of a prototype game that I downloaded years ago and they were taking up 5 GB and something that bothered me: the PC hibernation file. On the laptop it took up about 6 GB, but on the desktop it was almost 10. The laptop was good, but I almost never left it idle on the desktop, so I deleted it and deactivated hibernation (because if you delete the file and don’t deactivate hibernation, it creates it again). The first impression is that of a somewhat dense app, but as soon as you have been using it for a while you begin to know how to “read” the interface So… well, the space freed up on the two PCs is not bad. a way that Windows natively does not offer me. And I can’t complain because in the end a lot of the garbage that was on my PC was my fault, but looking for information about these applications I came across this article by MeinMMO where they had uninstalled a game years ago, but it was still taking up 62GB on the SSD. The game is ‘Wild Hearts‘ and they say that they played it the way you can play Electronic Arts games (unfortunately): through the EA application. He uninstalled it in 2023, but although it no longer appeared as installed in Windows space management, it seems that the entire game was still on his hard drive. He details that it was not just the profile configuration or data like that (which would still be stupid), but the entire game. It is not the only game that left residue: 20 GB of modsArk: Survival Evolved‘ … Read more

China has just discovered the largest deposit of rare earths in the world. And he did it just when he needed it most.

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China has a privileged position in terms of possession of rare earthbut it has just surprised the world with a new discovery: the Ministry of Natural Resources has confirmed that the Maoniuping deposit, in Sichuan province, is now the largest deposit of light rare earths on the planet. The news comes at a key moment, since it is these minerals that are the protagonists one of the hottest fronts between Beijing and Washington in their tariff war. What exactly has been found. New exploration in the Maoniuping mining area in Mianning county has confirmed the existence of 9.67 million tons of rare earth oxideswhich represents an increase of more than 300% compared to the reserves that were known until now, as announced by the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources. With this data, the deposit surpasses that of Bayan Obo, in Inner Mongolia, which until now held the title of the largest light rare earth mine in the world with 44 million tons of proven industrial reserves. In addition to rare earth oxides, surveys have identified 27.1 million tons of fluorspar and 37.2 million tons of barite, both classified as deposits of exceptional scale. Why does it matter? Rare earth elements are the 17 elements that make electric car engines, fiber optic amplifiers, advanced weapons systems and smartphones possible, among many other technological elements that we use in our daily lives. Without them, much of the technology and defense industry simply does not work. China already produces more than 80% of the world supply annual of these materials, according to the state agency Xinhua. And this discovery further reinforces China’s position until now. The discovery within the discovery. According to Wang Denghong, director of the Institute of Mineral Resources of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, what is truly striking about the discovery is not only the rare earths but fluorite and barite. Fluorite is an essential ingredient in the manufacturing of semiconductors and lithium-ion batteries. Barite, for its part, is essential in oil and gas extraction: it is used to stabilize wells and prevent blowouts. Without this element, hydrocarbon exploration, including fracking, would be paralyzed. Restrictions. Since April last year, China introduced export restrictions on seven rare earths and permanent magnets, precisely in response to the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump about Chinese products. China controls the gateway to rare earths, and basically any company that wants to take these materials out of the country needs express government authorization. Exports to Europe have picked up since the new licensing regime was implemented. Those going to the United States remain stagnant, according to collect Interesting Engineering. What’s coming now. With this discovery, Beijing consolidates its ability to use critical minerals as diplomatic and commercial leverage. The West has been trying for years diversify your supply chains of rare earths with projects in Australia, Canada or northern Europe, but none yet approach the scale of the Asian country. Cover image | aboodi vesakaran and ZME Science In Xataka | In 2010, Japan learned to acquire its rare earths without depending on China. Germany wants to copy its strategy now

It turns out that to innovate in mobile phones, only one thing was needed: (very) useful little things.

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Neither the latest Qualcomm processor, nor “agent” AI, nor a camera with 200 megapixels. What surprised us most this week with the launch of the Galaxy S26 Ultra It was his anti-gossip screen. A friendly reminder that, perhaps, innovation in technology does not involve the most technical characteristic, but rather the most useful one. A touch of attention. We have been criticizing for years (and rightly so) that mobile phones do not innovate. For some time now, attending the presentation of a new model is usually summarized in: Same mobile Best camera (sometimes not even that) More power AI functions that, with a high probability, we will never use The umpteenth improvement in hardware that has been nearing its peak for years This is why, as soon as we see one of those novelties of the “oh, I want that in my daily life“, we return to that smile from when mobile phones were devices designed to make our lives easier, and not so much to sell hardware deployments at the highest possible price. The anti-peeping screen. Yes, we already know that there are €1 screen protectors that perform a similar function, but the point is that this screen includes it from the factory, and with brutal technology. It is capable of regulating the emission of the pixels so that we are only able to see the panel from the front. This opens the door to having a native security layer on our screen and, by the way, being able to put a quality screen protector on it (protection ones are usually not). The matte screen. A couple of years ago, Samsung surprised the world with the matte screen of the Samsung Galaxy S24an anti-reflective layer that represented a before and after when viewing content. Apple tried something similar in its last generation, but couldn’t come close. Once again, a silent innovation that did not impress on the technical sheet, but in terms of utility it was outstanding. Apple’s square sensor. People take selfies, lots of selfies. And turning the phone to do them is not a drama, but if you can save it, all the better. It is just what Apple invented with its iPhone 17 and the square sensor: one that allows the mobile to record and take photos both vertically and horizontally in the same position. NXTpaper screens. Although the superiority of the physical book over the electronic reader is a debate that I do not want to open (and that I do not intend to lose), TCL has been doing something for some time that its competition does not dare to imitate: dual panelswhich can be used as an electronic reader and as a traditional panel. How does it work? These phones and tablets are modified LCD panels with a different matrix than the rest. The backlighting system, the anti-reflective layer and the microtexture of the surface itself are adjusted to emulate an electronic ink panel, and thus be much less aggressive to the eye when we are reading. 10,000mAh batteries. Quietly, smartphone batteries are undergoing their biggest revolution. The main change: betting on silicon to give us much more generous capacities. Because yes, innovating is making the phone last three days, and not one as we have been accustomed to for years. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Mobile phones have been stagnant for five years when it comes to innovation. There is an explanation

what is needed are cheaper chips

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Let’s face it, I’ve been using high-end phones for more than a decade, but I tend to test mid-range phones quite frequently and it’s been clear to me for a long time that you can buy a smartphone for 300 euros and have decent performance for standard use. Obviously, not for a gamer or a demanding user, but for the average user. Hence the mobile phones that I most recommend They cost between 300 and 500 euros. This upward range has two explanations: the first, that in addition to performance, it is common for “a good camera” to appear on many people’s wish lists. And here, the Google Pixel A is the king. The second is a market where the price increase is inevitable because everything goes up, but especially components like memory or storagewhich can lead to the tragic news of recover 4GB of RAM. Qualcomm is the manufacturer that equips most of the premium Android phones on the market and according to rumorsits next flagship will arrive twice: a Pro version for the ultra-premium range and another for the pure high-end. The difference between the two would be the type of RAM supported and the GPU configuration, similar to what Apple does with its iPhones. Surely their benchmarks are printable, but More than its advantages, what worries me is the price. The cost of current Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 They are around 280 dollars and for the following ones everything indicates that They will overcome the barrier of 300 dollars. This means that for many manufacturers, just purchasing the processor will account for a third of the RRP of their devices. Google shows that another path is possible Meanwhile, Google is going its own way within the ecosystem: Your Tensors are never at the top of performance and not only do they not seem to care, but they continue to offer seven years of updates even in their A versions. For more ridicule, their new Google Pixel 10A even repeats processor. And nothing happens: any mid-range from the last three years will allow you to successfully use messaging, social networks or browse the internet. It is true that there are specific use scenarios where continuing to add more and better hardware can be differential, such as ray tracing, moving games with a certain cadence, or AI. But on the one hand it is something niche and on the other, current models can still give a fight. And I’m not just talking about the high-end. Google Product Manager, Toni Urban, makes quite a statement of intent: We had to make difficult engineering decisions to maintain that price of 549 euros, which we have maintained for four generations. The chipset is part of that consideration. We knew we could still deliver the best of Google’s AI and the best camera experience with the chip we had; We didn’t feel like we were sacrificing quality, and we still continued to incorporate important improvements. If a medium range of a couple of years can continue to carry out normal and current tasks in a solvent manner, with a veteran high-end, even better. It is rare to find someone who renews a high-end one for another citing performance reasons. The bottleneck is another: it could be the camera, thermal management or the battery and its performance, because performance is a problem solved years ago on mobile phones. Google’s decision not only seems right from a price point of view, but also from a balance point of view: performance tests take a backseat when factors such as temperature or battery life act as limitations. Not obsessing over performance allows manufacturers to differentiate themselves in other areas or simply maintain their prices. And that is no small thing. In Xataka | The best mobile phones (2026), we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best mobile phones in quality price. Which one to buy based on use and seven recommended models

Kia needed an electric Sportage on the market. The Kia EV5 is an (almost) perfect bet for the European family

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Kia has been building one of the most interesting ranges of electric cars on the market for years. The EV family has managed to establish itself as one of the most attractive and risky options. From the Kia EV6 and its particular design to the most rational EV3 and the monstrous EV9. Now, the company has placed the EV5 on the market, one of the most rational proposals and necessary for your current offer. South Koreans needed a car that would perform the functions of the Kia Sportage, one of their best-selling models, with completely electric technology. And his proposal is as solvent as it is rational and attractive. Kia EV5 technical sheet New Kia EV5 Body type five-seater SUV Measurements and weight 4,610 meters long, 1,875 meters wide and 1,680 meters high. Wheelbase of 2,750 meters. 1800 kg weight. Trunk 566 liters with the sum of the front and rear trunk. Maximum power 160 kW (217 HP) and 295 Nm. WLTP consumption 16.9 kWh/100 km DGT environmental distinctive Zero emissions. Driving aids (ADAS) Mandatory by the European Union. Others Triple screen: 12.3-inch instrument panel 12.3-inch central screen 5-inch climate control screen Android Auto and Apple Car Play compatibility. Wireless mobile phone charging. Harman Kardon sound system as option. Electric hybrid. No. Plug-in hybrid. No. Electric Yeah. 81.4 kWh battery with 530 km of WLTP autonomy Versions with double motor (all-wheel drive) and a more powerful GT option will arrive. Price and release Now available With 81.4 kWh battery from 46,070 euros before aid (from 39,490 euros with discounts and aid) Why does an electric car have less autonomy than advertised? Balance is the word We could say explain the Kia EV5 with a football simile. The Kia EV5 is like a sober doorman. If you don’t like football, a goalkeeper sober He is the one who flees from eccentricities, the one who turns spectacular saves into simple saves. And a stop is just the final result of a very in-depth previous exercise, of strenuous training to be strong in the legs and extensive knowledge to position oneself in the right place at the right time. Whether the stop is complicated because it is attached to the lower corner of one of the posts or to give security to the team by taking the ball in a lateral center. Can an eccentric goalkeeper be good? Yes. And very good indeed. There are goalkeepers who earn their fame for stops that seem impossible, for having reflexes typical of the animal world. But it is no less true that many of these saves are only the result of having made a bad previous decision, of reaching the ball in a hurry for the simple fact of being worse positioned under the goal. Something like this happens with the Kia EV5. It is not a spectacular car in any sense. But almost everything is done grating at a very high level. It’s not eccentric, it’s not surprising. But it is a good electric car. A very interesting option if you are looking for a good family car as the only vehicle at home. And the Kia EV5 does not have the imprint and footprint of the EV9. Nor is it committed to that monolithic aspect of the EV3 that makes it so particular and that polarizes opinions about its design so much. This intermediate option seems like a kind of softened version of both cars without losing that muscular appearance, playing with straight and very pronounced edges. Its appearance, in fact, makes it appear larger. Its 4.61 meters seem to be more when you have it in front of you for the first time. We are, however, at figures very much to the taste of the European customer, who in this type of car largely opts for vehicles slightly larger than four and a half meters. With a wheelbase of 2.75 meters, the space for the rear seats is very good and maintains a trunk that, adding a front space in which little more than the charging cables can fit, reaches 566 liters. In the front area, it maintains the aesthetics and layout that has been accompanying the brand’s latest launches. The instrument panel and the central screen are embraced by the same frame, with a third digital space that unites both surfaces. All of this is supported on a kind of very clean horizontal desktop with touch buttons on the surface. On the steering wheel and the central area we have a multitude of physical buttons with some details that we liked. The instrument panel is displayed on a widely configurable 12.3-inch screen in its central area. In it we can find graphics of all kinds, from consumption to navigation or what the infotainment system is playing. Above the view we have a clear Head-Up Display with precise information for driving. The central screen, compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlayit is also 12.3 inches. Here, the possibilities are very wide and it has interesting solutions, such as a vertically sliding widget that supports the information displayed by the browser. However, I have two problems. The first is that it has so many shortcuts and so many functions to customize that it forces you to overcome a certain learning curve to be clear where each function is. I, who hadn’t gotten into a Kia for a while, had to spend some time finding, for example, the consumption data. My second problem is in the representation of the icons and shortcuts. The black background is useful to avoid confusing the driver but I think there is a lack of contrast in the icons. I, at least, have had some difficulty reading them clearly. I would have to test the car further to see if this can be fixed by, for example, increasing the screen brightness. Between both screens there is a third space in which the air conditioning is controlled. It seems like a good one to me. We have the basic … Read more

China needed space to power millions of homes, so it built a mega solar plant in the open sea

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That China is building power plants As if there were no secret, it is not a secret. Without going any further, in the last four years it has been able to replicate the power of the United States, the largest electrical grid in the West. And a good part of the blame solar energy has it. In fact, in 2023 it installed more solar panels than the United States in all of history, as reported by Bloomberg. Solar energy requires space, so China is finding the most varied gaps, from the tibetan plateau to the open sea, where from the end of 2025 It is already connected to the electrical network a mega solar plant that breaks records. In China there are solar panels even in the soup. The largest offshore solar plant in the world. We are talking about the solar plant located off the coast of Kenli district in Dongying city, Shandong province. This engineering project is carried out by China Energy Investment Corporation (CHN Energy) and has a nominal capacity of 1 GW. As explains People’s Dailythe official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is China’s first gigawatt-level offshore photovoltaic project and currently the largest offshore solar installation in the world. This is what the Shandong plant looks like. Via: People’s Daily The context: why at sea. Because land space near its large coastal cities is a precious commodity. The Chinese government has a policy of red line to safeguard land used for agriculture and solve the line “Hu Huanyong Line“: while its great solar and wind potential is concentrated in the west, in the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, the megacities and their most powerful industrial fabric are in the east. China is already developing parks of renewables in their deserts, but running Ultra High Voltage lines is very expensive, involves losses along the way and crosses complicated orography. The logical but technically infernal solution is to jump into the water. Until now, floating solar energy was limited to calm waters, such as what Germany is doing with its lakesbut China is another story. The open sea brings salt corrosion, typhoons and waves. Why is it important. Because China’s coastal provinces such as Shandong or Jiangsu constitute large centers of industrial consumption. Generating energy right there avoids those transportation losses of thousands of kilometers from the Gobi desert. If it works within the expected design parameters and the maintenance costs are affordable, it will be a good boost to take advantage of the coasts within the energy transition process from fossil to renewables. The panels are simply colossal. Via: X from People’s Daily A prodigious work of engineering. We are talking about an area of ​​more than 1,200 hectares where 2,934 enormous marine photovoltaic panels are located with standardized dimensions of 60 meters long and 35 meters wide. And they are not drifting panels: it is a large infrastructure designed to withstand extreme conditions ranging from storms to freezing water. In addition, it is hybridized: under the panels the project integrates fish farms, that is, producing electricity above and fish below. This type of combination is not new, as in Guizhou province there is a giant solar plant in whose basement mushrooms are grown. Shandong is aquavoltaic and Guizhou is agrivoltaic. Some numbers that make you dizzy. This installed power of 1 Gigawatt is similar to that of a modern nuclear reactor, so that according to estimates, it will be capable of producing 1,780 million kWh of energy that will be fed into the grid each year and thus supply 2.6 million homes in the region. approximately 60% of your demand. According to the estimates of the engineering company behind it, 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide will no longer be emitted. In Xataka | Germany has had a crazy idea to solve one of the problems of renewables: covering a lake with solar panels In Xataka | The great myth of solar panels: producing them emits hundreds of times less than coal and gas Cover | People’s Daily

I just needed an excuse to definitely switch to Gemini: advertising on ChatGPT

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The day arrived. Not in Spain, but the day came. ChatGPT is already starting to show advertising in the United States. At the moment they are in the testing phase, but if OpenAI wants to clean up his accountsyou will have to start showing ads in the rest of the world. It was the last thing I needed to completely switch to Gemini. From ugly duckling to goose that lays golden eggs. If two years ago someone had suggested that I change ChatGPT for Gemini, I would have responded with a categorical refusal. In recent months my opinion has completely changed. I’m not saying it, the benchmark race says it in which Gemini has managed to surpass GPT5 without giving up its reasoning capabilities. This is also said by the work that Google is doing in terms of image and video creation, with a Nano Banana Pro that managed to completely sweep away the OpenAI model and force the rival company to improve and incorporate Images to ChatGPT. The pasta. AI has already become a fixed cost for millions of people. A few euros a month in exchange for an assistant who saves hundreds of hours seems like a fair deal. The most economical plan ChatGPT is Gofor 8 euros per month (96 euros per year). With Go we have access to GPT-5and expanded limits on memory and file uploads. With Google’s cheapest plan, AI Pluswe pay 7.99 euros per month. In addition to having access to Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro and limited access to I see 3.1 Fast (GPT Go does not allow access to Sora, even in a limited way), we have: Access to Flow, Google’s cinematic creation tool powered by Veo 3. Whisk Access Gemini integration in Gmail, Vids and more Google apps. 200 GB of storage for your Google account (Photos, Drive and Gmail). If we jump to the intermediate plan, OpenAI offers its best reasoning models, faster image creation, access to Codex, agent mode and access to Sora for 23 euros per month. For 21.99 euros Google allows access to Antigravity, includes Google Home Premium (with integrated Gemini) and 2 TB of storage. Google can afford it. Google has an advantage when it comes to pricing its AI services. The company does not make a living by selling AI and can even afford to give it away in the search engine, in Gemini as an assistant on all Android phones and by integrating it natively into its apps. Google doesn’t need to introduce ads: its AI is the ad. Now what. OpenAI will have to go the extra mile to retain its users. Gemini is already managing to grow its customer base, and with the introduction of ads in GPT, OpenAI will have one of the few large ad-loaded AI models. The company will need to prove not only that ChatGPT is worth paying for, but that it is worth: Pay for the most expensive plans that do not contain ads Pay for plans that contain ads Image | Xataka In Xataka | Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is not exactly the best place to get objective information. ChatGPT doesn’t care

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