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Claude Code is being the big favorite among programmers. So much so that he already signs 4% of everything that is uploaded to GitHub

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It is worth taking a look at how generative AI It is transforming the daily lives of many programmers. And little by little these tools are conquering the environments of millions of developers. The achievement in this aspect is for Claude CodeAnthropic tool, which already represents 4% of all public commits uploaded to GitHub, according to a report by SemiAnalysis. The media says that, if it maintains its current pace of adoption, it is very possible that it will reach 20% of all daily contributions before the end of 2026. Although there are nuances that should be highlighted. Why is it important. Claude Code is slowly gaining the reputation of being the favorite tool for programming with AI. The tool works radically differently than traditional code wizards. It is not a chatbot integrated into an editor like Cursorbut rather a terminal tool that reads entire code bases, schedules multi-step tasks, and executes them with full access to the developer’s computer. You can start from spreadsheets, entire repositories, or web links, understand context, verify details, and complete complex objectives iteratively. The interesting thing is that, by default, Claude Code includes a co-authorship note if the user has used this tool in their program and uploads it to Github. But the user can also decide not to include that signature if modify the parameters by Claude Code, so that 4% could remain small. In March of last year, a month after its launch in private beta, Claude Code already had the co-authorship of about 15,000 Github commits in a period of 48 hours. Things have ended up escalating quickly. Opinions. The newsletter stands out the comments of some industry professionals regarding the vibe codding. Andrej Karpathy, one of the first to coin the term vibe codding, recognized in a post that he is “starting to lose the ability to write code manually.” Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, counted directly that “the era of humans writing code is over.” Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, assures that “practically 100% of our code is written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5“. Even Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has fooled around with vibe codding for some of his personal projects. It should be noted that, despite all the benefits of Claude Code, it is not perfect. Already we pointed out some time ago the words of Kelsey PiperAmerican journalist for The Argument, who explained that 99% of the time using Claude Code is like having a magical, tireless genie, but 1% of the time it’s like yelling at a pet for peeing on the couch. He can and does make mistakes. It also gets stuck. Hence, the expertise of the person who uses it also plays a very important role. Beyond programming. There is an increasingly latent threat with the use of AI tools (well there are a few that accumulate already). And according to account SemiAnalysis, any information work that follows the READ-THINK-WRITE-CHECK pattern can be automated with this technology. The report mentions sectors such as financial services, legal, consulting and data analysis, which add up to billions of workers globally. Anthropic has already taken the next step with coworkreleased a few weeks ago, which is basically Claude Code applied to general office work. According to the company itself, Cowork was developed by four engineers in ten days, mostly with code generated by Claude Code himself. The tool can create spreadsheets from receipts, organize files by content, write reports from scattered notes… And all with access to your computer. The big consultancies and AI. In December, Accenture signed an agreement to train 30,000 professionals on Claude, the largest deployment of Claude Code to date. OpenAI, for its part, Frontier has launched focused on business adoption so as not to lose steam in the field of corporate use of AI, a business that can end up being very lucrative for startups. Cover image | Anthropic and Mohammad Rahmani In Xataka | Programming is the new board of AI. OpenAI and Anthropic have made it clear with GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6

Sanderson finally signs the Cosmere adaptations after years of fighting, and Apple gives him more control than George RR Martin has

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Brandon Sanderson has closed an unprecedented agreement with Apple TV to adapt the literary universe of Cosmere. The platform will develop films based on the ‘Mistborn’ saga and a series of ‘The Storm File’, the author’s two main franchises. The pact gives Sanderson a level of creative control higher than even that enjoyed by JK Rowling or George RR Martin with their respective adaptations: he will be the architect of the universe, he will produce, he will be consulted and he will have the power of approval over creative decisions. Several attempts. The announcement comes after years of deals that did not come together. In 2016, DMG Entertainment acquired the rights to the Cosmere for $270 million for three films, but the project never moved forward. own Sanderson recognized in December 2024, in your annual updatebeing “back at square one” after the collapse of negotiations for a film adaptation of ‘Mistborn’ that had reached very advanced stages of development. The project had taken five years of work, had a finished script and linked actors whose identities he could not reveal. Sanderson later detailed on Reddit that the plan contemplated a hybrid model: a first big-budget film followed by a television season covering the period between books one and two of the original trilogy. A second film would adapt the second book, followed by another transitional season. The main actors would have signed contracts for both film and television. An unusual success. The new agreement with Apple represents the culmination of the publishing phenomenon led by Sanderson: his books have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, a figure that includes both his solo works and his contributions to ‘The Wheel of Time’ by Robert Jordan, which he completed after his death in 2007. In 2022 he established the record for Most successful literary Kickstarter in history by raising 41.7 million to self-publish four secret novels written during the pandemic. But what is the Cosmere? The Cosmere is a shared universe that interconnects multiple fantasy sagas through a common cosmology and interlocking systems of magic. The model resembles Isaac Asimov’s approach with his universe of robots and foundations, although Sanderson planned the connections from the beginning to avoid the need to reconcile items later. The Cosmere encompasses different planets with distinct civilizations, histories and magical systems but based on a shared mythology: the being Adonalsium, whose power fragmented into sixteen shards distributed throughout the cosmos. The agreement. Apple closed the deal after a competitive process in which Sanderson met with most of the top studio executives in Hollywood. In this way, the company is left with a fictional universe that has similarities with another franchise it also owns, ‘Foundation’ (and, in part, with ‘Silo’), which allows it to compete in the field of fantasy and science fiction adaptations with Amazon (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time), HBO (Game of Thrones) and Netflix (The Witcher). It is not the first time that Apple has reached agreements with prestigious creators, such as Alfonso Cuarón (‘Disclaimer’) or Martin Scorsese (‘The Moon Killers’), but none had been given as much creative control as Sanderson. The challenges of the Cosmere. The technical and narrative complexity of the Cosmere poses notable obstacles. For example, magic systems: Allomancy in ‘Mistborn’ allows users to “burn” ingested metals to obtain supernatural abilities differentiated according to each metal. Sanderson expressed on Reddit his concern about a possible oversimplification that denaturalizes these systems, designed with coherent internal rules that structure entire plots. The length of the works is another problem: the books often easily exceed a thousand pages. For example, the five Stormlight Archive books add up to nearly two and a half million words, and Sanderson plans ten volumes in total. The expectation. The announcement made by the author on Reddit generated thousands of comments analyzing the implications of the level of creative control guaranteed to the author. The closest precedent to this model could be Peter Jackson with ‘The Lord of the Rings’, although in that case the author of the original work was absent. Meanwhile, Sanderson asks for patience: film development requires years of prior work, usually between two and three, before reaching the production phase. What is clear is that although Sanderson’s presence provides guarantees and Apple is potentially a great option for adaptation, the process is not going to be easy. In Xataka | Brandon Sanderson eviscerates the Cosmere, his narrative technique, which includes an Excel sheet, and the moment that made him a writer

has already begun to show signs of reactivation

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In 1982, the Chichón volcano, popularly known as ‘El Chichonal’, starred in one of the most violent eruptive episodes in modern history of Mexico, even altering the global climate. Four decades later, the sleeping giant of Chiapas draws the attention of science again and not because it has begun to release lava down its slopes, but rather something more subtle and geochemical. New signs. Recent data presented by the UNAM Institute of Geophysics It is showing quite notable physical-chemical variations, from temperatures that exceed the boiling point at the bottom to the appearance of sulfur spheres. And this is something that is causing geologists to call for more surveillance and exhaustive control of people who approach the crater. From algae to sulfates. For years, Chichón Crater Lake has been a visually striking tourist attraction, often characterized by shades of green due to the presence of algae. However, Patricia Jácome Paz, researcher at the UNAM IGf, has revealed at the Volcanology Seminar that the lake’s ecosystem has been transformed. Monitoring has detected a fairly aggressive transition: algae have given way to sulfates and silica. And this is something that informs us about what is happening at the bottom of the volcano, highlighting above all the great gas activity that is evidenced by the appearance of sulfur spheres. Other factors. Beyond sulfates, extreme temperatures are also making an appearance at the bottom of the lake where up to 118 °C have been recorded. Additionally, there is an increase in chloride concentration, suggesting greater interaction between magmatic gases and groundwater. The invisible danger. Beyond water chemistry, the biggest current risk to visitors and locals is not an imminent explosion, but what is not seen. Primary sources from the UNAM and Civil Protection reports warn about the emission of toxic gases that can end up in the airways. The 2025 analysis highlights in this case the presence of a large amount of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. Their big problem is that, having a density greater than that of air, they tend to accumulate in the lower areas of the crater, creating deadly “traps” for those who descend without protective equipment. Inhaling it can cause dizziness or serious respiratory damage and that is why access to the crater is restricted. Eruption imminent? Without a doubt the million dollar question, and the short answer is no. In these cases it is necessary to differentiate between magmatic activity and hydrothermal activity, that is, water heated by the residual heat of the volcano. In this volcano, at the moment no deformation of the terrain has been detected that indicates that the dreaded lava is emerging, but a very active hydrothermal system has been seen that can generate phreatic events. These are nothing more than minor explosions caused by water vapor pressure, not lava, but they are still very dangerous in the immediate radius of the crater. Listening to the volcano. So that these changes do not take anyone by surprise, science has deployed a reinforced monitoring protocol which includes additional stations installed from June 2025 to detect the increase in local seismicity. In addition, it is decided to make a millimeter measurement of the terrain to rule out swelling and have constant water sampling. A great impact. And the truth is that all these measures are not nonsense, since they would affect a 30 km radius where approximately 100,000 people live. But the most important thing is undoubtedly the newspaper library, keeping in mind the year 1982, which determines that the population is already trained with the steps to follow in the event that this situation arises. In Xataka | The Virgin appeared inside a volcano in La Garrotxa. So they built one of the most special hermitages in the world

In Spain we are used to the signs on highways and highways being blue. In other countries not

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If you have ever had to drive or pass near a highway in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and many other countries in Europe, you will have noticed something curious: the road signs are not blue, but green. This is something that I was always curious to know why a few years ago, and there is more to the story than it seems. And it is the result of a series of historical and cultural decisions that each country made separately when developing its high-capacity road network. The origin of the “problem.” Europe has had a common road signaling system since 1968, when the Vienna Convention on Road Signs. This treaty unified the shapes, symbols and many traffic rules, but left each country free to choose the colors of the orientation signs. The agreement establishes that road markings can be white or yellow, and that pictograms must be internationally recognizable, but does not impose a single color for highways. Therefore, even if you drive throughout Europe under more or less similar rules, the colors of the signs change depending on the country. Image: Maps Interlude Why Spain chose blue. When Spain began to develop its network of highways and highways in the 1970s, it decided to use blue for high-capacity roads and white for conventional roads. This choice responds to a series of practical criteria: blue offered good night visibility with the reflective materials available at that time. Just like Spain, other countries also decided to opt for this color. The green in other countries in Europe. Many other European countries opted for green for their highways. Belgium, Finland, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine, and many other countries have green signage on their highways. The decision has roots in the continent’s early highway systems. The first two major highway networks were the germans (Autobahnen) and the Italian ones (Autostrade), which used blue and green signals respectively. The Italian choice of green probably influenced other Mediterranean and Eastern European countries, while the German scheme remained very consolidated and was imitated directly or indirectly by countries close to or with strong German technical influence. Image: Luigi Chiesa Nor is there one color better than another. Although you might want to start a war and choose sides between countries that use blue or green on their road signs, none is really better than the other. In fact, the main reason why both colors coexist on the continent is because they have not been standardized at the European level. In this sense, both colors fulfill their function perfectly if they are applied consistently within each country. Blue stands out well at night, while green is very legible during the day and is psychologically associated with progress and continuity. As long as each driver can quickly identify what type of road they are using and it can be read clearly and without problem, all good. What is unified. Although the colors vary, the Vienna Convention guarantees that a driver perfectly understands the signs whether he is in one country or another, because the pictograms, shapes and logic of the system are common. Triangles warn of dangers, circles prohibit or oblige, and rectangles inform. This harmonization is what really makes it possible to drive around Europe without having to study every national code. If there are changes, it will not be in the colors. In 2025, the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety launched a proposed amendment which could completely modify the text of the Vienna Convention, including new numbering for all signs. What will not change are the colors on the road signs, so each country will continue to have free rein to maintain its tradition. First because it works, and second because we are already used to it and that on the road means saving a lot of time. Cover image | Google Maps In Xataka | Madrid has committed to having an F1 circuit in September: at the moment it has an open field and four streets of a PAU

Someone Has Taken a Look at the Earth’s Vital Signs and Came to a Conclusion: We Should Worry

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Climate change is an emergency that should concern all of us because of the important implications it can have for our daily lives. But when asked how advanced this climate change is, a study wanted to analyze 22 of the 34 planetary ‘vital signs’ such as global temperature, ice mass or ocean heat. and the truth is what should we worry about. Climate chaos. The objective that we must have before us in these cases is to reverse the conditions that are generating great climate change that we are living with summers that every time they are hotter and also longer. That is why it is important to know these signs and also have tools to control them. And although at the moment we do not have good news about the immediate future, the truth is that the experts They suggest that we still have time to reverse some of these critical points. Red numbers. The report confirms that 2024 was the hottest year ever recordedand in Spain we experience it especially with different very intense heat waves. What’s more, scientists say it was probably warmer than the peak of the last interglacial period, approximately 125,000 years ago. But this is not an isolated event. Global warming appears to be accelerating and the impacts are no longer future threats, but rather “here and now.” Among the different points that have been analyzed in this report, some have been highlighted as the most important ones that have surpassed the most dangerous records. The points with the ‘worst grade’. ocean heat reached an all-time high. This extreme heat contributed to the most extensive coral bleaching event ever recorded, affecting 84% of the world’s reefs between early 2023 and May 2025. Ice loss. So far in 2025, the ice masses of Greenland and Antarctica have reached historic lows and scientists warn in this case that the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica could be passing critical tipping points that could commit the planet to rising sea levels. Forest fires. Something especially pronounced in our country, especially this summer, and which results in the loss of a large number of trees and vegetation, which reduces the planet’s ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases. Methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide have reached in this case historical figures throughout 2025. The human culprit. The report is clear in pointing out that the “human enterprise” is the driving force of this crisis. The global human population, ruminant livestock and meat consumption are at historic highs, but the most important thing is energy. Although efforts have been made to apply renewable energies as a necessary alternative, the reality is that in 2024 the total consumption of fossil fuels reached a new record. In fact, the consumption of coal, oil and natural gas individually reached their maximum levels, and in total exceeded the consumption of renewable energy by 31 times. The risk that we already have before us. Science, with all this data, point because this acceleration brings us dangerously closer to crossing climate tipping points. This means that they are thresholds that once they are exceeded there is no turning back, allowing loops to be triggered that feed back on themselves, causing an effect called ‘Greenhouse Earth’. But… What does climate change affect? First of all is the risk to biodiversity, with more than 3,500 species that are currently threatened by changes in ecosystems. Something that also adds to the weakening of the circulation of southern overturn of the Atlantica vital ocean current that regulates the global climate which points to ‘abrupt climate disruptions’. There is hope. Although the report may be fatalistic, the reality is that it points to different points where we can improve to reverse or delay fatalistic outcomes. An example is in the rapid elimination of fossil fuels and the adoption of renewable energy, but they also point to the need to protect and restore the ecosystem with an emphasis on primary forests. But food is not far behind, since changing to a diet richer in plants and reducing food waste also makes it possible to reverse this problem. However, the key could not only be technological, but social. The report highlights the power of “social tipping points” – moments when public norms and policies accelerate rapidly. Images | Chris LeBoutillier Matt Palmer In Xataka | In the midst of climate change, cities only have one question to answer: become a sponge or a mousetrap

The signs that the system is broken are increasingly evident

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On October 17, 2023, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (the professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania) gave an interview in El Mundo with a very simple headline “it shows: (in Spain) everything works badly.” Everyone thought it was exaggerated, sensationalist. But then it came the DANA (and its management), the April blackoutthe Redsys repeated crash and the payment system, fire chaos and, finally, the Andalusian mammography scandal. What began as an (apparently) isolated complaint has become a deep institutional crisis for Andalusian healthcare. But the problem goes much further, the request for data from the Ministry of Health to the rest of the communities has revealed that Spain has a huge problem with all this, that in fact in Spain more and more things are working poorly. The mammography crisis. Although the first complaints surfaced at the beginning of 2024 and the affected associations met with the Board during the summer, until the first cases reached the media, the Ministry of Health did not recognize that more than 2,000 women may not have been informed of a questionable lesion after screening. What came next was chaos: after limiting the problem to a single Hospital, they were forced to recognize a widespread problem and implement a “shock plan” that no one knows very well how it will be implemented. And, in the midst of this commotion, the Ministry of Health asked the communities for data to know how screening was working throughout the country. many of them they have refused (although not all). The prosecution has taken letters in the matter. The underlying problem. Because, honestly, we run the risk of thinking that all this is nothing more than another political battle: a partisan scuffle that, this time, has acquired the format of a health controversy. The clearest example is that the PP Health Ministers they just left en bloc the Interterritorial Health Council; while the Ministry accuses the communities of “hiding” the screening data because it is “bad” and shows their “incompetence.” But not. It is enough to analyze the data of any community to see that the underlying problem is that healthcare is increasingly having problems addressing the care burden it has on it. The case of Madrid is paradigmatic because, even though protocols are well designed On paper, “in most public centers the lists and the average waiting time grow” year after year. Similar problems we can see throughout the country. How deep is this crisis? That is surely the worst of all: that we still cannot know how deep the problem is because the opacity of the Spanish institutional framework is enormous. It is true that this is not exclusively a Spanish problem: we still remember thehe confidence with which public health systems Westerners that they would be able to detect COVID and block it before it arrived to their respective populations. Shortly after, Italy’s outbreak broke out. What we don’t know is costing us our health. Civio has been researching for years as primary care is drowninghow public psychological care is almost a chimera, how dozens of health services depend on where you live and how, little by little, health is falling into the hands of private interests. But even that doesn’t explain the problem we are in. Because the central issue is that we don’t even know how we are. We also don’t know where we are going. And that is the worst of all: it removes the very possibility of us taking the reins and coming up with solutions. Image | Junta of Andalusia | NCI In Xataka | Predicting breast cancer five years before it appears, possible thanks to artificial intelligence

Openai signs with Samsung and SK Hynix for a potential chips demand of 900,000 wafers per month. It is an absurd figure

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In Seoul A package of agreements was closed which reflects how far the career for artificial intelligence is coming. Openai sat down with Samsung and SK to advance his project Stargate And the companies pointed to a goal that surprises on its own: 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. The plan, according to the parties, goes through reinforcing memory production and studying new data centers in South Korea. All this was announced after a series of meetings of Sam Altman, business leaders and President Lee Jae-Myung himself. The appointment at the Seoul presidential office brought together Sam Altman With the leaders of the aforementioned Asian technological conglomerates, in the presence of the president Lee Jae-Myung. The tone was shared: Korea seeks to consolidate as one of the three global powers in artificial intelligence and OpenAi needs to anchor its Stargate project in regions with technological muscle. This lace explains the interest of both parties in formalizing agreements that cover from the memory supply to the construction of new data centers, with a long -term view. An objective that can tension the entire memory sector The volume that has been put on the table is disproportionate if compared to the market. According to Techinsightsthe global capacity of production of 300 millimeter DRAM was about 2.07 million per month in 2024 and would grow to 2.25 million in 2025. reaching 900,000 would mean about 39% of all that capacity. No individual manufacturer reaches such a figure alone, so that the magnitude of the agreement reflects both Openai’s ambition and the growing pressure to ensure the supply of advanced memory. Signed documents include preliminary commitments to expand memory production and evaluate additional infrastructure in South Korea. Among them is the participation of Samsung SDS in the development of data centers, as well as Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries in its design and construction. The Ministry of Science and ICT contemplates evaluating site outside the Metropolitan Area of ​​Seoul, and SK Telecom has signed an agreement to study the viability of a center in the southwest of the country. It is also proposed to explore the deployment of Chatgpt Enterprise and API capabilities in corporate operations. A key point in all this is in the difference between using and training a model. When someone consults a chatbot, infrastructure of inference is activated, much less demanding. But to train a new generation system, thousands of chips are needed working in parallel, each accompanied by High performance memory modules. This scale multiplies the need for servers, cooling systems and electrical power. In that context, guaranteeing hundreds of thousands of wafers per month does not seem an excess, but a way of ensuring that the next wave of models has the necessary material support. Stargate Data Center in the United States Openai’s computing muscle relies on huge draft alliances. With Oracle and SoftBankthe company prepares five data centers that would provide several capacity gigawatts. Nvidia, meanwhile, has announced that it would invest up to 100,000 million dollars and that would give access to more than 10 gigawatts through their training systems. Openai’s trajectory is not understood without Microsoft, his first great partner. The Initial bet of 1 billion in 2019 and the subsequent investment of 10,000 million gave access to the Azure cloud, Key to train models They promoted Chatgpt. Over time, however, Sam Altman’s company has begun to reduce that dependence. The last movements mark a change of course towards infrastructure in which OpenAI has more direct control, a way of making sure they are not conditioned to a single supplier. It should be remembered that many of the ads remain preliminary. Letters of intention and memoranda mark the will to advance, But concrete details have not yet closed. At the scale that Stargate raises, the risks are evident: from bottlenecks in the production of high performance memory to energy availability to feed facilities of several gigawatts. To this are added the necessary permits and the complexity of coordinating projects with so many actors. At the moment, the signed opens a path, but it remains to be seen what materializes and in what deadlines. Images | Sam Altman | Samsung | SK Hynix | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | I’ve been hooked to Sora 2 for two days: I’m generating absurd memes where I am the protagonist and I can’t stop

The only way to confirm the signs of life on Mars is to bring the rock to the earth: there are three great volunteers

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NASA’s Rover Perseverance has given us one of the most exciting news of recent years. In an old river bed in the Jezero crater, he has found a rock that could contain, In the words of NASA directorone of the “clearest signs of life we ​​have seen on Mars.” Baptized as Cheyava Falls, the rock has dark deposits whose chemical, mineral and textural characteristics, on earth, are associated with microbial life. But scientists cannot be safe from here. Unless… Mars Sample Return. Perseverance did his job: in July of last year he identified a place of very high scientific interest, analyzed the rock with its instruments and, most importantly, pierced a core of the rock and kept it in a sealed sampling tube. This little treasure, along with 29 other sampling tubes, waits patiently on the Martian surface. The problem is that, however advanced the instruments of the rover are, they have their limits. To confirm if those possible “biofirmas” are the product of old microorganisms or geochemical processes without biological intervention, there is only one solution: bringing samples to the earth to analyze them in our laboratories. And this is where The plans collide with a hard reality. The plan to collect these samples, the ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, has been de facto canceled waiting for a cheaper and faster solution. Truncated due to lack of budget. NASA’s original plan to collect the 30 samples of the Perseverance Rover was to send a ship to the surface of Mars, that a small rocket would take off with the samples (delivered by Rover itself or by a drone) and that an orbiter (in this case, contributed by the European Space Agency) to bring them back home. The project ended up becoming a bottomless well. According to an external audit, the budget shot up to 11,000 million dollars with an estimated date for 2040. The situation reached such an extent that the US administration He proposed to cancel Mars Sample Return for his excessive budgetprioritizing other programs such as Artemis to return to the moon. NASA was forced to put the project in pause and look for faster and more cheap alternatives. A career to counterreloj. Time runs against NASA. Not only for the potential historical value of these samples, but because China plans to launch its own sampling mission in 2028. Tianwen-3 is a simpler mission, which would not bring selected rocks but from the ground where the probe landed, but that would return to Earth in 2031. It would be a Sorpasso symbolic in full rule, advancing the United States in a milestone that had at hand. Before the collapse of its official plan and the probable symbolic defeat, NASA did what has been best given in recent years: to look at the private sector. The agency Explore two paths simultaneously: one based on public technology already tested, such as the “Sky Crane” landing system of Curiosity and Perseverance, and another open to “new commercial capabilities.” Voluntary companies. They haven’t taken to appear. Lockheed Martin has put on the table a groundbreaking proposal: executing the mission For less than 3,000 million dollars and under a fixed price contract, which means that it would assume any extra cost. Your plan is based on reusing and adapting technology already tested in missions such as Insight and Osiris-Rexwith a simpler and more light architecture than the original Mars Sample Return. Another of the great candidates is Rocket Lab, a company that, despite its youth, also has experience on the red planet: its components travel aboard Perseverance and other missions. Your proposal is to send a probe to collect the samples and send them to the Martian orbit and a second probe to bring them to the earth, with a third probe called Telecommunications Orbiter for Mars (MTO) that not only would support the mission, but would serve as a basis for future manned missions, establishing a robust communications network between Mars and the land that Rocket Lab could exploit commercially for decades. And Spacex? NASA It does not rule out using starship as a vehicle to bring to the Martian surface all the necessary equipment. If Elon Musk fulfills its ambitious deadlines, Starship could offer an unprecedented load capacity to an unbeatable cost. The final decision on which path is expected for the second half of 2026. What is clear is that NASA is at a crossroads. The samples collected by Perseverance have the potential to confirm that on Mars there was extraterrestrial life. But to find the answer, you must first bring them home. And the solution may not be in a public program, but in companies that have offered to do the job for less than half. Image | Rocket Lab In Xataka | Perseverance has found what, according to NASA’s director, is “the clearest indication of life we ​​have seen on Mars”

The last one signs Google “raising” his commitment to Vibe Coding

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Openai is at a key moment. On the one hand it has the entire technological industry pending its next great revolution with GPT-5its next language model that will boost Chatgpt and the rest of its AI tools. However, it is also in the midst of a bloody battle to stay for the best talent in ia. Goal has already been shown taking several of his top minds. Now Google has also moved card taking the founders of Windsurfthe company in which Openai had put an eye To buy for about 3,000 million dollars. Google’s master play. This Friday, Windsurf confirmed The play with the departure of the CEO, Varun Mohan, and the co -founder Douglas Chen, along with several key researchers of the startup that has promoted, together with cursor, the ‘Vibe Coding‘. The operation, valued at 2.4 billion dollars, includes a non -exclusive license of Windsurf technology, but leaves out any participation in the company. It is the classic “Reverse-Acquihire” that allows technological giants to take talent without awakening regulatory alarms. The context of the debacle. Openai had been negotiating the purchase of Windsurf for months, a startup that had fired its annual revenues up to 100 million dollars in April, multiplying its turnover in a few months. However, the operation had generated internal tensions between Openai and Microsoftits largest investor, since OpenAi wanted to prevent its partner from having access to Windsurf programming technology. This blockade in the agreement with Microsoft caused the purchase not to continue. In this way, when the period of exclusivity expired Openai had agreed with Windsurf to negotiate his purchase this Friday, Google did not hesitate to enter with an offer that Openai could not match. Talent bleeding. Meanwhile, goal continues to execute its burned land strategy in the AI labor market. The Zuckerberg company is offering salary packages ranging from 10 to 100 million dollars to star researchers, an unprecedented escalation that has triggered the salaries of the sector 50% since 2022. The goal is to sign 50 experts to lead their new Superintelligence Laboratoryafter the stumbling blocks of his calls and the exit of key figures such as research director Joelle Pineau. The company has already taken to several topnai top minds to his superintelligence laboratory, and has done the same with many other companies, as is the case of AI star engineer in Apple, Zhifeng Chen. Between the lines. Windsurf loss is especially painful for OpenAI because it represented its direct entry into the developer tool market, where Github co -ilot Microsoft dominates with authority. It was a way of diversifying its business beyond Chatgpt and competing in a niche that is experiencing explosive growth thanks to the tendency to program with the help of AI. Google moves file on an increasingly competitive terrain, making Openai’s strategy difficult in this segment. The pressure intensifies. The situation becomes more complex when the competitive context is analyzed. Anthropic has managed to significantly boost his income thanks to Claude Codeits programming tool, while startups as cursor (valued at 10,000 million) and Replit continue to gain ground. Google has now also entered full of offering programming tools promoted by AI, and many as many as XAI with Grok also They have announced Wanting to participate in this wave with a code specialized model that is expected to launch in August. Cover image: Wallpapercave and Village Global In Xataka | We knew that AI would generate new jobs that did not exist before. What we did not expect is that he was fixing his pifias

We have found a skull from 6,200 years ago cone and signs of violence. The big question is what I was doing there

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The last cry in bodily modifications is the Implementation of chips under the skin to become One more element of home automation Domestic But we have millennia modifying our aesthetics In a little invasive way, such as The Ötzi tattoos With more than 5,000 years, or in more aggressive ways, such as Padaung They push their clavicles. What they have found in a cemetery near Iran goes much further: a skull from 6,200 years belonging to a woman with a cone -shaped head. And the thing didn’t end well. Chega Sofla. In the western zone of Iran is the site of Chega Sofla. Researchers have been investigating the site for years and Nonantring bodiessince there are dozens of tombs in which they have been found from individual burials to burials of complete families. Some of the human remains They show that, in life, certain people had a more stretched skull than normal not by any kind of natural deformation, but by aesthetics. And, among all, the one who has called the attention of archaeologists is one of those skulls that shows signs of a brutal blow that ended his life. And beyond how, the interesting thing is why and what that young woman did. Cone head. Called as BG1.12, the life of this woman ended when she gave (or led to her) a Strong blow to the head. Before that, it must have been one more because this cranial modification was quite common. What were done in many ancient civilizations was to wrap the infant’s head with bandages that were squeezing as they grew. Like a splint. This practice, extended until adulthood, prevented the skull from developing in a normal way, resulting in a more elongated, cone -shaped skull. And, although it was a normal practice that was given more in girls than in boys, we now know that it was not a good idea. Dangerous. The striking of the wound of BG1.12 led archaeologists to investigate On the cranial development that these people had, discovering that, due to those tight bandages, both the bones and the Diploe (which is a more spongy bone layer that is between two more compact layers in the skull, as if it were a “shock absorber”) were much thinner than those of a typical skull. This is drawer, but explain that it is something that prevents the skull from exercising its optimal brain protection work. Due to that thinness, before external forces, the “brain shield”It is less effective. At some point in the twenties of that woman, something managed to fracture that weak cranial layer, ending her life. The researchers, in statements to Livesciencethey claim that the blow would also have ended with a person who had a normal skull and who do not know if he received an attack or hit himself. What is known is that it was buried in a common grave next to people with both normal and modified skulls. The skull of BG1.12 that shows the wound The role of women. To affirm that the person would have died even with a normally developed skull, he takes away a lot of mystery to history, but the big question is what role people with modified skulls played in that society. We have found modified skulls in European womenin Japan and in Mesoamerica and reasons that are considered They range from Demonstration of status until the search for differentiation of nearby villages or the approach to the image they had of their divinities. Strictly motifs are also considered Aesthetics. The mystery of BG1.12 is that it was buried in the same pit as other people with both normal and modified skull and, as all the ‘stuck’ skeletons are, it is difficult to identify all individuals and know what role in society played these people with the deformed skull 6,000 years ago. And, above all, the moral is that this aggressive modification does not suit. A silly blow to the head, a diploe that does not act as it should … and goodbye. And put your head in a particle accelerator, if you ever have the opportunity, Nor is it a good idea. Images | Cambridge In Xataka | A cave has revealed the macabre Mayan ceremony to honor its gods: there are 100 bones and none is where it should

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