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While Anthropic goes on the US blacklist, the Pentagon already has someone to succeed him: OpenAI

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The pentagon gave an ultimatum to Anthropic to accept the unlimited use of its AI models for applications of all kinds, including espionage and military use. The deadline arrived, at 5:01 p.m. this Friday, February 27, and Anthropic said no: he would be faithful to his principles. The sword of Damocles has fallen on the company led by Dario Amodei and the United States has completed its threats. How did he communicate? A few hours ago, United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, for the Pentagon, Anthropic is already a “risk to the supply chain.” The context. This chronicle of a death foretold has been meeting its deadlines and everyone has remained in their initial position: Anthropic rejected the Pentagon’s lawsuit over concerns about the use of AI for mass civilian surveillance and the development of weapons capable of firing without human intervention. The company behind Claude has already announced that he will contest. We will have to see the cost of maintaining his position. The United States will apply a sanction that until now we had only seen applied to companies from rival countries, Huawei is one of the clearest examples. What’s going to happen now. Leaving aside the fact that the president of the United States refers to Anthropic as “a radical left-wing and woke company” on your social network Truth Socialthe US Ministry of Defense has carried out its threat, which has come into effect immediately: It will terminate its contract with Anthropic, valued at up to $200 million, and as announced Peter Hegseth, no contractor, supplier or partner doing business with the United States Armed Forces may do business with Anthropic. There will be a six-month period for the Pentagon and other government agencies to transition Claude to alternatives. OpenAI said yes. The United States already has a company to provide its services to the Pentagon and other agencies: OpenAI. Sam Altman announced the agreement to deploy its models on its classified network explaining that the Department of Defense had shown a “deep respect for security” and that both AI security and broad benefit sharing are the foundation of its mission. Among the security principles specifically mentioned by Altman are the prohibition of domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including autonomous weapons systems. According to the CEO of OpenAI, the War Department is aligned with these principles. Likewise, he explained that they will apply technical safeguards to guarantee the correct behavior of their models. Claude’s shadow is long. Saying goodbye overnight to your reference AI company (even with that transition period) and putting a veto on other companies working with it is a tricky measure to put into practice as it is behind recent strategic operations, such as Maduro’s arrest and others imminent. Likewise, it leaves projects such as that of Palantirwhich Claude uses. behind the scenes. According to AxiosDeputy Secretary of Defense Emil Michael was in talks with Anthropic to offer a deal just as Pete Hegseth dropped the bomb on X/Twitter. This theoretical agreement would have allowed the collection or analysis of data on US citizens, such as location, web browsing or financial information. At the moment it is unknown if this interest of the Pentagon in collecting personal data legally applies to OpenAI. In Xataka | IBM has been living for decades that no one could kill COBOL. Anthropic has other plans In Xataka | Anthropic and OpenAI have developed AI. The US Pentagon is showing you who really owns it Cover | Tomasz Zielonka

The question is not whether Tim Cook will soon stop being CEO of Apple, but who will succeed him: Crossover 1×30

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The end of an era is approaching, they say. Or maybe not. The rumors about Tim Cook’s potential “retirement” are contradictory, and if a few days ago the Financial Times spoke about He would retire early next year.yesterday new data they threw down that possibility. But here it happens that when the river sounds, it carries water, and this conversation does not come from now, but from months ago…or years. The current CEO of Apple came to this position in 2011, after the death of Steve Jobs, and since then he has turned the company into an absolute money-making machine. One that, yes, has disappointed with (theoretical) projects like Project Titan, with a Vision Pro that for the moment is still not taking off or with the surprising irrelevance in the AI ​​segment. That’s not the problem, of course. Although Apple has consolidated itself among the three companies with the largest market capitalization in the world in recent years, what it lacks is spark and the ability to innovate. Today Apple continues to depend heavily on the iPhone, although it is true that in recent years the services have given it a lot of joy. That makes it especially interesting to set up a pool with the main candidates to succeed Tim Cook, and that is what we have done in this new installment of Crossover, in which we debate Cook’s career, but also about who can take that baton. And many variables come into play here. From that operational strategy—will the new Apple be more innovative, or will it continue to focus on making money?—to the geopolitical implications of choosing a new CEO. Because let’s face it: This position is not just technologicalbut also political and diplomatic. There is a lot to cut through here, and it will certainly be interesting to see how the next few months go. On YouTube | Crossover In Xataka | Tim Cook has admitted that Apple is “very open” to acquisitions in AI. These are our candidates

When Facebook launched its own Tinder we didn’t think it could succeed. we were wrong

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It was 2018 when Facebook announced Facebook Datingalthough it was not until 2020 when arrived in Spain. At that time, dating apps like Tinder had experienced a boom caused by the pandemic, but Facebook had been losing users for some time and the idea had already been established that it was a place for older people. Meta recently shared usage data for its dating service and they shut us up. 21.5 million. It is the number of daily active Facebook Dating users in the 52 countries in which the app is available. They count in NYTimeswhich surpasses Hinge in users, a very popular dating app especially in the United States that has 15 million users. It is the first time that Facebook has shared usage data for its dating service since its launch. Popular among young people. A Pew Center study published by TechCrunchconfirmed the exodus of young Facebook users, which went from 71% in 2014 to only 32%. The most surprising thing about Facebook Dating is that it is having success among the youngest people. According to data from Sensor Tower As of last year, Facebook Dating has at least 1.77 million users between the ages of 18 and 29 in the United States, which represented a growth of 24%. Free. Other apps such as Tinder, Bumble or Hinge have adopted subscription models through which users can enjoy advantages such as knowing who liked you before anyone else. This is free on Facebook Dating and is your main asset against your competitors. Tinder is the app that had the most paying users, but for years has been losing subscribers. They don’t need it. That Facebook does not charge us for using its dating service can be interpreted as a generous gesture, but the reality is that Meta’s income is astronomical. In the last quarter they entered 51,240 million, many of them thanks to the advertising they serve in their apps. Image | Gemini/Goal In Xataka | Meta does not have the most advanced AI of all, but it does have something much more important: a business plan

The vision vision want to succeed where Apple’s vision failed. At the moment they do it in the most important: the weight

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The living Chinese manufacturer is anniversary, and to celebrate it has just presented in China a surprise and very promising product: its new mixed and augmented reality glasses, the LIVE VISION Discovery Edition. This launch involves the debut of this manufacturer in a category that will be encouraged a lot in the coming months, but makes it ahead of its competitors in the Android market, especially to the Google/Samsung Alliance. But it also does it with an argument of the most striking: the weight. More compact, lighter, more comfortable? Thus, we are facing glasses that are clearly inspired by the Vision Pro of Apple and that are very similar both externally and in their benefits, but that exceed them in that section notably. Thus, Apple’s glasses weigh between 600 and 650 grams depending on the band and adjustment pad, but These vision weigh 398 grams and are 26% more compact In dimensions “that the average of the industry”, say its creators, probably referring precisely to the Apple model. Live they say that these glasses are the result of four years of development and in their design they have taken into account comfort when wearing them for long sessions. Live have taken into account the pressure that the glasses exert in lasting sessions: no marks around the eyes after 30 minutes of use, their creators say. We already saw how the options of bands and adjustments of the Apple Vision Pro were not optimal – they had to get an optional to solve the complaints – and in fact after prolonged sessions it is normal to end a mark around the eyes due to the pressure exerted by the glasses on the face. That weight is really surprising, especially considering that for example, Apple’s vision are located at 600-650 g. With the vivid vision that problem seems to have disappeared and the manufacturer offers four light sealing sizes and eight padded options to try to guarantee maximum comfort in both long sessions and if we move with the glasses. The operating system that governs these glasses is Originos Vision, which offers an interface similar to the one we had already seen in the vision pro and on Android XR. Before us, a series of icons appear for which we can move thanks to the “millimeter precision ocular monitoring” (1.5º), as they point out. The ORIGINO VISION OPERATING SYSTEM INTERFACE is the one that both the Apple and Android XR vision. The gesture control system with the fingers also seems promising, and as Vivo allow 26 degrees of freedom in fingers, while the vertical monitoring range is 175º. The handling of glasses is therefore theoretically identical to that of Apple’s vision. The quality of the screens is also really promising, because it has Micro-Oled 8K dual screens with a 94% DCI-P3 coverage and a deltae chromatic precision

The most difficult thing to succeed with the arrow in Barcelona’s pebetero 92 was that it was not noticed that there was a trick

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1992 was a year that will be remembered for many years in Spain. More than thirty years ago, but the economic and social footprint left Olympics of Barcelonathe Seville Expo And everything that surrounded both events still does not blur at all. Although we already know that “There was trick“Even in details as memorable as the flame arrow lighting the pebetero at the opening ceremony of the Olympics. What (we thought) happened. The torch entered the stadium in the hands of the largest Spanish medalist at that time, Palist Herminio Menéndez. Juan Antonio San Epifanio -EPI-, player of the Spanish Basketball Team, was in charge of taking it to the point where the Paralympic Arch Arch of Antonio Rebollo champion was waiting for him. The torch turned on an athlete’s arrow, which fired it through 86 meters from the stadium until it fell into the pebetero, lighting the Olympic flame between the clamor of the crowd of 50,000 people who crowded the stadium (plus 3.5 billion that watched him on television. What really happened. Rebollo faced A series of challenges that on television were not entirely clear. To start, the stadium was dark, so he had to take the dark shot, with the sole exception of a reflection indicated by the direction in which the Pebetero was. But the truth is that the arrow not only did the pebetero right, but should not do it: it had to pass a few meters away. The camera shot would make the rest, in a triquiñuela of perspectives that film directors know well and that makes it very complicated for the viewer to measure the distances. That is why there was an expert from the cinema. A film trick. To carry out the trick, there was Ábades Reyesveteran special effects designer and absolute reference of the sector in our cinema. He collaborated in more than 350 feature films, but it is in this event where he led to his most watched trick on a global scale. He won nine Goya awards and his are the effects of films such as ‘Oh, Carmela!’, It turns on yes or yes. Abades placed two of his collaborators outside the enclosure to pick up the arrow that would not have impacted the pebetero. Meanwhile, he would take care that the gas that came out of the pebetero became inflamed, something that would have happened in any case. That is, although Rebollo would have failed by many more meters than the planned and the perspective of the camera would have been useless, the flame would have turned on. Test and error. Of course, it was not the first time Rebollo shot the arrow. There were a series of essays in which Ábades could, for example, experiment with different materials for projectiles, and find one that would not go out during the flight. And they could also verify that it was not recommended that the date impact the alleged target, because it could spoil the gas outlet. A series of useless precautions because the illusion was simply perfect. Header | RTVE In Xataka | The three technological innovations that would change the history of the Olympic Games forever

The European Chips Law will fail. The European Court of Accounts believes that it is very unlikely to succeed

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On February 8, 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced that the old continent wants to be a fundamental actor in The semiconductor industryand the first step to achieve it requires manufacturing 20% of the planet chips in 2030. The CHIPS ACT Directive mobilizes up to 43,000 million euros between public and private investment to make it possible, and the still little tangible Integrated circuit plants that Intel and TSMC have programmed on German soil are two key pieces on this itinerary. Despite its similarities, the US plan paints better than that of Europe. The country led by Donald Trump has an integrated circuit manufacturing infrastructure more solid than that of the old continent. In addition, Intel, TSMCSamsung, Texas Instruments and Globalfoundries are some of the companies that are already putting new avant -garde plants on American soil. And the US government seems to be determined to invest all the money that is needed to achieve the leadership position to which it aspires. The Court of Accounts report gives Europe a reality bathroom Europe needs to be ambitious if it wants to increase its relevance in the semiconductor industry. Have Asml and Intel facilities, Globalfoundries, and presumably in the future also of TSMC, within its borders he plays in his favor. However, the speech of European leaders, among which are Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner of Internal Market and Services, seems to be focused on the quantity, and is not enough. The quality understood as the capacity of a chip to deliver added value is also fundamental. The automotive and appliance industry are two of those that are essentially nourished by relatively simple integrated circuits, and it is important that Europe produces them. However, it is also essential that In European soil, avant -garde chips are manufactured such as those that require, for example, data centers and research centers artificial intelligence (AI). Otherwise Europe will continue to depend on the plants located abroad to be competitive in this strategic ecosystem. “We are currently far from the pace necessary to meet our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration” As we have anticipated in the holder of this article, the European Court of Accounts, which is nothing other than “the financial guardian” of the European Union, has published A very thorough report in which he argues that the objective of achieving a 20% share in the world market of integrated circuits in 2030 seems unattainable. And this means that “it is very unlikely that the European Union achieves its objective.” At the current situation, as we have verified in the first paragraphs of this article, this conclusion is perfectly credible. The Court of Auditors points out some interesting ideas in which we are being briefly stopped. Annemie Turtelboom, the head of this audit, He maintains that “The European Union needs a dose of reality in its strategy for the microchips sector (…) This is a field that changes rapidly, is characterized by its intense geopolitical competence, and currently We are far from the necessary rhythm To fulfill our ambitions. The 20% objective was basically an aspiration. To achieve this, our production capacity would have to be four times higher in 2030 and we are far from achieving those figures at the current speed. “ However, the production capacity they currently have and will have chips manufacturers established in Europe in Europe is not the only problem. The Court of Accounts points something that is important that we do not overlook: access to raw materials that are necessary to produce semiconductors, such as Rare earths; The cost of energy and geopolitical tensions further hinder the European Union plan. And, of course, the Chinese chips industry, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the US will not stop their growth, so these countries will not easily give market share. We will see what happens during the next five years, but objectively the panorama does not paint well for Europe. Image | TSMC More information | European Court of Accounts In Xataka | We already know what the chips that will arrive until 2039 will be. The machine that will manufacture them is close

The Russo do not succeed since they left Marvel

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It’s the movie More face in Netflix’s storywith 320 million dollars of budget, and also one of which worse criticism is receiving. It is accused of being anodine, slow and not very bright in the visual, which is a surprise coming from the Russo brothers, signatories of the acclaimed ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ of Marvel. Or is it not so weird? Why are the Russo not able to find a safe space outside Disney’s umbrella? Devastating criticism. At the time of writing these lines, ‘Electric State’ has 19% of critics in Rotten Tomatoes (11% if we only consider critics that the web grants more credibility). Its public note is somewhat higher, 69%, motivated halfway by two expected phenomena: the established anti-critical reaction and pro-marvel activism (a comparable phenomenon happened with ‘Rebel Moon‘by Zack Snyder). Everything indicates that it will be far from a very brilliant score, rhyming with criticism impressions as “320 million waste“,”Complete supplication” and “destruction of the previous work“ But … is it so bad? Leaving aside its absolute waste of the superb book by Simon Stålenhag, banalizing the careful atmosphere that its author raised and turning a contemplative retrofuturist drama into an action comedy to use, one of the main problems of ‘electrical state’ is that its 320 million dollars do not wear at all. Despite its distribution of stars, despite its competent special effects, there is no show, there is no slightest sense of wonder, there is only one script illustrated competently, but without great displays. It amazes that it is such a expensive movie. Russo: guilty. And that can be attributed, of course, the Netflix equalizing roller, which makes all films the same as they force their directors, among other things, To use the same cameras. Also to Netflix’s obsession for imitating Disney in an area that is given especially to the mouse house: make films filling Excel leaves. Here the cast seems the solution of a mathematical equation, rather than an acting squad: the first great star of the Netflix generation, plus the funny officer – but harmless – of the cinema mainstream Current, plus a campus of dubbing voices and prestigious secondary actors/fame/recent awards. The result is as bright as hollow. Bad luck out of Marvel. The bad luck that the Russo have had outside Marvel is well documented. The brother’s producer started with good fortune after ‘Endgame’ producing a success for Netflix, ‘Tyler Rake’ -the only one they have had outside Disney along with the also medium imopact of ‘The invisible agent’-. But after that, ‘Citadel‘In Prime Video was the most expensive series in history and a disaster of audiences, which undoubtedly reverberates with disturbing echoes in’ electric state ‘. The return of the Russo to Marvel, a little with the tail between the legs, To make the next Avengers filmscertifies the irregular of his adventure out of Disney. Why so much stumbling. Behind this rosary of disappointments is, among other things, the absolute lack of creative ambition of the Russo, who had been demonstrating since Marvel’s time: his films are ambitious and effective products conceived in a millimeter way in offices, not author works. From that point of view, movies like ‘Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of madness‘,’ Iron Man 3 ‘O’Galaxy Guardians‘They will have their most and less in terms of quality, but there are personalities defined behind them, imposing a series of decisions and criteria. Until again, we still have to find that in the Russo films. Header | Netflix In Xataka | Netflix and prime video dominate streaming wars with iron. His secret weapon: romantic literature

Routine is the key to succeed in streaming

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We already have unofficial (but very reliable) annual estimates of the most watched in streaming that Nielsen performs every year. And in 2024, the most seen has been … the usual. What forces us, without a doubt, to reflect: how is it possible that the most viewed series of the year are not the most spoken, and the most viewed platforms are not the ones that receive the most owners? Actually, the explanation is very simple. The most watched programs. According to the reportthe most seen 2024 programs have been the ‘Bluey’ animation series, with 55,620 million minutes in Disney+, and ‘Grey Anatomy’, with 47,850 million minutes (in the US, Hulu and Netflix). More animation, but it is for adults, cup the following positions: ‘Family father’ (44.2 billion minutes) and ‘Bob’s Burger’ (36,800). The top continues with series such as ‘The young Sheldon’, his mother series ‘Big Bang Theory’, some procedures with ‘Law and Order: Unit of Special Victims’ and ‘Criminal minds’, and closing the circle of the series for all public, ‘spongebob’. Ironies of life. A list that undoubtedly attracts attention. Where are that ‘My stuffed reindeer‘, that ‘THE PROBLEM OF THE THREE BODIES‘, those franchises of’Dune‘ and ‘Game of Thrones‘We all talk about? The first place with an exclusive product of a platform (everything on the list above is acquisitions) is’Bridgerton‘From Netflix, in 12th place, with 21,420 million minutes, followed by’ Love Is Blind ‘, also from Netflix. With figures above 10,000 million minutes are ‘The Boys‘. ‘Lincoln’s lawyer’, ‘Fallout‘(This was the new most seen series among the exclusive streaming), ‘Futurama’, ‘DolReacher‘. Simple explanations. This absence in the top 10 of successes of the most media and recent series has a logical explanation: the streaming It has become an active way to fill out leisure hours, but an accompaniment at home, which has replaced options for the past such as radio, music players or linear television itself. He streaming as “background noise” It is no longer a rarity, and therefore, however extravagant that sounds on paper, no one has missed that Netflix looks for series that in his dialogues “Explain what is happening”to be able to follow them without paying them attention. Long series, more hours. And on the other hand, there is the obvious reason that the more available footage, more hours of viewing they can accumulate. ‘Fallout’, in the best case, has eight episodes of approximately one hour: eighty hours per speaker. On the contrary, ‘anatomy of Gray’ cam 21 seasons of around twenty episodes each. And often, they are independent episodes that do not require constant attention. It is normal for these series to attract less attention but accumulate much more robust figures. Children have power. Finally children: the ten most viewed films of the year in streaming They have been almost all of animation: ‘Vaiana’, ‘Super Mario Bros.: The movie’, ‘Trolls 3: All together’, ‘Los Minions’, ‘Chark’, ‘Frozen’, ‘The Canine Patrol: The movie’ , ‘The upside down’ and ‘Baby boss’. The only exception is ‘Red One’, also oriented to the family. If we add to that the privileged position of ‘Bluey’ as the most watched program of the year on any channel and the obvious preeminence of Disney+ among the most viewed platforms, the equation is clear: children send, but not necessarily with productions of latest batch ( ‘The minions’ is from 2015 and ‘Vaiana’, of 2016). Again, figures outside the millionaire media movements of the platforms. La Puntilla, ‘Night agent’. And there is another element that contributes a nuance: the ‘Night Agent’ series, whose second season has debuted with 13.9 million views in its first four days. The monumental success of the firstwhich in 2023 almost reached 100 million views in their first 90 days in Netflix, and became the seventh most viewed of the English platform. And why is one more nuance to what we are talking about? For the surprising “normality” of the series, away from more creative, artistic or risky productions that mediately state on the platform, such as ‘the squid game’. The triumph of Normies. With the success of the first season of ‘Night agent’ there was talk of how surprising that he had razed such an anodine appearance. The critic Miles Surrey has recently defined it As “the Platonic ideal” of a Netflix series, or even refining more, a “hamburger with gourmet cheese”, that is, a series that combines accessibility and quality, a kind of stone Rosetta of success, which he shares with this rest of the series that have triumphed in recent months. And no one can doubt the quality and attractiveness for the masses of ‘Bluey’, ‘Big Bang Theory’ or ‘Grey Anatomy’, those commercial diamonds that, one more year, crowned the most watched lists. In Xataka | After years trying to conquer cinemas, Netflix wants to release only in streaming. And Hollywood didn’t like a hair

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