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I wanted to be one of the great science fiction sagas, but the box office failure took ahead to the book saga

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‘Twilight’ and ‘The hunger games’, like or not, marked an era. His aesthetics, his arguments and even his industrial logic (successfully female literary saga, and that adapts in a film with aspiration to open a saga) sowed A series of seeds that set in a good amount of sagas As the semi -infallid ‘divergent’, although few achieved the fame of the two most successful franchises. In fact, Stephanie Meyer herself, author of ‘Twilight’, launched to experiment with science fiction. The result was’The host‘, a new editorial success that was quickly adapted to the cinema. And the film, directed by Andrew Niccol (signatory of ‘Gattaca’ and screenwriter of ‘The Truman show’), was not bad at all. However, the failure was considerable, with only 63,3 million dollars collected around the world compared to 40 budget, insufficient for the saga to have continuity. The film tells how the earth has been invaded by beings that are housed in human bodies and control their minds. The creature that inhabits the body of a young land has to live fight against the memories of this, who strives to not losing the control. To do this, rConstantly recue the man who is in lovewhich makes the creature, Wanderer, also ends up in love with that human. Both will end up allying to reunite with him. As you can see, high doses of youth romanticism in a film that, despite its dishes with the teenage fashions of that time, has a good amount of powerful ideas: visually it is attractive, the cast (Saosear Ronan, Diane Kruger, Emily Browning) It is more interesting than usual and has good doses of violence that distance it from the white approach of ‘twilight’. A pity, since Meyers also abandoned the continuation of the literary series, and there is no way of knowing (for the moment) how the story ends. In Xataka | Between ‘Body snatchers’ and ‘are alive’: 11 films about ultra -corps and other silent extraterrestrial invasions

Novo Energy wanted to stand up to Chinese batteries for electric cars. It has ended in the hands of a Chinese company

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Point and apart for the soap opera of the Great European hope In the battery segment for electric cars. In the European assault on electric car industryVolvo and the Northvolt battery manufacturer founded Novo Energy. Both were Swedish and it was a Join Venture with the aim of producing batteries in Europe. It seemed that everything was going to be A ROSA pathbut a few years later and after thousands of layoffsNorthvolt sell His participation in Novo Energy A Volvo. And behind Volvo is Geelyan important Chinese holding. Culebrón. Things stopped going well for Northvolt practically from the beginning. During the first years, the European Investment Bank, BMW, Goldman Sachs or Volkswagen invested sums of hundreds of millions of euros in the company. The Swedish company, founded by two Exegutive of Tesla, became the great European promise to create batteries and be the heart of that European flying towards the electric car. In a market increasingly controlled by ChinaIt seemed like a great idea and everything pointed in good sense. In addition, together with Volvo they founded Novo Energy in 2021 to produce the batteries of both Volvo and Polestar. However, things began to twist in 2023, when it was uncovered that the company had been operating with losses of 1,000 million dollars during the first nine months of the year. And, in 2024, the situation exploded. Last nail in the coffin. Everything happened very fast. After the delays in the delivery dates, BMW canceled its agreement of 2,000 million euros, there were a series of employee deaths in work shifts, fired more than 1,600 workers in September and, shortly after, the bankruptcy arrived. In November 2024, Northvolt requested bankruptcy protectionarguing that they had 30 million in cash and, with them, they could only operate for a week. The hole they had was 5.8 billion dollars. A skinny dog, everything is fleas, and a day later one of the founders resigned, arguing that the company would need 1.2 billion dollars to save itself. After a few days of 2025 in which the company was still looking for financing, something that nobody seemed willing to do, sales arrived. It was even rumored that Catl, the main Chinese rival in battery manufacturing, I could give a hand. Volvo. After getting rid of some services, this January 29 we learned that the Swedish company sold its participation in Novo Energy to its partner in this adventure, Volvo. It is something that does not catch by surprise, since, as with BMW, Volvo saw that Northvolt’s delivery plans were not being fulfilled and in October last year he showed his interest in acquiring participation in Novo. Last week, Novo Energy advertisement which had to reduce its workforce by 30% due to “the changing market conditions and a modified business plan”. Northvolt wants to reduce everything possible and focus on its Swedish plant, but they have also signed an agreement with Volvo to explore joint collaboration paths in the future, so everything is not lost. China looks out to Europe. Therefore, Volvo will now be the one Novo Energy, we will see if alone or with partners, but the interesting thing about this operation is that, although Volvo is a Swedish company that is in the bag of his country, the matrix is ​​Geely, A Chinese holding. They are present in multitude of companies and sectors, with an important participation in Mercedes-Benz, Aston Martin or Lotus, as well as co-owners of smart, polestar and with a participation of more than 80% in Volvo. It is curious that Northvolt was born to stand up to the Chinese battery industry and that the Join Adventure That I had with Volvo to produce batteries in Europe, now, is controlled by a Chinese company, in the absence of seeing the resolution of the authorities. And all this, shortly after Tariffs imposed by Europe To the Chinese electric car. In Xataka | Catl’s investment in Spain is not accidental: China is punishing those who supported tariffs on their electric cars

OpenAi has taken everything he wanted from the Internet to train his AI. Now accuses Depseek of stealing his data

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The models of AI of Deepseek They are really good. They show it comparative evidence we publish yesterday and that put it at the level of chatgpt, Claude or Gemini. That has unleashed praises, but also suspicion. There are people who do not believe that training deepseek It has cost just 5.6 million dollarsbut also now in Openai they accuse Depseek of something else. Deepseek, you are using our data without permission. Openai spokesmen have indicated Financial Times They have discovered evidence that “distillate” techniques have been used from OpenAi models used by Depseek. What is that of “distilled” in AI? Yesterday we talk about how Depseek developers have used a large number of techniques to achieve such an efficient model. Among them stands out for reinforcement learningbut it is also known that they use models distillate. In this technique a smaller “student model” is taught to behave as a larger and more advanced “teacher model”. Data of the “teacher model” are used so that the small model is faster and more efficient, but equally intelligent in specific tasks. Use not allowed. The distillate or distillation of models is a common practice in the industry, but the terms of OpenAi service prohibit that their models be used for this purpose. Thus, it is specified that users cannot “copy” none of their services or “use the output (of Openai models) to develop models that compete with Openai.” OpenAI and Microsoft have already investigated this. According to Bloombergboth companies analyzed last accounts that were being used to take advantage of their chatbots and that apparently belonged to Deepseek developers. They used Openai’s API, but there were suspicions that they had violated the terms of service by taking advantage of that access to make distillate of their models. Many do. David Sacks, responsible for AI in Donald Trump’s team, alerted him to what was happening and said there was evidence that Depseek had used OpenAi data. Spokesmen of the company led by Sam Altman indicated that “we know that companies of the People’s Republic of China – and others – are constantly trying to distill the models of leading companies in AI in the US.” The thief is believed that everyone is of his condition. The ironic thing here is that Openai has not had scruples when collecting internet data to train their models, also violating the terms of service of those platforms. Last year it was discovered for example how transcribed a million youtube hours To train GPT-4. Timnit Gebru, famous for his controversial dismissal From Google, I commented on LinkedIn that Openai “must be the most insufferable company in the world.” And he continued: “They can steal the entire world and swallow all possible resources. But no one can give them their own medicine not even a bit.” If you are on the Internet, it can be used, right? Other companies They do exactly the sameand are shielded in the argumetno of “fair use.” They collect Any public content On the Internet without asking users or permission or platforms. Not only that: it is suspected that in many cases these models are trained with works Protected by copyrightsomething that has resulted in numerous demands. Image | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | The next phase of AI is not to see who invests more but who invests less

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