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The war between Anthropic and the Pentagon points to something terrifying: a new “Oppenheimer Moment”

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Anthropic has refused to bow to pressure from the Pentagon. Its co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, has just published a statement in which they make it clear that they are not willing to break their ethical principles. No massive espionage with AI, no development of lethal autonomous weapons with its models. And that reminds us of a terrible case: the one with the atomic bomb. From hero to villain. J. Robert Oppenheimer went from being the “father of the atomic bomb” and a national hero to become in an outcast. His sin was not betrayal, but his moral clarity. After witness the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer desperately tried to stop the atomic escalation and the development of the hydrogen bomb. Either you are with us, or against us. The United States, which had praised him in the past, took advantage of his former political affiliations and stripped him of all his privileges and influence. This demonstrated how the US government simply decided that scientific knowledge was state property and that any researcher who tried to propose ethical limits to their own projects would be treated as an enemy of the country. History is threatening to repeat itself these days. From Oppenheimer to Anthropic. He is doing it with a protagonist that is still there—the US Government—and another that is changing: the one who now defends the ethics of a scientific-technological project is not Oppenheimer, but Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Claude is increasingly vital in the US Government. Your company is between a rock and a hard place these days. Anthropic managed to make its model Claude become the pretty girl of the US Government. The ability of this AI has proven to be so remarkable that it was apparently used to plan the arrest of the former president of VenezuelaNicolás Maduro. red lines. But so that the Pentagon could use Claude, Anthropic imposed certain red lines. No use for mass surveillance of US citizens, and no use for the development of lethal autonomous weapons. And the Pentagon has ended up not liking those red lines, so they want to eliminate them and use Claude as they please as long as, they say, the Constitution and American laws are respected. The Pentagon wants AI without restrictions. That has ended up causing an enormously tense situation these days. The Pentagon threatened to punish Anthropic if it did not give in to its demands, and those threats from the Department of Defense have not been subtle at all. In fact, they have suggested that they could label Anthropic as a company that is “a supply chain risk,” a black label typically reserved for companies in rival countries like China or Russia. Contradiction. Dario Amodei himself explained in an entry on the company’s official blog that those two threats were self-exclusive: “These last two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us as a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.” Can AI be nationalized? It’s a disturbing irony: the same government that considers Claude an essential tool for national security is willing to label his creators a public threat if they don’t hand over the keys to the kingdom and their AI. What the Department of Defense and the Pentagon want is to basically “nationalize” the AI ​​technology developed by Anthropic and appropriate it as they already did with the technology that gave rise to the atomic bomb. We know how that ended. Anthropic refuses to give in. The danger is enormous in both sections: mass surveillance, rather than defending democracy, can dynamite it from within, and the NSA scandal is a good example. But even more worrying is the Pentagon’s intention to use this AI to develop lethal autonomous weapons. Amodei insisted on this point, indicating that “The foundational models of AI They’re just not reliable enough. to power fully autonomous weapons. “We will not knowingly provide a product that puts American warfighters and civilians at risk.” Amodei even offers the Department of War/Defense help in the “transition to another provider” of AI models, but at the moment it is not clear which path the US government will take. Oppenheimer Moment. If the Pentagon finally execute his threat and ban Anthropic, the message for the industry will be chilling. In the age of AI there are no conscientious objectors: if a company develops a technological and strategic advantage at a military level, that company is at the mercy of the State. It is a new and terrifying “Oppenheimer Moment” that conditions the future not only of Anthropic, but of the development of AI models itself. In Xataka | “The world is in danger”: Anthropic’s security manager leaves the company to write poetry

For Google, 2025 could have been a terrifying year. It’s going to end up being one of the best in its history

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It’s not how it starts but how it ends. If Google is having a Christmas dinner, that might be a good phrase to sum up what your year has been like as you raise your glass in a toast. And the Mountain View-based company began 2025 with several dark clouds on the horizon that threatened both its present and its hegemony for the future. But of course, it seems Google still has some time left. Google entered 2025 knowing that it had three major legal battles ahead that could end up amputating precious members like Chrome or its advertising business, with OpenAI in the rearview mirror in the AI ​​race and a troublesome new US president to adapt to. However, Google has not only emerged victorious, but has also managed to maintain the status quo of your structure (for now) and has emerged as the most cutting-edge AI company there is. And furthermore, the accounts come out: is breaking profit records. What has Google done to change its 2025 like this? Being in Google’s shoes in January of this year was not easy. Going through the courts was inevitable and the consequences were potentially devastating for their main sources of income. Declared a monopoly, there were possibilities before it such as the forced sale of Chrome. He also had to give explanations for anti-competitive practices in advertising and his battle with Epic Games It could have resulted in the drastic reduction of commissions in the Play Store on Android, opening the doors to other payment methods and third-party stores. Facing the Justice Department of Trump’s new era was not the best of scenarios either: it is not the first time that the new US president is critical of Google. AI has made them leave their comfort zone. After years of dominating with its combination of Google and Chrome, today the focus has been on artificial intelligence and here it could not be left out, among other things, because it is disrupting its search business. ChatGPT launched a new long-distance race, that of AI, where it started behind technologically speaking and has had to face new and old rivals: the veterans Microsoft and Meta, but also OpenAI and Anthropic. Billions of investment in R&D&I and data centers just to try to keep up. Google has made a huge bet with AI in every way with the hope that it ends up: 1. being profitable. 2. being one of the companies that survive to benefit from it. Because AI is in this phase of filming and expansion and is anything but profitable. And he is risking everything, even cannibalizing his goose that lays the golden eggs: his search business. However, its position is privileged: it has enormous economic muscle, an entire ecosystem and sectors where it leads. This 2025 the wolf was coming for Google, but it was not like that: You have avoided the sale of Chrome. Yes, the judge ruled that Google was a search monopoly, but he did not uphold the Justice Department’s most critical move. The DOJ defended that separating Google from its browser would eliminate one of the company’s great ways to attract users and direct them to its search engine. And be careful, because there was no shortage of buyers. The judge considered that this operation would be “incredibly complex and very risky.” It also allowed Google to continue paying Apple to ensure the prominent presence of its search products. But it did not emerge unscathed: the ruling requires it to share data with competitors (once, not continuously) and to limit exclusive contracts. The future of your advertising business is an unknown. Google yes lost its other big antitrust trial and here the DOJ wants to force you to sell your advertising exchange market and your Ad Manager tool. However, the judge’s predisposition seems to indicate that there will be an agreement that brings a change in behavior before touching the structure of Google, a slower process that could be delayed longer with an appeal from the company licensed by Sundar Pichai. Your (eternal) dispute with Epic. Google lost the case two years ago and this summer it was defeated again… and appealed again. Of course, along the way it has had to allow alternative payment methods and list alternative app stores. As in the previous case, Google hopes to soften the measures: for now it has already negotiated with Epic to reduce commissions and add a new category of registered app stores. Furthermore, it will do so globally. This is decided next month and if it goes ahead, Android will change but Google will still have control. It is not trivial, considering that a new operating system for PC based on Android will arrive in 2026. With Trump, a clean slate. The Mountain View company has had to use diplomacy and open its wallet. It should be remembered that after the capitol incident, Google banned Trump’s account from YouTube. Well, the president of the United States sued them and this year the soap opera has come to an end with YouTube paying 22 million dollars to close the agreement. On the other hand, Google was among the big tech companies that financially supported at the inauguration of the current president of the United States. If Google has had to defend itself in court, in technology it has gone on the attack. We could talk about the advances of the Pixel (which there have been), but the hardware It is not the company’s priority at all. Google has had a fantastic year in AI both in data and in story. Because with AI it is not enough to be the best, you also have to lead the conversation. Its video generator Veo 3 took over social networks, Nano Banana (and later, its Pro version) has starred in trends such as become a Stranger Things character either in an action figure. But it’s not just fashion: it’s that its video models, images and, ultimately, Gemini 3 … Read more

Halloween is coming and the temptation is to put on some terrifying plastic contact lenses. Science has its reservations

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Costumes, scares, moviespassages of terror and also the occasional party is undoubtedly something that we will see in this Halloween nightalthough among all these elements there is a protagonist that can undoubtedly become a risk to our health: colored cosmetic contact lenses. The color of the eyes. To dress up in the most faithful way to the character we want to resemble, eye color may be essential. In the case of Halloween, it may be interesting to have them red or some other color that conveys a feeling of fear, such as those of the famous ‘Valak’ or ‘The Nun‘. But it can undoubtedly be a serious problem for our health. And on many occasions we want something that is economical to be able to dress up and we can choose to buy these contact lenses in a store that is not specialized in these products such as a bazaar. All because to wear it for a while at night you are not going to invest a large amount of money in a special contact lens. But we forget that we are buying a product that will be in contact with our eyes, which are really delicate. Doubts. Ophthalmologist Damián Teillard through his TikTok account It alerts us to all the problems that can arise, such as infections, corneal abrasions, blurred vision or eye fatigue when colored contact lenses are used without adaptation, with poor hygiene or throughout the night. That is why you are committed to making the purchase at an authorized optician to try them the days before. The scientific evidence. But beyond what this ophthalmologist says, we also find a large amount of scientific literature that documents all of these problems. An exampleor we have in the magazine eye that reviews these cosmetic contact lenses and demonstrates the appearance of severe microbial keratitis associated with these products that are purchased without health control. More cases. We have another example in the TFOS report on the impact of contact lenses on the ocular surface, details that their inappropriate use (sleeping with them for example) damages the epithelium, alters the tear film and increases the risk of infection. Something quite common in a situation where many people opt for these contact lenses without having ever worn this product before, so they lack the recommendations to avoid problems when wearing them. In this way, the evidence on periocular cosmetics and ocular surface underlines that makeup and formulations around the eye They can irritate, destabilize the tears and increase discomfort if combined with contact lenses. Elevation of risk. With all this, we can see how buying contact lenses in bazaars or unauthorized websites that have poor quality produces a significant injury that can end in visual loss in the most severe cases. Among these complications we see the keratitis, conjunctivitis or corneal abrasions and ulcers that require ophthalmological treatment in many emergency cases. How to use it correctly. In order to avoid all these problems, the crucial thing is to purchase them from authorized opticians and with the advice of ophthalmological professionals. But you must also follow the basic recommendations for contact lenses, such as sleeping with them, putting them on with clean hands, not sharing them with several people, and always applying makeup after putting on the lenses and removing makeup with them to protect the ocular surface. With all this you can achieve a night of terror but without the eye ending up suffering from the misuse of contact lenses that we find in any bazaar or on the internet. Images | Grégoire Hervé-Bazin In Xataka | There is nothing that makes blue eyes blue. If we want to understand why, we have to turn to physics

We already know how to retrieve the exact prompts that people use in AI models. It’s terrifying news

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A group of researchers has published a study that once again raises alarm bells regarding privacy when using AI. What they have managed to demonstrate is that it is possible to know the exact prompt that a user used when asking a chatbot something, and that puts AI companies in a delicate position. They can, more than ever, know everything about us. A terrifying study. If you are told that ‘Linguistic models are injective and, therefore, invertible’ you will probably be shocked. That’s the title from the study carried out by European researchers in which they explain that large language models (LLM) have a major privacy problem. And it has it because the transformer architecture is designed that way: each different prompt corresponds to a different “embedding” in the latent space of the model. A sneaky algorithm. During the development of their theory, the researchers created an algorithm called SIPIT (Sequential Inverse Prompt via ITerative updates). Such an algorithm reconstructs the exact input text from the hidden activations/states with a guarantee that it will do so in linear time. Or what is the same: you can make the model “snap” easily and quickly. What does this mean. What all this means is that the answer you got when using that AI model allows you to find out exactly what you asked it. In reality, it is not the answer that gives away, but the hidden states or embeddings that the AI ​​models use to end up giving the final answer. That’s a problem, because AI companies keep these states hidden, which would theoretically allow them to know the input prompt with absolute accuracy. But many companies already saved the prompts. That’s true, but that “injectivity” creates an additional privacy risk. Many embeddings or internal states are stored for caching, for monitoring or diagnosis, and for customization. If a company only deletes the plain text conversation but does not delete the embeddings file, the prompt is still recoverable from that file. The study shows that any system that stores hidden states is effectively handling the input text itself. Legal impact. There is also a dangerous legal component here. Until now, regulators and companies argued that internal states were not considered “recoverable personal data,” but that invertibility changes the rules of the game. If an AI company tells you that “don’t worry, I don’t save the prompts” but it does save the hidden states, it’s as if that theoretical privacy guarantee is of no use. Possible data leaks. A priori it does not seem easy for a potential attacker to do something like this because they would first have to have access to those embeddings. A security breach that results in the leak of a database of those internal/hidden states (embeddings) would no longer be considered an exposure of “abstract” or “encrypted” data, but rather a plain text source from which, for example, financial data or passwords that a company or user has used when asking the AI ​​model could be obtained. Right to be forgotten. This injectivity of LLM also complicates the requirements of regulatory compliance for the protection of personal data, such as the GDPR or the “right to be forgotten.” If a user requests complete deletion of their data from a company like OpenAI, they must ensure that they delete not only visible chat logs, but also all internal representations (embeddings). If any hidden state persists in any register or cache, the original prompt would still be potentially recoverable. Image | Levart Photographer In Xataka | OpenAI is making the tech industry unite its destiny with yours. For the sake of the global economy, it better work

14 applications and services to use AI, filters and terrifying effects in them

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Let’s tell you 14 apps and services to create your Halloween photos wearing artificial intelligencefilters and effects. Thus, you can create a thematic avatar to use on social networks at this time or do something more sophisticated and elaborate, all depending on what you need. In most cases these services are paid, although with free versions with limited functions, but enough to allow you to create these effects. In each of the services that we indicate we include a description and links to install them. And as we always say at Xataka Basics, these are our proposals, but if you miss any on the list, we invite you to Leave us your ideas in the comments section. Thus, all our readers will be able to benefit from the knowledge of our xatakeros. Gemini Gemini has burst like few others into the field of applications with which apply filters to photos or modify them as you want. With Nano Banana you will be able to upload a photo of yourself and have it make changes without altering your face, such as putting on a terrifying Halloween costume. The only thing you have to do to squeeze the Gemini image editing is to upload a photo of yourself, and next to it attach a prompt suitable. You can have several examples in our guide tricks and ideas for juicing Nano Banana. The AI ​​will make changes using that photo as a reference, but applying the necessary changes to the photo, using the face you upload. ChatGPT ChatGPT It still doesn’t have the same level as Gemini when it comes to applying filters or changes to photos while keeping you recognizable or maintaining your features. However, with this artificial intelligence Yes, you can make creations while maintaining recognizable features such as your hair and facial hair. You just have to upload the photo with a prompt in which you ask them to I reimagined it in a Halloween stylesuch as a character from the nightmare before Christmas. The results are surprising. freepik This is an application with which you can make compositions and edits using artificial intelligence. The negative part is that you will need the payment plan for almost everything most interesting, like applying a Halloween filter or training its AI to recognize your face and then make all kinds of creations using it. For these things you will need their rate of 16 euros per month. CapCut Although it is best known as a video editing tool, CapCut also has several options that allow you edit your photos with effects and filters with which to decorate them to your liking. Here, what you should know is that most items are paidalthough you will be able to explore them and see how they look without paying. There are some free ones, although they are quite few. Of course, both the effects and the filters have a special section of content for Halloween. Link: Google Play and App Store https://apps.apple.com/es/app/capcut-editor-de-vídeo/id1500855883 PicsArt This is a popular photo editor, with a lot of settings you can apply, filters, stickers, effects, crops, overlays and creative mixes, plus some collages. It is, therefore, a fairly complete application in terms of options. Furthermore, at this time they have a section of filters for Halloweenwhich range from simple ones to other more advanced compositions. Of course, its free version with ads is somewhat limited, and for many things you will have to go to the paid one. Fotor Another well-known photo editor that is used to make all kinds of adjustments to your captures. Has an artificial intelligence assistant to help you, and has AI options such as reimagining photos, improving their quality or converting them to video. You can also create realistic portraits, remove backgrounds, and enhance your selfies. And like any self-respecting app on dates like this, it also has halloween filters within its sets of thematic effects, plus when you reimagine the photo by AI you can also ask for something similar. Photoshop Express A very complete photo and video editor with all kinds of quick filters and effectsas well as correction tools, and many other things. You can make quite professional edits, as well as apply styles with just two taps. Among its huge number of styles, filters and effects as well you have several related to Halloweenwhich you can find quickly thanks to its search engine. Of course, in its free version you will have to deal with watermarks and certain limitations. snapchat Yes, this is a social network, but it is well known for allowing you take photos applying all kinds of filtersincluding those with Halloween effects. They are augmented reality filters, so before taking the photo you can see how the mask you are going to apply looks on you. B612 If you like Snapchat effects, B612 is an application dedicated to augmented reality effects. You have dozens of them, hundreds, so many that you will have to use the search engine. And if you search for Halloween, you’ll see that there are a lot of related effects. These are both AR skins and color filters and themed stickers. You choose the one you want and then you will see on the screen using your camera how it will look. Then, you take the photo or video you want, and voila, you have it. It is free, although there are some sticker packages that require payment. LightX An application that allows you to apply all types of artificial intelligence filters to your photographs, in addition to being able to make retouches, color changes, etc. It is paid, although it has a free plan with ads. You have many Halloween effects and editions from which to choose. Bylo AI This is an online tool that offers you editions based on artificial intelligence for your photos. It is paid, although you have a free plan with 5 credits per day to be able to do small tests. It’s like having the best AI … Read more

The US has seized $15 billion in bitcoin. This is how the terrifying “pig slaughter” crypto scam works

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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has confiscated about 15 billion dollars in the form of bitcoin. This fortune was in the hands of an alleged fraudster named Chen Zhi who supervised a gigantic crypto scam. One that sadly is becoming more and more frequent and is now known as the “pig slaughter” or the “pig fattening.” The name is a no-brainer. what has happened. We are facing the largest asset seizure in the history of the DoJ. The action focuses on the founder and president of an international conglomerate called Prince Holding Group based in Cambodia. Chen Zhi, 38, also known as “Vincent,” has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering. The scam used has many peculiarities. The “pig slaughter”. In English they use the name “pig butchering” for this type of crypto scam, and here we could translate it as “pig slaughter” or “pig fattening.” The process that scammers follow to deceive their victims is as follows: Search and contact: Scammers contact victims (the “pigs”) through social media, dating apps, or direct messages. To do this, they use fake and attractive profiles. Fattening (trust building): for weeks a personal, friendly or romantic relationship is builtand the scammer gains the trust of the victim. This scammer usually presents himself as a successful person with “secret” knowledge in the world of investments. You invest, you will earn a lot of money: once trust is gained, the scammer presents the victim with a “guaranteed” and very lucrative investment opportunity, usually in cryptocurrencies. And indeed, it seems that you win: after a small investment and to reinforce hope and confidence, the scammer allows the victim to withdraw a small profit. The victim becomes even more confident. Invest more, this works– With the victim now encouraged, he is persuaded to invest much larger amounts, often emptying his savings or even taking out loans The slaughter: When the scammer determines that the victim has invested all they can, they execute the fraud. It blocks the victim’s withdrawal of funds and denies access to that account. Excuses (taxes, verification fees) are made to try to request even more money Disappearance: The scammer cuts off all communication, the fraudulent platform disappears and the victim’s money has been stolen and laundered by the criminal network. A multinational scam. According to prosecutors in the case, Prince Group operates in more than 30 countries and secretly grew to become “one of the largest transnational criminal organizations in Asia.” The company presented itself as a legitimate real estate development and financial services company. Dumb with studies. Although it may seem incredible, this scam manages to deceive people with advanced training. Grace Yuen of Gaso—an international anti-scam organization— explained on BBC that this type of fraud affects all types of profiles, even those that we would think would be somewhat more protected: “About 80% or more of the victims have university degrees and a large percentage of them have a master’s or doctorate. They are victims of all branches: from nurses and lawyers to computer scientists or telecommunications engineers. They are all highly educated people, usually between the ages of 24 and the end of 40. Although now we are also seeing older victims.” human trafficking. The organization allegedly operated forced labor camps in Cambodia. According to the indictment, Prince Group operated at least 10 complexes of this type in which hundreds of people were forced to work under threat of violence executing this scam with victims from all over the world. Two of the facilities were equipped with 1,250 mobile phones that controlled 76,000 accounts on a popular social media platform. Bribes. According to the investigation, Zhi and his network of managers managed to use their political influence in several countries to protect their criminal network. Thus, they are accused of paying bribes to public officials to prevent law enforcement from dismantling these operations. The stolen money was laundered through online gambling or cryptocurrency mining platforms, as well as spent on trips on private jets or yachts and also on works of art. On the run. The accusation of the DoJ has been added to that of the US Department of the Treasury. Said organism has imposed sanctions against Zhi and more than 100 associated individuals and entities. Chen Zhi, of Chinese origin, has become a fugitive, and faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted and arrested. Image | Kanchanara In Xataka | The founder of WhatsApp spared no expense when decorating his mansions and yachts with very expensive furniture. Most were fake.

The most terrifying figure is 31.3º

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The State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) has reviewed the meteorology last July. We are accustomed to reading on maximum temperatures, extreme rainfall or fast wind gusts, but perhaps the most striking data last month is elsewhere: the minimum temperatures. 31.3º Celsius. We are not talking about the absolute minimum temperature reached last month (the 0.7º Celsius registered in Cap de Vaquèira, Lleida, they have little remarkable), but of the highest minimum temperature of the month. On Thursday 17, the thermometer of the Agüimes station, in Gran Canaria, did not fall from 31.3º. The event occurred during a warm event which affected large areas of Gran Canaria in the middle of last month. During this event, the forecasts indicated maxims of 40º, something rare in the islands, and led Aemet to activate a red notice due to extreme risk on the island. Tropical nights, equatorial nights. The problem of high minimum temperatures has been persistent this summer. There have been numerous occasions and wide geographical areas where the night drop in the thermometers has not been enough to let us stand properly. There are several terms that we use in these contexts, such as tropical nights, referring to the nights in which temperatures do not lower the 20º; and the Equatorial or Torrid Nightsin which it does not get off the 25th. However, in some places, the problem has gone even further, with mercutes that did not even go down from the 30th. Ensure rest. Reconciling sleep at these temperatures is a difficult task if there is no Fan or air conditioning assistanceso our nighttime rest suffers. That is why, although maximum temperatures usually call our attention more, high minimum temperatures may also be problems. A worrying trend. Of course, this is a problem that, if the forecasts continue to be fulfilled, will go worse, not only in the long term as a consequence of climate change, also during this month of August that opens with a heat wave that It still affects To a good part of the Peninsula. The present heat wave It is also bringing high minimum temperatures. Tonight, for example, it is expected that they do not fall from the 20th in various areas of the country, and they will be able to stay above 25 in areas of the Mediterranean, of the southern peninsular half, in the depressions of the Northeast, or even in areas of the northern peninsular, on the plateau and in Galicia. Not just heat. The new statistics published by the Agency also mention the maximum absolute temperature registered in Spain in July, the 43.3º observed in Granado, Huelva, on Tuesday, July 1, in the first of the heat waves recorded this summer. The agency’s data also included data that describes the intensity of the tormentous episodes seen in the middle of the month, such as gusts of up to 133 km/h registered in Caspe, Zaragoza, on the 10th; or the 155.4 mm of rain collected on the 12th in Vilafranca del Penedés, Barcelona. A striking fact if we consider that in the Catalan town, 216.4 mm were collected throughout the month; That is, more than 70% of monthly rainfall in the town occurred in one day. In Xataka | This year’s rains were supposed to leave us overflowing swamps in summer. Reality is being very different Image | ECMWF / Ivan Oboleninov

After achieving what seemed impossible, Nvidia sees his future in China threatened by something terrifying: the bureaucracy

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What is happening to Nvidia with the GPU to artificial intelligence (AI) H20 It is a real odyssey. Currently this chip is its best asset to protect its position in the Chinese market, but at the current situation it is not clear that the company led by Jensen Huang go survive In this gigantic Asian country. Interestingly, the beginnings of this GPU in China were extraordinarily promising because Their sales grew by 50% quarter to quarter since it arrived in this market in mid -2024. However, everything was complicated for Nvidia in the middle of last April. And is that the US Department of Commerce imposed new restrictions To the export to China of the H20 GPU, which in practice caused this chip to stop reaching the Chinese clients of this company. This news Nvidia’s shares sank 6% in the bag because I could no longer attend the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that it had acquired. At the beginning of July there was another unexpected turn of events. Jensen Huang met with Donald Trump and got something that seemed impossible: the trade department would allow him Sell again in China the H20 chip. Since then four weeks have passed and Nvidia continues to wait. He has not yet received the export license you need to sell this GPU in China, and, According to ReutersThe problem is that the Commerce Department is mired in the bureaucracy, which has originated a delay in the concession of export licenses that has not occurred for more than 30 years. The future of Nvidia in China is in the hands of the Chinese government This delay comes at the worst time for Nvidia. Among Chinese clients who have bought great amounts of this GPU, and that presumably plan to continue doing itare Tencent, Alibaba or Bytedance. But if the Department of Commerce takes much more the delivery of the export license to NVIDIA these commercial operations could be canceled. And it is that Jensen Huang’s company has another very important open front. The CAC is responsible for the censorship and control of the contents published in the network As We explain to you last weekthe administration of the cyberspace of China, usually known as CAC for its English denomination (Cyberspace Administration of China), he has decided Thoroughly investigate the H20 GPU. This institution is the main Internet regulatory body in China and is responsible for the censorship and control of the contents published in the Network, the supervision of technology companies and compliance with the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law. The problem that Nvidia faces now is that The CAC has decided to investigate it Because he suspects that the H20 chip could incorporate a rear door of difficult location by Chinese experts. If so, the possibility of China to use this GPU could be possible. At the moment the CAC has limited himself to questioning those responsible for NVIDIA in China and ask them to demonstrate that the H20 Chip does not represent a threat to the interests and security of the country led by Xi Jinping. As expected, Nvidia has immediately responded to the Chinese authorities and is collaborating to dissipate as soon as possible the doubts that loom about the H20 chip. According to SCMPthose responsible for the company in China have assured CAC researchers that the GPUs for the develops They do not incorporate any “back door” implemented to facilitate espionage by the US government. “Cybersecurity is of vital importance for us”, has declared A NVIDIA executive. “We have no rear doors in our chips that can give someone remote access or the ability to control them.” Probably during the next few days we will know how this conflict ends. Image | Nvidia More information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

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