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In 1961, the Soviet Union Tsar bomb detonated over the Arctic. Its shock wave was so enormous that it broke windows hundreds of kilometers away and circled the planet several times, registering at seismic stations around the world. That essay didn’t have much practical military sense: It was, above all, a psychological demonstration intended to send a very specific message to the West. Since then, much of Russian nuclear strategy has revolved around the same idea: convincing the adversary that there is always a weapon capable of overcoming any defense imaginable. The “ultimate weapon” card. Yes, Russia has just recovered one of the most classic elements of the Cold War: announcing a missile as if it were a tool capable of completely breaking the global strategic balance. Vladimir Putin confirmed that he RS-28 Sarmatknown in NATO like Satan IIwill be operationally deployed at the end of 2026 after a new successful test including video. Moscow does not simply present it as a new intercontinental nuclear missile, but as “the most powerful missile system in the world”, a platform specifically designed to overcome any existing or future anti-missile shield. The message is not accidental. Russia wants to reinstall a very specific idea in the minds of the West: that, even in a scenario of maximum technological defense, it still retains the capacity to guarantee mass nuclear destruction. Sarmat does not seek only to destroy. The most important thing from Russian speech It is not only the power of the missile, but the insistence that it can avoid any attempt at interception. According to Moscow, the Sarmat combines ballistic and suborbital trajectories, a range of more than 35,000 kilometers and penetration systems capable of confusing or saturating anti-missile defenses. Russia also claims it can carry multiple nuclear warheads and potentially maneuverable hypersonic vehicles. like the Avangard. In other words, the goal is not just to unleash more power, but to break the Western defensive logic built for decades around radars, interceptors and anti-ballistic systems. The implicit threat is clear: even if the United States invests billions in missile defense, Moscow wants the feeling that no shield is truly reliable. “Apocalypse” after years of failures. However, behind the bombastic narrative there is a much more rugged reality. The Sarmat program accumulates delays for years and should have entered service already in 2020. Since then has suffered multiple technical issues, including failed tests and the destruction of a silo trial in 2024. The difficulties reflect both technological complexities and the effects of sanctions, economic pressure and Russian industrial attrition following the invasion of Ukraine. This is precisely why the latest essay has such political importance for the Kremlin. Moscow needs to demonstrate that it remains capable of developing new generation strategic weapons despite international isolation and despite enormous strains on its military industry. The disappearance of New START changes the context. The chosen moment is not coincidental either. Sarmat arrives in a scenario where the limits of the New START treaty have disappeared and where both Russia and the United States they think again in expanding and modernizing their nuclear arsenals. Without these restrictions, Moscow can replace old Soviet missiles with more advanced systems without the previous numerical limitations. At the same time, the United States continues to deal with delays and cost overruns in its own ICBM replacement, the Sentinel. The result is a climate that increasingly resembles a new arms racewhere both powers try to demonstrate that they maintain second-strike capacity even in the face of defensive technological advances from the adversary. The real battle is psychological. Beyond its actual specifications, the Sarmat fulfills a very specific strategic function: strengthen deterrence through fear and uncertainty. Russia has been using this type of advertisement for years to convey the idea that has “unstoppable” weapons capable of altering any Western military calculation. The Kremlin understands that perception matters almost as much as actual ability. If he manages to install the idea that his missiles can break through any defense existing, forces the United States and its allies to assume that no defensive system guarantees total security. That is the essence of the Russian message: no matter how much Western anti-missile technology advances, Moscow will still have the ability to respond with devastating force. The logic of the Cold War. If you also want, the reappearance of Sarmat It symbolizes something broader than the deployment of a new missile. It reflects the return of a strategic logic based again in gigantic weaponsexistential threats and public displays of nuclear power. For years, many thought that military competition between great powers would mainly revolve around artificial intelligence, drones or cyberattacks. Russia is remembering that nuclear weapons continue to occupy the center of the board geopolitical. And it does so by recovering a classic but always effective narrative: announcing a missile presented like so powerful and so difficult to intercept that it forces the rest of the world to wonder if there really is any defense capable of stopping it. Image | Russian Media In Xataka | In 2024, a Russian ship sank off Spain under mysterious circumstances. What he was carrying is even more suspicious In Xataka | Russia has built an imposing nuclear submarine with one mission: to launch one of the most extreme weapons ever devised

We thought Stanford, MIT, and Harvard were leading in AI. There is a Chinese university that surpasses them all

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To the northwest of Beijing there is a university campus that is not only the most prestigious in the country, it is also one of the most influential universities in the world in science and technology, even surpassing institutions of the stature of MIT or Stanford. It is called Tsinghua and some of the most important technological projects of the moment are being developed there. Change of focus. Tsinghua has been in operation since 1911, although it was not until 1952 when it became a polytechnic university. Among its former students there are figures of the stature of Nobel Prize in Physics Chen-Ning Yang and President Xi Jinping himself. From its inception, Tsinghua’s focus was the training of Chinese students who were going to continue their studies in the United States. Today that approach has completely changed. In the midst of an AI career, there is a nationalistic spirit and students tend to stay and develop projects in their native country. Leaders. They count in Bloomberg that Tsinghua University stands toe-to-toe with the best universities in the world. According to the US News rankingis the best university in the world in engineering, chemical engineering and electronic engineering; has second place in civil engineering and nanotechnology; It is third in materials science and fourth in computer science. There it is nothing. Intellectual property. Tsinghua is also the university with the most papers on AI among the 100 most cited and leads in patent registration, outnumbering MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard combined. According to LexisNexis data analyzed by Bloomberghave registered 4,986 patents on AI and machine learning in the last 20 years. In 2024 alone they registered 900 patents. However, according to the Stanford AI Indexthe most influential patents remain in American hands. Startups. The university not only focuses on training, it also has a startup incubator called X-Lab from which at least 900 startups have already emerged since it was created in 2013. They are currently very focused on projects related to artificial intelligence. The founders of startups such as Moonshot AIthe creators of the model Kimi K2either Sapient Inca startup that develops “hierarchical reasoning models” based on how the human brain works. They affirm that it is the way to achieve AGI, a different approach to that pursued by companies like OpenAI with LLM or WLM (world models). that LeCun recently defended. Chip war. Efforts are also being made in Tsinghua to give China a boost in the technological war with the United States. The clearest example is the chip created by a group of university scientists and it is 3.7 faster than NVIDIA’s A100. Not only that, the chip, called ACCEL, is also much more efficient. At the moment its mass production has not been achieved, but the innovation is there. Image | Tsinghua University In Xataka | Four decades ago, China decided to invest in training millions of engineers. Today that plan gives it an advantage in the race for AI

Byd surpasses you in sales and the best -selling electric car is a surprise

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Although we are already looking at June and summer, the consolidated car sales figures for Europe have just made an appearance. Like every month since we started the year, there is no good news for Tesla. On the contrary, Volkswagen can be extremely happy and Byd manages to make a place. This is all that have given themselves the first four months of the year. The first four -month period. Europe has closed this first four -month period with a small brake on its sales, according to data from Acea. Between January and April, 3,640,211 cars have been sold in Europe, about 40,000 units less than last year by these dates. We write down a 1.2%drop. Electric cars, however, are growing at a good pace. Last April 145,341 cars of this type were recorded, which are almost 40,000 units more than last year and, above all, a growth of 34.1%. In the accumulated of the year, 558,262 have been counted in the Europe 26.4% more than in the same period of 2023. Tesla. It is, without any doubt, the most striking fact. At this point, last year he had placed 77,314 cars on the market while this year he has only managed to get 41,677 units. It is a 46.1%drop. The fall is of such wingspan that its market share has also been reduced by half, standing at 1.1%. And that if we talk about the accumulated of the year. In April the company’s fall has been 52.6%. The first year of each quarter in Tesla is always complicated, so in April 2023 he added a market share of 1.3% but, this time, up to 0.6% has been reduced. An April to forget. The data is even more worrying if we look with magnifying glass the April data. The Tesla Model and, the one that was its great superventas, has only managed to be the ninth best -selling electric car in Europe with a 53% drop compared to last year, According to Jato Dynamics. To find those of Tesla Model 3 you have to dive to the twenty position. In this case, the fall is 42%. If we attend to the data by brands in April, the situation is even more complicated because we must look in the eleventh place to find the company of Elon Musk. To this we must add that the company depends exclusively on two models to the point that the Tesla Model S and Model and have sold less than 100 units last April. A sorpasso. For the first time in what we have been placed among the 10 companies that sells more electric cars. He does it at a key moment. The month of April has reported more sales than Tesla and its growth compared to the same month of 2023 is 169%. The appearance of ByD is no accident. Little by little it has been adding more and more cars to its electric fleet and, above all, a hole in Europe has been becoming. But there is something else, none of its cars is among the 25 best -selling models of the month that reflects its strength to diversify market and aim for many different types of audiences. Byd’s advantage over its competitors is that most have a flag model that adds most of their sales. He Renault 5 He added 5,662 of the 10,328 total electric units that he put on the market. He KIA EV3 accumulated 5,680 sales of the 9,101 units sold in April. He Skoda Elorq He added 7,998 units of 13,598 Czech brand registration. The great winner. Without any doubt, Volkswagen. With 107,153 units sold in April, the German company has led the month in Europe and with 410,141 units sold in what we have been for the year, it is the only brand that has exceeded 400,000 units … and also 300,000. Toyota, its great rival worldwide, is the second manufacturer that has sold the most cars until April and registered 287,521 units. But, above all, it is the electric plane what best reports to Volkswagen. Their Volkswagen ID.3, ID.7 and ID.4 They occupy, in this order, the second, third and fourth position of best -selling electric cars last April. Especially relevant is the growth of 34% that adds the Volkswagen ID.3a car that has cost a lot to start starting and has been in the market since 2020. And it’s not just that. Leading. If we attend to the sales of the Volkswagen Group, April was accompanied by excellent news for the company. The Skoda Elroq was the best -selling electric car and the Enyaq He slipped as the last of that honor list of the 10 best -selling electric cars on the continent. In sum, Skoda was placed in third position among the manufacturers that sell the most electric cars. And we must add that Audi has also accompanied. It was the fourth manufacturer that sold more electric cars last April. Only the Volkswagen Group has cast three companies between the four that sold more electric cars and half of the 10 best -selling electric cars if we serve the specific models. Photo | In Xataka | Europe had a plan to jump into the electric car and 2025 was its first fire test. The manufacturers have ended it

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