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Europe will invest a lot of money in countries as far away as Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan. The reason: rare earths

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Surely it went unnoticed by the vast majority of the planet Between tariffs and war conflicts. Kazakhstan announced last week the discovery of his Greater rare earth sitewith an initial estimate of one million tons of key elements such as Cerio, Lantano, Neodimio and Ititrio, all fundamental for the global energy transition … or to begin a new arms era. And now the news that did reach more people: the EU will invest a fortune in Five Central Asian countries. The official reason? Strive ties. The truth? The track is one of the five countries: Kazakhstan. The news. In full escalation of commercial tensions with the United States, the European Union surprisingly announced an investment of 12,000 million euros in Central Asia during its first summit with the five countries of the region (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzista, Tayikistan and Turkmenistan). The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stressed that these funds will go to key sectors as transport, clean energy, connectivity and sustainable development of strategic natural resources. Tariffs and foreign trade. In a context marked by the new 20 % tariffs imposed by Washington to European imports, von der Leyen stressed that the EU seeks to offer A reliable alternative Faced with powers such as Russia and China, betting on egalitarian associations and investment in local capacities. In addition, the common commitment to the Territorial sovereignty and peace in Ukraine, condemning the Russian aggression and reinforcing the message that respect for international law will be a cornerstone of this new strategic association. The EU, which already represents 22.6 % of foreign trade And more than 40 % of foreign direct investment in Central Asia, seeks with this summit to consolidate its regional influence and open new trade routes that avoid Russian territory, such as the Transcaspiano corridorKey to reduce the Eastern Energy and Geopolitical Dependence. A key region. Behind good words are not only sustainable development and regional cooperation, but a critical geoeconomic priority: ensure the supply of essential minerals For the European green transition, the strengthening of its industrial base and the development of its defense capacities, all in a context of growing global tension and structural dependence of China and Russia. Strategic minerals. The urgency of this strategic turn was evidenced after the recognition of a disturbing vulnerability: in 2023, 94 % of imports European rare earth came from China, Malaysia and Russia. In addition, China controls the 60 % of world production of critical minerals and 85 % of its processing, while strengthening its own green industry. This concentration of power, added to political proximity between Beijing and Moscow, has led to worrying episodes, such as Chinese restriction to Antimony exporta key mineral in military technologies such as precision optics and night viewers. Abundance, but with limitations. In this panorama, Central Asia emerges as a realistic and attractive alternative. Kazakhstan currently produces 19 of the 34 minerals critics defined by the EU and could expand this figure 21 in the short term After the announcement of last week. Uzbekistan, meanwhile, is the fifth major supplier Uranium World and has important reserves of gold, silver, titanium and molybdenum. The region also has lithium, silicon and tungsten, fundamental for batteries, solar panels and electronic defense systems. However, much of these resources are trapped in a poorly developed mining sector, lacking modern infrastructure and technological capabilities for sustainable extraction. There, a priori, money would be destined. The European strategy. They counted on DW That, in the face of the geoeconomic competence of China and Russia, Brussels seeks to differentiate offering cooperation models based on industrial associations and mixed companies with local actors, favoring direct foreign investment, regional business growth and progressive industrialization. This approach is especially attractive to Central Asian leaders, who see in it a way to diversify their economies, reduce dependence from Moscow and gain greater strategic autonomy. The cornerstone of this approach would be the Gateway Global Initiativethe ambitious European project of 300,000 million euros conceived as an alternative to the New Silk Route China. The transcaspian corridor and a promise. A crucial component of the European Plan is the development of the Transpian International Transport Route (Titr), that logistics corridor that would unite China and Europe through Central Asia and the Caspian Sea, reducing traffic times to 15 days and avoiding the step by the Suez Canal or Russian territory. The problem? The dimension of investment. The implementation of this corridor requires an estimated amount of 18.5 billion euros In infrastructure, of which more than half have already been mobilized by the EU through an investment forum with support from its member states, the private sector, and institutions such as the European Investment Bank and the BERD. To get an idea, the Expert Samuel Vestterbye That this route could multiply container traffic from the current 100,000 to 800,000, with a transformative economic impact for both regions. The Russian “friend.” No doubt, the European turn also has a clear geopolitical dimension: stop use which makes Russia of Central Asian countries for avoid sanctions Western imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. The European diplomat Kaja Kallas was explicit in that sense when warning in Asjabad that Russian companies should not use the region as commercial escape route. In this context, the EU needs to balance a incentive and pressures policy: Offer real economic development through infrastructure and commerce, while demanding cooperation in compliance with the western sanctioning regime. Something like the “carrot and stick” approach that analysts see as an opportunity to consolidate strategic relationships that transcend the economic. Challenges and Emergency. Despite the advances, the European strategy has notable challenges before him. Experts Like Marie Dumoulinof the European Council on Foreign Relations, warn that the concrete projects of the Global Gateway take to materialize and lack visibility in the region, which could weaken the EU’s ability to compete with Chinese or Russian offers. In other words, that what is said is credible Brussels must Accelerate implementation of infrastructure works, show tangible results and … Read more

The Spanish car will be unscathed from US tariffs for a very simple reason: we manufacture cheap models

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25% of tariffs on all cars that enter through the borders of the United States. That is the last major measure announced by Donald Trump that, if nothing changes, will enter into force on April 2. A new economic decision that has evident winners and losers. How does Spain affect you? 25% tariffs. It had been rumored for a long time and Donald Trump has ended up confirming it: the United States will tax with 25% tariff to all cars that enter through its borders. If the car has been manufactured outside the United States, the importer will have to disburse 25% more through the car. The announcement has a small print that was later clarified by the White House, they collect in The country. For cars manufactured within the economic space of Canada-Mexico-United States (which have a special treaty) only the tariff will be applied to the pieces that are not produced in the United States, which should partially mitigate the norm. The latter is important since it is estimated that tariffs will raise the purchase cost of a car in the United States between $ 4,000 and $ 10,000 Since half of the cars bought in the country come from abroad and, from those assembled there, 60% of the components are also manufactured outside their borders, they point out in Motorpasion. And a threat. “If the European Union collaborates with Canada to economically harm the United States, they will be imposed on a large -scale tariffs, much greater than expected, to protect the best friend that both countries have had,” Donald Trump threatened in words collected by The country. The words of the president of the United States are a notice for a European Union that had threatened to reactivate tariffs that were already in force during Donald Trump’s first mandate and even go one step further, as reported The New York Times. Germany is especially vulnerable to US policies. It is the country that exports the most cars to the United States. According to Bloombergin 2024 they exported 446,566 cars worth 24,800 million dollars. In addition, its main manufacturers produce a good part of the cars that sell in the United States in countries such as Mexico or Canada. So, 80% of cars that Volkswagen sells in the country come from outside the United States. Mercedes does the same with 63% of its cars and BMW with 52%. What about Spain? According to the Data from the Department of Commerce collected by The country. Spain only exported 8,316 light vehicles that added a value of 178.5 million dollars. Both figures are, obviously, minimal if we take into account those that we have been renovating previously. According to Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)the main shipments from Spain to the United States represented Volkswagen and Ford. Despite this, those 178.5 million dollars contrast with the more than 8,000 million dollars that Spain exports in cars to France or Germany, the main markets for the Spanish industry. Small and European. If the Spanish industry will not suffer with the tariffs raised by Donald Trump it is because the cars we manufacture here are focused on the European market. Most of them are Compact and utilitarian vehicles of relatively low prices that are manufactured in Spain because the labor is cheaper and, therefore, allows to better adjust the benefits margins. The data pointed out that Ford was one of the most affected companies in Spain because it produced in Almussafes (Valencia) the Ford Transit Connect. This vehicle was exported to the United States because it was used as a taxi in New York. However, It does not occur since 2024. To this we must add that the country has been taking positions in recent years to reposition its industry in the electric car. And production plans for this type of cars also indicates that They will be small carsdestined for a European public. Consumers. So far we have talked about the industry but, obviously, a European response will touch sectors outside the car. While in the United States half of the cars that are bought are manufactured outside the country, only 12% of cars imported to Europe come from the United States, According to Acea. If Europe decides to respond by raising more commercial barriers to the cars that come there, the main damaged will be the Tesla Model S and, above all, the American sports models such as the Ford Mutang or the Chevrolet Corvette. Models that, like the Ford Broncothey arrive at droppers and are especially expensive to compensate for the European Emissions Standards. Therefore, if the European Union decides to answer we can expect an increase in the prices of other products. For example, it was already valued to impose Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Photo | Stellantis In Xataka | Europe wants to complicate things to China but Spain has other plans: go for free to attract MG and Byd factories

Openai is about to be worth as much as Coca-Cola even though it is still a money losing machine. The reason: SoftBank

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Openai is about to close a gigantic financing round led by SoftBank that will double its assessment as reported Bloomberg. This new round will coincide with a non-tan-positive scenario for the company: that of increasing doubts about the rhythm of real progress of generative AI. The panoramic. The startup is finalizing a financing round of 40,000 million dollars led by SoftBankwhich will raise its value to 300,000 million. This assessment would place Openai in the select club of the most valuable companies in the world, drawing with a whole Coca-Cola, and getting closer to others such as Netflix or Tesla. The context. The investment is structured in two phases: An initial of 10,000 million (7.5 billion softbank and 2.5 billion of other investors). A second of 30,000 million scheduled for this year. Among the investors that accompany SoftBank are the Magnetar Capital Fund, which could contribute up to 1,000 million, in addition to Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management. This round almost doubles the assessment achieved in October 2024, when OpenAI captured 6,600 million led by Thrive Capital at an assessment of 157,000 million. Between the lines. This spectacular increase in value could be interpreted as an attempt to maintain the perception of exponential growth at a time when the generative AI seems to have reached some plateau in its practical development. And now what. OpenAI must demonstrate that it can transform its technological leadership into a sustainable business model that justifies this astronomical assessment. And Altman will have to overcome the sandwich made by his investors (demanding returns) and the infrastructure (which requires continuous capital). After the initial euphoria with the generative AI, with the arrival of Chatgpt in the late 2022 as a clear turning point, we are going to a somewhat more selective phase in which only market leaders will continue to capture large amounts of money. In Xataka | The new OpenAi image generator takes a 180º turn in a section that we did not see coming: censorship Outstanding image | Mariia Shalabaieva in Unspash

For some reason, there are people trying crash against a wall. Makes more sense than it seems

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A Tesla Model and, a wall that simulates a road, a youtuber of 65.8 million followers, its reputation. The reputation of Tesla, its security systems and semi -autonomous driving. Another YouTube. A cybertruck tesla. Another wall with another painted road. Indeed, there are people by throwing their tesla against a wall: what is happening? The coyote game and the roadrunner. “I am in my tesla at 64 km/h with the activated highway launched against a false wall in the style of the coyote and the roadrunner.” This is how it starts Mark Rober’s videoknown NASA engineer with a YouTube channel in which 65.8 million subscribers are counted. Rober travels in his car thrown against a false wall in which he has simulated that the road on which circulates continues and perfectly simulates what it really is: a decoration. The objective is to check if your Tesla Model and equipped exclusively with cameras offers better or worse performance than a car equipped with a Lidar system As far as autonomous driving systems are concerned. The background. Rober uses his video to explain the differences between a car that bases its semi -autonomous driving in the cameras exclusively and those that use the Lidar system. In 2021, Tesla already advanced that would base its entire system of driving aid in the cameras. In 2022 it was confirmed that the company would stop riding radars and sensors. The company ensures that its software is able to analyze everything that happens exclusively using cameras with reliability that matches that of radars and sensors. Along the way, evidently, the cost of assembling these components that irremediably increase the final cost of the vehicle is saved. To check if this is true, Rober tests A Tesla Moder and that only uses cameras In its Autopilot system and a lexus RX equipped with a lidar sensor of the luminar company. The cars are launched with activated semi -autonomous driving functions (Autopilot in the case of Tesla and adaptive cruise control in the lexus) to verify what happens in different scenarios. Among them, children who appear in the trajectory of the car or very intense rains. The wall. During his tests, the vehicle equipped with Lidar December and saved a child from being hit if he was already on the road, if he appeared behind an obstacle, in cases of fog and intense rain or if he was dazzled by an intense light. And yes, also if there was a wall on the road painted with the simulation of a road. The Tesla Model and could not say the same and the cameras did not exceed the tests of the fog, the rain … and the famous wall. In the latter case, the car was cheated and thought that the road continued, not stopping at all. And has exploded the controversy. The video Mark Rober has exploded the controversy on social networks for various reasons. The first and most obvious: does this type make sense? When can a car find a wall that completely covers a road simulating that it continues later? Beyond that this has to value each other, what is true is that Rober activates the highway a few seconds before reaching the wall and in the video it is observed how the system is disabled when it is going to collide. Rober has been accused of turning off the system but has defended himself on social networks publishing a complete video in which it is seen how the system is disabled before the crash. A criticism that has been repeated To Tesla vehicles, accusing the company of washing their hands before the authorities. But not only that, Rober has also been criticized for using a vehicle with autopilot and not with Full Self Driving (FSD)the most advanced autonomous driving system in Tesla while Lexus was equipped with Lidar, one of the most expensive technologies at the moment. Cameras vs lidar. The experiment has something interesting although not a resolution. The truth is that one might expect that a cameras based system is less effective than one accompanied by a lidar. The single combination of mounting a camera and a radar has been demonstrated The most effective option So far both day and night. The cameras analyze with images what they have in front but a lidar sends pulses of light constantly around them. That light bounces on the object and returns to the lidar. With the time that has passed since the shipping of the pulse of light until it receives it again you can create a 3D map that, in the case of the wall, serves to verify that there is an obstacle on the road even if it can deceive the camera. Autopilot and FSD. The other great criticism that has been made to Rober is that he uses a car equipped with Autopilot but not with the FSDthe most advanced driving aid system of Tesla. The FSD is offered as an additional option through a subscription and allows the driver to disregard driving (even in urban environments) as long as it remains attentive to what happens in front of his eyes. For example, the Autopilot demands from the driver the confirmation of lane change but the FSD navigates between the streets by itself, without the need for driver’s validations. In fact, in the United States it allows The car travels 65 meters without a driver Inside. Thus, we can ask a tesla parked to come to pick us up from a distance. And there are people by throwing their cars against a wall. Rober’s experiment has given wings to other YouTuber who have come out to defend the company. In response, Kyle Paul, who has 237,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and specializes in Tesla videos, He has published his own test. The goal has been the same: will your Tesla Cybertruck before a wall that simulates the continuation of the road? And his answer is that if the car has … Read more

I’ve been trying electric cars for years. I bought one of combustion for a single reason

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We live complicated times to Choose car. Or, perhaps, we believe them more complicated than they really are. Yes, it is true that we can have doubts about What a course will take The automobile industry, what technology will be imposed, what not or, directly, What restrictions will raise Against my car in the coming years. But let’s look at this from a positive point of view: we have never had so much variety and so many technologies that will better adapt to our lifestyle and the trips we made on a day -to -day basis. This is what I try to explain to those who, knowing that I write about the automobile industry and try some of the most recent models, ask me what car they should buy. What should be the best option For them. To give them an answer I give a series of tips. The most important, although it seems nonsense, always leave it for the end. Choosing car Diesel (yes, diesel), gasoline, Microhíbrido, electric hybrid, plug -in hybrid, electric or gasoline bifuel and liquefied or compressed natural gas. It is also possible to buy a Electric of extended autonomyalthough the possibilities are very small. Or a car moved by hydrogen but, in this case, Recharge options are almost non -existent. Therefore, if we are in this situation and we want to buy a car, we have to think about several aspects that I summarize in the following steps: What type of car do we need (by size)? Here we must contemplate what we are looking for exactly. How much trunk do we need? Are we going to use the rear seats usually or do we travel as a couple? Are we a family that will grow, are we thinking about forming it or do we plan to have children? Do children already travel on their own and do not need such a big car? Personally, I recommend doing a Very rational reading of our situation. If we usually do not carry much luggage we should not prioritize the trunk. If we usually do not use the rear seats, their habitability should have a secondary weight in our decision. It is simply not to over -dimension our needs. Yes, if we are traveling with little luggage in our weekend getaways and, for example, one day a year we want to move a bicycle because we will have a problem or we will have to better square the luggage. That day, perhaps, we regret a little of the choice but this will be passenger because the rest of the year we will omit a quality for which we have probable we have paid a surcharge. If, on the contrary, we are fond of mountain bike and every weekend we load and download our bicycle, I will not only recommend that you buy a car that facilitates this task. I say more: Take the bicycle to the concessionaire And check for yourself if the bicycle enters the trunk and how simple or complicated it will be its load and download. What use are we going to give our car? I like to define the size of the car in the first place because, for almost all kinds of sizes there is the technology we are looking for. Largely because tAmaño and type of use go hand in. If we are looking for a car to move exclusively in the urban environment, to go and return from work and leave children at school, we are not interested in a car too large, because in this type of journey it will be much more uncomfortable to use. On the contrary, if we move regularly on the highway and highway and perform hundreds or thousands of kilometers every week, we will prioritize comfort and, most likely, the car is larger. In this case, I would prioritize the following aspects, from greater to less importance: Are we going to use this car as the only one in the house? What kind of displacement do we do in our day to day? Do we usually go on a trip? How many long getaways do we do a year? How many kilometers do we do a year? What technology do we choose? Once we have the adequate car size for our needs and we are clear about the type of use that we are going to do, it remains to choose which technology that interests us most. The money is decisive here and, if necessary, access to a plug to load an electric car or a plug -in hybrid. My recommendation is as follows: Diesel: Who performs many kilometers on the highway and highway and site the city little. I would not buy it if I did less than 20,000 kilometers a year. Gasoline: We want a car “for everything” at home. We move in the usual figures for a Middle driver And the use we give to the car is mixed between city and getaways on highways and highways. Microhíbridos: If the option exists, the microhíbrido is a good option to obtain the ECO LABEL AND ITS BENEFITS If we are looking for a gasoline car because the cost barely differs and we will not notice any change when driving. Hybrids: We also have the car as a “vehicle for everything” but most of the kilometers are made in city. Although we can leave the weekend, we make a good dozen kilometers in the urban environment or we need enter a zbe where access to more polluting cars is restricted. Plug -in hybrids: same case as the previous one but we have the possibility of loading a plug at home and weekend getaways are usually to a second close home. This is important, once the battery charge is exhausted, with the combustion engine working exclusively, the car can have too high consumption that spoil daily savings. Electric: We have access to a plug. You can choose to dedicate it as a second … Read more

China needs cardiologists in an increasingly aged society. His answer is an AI that “reason” as the best

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820,000 people. That is the number of patients that the Department of Cardiology of the Zhongshan hospital attended in 2024. A very high figure for a country in which doctors are missing and that sees that, every so often, every so often, His hospitals overflow. Increased higher health coverage, especially for an increasingly aging populationand the answer has been found in artificial intelligence. In a cardiologist, specifically, which has trained with a base of hundreds of thousands of people and has all the support of the government. Cardiomind. That is the name of artificial intelligence that has been developed by the Zhongshan hospital, the University of Fudan and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Academy for Science. It is a joint effort to create an AI that, according to them, is able to reason as their best cardiologists. GE Junbo is one of those outstanding cardiologists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Comment They are feeding the system with data, but they also teach him “to think as an expert first level cardiologist.” Co-pilot. In this way, Cardiomind compares patient history and the results of tests based on global research to generate diagnostic suggestions. And if you were raising one, leaving the possibility of leaving your heart’s health on the awareness of a machine, in the word “suggestion” is the key. According to its creators, the idea is not that doctors are replaced, but that it helps those members of a congested system to work faster and more accurately. “With their help, our doctors can attend more patients, reduce the workload and improve both the quality of the diagnosis and the treatment,” commented The doctor. Pillars. The secret of the pizza is in the dough, in the case of AI, that special sauce is the training. Cardiomind is a multimodal system that can analyze and process data from various sources (electrocardiograms, ultrasound and laboratory results, for example) to provide its diagnosis, and it is what has been trained. The source has been hundreds of thousands of medical records that the Hospital Cardiology Department had stored for decades, learning in the process how doctors think both in the diagnosis and during treatment. In addition to multimodal and very trained, it specializes in one thing: cardiovascular diseases. Total government support. And all this comes from the hand of itself. China is investing strong in development of artificial intelligences and, although in the West only a few as Deepseek They are the ones that attract attention, the country has been betting for the development of these systems to decongest several organisms. And that of medicine is fundamental. In January of this year, and apart from Cardiomind, established In Shanghai the first test and verification center of large models of AI in the field of medicine. Their fields will be assistance, disease prediction, personalized treatment according to the history of each patient and support to develop drugs. Necessary. Such is that impulse that several hospitals already have their own AI platforms, even some that They combine Contemporary and traditional medicine. And the reason why this technological development is being promoted is the one mentioned above. The population is getting older and doctors are missing. It is estimated that the country has 1.9 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants and They want have 5.5 nurses per 1,000 people for this year. In other countries, the average is devastating. In Spain, for example, there is 6.21 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants. In the case of nurses, the figure is 7.12. Challenges. Now, despite that government impulse, there are three elements to take into account. One is that of the data security to guarantee privacy. In the case of Cardiomind, those responsible developed a firewall with encrypted data. Other countries are studying How to apply AI in cardiology and, precisely, data leakage and ethics is a point that is usually present Among the concerns. Ethics also plays a role, since if it goes from suggesting to a more important role, it would be necessary to legally regulate it. At the moment, or they are in charge “only” of paperwork and records or, if they attend decision making, the last word has a human. In addition, there is the technological issue itself. The development of these artificial intelligences needs servers and calculation power. It is something that China is solving more or less controversial forms buying items that They should not be able to buy due to the commercial war with the West, but also using solutions developed at home, such as the chips of a huawei that is the spearhead in development of hardware for AI in the Asian giant. Images | Huawei, In Xataka | It is impossible to escape from Huawei: not even the oldest hospital in Spain in its ambitious digital transformation

Zuckerberg dismissed 5% of the goal template “for low performance”. His former employees say there is another reason

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In the same way as It is not the same to resign That they fire you (although the result is that you are left without employment), it is not the same as they fire you For a staff cut that for “low performance”. Goal, ha 5% of its workforcearguing that they were low performance employees. However, this public justification has enraged the 3,600 meta -employed since they stigmatizes them as bad workers when they apply for new jobs. The former employees say that their work performance has only been an excuse, but not the real reason for their dismissal. A “cruel” trick to cut staff. “I have decided to raise the level of performance management and fire low performance employees more quickly,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in the internal memorandum sent to its employees in January. Such and as he published Business InsiderThis was raising the scale of what the company considered “low performance” to put employees in the pillory who, until that moment, considered that they had a good performance. Sally Maitlis, a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at Saïd Business School, assured to Fortune That the “low performance” label could be a ballast for the professional career of the former employees dismissed, doubly penalizing them with the loss of their employment and closing the door to find a new one. “It is a terrible way of being labeled and is clearly not useful for anyone in the labor market,” Maitlis said. They have shouted the four winds. Before such injustice for them, employees have not hesitated to raise their voice from social networks to claim their professionalism and denounce the bad faith that, according to them, has used a goal in their dismissal. “Today they have fired me, but not for being a low performance employee. Let’s be clear: that label is misleading and, for many of us, it is totally wrong,” ” published on his LinkedIn account Steven S, former product of Instagram product. Kaila Curry, who worked as a content manager, said in her LinkedIn profile that: “I often asked for comments and they always told me that I was doing a good job. They never assigned a PIP (performance improvement plan), they never gave me correction indications and never guided me or gave me clear expectations. I just struggled … I am not a person of low performance.” A mortgaged future. The main complaint of the employees focuses on the argument that has publicly wielded a goal to justify the dismissal of the 3,600 employees since, as they argue, it harms their options for free to get a new job. “The most difficult thing is that goal says publicly that they are cutting low yields, so it feels as if we had the scarlet letter on our backs. People need to know that we do not have low performance,” declared one of the employees dismissed to Business Insider. “It is possible that these people are superstar in other places. Therefore, it seems to me that it is an additional punishment because they are people who probably have a very high market value,” He pointed out to Fortune Dan Cable, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School. Employers are answering. One of the most recurring advice when running for a new job is not criticizing the company that has just fired you. However, against any forecast, the strategy of the finishing targets has had a positive impact. Many recruiters and companies have shown interest in the profiles of the target employees. “Good employers look for people who are good communicators, capable of defending themselves, just as they would in their position within the organization,” He stood out to Business Insider Ashley Herd, Recruitment Expert from LinkedIn and founder of a manager recruitment company. “Those who speak of course can be found, being realistic, with a smaller group of possible employers, but it will be a group that really aligns with their values ​​and supports professional success and long -term happiness,” said the expert. Now stigma is target. Mark Zuckerberg said the layoffs were not due to economic difficulties, but to a restructuring to focus on the IA development And, in fact, vacancies had opened to incorporate into this new profile. Since the hiring process is a relationship of two, the complaints expressed in social networks by their ex -employed can complicate that process. User forums as Reddit or Teamblind have filled the new candidates about the new goal policy with warnings. “It seems that it was more money than performance. Be careful to join this company. Zuck does not care about its employees. Only the company,” wrote A meta -employed. “Meta is now the most cruel technological company that exists,” added another former partner. Other great technological companies Like Microsoft or Amazon have already announced that they will take more into account the performance of their employees when signing their layoffs. In Xataka | A 1.3 million rolex and a brilliant suit: the new Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his wife’s birthday Image | Goal, Unspash (Annie Spratt)

Satya Nadella is clear that at the moment AI has not revolutionized anything. The reason: money

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“Teach me the pasta!” That is what Satya Nadella wants. That the AI ​​shows the pasta. Give (a lot) money. It is something that Microsoft and Openai have already referred to both. For these companies, AGI’s definition is precisely linked to money, and have established that An AGI will not be an AGI until you give 100,000 million benefit. That argument now serves Microsoft’s CEO to talk about the fact that AI has not revolutionized anything. From agi nothing. In one recent interview With the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, made some important statements in which her position was clear about the current situation of the artificial intelligence segment. To begin with, he indicated that “that we claim that a milestone has been achieved in AGI It is only to hack the meaningless evidence “, that is, to give greater importance to the benchmarks they really have. And of revolution, either. In fact, the best metric to measure the success of the AI ​​segment is simple: it should increase the gross domestic product of any country. “When we say: ‘Oh, this is like the industrial revolution’, we should have that type of growth that caused the industrial revolution. For me, that means 10%, 7%for the developed world. Adjusted to inflation, growing at 5%, that is the real marker.” AI needs a ‘Killer app‘… Nadella commented how that growth has not yet occurred because most users have not yet understood how to use AI effectively. It is the same that happened with the PC, it took time to find its place and demonstrate its potential. … like what Excel and email achieved. Microsoft’s CEO remembered how before the PC, email and spreadsheets, companies made their business forecasts almost handmade: “Faxes circulated, someone received them and then made a memorandum between offices that then circulated, and people introduced figures, and in the end a forecast came out perhaps right in time for the next quarter.” But then Excel arrived and email and revolutionion that type of task, like many others. “That is what we need to happen with AI when it is introduced into jobs in the field of knowledge.” The AI ​​will supervitaminar. The debate on the impact of AI on work is constant, but for Nadella this technology will help us extraordinarily. Thus it will allow any worker to focus on high value tasks, and not on routine tasks that can be automated. He joked talking about the amount of time dedicated to filtering his email, and how to avoid that will be an exceptional time and productivity gain. The AI ​​not only does not give money, but it loses it. The vast majority of large companies that are betting on AI and developing large language models are losing money, and they are also losing it to beast. Openai is the best example of Burn money as if there were no tomorrowbut it is also the best positioned to win that race. But this is a bet. In fact, probably the greatest in history. It is demonstrated by the colossal investments that Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, or Google are doing to create data centers dedicated to AI. All of them will dedicate dozens of millions of dollars to that taskand they will even when it is not clear that AI will be profitable. Of course, these companies believe it will be, and much. Image | Sony Pictures In Xataka | Satya Nadella asked to lower her salary for not having complied with security. Microsoft compensated with 79.1 million

Some researchers have created a pill that mimics the effects of the lack of oxygen. They have a good reason

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Height evil is one of the problems that professional mountaineers and occasional visitors who decide to ascend to certain altitudes must face. This disorder is related to the lack of oxygen, hypoxia, which occurs in these environments, but now a pharmaceutical company wants to turn it around. Turn that “evil” into a “good.” Hypoxystat. Transform the mountain air, or rather, the absence of air of the mountain, into a pill It is the proposal of the Gladstone Institute and Maze Therapeutics laboratories. The new drug has received the name Hypoxystat and its goal is to fight against metabolic disorders such as Leigh Syndrome. Mountain air. It might seem crazy idea, but reducing the amount of oxygen that enters our body can make sense in certain senses beyond high performance sport. Living in a mountainous area can benefit people with Leight syndrome, a mitochondrial disease that affects childhood. This disorder occurs when the mitochondria, the organelle in charge of feeding the rest of the cell is not able to consume all the oxygen it receives. This leads to a dangerous accumulation of oxygen that ends with cells and tissues and, ultimately, with the patient’s life. “It is not practical for each patient with this disease to move to the mountains,” Explain in a press release Isha Jain, who has led the recent study of the drug. “But this drug could be a controlled and safe way to apply the same benefits to patients.” 2016. Almost a decade ago, a team, in which Jain herself participated, discovered that mice with this syndrome responded well when they were exposed to air with a lower amount of oxygen, the equivalent of that which can be found at heights of 4,500 meters (a upper altitude in almost a kilometer to the Teide peak). The lack of oxygen caused it to stop accumulating in the cells. The new compound could achieve a similar effect in a different way: focusing on hemoglobin, the molecule that transports oxygen in our blood. The new compound causes oxygen to be linked more easily to hemoglobin which may sound contraintuitive, they explain. However, this fact also makes it difficult for the molecule to deliver oxygen to the cells of our body. Concept test. The new drug has been developed Maze Therapeutics to fight anemia. The Gladstone Institute team, from the University of California San Francisco, found the substance when looking for a compound capable of reinforcing the bond between hemoglobin and oxygen. As a treatment, Hypoxystat is still in early development, but has already begun to succeed in mice. The details of these tests have been published recently in an article in the magazine Cell. Promising results. Although for now the studies are limited to rodents, they invite cautious optimism. The team observed, for example, that the compound had therapeutic capacity both in cases where it was administered before the appearance of symptoms and in cases where mice were already in advanced stages of the disease. In Xataka | We did not know why some superbacteria were resistant to antibiotics. This AI has found it in two days Image | Gladstone Institutes

The next generative AI revolution will not reason better, but integrate into physical robots. And will change robotics forever

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In the technological world we are fascinated with chatbots who write essays and take their time reasoning. Grok 3 goes, Claude 3.7 It comes, meanwhile, something less visible but deeper is happening: The beginning of the merger between conversational and mechanical bodies. For the first time, robots not only execute preprogrammed instructions. Now also, in their own way, they understand. Historically, robotics and AI have followed separate paths. Parallel, but separate. Industrial robots were as accurate as stupid. AI systems are intelligent, but incorporeal. Let’s think about robotic arms that have existed on assembly lines for decades. Millimetrically exact, but absolutely lost If a single component appeared in a position slightly different from that expected. The new generation of robots connected to LLMS You can now interpret ambiguous instructions, such as “bring me something for thirst”, and solve the problem through reasoning (word of the year), evaluating which drinks are available, if the user showed preference for some and even if there is ice in the freezer. We no longer program specific movements, but rather general objectives. Figure robots are good examples. So good that even They work autonomously at a BMW factory. According to The company has just publishedthey can even receive generic verbal instructions, such as collecting pieces, and without the need for previous specific programming are able to visually analyze the environment and detect them. They can even pause, reassess the situation and correct the error if someone modifies the pieces. This contextual adaptation capacity was unthinkable a couple of years ago. The really groundbreaking of this impaired in robots is that You can learn very differently. The LLMS trained with text lack the physical understanding of the world. Traditional robots lack contextual intuition. By merging them an intelligence that includes both semantics and physics. A robot equipped with LLMS is not only able to understand the instruction “opens that box without damaging its content”, but can improvise before boxes never seen, evaluating materials, closures and fragilities. The revolution, unfortunately, will not be spectacular as in The novelty-fictionbut it will arrive in the form of robotic arms in factories that can be reconfigured with a verbal order. Or warehouse robots that will understand contextual priorities. Or medical assistants capable of interpreting non -verbalized needs of their patients. Boston Dynamics, the Non-Va-Más de la Robotica during this last decade thanks to your robots jumping and doing Parkourshe is no longer as interested in acrobatics as in integrating understanding systems that allow her machines Understand complex instructions in construction and industry environments. You just have to see Your website. And on the horizon look The Tesla optimus or the Cyberone de Xiaomi. Or unitree like One of the great Chinese technological bets. The big change will come When these systems stop failing before the unforeseen and begin to apply general principles of physical and contextual reasoning. We are not seeing the birth of artificial consciousness, but the understanding of the physical world and the world of meaning in a single integrated system. What this powerful convergence does is its silent nature. He catches us arguing On whether Grok 3 deserves a better product or about itself Chatgpt 4.5 It will be sufficient during the remaining of the year, but Robots are beginning to understand the world like us. Not only by calculating a trajectory, but understanding intentions, contexts and meanings. That is much more transformative and valuable than Any ten -page trial generated in seven minutes. In Xataka | Deep Research is not just a new AI function. It is the beginning of the end of intellectual work as we know it Outstanding image | Figure, Ryunosuke Kikuno in Unspash

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