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Neither Robotaxi nor Cybercab. Elon Musk is having a hard time naming his autonomous taxi, and now it’s French sparkling water to blame

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It will soon be a year since Tesla’s first autonomous taxis began to roll And to this day the creature still does not have an official name. AND not because Elon Musk hasn’t tried. First it ran into the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and now it has been a French sparkling water company. rookie mistake. Tesla may have the technology of the future rolling on the streets, but when it held the ‘We, Robot’ event in 2024 in which it presented the Cybercab, it forgot a small detail: it announced the name without having officially registered the brand. This is where Unibev comes into play, a French beverage company, which saw the perfect opportunity to troll the richest man in the world. The patent troll. What Unibev did is a clear case of patent thief (or troll, as they would say in ‘Silicon Valley’). Taking advantage of Tesla’s oversight, six days after the announcement, the company registered the name Cybercab and it doesn’t seem like it’s because they want to call their sparkling water that way, but rather to simply be annoying. The company already had a history of trolling Musk and in addition to Cybercab they also registered Cybertaxi, Robocab Systems, XCab, Cyber ​​Diner, Teslaquila, Teslaquila Hard Seltzer and With a Touch of Musk. Some horny ones. The answer. The USPTO suspended Tesla’s application because Unibev had beaten them to it, but Tesla did not sit idly by and filed a lawsuit of more than 150 pages in which they accuse Unibev of bad faith and having acted as a patent thief. Having registered before is not synonymous with victory, since simply proving that Unibev does not manufacture vehicles the authority should rule in favor of Tesla. In their application, Unibev said they could use the name for “a car, a ship or a plane.” It seems easy enough to dismantle, the problem is that the litigation could extend until 2027. If Unibev wins the dispute, Tesla could be forced to negotiate the use of the name outside the US and even have to use another name in certain markets. And ‘robotaxi’?. Tesla too tried to register the trademark ‘Robotaxi’but the USPTO told them that nanai. The reason had nothing to do with any patent thief, but because it is “used to describe similar products and services of other companies. (…) This expression appears to be generic in the context of the applicant’s products and/or services.” The USTPO comes to say that it is too standard a name, it would be like registering the ‘taxi’ trademark. There is still more. The organizational chaos does not end with taxis, the same thing also happened with its autonomous minibus, presented with great fanfare as “Robovan.” The problem is that Tesla announced it without first having verified that the brand was already registered by an Estonian delivery company. Tesla has had to look for less attractive alternatives such as “Robobus”, “Robus” or “Cyberbus”. About launching autonomous vehicles with super-advanced technology, well, that’s all the paperwork. Image | tesla In Xataka | Tesla robotaxis are autonomous, except when driven by a man from Texas

Every time the Vatican has warned of the danger of a technology, that technology has ended up changing the world. It’s up to the AI

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Let’s do a little memory. The 15th century was ending and The Christian Church found the printing press wonderful.almost providential. The adoption of that invention by ecclesiastical institutions was enthusiastic because it allowed them to amplify their mission. It didn’t take long for the discourse to change noticeably. in the bull Inter multiplies In 1487, Pope Innocent VIII praised it but warned of its risks: the same thing that served to spread the word of God, could serve to spread heresies and false ideas. It was then that censorship was introduced according to which no book should be printed without the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. That laid the foundations for the future Index librorum prohibitorum which established a list of prohibited works for all of Christendom. That didn’t go too well. Martin Luther precisely took advantage of that divine invention to distribute your propaganda during the Protestant Reformation, and if this movement ended up being successful it was undoubtedly thanks to the printing press. It is not in vain that Luther is considered the first author of best-sellers of history. The encyclicals in the face of technological advances Let’s move forward. In 1891 Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Rerum Novarumpossibly the most famous social encyclical in history. In it the pontiff focused on the rights of workers as response to the disturbing Industrial Revolution. He denounced the concentration of wealth and new technologies “in the hands of a few,” and warned that this was turning workers into slaves. Let’s keep moving forward. 90 years ago, Pius XI launched his act Vigilanti Cura (1936), dedicated exclusively to cinema. It recognized the technological progress that cinematography represented, but warned that if it was not strictly regulated, it would become the greatest instrument of moral corruption and mass manipulation in history. That message would be accompanied by the encyclical Miranda Prorsus (1957), by Pius XII, which extended that warning to both radio and televisionwhich had as much or more capacity than cinema to be beneficial but also toxic to humanity. There have been other social encyclicals related to technology: Pacem in Terris (1963) by John XXIII spoke of the atomic danger, while Evangelium Vitae (1995) by John Paul II was a wake-up call against eugenic biomedical techniques and embryo manipulation. The curious thing is that most of these encyclicals were published many years after certain technological advances had occurred. That would make one think that there are one or several encyclicals dedicated to the internet, mobile phones or social networks. There are not, although these topics have been mentioned by the last Popes in other messages. Arrives Magnificent Humanitas Therefore it is surprising that Pope Leo XIV has dedicated an entire encyclical to artificial intelligence. He has done it just three years after ChatGPT was launched, and he has also done it with a unique title: Magnificent Humanitas (2026). A fact: Robert Fracis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, graduated in mathematics in 1977 from Villanova University in Philadelphia. This encyclical follows a very clear historical line of argument: on many occasions in which a disruptive technology appears, the Vatican adopts the role of “ethical brake” and tries to warn of something relevant: technical and technological advances must be subordinated to human beings. In Magnificent Humanitas the discourse is known and reasonable: warning that large AI companies They will end up imposing their moral vision on the entire planet. It is not just that hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) or companies like OpenAI or Anthropic dominate this market in the commercial section: it is that this dominance also translates into a form of influence that is even more worrying than cinema or television were (and are). The encyclical also warns of how AI is causing a “cognitive displacement” in which human beings end up preferring that algorithms think for them instead of making a reflective effort. The text is very long (40,000 words, which is approximately equivalent to a novel of about 150 pages) and ambitious, and covers many more areas, but the univocal message is that of a warning about the dangers of this technology. If one looks at this entire catalog of papal warnings from a historical perspective, it is impossible not to see the paradox. Most of the technologies that the Vatican once denounced as existential threats ended up, in the end, making the world a better, more prosperous and more connected place. The printing press democratized culture, the Industrial Revolution raised the global standard of living, cinema and television enriched the collective imagination, and biotechnology saves lives. History shows us that these bad omens of the Popes never came to pass completely, but we must be careful. The value of these encyclicals is not in their ability to predict the future, but in their function as ethical counterweights. It’s okay and necessary that someone warns about the risks, because those dangers were and still are real. Image | The Holy See In Xataka | Spain has been a Catholic country for more than 1,500 years. “The Change” now wants to turn it into an evangelical one

College students are getting more A’s than at any other time in history. There is a suspect

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Some already call it “grade inflation.” It is a phenomenon that should make us happy—what grades our young people get—but that is increasingly worrying in the educational world. University students have never gotten as many A’s as they have until now, but in reality the credit is not theirs. Using ChatGPT and other AI tools It is distorting its capacity and putting the educational system at a global level in check (again). Note inflation. Igor Chirikov published in May 2026 a study in which he talked precisely about how artificial intelligence is causing grade inflation. In his research, he analyzed the data of half a million students in 319 subjects at the University of Texas, and detected something surprising: since 2022, when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the number of outstanding students at that institution has grown by 30%. But not everyone gets the same grade. In his conclusions, Chirikov explained how “these increases” in the grade “were greater when homework had a greater influence on the grades, which is consistent with the theory that AI is replacing the student’s work, and not improving learning.” The effect is greater, for example, in courses such as Economics or Journalism, where there are many written assignments to be submitted, but also in Computer Science courses and others in which programming subjects are taught. Both ChatGPT and other AI models are an increasingly popular (and effective) tool for students who want to improve their grades at all costs. perfect homework. The researchers indicate that a displacement of cognitive tasks is occurring here. The student no longer uses technology to support the learning process, but rather completely delegates many of the tasks that he should do to the AI. Essays, research papers and programming practices What should they give to teachers? They are becoming more and more perfect. Mirage. That theoretical brilliance is a mirage. Controlled studies like this one reveal that students who systematically use AI in their assignments end up suffering a 17% drop in their grades when they are subjected to a classic in-person pencil and paper exam on the same subject. ChatGPT becomes a superpower, but without it, grades drop clearly. The problems grow. Grade inflation is not a new phenomenon. In the US, university centers suffer structural pressures: if they are strict, they receive criticism from students, which jeopardizes future students wanting to attend them. This contributed to the fact that at Harvard, for example, A’s went from representing 24% of grades in 2005 to 60.2% in the spring of 2025. ChatGPT, write me my TFG. In Spain and Europe the panorama is similar. 89% of university students admit to using AI to write reports or Final Degree Projects (TFG), according to a recent GoStudent survey. Meanwhile, 61% of teachers confess that they do not have tools or software to confirm that whoever has done a job has not done it with AI. They are all too good students. When the outstanding becomes something totally normal and so frequent, this grade loses its power of differentiation. The filter previously made it clear which students were exceptional, something that was also vital for companies’ search for talent. Now those looking for these talents have reacted: in the US, job portals such as HandShake show that job offers that require a minimum GPA (average score of the university degree) of 3.5 out of 4 have skyrocketed from 9% in 2020 to 25% in 2026. As all university students are exceptional, companies look for the most exceptional among the exceptional. No more A’s. This distrust of job and homework qualifications has made some institutions prefer to return to the past. harvard will apply a notable reform in fall 2027 and will limit outstanding grades to a maximum of 20% per course, while honors enrollment will also depend on a certain percentile instead of via grades. 85% of the students opposed to these measures, but at Harvard they will continue with the measures although they indicate that they will review their application three years after the start of their application. everyone cheats. At the prestigious Princeton University the phenomenon is equally worrying. About half of its students They used AI to write their essays. 15% admitted to using AI to cheat in school, and 65.5% “knew a classmate was cheating and did not report it.” Everyone seems to be cheating at the university, as indicated in an article in The New York Intelligencer as early as May 2025. The university has just approved a proposal that would allow supervised exams, something that would break a 133-year tradition in which the students themselves monitored each other to prevent others from cheating. The “Code of Honor” of this institution has not been able to with the avalanche of AI. Image | Christian Lendl In Xataka | Something is happening in the computer science major in Silicon Valley: enrollment falls for the first time in 20 years

If you feel guilty every time you leave your dog home alone, science has an explanation (and a couple of solutions)

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Anyone who has a dog as a pet has probably faced a big problem when they grab their keys and coat and head out the door. This is nothing more than the whining and nervous pacing of an animal behind its owner that can end up barking or even destroying some object in the home due to the stress they feel when they are left alone and ‘abandoned’ under their conscience. However, science suggests that This separation anxiety is a bidirectional phenomenon. In two senses. As stated in different texts, leaving our pet alone not only triggers a peak of stress in the animal, but also generates a deep burden of guilt and anxiety in the human. And no, it is not that we are excessively humanizing our dogs, it is that our brains and theirs have developed an attachment bond that is comparable to that of interpersonal relationships. It’s not parenting. One idea we have in mind is that when a dog has anxiety when its owner leaves, for example, for work, it is the result of having had a very permissive childhood in which no animal restrictions were imposed. But today this has changed with important data. We can find these data in a large study published in 2020 on the canine population in Finland that revealed that between 14% and 20% Of dogs suffer from separation anxiety, they often have a strong fear of other stressors, such as loud noise. Why do they do it? Neither revenge nor general anger at having been left alone come into play here, but rather this behavior is linked to patterns of frustration and panic. Besides, there are some factors that predispose animals to have these problems, such as being male, coming from a shelter, having suffered early weaning or facing an environment that lacks predictability. In the human. Staying with only the reaction that the animal has, the truth is that it is a very short understatement. And here science has seen that owners also experience stress, difficulty concentrating at work or even cancel social plans to avoid the distress of leaving their pet alone. And here the bond that is generated between the human and the animal comes into play, being an attachment bond like that of a father with his newborn. And the people who develop an “anxious attachment” to their pets are precisely those who experience higher levels of anxiety when separating from them, as well as much more serious depressive and somatic symptoms when the animal dies or is not present. The solution. One of the important points in this case lies in teaching the dog’s brain that “exit signals” such as taking the keys or putting on the shoes, do not necessarily mean the end of the world, doing them without leaving the house. But also, we must keep in mind that when we return home we do not have to ‘throw a party’ to compensate for the guilt, since we only confirm to the dog that our absence was a terrible state of exception that has finally ended. This is why reunion should be normalized when we talk about a few hours of separation. Images | Wade Austin Ellis In Xataka | We have been using our pets to relieve our anxiety. And now the stress is on them

We have been searching for extraterrestrial life for decades. According to these astrobiologists, we have been doing it wrong all this time

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We are very used to hearing that someone has found possible signs of life in space. Then life is never found, but the trail seems to be there. All of these findings often end up being false positives, something astrobiologists are more than familiar with. However, According to a study just published in Nature Astronomy, They could be overlooking false negatives and that would be serious. Pass life long. What the authors of this study point out is that false negatives could be more common than we think. That is to say, many of the times when it is clearly concluded that there is no life in a place in space, it could be that it did exist, but it had been passed by without being detected. The causes. There could be three reasons why these false negatives occur. On the one hand, no traces of life are preserved. That is, it exists or has existed, but has not left a detectable trace. It could also be that this fingerprint is difficult to detect. Or, perhaps, that the methods used to detect it have limitations. Along these lines, the authors of the study give an example. Let’s imagine that there is a living being that, through its metabolic reactions, generates some gas that is understood as a trace of life. Maybe oxygen or methane. But let’s also imagine that there is a geological activity in that place that captures that gas from the environment. I wouldn’t have time to measure it. Therefore, the detection of life would have to be covered from other points. The risks. There are two main risks of not paying attention to false negatives. On the one hand, instruments that would help find even more traces of life would be deprioritized. If we do not find anything that justifies its development, we limit the possibilities of continuing searching. On the other hand, if life is not adequately searched for, resources from other planets where such life is found could be exploited. We would destroy it before we even knew it existed. Solutions. These scientists believe that searching for patterns using artificial intelligence could be an option. If the usual methods have not worked so far, perhaps we should ask an algorithm to detect patterns that have gone unnoticed to find new search paths. Along the same lines, it would also be necessary to study the terrain better and pay attention to anomalies. For example, if an unconventional type of oxidation is detected on a planet, inexplicable with what we know on Earth, it could be that it was associated with some form of life. It may not look like the oxidation carried out by terrestrial living beings, but who says it has to be the same? You have to think outside the box. Combine different types of work. In short, these scientists consider that to adequately search for life it is necessary to combine laboratory experiments with modeling and field work. But, above all, it is important to change the questions we ask ourselves. What if it has already been found? In 2019, a former NASA scientist told in an article for Scientific American that, according to himhis agency found life on Mars, but accidentally destroyed it. Supposedly, it all happened in the 1970s, in an experiment that was part of the Viking mission. This consisted of depositing nutrients in the soil and checking if gases typical of microbial decomposition were produced. Then, to ensure that it was not a coincidence, they would repeat the process, but adding a substance lethal to living organisms to the soil. In that case, gases should not be produced. And no, they were not produced, so there was something alive generating the gases. It was great news, but NASA did not publish that result, because when trying to replicate the experiment it came back negative. In science it is very important to replicate the results, so they concluded that it must have been a false positive. However, this former member of NASA, Gilbert V. Levin, believes that they destroyed life unintentionally and that is why they could not replicate it. This is no longer an anecdote. Most likely, they would not have found life. However, this story shows that we are always more predisposed to false positive than false negative. The focus would have to be changed a little. Maybe then we will finally find some life beyond our own planet. Images | Eric Erbe and Christopher Pooley (illustrative image of E.coliit has nothing to do with the study)/ Brett Ritchie (Unsplash) In Xataka | Life on Earth underwent a spectacular change 540 million years ago. We have a new explanation why

The Milky Way has been in the sky for billions of years. It took a natural disaster for the residents of Los Angeles to see it for the first time

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January 17, 1994. The San Fernando Valley trembled under a large earthquake of magnitude 6.7 that shook the city of Los Angeles with terrible severity. As is normal after a disaster like thisthe emergency lines were soon filled with calls from terrified neighbors. There were many common warnings, but there was a much more curious call which was repeated ad nauseam. That of a lot of neighbors scared by the enormous silver strip that had opened in the sky. What they saw, far from being something dangerous, was a clear sign of the light pollution that already covered Los Angeles 30 years ago. It was just the Milky Way. In reality, what these neighbors saw was neither more nor less than the Milky Way. Many of them were not used to traveling outside big cities, so they had not seen our galaxy crossing the sky in their entire lives. This is precisely why this true story is often used to raise awareness about the risks of light pollution. Why is it not seen? Artificial light from streetlights, monuments or illuminated shop windows is reflected and dispersed in the atmosphere, so that it illuminates the background of the sky. Normally, we see stars because there is a great contrast between them and the dark sky. However, this scattered light almost completely destroys said contrast. From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a very faint band of light. Therefore, if there is not enough contrast it is practically impossible to see it. It’s still there, but it’s hidden from our eyes. The more pollution, the worse. The suspension of particles in the air can cause artificial light to scatter even further. Therefore, the problem in large cities, like Los Angeles, is twofold. On the one hand there are many streetlights and other luminaires and on the other hand there is usually a lot of pollution. It is normal that so many people have never seen the Milky Way. Getting worse. This event took place more than 30 years ago. Although today there is more awareness about the problem of light pollution and the City Councils of some cities design lighting projects advised by astronomers and other experts, the situation has not improved. In fact, currently is calculated that 80% of the world’s population lives under light-polluted skies. Using the striking case of the Milky Way as a reference, a study published in 2024 point because 60% of Europeans and 80% of Americans have never seen the Milky Way. The case of people who believed that the sky had cracked is just an anecdote. However, the reality is that the heavens are no longer what they were. If the problem of light pollution is not solved, future generations will not be able to enjoy many of the spectacles that the sky has given us. Image | Magnificent In Xataka | James Webb has found a galaxy from when the universe was 330 million years old. Hides a whole enigma

There was a time when Nvidia was a gaming company. That business is now pocket change for the owner and lady of AI

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In 1993, Nvidia was founded with the goal of creating graphics chips for video games. For almost three decades Nvidia has been basically that: a semiconductor company for gaming that yes, I had ambition in the field of professional computing. But things change: Nvidia’s gaming business has generated $6.4 billion the first fiscal quarter of 2027and although it is a healthy business, for Nvidia it is something else: It’s almost pocket change. Gaming no longer (almost) matters. In any other company in the sector, this income (29% more than last year) would already be extraordinary, but at Nvidia they are almost a footnote, because gaming represents less than 8% of the company’s total income. The other $75.2 billion came from the data center business, which grew 92% from the previous year. AI has made Nvidia’s original business almost irrelevant in relative terms. Stratospheric numbers. Nvidia has earned $81.6 billion in the first fiscal quarter of 2027. It is an absolutely colossal figure that should be put into perspective: it is so large like GDP from Croatia, Panama or Uruguay. The company led by Jensen Huang has managed to grow 85% in revenue since a year ago, almost double. The surprising thing is that it has also done so when it seems increasingly difficult to grow at this rate. The graph shows year-over-year growth in revenue in percentage. In 2026 the trend is bullish again. Source: FT. This is non-stop. The company exceeded Wall Street expectations, which projected revenues of 78.86 billion, but Nvidia also states that its forecast for the next quarter is to earn 91 billion dollars, 12% more than the current one. It’s true that growth is slowing in percentage terms, which is normal at this point, but in absolute terms the company continues to add billions of dollars of additional revenue each quarter. Data center numbers. Those $75.2 billion in data center business aren’t just GPU sales for hyperscalers. It also includes the company’s networking solutions business, which has grown no less than 199% year-on-year to $14.4 billion: it has tripled. The reason is logical: the demand for interconnection infrastructure for the large clusters that are being created everywhere is enormous, and Nvidia provides an ideal solution for those who buy its AI chips. Beware I, Anthropic is coming. On the call with investors, Jensen Huang gave a singular fact: Anthropic has made virtually no use of Nvidia solutions to train and serve its AI models, but that is going to change. The company’s CEO highlighted that the computing capacity they are going to deploy for Anthropic this year and next is going to be “quite significant.” Or what is the same: they are going to continue selling like hotcakes even if the competition tightens. Nvidia is also an investor in startups. Nvidia’s strategy is also being curious on a financial level, because it is not content with growing its business, it is betting on AI startups. It has invested more than 26,000 million in investments in this type of companies, and that does not include the recent agreements with OpenAI or in listed companies like corning. Beware II, China is coming. All these numbers, attention, are being achieved without the help of the Asian giant. In December, the Trump administration authorized Nvidia chip exports to China (with a 25% government fee). Theoretically that should make Nvidia generate notable income thanks to said authorization. Huang explained that at the moment these revenues are zero and that there is some uncertainty about whether China will finally allow its chips to be imported. In the second fiscal quarter of 2027, income from China is not assumed, but if that market finally opens, we will have even more extraordinary numbers. Buying back shares. Nvidia has returned about $20 billion to shareholders this quarter between buybacks and dividends. The board of directors has approved investing $80 billion more in share buybacks, thus multiplying by four what had previously been authorized. That’s a clear sign of Nvidia’s confidence in its future, which will also benefit shareholders: the dividend has passed from $0.01 per share to $0.25 per share. Previously, Nvidia offered specific data on gaming revenue. From now on, stop doing so to put that division within the Edge Computing category. Gaming no longer appears in the accounts. Typically Nvidia’s financial reports divided revenue into data centers, networking, gaming, professional visualization, automotive, and a few other fields. Now that Nvidia is a fully AI-focused company, it has changed its revenue pooling structure. Everything related to gaming, PCs, consoles, workstations, robots, cars and other devices is part of the “Edge Computing” category. Gaming, we insist, no longer (almost) matters. In Xataka | For the first time in 30 years, Nvidia will not present new GPUs for gamers in 2026. They earn much more with AI

For the first time in 30 years, Nvidia will not present new GPUs for gamers in 2026. They earn much more with AI

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In 1995 Nvidia presented its NV1 chipsits first multimedia card and the one that would start its particular revolution in the world of gaming. Since then, every year the company has presented a new model intended for this segment. In 2026 that tradition will be broken. what has happened. What has happened is AI. The rise of this industry has been of such magnitude that it has had a critical impact on the technological field and, little by little, on the social field. Nvidia is at the center of this particular revolution, because the company bet early on the ability of its GPUs to be used as AI chips and that bet has been rewarded. Gamers in the background. Such has been the explosion in this field, that Nvidia has decided that what is important is no longer gamers, but AI chips for data centers. From a financial and business point of view, the logic is overwhelming: the profit margin of AI chips round 75%, especially thanks to price control that allows the company to set prices to its liking thanks to the fact that it currently has almost no competition. Data centers win by a landslide. There is another element that favors it: volume. Not only is the price per unit higher, it is that the volume handled in data centers is much higher than that of gaming GPUs. Analysis like that of App Economy show how the market started timid, but in the second fiscal quarter of 2024 revenues began to skyrocket and the data center fever has made Nvidia the company with the largest market capitalization in the world. No GPUs for gaming in 2026. After the launch of the RTX 5000 in January 2025, this year Nvidia was expected to announce the “SUPER” versions of said family. These models they were going to tell with denser GDDR7 memory modules, which would allow the memory configuration of the original models to be increased. The memory crisis and the total focus on the catalog of GPUs for AI has meant that Nvidia has not announced them, and for the first time in more than 30 years there will be no renewal of the gamer catalog for this year. And the RTX 6000 even further. If the news is already bad for the SUPER versions of the RTX 5000, things are even more terrible for the theoretical RTX 6000, which will have Rubin architecture and from which a notable jump in performance is expected. According to the latest datathese graphics cards will not begin to be manufactured until the end of 2027, which would mean that they would not arrive until 2028. The current situation suggests that it is likely that they will not even arrive that year. Do we really need more powerful GPUs? On Reddit a user did an important comment when it became known that NVIDIA would probably not release new graphics for gamers. “On the one hand it makes me angry. On the other hand I realize that I am playing ‘Rimworld‘ and ‘Terraria‘”. It refers to very popular games that can be played even with integrated GPUs such as those used by many Intel or AMD processors. Others they responded that Nvidia GPUs are so powerful that they are actually often necessary because game developers don’t really squeeze the hardware. Be that as it may, it seems that the current generation is usually more than prepared for the most demanding titles, and the urgency for a new generation is perhaps not so pressing. The April 2026 Steam survey makes it clear that the next-generation RTX 5000 coexists with a market in which the RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 remain very popular. Source: Steam. The data confirms it. If you go through the April 2026 Steam Survey you see how more than a year after its presentation, the RTX 5000 has almost 24% market share, while the RTX 4000 has 35% and the RTX 3000 has 16%. The rest of the users opt for previous solutions or from rivals like AMD, which is still far away in this battle. Many users have already invested in their RTX 3000 and 4000, and it seems unlikely that they will do so again for a new GPU, especially when in the recent times The prices of these cards have skyrocketed. There is nowhere to run. There is another problem with this Nvidia strategy of turning gamers into second-class users: there are not many alternatives, at least if we want maximum performance. AMD continues to fight in this market, but its graphics still fail to capture the interest of many users. Intel has done interesting releases recent years, but not in the high range in which Nvidia is a de facto monopoly. Your efforts They are not achieving great success either.and the company is not focusing on it either because it knows that now the money is somewhere else. In Xataka | If at some point NVIDIA has to choose between giving its best chips to the US or China, its choice is very clear.

“If you have time, use it to learn more about AI”

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The arrival of artificial intelligence to our life It is no longer the stuff of science fiction movies. The young people of generation Z are going to have to deal with the different forms of integration of this technology in the world of work. One of the main pieces of advice from millionaire and investor Mark Cuban to generation Z, who are beginning to join the labor marketis understanding that mastering this technology is not an option, it’s a necessity. Mark Cuban’s advice. Millionaire investor Mark Cuban, co-founder of the video portal Broadcast.com and former owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, assured last year at the SXSW conference that throughout his life he had tried his luck in all kinds of businesses. ELON MUSK VS JEFF BEZOS: STAR WARS However, the millionaire acknowledged that, if he were to become a young man with an entire career ahead of him, he would dedicate all his time to one thing: “If I were 16, 18, 20 or 21 years old from today, I would dedicate every minute of the day to learning about AI. Even while I was sleeping, I would listen to podcasts about AI.” AI is the future and they must prepare for it. In his speech, Cuban emphasized that AI not only will automate tasksbut will also create new employment opportunities and transform existing industries. So the young people who are now entering the labor market are going to have to deal with AI-based tools or, what is even better, create them. According to Cuban, the key is not to be afraid of AI, but to embrace it and learn to work with it. This involves acquiring skills in areas such as machine learning, data analysis, and algorithm development. “Those people who dedicated the necessary time will achieve it,” insisted the businessman and investor, whose fortune it is estimated about $6 billion according to Forbes. Skills beyond AI. The millionaire highlighted that the domain of AI is not limited to computer engineers or data scientists who train AI models. In fact, businessmen consider that those who can combine AI skills with knowledge in other fields, such as marketing, finance or design, will be the more in demand in the future since the main task of generation Z will be to integrate AI into business processes. The businessman stressed that the jobs of the future They will require some type of AI-related skill. Therefore, investing time and effort in learning about AI is an investment in your professional future. The next billionaire will be thanks to AI. Since speaking at SXSW last year, Cuban has continued to insist on numerous occasions on the importance of AI. Among other things, has predicted that the first billionaire (“trillionaire” in English) will be thanks to AI and that it could perfectly well be a guy in a basement. A foundation on which to undertake. Until last year, Cuban was one of the protagonists of the television program Shark Tank from the North American ABC, in which entrepreneurs must captivate investors to put their money into their ideas. That’s why Cuban not only invites young people to learn everything they can about AI to guarantee a good job. The millionaire assures that knowing how AI works can open new avenues of entrepreneurship for young people and generate new successful companies, in the same way that today’s great technological millionaires did. a decade ago. “AI is never the solution. It is a tool,” Cuban highlighted in his speech during the conference for entrepreneurs. In Xataka | “Humans will not be necessary for most things”: Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future In Xataka | AI promises to boost the productivity of companies: the problem is that we are not measuring it well Image | Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) A previous version of this topic was published in 2025. We have updated the topic with new statements from Mark Cuban

have measured for the first time how its disappearance makes us poorer and malnourished

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We have been hearing warnings for years about the global collapse of populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Until now, the debate had often focused on the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, but now a new and pioneering study has just shown that this ecological crisis goes much further by pointing out that the decline of insects It is already directly affecting human nutritionbecoming a very important food safety issue. It is being analyzed. Although some people may wish that these insects would end up disappearing because they disgust them, the reality is that it is not the best of ideas. Here the key piece of this new alert is a study published in Nature that quantified the real and tangible impact that the lack of pollinators has on the environment. What has been seen? The team here analyzed the daily life of 10 agricultural villages in Nepal for a year and cross-referenced data on the abundance and diversity of pollinating insects in the area, the exact yields of their crops and, most importantly, the nutritional status of the inhabitants. Once all this information was cross-referenced, the results indicated that pollinators are directly responsible for approximately 44% of the agricultural income of these communities. But the most critical data is in the diet, since insects guarantee more than 20% of the intake of vitamin A, E and folate. And, by decreasing pollination, Harvests of fruits, vegetables and seeds rich in these micronutrients fall drastically, leaving communities exposed to nutritional deficiencies. A great crisis. To understand the magnitude of this finding, we must look at the global trend, often dubbed in the scientific community and in the media as the “insect apocalypse.” In this case, in 2019 a study set off alarm bells by estimating that 40% of species of insects worldwide is in decline. And the data pointed to massive drops in the number of flying insects in parts of Germany and also in the forest of Puerto Rico. And logically, this global disappearance has consequences, since insects are the basis of countless food webs and essential for nutrient recycling and pollination. Globally, it is estimated that approximately three-quarters of the world’s food crops depend to some extent on animal pollination. Why do they disappear? science is clear that intensive land use and climate change are very important factors when it comes to explaining why these insects are declining. And the regions that suffer the worst declines in insect abundance and diversity are, paradoxically, those with intensive agriculture and little remaining natural habitat, aggravated by rising temperatures. In the end, we are facing a true vicious circle, since the habitat of insects is destroyed and pesticides are also used massively to produce more food, but in doing so we annihilate the very pollinators on which the profitability and quality of those same crops depends. Is there a solution? Here the escape route specified by the research points to the need to plant strips of native flowers around the crops to ensure constant food for pollinators. Furthermore, transitioning towards agricultural models that do not indiscriminately poison our allies is also essential. Images | wirestock at Magnific In Xataka | We have a serious problem with the extinction of bees. The United Kingdom wants to solve it with bricks

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