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We have been seeing that Ozempic affects fertility. Now the United Kingdom has begun to take the “Ozempic Babies” seriously

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Ozempic He began his career as a drug against diabetes but became one of the most popular medications worldwide when we realized that among its “side effects” was weight loss. Since then we have been detecting other possible effects, positive and negative but surely the most surprising of these is on its effects on fertility. Set deals with the phenomenon of the “Ozempic Babies” The United Kingdom warns. The authority responsible for regulating drugs and health products in the United Kingdom, MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) warned a few days ago of a “new” side effect associated with the consumption of Ozempic, that of an increase in pregnancy probability. While this is the first time that the organism warns about the effect, the first news about this occurred More than a year ago. How it works. Ozempic is the brand with which Danish pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk markets a diabetes treatment based on semaglutida. This compound also serves as a basis for Wegovyname under which the drug oriented to weight loss is marketed. To understand why the same compound can function as a treatment against diabetes and as a thinning we have to understand how it acts in our body. The semaglutida works as an agonist of the peptide receptors similar to glucagon-1 (LPG-1), that is, it works as an analogue of this key hormone in the digestive process. When we eat our body naturally secretes the GLP-1 hormone to transmit two messages. The first to the pancreas, so that it begins to segregate insulin with which to metabolize the sugars of the food. The second to the brain, so that this knows that we are satiated. Drugs like Zepbound and Mounjaro They act similarlyalthough the tirzepatida on which they are based works as a double analogue of LPG-1 and GIP hormones (gastric inhibitor polypeptide). Ozempic Babies. A little over a year ago, dozens of women in treatment with any of these medications They started informing of a strange phenomenon: They were becoming pregnant despite being considered infertile or despite resorting to contraceptives. This phenomenon was soon baptized as the “Ozempic Babies“,” Ozempic babies. “ How do you do it? Since the phenomenon began to document, many wondered how it was possible. There are two mechanisms (alternative or complementary) that can explain this phenomenon. The first has to do with contraceptives, specifically with oral contraceptives. One of Ozempic’s effects is that of slow down our digestionwhich in turn makes nutrients and other compounds absorb more slowly. In the preparation of an oral treatment, absorption speed is an important variable to take into account. Drugs such as contraceptives are designed for specific speeds, if these change too much, treatment can lose efficacy. He Another mechanism that could explain this phenomenon has to do with its slimming effect. As experts also highlight, there is an inverse relationship between obesity and overweight and fertility. It is possible, that by facilitating weight loss the drug is also contributing to increasing the probabilities of pregnancy. A double problem. The problem is double since it not only implies a greater probability of an unwanted pregnancy; also because this type of treatments They are contraindicated Not only for pregnant women, but also in those who seek to be. According to the recommendations, who wants to find a pregnancy should interrupt these treatments At least two months In advance to allow our body to return to normal and avoid unnecessary risks in a process as complex as gestation. Positive effects and negative effects. The “fever” by Ozempic and the drugs of its class began with a side effect: a medication aimed at treating diabetes made those who consumed it lose weight. The demand for these compounds has allowed us to find other possible Side effectspositive and negative, on which we have a greater or lesser degree of certainty. Possible adverse effects documented by the manufacturer itself can find problems such as aggravation of diabetic eye disease, potential allergic reactions and a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms, from nausea to constipation. However, since it also began to be used We have found indications on other possible effects. Some positives such as helping the fight against addictions or possible effects on renal health either cardiovascular. In the negative face we have also found indications of loss of hair and eye problems. In Xataka | “Ozempic face”, “Ozempic language” and “Ozempic teeth”: the other very visible effect of consuming the medicine to lose weight Image | Chemist4u / Camylla Battani

IA consumes so much energy that the United States is building data centers directly in natural gas wells

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What makes a startup dedicated to building data centers get 11.6 billion dollars in financing. In the case of Crusoe Energy Systems, it all started with an idea as disturbing as profitable: build data centers with natural gas wells. Crusoe Energy’s idea Journalist Emily Chang de Bloomberg visited a few weeks ago The city of Abilene, in Texas, where Crusoe is building the monstrous Stargate data centers, The 500.00 billion project OpenAi, SoftBank and Oracle to develop general artificial intelligence. Stargate arrived at Crusoe Energy thanks to the demonstrated efficiency of the startup in the construction of specialized data centers in AI. Chase Lochmiller, the CEO of Crusoe, explained to Chang how the company was born: “When an oil company opens an oil well, one of the associated by -products is natural gas. And when they do not have access to an pipeline, all this associated gas simply burns in situ. So we had an idea: instead of trying to take that gas to a market where you can sell, we could create a market for gas. We could build mobile and modular data centers, take them direct data”. Crusoe was born in the best possible place to materialize this idea: the country of fracking. But maybe not at the best time to do it. Initially, they chose to build GPUS farms to undermine Bitcoin. When the cryptocurrency market collapsed, they ended up pivoting artificial intelligence. Like crypto mining, AI data centers are not based on CPUS but depend on the parallel processing capacity of thousands of GPUS, mainly Nvidia specialized chips. These new data centers consume much more energy than traditional data centers, so Crusoe started from a key advantage: their direct access to fossil fuels that obtained at the price of bargain. A booming business Oil giants are not oblivious to this trend. Exxonmobil is developing Off-Grid gas plants specifically for data centers with carbon capture technology to reduce emissions. Chevron, meanwhile, It has been associated With Engine No. 1 and Ge Vernova to mount similar facilities. The first will open in 2026, also in Texas. The figures are eloquent: the demand for natural gas for data centers will be increased by 47 GW from here to 2030. Currently, natural gas already feeds about 40% of the loading of data centers in the United States and is expected to continue being the main source of supply up to at least 2030. It is not the preferred energy source, but There are not enough renewable to feed artificial intelligence and Not all data centers They can be connected to a nuclear power plant, another common occurrence in the United States. As for Crusoe, thanks to the initial push of natural gas that were going to burn oil companies they developed their own technologies, such as a closed cooling system that does not need to renew The water evaporating the serversor own gas turbines, such as 360 MWs that are installing in the Stargate project as a backup energy source. Stargate data centers will feed mainly solar panels and wind turbines, which abound in Abilene for the confluence of wind and sunny hours. It is one of the reasons why data centers are being built in this Texas area, in addition to the tax exemptions that local governments are willing to yield in exchange for employment generation. It remains to be seen how many employees have everything built. Image | W.Carter (CCO) In Xataka | Microsoft will reopen a nuclear power plant that has been closed since 2019. It needs it for its artificial intelligence

TSMC wants to build a chip factory in United Arab Emirates. Or convinces the US or your plan will fail

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TSMC is evaluating the possibility of building an integrated avant -garde circuit manufacturing plant in United Arab Emirates. This Taiwanese company, The biggest chips manufacturer on the planethe has embarked on An ambitious expansion plan of its manufacturing infrastructure Beyond Taiwan’s borders to protect yourself from a possible armed conflict between China and its place of origin. It is currently building new semiconductor production plants in USA, Germany, Japan and Taiwanand this possible factory of Arab Emirates would contribute to cement its avant -garde plants network beyond the borders of the island from which it proceeds. However, the conversations that TSMC and the Emirati government are presumably holding They started many months agoin September 2024. TSMC and Arab Emirates win. It is not clear that the US also does At the end of September The Wall Street Journal and Reuterstwo media that have a proven credibility, revealed that several executives of TSMC and Samsung had moved to Arab Emirates to negotiate the possibility of building several manufacturing plants of integrated avant -garde circuits in this country of the Middle East. According to these two sources, the Emirati government is willing to take over the financing of these plants. And it is because Like Saudi ArabiaArab Emirates needs to diversify its economy in forecasting The very likely loss of relevance in the medium term of oil. And technology at the current situation It’s a safe bet. In addition, the growth potential of the semiconductor industry is overwhelming. We just need to look at the hardware market for artificial intelligence (AI) to observe it. In 2031 the Chips Market for IA will invoice more than 263,000 million dollars According to The AMR consultant (Allied Market Research) In 2031 the chips market for AI applications will have a turnover volume of More than 263,000 million dollars. It is a real barbarity, especially if we are in mind that in 2021 its business amounted to just over 11,000 million dollars. It is evident that at the current TSMC situation and Arab Emirates win. However, this project will not come to fruition if this Taiwanese company does not obtain the US approval. A good part of Photolithography teams and wafering processing that TSMC uses in its factories uses American origin technologies. And some of its production processes also They turn to patents held by the US. This agency is what gives the power to the government led by Donald Trump to support or prohibit the construction of one or several manufacturing plants of avant -garde chips not only in Arab Emirates, but also in any other country. Currently the relationship sustained by US administrations and Emirates is good, but this last nation also has a narrow link with China and Iran. If in the future the geopolitical situation causes Arab Emirates if it will move away from the US and approach these last two countries, the presence of one or more factories of avant -garde semiconductors that would not be under the control of the United States would represent a security problem for this last nation. The US government has allowed Nvidia to sell its GPU to its Emirati customers, and also that OpenAi is installed in this eastern country, but right now it seems unlikely that this TSMC project supports. Image | TSMC More information | Bloomberg In Xataka | Saudi Arabia is on the blacklist in the United States with China. You have a plan to get out of it and buy NVIDIA GPU

Xi Jinping has just decreed the final technological divorce with the United States

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Nvidia engineers have almost ended the development of a GPU with Blackwell microarchitecture with a single purpose: power replace chip h20 They cannot sell in China. The US Department of Commerce vetoed such exports, so the firm led by Jensen Huang He looked for an exit with a chip adapted to government demands. TSMC is expected to start making this GPU this month, but That effort may even help. Not that Nvidia is fighting with the Absolute distrust of US legislators: China is turning its back. As indicated In SCMPthat chip for the Chinese market is not ready. In the conference for investors that Jensen Huang gave last week he indicated that “the key is to understand the limits and know if we can develop interesting products that can remain useful for the Chinese market. We have nothing to announce at the moment, but we are considering it.” Xi Jinping wants to eliminate the US software and hardware dependence, and is on its way to get it Huang made a surprise trip to China when the veto was announced to those exports in mid -April, and met with several senior Chinese officials to express their commitment to this market. The new chip that theoretically prepares for China will be significantly cheaper than H20but those statements of the CEO of Nvidia already made it clear that it would not be based on said microarchitecture. For Nvidia that effort is logical: during the last fiscal year that ended on January 26, 2025, China represented about 13% of its global income: about 17,000 million dollars. It is the third best client of the company, only behind the US and Taiwan, but the sanctions that the United States government is deploying were one of the great threats to Nvidia’s survival in the Asian giant. The other is even more worrying. Xi Jinping made clear in a session with the Chinese politician that China’s goal is to “deduct” the country’s technologies set Meanwhile, China continues to work tirelessly to completely eliminate its traditional United States dependence in this segment. Companies that are designing GPUS for games and artificial intelligence (AI), and the Chinese government is subsidizing them remarkably after US sanctions. Companies like HuaweiMetax, Biren Technology, Moore ThreadsInnosilicon, Zhaoxin, Iluvatar Orex, Deglinai, Lisuan Technology Or Vastai Tech work in that field. In fact, the problem for Huang and Nivdia is that Xi Jinping made clear in a session With the Chinese politician that China’s objective is to “deduct” the country’s technologies set. All the development of China, both software and hardware, must end up depending on solutions developed in the country. Thus, no matter the efforts that Nvidia can do to create chips adapted to the Chinese market: the president of China wants to depend only on Chinese technology To boost the development of your AI, and that means a worrying news for Nvidia. Image | Hillel Steinberg | Global panorama In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

The United Kingdom tested its sophisticated defense simulating the day of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Did not go as expected

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Simulations are an essential part of the network of nations defense. We have a large number of examples, from the “game” that They used in the Cold War The United States and Russia to conclude that it was not worth test try your last destroyer against Washington, or those who He has activated Taiwan In recent times “for what can happen.” The United Kingdom also carried out a test that should confirm that its arsenal is ready for battle. The conclusions were not exactly those. A brutal lesson. The story took place a while ago. As we said, the United Kingdom carried out a Strategic simulation of very high importance: he replied in his own aerial territory the exact pattern of the first Russian attack on Ukraine, which occurred on February 24, 2022. He did it through the Gladiator Training Systemvalued at 24 million pounds, and with the aim of evaluating how their defenses would respond if the same type of onslaught would have had the British soil as white. The conclusion It was alarming. Although the results were not revealed in detail, the then commander of the Air Battlespace Training CenterThe Blythe Crawford Air Comodoro, was bluntly describing it as “a very beautiful panorama.” For a country that for decades felt protected by its location to the western edge of Europe (with the continental mass acting as mattress natural against threats), the exercise was a strategic shaking that threw old assumptions for land. A threat that is no longer distant. Then it was more known, mainly than the exercise revealed vulnerability from the United Kingdom before a massive and modern air attack like Russia used against Ukraine, with a devastating combination of missile, drones and autonomous technologies. Crawford also stressed that Ukraine made everything West will awaken. The conflict not only exposed the brutality of the first Russian blows, but also highlighted how modern war has transformed the rules of aerial domain, such as We have been counting. Crawford explained that it is no longer about achieving aerial superiority in broad and sustained terms throughout an operations theater, but to assume that supremacy can be Fragmentary, ephemeraleven located between two trenches or just a few meters from the ground. The war in Ukraine, he said, is an unprecedented battlefield between two countries with powerful air defense systems, but where none has achieved A full domain of the heavens, in contrast to the predominant aerial doctrine of the last decades. The swarm that comes. One of the most revealing points of Crawford’s intervention was his analysis of the massive drone use In Ukraine. For the high command, it is no longer simply individual devices: now they face hundreds of hundreds of units, many of them equipped With explosivesothers designed as lures, and others Simply kamikaze. These waves, combined with rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles, configure a type of multiple, simultaneous and heterogeneous threat for which traditional defensive systems were conceived in much more predictable scenarios. The tactical dilemma, In his opinionIt is clear: “Should all attack vectors neutralize or prioritize the most lethal?” A question without a definitive solution, but that affects all the Western air forces. Of strength to vulnerability. One of the most forceful messages of the United Kingdom simulation was the need to change the defensive mentality of the nation and its allies. For decades, modern wars were fought away from the national territory, which led to an erroneous perception of domestic security. Hence, Comodoro warned that it is time to abandon that trust and assume that even the British bases are now under direct threat. In other words: the United Kingdom cannot be considered as a simple safe starting point for foreign operations, but should be thought of as a potential objective and prepare as such. The risk, In his opinionIt is not hypothetical: if Russia decided to launch an attack against British soil, it could do it through its northern fleet from the Atlantic, thus avoiding European airspace. Redrawing doctrines. The last of the legs to deal with the simulation results. The Ukrainian case is rewriting military doctrines that during generations were considered unquestionable. The notion of total air control, cornerstone of NATO strategy from the Gulf War, seems to be eroding for a New generation of threats which combines speed, volume, unpredictability and autonomy. For Crawford and many other strategists, the key is to learn quickly, assume that the scenario (in this British case) is no longer immune, and rethinking defense systems as if the next attack did not happen in a distant country, but in “house.” Image | US Department of Defense In Xataka | The countries with more combat tanks, ordered in this graphic developer In Xataka | Satellite images have revealed what happened to one of Russia’s biggest arsenals. Now we understand Moscow’s silence

The United States national dish faces a worrying future if tariffs are maintained: hamburgers

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The commercial war between China and the United States showed a problem for Beijing: they like, much, the American soybeans, to the point that each year they import Millions of tons With the direction of Asia. Of commercial conflict a Unexpected winner: Brazil. Now, the actors themselves appear in another scenario derived from the commercial war. Americans can pass For many things, but do not take away a good barbecue. The commercial war has opened an uncertain scenario for devour meat. Global hamburger in war. Told this weekend The New York Times that, curiously, most of the hamburgers consumed in the United States are not thence. Despite his image as a national emblem, the American hamburger is, in fact, the result of a very wide international supply chain. The ground meat that feeds barbecues, school canteens and fast food chains usually combine local meat with imports, especially and first of Brazil, today The greatest exporter of beef in the world. This interdependence has been exposed after the imposition of generalized tariffs by Trump, whose measures have reconfigured the World Meat Trade And the basic products that millions of Americans consume daily. Brazil, between two giants. In the midst of this commercial war, Brazil emerges (again) as a great beneficiary. Its meat, produced at low cost thanks to huge extensions of grass and cheap labor, has seen shoot your demand both in the United States and China, two economies that alone fail to satisfy the appetite Growing for lean proteins. The imports of Brazilian meat by Washington grew more than 50% In a single year, reaching a record of 1.3 billion dollars, even despite the 10% tariff that raises the final price for consumers. Meanwhile, China, also facing US tariffs, has reduced your purchases There and redoubled his commitment to Brazil, where almost half of his beef is already from the South American country. Molina meat in the eye of the hurricane. This (re) accommodation of commercial flows has caused a Price increase In the global market: Brazilian flesh has become more expensive about 20% Only since April. American meat companies, trapped between the need to maintain affordable prices and the rise in costs, have begun to Mix pork In their hamburgers to reduce the impact to the consumer. Meanwhile, Brazilian producers such as Grupo Fribal plan expand your herds In tens of thousands of heads to take advantage of a demand that, although buoyant, demands time and resources to materialize, in a context of recurrent droughts and logistic saturation in Brazilian ports. Usa dependence. The key in everything is that, although the United States remains a great producer of beef, its specialization is In the premium cuts like him Rib-Eye or the Filet Mignonnot in the type of lean and economic flesh that feeds mass consumption. Therefore, to make their hamburgers, US processors need to mix local meat more fat with imported lean varieties, and Brazil appears. As The economist explains Agrícola Glynn Tonsor in the Times, “in the United States we consume more ground meat than we produce.” The problem? That this structural dependence leaves exposed consumers: ground meat prices have increased 43% in five yearsand they are expected to continue going up while inflation forces homes to leave expensive cuts and return to the basics. All this, at a time when the American livestock census is in minimum of 73 years for droughts and rise in the price of the feed. Brazil and the consumer. Explained the NYT That while China reinforces its ties with Brazil after revoking licenses of more than 390 US processors in retaliation, President Lula tries to maintain diplomatic balances between his two main commercial partners. However, his advisor Celso Amorim Lets meridianly clear: China today offers “more opportunities and less risks” than the United States. Before the new scenario, Brazilian producers prepare to Fill the void left by Americans, although they recognize that expanding production requires time. With a Chinese middle class increasingly fond of the steak and The Hot Pots of beef, and an American demand that does not find substitutes on the same scale, Brazil is positioned as the winning epicenter of a meat trade in full transformation. Of course, with a “but” in the result that summarize very well The president of the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporters, Roberto Perosa: the ranchers are winning, but it will be US consumers who literally “eat the invoice.” Image | Pxhere In Xataka | The price of beef has shot. And that threatens to turn hamburgers into the new seafood In Xataka | The great crisis of “false flesh”: McDonald’s has renounced the McPlant and Beyond Meat is sinking

Ninguneada by the United States, ESA has just signed a collaboration agreement with an emerging power: India

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It seemed that the new space race had two well -defined sides, but the last turns in NASA have left faithful members such as the European Space Agency in the lunge. Now that has turned his gaze to the East. Habemus Pactum. The European Space Agency and its counterpart from India (ISRO) just signed a joint intention statement To collaborate on flights to space. The strategy includes a first phase of cooperation in the low terrestrial orbit, and a second phase on the moon. Both agencies have pledged to work on the interoperability of their respective spacecraft, so that they can be found and attached to the low orbit. The collaboration will be extended to the training of astronauts, land simulations and parabolic flights. From the orbit down to the moon. The agreement also opens the door for Europe to play experiments on Indian Poem platforms, which take advantage of the upper stages of PSLV rockets as orbital platforms. More in the long term, it will be an opportunity for European astronauts to travel to the planned space station of India, the Bharatiya Antariksh Stationwhose completion is scheduled for 2035, with a first module in 2028. They also enter the joint robotic mission bag to the moon. India is in the small list of spatial powers that have successfully alunicized. The Chandrayan-3 mission He wore the Vikram module and Rover Pragyan to the South Lunar Pole. New alliances. The agreement, signed by the CEO of ESA, Josef Aschbacher, in New Delhi, arrives at a critical moment for European projects in space. The White House presented last week A budget proposal that would involve a cut of almost 25% for NASA. This “Tijeretazo” fully impact in programs where ESA has invested significantly: the Orion ship and the Lunar Gateway station. In A statementAschbacher said he seeks a commitment between international cooperation and improve his autonomous abilities. “The complexities and costs of space missions often exceed the capacities of a single nation,” he said. “In this context, associations have allowed us to reach great milestones that would be unimaginable alone.” In March, ESA had already signed an agreement with the Japanese Space Agency Jaxa to explore joint missions to the moon and Mars. The trend is clear: before the drift of the United States towards a more nationalist approach and focused on private commercial systems (Spacex, Blue Origin …) for its lunar and Martian ambitions, ESA is diversifying its alliances. European diplomacy. While the United States prioritizes the speed and reduction of costs through the private sector, leaving aside the traditional international collaboration models, the ESA Diplomacy strip presenting textually as a “reliable partner.” Part of that diplomacy makes a close collaboration with China unlikely, at least while NASA remains its main partner. India, with its growing spatial ambitions and future manned flights, emerges as a key strategic alternative on this new space geopolitical board. Image | Isro In Xataka | The last eeuu slap to Europe has sounded up to space: NASA has just left ESA with Artemis

Volkswagen has put $ 6,000 million in Rivian to grow in the United States. Tariffs are truncating their plans

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At the end of 2024, Volkswagen confirmed that Inject almost 6,000 million dollars In Rivian. During the previous summerThe Germans announced that they invested 5,000 million dollars in the US car and electric vans company. Then they defended this measure within a generalized adjustment Within the company as the way to gain presence in the United States and, at the same time, learn in software matter of what is worked on the other side of the puddle. An especially important facet for Germans who have been looking for alternatives in other companies, including China Xpeng. Almost a year ago, in Volkswagen they claimed that this decision would allow them increase your sales in the United Statesa country where the company has more problems to satisfy a market that demands huge vehicles whose production is available for a hand for the Germans. That promise, to continue growing in sales, was especially important in the Context of cuts mentioned above. In fact, the workers’ representatives came to wonder what guarantees were that the last and new party committed was not A new way of burning another 1 billion dollars. To this difficult situation, Donald Trump’s tariffs have been added. The commercial barriers of the new president of the United States have led Volkswagen to look for solutions to alleviate economic damage to their finances. From having hundreds of audi units stops on the border until a conversion of one of their plants In the country. Now, Rivian already adjusts his sales goals. Down. The excuse is the tariffs Rivian should deliver 51,000 units of their cars, pick-up and electric vans at the end of the year. But he already announces that he will not fulfill the plans. The figure has been adjusted downwards, reducing forecasts between 10 and 20%. According to their new accounts, they will put in the market Between 40,000 and 46,000 vehicles. They ensure that the reason is the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s government in the United States. Collect in Bloomberg that the company manufactures all its cars in the country and that the vast majority of the pieces are also local but that they warn that the company “is not immune to the impacts of world trade and the economic environment.” Of course, the company ensures that it can meet the objective of offering a gross benefit at the end of the year. Once taxes and other items are discounted, Most likely, Rivian continues to give losses. Tariffs are assuming a real headache for the industry and even is a problem for who manufacture in the United States. Tesla, for example, is the company that Less impact will suffer With these commercial barriers but Elon Musk himself wanted to make it clear that They were also affected by them. Giants like Ford or General Motors have been Looking for formulas To alleviate the economic blow to its accounts but the situation is especially complicated for two types of companies: those that export to the country most of its production or pieces (such as Japanese and Europeans) or those of smaller. The largest companies have giving way to a stock they had already accumulated. Applying great discountsit is certain that they have not achieved the benefits per unit that they would expect but at least it has allowed them to move forward until knowing the possible new conditions. However, for small companies such as Rivian the situation is much more complicated. We have already counted to start a car company forces to lose money for years and that it is only sustainable if other companies and Investors They are willing to Leave your money until you see benefits. In this case, a commercial sway is much more pronounced than in any other situation. Now, Volkswagen has no choice but to maintain the road map and continue supporting Rivian although the economic context that makes it even more complicated. The Germans aspired to learn their company from this company Secrets around softwarea division that is Bringing the entire Volkswagen Group and? He already expelled some of his CEO. Photo | In Xataka | The sensitive data of 800,000 electric cars from Volkswagen have leaked: from homes to the routines of its owners

United States Fracking

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The oil market has been going through a complex scenario for months, marked by Failed stabilization attempts, Tariff war and one OPEC+ increasingly divided. This combination of factors has pushed the price of crude to $ 60 per barrel, well below the profitability threshold for many producers. To this context is added a new pressure element: China It has begun to produce its own oil. In response, Saudi Arabia has decided not to give its hegemony. Short. Saudi Arabia has decided to increase its oil production for the second month of consecutive together with seven more OPEC+countries. According to Reutersthe organization will add 411,000 barrels more to the market in June, which has caused an immediate drop in prices: Brent has collapsed more than 4%, below 59 dollars, and the WTI has fallen to $ 56. This production rise has been interpreted by some analysts as an energy reconfiguration signal. However, not everyone believes that it is a war opened by the market share. According to Giovanni StaunovoUBS analyst, the measure is part of a “managed reduction” of the previous cuts, more than a direct offensive. Even so, the market has reacted nervously, as if the fear of an excess supply was already inevitable. Cheaper. The Saudi kingdom has made it clear that it is willing to live with a cheaper crude, even if that implies tensioning its own finances, such as has detailed Financial Times. And of course, the question revolves around why he has taken this course. The hypothesis that has raised The energy expert, Helima Croft, is that Riyad is tried to discipline the members that generate more problems within the group: Kazakhstan, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, which have been producing above their quotas. When flooding the market and push the prices down, the message is clear: if they do not cooperate, everyone will lose. There are more parts of the puzzle. This strategy is pushing prices with the aim of getting the most expensive producers from the game, specifically the United States. The energy analyst, Javier Blas, He explained That the tactic was applied in 2014 and 2016, and the then Saudi Minister of Petroleum, Ali al-Naimi, was blunt: “US companies could cut expenses, borrow or close if the barrel fell below $ 50.” Today, with the WTI around $ 56, the message is the same: if fracking does not survive these prices, will be out of the market. Collateral damage. However, this movement shakes its own allies. According to Financial TimesRussia, who has been a key partner in the OPEC+ alliance since 2016, needs high prices to balance its public accounts. In that sense, Saudi Arabia is willing to accept collateral damage, even if that implies weakening Moscow, which could also be approaching Washington on the geopolitical board. Mutual trust has eroded, and Riad seems to cover his back. International sanctions. Saudi Arabia may also be anticipating the possible return to the market of two sanctioned rivals: Iran and Venezuela. According to Bloomberg, if the White House relaxes the restrictions – for example, as part of a negotiation with Tehran – those countries can export large volumes of oil. Riad, aware that he cannot stop that wave, would have chosen to increase his production now, before the quotas must be distributed again within the OPEC+ and he is required to give up space. In addition, Rystad Energy analyst Jorge León has detailed What happened is “a pump launched on the oil market.” If the increase in April production was an attention call, this new decision represents “a definitive message” that Saudi Arabia has changed strategy and now prioritizes market share above high prices. The message of Saudi Arabia. Riad’s tonic leaves no room for misunderstandings, since it has gone from protecting prices to defend its market share, it costs what it costs. If to recover control you must force prices that expel the weakest, discipline their own and anticipate sanctioned rivals, will do so. The strategy is clear: better pain now, than irrelevance tomorrow. Image | Unspash Xataka | China approaches energy self -sufficiency: it activates 10 new reactors and reinforces its nuclear domain

The United States seems determined to break its monopolies. And he has an obvious victim between eyebrow and eyebrow: Google

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The judicial and regulatory offensive of the United States against Google marks a new turning point between that country and its great technological ones. The Department of Justice not only seeks symbolic measures, and here it seeks to reconfigure the rules of the game, turning Google into its main objective and an example for the rest of the sector. The vicious circle of Google. As they point out in The Verge, David Dahlquist, a lawyer of the DOJ, showed in his presentation of the facts how Google benefited from his “vicious circle.” Pay billions of dollars to be the default search engine on virtually everywhere. That leads her to receive more search requests, to have more data, to improve their results, to earn more money and in the end allow to pay more money to further increase that privilege position. Threats for Google. For the DOJ that is a nightmare, and in the antitrust trial against Google it will be seen whether or not these arguments have consequences for the company. At the moment the government is asking for three important things that could impact Radically on the Google business. No agreements to place Google by default. The first request of the DOJ is to prevent Google from reaching those agreements to place its search engine as a default option. The clear example of those agreements is the one with Apple, which it supposedly pays of the order of 20,000 million dollars a year so that all iPhone, iPad or Mac have it as a default search engine in Safari. That would turn Apple into a collateral victim of this case of monopoly. Sell ​​Chrome. It is also considered to force Google to get rid of its browser, Chrome, and sell it. According to Dahlquist, this application represents 35% of search requests and has 4,000 million estimated users. Google states that it is not a business in itself, but to put on sale, it would be a clear objective for other companies. OpenAi has already shown his interestfor example, and It hasn’t been the only. The Duckdugogo responsible assure that Chrome’s value It could be around The 50,000 million dollars. Bachelor data. The third and final request is especially delicate: it would force Google to license all your search data, from its search index to its results. That would allow anyone to use them to “build their own search engine”, a kind of Google fork. One of Google’s lawyers, John Schmidtlein, explained that this would allow anyone to “cut and paste Google search results and show them as if they were yours.” This lawyer also warned that this could also affect the privacy and safety of users. Yield years. That would mean that Google would have to give up (putting on sale) that data, which can be seen as something unfair: they have a quarter of a century tracking and organizing the web information, and now they have to license that work? That would open the doors to a brutal competition with companies that could take advantage of all that filtered knowledge by paying for it. Historical Framework. Although the European Union has been the traditional Némesis of the Big Tech Tech, the United States has also closely watched its large companies. Dismantled The standard oil in 1911 and tried to do the same with Microsoft Two decades ago. Elizabeth Warren, senator who was Presidential candidate In 2020, it has been advocating by Break in pieces to the great American technology companies and made that in part of their presidential campaign. He made an explicit reference to Amazon, Google and Facebook. The courts, parapet of the pressures. While in the regulatory or legislative areas, the lobby – corporate pressure groups – of the Big Tech can exert their influence more clearly, the thing changes in the judicial field, less permeable to these pressures. In the case of Google, the DOJ even proposes the creation of a technical committee that supervises the fulfillment of the decisions it makes, which would further limit the company’s ability to overcome the restrictions. In Xataka | Joshua Hoehne | Alex doubt In Xataka | Desperate for competing with Chatgpt, Google has a plan for Gemini to be everywhere: pulling wallet

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