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His plan to avoid it is to use AI

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I throw a question into the air: what would you say is the main problem with trains in Spain? There will be those who say that unpunctualityother people who complain about the price and also about those stations in emptied Spain where the train stopped passing a long time ago. It could be worse: it could be elephants being run over. It may sound like an exotic excuse, but it is a reality that affects a giant like India: between 2019 and 2024 alone, 81 wild elephants died on trains throughout the Asian country, according to official figures of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). One of the most notorious was in December 2025, when the Rajdhani Express ran over a herd of about 100 elephants, causing seven deaths and an injured calf. Five cars and the locomotive derailed and fortunately, there were no human victims, as reported by CNN. So they have a plan to avoid it: a very technological one that involves using artificial intelligence. The plan. In fact, the problem is so serious that a few days ago they had a conference titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Tracks” (something like Implementing policies to minimize elephant mortality on railway tracks). It consists of an early warning system with AI and uses a network of 12 cameras mounted on towers equipped with thermal and motion detection technology. Thus, when an elephant is less than 100 meters from the tracks, the system automatically alerts forestry and railway personnel, so that the train can reduce speed, thus allowing the animals to cross safely. They have already tested it in Madukkarai, Tamil Nadu. Why is it important. Because it is the first time that automated detection replaces the old human factor at a critical point: a train driver cannot see an elephant at night on a curve, but this system can. In addition, it can raise alarms with enough time to act and avoid disaster. Thus, it turns late detection into real prevention Context. Elephants in India die so much from railway accidents that It is already the second cause of unnatural mortalityonly ahead of electrocution and ahead of poaching or poisoning. and India houses approximately more than 60% of the world population of Asian elephants. However, habitat fragmentation and the expansion of railway infrastructure in elephant areas have caused an increase in mortality of these pachyderms, especially in states such as Assam, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand. How are they going to do it?. To address the increasing increase in wildlife mortality on railway tracks, the (MoEFCC) along with the Wildlife Institute of India and the Ministry of Railways have identified hot spots for two animals that are National Animal Heritage: 110 sensitive stretches in elephant-inhabited areas and 17 stretches in tiger-inhabited areas. There are many sections and a lot of distance: 3,452.4 km, of which they prioritized 77 sections that comprise 1,965.2 kilometers. Among the package of measures there are others without AI such as ramps, bridges, underpasses or fences that can fulfill the function of avoiding accidents and facilitating safe passage. They have one more technological tool, called “Intrusion Detection System (IDS) based on Distributed Acoustic System (DAS)” with acoustic sensors that Indian Railways has deployed on 141 kilometers of the Northeast Frontier Railway to detect the presence of elephants on the tracks, generating alerts for train drivers, station masters and control centers. The East Coast Railway of India will adopt this system soon. AI has already arrived on the Indian railway. In fact, India has already incorporated artificial intelligence systems to improve safety and maintenance. The measures include the TRI-Netra system, which combines optical, infrared and radar cameras with AI to help drivers in conditions of reduced visibility, and the MVIS systems, capable of detecting loose or damaged components in moving trains. In Xataka | There are roads in India that suddenly turn red: the reason is to save you from running over a tiger In Xataka | AI is bringing back into fashion something that we thought was only for geeks: the command line Cover | Kishore V and Sean Foster

Denmark was so clear that the US was willing to invade Greenland that it prepared a plan: dynamite the island

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Greenland, with just 56,000 inhabitants, is the largest island in the world and is home to one of the most critical infrastructures in the Arctic for route control and military surveillance. During the Cold War, this remote territory came to concentrate early warning systems capable of detecting missiles in a matter of minutes, remembering that, sometimes, the most isolated places are also the most strategic on the planet. Last January everything was about to blow up. What was never told. At the beginning of 2026, Europe assumed in silence a scenario that until recently seemed unthinkable: a possible direct military confrontation between NATO allies. The repeated threats of the United States on Greenland, added to recent precedents of rapid interventions in other countriesled several European capitals to consider that a military operation was plausible within weeks. A coordinated reaction was then unleashed that, seen in perspective, suggests that the continent was much closer of a global conflict than has been publicly acknowledged. The unpublished plan. What happened we now know thanks to two European officials who have confirmed a report published on DR, the Danish public broadcaster. Apparently, Denmark took an extreme and unprecedented decision within the Atlantic alliance: to prepare the destruction of their own infrastructure key to preventing an American landing. In essence, they were prepared with troops deployed in Greenland who transported explosives with the objective of fly the tracks Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq landing site if an invasion began, a measure intended to block the arrival of military aircraft and forcing any operation to become an openly hostile and much more costly act. Kangerlussuaq Airport The inevitable war. Far from being an isolated reaction, the Danish movement was supported by unprecedented European coordination, with France, Germany and Nordic countries deploying troops, naval assets and logistical support under the umbrella of military exercises that in reality hid operational preparations. The objective was clear: create a tripwire luck multinational that would make a rapid takeover of the territory impossible and force the United States to confront not one country, but several, drastically increasing the political and military risk. Prepare to combat an ally. The level of preparation reveals the extent to which the threat was perceived as real, because in addition to explosives, medical supplies were sent and blood reserves to deal with possible casualties, which implies that it was not just symbolic deterrence, but rather a scenario in which open combat was contemplated. In the words of European officials, the situation was possibly the most serious since World War II, an indicator of the extent of a crisis that strained the very limits of Western security architecture. The turning point. The trigger was the combination of rhetoric and action: after a military operation American in another country, the threats against Greenland were no longer interpreted as pure political pressure and came to be seen as a real risk immediate operational. From that moment on, Europe stopped trusting that diplomatic deterrence would be sufficient and began to act as if intervention could occur. wheneveraccelerating deployments and plans that were originally planned for later. We barely escaped. The end we know him. The crisis was finally deactivated through negotiation and international mediation, but it left a most disturbing conclusion: Europe came to assume a probable scenario war with the United States and designed its own sabotage measures to prevent a rapid occupation. That calculation – preparing to destroy key infrastructure, dynamiting part of the island itself before relinquishing control – reveals the extent to which the situation was on the verge of escalating into conflict. of unforeseeable consequencesand suggests that what happened was not an isolated episode, but a warning of how fragile even the strongest alliance can become when first-order strategic interests come into play. Image | Algkalv, Chmee2/Valtameri In Xataka | The melting of Greenland ice is not only facilitating access to its minerals: it is revealing nuclear submarines In Xataka | Russia and China already had an advantage over the US in the Arctic. After Greenland, it has multiplied

This is the European plan that Almaraz wants to save

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The backdrop couldn’t be more tense. In the midst of a climate of urgency marked by the war between the United States, Israel and Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Europe is staring into the energy abyss. As we already analyzed in XatakaEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently broke a historic taboo in Paris by singing the continental mea culpa, admitting that the European Union “made a strategic mistake by walking away from a reliable and affordable source of low-emission energy.” That speech by the German president, who paradoxically was part of the government that promoted atomic dismantling in her country, has not taken long to materialize in political pressure. Today, this European turn lands directly in Cáceres, turning Brussels into the great ally of Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy in their race against time to avoid the closure of the Almaraz nuclear power plant. Brussels supports the electricity companies’ request. In the midst of an energy storm, the European Commission has embraced atomic energy. Von der Leyen has sent a letter to the leaders of the European Union ahead of the summit of presidents in which he emphasizes the need to “avoid the premature withdrawal of assets, such as existing nuclear facilities.” For the president of the Community Executive, these infrastructures are key because “they can continue to supply reliable, low-cost, low-emission electricity.” This positioning suggests that Member States delay the scheduled closures of their plants. In practice, it is a lifeline thrown to Spanish electricity companies. As they point out from RoamsIberdrola (53%), Endesa (36%) and Naturgy (11%) have formally requested to extend the useful life of Almaraz until 2030, with a view to reaching 60 or even 80 years of operation. A train wreck. The defense of nuclear power does not respond to a sudden environmental awakening, but rather to a question of economic and geopolitical survival. As explained The Pluralthe increase in energy prices due to the War in Iran is already having devastating effects: since the end of February, the EU has spent an additional 6 billion euros on fossil fuel imports. Europe believes that atomic energy is the economic salvation to stop this bleeding, but the Government of Spain believes the opposite. However, this recommendation from Brussels has raised blisters in Spain. As detailed eldiario.esVon der Leyen’s position represents interference in the energy policy of the Twenty-seven, unleashing a direct controversy with Teresa Ribera, European vice president for a Clean Transition. Ribera has reminded the president that, just as she could not tell France what to do with its energy when she was minister, Von der Leyen cannot dictate to countries their mix electric. “Each Member State is competent to decide according to its circumstances,” said Ribera. The two-speed crash plan. To prevent the shock energy will devastate the economy in the short term, the European Commission proposes an intervention package: direct tax reductions on the electricity bill, intervention in the CO2 market to curb volatility and a cap on the price of gas. Along these lines, Von der Leyen’s key complaint It’s about energy taxation which is stifling the transition, since in some cases electricity is taxed “up to fifteen times more than gas.” In the long term, the EU is not so much committed to building traditional macro-centrals, but has allocated 200 million euros to develop Small Modular Reactors (SMR) for the 2030s. But at the national level, the European guidelines hit a wall. According to Expansionthe Ministry for the Ecological Transition remains firm in its closure schedule (2027 for the first Almaraz reactor and 2028 for the second) betting on a 100% renewable model. In fact, the Executive recalls that it was the companies themselves that in 2019 opted to close due to the government’s refusal to grant them the tax reductions they demanded. The dreaded “domino effect.” The Almaraz debate has transcended the offices to hit the streets. As pointed out Article 14Von der Leyen’s turn has given wings to the “Women for Almaraz” platform, which brings together more than 2,000 residents of Campo Arañuelo. Its spokesperson, María Jesús Lapeira, warns that the dismantling would destroy 4,000 direct and indirect jobs. But the technical problem for Spain goes far beyond Cáceres. As we detailed in Xatakadelaying Almaraz to 2030 would unleash a logistical and regulatory “domino effect.” If its closure is postponed, it would coincide in time with the closure of Ascó I and Cofrentes. Given that dismantling four reactors at the same time is unfeasible, this would force the closures of Ascó II, Vandellós II and Trillo to also be pushed well beyond 2035, blowing up the current National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC). The great paradox of the market. In the end, the resolution of this geopolitical and social conflict could be dictated by the market itself. At the beginning of March the Almaraz II reactor had to be disconnected from the electrical grid; It was not because of a security problem, but because of the harsh financial reality: the full reservoirs and the strong wind sank the price of electricity to zero. This, added to a tax burden that represents 75% of its variable costs, made keeping the plant on economically unsustainable for its owners. We are facing the perfect storm. Europe desperately embraces nuclear energy due to fear of Iran and the loss of competitiveness against China. The electricity companies use this endorsement to pressure for tax cuts in Spain. The Government and environmentalism are reluctant to alter their green roadmap. And meanwhile, the unstoppable and cheap renewable generation from sun and wind threatens to drive out of the market the very nuclear plants that political leaders today are trying to save. Image | Frobles and European Parliament Xataka | The Almaraz “domino effect”: delaying the closure of a single plant forces us to redesign the entire energy map of Spain

the Transport plan so that the most used Cercanías line in Spain stops being chaos

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The Ministry of Transport has finally decided to transform line C-5 of Cercanías de Madrid, which is, with some 72 million annual travelersthe most used in Spain. Won’t do it until they finish the underground works of the A-5but we already know all the details. It is the largest renovation of the line in decades and the heart of the change are 35 giant trains that are already being manufactured in Valencia. ORa line to the limit. As we said, the C-5 moves about 72 million passengers a year and absorbs 29% of all Cercanías Madrid trips. It is the public transport line with the most users in the entire country, and today it operates with trains that do not exceed 150 meters in length, platforms that do not allow larger vehicles and an outdated signaling system. With a demand that has grown by 10% between 2022 and 2024the margin has narrowed so much that it is time for a change. The protagonist of change: the Stadler Series 453. On March 4, the Ministry of Transportation presented the modernization plan of the C-5, endowed with 1,350 million euros, and confirmed that Renfe will allocate 600 million to the purchase of the 35 Series 453 trains manufactured by Stadler at its plant in Albuixech, Valencia. The service promises, since we are talking about trains that will measure almost 200 meters (specifically 191.16 meters) and will combine single-decker cars at the ends with double-decker cars inside. QWhat changes for the traveler. Where today about 1,565 people fit in the current trains, the new ones will accommodate up to 1,884 people (524 seated and 1,360 standing) in a single composition. Double-decker cars are designed for longer journeys and with a seat; those with one floor, wider at the entrances, for quick ascents and descents. Two-story interior cars According to they count in Trenvista, they will include areas for wheelchairs, multifunctional spaces for bicycles and strollers, a fully accessible toilet, WiFi and USB sockets. In addition, the middle points to greater padding than in other Cercanías trains, but without armrests. Why haven’t they arrived yet. Renfe put out to tender these trains in 2019 and the contract was awarded to Stadler in 2021. The Swiss firm had to expand its Albuixech factory to meet the order, which in 2022 was expanded with 20 additional 200-meter units, and began manufacturing in rented warehouses while the new facilities were ready, according to detailed at that time the medium. The first tests on the Spanish railway network began in the summer of 2024. The arrival at C-5, however, will still take some time. And the Ministry’s plan places the entry into service of these trains with automatic driving in April 2030. The problem that had to be solved before. For a 200-meter train to circulate on C-5, the infrastructure has to be prepared. Today it is not. The current platforms are too short, the LZB signaling system that regulates circulation has reached the end of its useful life, and there are no maintenance facilities capable of accommodating trains of that length. The good news is that in the 1,350 million plan is included the extension of platforms between 40 and 50 meters, the construction of a new maintenance base in Móstoles, the replacement of the signaling system with the European ERTMS Level 2 standard and the construction of a new station in Móstoles-El Soto. What’s coming now. The schedule foresees two service cutsin the summers of 2027 and 2028, to get to work with the most complex parts, and with free replacement buses and reinforcement in the Metro. Testing of the new signaling system will begin in April 2029, the first high-capacity trains will enter service in April 2030, and the project is expected to be completed in October 2031. The objective declared by the Ministry is to go from 72 to 100 million travelers annually, with a capacity 60% greater than the current one. It remains to be seen if the deadlines are met. Images | Snooze123 (Wikipedia) and Stadler In Xataka | In a region addicted to burials, a municipality wants to bury another 2.5 kilometers: Rivas’ plan for the Metro

Spain’s plan is to release 115 million barrels

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Every time you start your car in the morning or a factory turns on its machines in Europe, the bill rises at the rate of conflicts that occur thousands of kilometers away. To give you an idea of ​​the hole: in 2023 alone, the European Union spent 427 billion euros buying energy abroad. We are talking about a drain of more than 1,000 million euros a day. This chronic dependency forces us to pay what the Transport & Environment organization (TEA) calls a “geopolitical bonus”. As we have analyzed recently in Xatakathe logistics bottleneck and the current crisis in the Middle East threaten to replicate the worst scenarios of shortages and volatility of the past. Cushioning the blow. Precisely to mitigate this premium and as an urgent response to this scenario – marked by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the war in Iran – the Government of Spain, through MITECOhas just authorized the release of up to 11.5 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves. This measure represents the Spanish contribution (2.9%) to the historic contingency plan of the International Energy Agency (IEA) to inject 400 million barrels in the global market. The mobilization, which will begin immediately by putting into circulation the equivalent of four days of national consumption, seeks to contain price volatility and avoid panic in the face of a suffocated supply. The toll of European vulnerability. The repercussions of the war are falling directly on the pockets of families and the competitiveness of companies, creating a bottleneck in the great global funnel of fossil fuels. The figures from previous crises paint a gloomy picture: when a barrel of crude oil exceeded the $100 barrier in 2022, the bloc’s energy gap skyrocketed to 604 billion euros, an extra 500 million a day. The suffocation of the great global funnel. The economic weight of this European vulnerability is divided today into three major fronts: The hit to the driver: According to analysts TEAwith crude oil set at $100, EU motorists will pay an additional 55 billion euros in one year. This is equivalent to an average increase in costs of 220 euros per year per driver. In fact, the price of gasoline at the pumps threatens to consolidate around 2 euros per liter, an increase of 24% compared to the average recorded in 2025. Industrial asphyxiation: While the International Energy Agency (IEA) releases 400 million barrels of strategic reserves to buy time, experts warn that the barrel could be close to $200. The volatility has caused European gas futures to jump 30% in a single day, recording massive electrical fluctuations that push entire factories toward insolvency. Handcuffed governments: Unlike the massive social shield deployed in 2022, European governments today have a much narrower fiscal margin due to accumulated deficits. Despite this, given the fear of deindustrialization caused by this extreme volatility, Brussels already considering breaking taboos and intervene in the market through tax cuts and caps on electricity tolls. An electric shield against the crisis. Faced with this scenario of chronic vulnerability, the technological and energy transition is acting as a real financial firewall. In last analysis of TEA explains that The current energy crisis will affect gasoline cars five times more than the charging of electric vehicles (EV). The numbers behind the wheel leave no room for doubt. With the rise in crude oil prices, traveling 100 kilometers in an average gasoline car would cost 14.20 euros, compared to just 6.50 euros for recharging an EV. If we look at company fleets, the monthly extra cost derived from the crisis would amount to 89 euros per combustion car, compared to only 16 additional euros for electric cars. At a macroeconomic level, the electric vehicles that already circulate on European roads prevented the import of crude oil worth 2.9 billion euros in 2025. Since TEA They emphasize that maintaining climate ambition and accelerate the mass adoption of these vehicles would avoid the payment of 45 billion euros in foreign crude oil over the next decade. A clear winner: the geopolitical paradox. This situation redefines the energy map and yields a clear winner. The suffocation in global supply has caused an unprecedented geopolitical paradox: the United States has been forced to issue emergency waivers to prevent India’s collapse, allowing it to buy Russian crude oil stranded at sea. As a result of this crisis, Vladimir Putin’s crude oil has gone from being sold at huge discounts to commanding a historic premium in the markets. Despite the enormous economic pressure and the fact that the crisis directly benefits hostile powers, the European Commission remains firm in its veto. EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen has emphatically assured that they will not import “not one molecule” of energy from Russia. Geography is destiny. The current crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is a painful reminder that structural dependence on fossil fuels remains the great Achilles heel of the Old Continent. As Antony Froggatt warnsexpert of TEA: “Europe must prioritize electric vehicles, heat pumps and renewable energy to ensure this does not happen again.” As long as economies remain tied to the trade routes of an unstable Persian Gulf, the economic security of European citizens will depend on conflicts thousands of kilometers away. Accelerating the end of fossil fuels is no longer solely a climate imperative; Today it is the most pragmatic decision for national security and economic survival that Europe can make. Image | Unsplash and Moncloa Xataka | The industry is fighting over impure oil crumbs, literally: it bodes worst for the economy

Anthropic is winning the enterprise AI race, so OpenAI has a new plan: become Anthropic

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OpenAI has thrown out everything that moved in AI. They have been launching everything: a video generatora web browser with AI, an image generator with Studio Ghibli styletools e-commerceetc. The logic was simple: whoever tries everything has more chances to get something right, but the result has ended up being the opposite. While OpenAI seemed to be everywhere, Anthropic was focused on a single site and It has managed to eat the land where it mattered most. Enough of trying everything. Fidji Simo, the board that Altman signed last summer, recently called upon employees to give them a message that is rarely heard in a company with the growth of OpenAI: their main rival was teaching them a lesson. What Anthropic is doing, Simo explained, should be a wake-up call for OpenAI, which has lost leadership among software developers and enterprise customers. “We cannot waste this moment because we are distracted by parallel projects,” he stressed. The hidden cost of doing a little of everything. The problem with shooting at everything that moves is not only the focus, but the resources that this implies. In companies that develop foundational models, the key resource is computing capacity, and at OpenAI that resource jumped from one team to another depending on the priorities of the day. The Sora team, for example, was integrated into the research division despite being one of the company’s most visible products. OpenAI was growing fast in too many directions, and that also created internal tensions over which project should be prioritized. Anthropic focused on one thing. As OpenAI diversified, Its main rival adopted a completely opposite strategy: few products, a lot of depth. Claude does not generate images or video, does not have his own browser and is not trying to create his own chips (at the moment). It is dedicated to creating foundational models and offering them both in web service mode and especially through APIs for companies and developers. Claude Code, its flagship product for programming, became a viral phenomenon among software engineers last fall, and has ended up consolidating itself as the reference tool among amateur developers—vibe coding is still going strong—and of course among technical teams in all types of companies. OpenAI strikes back. The response has not been long in coming: OpenAI launched last month a new version of Codexhis programming tool, and accompanied it with new GPT-5.4 which is precisely much more oriented towards professional environments. According to Simo itself, Codex already exceeds two million weekly active users, almost four times more than at the beginning of the year. To drive usage of its product, OpenAI is deploying engineers to consulting firms and business partners to accelerate adoption of these products. IPO on the horizon. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are taking clear steps towards an IPO which in fact could occur this year. That makes gaining share in the corporate market—which is the one that really pays, the one that signs contracts, and the one that justifies valuations—absolutely essential for these IPOs to be successful. The initial share price and real valuation of these companies will depend on how well positioned they are, and at OpenAI they want to recover the lost ground in the enterprise market. In the meeting with the staff Simo explained that “we are acting as if this were a code red.” The paradox of being the pioneer. OpenAI unleashed the AI ​​fever with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 and made generative AI an almost everyday phenomenon. However, being the first usually has a trap, because it forces you to explore and diversify to maintain your reference position and that is very expensive. Anthropic came along later, saw where the real money was, and focused specifically on that sector. The student has surpassed the teacher, it seems, and at OpenAI they want to correct the strategy. What will happen to so much product?. It remains to be seen how this OpenAI strategy affects its entire product catalog. If you start focusing on developers and enterprise solutions, what will happen to your imager, Sora or Atlas? The structural tension between being a “research laboratory” and being a “product company” can pose a challenge for a company that naturally did not stop exploring new ideas to apply AI to them. Image | TechCrunch | Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | Sam Altman says he’s terrified of a world where AI companies believe themselves to be more powerful than the government. It’s just what you’re building

The metro has been splitting Rivas in two for decades. The city council has a plan to cover it up and has already presented it to Madrid

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The Rivas Vaciamadrid City Council has registered before the General Directorate of Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid its project to cover 2.5 kilometers of Metro Line 9B. This is a project that aims to transform part of the town’s urban layout, and the deadline for issuing its technical report has already opened. We tell you all the details. What exactly is this about? Just like they count From the town hall itself, the project consists of burying or covering the section of road that runs above ground through Rivas Vaciamadrid between the Cerro del Telégrafo Sports Center and the Rivas Futura station. They are 2.5 kilometers long and 30 meters wide which, if covered, would stop acting as a physical barrier that divides the municipality in two. On the surface, it is planned to extend the Linear Park, creating a corridor with green spaces for public use. The project also includes the construction of a fourth Metro station in Rivas, located on José Saramago street. Deadlines. The City Council had a technical meeting on February 27 with the General Directorate of Infrastructure, where it presented the solution. A week later, on March 4, it was officially registered, and now the Community of Madrid has three months to decide whether to move forward at a technical level. According to collect El Diario, the council has expressly requested “agility” from the regional administration. Tpolitical background. The fourth season brings them. And it is that according to Diario de Rivas, the Community of Madrid has already pointed out on more than one occasion that this infrastructure “is not justified on a technical level.” The City Council, for its part, insists that the project “is the result of months of rigorous and reliable technical work and that it meets the necessary requirements to move forward towards its execution.” The General Directorate of Infrastructure, for now, has limited itself to confirming that there was a meeting. What the data say. The City Council supports its position to move forward with the project through a survey in which they say that 78% of Rivas residents recognize the importance of this project. The organization frames it within its Rivas 2030 Urban Agenda, where it appears as one of its most notable projects to reconfigure its urban model. What happens now? The ball is in the court of the Community of Madrid. Before the end of June, the technical response from the General Directorate of Infrastructure should arrive. This report will determine if the project can move forward as planned, if it needs modifications or if the proposal (especially the new station) encounters obstacles from the regional administration. The Town Hall has expressed his confidence that the Community “facilitates the progress of an action long awaited by the citizens of Rivas”, but it seems that we will have to wait to find out if it finally materializes as the city council wants. Cover image | Google Maps In Xataka | BYD is already studying entering Formula 1, according to Bloomberg. And it is not a whim, it is a necessary step

The Valencian Community has an “anti-AI” plan so that no one cheats on competitive exams

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Much of the success of AI glasseslike the Ray-Ban Metait is precisely that they do not look like a technological device. They look like normal glasses that integrate perfectly into our look. AND that is exactly the problem. There is the issue of recording people without their consent and also using them to cheat on exams. It is precisely what the Generalitat Valenciana wants to avoid. The plan. They count in Lift EMV that the Public Function area of ​​the Ministry of Finance has set its sights on AI glasses, and has already detailed a plan against their use in competitive examinations. The plan is to carry out a physical inspection upon entering the exam that verifies “the absence of electronic components.” To do this, they will provide training to supervisory personnel so that they are able to detect these devices, which, as happens with glasses, go very unnoticed. You will have to look for frames that are thicker than normal and lights that activate when recording. There is more. In addition to the physical inspection, an even more effective option is also being considered: installing frequency inhibitors. With this, if a security guard loses smart glasses or a watch, they should be useless as long as they remain in the range of action. They also highlight that for some time now they have been including complex questions whose answers require analysis and critical thinking, so that AI cannot answer them so easily. The new ‘chop’. Gone are the times when we kept a piece of paper with the lesson up our sleeve, now it is copied with AI glasses and smartwatch. This is what an applicant did in the MIR exam this year in Santiago de Compostela. It has not been revealed what model of glasses and watch he was wearing, nor how he planned to use them, but everything indicates that he read the questions with the glasses and got the answer on the watch. A seamless plan, except that someone noticed and got caught. His grade was a zero. AI so you don’t copy. Paradoxically, there are universities that use AI for precisely the opposite purpose: to prevent students from copying. We recently talked about the VIU, also in Valencia, and how thanks to AI and facial recognition they could control exams remotely. A very complex system that It has cost the university 650,000 euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation. The problem with AI glasses. That someone can cheat on an exam is wrong, but there are things that are even worse. For example, in Spain we have the case of man who was arrested for recording women without their consent with the Ray-Ban Meta. They have also been made modifications in glasses that allow strangers to be identified on the street and there are more and more places where its use is being restricted. Wearing AI in your eyes can be very useful, but anyone you pass on the street could be recording you is intrusive, and even more so if the person wearing them is in, for example, a gym locker room. Or if it is the person who has to shave your crotch. Even if the LED indicator is off, I don’t think anyone could shake the feeling of being recorded. Image | Xataka, Unsplash In Xataka | When you put on your new Meta glasses something else happens: everything you record is recorded in Kenya to train the AI

plan itineraries and answer your questions

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Let’s explain to you how to create a specialized AI for your next tripcapable of helping you plan itineraries or answer your questions. We are going to use NotebookLM to create a your own specialized AI with the data and knowledge that we give you manually, which can be videos, web pages or online or PDF guides. This is actually quite simple, because with this tool, once the knowledge is uploaded we can use Gemini to process them and give you answers based solely on the data you have given. With this, he will be able to make itineraries for you and answer any questions you want. Use your own sources instead of delegating to one artificial intelligence that searches for results online will allow you maintain control over the information that is used to generate your itinerary. This way, you can ensure that it only uses data from sources that you consider reliable. In addition, you can also make the AI ​​specialized in the specific destination you want to visit. First choose the sources about your destination The most complex step to do this task will be to choose the fonts you want to use so that the AI ​​can rely on it when generating itineraries or answering any question you want. These sources can be links, videos or documents in any language. The ideal for this is save the sources you find in a folderand do it with time. For example, if you have 3 or 4 destinations in mind that you would like to travel to, save the best information you find over the next few months about them in separate folders, and then when you decide where to go you have everything at hand to do the rest. I am aware that this requires planning in advance, being aware that we will be able to use NotebookLM. However, if you want to do all this faster you will also be able to, although you will need to spend a couple of afternoons searching for sources. Please note that our AI will not look for information beyond the sources that we give him. This means that it will only use the data from the links, videos or documents that we attach, and hence the importance of having a good collection. Create a notebook and add your sources Once we have clear sources, it’s time to get to work. For that, let’s go into notebooklm.google.comand create a new notebook. In its free version, you will be able to add up to 50 sources to each notebook, something that should give you plenty to plan a trip. Once you have created your notebook, at the top left you can give it a name. When you do this, you will have a column or tab of Sourcesand in it you can click on the button Add fonts to start adding all the sources that you consider useful or reliable. When uploading files, you can add links to web pages or videos, you can upload files in different formats, and even access Drive to add the ones you have in your cloud. By proxy, you can even add copied text. Here, therefore, now you have to add the links you want and PDF files. In my case, I have added several videos from travel YouTubers who make reports for my destination, I have added some very renowned guides digitized in PDF, and official websites of the destination or the country of the destination that contain guides and all kinds of information. Create your itinerary, save it, ask questions… Now you can start taking advantage of the AI ​​you have created, which will only use the files and websites you have attached as sources. Go to the Chat section and ask him to make you an itinerary for this city or destination, specifying the number of days you want to stay. In just a few seconds, Gemini will generate your itinerary based on the information from the sources. Here, as always with any AI, I recommend that you review everything and don’t stick with the first result. You can ask them to add specific things, take into account some specific aspects, or directly redo the result if you are not convinced. When you already have a guide created to your liking, press the button Save as note which you will have below the answer. When you do, the response will be saved in the tab Studiowhere you can access whenever you want even after you delete the chat history to clean it or ask other different things. Beyond the guide, you will also be able to ask you any other related questions with your destiny. When you do this, Gemini will search through the sources you have uploaded and generate a response. You can ask all the questions you want. And if there is a question for which the AI ​​can’t find an answer in the sources, it will tell you. Then, you could even look for an article or video on that topic to add to your feeds. Inside the section Studiothere are also some tools that may interest you. For example, you can create a custom podcast with the option of Audio Summary. You can ask it, for example, for a list of the essential places to visit, and it will generate it for you based on your sources in audio format so that you can listen to it whenever you want while you do other things. You’ll also have options to ask him the same with video summaries or slideshows. You can choose the format that you like the most or that best suits you, since with these two you can generate content that is easy to see with other people if you are going to meet to talk about the trip. Finally, in the section Studio also you can create a mind map. It may seem like a strange option, but it allows you to have a … Read more

Light and gas have become luxury items. Europe’s plan is to intervene in prices no matter what the cost

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Turning on the heating, running a washing machine or keeping a factory blind up has become, overnight, a luxury. Faced with the economic asphyxiation that threatens citizens and companies, the European Union has crossed the Rubicon: the free energy market, as we knew it, cannot sustain this crisis, and Brussels is preparing a drastic intervention to lower the bill at any cost. ORn global market on fire. The epicenter of this new financial earthquake is in the Middle East, as we have been counting these days in Xataka. The price of oil in international markets continues to suffer shocks; as the firm points out Sparta Commodities to EUobserverit is the “largest daily movement since 1988.” Investors assume that the blockage in the region will cause real cuts in the global supply of crude oil, leaving behind the idea of ​​​​a simple logistical delay in ships. Gas has not been left behind. As detailed BloombergEuropean natural gas futures—the Dutch benchmark—soared 30% in a single day, reaching €64/MWh. Europe emerges from the winter with its reserves depleted and is now facing an all-out war with Asia to obtain the scarce shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) available for the summer. The daily roller coaster of the bill. To understand why this crisis punishes the consumer so much, we must look at how the price of electricity is formed hour by hour. An analysis of Finance Times shows how prices in Europe now suffer wild volatility. The example of last March 4 is devastating: at the height of the solar peak (2:00 p.m.), a megawatt hour in Denmark cost just 26 euros; Just three hours later, after the sun set and the gas plants came into play, the price catapulted to 430 euros. This “roller coaster”, with jumps of up to 1,700% in one afternoon, has been replicated with the same harshness in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Gas thus imposes a “law of luxury” every time the sun disappears, preventing the industry from planning its production. Intervene “whatever the cost.” With a heavy industry (steel, chemicals, aluminum) on the brink of the abyss – it is worth remembering that, according to a document from the European Commission cited by Euronewsindustrial electricity in the EU was already twice as expensive as in the US and China before this crisis—Europe has decided to act. According to the documents discussed by the European leaders to whom has had access Euronewsthe emergency plan seeks quick relief by putting the scissors directly into the bill in three ways: National tax cuts: Which currently vary enormously and can amount to up to 22% of the electricity bill. Cap on tolls and network charges: Which represent 18% of the bill for large industrial consumers. Review of carbon emission costs: Which add 11% to the cost of electricity generation. The intervention beyond of tax cuts. The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, has toughened her tone towards companies. In statements cited by Euronewswarned: “We will do everything possible to stop speculation. I am ready to react, if necessary, including by increasing taxes on companies that speculate on prices through energy bills.” Furthermore, the panic button for strategic reserves has been activated. As explained Reutersthe finance ministers of the G7 and the EU are negotiating to release part of the 1.4 billion barrels of strategic reserves that Europe keeps to flood the market and artificially sink prices. The impact of not intervening in time. Bloomberg details the case of Domo Chemicalsa plant in the German industrial city of Leuna, which has had to declare insolvency consumed by energy costs. This erosion of the industrial fabric also coincides with a delicate political moment in Germany, where the conservative party (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has just suffered an electoral setback against the Greens in the regional elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Spanish shield. Despite the urgency, the overall European response is being fragmented. EUobserver points out that Ursula von der Leyen has proposed as a patch to expand the Caspian Sea oil and gas corridor. Ironically, the only royal coat of arms right now is Spain. As highlighted by this same medium, the Spanish market has registered the lowest and most stable prices this week thanks to its gigantic previous investment in renewable energies, partly isolating its system from fossil volatility. Finally, the markets have experienced a slight respite thanks to geopolitics. According to the latest update of BloombergEuropean bonds rebounded and gas fell 17% on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump predicted the conflict with Iran would be resolved “very soon.” However, investors assume that if the war drags on, prices will remain high for a long time. Waking up to reality. With 67% of its consumption still tied to imported fossil fuels, the bloc is aware that depending on Middle Eastern trade routes is a huge risk for its economy. Until now, the European Union trusted that the free market would solve consumer problems and guarantee the best prices. This energy crisis has shown that this is not always the case. The authorities now assume that, in extreme situations, intervening in bills, capping profits and emptying state reserves is the only viable solution. Whatever the cost, Europe has decided to take control to ensure that turning on the lights is not a privilege reserved for times of peace. Image | freepik and Haydn on Unsplash Xataka | Neither oil nor gas: if a total war breaks out between the US and Iran, the definitive weapon will be desalination plants

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