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Someone has created the website “is AI profitable anymore?” to answer the question of our time in real time

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There is a website called “Is AI Profitable Yet?” whose sole mission is to answer one of the most important—and most uncomfortable—questions of today’s technology industry: does artificial intelligence make money anymore? The visual response It is absolutely forceful: The short answer is a priori a big NO, but be careful, because that answer is in a certain sense misleading. The graph effectively shows how the companies that are building frontier models are burning money like there’s no tomorrowand they all spend much more than they earn. The four that appear with long red bars (expenses) and very short green bars (income) are precisely the companies that are betting almost everything on the future of AI. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta They have not stopped increasing their capex (capital expenditures) in recent years, and that logically means that their accounts are in the red. In fact, the announcements of these “hyperscalers” in their latest financial results have not only failed to soften that capex, but have driven it even further. The combined capex of these technology companies by 2026 is expected to amount to $725 billion, 25% of all world military spending. But the message of “everyone is losing money” is dangerous, because what all these companies are doing is investing in your future although when doing so they are running out of cash flow. There are two clear examples that can alert us. Companies are spending so much on AI infrastructure that they are running out of cash flow. It’s a dangerous bet. Source: Financial Times. The first is Amazon, which did not stop losing (investing) money for years and then became the giant it is today. The second, Uber, a company to which the same thing happened: it lost (invested) money for a decade, and although it does not have the size or success of Amazon, today it is an absolute world leader in its segment. That leaves us with a clear message: Not being profitable by investing in your future is not the same as not being clear about the economic model.. And all these companies are very clear about the economic model of AI: it is to invest today to earn (a lot) tomorrow. Nvidia is the big winner, but not the only one The great irony of AI is that for now the big business does not seem to be in AI, but in selling infrastructure to those who try to do business with it. It is the same thing that happened during the gold rush in the mid-19th century in California: Those who amassed stable fortunes were not the miners who searched for goldbut those who provided them with services and tools. There are several well-known examples: Levi Strauss saw the need of tough clothing, Samuel Brannan bought all the shovels, picks and pans he could in the area, and Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the famous postal and financial services company that allowed money and supplies to be sent safely to gold seekers. Nvidia is basically doing that: (making and) selling shovels. This has caused absolutely extraordinary growth in the stock market, and in the last three years it has become the most valuable company in the world and has not stopped breaking market capitalization records. Here it must be clarified that the estimates on that website are striking, but they do not mean that these companies are in any way bankrupt. Google/Alphabet continues to make billions of dollars every quarter, and the same goes for its rivals. All those red bars don’t mean that AI is smoke: just that we’re footing the bill for the experiment. One that could go wrong, of course, but one that could also go really, really right. The phrase that best sums up this “AI fever” is what Mark Zuckerberg said a few months ago: “We’re going to invest aggressively. Even if we lost a couple hundred billion dollars it would be a bummer, but it’s better than being left behind in the race for superintelligence.” Neither Zuckerberg nor his rivals seem upset about losing $200 billion right off the bat. They certainly do not seem to wrinkle despite the fact that at the moment there is a reality on the market: AI already works technically, but What it doesn’t do is function economically. for those who invest in frontier models. Here, however, there are a couple of notable notes. The first, the fact of Anthropic apparently expects to end the quarter making moneysomething unusual and promising. The second, that this website only shows Nvidia as the winner of this AI race, but that company is by no means the only one that has managed to make gold with this technological fever. The growth of stock market memory manufacturers is extraordinary. In just one year they have multiplied their market capitalizations by up to 11. Source: Reuters. In fact, we are seeing how a large number of technology companies have grown extraordinary in recent months thanks to the demand for hardware and components such as memories. Micron. SK Hynix and Samsung are the big beneficiaries of this situation, but they are not the only ones either. These days we have seen how PC manufacturers barely grow in income from those PCs, but they are doing it with the servers. There are more winners. There are photolithography equipment manufacturers such as ASML or Applied Materials, but also electrical, liquid cooling, networking, storage companies, and of course companies specialized in data center construction. This website answers the question in a very limited way, because the AI ​​segment is not only the one in which OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, xAI or Google operate. What is happening is simply that the big business of AI is currently not where everyone thinks. AI is being very profitable. The problem is that perhaps we are looking in the wrong place. In Xataka | The problem is not spending a lot of tokens, it’s that most of them are being wasted

sanctioning file and blocked website

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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has ordered the blocking of the Polymarket and Kalshi websitesthe two main prediction platforms, and has opened a disciplinary file for operating without the necessary administrative license. The sophistication of the gambling carried out by these platformswho dress the game with an aura of finance or tradinghas not convinced the authorities. The disguise, revealed The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, directed by Pablo Bustinduy, has responded the question that many have been asking for a long time: They equate Kalshi and Polymarket with a betting house and therefore need the corresponding gaming license, a license which of course they do not have. The General Directorate of Gambling Regulation points out that in Spain, as in other European countries, prediction markets are classified as games of chance since they bet on uncertain future events. The license. In Spain, all gambling operators must be subject to a license that offers a series of guarantees, such as identity verification systems and controlling access to the best of age. In addition, they must control and prohibit access to people who are prohibited from playing. Polymarket and Kalshi do not have this license, which is why Consumo initiated the sanctioning file and has ordered the blocking of their web pages. And now what. At the time of writing these lines, the two websites are still operational, but since The Country They say that the ministry has already notified the telecommunications operators, who have between seven and ten days to execute the blockade. When this occurs, a warning message will appear saying that this is an unlicensed gambling operator. The sanctioning process will last between three and four months until its final resolution. Regulatory clash in Europe. Although with different regulations, the case of Spain adds to a list of European countries that have blocked access to Polymarket, such as France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands or Switzerland. Although there are still countries that allow them to operate, Kalshi and Polymarket face increasingly strong opposition in Europe, with many countries not buying the narrative that they are actually an investment marketplace. Meanwhile in the US. In the United States, however, the platforms are increasingly integrated into public conversation. At the regulatory level, since 2020 CFTC considers Kalshi a licensed prediction market. In the case of Polymarket, the platform It was sanctioned in 2022 for offering contracts without the appropriate regulatory structure, but continues to operate. On the other hand, this same month the congress opened a investigation into possible insider trading (let’s remember the case of the capture of Nicolás Maduro). The debate there is not so much whether they are considered gambling or investment, but rather the origin of the information that is handled. Young men. In a Morning Consult report They say that the usual users of this type of apps are under 45 years old and more than 70% are men. In the United States, 25% of men between 18 and 24 years old admit to having gambled at least once in the last six months. Why young men? According to BBCthese types of platforms are at the intersection of several very masculine cultures, such as sports betting and profit speculation. cryptobros either financebros. It is also successful among this audience thanks to the support of public figures such as Logan Paul, who was sponsored by Polymarket. Where almost everyone loses. We recently talked about a massive analysis that confirmed our suspicions: in Polymarket almost everyone loses while 0.1% of users take almost all the benefits. Those who take the lion’s share of the pie are professional traders who have access to very expensive data sets. In addition, many times the betting conditions have a lot of fine print, even the easiest ones to get right are not that simple. In it Wall Street Journal They tell the story of a man who bet Kalshi that rapper A$AP Rocky would say the word “rapper” on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. If he was right he would win $168,000. Although he said the word, in the televised version that part was deleted and according to the rules, which were quite hidden, only what was broadcast on television counted. He lost everything. Image | Kalshi, Polymarket In Xataka | If you think you can beat a betting house in the long term, we have bad news: they have you in from the beginning.

the website that calculates the billions of kilometers you have traveled through the universe without leaving the couch

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At the time of writing this I am 37 years, 28 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes and 18 seconds old. I have traveled around 34,845,000,000 kilometers around the Sun. I have traveled 257,425,000,000 kilometers through the Milky Way. The next time my watch tells me I haven’t taken enough steps, I plan to give it these numbers. Although the truth is that I have not had to take any steps to travel through them, since the credit belongs to the Earth, I have just let myself go. Whatever the case, it’s always good to know. If you also want to know these figures and many curious facts more for your own date of birth, keep an eye on online calculator created by web developer nemo7299. Very easy to use. With this calculator, called Cosmic Odometer, its creator seeks to make us a little more aware of our location in the Universe and everything we have moved through it since the day we were born. To use it, you just have to enter your date and time of birth and the latitude where you are. With that you have enough to read many curious facts. Distances traveled. To begin with, we can see the distance that the Earth has traveled rotating on itself, orbiting around the Sun or accompanying the Sun through the Milky Way. We can also see what has been moved the Milky Way itself through the Universe. You can even see the combined distance of all those movements. Since the day we were born, we have been fellow travelers of the Earth. Therefore, if we calculate the kilometers that the Earth has traveled around the Sun, we will also know how many kilometers we have traveled with it. Age by planets. You can also find out what your age is at different planets of the Solar System. For example, on Mercury I am a centenarian of 153.81 years old, on Mars little more than a teenager who has not yet turned 20 and on Venus I am already close to earning retirement, at 60.29 years old. On the other hand, in Neptune I am a baby of just over 2 months. Logically, if I could travel there I would be the same and I would look the same. However, a year on those planets does not last the same as it does here on Earth. A little physiology. The website also tells us how many times our heart has beaten or we have breathed since we were born. It even calculates how many cells have been renewed in our body in that period of time. Important distances. By viewing this website we can know how far we are from natural or artificial objects as important as probes. Solar Parker, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2the telescope James Webb or Haley’s Comet. If the aliens are looking for us. Another curious fact is that we can calculate how far away an alien would have to be to see our birth if they pointed a telescope at Earth. can be compared. You can also compare your details with a friend’s by entering their date of birth. This way, you will know how far the Sun traveled between your births or how many kilometers you have traveled together since you both existed, for example. It occurs to me that important dates that are not necessarily birthdays could be introduced. For example, the current date and the date you met your partner. What would it be like to tell him that since you met you have traveled a combined 31,679,105 km across the universe together? If it doesn’t look pretty, that’s not it. Your feet are younger than your head. According to the general relativity theory According to Einstein, time moves more slowly in stronger gravitational fields. That is, the closer you are to the massive object that creates that gravitational attraction, the slower time will pass. Our feet are closer to the earth’s surface than our head. Therefore, it can be said that our feet are younger. Time passes more slowly for them. In my case, for example, my feet are 216 nanoseconds younger. A lot more. All this is just a small sample of the many data that can be checked in this calculator. Logically, some are estimates, since more data would be needed to have a more accurate calculation. In any case, with such large distances, these estimates already go pretty well. It’s perfect to hang out and have a laugh. Image | Magnific/Nemo7299 In Xataka | The Earth as it was during its last ice age, illustrated in a wonderful map

how to enter and present your 2026 declaration online with the Tax Agency website

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Let’s tell you how to access your 2025 Income draftwhich is the declaration that you have to present in 2026 to account for the last fiscal year. The Income Tax calendar has reached its key day, and starting today, April 8, 2026, you can now access your draft and file your return with it. But before you jump into doing it, remember that It is very important to check that everything is fine. Basically because the Tax Agency makes the draft with all the data collected about you, but there may be errors, and if there are errors and the declaration is erroneous you are going to pay the fine although the error in collecting data was made by the Treasury. It is your responsibility as a citizen to review it. You should also remember some of the things that you need to prepare in advance to make the declaration. To identify yourself on the Treasury website, you will need to have a digital certificatelike the FNMT certificateor alternatively be registered in the Cl@ve system. It is also convenient view and review your tax databecause they are the ones that the Treasury then uses in the draft. Enter your draft income tax online To enter your draft Income Tax Return you must enter the Tax Agency website. For that, you have to enter the page agencytributaria.es/AEAT.internet/Renta.shtmland click on the option Draft/declaration processing service (Direct Income and WEB Income) that will appear at the top in the options of the section Featured Managements. Before going to the draft, you will first go to the page where you should identify yourself as a citizenso that the Treasury can use your personal draft. To identify yourself you can use your digital certificateincluding the FNMT certificate and that of DNIethe PIN code or Mobile Key, or the reference number. When you log in, you will go to a screen where you have to choose that you are going to act on your own behalf. Come on, you’re going to do your draft. You can also act as a representative of another person, but this is more for advice, so you must choose the option of Act on your own behalf and click on Confirm. Now you will finally enter the index of the Income Services 2025. On this page, click on the option Draft/declaration processing service (Direct Income and WEB Income)which is where you will access the draft. This will take you to the draft declaration. On the first page you have to confirm your Identification Datawhich are personal and those of your spouse if you have one, or your children. Here, You can choose the option to make an individual declaration with the option you have at the top in the box Declarant. When everything is filled in, you will have to go down to the bottom and click on Accept. Then, you will go to another page where you can incorporate your economic activities such as salaries and mortgage loans for the habitual residence deduction. It will automatically show you registered data to decide whether to add it or not, and if you do so you will have to enter additional data. And then you will go to your declaration page, where now you have to review all the data to make sure all fields are correct, and add anything that is missing. On this page, the field Declaration result can be positive or negative. This is what each thing means: If the result is negative: It means that you will be charged, that the Tax Agency will have to pay you the amount that appears. If the result is positive: It means that you have to pay, and you will have to pay the Tax Agency the amount that appears. When you have reviewed all this data and consider that everything is fine, you will have to press the button Submit declaration. This is the button to finish the process and submit your tax return online. However, don’t forget review the most important boxes of the declaration. And also remember that it is important to take your time, and that you will have a stop button. Keep to save your changes and continue reviewing the draft later. Take all the time you need. In Xataka Basics | Income Guide 2025: calendar, previous steps and how to prepare for the 2026 declaration

how to use the NASA website and app to know where you are like on Google Maps

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Let’s explain to you how to know where the capsule is Orion of the Artemis II mission, something that you will be able to do with a special website launched by NASA, or through its official website. This portal will allow you to see the exact point where the Artemis II capsule is in real time, as if it were Google Maps. The mission Artemis II has been the first to reach the Moon from orbiting around the Moon since the Apollo missions, and has even managed to reach further which is orbiting our satellite and being able to see its hidden side. The astronauts on this mission will not set foot on the Moon, that should happen with Artemis IV, but it is a vital mission to check the operation of our current technology so far from Earth. See where Artemis II is in real time To enter the website created by NASA to find out where Artemis II is in real time, you have to enter the website nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow. In it, at the bottom you will have the main data of the mission such as the time the astronauts have been away from our planet, the speed of Artemis II, and how far it is from the Earth and the Moon. On the left side you will have the Zoom controls, and you will also have three small icons to position yourself on the map. One button will be to put you on the Moon, another for Earth, and another for the mission’s Orion capsule. At all times you will be able to see the trajectory they are going to take. Besides, If you click on the icon Mission View You will access a visualization where the capsule and the views around it are represented. This way, you can rotate to find where the Moon is in relation to them. You can also access this visualization from the NASA appavailable for free both for Android as for iOS. In it, on the main page you will find the AROW tool to access these visualizations. The mobile app has an augmented reality viewer that does not have the website. When you activate it, you can point your phone towards the sky (or the ground) to know the exact point in relation to you where the Orion capsule of the Artemis II mission is located. The NASA app also has streaming in real time in case the views are not enough and you want to see what is happening through one of the agency’s official broadcasts. In Xataka | Artemis II is not just a victory for NASA: without the support of Europe it would have been impossible, literally

A website has collected more than 1,000 speed limitations on Spanish trains. Adif has knocked her down

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They are called Dignitat a les Vies and they say they are “fed up with the mistreatment by Renfe, Cercanías and Adif.” The claim is clear: “we want a decent railway system.” And as a means of protest they had a website with all the speed limitations found on Spanish railways. They had it, because Adif has taken down the website. Cessation of activity. It is the title that heads a writing from Dignitat a les Viesa platform that until last Friday had an active web page in which all the speed limitations of Spanish railways were collected. The text reads that Adif has confirmed that the blocking of the page is derived from a previous complaint on its part, understanding that “the information on Temporary Speed ​​Limits (LTV) is ‘sensitive’ and cannot be known by the general public.” Listening to the road manager, the court has ordered the blocking of the website. What was shown? Simply, all the speed limitations present on Spanish roads. Supported by users and, above all, by machinists according to The Country, The association had a map where more than 1,000 incidents were recorded. The map, which Dignitat a les Vies assures has been replicated by the media (such as its own The Country) and has not been removed, showed public information that Adif refuses to provide in what they describe as “an act of paternalism. According to these users, “Adif is failing to comply with the current legal framework. In accordance with Law 9/2025 on Sustainable Mobility, Regulation (EU) 2017/1926 (MMTIS) – updated by 2024/490 – and Directive (EU) 2019/1024”, which requires them to make public “the data on the infrastructure and its restrictions.” And they emphasize that showing them “helps the user understand chronic delays.” The restrictions. As reflected in the newspaper The CountryIn Spain there are currently more than one mile of temporary speed restrictions active. This means that there are more than 1,000 points where drivers must circulate at a speed lower than the maximum speed permitted at that point in a generic manner. These restrictions are a consequence of actions on the tracks but also the consequence of continuous warnings by train drivers. And it is that, as they have confirmed to Xatakathe workers indicate with a report points that, in their opinion, should be reviewed or do not allow driving at the maximum speed required. Everything indicates that, after the Adamuz accident in Córdobathe zeal with these notices is greater than before. Train drivers also have the power to reduce speed at specific points if they so deem it necessary. These speed reductions must be reflected with a notice to the command post and in a report but, as we said, Adif has the final say on what is reviewed, what point is left for later and where speed restrictions are applied and for how long. Is it important? Yes, because temporary speed restrictions have multiplied high-speed travel time. Right now, Adif has indicated to the operators that Journey times are going to be longer in Madrid-Barcelona due to actions on the tracks and trains have been eliminated. This situation will last for months and as it is an issue that falls on the side of the road manager, the client has no right to compensation. The data of The Country They indicated on March 9 that there are 422 points where trains must run at a maximum of 30 km/h. It is the most repeated speed limitation. If the restrictions at 60 km/h or less are added, there are more than 850 points in Spain where high-speed trains cannot go above this speed. Where are there more limitations? Due to the volume of traffic and passengers, it is logical that the restrictions in Madrid-Barcelona have focused attention. Especially since it has been difficult to travel between both cities during the day without suffering any surprises or being clear about what time you are going to arrive, which complicates the traditional movement between cities. However, the media reports that line 100 Madrid-Hendaya is the most affected with 83 temporary speed limitations that reduce speed by 112 kilometers along the total 641 kilometers, followed far away by line 400 Alcázar de San Juan-Cádiz, which totals 85 limited kilometers spread over 69 restrictions found along 577 kilometers. However, it is the line 240 S. Vicenç Calders-L’Hospitalet that is most affected if the number of kilometers with active speed limitations is taken into account. And of the total 71 kilometers of the line, 56 of them have limitations below normal as a result of 35 conflict points. Photo | José Ignacio Esgarriaga In Xataka | Spain decided to build its social life around the AVE. And now he’s discovering the consequences of failing.

A teenager in Mexico created a Hombres G fan website in 1998, with the band already separated. 9 years later they filled Las Ventas

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In 1998, Mexican Francisco Romero was 15 years old, had a new computer and a school assignment to complete. Looking for the best grade, he created a website about his favorite group: Hombres G, a Spanish band that by then was already dissolved. What began as an academic exercise ended up becoming the band’s first digital fan community, with thousands of members spread around the world. And it was also the trigger that convinced David Summers and his team to return to the stage. How it all started. In 1998, having internet at home in Mexico was not common: just a marginal fraction (2-3%) of the Mexican population had access to the network under these conditions. Even so, Francisco Romero, a teenager who had just gotten his first computer, embarked on completing a school project in which students were asked to create a web page. Romero chose the Hombres G as the subject of his project. He had arrived at the Madrid group, which had already been dissolved for five years, through friends from high school. And since finding documentation about the band was difficult (there were only two pages about Hombres G on the internet), he decided to create a community. Meeting point. The web, as Romero himself explainswas titled Club ‘We’re still crazy… so what?’, in reference to ‘We’re crazy… or what?’ title of one of the group’s first albums. The success was immediate: in its first five months, it received hundreds of requests from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru and Japan (in times before algorithms and search engines crashed). They wrote to him, above all, from fans who had not had a space to talk about the band for years, to which they had not stopped listening since the last album they had released in 1993, ‘Bikini history‘. The contact. At the end of 2000an anonymous user left him a complimentary message on the page, to which Romero responded politely. Three days later, another message arrived from the same sender, who turned out to be one of the band’s two guitarists: “Please don’t give out my email, I’m Dani Mezquita.” Later they established telephone contact, which ended up leading to more frequent conversations. The significant fact: Mezquita was then working as marketing director at DRO East West, the Warner Music label that released almost all of the band’s albums. From his position he had noticed something: at the end of 2000, a compilation of Hombres G was the third best-selling album in Mexico at that time. A group without activity, without tour, without active label, without a single public appearance in years. That is, they had an active and completely underserved fan base. With these data on the table, and as told in the documentary ‘The Best Years of Our Life’ (released in theaters scheduled for April 30), the members met and proposed a modest return, with three or four concerts in Mexico. It gets out of hand. From there the expectation skyrockets. The reunification tour ended adding 70 performances during 2002 and 2003including a concert in Las Ventas before 20,000 people and several cities in Latin America and the United States. The album that accompanied the comeback, ‘Dangerous Together’, was initially released only in America, which says a lot about where the weight of the comeback was leaning. When he arrived in Spain he ended up obtaining the Platinum Record. In gratitude for Romero’s importance in this return, he has continued working continuously with the band from Mexico. And so we come to the present: on April 25, 2025, Men G performed before more than 60,000 people at the GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City. All within the framework of a tour titled ‘Thank you, Mexico Tour’. A name that makes it clear to what extent the very survival of the group is owed to a modest student from the city. In Xataka | Three millennia of pop: the oldest song in the world is 3,400 years old and we can still hear it

How to find free, open source or one-time payment alternatives to subscription services with this website

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Do you want to reduce the number of subscriptions you pay? Let’s tell you how to find the best alternatives to programs and applications that require a subscription. Among the alternatives you will have open source services, free or that only require a single payment. We are going to do this with one of those pages that should be saved in favorites. It’s about the web nosubscription.organd we are going to teach you how to use it to find your alternatives. The best alternatives to subscription services NoSubscription is a project with a manifesto in which they believe that users should own their toolsnot renting them with monthly subscriptions. For this reason, those responsible for the website say their mission is to find, verify and promote the best software and services that you buy with a single payment, free and open source. All you have to do is enter nosubscription.organd at the top use your search engine. In it, you can write the name of the subscription tool you want to replacebut also the category of the tool or application. When you type a name, the results will appear with the best alternatives. Notice that below the name it appears which services are alternatives for, because sometimes it can appear out of order. Then, The type of price will appear in green that is, as if it is free or even the total price if it is a single payment. And if you write a category, such as Socialyou will see that alternatives appear and in each one for which service or social network they are a substitute. you will also see What operating systems do you have apps for?with the logos of each one or a globe if used by browser. You can also look for alternatives to other applications popular ones, like Chrome, social networks, operating systems, whatever. When you click on one of the services you will go to its file. In it you will have a description and a list with its key features. On the right you will see its category, the type of application or service it is, where it is available and a button to go to the official website in case you want to find out more. In Xataka Basics | European alternatives to Gmail and Outlook: the best email providers made in Europe

This website is a magnificent calculator to calculate and compare with other countries

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Talking about taxes in certain scenarios is a recipe for disaster. All the ingredients are present: ignorance about basic concepts in economics and how they work, a misunderstood selfishness and confusion between whether what we dislike is how they are managed or their mere existence. One of the most controversial is the Personal Income Tax or Income Tax. How much IPRF do we pay? Is it a lot or a little? Well it depends. In general, we don’t even like money being “taken” from us and in Spain it is quite common to hear that they “take” too much from us. Keep in mind that most states have some personal income tax similar to personal income tax (there are exceptions such as Monaco either Kuwait which they don’t have), so neighbors like Germany or France do have it and leaving the EU, in the United States they have their equivalent in the Income Tax). From here two questions arise: what part of my income goes to personal income tax and whether I would pay more or less if I lived somewhere else. Without intending to replace an economics class (or reading in depth the ministry website) and yes like brief notes on personal income taxIt is important to be clear that this tax is progressive in sections, that is, you do not pay the same percentage for all your money. This is one of the most common mistakes when we hear that someone with a high salary (for the average in Spain) pays 47%: no, the Treasury does not take almost half. That first tranche up to 12,450 euros has a withholding of 19%, from there up to 20,199 euros it is 24% and so on. On the other hand, personal income tax is also divided into sections: state and regional. Depending on which autonomous community you live in, you will pay more or less. Finally, there is a personal and family minimum for which personal income tax is not paid as it is considered to be used to cover basic needs. Defaultit is 5,550 euros per year for a single person. Personal income tax calculators There are a few on the internet and in fact, even the Treasury has its own to make sure we are with the official. Now, if we look for an intuitive alternative that allows us to compare, this website by Benjamin Akar It is an excellent option even if it is in English. An easy personal income tax calculator and comparator to estimate what you pay After choosing a country from the list and verifying that the currency is the Euro, we only have to add annual gross salary. In the advanced options you can also add other deductions such as pension plans or union dues. We see it better with an example: 25,000 euros per year in Madrid and Navarra, two very particular autonomous communities: the state capital has deflated the sections and has one of the lowest minimums in Spain. Navarra, for its part, has its own Treasury, regional regime and personal income tax law. Thus, the sections are modified and there are differences in deductions and calculations such as the structure of the savings base. For the simulation we will assume that we are single people without children. From the previous calculation it is deduced that Madrid is the best option to maximize your salary. But not everything is money in the pocket: Navarra compensates with its own management of services that sometimes entails indirect benefits in the form of personal or family deductions either more budget per inhabitant in health. Now we try changing to Germany and its capital, Berlin, to see what the personal income tax calculation looks like. Deductions from work are very low because Germany has a very high exempt minimum because you do not pay taxes, but then social contributions arrive in the form of social security, pension, unemployment taxes, among others. The EU forms a mosaic where each state has its own tax recipe, although they all share to a greater or lesser extent the objective of financing the welfare state. However, the big difference is not only how much we pay, but how it is paid. So We essentially distinguish three routes: There are states like Germany, France or Spain, with a standard progressive model where you pay based on what you earn; Others, such as Bulgaria or Romania, apply flat systems with low single rates regardless of income. Finally there is the “Nordic” model of places like Denmark or Sweden, with very high maximum rates to finance extensive public services and social benefits. He Spanish state is located in a medium-high zone of the EU. The Eurozone average in maximum rates is around 40% compared to 45% in Spain (considering the combination of state and regional average), reaching 50% or more in regions such as the Valencian Community or Cataloniawhich only affects very high incomes. In Xataka | 64% of Spaniards believe that they pay more in taxes than they receive from the State. It’s actually the other way around In Xataka | Income Tax Calendar 2025: dates and when the 2026 Income Tax return is made Cover | Jakub Zerdzicki

There is now a standard to charge companies to take down the website

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When we use Gemini, ChatGPT either Grokit is easy to think that this ability to produce results in a few seconds borders on the extraordinary, even with its common flaws. But there’s no mystery: they depend on models trained with massive amounts of information. This process has ignited an increasingly intense debate about how all that content is used and the extent of control of those who generate it. In this climate a proposal appears that attempts to bring some order. Mass extraction of content. The accelerated growth of AI has exposed the aforementioned phenomenon. Companies use proprietary trackers and third-party data sets that aggregate material from thousands of websites. For publishers, the problem is not just scale, but a lack of transparency about what is collected, how it is used, and who profits. The clash between these interests has fueled demands and debates about the balance between innovation and copyright. What is RSL 1.0. Now it comes RSL 1.0an open standard designed to let publishers express, in machine-readable form, how their content should be used in the age of AI. The initiative arises from the RSL Collective and the RSL Technical Steering Committee, where internet companies, media and standards organizations such as Yahoo, Ziff Davis and O’Reilly Media participate. The objective is for the media to be able to define transparent rules of use and licensing that AI systems must respect. An operating standard. Here the robots.txt file appears on the scene, which has been the fundamental tool to guide web crawlers, allowing or denying access to certain routes on a site. That simplicity was useful for years, although it did not contemplate specific uses such as training AI models. RSL 1.0 goes one step further and describes differentiated permissions through categories such as “ai-input”, designed for training, or “ai-index”, linked to classic indexing. The “ai-all” category allows you to block any use related to AI. The idea is that with this system editors can define specific limits without losing visibility in search engines. The rules are still simple, but now much more informative. Resolving a key limitation. Until now, according to the promoters of the initiative, a publisher who wants to avoid this use must accept that their content will also stop appearing in traditional search, because Google does not offer an individual option to separate both areas. For the co-founders of the RSL Collective, “RSL provides exactly that layer that was missing,” by allowing independent control between both uses. The contribution model. One of the most notable new features of RSL 1.0 is the “contribution” system, designed so that creators and non-profit organizations can demand contributions from the AI ​​systems that use their material. The initiative has been developed together with Creative Commons and seeks to reinforce the sustainability of the digital commons, which brings together billions of open resources on the web. Its executive director, Anna Tumadóttir, points out that “it is essential that there are fair sharing options beyond commercial licenses, in order to continue supporting the commons and protect access to knowledge in the age of AI.” Wide adoption. The release of RSL 1.0 has generated notable support among publishers, platforms, and technical bodies, as well as support from infrastructure providers such as Cloudflare, Akamai, and Fastly. Their involvement is relevant because these services can directly apply the rules that the editors define. Now, although RSL 1.0 introduces a clearer framework for expressing usage rules, it does not solve all the problems posed by training AI models. The standard relies on trackers to follow it and infrastructure providers to enforce it, so companies that ignore these signals could continue to collect content without permission. It is also unclear how it will affect small publishers who lack the resources to negotiate with large platforms. The advancement of AI has changed the way we interact with information, although we often forget that behind those quick results is content created by millions of people. We have to wait to see if RSL 1.0 will balance the rules of the game. Images | Xataka with Gemini 3 Pro | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | McDonald’s has not learned from Coca-Cola and has presented a Christmas advertisement made with AI. The reactions have been even worse

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