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Michael Colosi is a young technology entrepreneur who, like many other millionairesmoved to southwest Florida attracted by the good weather and the low taxes of the state. In March 2024, Colosi bought two hectares of land in Punta Gorda with the intention of building a house and settling there permanently. What he did not imagine is that, before building a single wall of his future mansion, the county was going to present him with a bill for $118,527. The reason: the possibility that a protected bluebird could nest in their plot. The squatter of a bird. That bird is the Florida scrub-jay, the only bird whose species exists exclusively in that state. For this reason, it has been classified as a threatened species since 1987 under the Endangered Species Act and its fate has been caught at the center of a legal battle that, according to expertscould have consequences for hundreds of other species throughout the US. One of the consequences of this protected species status is that Charlotte County can apply a fee in sections to landowners who want to build in areas considered potential habitat for the bird. In the case of Colosi, taking into account the surface area of ​​its land and the fact that it is located in one of the nesting areas of this bird, the fee amounts to $118,527. Lawsuit for an unfair rate. This rate is applied to the entire plot, regardless of whether it is going to be built on the entire property or only part of it. In fact, his own claim document presented by the millionaire indicates that, if his property had only about 280 square meters less, the applicable rate would be $52,696. That is, less than half for going down to a lower section. Colosi maintains that the system is arbitrary and unconstitutional and that the county has not even checked to see if there are jays on its land. However, he cannot appeal or reduce the rate under any circumstances. Jamie Scudera, the county’s project manager, responded in an email to Colosi that “Your only alternative would be to not buy anything in a jay zone, because there is no other option other than our plan at this time.” Florida scrub jay Two arguments for a historical case. Colosi filed a federal lawsuit in October 2024 with the aim of appealing the fee, but the case has implications that go beyond discussing the amount of the fee. This lawsuit launches two legal arguments that, if successful, they would change the landscape of environmental protection in the United States. The first argument questions that the rate is proportionate and demands that it, at least, be directly related to the real impact of the planned construction. The second, and more controversial, is the argument that the Florida scrub jay should not be protected by federal legislation because it lives only in one state and does not affect interstate commerce which, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation that supports the millionaire, exceeds powers of Congress under the commerce clause of the Constitution. A bird without “economic value” that moves tourists from all over the country. The lawsuit includes a claim that has raised eyebrows among biologists and conservationists: that the Florida scrub jay has “no commercial or economic value.” Wildlife defenders refute this thesis with concrete data. Aaron Bloom, attorney for Earthjustice, points out that more than 1,000 people outside of Florida used the app eBird from Cornell University to record jay sightings only in 2024. Biologists from Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton have visited the Archbold Biological Station expressly to study the species, and Audubon Florida organizes bird-watching tours that bring visitors from all over the country to Florida to observe it. The lawsuit’s argument is that, living only in Florida, the jay cannot affect interstate commerce and therefore does not deserve federal protection. The contradiction that conservationists point out is more than evident: under that logic, a species present in several states would be protected by the law, but one so localized that it only exists in a single territory would be unprotected precisely because it is rarer. The weight of what is at stake. According to Bloom, Defenders of Wildlife has documented 1,229 threatened species in the same situation, so their situation could also change if they allow the Florida millionaire to continue with his lawsuit to save a few thousand dollars. Charlotte County records show that at least 15 jays have been sighted in the Colosi neighborhood in the last year, and that hundreds of homeowners have paid protection fees without question over the last eleven years. The parcel’s own cadastral file warned with a note before the purchase: “The value of the land may be affected by the scrub jay habitat.” So, in theory, the millionaire was informed of the situation before purchasing the plot. What remains in doubt is whether he understood the meaning of that note. The Pacific Legal Foundation, which supports the millionaire in his lawsuit, already led the battle two decades ago to eliminate the bald eagle protection When the bird lived in multiple states, the main difference with the case of the jay is that this species can only live in Florida and has nowhere to go if it loses its habitat. In Xataka | Of all the places there were to build a $400,000 house, this millionaire chose the most unusual: in a tree Image | Flickr (FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Dan Irizarry), unsplash (Alejandra Cifre González)

Faced with the fear of a barrel of oil at $200, the US has made an unprecedented decision: remove sanctions on Russia

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After almost two weeks, the Iran war already has a great (and unexpected) beneficiary: the Kremlin. days after giving carte blanche to India to buy million barrels of Russian crude without fear of sanctions, yesterday Washington was one step further by lifting (partially) the sanctions imposed on the Russian oil industry after the invasion of Ukraine. With this, he hopes to alleviate the effects of the Iran war on the energy market and prevent Tehran’s threat from becoming a reality: that the barrel of Brent shoots to $200an all-time high. The question is… What will it mean for the war in Ukraine? What has happened? That the US has decided to pause the sanctions that penalize the purchase of Russian oil, a measure adopted four years ago and which seeks asphyxiate the Kremlin’s ability to finance its troops in Ukraine. The White House just published an order in which it gives the green light to the purchase of crude oil and oil products from Russia. Of course, with small print. The suspension of sanctions is temporary. It will only affect merchandise previously loaded on ships and (a priori) will be limited to one month: from March 12 to April 11. Click on the image to go to the tweet. Why do you do it? The task of announcing the measure has been the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bressent, who a few hours ago insisted in the White House’s efforts to “promote stability” in the global energy market and above all “keep prices low” while the Iran war lasts. “To expand global supply reach, Treasury grants temporary authorization for countries to purchase Russian oil stranded at sea,” explains the high office. “This measure, which is limited in scope and short-term, applies only to oil that is already in transit.” In the same messageBressent insists that the rise in crude oil prices this week, coinciding with the escalation of tension in the Persian Gulf, is “temporary” and claims that “in the long term it will greatly benefit” the US economy. In recent days, Trump himself has tried to downplay the fluctuations in the Brent barrel. Recently he even stated that, being “the largest oil producer”, the US makes “a lot of money” when crude oil rises. Does context matter? A lot. In fact, the decision of the Treasury Department cannot be understood without taking into account several factors. The first, the escalation in the value of oil to which Bressent himself refers. The stock charts show that the cost of a barrel of Brent has skyrocketed in recent days: from marking just under 70 dollars in mid-February, it has gone above 90, with peaks that exceeded the barrier of the 100. Those fluctuations already affect to those who need to fill the car tank and threaten to go beyond transportation, infecting the shopping basket. What will happen now? The problem is not just how much oil has risen over the last two weeks. There is (very much) concern that the barrel of Brent will continue to become more expensive and, if so, by how much. The Iranian regime already has shown its ability to condition oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic maritime passage that channels 20% of international oil, and Tehran seems willing to use ‘black gold’ as a weapon of war. On Wednesday the regime of the ayatollahs threatened to the US (and the West) with a scenario in which the Brent barrel doubles its value and shoots up to $200, shattering the all-time high of 2008, when it reached $174.5. How will it affect Russia? That’s the other big question. The order just published by the US Treasury will allow Russia to market oil for a month without its customers risking sanctions, generating a flow of cash for the Kremlin. Bressent questions in any case the scope of that injection of funds. “It will not bring significant financial benefits to the Russian government, which derives most of its energy revenue from taxes levied at the point of extraction,” defend the secretary. Is it an exceptional measure? The truth is that it is not the first ‘balloon of oxygen’ that Trump has granted to the Russian oil industry since he began his military operation in Iran. It’s been a week now temporarily relaxed its sanctions policy so that India can buy Russian oil. The measure was approved with conditions very similar to those that Washington now extends to the rest of the countries: a 30-day suspension limited to crude oil already loaded on ships. It is not the only card that the White House has tried to reduce market tension. Another, adopted hand in hand of the International Energy Agency, has been to release millions of barrels of reserves. How much will it benefit Moscow? The great unknown. The measure approved by the US is temporary and has a limited scope, but it will probably allow the Kremlin to sell its oil without having to apply significant discounts to offset the possible sanctions that its buyers faced. Recently Financial Times I calculated that Russia is already winning up to 150 million of dollars in extra income every day through the sale of oil, a plus directly related to the conflict in Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the turbulence in the Gulf and the growing interest of India and China. But will it help the Kremlin? The situation of the Russian coffers is not particularly buoyant. Its public deficit accumulated during the first two months of the year almost reaches the objective set for the entire year and there are those who question that the extra injection it will receive over the next month thanks to oil will increase its room for maneuver in Ukraine. The reason: hydrocarbons represent only a part of the income (relevant, but not decisive) on which the Kremlin depends, which after four years of war has seen how the country’s military industry is conditioning its economy. Images | … Read more

enter Iran to remove a buried “treasure” of 441 kg that gives meaning to the war

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Since 1921 when the Italian general Giulio Douhet argued that bombers could win wars by destroying the “vital centers” of a country, air power has fascinated strategists and politicians. However, more than a century of conflict has left a lingering paradox: even the most devastating bombing campaigns in history have, sooner or later, required something much riskier than airplanes to truly decide a war. Especially if, as in almost all wars, one seeks to give meaning to the nonsense. The historical limit. They told it this morning in a special report from the Wall Street Journal. The war started with intense bombing campaign on Iran has once again put on the table an uncomfortable lesson from military history: planes, missiles and bombs can destroy infrastructure, armies and arsenals, but they rarely bring down a regime on their own. Despite the wishes expressed in Washington to bring about political change in Tehran, the military commanders themselves have lowered expectations and they have insisted that the real objective of the campaign is to degrade Iranian offensive capabilities, whether missiles, drones or naval forces, and to wear down its nuclear program. The reason is simple. Even after weeks of attacks, the power structures of the Iranian state they are still intactbacked by military and paramilitary forces that number hundreds of thousands of troops and whose main interest is to maintain the system as it is. Nor does historical precedent help support the idea that strategic bombing alone can decide a war: neither World War II, nor Kosovo, nor Libya. they managed to change governments only from the air. In all cases there were forces on the ground, local insurgencies or invasions that ended up tipping the balance. Members of the US Army using nuclear material detection tools during an exercise No main objective. That air power limit has a immediate strategic consequence: Although the bombings may reduce Iran’s military capacity, they do not guarantee that what gave rise to the conflict will disappear, if there ever was something tangible. The central official concern remains nuclear material that the country has accumulated for years and that represents a latent option to manufacture atomic weapons in a short time. The air campaign can destroy facilities, seal access or delay the program, but it cannot guarantee anything much more complicated: locate, control and neutralize fissile material that already exists. The dilemma is especially serious if the regime survives the conflict or if the Iranian State enters a phase of internal chaos, because that scenario would open the door for some of that material to end up in the hands of regional militias, non-state actors or even black market networks. In other words, war can weaken the adversary without solving the problem that caused it. U.S. Army Soldiers with the 128th Chemical Company, 337th Engineer Battalion conduct reconnaissance in an underground tunnel during an exercise in Lithuania in 2025 The buried “treasure” that gives meaning to war. At the center of this dilemma is a specific piece of information that summarizes all the strategic tension: some 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%, enough to produce material for various nuclear weapons if taken to levels of military purity. This material, stored mainly in underground facilities deeply protected, is the true objective that explains the military campaign. As long as it exists and remains out of control, any aerial victory will be incomplete. The paradox is that this nuclear “treasure” is designed precisely to withstand the type of war that the United States and Israel have been fighting: buried facilities, protected by layers of concrete and rock, designed to survive bombings. Destroying buildings is relatively easy, but destroying or capture nuclear material stored underground is another story entirely. The last mission: enter Iran. Thus we come to a stage which is closer than ever to the rhetoric that the United States has tried to inoculate the planet through a species trailer hollywood. Because an idea has begun to appear that until recently seemed extreme: the possibility of a ground raid of special forces to physically seize Iranian nuclear material or neutralize it in situ. The reasoning is brutally simple. If bombing cannot guarantee control of the enriched uranium, someone will have to go looking for it. They counted the TWZ analysts that, in American strategic circles, there is talk of operations in which elite commandos would penetrate facilities underground, they would secure the material and decide on the spot whether to transport it out of the country or reduce its purity to make it unusable. There is no doubt, it would be a extremely complex operationalmost movie makerwhich would combine special forces, nuclear experts and possibly specialized technical personnel, with the aim of securing material that cannot simply be destroyed with explosives without causing radiological risks. Possible, but almost suicidal. The problem is that such a mission would be one of the military operations riskiest imaginable. The material weighs hundreds of kilos and it is probably stored in armored containers, which would greatly complicate its transportation. The facilities are buried, protected and defended by forces that consider these facilities one of the country’s most important strategic assets. To access them it may be necessary open tunnels or remove tons of earth and concrete as the Iranian army tries to react. The longer the assault force remains on the ground, the more likely the Iranian forces will organize a counterattack with artillery, missiles or ground units. Added to this is the difficulty of infiltrating and extracting a relatively large contingent of operators loaded with specialized equipment in the middle of an open conflict. The logic that moves it. Despite everything, strategic logic pushes towards that direction. If nuclear material is dispersed, hidden, or moved to multiple locations, the problem will multiply and any attempt to neutralize it will be even more difficult. Furthermore, bombing convoys or depots from the air could disperse radioactive material without eliminating the threat. In that context, physically securing uranium becomes the solution to … Read more

Spotify has had to remove 75 million songs made with AI. Bandcamp has decided not to have that problem

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The Bandcamp music streaming and sales platform has announced that will completely ban music generated “in whole or in substantial part” by artificial intelligence, becoming the first major music distribution service to establish such a restrictive barrier against synthetic content. Bandcamp thus draws a very clear red line in the debate about where the use of creative tools ends and where total automation that dispenses with human authorship begins. What does the statement say? Bandcamp’s statement presents two fundamental prohibitions. On the one hand, any musical content generated entirely or substantially through artificial intelligence, a formulation that avoids defining exact percentages but establishes that there is a threshold regarding the weight of AI in the creative process. On the other hand, it extends the prohibition to the use of algorithmic tools to replicate styles or voices of real artists, connecting this restriction with the platform’s pre-existing policies against identity theft and intellectual property infringement. Citizen collaboration. The advertisement includes a complaint mechanism For users: users can report suspicious material using the platform’s reporting tools, which will be reviewed by a moderation team. The company explicitly reserves the right to remove music suspected of having synthetic origin, without the need for conclusive evidence, a clause that gives wide freedom to moderators but could also generate false positives. The company acknowledged that the policy may require updates as the generative AI landscape evolves, referring to how quickly these technologies are being developed. The conceptual debate. This decision is part of the debate about AI and creativity that is going through the world of culture: using algorithms as instruments as opposed to delegating the creative act to them. The United States Copyright Office established in January 2025 that work generated by AI can be registered when it “incorporates significant human authorship,” but that content produced solely through promptswithout additional creative intervention, falls into the public domain for lack of a recognizable author. Nuances and tools. And it is difficult to determine the limits. The spectrum ranges from musicians who use AI to clean up audio or get inspired by melodies to those who simply write text instructions and let the model generate entire tracks. There are conceptual artists who go to the opposite extreme of artificial intervention: composer Holly Herndon turned her voice into the project Holly+ into a “digital instrument” that is publicly accessible and that other musicians can play. The debate is endless: MIT Technology Review raised in April that tools like Suno and Udio produce “creators” who are not conventional musicians but “prompters“. The result is works that cannot be attributed to a composer or singer, dissolving the usual definitions of authorship. The flood. The figures reveal an exponential escalation in the appearance of music created with AI on platforms. Deezer spoke in November 2025 of more than 50,000 tracks completely generated by AI each day, 34% of its daily volume, and an increase of 400% compared to January, when the figure was 10,000 songs per day. A study by Deezer itself said that 97% of listeners do not know how to distinguish between human and synthetic music after a blind test for the participants in the study in which they were shown two tracks, one with AI and one real. The Spotify drama. While, Spotify revealed in September 2025 which had removed 75 million “spam tracks” in the previous twelve months, an amount that rivals the platform’s entire catalog of 100 million songs. The emblematic case of the fictional indie band The Velvet Sundown illustrates the dimension of the phenomenon: this group completely generated by AI It reached 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify during the summer of 2025 before its creators admitted its synthetic nature, under pressure from listeners. Follow the money. The case of Xania Monet is another side of the problem. This fully synthetic R&B artist generated over $42,800 in less than two months with over 17 million streams totals, which led to the signing of a multimillion-dollar record contract after a bidding war where a record company allegedly offered $3 million. At the same time, country was the first genre to be marked as a big loser in this war between real and synthetic artists: in December 2025, the number of country songs generated by AI outsold completely human jobs. There is a clear motive for these maneuvers: money. Tools like Suno and Udio produce for free and a user can generate hundreds of short tracks that can generate profits. Let’s multiply it exponentially: massive uploads to platforms, bot farms that generate songs and upload songs without rest, automation of payments… We are not looking for isolated successes, but to add millions of reproductions, against which a real artist cannot compete. Percentages. And that’s why Bandcamp and Spotify are so different. Bandcamp is a marketplace straight where artists charge an average of 82% of each sale, with the platform keeping 15% on digital items and 10% on physical items, with additional payment processing commissions of 4-7%. bandcamp has paid more than 1,640,000 million dollars directly to artists and labels since its founding in 2008, with 19 million transferred in 2025 alone thanks to “Bandcamp Fridays”, days in which the company completely waives its commission. This structure makes AI-generated music counterproductive for the platform: no one buys synthetic albums produced by AI. prompts. Spotify, meanwhile, operates on a subscription basis, distributing roughly two-thirds of its total revenue in royalties. The platform paid 10 billion dollars to the music industry in 2024but the average payment for stream ranges between 0.003 and 0.005 dollars. Besides,Spotify implemented a threshold of 1,000 annual streams in 2024 for a track to generate royalties. This structure creates perverse incentives to “cheat”: virtually free AI production, mass uploading of tracks, use of bot farms to inflate the number of views… The pay-per-play system stream It allows tiny fractions of a cent to turn into million-dollar amounts if there is enough volume. The reaction. The Bandcamp movement has some protection of its image, … Read more

how to remove all AI features easily with RemoveWindowsAI

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Let’s explain to you how to disable native AI features of Windows 11, so you can disable them. These features can be useful if you like to use the artificial intelligencealthough they can also slow down your computer and compromise your privacy. Therefore, a developer has created an open source tool called RemoveWindowsAI. This tool It is a script with which almost all the AI ​​functions that Microsoft has added to Windows will be disabled, and all of this without having to install anything to make it as easy as possible. What functions does this script remove? What RemoveWindowsAI does is remove many AI components and functions in Windows, so you can no longer use them. What it does is the following: Disable Copilot Disable Recall Disable Input Insights and typed data collection Disable Copilot in Edge Disable Image Creator in Paint Remove AI Fabric Service Disable AI Actions Disable AI in Paint Disable Voice Access Disable AI Voice Effects Disable AI in Settings Search RemoveWindowsAI also disables the reinstallation of packages related to AI functions, so that when Windows detects that it does not work it does not activate them again. It does this by tricking Windows and installing a command that tells it that there are new versions of these functions. It also disables other features such as AI rewrite in notepad. Not all functions can be removed with this scriptalthough the creator’s idea is that almost all of them or at least the main ones are no longer present in Windows. How to use RemoveWindowsAI in Windows 11 The first thing you have to do is open Windows PowerShell with administrator permissions. To do this, press the start menu and type PowerShell. When you put the mouse over the tool, in the options that appear click on Run as administrator. Once you have opened PowerShell as an administrator, simply you have to paste this code and press Enter. The code is the following: & ((scriptblock)::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI/main/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1”))) When you write this code with all the symbols, a window will open where you can go marking all the features that you can disable. When you have all downloaded, click on the button Apply that appears green and that’s it. There is also a script to install classic applications of Paint or notepad without artificial intelligence. For that, you just have to run the code: & ((scriptblock)::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI/main/RemoveWindowsAi.ps1”))) -nonInteractive -InstallClassicApps photoviewer,mspaint,snippingtool,notepad In Xataka Basics | Windows 10 is dead: what happens if you still have it installed, what dangers there are, and how to update to Windows 11

Dyson goes for Roborock with a robot that aspires, fiega and uses AI to remove difficult stains

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Dyson has made his appliances become objects of desire. Your hand vacuners are your flagship, but there is a category in which Chinese brands advanced them on the right: that of the vacuum robots. Dyson wants to change the narrative with the NEW SPOT+SCRUB AI. Let’s see what it offers. A little history Dyson marked a trend with his hand vacuners. It has also become strong in other categories such as air purifiers or hair care. However, as far as vacuuming robots, it is enough to make a brief review of its history to see that They were not among their priorities. In 2014 they presented the Dyson 360 Eye And it was not until 2020 that they launched their successor, the Dyson 360 Heurist. Finally, last year, the Dyson 360 Vis Christmas. Although with differences between them, in essence, the three proposals that Dyson has presented us so far are vacuum robots quite traditional. They have no deposit at the base and only aspire. Meanwhile, competition has been adding functionalities and today we have the most complete robots. The bases that self -life and autolimpian are already the norm, But it is also the most crazy proposals as the robotic arm of the Roborock Saros either east of dreame capable of climbing stairs. Dyson Spot+Scrub AI: aspires, fiery and eliminates spots thanks to AI The base has a clean water tank, another for dirty water and another to collect the dirt that it aspires. The Dyson Spot+Scrub AI is the first vacuum robot that has a base that makes us forget to empty or recharge the water. We talked about an advantage that the competition has already offered for years, specifically since 2018 when Irobot presented the Roba i7+. Of course, Dyson’s proposal has something interesting: The dust deposit does not need a bag, It simply opens and throws all the content, very in the style of its hand vacuners. It is also the first Dyson robot with scrubber function. Instead of having a mop system as usual, in this case it is A roller that is self -limpia while fiery Thanks to its 12 -point hydration system. Again, scrubbing is a function that He arrived at the vacuum robots a long time agoAt first it was quite rudimentary, but it has currently improved a lot and there are already robots to which we can delegate that task without fear of leaving the ground worse. Dyson’s most prominent argument to sell us his new robot is artificial intelligence. Has an AI system that Identify the type of spot and thus decide how many past do it to eliminate it completely. Dyson presumes that he can give up to 15 passes and check the ground to make sure there are no remains. If you have used a robot with scrubbing function, you probably have proven that difficult spots are not exactly their strong; For that, it better resorts to the lifetime or an electric. If Dyson achieves a good result in dirty soils that makes us forget about the mop, his robot You can get a hole in the competitive robot showcase. However, although on paper it is its most complete proposal to date, it is still something that its competitors already offer. Another factor is the price. At the moment Dyson has not confirmed it, but knowing his career, he does not look like it will be precisely economic. It will be Available at the end of the year. Images | Dyson In Xataka | The latest Roborock does not aspire to the ground. It is a 1,500 euros washing machine and the confirmation that China goes for appliances

Plan to remove 2,000 million from the chips and give them to critical minerals

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Donald Trump has criticized on many occasions The Chips Law approved in July 2022 by the government of Joe Biden. At the end of last January and just a week after returning to the White House, the US president He made this statement: “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want them to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars in The ridiculous Biden program. They already have billions of dollars. “ “The ridiculous Biden program.” It is evident that Donald Trump doesn’t like Chips law at all. Three months before, in October 2024, I had already charged ferocity against this program of the previous administration In Joe Rogan’s podcast: “We put millions of dollars on the table so that rich companies came, they borrow the money and build chip companies here. And they will not give us the best companies.” At that time the possibility that Donald Trump dismantled the Chips program if he arrived at the government was on the table, which caused semiconductor manufacturers They were hurry to collect subsidies Before his return. The partial dismantling of the Chips Law is on the table Presumably Intel, TSMC, Globalfoundries and other designers and manufacturers of integrated circuits have already charged the subsidies of the Chips program assigned to them during the mandate of Joe Biden. Or part of these funds. A priori the money that has already been delivered will not be returned to the administration, but a part of the funds remains in the hands of the Department of Commerce, which is currently led by Howard Lutnick. AND, According to Reutersthe government is considering reallocating at least 2,000 million dollars. China is restricting the export of many of these minerals in response to US sanctions and their allies If this measure thrives those funds initially reserved for semiconductor research and the construction of chips factories will be used to finance projects dedicated to obtaining and the processing of critical minerals. At the moment China controls extraction, processing and the distribution chain of a good part of this crucial strategic resource for many industries, such as integrated circuits, telecommunications, batteries or the electric car, among others. And the country led by Xi Jinping is restricting export of many of these minerals in response to the US sanctions and their allies. The US needs to drastically reduce its dependence on critical minerals controlled by China, and the decisions that Donald Trump has made during recent months reflect clearly that he is much more worried about reinforce the American land industry to deliver subsidies to chips manufacturers. However, the reallocation of these 2,000 million dollars will have an additional effect, if it thrives, it is worth not overlooking: Howard Lutnick will expand its influence to the critical mineral sector. And this manager has the total confidence of Donald Trump. Image | TSMC | Gage Skidmore More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US will not be able to contain the technological development of China. Experts from the chips industry forecast it

Remove the talgo from the discord from the Madrid-Barcelona line

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In theory they were going to be one of Renfe’s great tricks to compete in the market newly liberalized of high Spanish speed, but the Avril de Talgo trains They have been choked to the railway operator. First by The delay In your delivery. Then for the punctuality problems or the “Effect 2000” who suffered trains at the beginning of 2025. and now for a technical incident that has led Renfe to make a radical decision, according to advances The world: to do without the Avril in one of its most important corridors, Madrid-Barcelona. And all this in the middle of summer. What happened? That Renfe has decided to do without the Talgo-Avril trains (106 series) in one of its most important corridors: the Madrid-Barcelona line. The news He has confirmed it The worldwhich points out that the operator has decided to make a particular ‘Sudoku’ to separate the S106 of the Avlo service that links the city and the capital of the country. The decision comes after a technical problem was detected (cracks in a Bogie) that forced the change of pieces. According to Precise The worldthe rail operator has chosen to remove the Avril from the Madrid-Barcelona line and change them for other trains of the 103 (Siemens) series assigned so far to another of Renfe’s most important corridors, which links Madrid and Seville. The ‘files’ movement has forced S100 to be used between Valencia and Madrid and assign the Avril to Levante. Is it a surprise? Not quite. Last week The economist had echoed already An internal message of Renfe in which he warned his employees that, “due to lack of Bogies of replacement “it was” foreseeable “that the S106 trains of Barcelona was temporarily out of service. Now The world It goes further And he clarifies that Renfe has an Avril section due to lack of spare parts and has chosen to withdraw the rest of the Madrid-Barcelona corridor. And all that, why? By an incident that dates back a few weeks ago, when during a routine review fissures were found in a Bogie of one of the S106 trains (Avril) that provide the service Low Cost Avlo on the Madrid-Barcelona line. He Bogie Integrates suspension systems, wheels, axes and brakes of the cars and the revision of the fleet found that it was not a timely failure. The same problem was detected in the rest of the units (there are five Avril trains assigned to the Madrid-Barcelona corridor), so the affected pieces had to be changed. During that process, Precise The economistRenfe came to suspend the sale of Avlo service tickets between Madrid and Barcelona for the month of August (something that the operator denies) and it was agreed to reduce the maximum speed at which the S106 circulates in a section of 190 km in the Madrid-Barcelona line. What does Renfe say? The operator launched An official statement At the end of July, before the circular that sent its employees was filtered, confirming that during a routine review it was identified “A technical anomaly” In one of the five trains of the 106 series that circulate in the high speed Madrid-Barcelona, which led him to “carry out an exhaustive review” in the rest of trains. “The necessary measures to guarantee the operation of the service were adopted, proceeding to replace the affected systems and reinforce the technical reviews, so that the trains are operating without any anomaly,” Clarifies the operatorwhich ensures that he has carried out inspections in other S106 fleet trains without detecting “any abnormality.” However, in the same statement the company advances its decision to “reorganize” the Avlo services of the 106 series that circulate in the high speed Madrid-Barcelona. Is there more? Yes. After the information of recent days and that Populi voice Publish images of the Bogies spoiled, some unions They have asked to Renfe to withdraw all the units of the model from the circulation. The five Talgo Avril S106 that cover the Avlo service in the Madrid-Barcelona corridor are not the only ones the rail operator has. The fleet exceeds twenty units. The economist Precise In any case that not all units are the same. There would be a subsorie of 15 units endowed with Bogies Iberian wide including the five affected trains. And another 15 of movable rolling with other components that allow the train to combine different types of network. The same newspaper He slippedH oce a few days that the fissures detected in several Bogies He has opened a new front between the trains manufacturer, Talgo, and Renfe: who must assume the cost of repair. The units would still be in the guarantee period, since the Avril were delivered 15 months ago, in May 2024. Why is it important? Because beyond its effects on the Madrid-Barcelona line in the middle of summer, the relationship between Renfe and Talgo on account of the S106 trains, the great commitment of the rail operator to fight in a newly liberalized market. First the trains were delivered with a remarkable delay, which resulted in a fine of 116 million euros that catches the firm In full sale. That bad start was followed punctuality problems and a computer failure at the beginning of this year that was known as “Effect 2000”. In the specific case of the Madrid-Barcelona line, Talgo alleges that the problem is that part of the journey is not in conditions for their trains to reach 300 km/h, according to Precise The world. For Adif, things are very different and remember that other models or operators such as Ouigo or Iro have not detected problems. Images | Nelso Silva (Flickr) and Renfe In Xataka | Portugal has taken a decisive step for its high -speed trains network. One that brings him closer to Galicia, not Madrid

The oil market is so broken that Spain already prepares its great weapon to fix it: remove oil via decree

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They do not run easy times for the olive oil market. Or rather, they run paradoxical times. In recent years, farmers had to deal with bad harvests that raised prices and They punished consumption. Now they enjoy a good campaign that will overcome the 1.4 million tonsbut things are not much better. The prices they charge They have fallen so much that they have left them in a committed situation, with a Great hole In your income. Given that scenario, the government has decided to move and endow A ‘Nuclear button’ That, if necessary, it will allow you to stabilize the market in the 2025-2026 campaign. As? Removing oil if the harvest is very abundant. What happened? That the Ministry of Agriculture wants to anticipate a possible imbalance in the extra virgin olive oil sector. In view of The good prospects Of the 2024-2025 campaign and the fear that this abundance of fruit ends up impacting the Spanish market, the government has launched its administrative machinery to have a tool that allows it to re-may be rebuilt. As? Basically removing oil from the oil mills. Remove olive oil? Exact. The community regulations allow states to activate a “marketing standard” for the olive oil sector that “improves and stabilizes” its market. That general framework moved to Spain with the Royal Decree 84/2021which in turn contemplates that “when the conditions justify it” it is withdrawn as a result of the markets, reserving it for the next campaign or even dedicating it to a different use to that of food. The process, yes, is somewhat more complex and requires that the autonomies and organizations representing the sector be consulted before. And that is precisely what the Ministry of Agriculture has just done: open A public consultation so that those who want to comment on their order for the 2025/2026 campaign can do so. The observations can be sent until next Wednesday. And why do you do it? For the data that arrive from the olive sector itself. Although the crops of 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 were rather Parcas (666,000 and 854,500 tons, respectively), which contributed to the price of olive oil to be triggered in the stores, the current panorama is quite different. It is estimated that the current campaign, which started in October and will end in September, will leave More than 1.4 million of tons. In March the Minister of the Branch, Luis Planas, even He spoke of 1.42 million. There are who is even More optimistic and talks about major figures for the next campaign. And how do prices respond? If in 2023 and 2024, coinciding with the bad harvests, the price of olive oil came to be around nine euros per kilo in the case of the Aove, now, with a generous campaign, that value has been reduced to 3.59 euros. And so It is a problem For farmers. Juan Luis Ávila, from COAG, warned In May that while the consumer pays about six euros for the liter of oil, the producers receive less than 3.5 euros for the AVE, which would be below the cost of production in the olive groves. What is that fall? The million dollar question. Especially since farmers ensure that market prices are not those that should in current circumstances. “The data is overwhelming and alarming, since there is an unjustified lag of more than two euros per kilo between the real price at the origin of olive oil and the value it should have,” He warned in May Miguel Padilla, of the Coordinator of Agriculture and Livestock Organizations, COAG. To reinforce its position, the collective even presented A report which estimated that the Aove should quote 5.55-6.14 euros per kilo in the current campaign, far from what the olivicultores perceive. “Speculation Campa at ease”, regrets UPA General Secretary, Cristóbal Cano, who believes that there should be “a different pricaries in the market, according to the law of supply and demand.” What will the new standard be for? With its new order for the 2025-2026 campaign, the government wants to be prepared to “stabilize” the market with a clear strategy: withdrawing product. From the Ministry they advance, yes, that will only happen “if high production estimates are found that can generate imbalances.” I would be The first time That the Planas department activates the mandatory oil withdrawal mechanism to rebalance the market. What does the sector think? The EFE agency has spoken with several organizations, such as ASAJA, COAG, UPA, UDU or agro-food cooperatives, which the initiative see with good entrance. “It is absolutely essential to have all the prepared machinery. Until now we had not needed, but before a predictable good harvest we have seen the convenience of activating it, as simple as possible, to avoid the sinking of prices,” comment In DCoop. Not everyone is equally optimistic. In Murcia there are producers who They are suspicious that the oil withdrawal from the market to control prices is the effective solution. Images | Government of Castilla-La Mancha (Flickr) and Deoleo In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico

Amazon tried to remove the dependents and ATMs of the equation. But who has really achieved it is Inditex

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Amazon imagined a system of Automated stores in which the client should not even worry about. However, It has not been The giant founded by Jeff Bezos who is the best results in this goal. Who is breaking it is Inditex. In the last presentation of results, the Textile multinational assured that its autopagogue system is being a resounding success in some stores of the firm, reaching 90% of the total operations in some cases, such and as they point out in Five days. The passage through box, a critical moment. The time to pay has always been one of the most delicate in the shopping experience, especially for The long lines that can be formed in traditional boxes. Therefore, the arrival of autophagous systems has meant a radical change in supermarkets and large stores. In some of the most relevant stores of the Inditex Group, the number of autophagous transactions has exceeded the collection operations in conventional box. This figure, which practically doubles the one of the previous year, shows that the autopagogue model has ceased to be a simple trend to become the norm in many of its most advanced premises. More technological investment. The good Inditex results in their payment experience have their origin in the investment of brands such as Zara in Automated payment systems whose pilot test was launched in March 2025 in four establishments of the firm in Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Bilbao and Barcelona. This investment is not only to install more autophagous positions, but also accompanied by different mobile technologies. Through a tablet any store employee scan the “soft labels” of the garments through NFCadd them to a virtual basket and the customer can pay their purchase instantly with your mobile card or payment. When completing the payment, the RFID label integrated in the garment is deactivated. Together, Inditex claims to offer an experience similar to online purchasebut face -to -face in store and with garments in hand. Priority in new openings and Flagships. According to Gorka García-Tapia, director of relationship with investors in Inditex, the multinational has begun to prioritize the use of this autopagogue model in some of the new openings of their brands of all the world. He has also applied it to some of his Flagships such as Zara de Plaza de España in Madrid, Major Zara in Spain, and in other new international locations such as Los Angeles and Nanjing. Automatizing the purchase process contributes to these new stores Be more profitable. Article 14 collected The statements of Oscar García Maceiras, CEO of Inditex about the importance of this technology in the purchase experience. “This initiative is part of the commitment to improve customer experience and innovate with new technologies.” Advantages and Challenges of Autophagus. The popularity of autophagous systems is, above all, to the speed and comfort they offer to the reduce queues and wait to be attended in a conventional box. Customers value being able to manage their purchase autonomously and without waiting, which significantly improves their satisfaction. However, these advances also raise important challenges, especially for older people, who can find difficulties to adapt to these new technologies, something that bank has not yet solved with Your ATMs. In addition, there is some concern among consumers for the possible impact on employment. Autophagous systems can be perceived as a threat to jobs that traditionally occupied the ATMs. Companies, on the other hand, defend that the staff can devote themselves to advice and customer service tasks, “allow us to devote more time to improve customer experience,” said García Maceiras. In Xataka | The Inditex formula for Zara’s success is not new. The new thing is that they tell her Image | Flickr (Junta de Andalucía), Inditex

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