It seems obvious, but at this time it had never been such a round business: who has gold, has a treasure

In the month of August we met A story which reflected as few the state of one of the most precious materials on the planet. It turns out that in Stilfontein, an ancient mining town in South Africa, neighbors no longer fear the void of abandoned tunnels, but to strangers who arrive in cars loaded with rifles. Yes, these armed bands arrive to take an increasingly valuable booty. A few weeks later, buying gold is again the Century business. Historical boom of the shelter. Yes, gold is going through its largest annual escalation since 1979, with a 39% jump that has taken it to historical maximums above the $ 3,649and it does not for a classical financial collapse, but by the search for coverage before a political and macroeconomic environment perceived as unstable. He told the WSJ that the best stamp Encana Kenneth Pack, a snowfall retiree who first entered April to shield in the face of the disorder associated with the new Trump administration and that, even after the stock market bourse after the confusion of the “day of liberation”, has decided Keep 17% of its portfolio in metals and linked values. In Xataka Russia and the most fearsome weapon for Ukraine: it is called orbit and does not shoot, but turns its soldiers into “invisible” A return in style. The phenomenon transcends the retail investor and is perceived from The Costco halls to shaped vaults in London, where the metal is stored and negotiated without abandoning the building, and where the dominant expectation is that the price will continue to rise. The starting point, in reality, was created almost three years ago with sustained purchases of central banks and Chinese demand, but the 2025 engine It is also western: a selective risk aversion that coexists with a Stock market (extra) euphoric for the AI, and used by gold As sure in front of a weakened dollar and economic policy decisions difficult to anticipate. Commercial policy and the dollar. Plus: the attempt to reorder global trade to tariffs Changes in a matter of hours has contaminated inflation and growth forecasts, while a federal reserve pressure campaign Question independence of a key institutional pillar. In parallel, the dollar has had its worse first semester in more than half a century according to some metrics, deterioration that Improves attractiveness of assets not called in the American currency. The lack of tangible advances to close conflicts that periodically shake the markets, such as Ukraine, adds a geopolitical layer that reinforces the perception of fragility of the economic order, and that in the mind Energy shocks And the erosion of purchasing power made gold an escape Faced with uncertainty. Investment channels. This ascent is not just a sociological story: you can actually follow the money trail. The American ETF backed by physical gold have seen their heritage grow a 43% since Januarywith monthly tickets among the largest of the last decade, while the Hedge Funds have concentrated almost half of their net exhibition to raw materials in metalamplifying short -term movements. He August message In Washington of Jerome Powell, when insinuating the start of type cuts, he acted as a double catalyst: in short, he is less expensive to maintain an asset without coupon against public debt. Halfway, yes Types are trimmed With full employment and inflation still above the objective, the risk is to sow more persistent price pressures that support the upward thesis. The sensitivity of gold to the opportunity cost It is immediatebut its vigor depends on the background narrative: if the cut of types lived with a weak dollar and tozudas inflation expectations, the marginal flow would continue to favor metal. Refuge Psychology. It is inherent to the human being. In this climate, the psychology of the shelter spreads beyond professionals. As summarized the journalin London, those private vaults report a constant drip of assets that prefer the Tangible Safety of the Lagoteto the point of planning the duplication of their box capacity, while the number of people who sell jewels upload for casting because “the value is in the material”, displacing crafts due to the weight of the metal. The narrative is also filtered by political and commercial channels, with public figures promoting conversion Gold retirement accounts, a symptom that has ceased to be an instrument of niche to consolidate as a transverse symbol of heritage protection. The significant detail is that this boom lives with maximum stock market: There is no general escape from risk, but explicit coverage against adverse scenarios that the market does not end up ruling out. {“Videid”: “X89W5U6”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The most valuable mineral and thanks to which we have mobile phones we explain everything about the coltan”, “Tag”: “Webedia-prod”, “Duration”: “298”} Risks and counterweights. This week many US media They explained That the danger that golden fever feeds is a damn word of the seventies: stagflationthat is, the mixture of high inflation and weak growth that erodes benefits and makes financing more expensive. Several analysts They warn that its probability has increased and, if materialized, would offer an optimal macro -entry for gold. The counterweight: a restoration of confidence in the growth of the United States and in the role of the dollar as a reserve could puncture The impulse, but with live commercial tensions and a foreign policy perceived as more retracted, that hypothesis points fragile. Gold no Upload in a straight line and is sensitive to changes in real types and in risk appetite, but the Current forces balance (Structural purchases of central banks, financial flows towards ETF, geopolitical coverage and doubts about price discipline) explains why this 2025 remembers, in intensity, to the Last big shake of metal In Xataka Russia has launched its Zircon hypersonic missile at NATO doors. And he has accompanied him with a video so that there is no doubt SYo and not. If you want also, the gold boom works as a kind of silent referendum about three vectors: The credibility of … Read more

When you are openai and you can’t buy enough GPU, the solution is obvious: manufacture yours

Openai will create its own artificial intelligence chips. It is a crucial decision for the future of your business, but the ally you have chosen to do it: Broadcom. When the river sounds. The runrún has been listening Since the beginning of 2024. Nvidia, owner and lady of the segment of the AI ​​accelerators, was an ally too powerful for OpenAi. The solution was clear: develop its own chips with which to minimize that dependence. Broadcom takes chest. Hock Tan, Broadcom CEO, yesterday told investors that the company had closed an agreement with a mysterious client that would invest 10,000 million dollars in AI chips. Although Broadcom did not reveal the client’s name, sources close to those agreements indicated In Financial Times that this client is none other than OpenAi. Neither Broadcom nor this last company have confirmed the data. Xpus to power. Those chips, to those who referred as Xpus, are a kind of specialized and personalized variant of the NVIDIA or AMD accelerators. We have the perfect example in the TPUS (Tensioner Processor Units) that Google presented almost a decade ago And that has been improving generation after generation (we are already going for the seventh generation, called Ironwood). Broadcom, by the way, has collaborated in the development of these Google chips, so it has overdue experience in that area. Own chips for internal use. According to sources close to this collaboration, Openai aims to use these internal AI chips, and there are no plans to offer them to external clients. That reinforces the theory that Openai wants to create data centers with these own chips to avoid (or at least mitigate) the dependence of Nvidia. Nvidia will have (a lot) competition. Nvidia dominates Iron fist This segment, but has long for the rivals – both in the West as in the East – work to make their monopoly in this sector disappear. Microsoft He has MaiaAmazon His trainiumGoogle its aforementioned TPU and AMD of course Your instinct. To goal It is about it. But Cuda remains the “Moat” of Nvidia. Of course the true key to Nvidia overwhelming success is not so much in its chips and in the fact that its architecture CUDA is de facto standard In this market and all AI systems developers usually base their projects on that platform. It is the “Moat” of Nvidia, that “pit” that allows you to protect its “castle” from the rivals and continue dominating the market. And here there are also attempts to avoid the dependence of the company, and among them Those from China stand out. And TSMC, what? The funny thing is that for months it seemed that The ally that Openai had sought To carry out this project was the most important semiconductor manufacturer in the world, TSMC. Earl this year that collaboration It seemed to go on the right track and several sources pointed out that we would have the first OpenAI GPUS for 2026. It may simply have chosen to have a plan B (TSMC) to avoid its dependence on NVIDIA, but also prepare a C (Broadcom) plan. Image | Qualcomm In Xataka | China’s self -sufficiency test in chips for AI is already here: it has not bought Nvidia or a single H20 GPU in the last quarter

The World Cup to the Comba exists, it is a hilarious thing and for us the question is obvious: what do the breath expect

Something that fascinates me is that we have the ability to turn anything into a game And, in turn, in a competition. If there is an Excel World Cupone of Collect garbage and Stone, paper, scissorsof course there is a world championship of jumping. It is a sport that needs great coordination and physical background, and a few days ago celebrated The World Rope World Blash championship in Japan in which the best on the planet have gathered. He is fighting so that the leap to the Comba becomes an Olympic sport, and I confess that seeing some video has managed to think that I am burning calories. Ijru. Are the acronym for International Jump Rope Union And it is the International Federation that organizes and regulates the competitive sport of the jump to the Comba. This is the highest world authority in this sport and is what seeks to expand the jump to the Comba as a high performance sport, promoting diversity, sports spirit, inclusion and those values ​​that make sports a universal language. The IJRU supervises affiliated organizations in more than 60 countries and something curious is that it was founded thanks to the fusion of two organisms that made the “war on their own.” On the one hand, was The International Rope Skipping Federation and on the other the World Jump Rope Federation and, with the aim of unifying rules and professionalizing discipline, reached good terms to become the current federation. Disciplines. Although it is not necessary to explain how it jumps, since it is a game that many have enjoyed at some point, perhaps you have to analyze what the disciplines are. Because in other sports such as football, tennis or Formula 1it is clear who already wins what is played, but with the comma it is different and there are several individual and collective tests: SPEED: His name says everything and consists of making the maximum number of jumps in a certain time that is usually 30 or 60 seconds or three minutes. Double Dutch: Two people turn two strings at the same time while other athletes perform the jumps. Triple under: You have to pass the rope three times under your feet in one jump. Freestyle: It is like synchronized dance, since athletes perform choreographies while jumping and tricks. It is tremendously complicated because not only the technique is judged, but creativity. Team routines: Similar to freestyle, where synchronized jumps, relay, acrobatics and any movement that involves teamwork are combined. Double combo. In addition, there are combinations such as Double Dutch Freestyle in which it is not about taking the maximum number of jumps in this discipline, but is combined with a free dance session. To qualify, athletes compete in national circuits sponsored by the Federation, and the best scores of each country are those that access places for the World Cup. The US, China, France or Japan are from the powers in this sport. 😮. Have you ever been watching a competition and exclaimed that “I’m tired just seeing them”? Well, beware of this video: That is the Double Dutch Speed, but in slow motion loses a lot of grace. Look at this at normal speed: It is not only about the coordination of the Saltadora, but about the rhythm and concentration that the two companions who are moving the ropes must have. But well, there is no easy category. Look at the ‘Single Rope Speed ​​Relay’ of this Chinese athlete in the competition a few weeks ago: These triples: The resistance session: Or this treesyle trees, which can also be played by teams Olympic objective. They are disciplines that would have a hole in some Olympics, but for the moment it is an honor that has not been granted to the jump to the Comba. However, the ijru is moving To be an accepted sport in the Olympic circuit, at least as a exhibition discipline. At the moment, the Olympic Games website itself has a reserved section For this competition, where we can see the finals of the World Cup in Japan held a few weeks ago, and On the Federation website We can see all kinds of rules about disciplines, the responsibility of athletes as behavior models or doping policies. The eSports have not yet achievedwe will see the jump to the rope that He slipped in the Olympic Games 2024 and that could follow the model of the Break Dance or Skate. Finally (because I’m still hallucinating with some jumps), I leave you on the last day of the World Junmp Rope Champioship by Kawasaki: Images | Ijru In Xataka | Millions of people are hooked right now to an Olympic Games where cats compete. Cats made with ia

The Line goes regular, so Saudi Arabia has asked some consultants to solve the obvious: if it makes sense

When years ago The heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman presented the plans of The Linethe gigantic Pharaonic glazed city that Saudi Arabia wants to build in full desert, the idea sounded for science fiction. And it’s normal. Not every day a megalopolis of 170 km long, 200 m wide and huge skyscraper, all thought to welcome millions of people without roads or cars. Over time His works started And the project advanced slowly, between huge exiles and foundations concrete. Now its promoters have done Something peculiar: Ask several consultants for help to confirm whether the initial plans are viable or should adjust them. What happened? That Saudi Arabia wants to review its most pharaonic, surreal and delicate project: The Linethe gigantic “corridor city” of 170 kilometers and 500 meters high and 200 m wide that the country wants to lift in the desert. Although every so often its promoters They presume the advance of the works, Bloomberg He has just revealed that the Saudi authorities have commissioned several consulting companies to carry out a strategic review of the project. What have you asked? That value if the current plans are feasible and suggest possible changes. This is at least supported by Bloomberg, which quotes anonymous sources close to the project. They have not transcended more details or the consultants to which the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund has been directed (PIF), But the decision is interesting both for its background and for the context. Once you have the data, those responsible for the project must assess the information and choose: Do you need to apply changes? Can you follow the work without adjustments? Bloomberg clarifies that the plan could be kept as it is and that, if remembering, any change would demand the OK of the PIF and the Saudi executive himself. And what do promoters say? The Line is part of an even greater project, Neomwhich seeks to diversify the economy of the nation and includes other initiatives, such as Magna, Oxagon, Sindalah and Trojenaalthough The Line It is the most ambitious of all. Those responsible have removed iron on the fact that the PIF has taken advantage of external consultants and ensure that it is a normal procedure. “As usual in large plurianual projects, strategic reviews are a common practice and are carried out several times during a large development project or infrastructure program,” claims Neom. “The Line remains a strategic priority and Neom focuses on maintaining operational continuity, improving efficiency and accelerating progress to meet the vision and general objectives of the project.” Why does the context import? Because, like Remember the agencythe country dealt with the price drop of oil, a minor foreign investment than the foresee and budgetary deficits. Bloomberg Precise That to balance its budget Saudi Arabia needs Brent barrel to be 96 dollars, a figure that rises to 113 if the internal expense of the FIP is included in the projects of the heir prince. Both values are above around $ 71 current. Are you lowering your expectations? The news of the project review comes only a few months after the Saudi authorities Sale your expectations On the development of The Line. At least as regards the calendar. The initial objective was that in 2030 the Megaciudad welcomed 1.5 million residents, but now the promoters estimate that there will be only 300,000, according to Another filtration Published in April by Bloomberg. The size of the city in 2030 will also be far from the target of 170 kilometers. The finished surface would be just 2.4 km. Some sources They point out that the total cost of Neom, including The Line and other initiatives, would amount to about 1.5 billion dollars. Is it standing? Although their promoters have had to reduce initial optimism and want to escape other voices about planning, something seems clear: The Line will not stay in an ambitious model and a handful of colorful infographics. Although there is still work ahead, the works They have been advancing On the ground, something that Saudi Arabia has been responsible for making it clear Sharing From time to time images of excavators, operators and land movements. Three months ago Giles Pendleton, operations director, public On LinkedIn a series of Aerial photos in which the progress of what several Neom projects seems, including infrastructure of the future corridor city of 170 km. “Neom is real,” defends the manager. On the same dates the embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Spain also disclosed images Of the works in one of the tunnels that will circulate trains and load between The Line and Oxagon. Images | Neom In Xataka | Saudi Arabia has insisted that The Line possesses all the absurd records of the world. The last: the longest pool

The United States seems determined to break its monopolies. And he has an obvious victim between eyebrow and eyebrow: Google

The judicial and regulatory offensive of the United States against Google marks a new turning point between that country and its great technological ones. The Department of Justice not only seeks symbolic measures, and here it seeks to reconfigure the rules of the game, turning Google into its main objective and an example for the rest of the sector. The vicious circle of Google. As they point out in The Verge, David Dahlquist, a lawyer of the DOJ, showed in his presentation of the facts how Google benefited from his “vicious circle.” Pay billions of dollars to be the default search engine on virtually everywhere. That leads her to receive more search requests, to have more data, to improve their results, to earn more money and in the end allow to pay more money to further increase that privilege position. Threats for Google. For the DOJ that is a nightmare, and in the antitrust trial against Google it will be seen whether or not these arguments have consequences for the company. At the moment the government is asking for three important things that could impact Radically on the Google business. No agreements to place Google by default. The first request of the DOJ is to prevent Google from reaching those agreements to place its search engine as a default option. The clear example of those agreements is the one with Apple, which it supposedly pays of the order of 20,000 million dollars a year so that all iPhone, iPad or Mac have it as a default search engine in Safari. That would turn Apple into a collateral victim of this case of monopoly. Sell ​​Chrome. It is also considered to force Google to get rid of its browser, Chrome, and sell it. According to Dahlquist, this application represents 35% of search requests and has 4,000 million estimated users. Google states that it is not a business in itself, but to put on sale, it would be a clear objective for other companies. OpenAi has already shown his interestfor example, and It hasn’t been the only. The Duckdugogo responsible assure that Chrome’s value It could be around The 50,000 million dollars. Bachelor data. The third and final request is especially delicate: it would force Google to license all your search data, from its search index to its results. That would allow anyone to use them to “build their own search engine”, a kind of Google fork. One of Google’s lawyers, John Schmidtlein, explained that this would allow anyone to “cut and paste Google search results and show them as if they were yours.” This lawyer also warned that this could also affect the privacy and safety of users. Yield years. That would mean that Google would have to give up (putting on sale) that data, which can be seen as something unfair: they have a quarter of a century tracking and organizing the web information, and now they have to license that work? That would open the doors to a brutal competition with companies that could take advantage of all that filtered knowledge by paying for it. Historical Framework. Although the European Union has been the traditional Némesis of the Big Tech Tech, the United States has also closely watched its large companies. Dismantled The standard oil in 1911 and tried to do the same with Microsoft Two decades ago. Elizabeth Warren, senator who was Presidential candidate In 2020, it has been advocating by Break in pieces to the great American technology companies and made that in part of their presidential campaign. He made an explicit reference to Amazon, Google and Facebook. The courts, parapet of the pressures. While in the regulatory or legislative areas, the lobby – corporate pressure groups – of the Big Tech can exert their influence more clearly, the thing changes in the judicial field, less permeable to these pressures. In the case of Google, the DOJ even proposes the creation of a technical committee that supervises the fulfillment of the decisions it makes, which would further limit the company’s ability to overcome the restrictions. In Xataka | Joshua Hoehne | Alex doubt In Xataka | Desperate for competing with Chatgpt, Google has a plan for Gemini to be everywhere: pulling wallet

We have a problem with the future of cement and excess plastic. Someone has come up with the most obvious

Mortar is easy. We have been doing thousands of years and, although we have refined the formula so that it is not the same as They used 10,000 years ago in Jericho or in the construction of First pyramids of Egyptthe recipe is simple. A part of cement (or an binder in antiquity), one of water and three of sand. With that, we have a mixture that carries millennia serving perfectly. But, although we have been polishing the formula with best materialsthe mortar has several problems, and the researchers at the University of Newcastle have proposed solve them. As? With an ecological mortar that adds plastic to the dough. Sand at the point of view. The use of sand is Key for mortar production. Also for concrete, this being a material that we have been trying to withdraw thanks to alternatives They appear from time to time. And the reason to use sand is a problem is because We are exhausting reservations World Cups of this material. In addition, make mortar, cement and concrete It is very polluting. HE esteem That the cement industry is responsible for approximately 5% of CO₂ global emissions and, this being a fundamental component of the mortar and concrete, the more we reduce its use, the better. Extracting sand can also cause ecological damage In rivers and beaches, as well as health risks due to particle inhalation, for example. Ecological mortar. It is there where research to create green concrete or the one we mention from the University of Newcastle comes into play. In his studyThe team details how thanks to Aergel Silica and recycled plastic they have created a new mortar that manages to be respectful of the environment. The team developed different mixtures by adding more or less substitute for the sand and found that the most effective is the one with 7% of silica aerogels and 3% of PET plastic. White is the silica aerogel. THE GRAY THE PET Plastic Rescue plastic. But … effective in what? Well, curiously, this new mortar comes to solve several problems of conventional sand. The first thing that highlights is that the new mixture of mortar is able to reduce the loss of heat from a structure by up to 55% if compared to the conventional mortar. This helps both to cool a stay in summer and to retain heat in cold months. This occurs because conventional mortar is a bad thermal insulator, allowing heat to escape easily. But not only this: the new mortar is also lighter than the conventional one, which implies a lower cost in transport by associated fuel savings. Thermal conductivity tests of this ecological mortar. We need to try it in the real world … 2×1. Apart from contributing to a construction more efficient at the energy level, this plastic -based mortar Solve another problem directly. PET plastic particles used come from crushed plastic waste (bottles, mainly), so the massive use in mortar can help reduce that contamination of plastics that brings us head. Tests are missing. The team explains that they have achieved British standards for the construction of this new mortar and are already working on the following big step: finding collaborators as a construction company to request financing and build a house with the ecological mortar. It is what will allow them to obtain the direct evidence of that potential energy savings, something that until they put into practice in a large -scale real environment, it remains only in the theory. But well, while we wait to see if they get that opportunity, the truth is that it is striking how researchers from the whole globe are committed to Jubilate cement, mortar and concrete. Another thing is that the new more ecological alternatives are able to compete in costs, which is what would ultimately convince those who raise the buildings. Images | Newcastle University, Scientedirect In Xataka | In Europe, recycled plastic is worth more than the new and the culprit is a known old man: the councils directive

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