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The AI entered video games as an experiment. Today more than 80% of developers no longer know how to produce without it

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The data speaks for itself: 87% of video game developers are already using Artificial Intelligence Agents In your day to day, According to a survey In five countries carried out by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll between June 20 and July 9, 2025. It is not a futuristic promise or a passing fad: AI has been installed as an operational resource in the creation process, with a weight so high that many teams no longer know how to work without it. This seems to start the new balance of forces in an industry that moves billions of dollars every year. The transition has been silent but deep. In just a few years, tools that were previously tested in very limited phases of development, such as testing or punctual content generation, have taken a structural place. The change responds partly to the growing pressure on the studies: after a wave of layoffs in 2024 and the closure of several teamsthe industry has sought formulas to shorten deadlines, reduce costs and continue competing in a market where players demand more and faster. Artificial intelligence has conceded fully in that hole. AI agents: what are they and where they fit. In this context, the figure of the “agents” of AI has become key. The report defines them as software systems capable of pursuing objectives with a certain degree of autonomy – raid, planning and memory – and processing text, voice, code, audio and video. Of the 87% that already use this type of systems to accelerate or automate tasks, 44% indicate that they use them directly to improve content or process information. His role extends throughout the Pipeline of development: from the writing of dialogues and the creation of levels to the moderation of communities or the dynamic swing of the gameplay. Costs and Roi: promises and limits. The attractiveness is evident. 94% of developers believe that AI will reduce global production costs in the long term (more than three years), according to the same report. However, not everything is so direct: approximately one in four admits that it finds it difficult to measure precisely the return on investment, and 24% recognize that integrating these technologies also implies a significant expense. Among the recommendations that the study includes ideas such as starting with limited evidence, defining clear metrics from the beginning and ensuring that the use of AI does not contradict the creative vision of the project. Intellectual property and data: the great knot. Beyond efficiency, which most worries a good part of the industry is the legal land. 63% of the survey participants show concern for the property of the data: Who is the owner of the content generated by AI? How is the license of the material that has been used to train these systems managed? Another 32% points directly to conflicts due to licenses, and another 32% to the ownership of the generated. Today, the rules of the game are not clear, and many developers fear possible litigation or commercial vetoes for not having correctly armored the origin and destiny of what they produce with these tools. The AI application is not limited to Backoffice. It is also filtered in the final product. There are agents designed to adapt the difficulty of the game in real time, NPC that can remember what the player has done or interact with more natural responses, systems that accelerate multilingual location or trained models to detect toxic behaviors in online communities. All this is already being used, according to the Google Cloud report and The Harris Poll, although its effects vary as the case. IA provides agility and variability, yes, but it is still far from replacing what the narrative design or the human art direction provides. EMPLOYMENT: Reconfiguration more than substitution. The impact on employment remains one of the great unknowns. In 2024, more than 10,000 workers in the sector lost their work, According to figures collected by Reuters. Although part of these adjustments responds to a change of economic cycle and not directly to the use of AI, critical voices fear that these tools will become an excuse to lighten templates. At the same time, new roles begin to appear: designers who work together with generative systems, specialists in AI integration or responsible for the quality of the agents. Today, what there is not a total revolution, but a transition that accelerates. Artificial intelligence is no longer tested within the world of video games: it is part of the system, and the figures demonstrate it. What is at stake is how its true value is measured, who controls the rights of what it produces and what space is left to human creativity in this new environment. The tools are lists, developers use them. The difficult will come later: to know where the limits are and who has command. Images | Samsung Memory | Ilya Pavlov In Xataka | The Rog Xbox Ally already has a release date and a novelty to Steam Deck. The price is still the hot potato

Ukraine has found the solution to produce three times more weapons than you can buy: the Danish model

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It was known that Ukraine had raised a drone industry in front of the Lack of help. What was no longer known was that, since Russia launched its large -scale invasion in 2022, the Ukrainian defense industry had experienced a Explosive growthmultiplying its productive capacity by 35, from 1,000 million to 35,000 million dollars in annual potential. The problem was that, that the “potential” had no exit due to lack of financing. Until now. Lack of funds. As we said, this immense development Not only has it covered large companies, but also small workshops that operate even from particular garages, adapting to the needs of the battlefield. However, and despite this growing capacity, the country is limited by the Lack of financing: The state budget only allows to hire about 11,500 million in weapons, which leaves more than two thirds of the idle industrial potential. In fact, companies in the sector and senior officials They coincide in Insider in which, if there were the necessary funds, Ukraine could triple your production Armamentistic, thus reinforcing its resistance and reducing its dependence on foreign suppliers. Now they think they have found the solution in Denmark. The Danish model. To solve this paradox, the Ukrainian industry has proposed a small -scale solution: the call “Danish model”. This formula, applied by Denmark since 2023, allows allied countries Buy directly Weapons produced in Ukraine, instead of sending them from their own arsenals or acquiring them to Western suppliers. This way not only Reduce costs and accelerates the delivery of material, but also guarantees that the soldiers receive exactly What they needmanufactured according to its tactical demands and with an optimized logistics. Several countries have already added to this approachand others, like Germany, work in own adaptations. Thanks to this formula, Ukraine has been able to increase the production of key systems such as Bohdana self -propelled obúsand already has a list of weapons (including artillery and armored vehicles) ready to manufacture if more funds are channeled under the scheme. Collaboration and alternatives. Although the Danish model represents the road faster and fasterIt is not the only one. Serhiy Goncharov, president of the National Association of Defense Industries of Ukraine, and other leaders of the sector have also raised more complex models, based on co -production and the co -production and the Financing of Ukrainian weapons which include European components. This formula, although slower, could be attractive to a European industry that is also expanding its capacity Before the fear of A Russian expansion In the continent. In addition, the use of frozen Russian assets as a source of financing and the establishment of industrial alliances for technological transfers is considered. So much, Goncharov warns That many Western partners still do not expand their defensive capacity with the urgency that the situation requires, and that Ukraine, therefore, has no choice but to continue growing on its own to meet their own needs. Strategic opportunity Collaboration with Ukraine not only represents a way of supporting his defense in the short term, but a strategic opportunity For allied countries. The Ukrainian arms industry, born and adapted in the midst of the conflict, accumulates a direct experience in combat that is invaluable for any military power. Let’s think that your constant contact with the front allows you to adjust the design and performance of weapons based on the real conditions of the battlefield, something that many Western industries cannot replicate with the same speed. In that sense, associating with Ukraine offers Europe and other regions a double advantage: strengthening an essential supply line for Kyiv and learning from a military ecosystem that has proven extraordinarily Resilient, innovative and effective under pressure. As Goncharov concludes“We do not choose to be at war, but that is our reality,” and within it, the production capacity is ready. Image | Ministry of Defense In Xataka | We suspected that Ukraine drones attack had been destructive. Space images have revealed how much In Xataka | A technology 20 years ago took Ukraine to the Russian bombers. Moscow’s response comes from China: a laser cannon

to produce your own phone

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If you do with One of Sony’s latest models You may find an unusual message in the box: “Made in China.” Six years ago the company He closed his last factory in Beijinto transfer manufacturing to one of its own plants in Thailand. With its new Xperia, Sony ends an era: some of these high -end models, for the first time, are not even manufactured by Sony. The Xperia of Discordia. In Reddit, an image began to run like gunpowder. One in which the Xperia 1 VII box It showed a “fact in China” Unusual in the family of high -end devices of Sony. It is easily verifiable in the documentation of manufacturer manufacturingin which it specifies the product categories and production centers outside and within Japan. The “smartphones” category has disappeared. Until now, Thailand has been the epicenter in the manufacture of the company’s best mobiles, in its Pathum Thani factory. The company left China and began to cut production in Japanfocusing on Thailand for its low labor costs and, denying any intention to flee from geopolitical tensions between the United States and China. Why is it important. That this latest generation Sony is made of China is an important clue about what is happening with Sony phones. And it is not by the manufacture itself there, but because the company does not currently have plants in China dedicated to smartphones production. Japanese sources They collect the key point: Sony has outsourced the production of its high -end xperia. In other words, the company has stopped producing some of the lots of its best models in its own plants to leave the manufacture of the product to third parties. Sony has been controlling the production of its high range in his own range for years, and this movement is goodbye. Sony is in good health. Sony is not doing well with smartphones. But can afford to manufacture them. PlayStation and everything around her is being more profitable than everit is still one of the Leaders in the photographic sensor industryand even grows near the 20% in industries such as the musical. Although its Xperia division dominates less than 1% of the global market, it remains an important technological showcase for Sony, which has been within this industry for more than 20 years. A common practice. Despite the concerns that may arise in this regard, there are no reasons to doubt the manufacturing quality of the Sony Smartphones. In fact, it is usual not to produce your own phones and leave it in the hands of external factories. The only plausible doubts have to do with what will happen to the volume of production of a telephone (or a family of telephones) that It fails to sneak into sales rankingsand what is the future of a division that It has been reporting losses about ten years. Samsung is the last bastion. Samsung is the last bastion of smartphones production. The company has its own factories and only relies on ODM companies (Original Desing Manufacturer, companies dedicated to production and design for other brands) for the manufacture of its input range products. It is one Common practice to reduce costsbut Samsung found in Vietnam The best ally to almost completely control its manufacturing. Manufacturers such as Apple rely on giants such as Foxconn, Xiaomi outsourcing almost all the production of their phones, and even giants such as Honor and Huawei They rely on ODMs like Wingtech. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Sony Wh-1000xm6: When the biggest challenge is to play the right a product that already did almost everything well

We have genetically edited a spider to produce a fluorescent red cloth. And the implications are promising

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Mutant spiders. It could be the premise of a film that mixes science fiction and terror, or someone’s nightmare with Arachnophobia. However, the first mutant spiders created by the human being respond to something much more innocent. But maybe even more interesting. Mutant spiders. A group of researchers He has genetically edited A group of spiders. The most curious of the results obtained by this team is probably a group of spiders that, after the edition, are capable of weaving a red spider web fluorescent spider. It is about First experiment of genetic edition in spiders of which we have knowledge. For this, the team resorted to specimens of the American domestic spider (PARASTIDA TEPIDARIORUM), A species that, like many others, uses its spider web not only for hunting but also to protect its eggs. A fascinating material. Spider silk is one of the most interesting materials in the animal world. Spiders are capable of segregating different types of fabric and among them, structural silks are among the most remarkable for their very tangled resistance that binds to its elasticity, lightness and the fact that it is a biodegradable material, explains the team responsible for the study. CRISPR-CAS9. In its experiment, the team turned to the “scissors” of genetic edition CRISPR-CAS9. They began the process focusing on a gene linked to the development of the eyes with the aim of obtaining a first easy result to identify. The team injected his tool of genetic edition in a female in order to eliminate the gene chosen in their reproductive cells and thus be able to detect changes in their litter. The Resutlanted: Spiders who did not develop their eyes. From the eyes to the silk. The first success led to repeat the test, but this time focusing on the genes responsible for coding some of the proteins present in the structural silk of the spiders. In doing so, spiders wove spider silk filaments of fluorescent red spider. The details of the experiment were published In an article In the magazine ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE. A first step. To be able to edit the genes responsible for the production of a material as interesting as the structural filaments of spider fabrics opens new doors when it comes to knowing this material and its biochemical origins. Of course, we can also pave the way for being able to synthesize it efficiently or even in the development of materials with similar properties. “We have demonstrated, for the first time in the world, that (the tool) CRISPR-CAS9 can be used” to incorporate a desired sequence in spider silk proteins, thus allowing the functionalization of these silk fibers, ” stood out in a press release Thomas Scheibel, co -author of the study. “The ability to apply CRISPR genetic edition to spider silk is very promising for material science; for example, it can be used to increase the already high spider silk breakage.” In Xataka | ‘The Last of Us’ is already happening in the animal world and the last species in suffering are the “spiders of the caverns” Image | Patrick Edwin Moran / University of Bayreuth

Instead of cars they will produce tanks

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To economic pressures and commercial confrontations, an element has been joined that has ended up dynamiting the already convulsive geopolitics in the old continent. Russian invasion in Ukraine and that Chess game that is fought with the arrival of Trump made Europe speak A few days ago “Rearme”understanding itself as the need to invest again in “security” for what can happen. It was not a lantern, and Germany has already begun. Ahead of VW at the pace of tanks. Few data to understand what is happening as the one offered this week. Rheinmetallthe largest defense contractor in Germany, has overcome value Market to Volkswagen, the company with the highest income in Europe, reflecting a structural change in the German economy towards a greater investment in the military industry. While Volkswagen Face challenges In demand, reduction of foreign costs and competition, Rheinmetall has tripled its value from Donald Trump’s choice as president of the United States promoted by the expectation of an increase in European military spending. Trump’s position to distance Washington from his role as guarantor of Western security has encouraged That “rearme” of NATOgenerating a boom in the European defense industry. From car factory to tanks. And as a great symbol of that German industrial change, Volkswagen and Rheinmetall are negotiating an agreement that until a few years ago would have seemed a real dystopia: The sale of the Osnabrück plant that Volkswagen plans as part of its restructuring. Although Rheinmetall’s CEO, Armin Papperger, has indicated that it has not yet been closed, he has talked about using the plant To manufacture tanks and other military systems, thus avoiding the costs of building a new installation. Moreover, it would not be the first or the only factory they are buying. More factories. Because Rheinmetall is in the process of reconverting two other automotive plants In Germany for the production of military equipment, reflecting the impact of the increase in defense expenditure in the region. Apparently, two Berlin and Neuss factories, currently dedicated to the production of auto parts, will be redirected to the Rheinmetall weapons and ammunition division, although They will still keep a part of its capacity for automotive manufacturing. This transition illustrates how few the weakness of the German sector and the rise of military spending are redefining the industrial landscape of the nation. One More Thing. Recently, the Defense Group Knds announced the acquisition of A plant in eastern Germanypreviously operated by the French Alstom, for the manufacture of Leopard 2 tanks and combat vehicles Puma. These conversions, again, show a change in approach to German manufacturing, where industrial infrastructures are being reconfigured for military production. The decline of a sector. It We have counted before. Historically, Germany has been a pillar of the global automotive industry, with Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz as sector giants. However, the combination of factors such as cost up for the War in Ukrainethe Chinese competitionthe demand drop and the slower adoption The expected of electric vehicles (EVS) has significantly weakened the industry. Volkswagen, who in 2023 headed the Fortune 500 Europe With 348 billion dollars In income, he has seen how its market value has fallen to only 60 billion, placing it in position 46 among the most valuable companies on the continent. The company has also had a Hard battle with unions which has resulted in production reductions and template cuts To mitigate your losses. Meanwhile, defense manufacturers such as Rheinmetall have seen their orders and their market value grow exponentially. The impact of military spending. All this culture broth has led the European Union to design a plan to rear. 800 million euros. Germany, meanwhile, has taken even more aggressive measures, allocating 500 million dollars to the modernization of infrastructure and flexible its indebtedness policy to exclude spending in defense of its strict fiscal limits. In total, the country could invest up to 1.3 billion dollars In economic measures, many of which will be linked to the military industry. Hence, the unprecedented impulse in European military spending has benefited defense contractors like Rheinmetall, Thales and Bae Systemswhose valuations have grown significantly. The demand for military team has led to an increase in the production of, for example, tanks, artillery systems and ammunition, reinforcing the German tendency towards a war economy. A challenge. Thus, while the (until nothing) almighty Volkswagen struggles for survive the crisis That the sector lives, the defense industry has become the unexpected growth engine of the German industry and seems to become the symbol and shuttle of That European “rearme” which is presented as a key challenge for the old continent. Image | 270862 In Xataka | Europe before its time of truth: we have entered the era of “rearme” and the EU has a plan not to be behind In Xataka | In the middle of the Cold War, France designed a nuclear rearme plan for Europe. Now sound strongly

OPEC+ wants to produce much more without sinking prices

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The year has begun With many ups and downs For the crude oil market. To this are added global commercial tensions, the arrival of Trump and uncertainty about demand in China. This complex panorama has promoted OPEC+ to make a serious decision. Short. OPEC+ has decided to start the withdrawal of the production cuts that this gradual strategy has maintained since 2022 It will begin to be implemented In April to increase oil production. This situation, which will last until September 2026, will cause a change in the balance between supply and demand, with potential effects on crude oil prices. In depth. The reason behind this decision by the organization is double. On the one hand, the OPEC+ member countries are looking to recover the market share they have lost during the years of cuts, in which the agency remained below 30% world participation. On the other hand, the opening of production would stabilize crude oil prices. The gradual increase. The agreement established by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has set the production of crude oil in 138,000 barrels per day of volunteer countries. This increase will focus mainly on voluntary cuts, which constitute an important part of restricted production. In addition, the United Arab Emirates, one of the group members, They will begin to increase their production After requesting a greater share of the agreement. The problems. Managing excess oil when demand is less is one of the main challenges of OPEC+. If the offer Keep growing At this rate, prices cannot be sustained for longer and will fall. This situation, which occurs in a context of a probable global crisis, increases the pressure on the crude oil body to adjust its strategy and do not aggravate the oversupply. On the other hand, the OPEC+ will stop supervising Petroleum production with the International Energy Agency. This decision has caused uncertainty in the markets, since the IAI is considered one of the main sources of reference globally. Trump’s arrival. US President’s policies They have focused on encouraging Internal production, such as energy deregulation and impulse to fracking. These new measures will cause their oil and gas projects to be more attractive, increasing the global crude supply and exerting more pressure on prices. All this will lead to a challenge for the strategic decisions of OPEC+. In addition, Trump He has demanded To the oil organism that lowers crude oil prices, arguing that this could help end war in Ukraine. China’s deceleration. The largest oil importer is suffering An economic slowdown. This situation has many edges and has a very deep impact on the global demand for crude. On the one hand, there is an indirect effect on other emerging economies that depend on China as its main commercial partner. On the other hand, OPEC+ could be forced to reconsider its decisions of gradual increase in production. If not adjusting to new market conditions, prices could fall further and the organization could face a more complex situation, with less margin to maneuver. Forecasts Rather, uncertainty. On the one hand, if the OPEC+ continues with its strategy of gradual increases in production, we will observe if the global demand will be able to absorb this offer without the prices falling abruptly. On the other hand, the pressures of external actors such as the United States will have to take them into account because they will also continue in the line of continuing to extract. In short, the OPEC+ policy could avoid an abrupt fall of prices if demand remains stable. However, everything can happen. Image | Unspash Xataka | Ukraine does not have much to win in a peace agreement with Russia. Except if you bring out your rare earth reserves

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