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Cambricon was a dying company in 2019. Today it is worth 68 billion thanks to an unexpected partner: the US

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Chen Tianshi has multiplied his fortune by more than twelve in two years until reaching 22.5 billion dollars. Your company, Cambricon Technologieshas seen its shares soar 765% in 24 months and its revenues have grown more than 500% in the last year. Why is it important. Cambricon’s meteoric rise is not so much a story of disruptive innovation as of strategic protectionism. And it well exemplifies how US technology sanctions have become the best trading partner for some Chinese companies. The context. In 2019, Cambricon depended more than 95% on Huawei, which canceled all its contracts at once. The company seemed doomed. Then came the US restrictions of 2023 and 2024, which cut off the supply of NVIDIA chips to China. The Chinese government responded by requiring companies to buy “at home.” And that’s how Cambricon went from dying business to national champion. Between the lines. The case shows the difference between competing in a free market and thriving in a protected one. Cambricon has not beaten NVIDIA in technology: its chip Siyuan 590 is several years behind A100. But in a market sealed by government decree, it doesn’t need to be better, just available. The company has accumulated inventory of 2.76 billion yuan ($380 million), something that would be worrying in any sector. But with NVIDIA chips locked, that stocks It has become bargaining power. Some customers pay up to 30% extra for immediate delivery. Yes, but. The question that divides analysts is how long it will last. “Cammbricon’s explosive growth is primarily due to a very low base, and its current valuation may be inflated without sustained political support,” explains Shen Meng, director of investment bank Chanson & Co. Cambricon’s chip works well for inference (when an AI model makes predictions), but it lacks scalability for model training, the most computationally intensive phase. NVIDIA not only sells chips, it sells a complete ecosystem with CUDA which is “extraordinarily difficult to replicate quickly”, according to Sunny Cheungresearcher at the Jamestown Foundation. The contrast. Cambricon has a market capitalization of 558 billion yuan (about $68 billion), 60% less than that of Intel. But it generates just 1.6% of Intel’s revenue. Investors are not buying fundamentals, they are buying national hope. The alarm signal. Cambricon herself has tried to cool the frenzy. In August, with its stock soaring more than 130% in a month, it issued an official warning: its trading price had “deviated markedly” from its fundamentals and investors “could face substantial risks.” When a company warns that its valuation no longer makes much sense, it is worth listening. What does this say about technological warfare?. The Cambricon case shows that US technological sanctions are not holding back China, but rather reorganizing its industry. They are creating a new class of state-aligned tech elites, years after the Chinese government crushed its private giants. The US government has cut off China’s access to advanced chips, but in exchange has given away captive markets to companies like Cambricon. The result is a Chinese semiconductor industry that is weaker technically but more dependent on the government. It’s not the free market that chooses the winners, it’s political favor. The big question. What happens when protectionism is no longer enough? Cambricon achieved its first quarterly profit in the fourth quarter of 2024, four years after going public. It’s not bad either. But its growth depends on the government tap remaining open and Chinese companies having no alternative. If US restrictions are eased or if domestic competitors like Huawei gain traction, the party could end quickly. Chen Tianshi has built a fortune of 22.5 billion on political arena. The history of technology suggests that these types of foundations do not usually last decades. Featured image | Cambricon In Xataka | China was no longer supposed to be able to get its hands on NVIDIA’s most advanced chips. Until he found a shortcut in Indonesia

you discover that your partner is cheating on you

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“Crazy eye is not wrong,” shouted a television celebrity who became a meme for that phrase. And maybe he was right. Only today that intuition no longer depends on smell, but on artificial intelligence. Where once a suspicious perfume or an after-hours message was enough, there are now algorithms that track faces, locations and profiles with a precision that would make the best private detective shudder. In the era of digital loveeven detect the horns has been updated with a new app: Cheater Buster. Formerly known as Swipebusterthis application was born in 2016 with a direct promise: let you know if your partner has an active profile on Tinder, the dating app most used in the world. Its operation is simple: the user enters the name, approximate age and a location. Within minutes, the platform scans Tinder for matches. The disturbing thing comes with its latest update: facial recognition. According to the company itselfnow it is enough to upload a photo for the system to search for visually similar profiles, even if the user uses a fake name or a different alias. “We learned that people want answers, not suspicions,” They explain from the official website. For a price that around €17.99 per searchthe app offers data such as the last connection, the place where Tinder was last used, the date the account was created and even if the profile has a premium subscription (Tinder Gold either Platinum). All without having to have a Tinder account. The service boasts 97-99% accuracy, and a minimalist privacy policy: it only requires an email to operate. “While it may seem deceptive to use an app to catch a cheater, it is also deceptive to deceive someone,” defend their creators. The digital jealousy industry Cheater Buster is not alone. There are dozens of apps and platforms that promote romantic surveillance. According to the legal portal Versus TexasWe live in an era of digital infidelitywhere deceptions “no longer require motels or secret calls,” but rather apps that disguise themselves as calculators, file managers or even news readers. Among the most hidden, according to that medium, are: Calculator Pro+ or KYMS, which appear to be simple mathematical utilities, but hide secret photo galleries or encrypted chats. Telegram and Signal, which allow conversations with self-destructive messages. CoverMe, which offers fake phone numbers and “shake lock” features. The phenomenon has even reached viral entertainment. On social networks, creators like Jorge Cyrus, with his series Exposing Infidelsshow the extent to which digital research has become a form of spectacle. In one of his latest videosFor example, downloads data from a Netflix account (with the user’s permission) to track the IP addresses used by her partner and, through ChatGPT and public databases, determines that the boyfriend was not in Almería, but in Valencia. Domestic technology turned into sentimental detective. But the problem goes beyond gossip. On social networks, every click, like or search leaves a trace. We live in an ecosystem where privacy is an illusion. All you need is a phone number (as happened to my partner) or a social media account to reconstruct a person’s digital identity and access information about their love life, location or interests. From here we enter the field of “digital shadow”– Even deleted or old data can persist on invisible servers and databases. The culture of everyday surveillance This excess exposure turns everyone into potential surveillance, you no longer need to be a hacker to discover infidelity. Today, anyone with time and curiosity can keep track of a partner through their digital activity, their connections or their last “online.” Recent studies warn of the growing normalization of these practices. One of them, published under the title I’m not for salereveals that many young users do not understand the real extent of tracking personal data, especially location data. another job, A Systematic Survey of Unintentional Information Disclosure, documents how small, everyday actions—uploading a photo, commenting on a post, liking it—can reveal intimate patterns of behavior without conscious intent. The phenomenon not only affects love, but our notion of intimacy. According to ISACA, More than 60% of global users are willing to sacrifice some of their privacy “in exchange for trust or transparency.” This logic, applied to relationships, explains the growing normalization of espionage consensual: checking the partner’s cell phone, sharing passwords, using apps to track locations. But the ethical limit is diffuse. To what extent is it legitimate to use artificial intelligence to confirm a suspicion? An Oxford study shows that AI-mediated decisions They can distort our perception of what is ethical or acceptable, especially in emotional contexts. If an algorithm suggests to us that someone is lying, are we more likely to believe it without human evidence? The British sociologist Toby Paton, director of the Netflix documentary about Ashley Madisonsummed it up like this: “Infidelity was not invented by the Internet, but it was made quantifiable. Today, deception leaves metadata.” Additionally, privacy experts warn that uploading another person’s photo without their consent to a facial recognition database can violate he General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which considers this type of information to be especially sensitive biometric data. In this context, tools like Cheater Buster arouse both fascination and concern. Its clean interface and its promise of “emotional tranquility” hide a deep debate: to what extent can we—or should we—keep an eye on the one we love? The moral dilemma multiplies when we remember that these searches can be done without consent. Although the app claims it does not store sensitive data, the simple act of uploading a photo of another person to a facial recognition database already violates basic privacy principles. Loving suspicion has always existed, but today it is supported in gigabytes and GPS coordinates. Technology didn’t invent infidelity, it just made it easier to prove. Perhaps, as the Netflix documentary on Ashley Madisonthe most disturbing thing is not that these tools exist, but that they reflect an uncomfortable truth: that fidelity no longer depends only on the will, but also … Read more

After China’s stick, the US already has a new partner to obtain rare earths

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President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical minerals deal with the potential to create projects worth up to $8.5 billion, according to says the NYT. The pact responds directly to the recent restrictions that China has imposed on its exports of rare eartha movement that Trump rated as “sinister and hostile.” Why it is important. Critical minerals and rare earths are essential materials for manufacturing everything from semiconductors to engines, brakes and military fighters. China currently dominates global supply of these resources, which makes any restriction on their part a direct threat to Western production chains. And therefore, diversifying the sources of these types of elements has become a strategic priority for both the Trump administration and the previous Biden administration. Agreement with Australia. According to the summary provided by the White House, the agreement contemplate that the United States and Australia jointly invest $3 billion in critical minerals projects over the next six months. For its part, Australia is committed to investing billions in American defense companies. The US Department of Defense will also participate in the construction of a new refinery in Australia capable of extracting 100 tons of gallium metal per year. “In about a year, we will have so many critical minerals and rare earths that we won’t know what to do with them,” claimed Trump optimistically during the meeting with Albanese. The Australian Prime Minister, for his part, stressed that this agreement on critical minerals takes the economic and security relationship between both countries “to the next level.” Plan of action. Albanese’s office has made clear that the agreement functions as an “action plan” that “does not constitute or create legally binding obligations.” This contrasts with the public statements of both leaders, who seemed very enthusiastic on camera about the agreement, according to point the middle. The Australian ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, already had advanced in August that Australia was “ready and able to help” diversify US supply chains, recalling that manufacturing a single Virginia-class submarine requires approximately 4.5 short tons of critical minerals and rare earth elements. This agreement also confirms Trump’s support for the AUKUS pactthe trilateral defense alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced in 2021 under the Biden administration. Trump, who had undergone a thorough review of AUKUS since July, said plans to deliver US-made submarines to Canberra were “moving forward very quickly.” However, he acknowledged that the project had progressed “too slowly” so far. US Navy Secretary John Phelan declared that the goal is to “improve the original AUKUS framework for all three parties and clarify some of the ambiguity that was in the previous agreement.” China’s door is not closed yet. With this move, the United States is closer to having access to these critical minerals from different parts of the world, reducing its dependence on China. In recent months, the US government has committed 75 million dollars to invest in Ukraine’s mineral reserves and has backed railway projects in Angola that will facilitate access to minerals in central Africa. Despite tensions with Beijing, Trump stated on Monday that he believes it is possible to reach a trade deal with China during his upcoming trip to Asia this month, where he is expected to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Cover image | Paul-Alain Hunt and Brandon Mowinkel In Xataka | China was the great polluter of the planet: now it is emerging as the first “electrostate” in history

Intel has gone from mastering the world to being a forced partner of the United States. They are bad news for Europe

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Intel has just sold 10% of your company to the United States government for 8,900 million dollars. The operation confirms what many suspected: the most iconic chips manufacturer in the world can no longer survive without state help. The panoramic. For three decades, the ‘Intel Inside’ stickers glued to millions of computers symbolized US domain in semiconductors. Intel and Microsoft created The era “wintel” that defined personal computing. In 2009, the Obama administration even presented antitrust charges against Intel for its dominant position. Today, the company is worth 108,000 million dollars while Nvidia, its former subordinated, reaches 4.3 billion. What has happened. Last Friday, Donald Trump announced that the United States acquired 10% Intel in exchange for promised funds under the CHIPS ACT They never arrived. It is not technically a rescue, but it looks a lot. Trump sold it as a big business: “I paid zero for Intel, it is worth approximately 11,000 million dollars” (capital letters are yours). The reality is more complex: Intel had been waiting for those 8.9 billion already committed by the previous administration for months. The company desperately needed money: Its foundry division lost $ 13.4 billion last year. He has fired between 8,000 and 10,900 workers. And the most worrying: not even Intel’s own product teams want to use their factories, preferring that TSMC manufactures their chips. Why is it important. This operation marks a turning point on three critical fronts: For Intel, It means losing business autonomy. 76% of their income comes from abroad, with China representing 29%. Now each decision will be under the political scrutiny of his government. As the company itself warns in regulatory documentsthis could “cause adverse reactions of investors, employees, clients, suppliers, foreign or competitors.” For the United Statesrepresents the return of state capitalism in technology. It is the first direct government intervention in a company from the rescue of the 2008 automobile industry. Trump has already suggested that there will be more: “I will make agreements like this for our country constantly.” For Europethis is especially worrying. The European Union partially depends on Intel for its ambitions of technological sovereignty in semiconductors. If the largest Western chips becomes an instrument of American industrial policy, Europe is in an even more vulnerable position against Asia. The Trump government has already asked TSMC to help rescue Intel factories. Also He took a “golden action” in Nippon Steel and Plan to stay with part of the sales that Nvidia and AMD make to China. The message is clear: the semiconductor industry is now a national security issue. Between the lines. Intel’s fundamental problem is not solved with public money: Intel failed in smartphones when he rejected to make chips for the first iPhone. He was late to AI while Nvidia was ahead. And he lost his leadership in manufacturing against TSMC, which not only has better technology but A superior business model As a pure foundry. As pointed out Intel’s CEO himself, Lip-bu Tan, “twenty or thirty years ago we were leaders. Now the world has changed. We are not among the ten main semiconductor companies.” Its survival depends on the success of the 18A manufacturing nodehis latest technological commitment. And now what. Intel is now a company supported by the State, something that its own managers warned could scare customers. Meanwhile, Trump promises more similar agreementseven suggesting the creation of an American sovereign fund with participations in technology companies. For competitors, this creates a scenario of unfair competition: AMD, Qualcomm and other companies now compete against a rival that has the US government as the main shareholder, with all that that implies in terms of government contracts and political decisions. Senator Rand Paul He summarized it With irony: “If socialism is the Government possessing the means of production, wouldn’t the government be having part of Intel a step towards socialism?” Paradoxically, Bernie Sanders, a declared socialist, applauded the measure. Intel went from being the symbol of American technological capitalism to become his first large semi-nationalized company of the 21st century. For Europe, which struggles not to be behind the technological career, it is an alarm signal: the era of the free market in semiconductors is over. In Xataka | Intel’s fall symbolizes the end of an era: the model that dominated technology for 50 years has died Outstanding image | Xataka

For months Ukraine turned a strategic city into impregnable. Until Russia added a lethal partner to his drones

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The Summer offensive From Russia in eastern Ukraine, launched in May, has been advancing on the battlefield On multiple frontsexploring and attacking with small and fast units as the fighting intensifies day by day. With his advance, Russia has changed The rhythm of warcapturing more and more square kilometers. However, for many months, one of the bloodiest battles has taken place in a single enclave. Prolonged defense. For months, the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk became one of the most fierce epicenters of the war, where kyiv’s forces managed to stop a numerically superior enemy thanks to intensive use of armed drones and staggered defenses that worn thousands of Russian soldiers. This bastion, located on important reserves of coquizable coal and that worked as a key point of the supply lines to the east, has been subject to a constant siege since last year, first through frontal attacks and then through Fence attempts. Fiber as a disruptive. Although the Ukrainian resistance managed to stop these advances, Russia has gone adapting their tactics with greater deployment of drones, finally including the models than We have been talking In recent months: those Drones with optical fiber Impossible to block with electronic warfare systems, capable of achieving objectives up to 25 kilometers after the front line. Human and logistics cost. The price of this slow offensive has been devastating for Moscow: tens of thousands of casualties accumulate around Pokrovsk, with soldiers sent in Precarious conditionssome recruited in criminal colonies with just a week of training, other wounded or poorly equipped. Many were released in almost suicidal wavesadvancing on foot or motorcycles to avoid drone detection, in groups of just half a dozen, replaced again and again after each failure. Russian prisoners They reported that the greatest fear in the battlefield were not tanks or artillery, but Small Ukrainian quadricopters that bombarded from the air without rest, generating psychological terror and nightmares between the troops. kyiv, meanwhile, He suffered the pressure Of a hostile environment, with supply routes subjected to the fire of drones and artillery, which forced to cover roads with protection networks and to face increasing difficulties to supply food and food to the few civilians who remain in the city. Russian adaptation. Underlined a report Reuters that Ukrainian resistance, organized with the experience of units such as called “Da Vinci Wolves” And under the command of General Mykhaylo Drapatyi, he managed to maintain the line during more than a yearapplying counterattacks and hindering enemy logistics. However, Russian numerical superiority, key road control and the introduction of new technologies began to Tilt the balance. The calls “Kill Zone drones” They cover kilometers on each side of the front, making reinforcements and supplies on both sides. Russian advances, although limited in territory, accelerated in The spring of 2025with the greatest Ukrainian territorial losses of the year concentrated in this sector. Pokrovsk’s partial fall, although symbolically minimized by Zelenski, could release Russian military resources and open the door to greater progress in Donbás, approaching Putin to one of its fundamental objectives. Strategic implications. Background, Pokrovsk represents the paradigm of the wear war that today defines the conflict: minimum territorial advances achieved to a exorbitant human costwith drone technology as a decisive factor on the battlefield. For Ukraine, its resistance has been a crucial brake that prevented Russia from consolidating control, Especially Donetskbut the price has been the almost total destruction of the city and the loss of its logistics function. For Russia, the eventual conquest of Pokrovsk would serve to reinforce its control over the eastalthough he has succeeded by sacrificing thousands of soldiers, many of them poorly trained and equipped. If you want, the battle illustrates the transformation of modern combat, where the troops are trapped in a new war era defined by drone swarms, electronic war and mass attacks that make each meter live in a victory … with very little to celebrate. Image | US Air Force In Xataka | The 1500 RAM truck is an American national emblem. For some reason, it is being important in the war in Ukraine In Xataka | We already know what Russia’s trick is to multiply its drones: it is called “cooling units” and comes direct from China

Inject your partner poison

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Make up is a risk sport. That they tell the male of the religious mantis who has to feel how His head is devoured by the female While his body, automatically, continues to copulate. This practice is less common than what is thought, since it occurs in just a handful of Mantis speciesbut it is not the only stage of the animal kingdom in which The male is killed for the good of the offspring. And there is A hops They have the same customs. Of course, there is an octopus of a concrete species that has a strategy to fertilize the female and survive the process: poison it. Dimorphism. Something important before entering the case of octopus is that there are many animal species with cases of sexual dimorphism extremely accentuated. This implies a difference in size between the sexes, being the case of the mantis one of them. In mammals, males are usually larger than females, since they are the ones that fight for territories and mating, but it occurs backwards in case of raptors, arthropods, amphibians and reptiles. In the octopus, there are extreme cases in which there are females that are up to ten times larger than males. One of those cases is that of the blue line octopus –Hapalochlaena fasciata-. They are small, but tremendously lethal octopus because they are able to inoculate a very powerful neurotoxin that they share males and females. Contrast with its small size: just bigger than a golf ball. Sex and snack. However, the female is twice as large as the male and mating dynamics is not very healthy to say (for the male, of course): due to that imbalance, the female usually ends the life of her sexual partner during the process. However, in a study published in Science Directa group of researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia has discovered that the male has developed a toxic way of surviving mating, literally. Due to that huge difference in size, males cannot develop tactics that they use in other species of octopus, such as a more elongated reproductive arm to inseminate at a safe distance or even arms – character – with the reproductive load that emerges so that the animal can flee. The only thing left to this species is to bite the female to inject neurotoxin, directly. Here we have a complete half -hour sequence: Poison. As we read in Sciencealertresearchers comment that, probably, this evolution has been “an answer both to the need for reproduction and protection”, and what they do is ‘bite’ the female before trying to copulate. They do it near the aorta, injecting the fair amount of tetrodotoxin to paralyze their partner during the process. To check, the researchers placed six couples in different aquariums and observed this practice in all cases. “The females succumb quickly,” they comment, and it is something they observed because they lost reflexes to light stimuli, paid and the pupils contracted due to the loss of nervous system control. Wait, what happened? They also made more precise observations: while the males went from 20 or 25 contractions per minute at rest at 35 or 45 during the intercourse, the females not only suffered an abrupt fall in their heart rate, but stopped breathing completely after about eight minutes of the bite. They point out that none died, so the amount of neurotoxin they inject is very precise or, evolutionarily, the female has developed countermeasures, but the bite on the back of the head was evident. “Once immobilized, males proceed to intercourse and mating ends when the female regains control of her arms and separates the male,” the researchers point out. In this video we can see how the male approaches while the female remains motionless: Sexual Armament Carrera. The researchers comment that they did not directly measure the levels of neurotoxin, but it is a practice that “suggests an evolutionary armament career among the sexes, in which the cannibalism of large females is counteracted by males through the use of venom.” Fruit of this evolution is that the posterior salivary glands of the males, which is where the symbiotic bacteria that produce toxin accumulate, are three times larger than those of the females. They also comment that they are not the only animals that accumulate that toxin in their bodies and that there are fish, mollusks or amphibians that produce it, so they will continue to investigate to identify whether other animals use it in order to reproduce and leave alive from the process. Ah, and something curious of the experiment: in one of the cases, one of the males bit at a point somewhat away from the aorta and the female took less time than the others to wake up: 35 minutes. Speaking, people understand each other, but when hunger enters during intercourse, it is clear that there are species that fail to suppress those cannibal instincts. By the way, Wen-Sung Chung, one of the main researchers, has shared 15 GB of videos of the octopus copulating using these peculiar strategies. Images and videos | Queensland University In Xataka | A whale toured 13,000 km and three oceans to reproduce. It is a record, and also a bad news

Google’s strategy to be the perfect partner of writers and programmers

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Artificial intelligence chatbots (AI) have come to lend us a hand when words do not come out or the code stuck. They can help write that speech that does not finish flowing or solving doubts in the middle of a programming line. But there is a problem: to move forward with Prompts, one after another, it can end up being an obstacle, especially when we want to focus on a concrete part of the project. So much Chatgpt as Claude They have faced this challenge With a function that acts like a canvas, allowing to work directly on specific parts of the content. Now is Google’s turn, which has just presented the canvas of Gemini. As in the other proposals, we find an interactive window aimed at helping us to improve our work in real time thanks to several commands and format tools. It all starts with a draft. Returning to the example we mentioned at the beginning, if you are thinking of writing a speech to honor someone special, you can start creating a rather basic draft and gradually work the text. We will not have to elaborate a very precise prompt to indicate to Gemini to modify this or that part. It will be enough to mark a paragraph and ask him to rewrite him with a new style. And in programming? If we are working in software development, Gemini Canvas also promise to be very useful. In addition to receiving the classic, it helps to chop code that the wizard can offer us, the “canvas” will allow us to generate and prevail HTML/React code. This will result in that we can have a visual prototype of our web applications, which should help us in programming tasks. But this does not end in the preview. Once we have the preview of our project we can ask Gemini to modify input fields or add action buttons more easily. The combination of Gemini + Canvas should allow us, according to Google, work with Python scripts, as well as creating games that we can try directly in the browser window and run simulations. When will Canvas available in Gemini? Google has just announced the function and is now available worldwide, including the European Union. Acting it is as simple as having a Gemini or Gemini Advanced account. Once inside, you just have to look at the bottom of the chatbot text box, where a new button next to Deep Research now appears. From there, you can directly access this tool. Images | Google In Xataka | The videos of AI have broken the Instagram and Tiktok algorithms. Welcome to the new “AI landscape”

Apple Intelligence needed a Chinese partner and has already found it, according to ‘The Information’. The key is qwen

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Apple needs a local partner to offer Apple Intelligence in China, where regulations demand that AI services pass through national companies. We knew that Apple had been looking for the ideal partner for some time, according to The Informationhe has found it in Alibaba. Why is it important. The absence of Apple Intelligence in China has weighed iPhone sales in the largest smartphones market in the world. The agreement could reverse this trend just when Apple plans to launch its AI in simplified Chinese in April, the same month in which It will arrive in Spanish. In Xataka Apple’s metamorphosis: from the minimalist catalog to calculated maximalism What has happened. Apple and Alibaba have jointly presented their AI functions for approval by the Chinese regulator. The alliance comes after Apple will rule out collaborating with Baidu for not reaching the required standards. Between bambalins. Apple was also probing possible alliances with Bytedance, Tencent and Deepseek Before opting for Alibaba. The choice was based on the robustness of the model Qwen from Alibaba and its ability to process personalized data thanks to its experience in electronic commerce. Also, Ahem, in Your alignment with socialist values required by the Beijing government. The latest. Alibaba’s actions They have triggered 3.5% After the publication of the news and accumulates 8% in two days. The market trusts the fruit of this operation between both companies. Alibaba’s Qwen model has gained reputation in recent months. Its potential was demonstrated when Stanford scientists managed to train a new reasoning model for less than $ 50 using Qwen as a base. S1 marked a before and after for the model. Outstanding image | Xataka with Midjourney In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

In full desert, Saudi Arabia is preparing its next great energy bet with the help of a partner: China

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Saudi Arabia is facing a fiscal deficit Due to the expensive investments in projects such as The Line, which are part of their 2030 vision to diversify its economy. However, one part compensates for another, and that is that the Saudi country is focused in covering everything with solar panelsbut it has not taken into account until now where it could store energy. Short. Saudi Arabia has officially connected the largest energy storage system (Bess) in the world in Bisha, province of ‘Asir. The project has achieved a milestone in the country’s strategy due to a 500 MW/2000 MWh battery system. The operating company is Saudi Electric Company and uses advanced technology supplied by ByD. A larger initiative. The project, called Bisha Bess, is part of a broader initiative of the Arab country to further strengthen your renewable energy infrastructure. The nation is looking for more than half of its energy to come from renewable energiesso you have seen in storage the necessary component for this transition. Saudi Arabia has found that the batteries provide flexibility to the network and allows the integration of intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind. Apart from being part of the National Vision 2030 Plan, Bisha Bess is part of different large -scale storage initiatives. In an ongoing tender, the list of 33 prequalified bidders was published in early January and revealed that Masdar, Acwa Power, EDF and Totalenergies compete for 15 -year storage service contracts. 122 storage units. The Chinese company byd have prefabricated the 122 units, each integrates a 6MW energy conversion system (PCs) along with four iron and lithium phosphate batteries (LFP) batteries, each with a capacity of 5,365MWH. The design is modular to optimize space, improve system integration and minimize failure points. Desert construction. Although the batteries were supplied by the Chinese company byd, the project was carried out by a consortium formed by State Grid Corporation of China and Alfanar Projectswho were in charge of engineering, equipment acquisition and installation construction. The installation, located in an extremely challenging desert environment, has presented significant difficulties, such as high temperatures and frequent sand storms. To deal with these obstacles, the engineers perfected the installation techniques and optimized the start -up processes, ensuring the reliability of the long -term system. If you can’t with them, join them. This famous phrase can be attributed to the Saudi kingdom, who has thought about China. At the time he began to enter this race for the renewables, Arabia Saudi began to great. However, in the field of Megaestructures and renewablethe Asian giant has no rival. Although the Arab country is developing different projects in renewables, others that also integrate clean sources such as the city of Neom, is not having the expected success. However, there is a sector where you could compete with China: nuclear energy. The kingdom has the ability to Extract and process Uranium, which would position him as a key actor. Image | Red Sea Project SA Xataka | Saudi Arabia has just opened another of its colossal projects: the world’s longest driver transport system

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