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One thing is to knock down drones, and another very different and dangerous Russian airplanes. The second option is winning too many followers

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The repeated incursions Russian aerials in NATO territory They have triggered a diplomatic and military escalation that places the Atlantic Alliance against one of its greatest dilemmas since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. First They were dronesand then several MIG-31 fighters next to an IL-20M recognition plane in the Baltic without flight plan. The perception, increasingly widespread in Europe, is very dangerous: the Kremlin seeks to test The allied disposition to respond firmly. The internal debate. They remembered In politician that incidents have caused urgent consultations Under article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, a rarely invoked mechanism that reflects the seriousness of the situation. Estonios, Poles and Czechs have claimed Hard responsesincluding the possibility of demolishing Russian aircraft in future violations. The Czech President Peta Pavel, former NATO Military High Command, affirmed that Moscow must face “military consequences.” In Tallin, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna insisted in which to defend the sky of Estonia is equivalent to defending that of the entire alliance. Instead, figures such as German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni They alert the risk To fall into the “climbing trap” lying by Putin, aware that a demolition could be interpreted as Casus Belli. Parallel messages. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, adopted An unusually overwhelming tone When declaring That “every centimeter of the territory” must be protected and that, after clear warnings, the option of folding an intruder plane “is on the table.” His words resonated With Trump’sthat in the UN General Assembly he affirmed that the “yes” allies should shoot against Russian airplanes if they enter their airspace. The support of the US President was held in Warsaw, where Minister Radosław Sikorski He replied with a laconic “Roger That”. The coincidence of speeches between Brussels and Washington (although von der Leyen has no direct military authority) transmits to Moscow that there is an emerging consensus in favor of harden the rules of the game. A 12 -minute pulse. The most symbolic case was the starring By three mig-31 Russians intercepted by two Italian F-35 in Estonia. During more than ten minutesRussian fighters remained within NATO airspace, an unprecedented duration. The Italians performed the standard interception maneuvers and, surprisingly, the Russian pilots responded With a friendly gesturegreeting from the cabin. Although the meeting concluded without shots, in Tallin and in Brussels a immediate debate: Why didn’t it acted with the same forcefulness as Türkiye in 2015When did a Russian plane tear down in just 17 seconds after a border rape? The difference illustrates the current caution of NATO, trapped between the need to show determination and the fear of an incident that disappoints an uncontrollable escalation. Hybrid ambiguity. The Russian authorities They have denied Deliberate violations and attribute incidents to errors, but at the same time suggest that they respond to Ukrainian attacks in Crimea, which is equivalent to accusing NATO of direct complicity. European diplomats who met with Kremlin say that the Russian delegation He took exhaustive noteswhich reinforces the impression that Moscow uses these incursions as calculated pressure tools. Experts like the Lithuanian president Gypsyėda They point that Russia “is testing our preparation and our solidarity.” In this sense, aerial incursions are part of a hybrid repertoire that includes espionage, cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns and symbolic maneuvers in the Baltic borders, such as balloons and buoys displaced in border rivers. The strategic dilemma. NATO has reinforced surveillance with the operation Eastern Sentry and maintains Eurofighter, F-16 and F-35 fighters deployed in the region, but still lacks clear and homogeneous confrontation rules. The ultimate decision to shoot falls to governments nationals that provide airplanes, which generates a mosaic of interpretations and possible “caveats” that could leave countries as Estonia in vulnerable situation. Meanwhile, Tallin has decided to increase its military expenditure to an average 5.4% of GDP Annual until 2029, a record figure in the alliance, although without acquiring its own fighters, which maintains the dependence of the ally air coverage. On the edge of the red line. In short, the Crossing speeches reflects a paradox: while Voices increase In favor of demolition as immediate response to airspace violations, other leaders remember that Putin could be looking for that incident to legitimize a victimization and victimization narrative Sow divisions internal in NATO. If you want, the situation recalls that the defense of the European sky is no longer a mere exercise of routine interceptions, but A critical front of the ongoing hybrid war. At stake, in addition, there is not only the security of Estonia or Poland, but the credibility of the alliance as guarantor that every centimeter of its territory, in the words of Von der Leyen itself, will continue being inviolable. Image | Fedor Leukhin, Andrey Korchag In Xataka | The war in Ukraine has fired the delays and canceled flights. And Europe has the solution: a drone wall In Xataka | Italy, Germany, Sweden and Finland have done something that seemed unthinkable: throw their fighters in search of Russian airplanes

While everyone criticized GPT-5, Openai was winning the war that really matters: that of companies

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He GPT-5 launch It has been, in broad strokes, disappointing. Openai needed this model with this model bigger in the history of AIbut we have encountered a model that improves, but not spectacularly. And yet, it is achieving something that is more important than it seems: to convince companies. Companies

If the question is which of the great technology is winning the AI career, the answer is: None

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Who is winning the AI race? At this point we should have it more or less clear. We had it when Microsoft and Intel were profiled as the dominators of the PC world or when Apple and Google triumphed with their smartphones. But with AI something curious happens: Things are very even. Of, done, too much. Of course, in the field of Openai popularity, it is the most prominent with chatgpt. Recently the company presumed to be touching The 700 million active weekly users, a really remarkable figure that leaves its competitors behind. However, that metric is not definitive, especially when we have a great unknown to elucidate: what is the best AI model? It is impossible to know today what is the best model of AI No one can give a clear answer to that question. Neither the companies, which continuously breastfeed with their new versions, nor the benchmarks, which They have become a useful but imperfect tool when evaluating the quality of these models. In Polymarket people believed that the best AI model at the end of August was going to be OpenAi. After leaving GPT-5, the perception changed. That the answer to that question is difficult Polymarket demonstrates itthis unique prediction platform in which users bet on a result and also pay it by voting for one or another conclusion. To the question of “What company does the best model of AI have at the end of August? Everything seemed to smile at Openai, but after the launch of GPT-5, the Batacazo: now the clear favorite is Gemini, the Google model, with OpenAI collapsed to 16% of the votes and even more behind Grok (XAI) with 6.3% of votes and Claude (Anthropic) with a very low (in my opinion) 1.5%. It is not that Polymarket is an especially reliable indicator of this (or anything), but it makes it clear that The public perception of these models can be very different of their real behavior in things like their number of users-here OpenAi tombs their competitors-or their performance performance such as Arc-Agi 2 (where Grok 4 wins everyone, including GPT-5). In the Benchmark of abstract thought ARC-AGI 2, Grok 4 is well above its competitors. Included GPT-5, which exceeds Claude Opus 4. Source: ARC-AGI. And that makes us even clearer what are the two great reasons why it is a real problem to know which model of AI is winning this career. The first, that these tests are often very specific and concrete, and focus on evaluating aspects such as the ability to program or solve mathematical problems of these models. And the second, that The models do not stop improving and to overcome what his rivals had achieved a few days, weeks or months before. We do not stop seeing how new versions of the models are (logically) something better programming, generating text or images or solving certain types of problems, but there is no consensual or definitive form of saying “this model is better.” As we have seen, each user also has their own personal perception (Hello, Polymarket) when using them. Some prefer Claude to program, other chatgpt for generic questions, other Gemini to talk about diverse topics and to learn, for example. And none seems to be the final model “for everything.” In a recent scientific study, researcher Steve Hsu concluded that the path followed by the current generative models will not lead to AGI. Neither now, nor ever. That leads us to a reflection: that this general artificial intelligence (AGI) is far from arriving. These systems, which are supposed to be overcome in all areas, are not even remotely close to doing so, and They continue to make mistakes even when for example GPT-5 seems to have significantly mitigate the problem of hallucinations. Analysts like Gary Marcus They reminded us These days that have been saying the same thing about 30 years: that with this type of climbing techniques We are not going to get to an AGI And that the road has to be another. And that leaves us some interesting ideas. David Sacks – Paypal Cocfounder, founder of Yammer, investor— analyzed The situation of this segment and raised striking conclusions. The five main companies that develop foundational models —Openai, Google, Meta, Anthropic or XAI – still do not master the market, but that is (or it can be) good news. And it is because there is neither a monopoly nor a duopoly of AI. What there is is a fierce competition not only among these five North American companies, but between them and all their Chinese competitors, to which a lot of startups are added that have no resources to work on foundational models – careful – and instead they try to solve another great question: what is the Killer app of the AI. That’s where there are great opportunities for these startups, which can solve success cases in which AI can really be a disruption for an industry. It is for example what emerging companies have done such as cursor or Windsurf, which have opted for the vibe coding boom and are capturing a lot of interest among the developer segment. In fact, every time we see how even the greats of AI presume that their new models program especially well or perhaps are more oriented than ever to solve mathematical problems. GPT-5 precisely use those two arguments to declare themselves better than the competition, and although some benchmarks prove them right, the perception of the users will determine whether they meet expectations or not. But there is also that great debate between the proprietary models (such as GPT-5) and the Open Source models. As Sacks says, the fact that Open Source models They can offer 80-90% of the capacity with a cost of 10-20% of foundational models is sensational for certain users. Specifically, for those who prioritize customization, control and cost savings on the use of foundational models. China goes for all with that philosophy, although curiously it was … Read more

He is winning the game to Barajas

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Traveling from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid in just over an hour is possible. By plane, of course. The problem is that this travel time is not realistic and that is why the train does not stop gaining adherents in the Galicia-Madrid corridor. Better offer, more comfort and a clear winner: Renfe. More travelers. Specifically 181,588 travelers. Those are the ones who collect The Galician mailhave been mounted on one of Renfe’s trains during the first month in which the company has fully had its high -speed trains, with the entire full hourly offer. The figure is spectacular when compared to the plane. In that same month, airlines have set up 155,715 people aboard their vehicles. It is a historical milestone for a means of transport where the train has always been behind the plane. Looking back. In the Gallego newspaper they explain that evolution has been spectacular. The first works that would end up leading to the current high -speed line began in 2011. Then, only 20,000 travelers opted for the train to move along this line. Today the figure is above 180,000 passengers. Although over the years the train has been stealing passengers, as I reduced travel times, the plane was still the preferred means of transport. In 2019, Renfe moved between 40,000 and 60,000 passengers but air traffic continued to exceed 200,000 passengers. Those times have been left behind. Making the plane back. The opening of high speed has caused A clear traveler transfer to the train. Since last year, Galicia and Madrid are united by high speed. And although arrived late and there was controversy With its trains (including an incomprehensible break with the entrance of the new year), Renfe has added more and more passengers. To the point that the train has the most complete offer of schedules. The airlines have been canceling routes and operating with smaller airplanes because they cannot compete in price or times. Yes, it takes more train but it leaves from the center of the Galician cities and you reach Chamartín, a well connected station in the financial nucleus of Madrid. As if that were not enough, The train is cheaper. Less offer in the air. Collect in The Galician mail which is easy to track to what extent the train is going back to the plane. Galician airports are suffering Partial output of Ryanairwhich has abandoned some routes as a pressure measure before what They consider abusive rates by Aena and against the fine imposed by the Government Retailing hand luggage. But it’s just another example. Although Air Europa does maintain its current offer with 56 weekly flights adding Vigo and A Coruña, Air Nostrum is operating with smaller airplanes to dimension the offer to the new reality. A reef. The result is great for Renfe that has found a trench in front of the competition. In recent weeks the rumor had run that Ouigo was trying to get trains To operate that line. Or, even, it was said that Renfe could rent rolling material. The latter has been totally discarded by its president who has assured that “whoever wants to come (to the Galician corridor), to invest.” The key is that the line needs to operate with specific trains that can change from Iberian wide to international width. However, Talgo has all its compromised production And he has no space to serve Renfe rivals, at least, before this decade ends. Good numbers. Although the information surrounding Renfe turns in recent times around the problems in their trains, the truth is that the company is receiving good news in recent days. According to your own data, the first semester of 2025 He has broken his own record in the travel of travelers. This record is not understood without the great growth in the trips of the Galician corridor. Its high -speed trains to Galicia destination and those dedicated to the Extremaduran corridor High speed trips have fired. In both cases, Renfe does not have to compete with ouigo or Iro that yes They have forced him to lower prices and have stolen customers in the Catalan, Valencian and Andalusian corridor. Photo | Eric Salard and by Bene riobó In Xataka | Between delays and breakdowns, we could not imagine that Renfe would beat a new record in 2025: to have more customers than ever

It is more likely to reach a ray to touch your lottery. Until an economist broke the game winning 14 times

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The lottery is more an act of faith than anything else. I don’t say it, Mathematics say. In fact, there is more likely to be a ray to become a millionaire at night. It is possible that all that of the same, and that even knowing that we will not touch us, let’s continue playing to feel part of something. The problem is that there are legends that They talk about tricks and Formulas To win. And then there is the story of Stefan Mandel. A mathematical mind. In the mid-1990s, while millions of people worldwide continue Murify the rules Not written from the lottery applying, not magic or superstition, but an elementary probability system and a colossal logistics. The “trick.” His formula was as basic as radical: identify those draws in which the accumulated prize It exceeded by far the total cost of acquiring all possible tickets. By converting a problem of chance into a mathematical operation with a positive statistical return, Mandel transformed the game into a profitability equation. After successfully trying his system in his native Romania and then in Australia, Mandel perfected his strategy With a small team, developing algorithms that generated and printed millions of valid combinations for specific lotteries. The jump to Washington. The high point of his odyssey came when he looked at the United States, where he detected that Virginia’s newly established lottery used only 44 numbersgenerating “barely” 7,059,052 possible combinations. With the boat reaching 15.5 million dollars, and after having prepared in advance A network of investorsprinters and points of sale, Mandel activated his machinery. For two frantic days, his team managed to buy 6.4 million tickets. They did not reach the desired total, but among the paper mountain was the winning ticket. Although the feat unleashed an investigation by the FBI and the CIA, no legal violation was detected: its maneuver, although clearly outside the spirit of the game, it did not transgress any norm written in the regulations in force. The boundaries of chance. The key to the mandel method was not in sophisticated numerical tricks, but to detect when the conditions of the game offered A structural advantage. In this way, its formula only worked when the prize I tripled the cost To acquire all combinations and when lottery systems allowed printing tickets directly with chosen combinations, a possibility that was later prohibited in many countries precisely by cases such as yours. Winning horse. In essence, its strategy converted the lottery into A safe betprovided that resources, time and discipline were available to execute a plan of such magnitude. However, the profit margin was not immediate: Mandel had to distribute the profits between dozens of investors and assume considerable operational and legal costs. Even so, the system allowed him Win 14 lotteries over several years and knead a considerable fortune without resorting to traps or privileged contacts, only to applied mathematics with implacable determination. Legacy and sunset. After his last significant victory, Mandel He retired to a paradise in the Vanuatu Islands, where he lives away from media foci. Its history, however, not only challenges the myth of fate in games of chance, but has become A mathematical legend which highlights the design gaps of many lottery systems before digitalization. Today, with stricter regulations, limits in the purchase of tickets and automated systems, replicate its model It would be unfeasible. Thus, its feat remains one of the most forceful demonstrations of how human ingenuity, when it faces in intelligence and rigor, can alter the balance of the improbable. Image | Barcex In Xataka | We all know that the lottery will not touch us. It doesn’t matter: we play for feeling part of something In Xataka | The trick to prevent the Treasury from staying with 20% of the Lottery Award has a trick. And is called the income statement

In the twentieth century the pipelines were the key to the world. In the 21st century are the electrical networks and a country is winning them: China

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While a nation installs almost one hundred solar panels per second, another revitalizes factories to produce gasoline engines. While A build the largest solar plant in the worldthe other promises “Dominant Energy” Based on oil and gas. At first glance, two different strategies seem. Actually, it’s a career. And the prize is not just energy: it is the geopolitical power of the 21st century. Two opposing models. An Ember graph published by Our World in Data He has illustrated The point with amazing clarity. At the beginning of the 2000s you can see China’s gradual rebound. However, the crossing occurs in 2010 where the Asian giant exceeds the 4,000 Teravatios-Hora barrier (TWH), to a vertiginous ascent exceeding 10,000 SWH in 2024. In simple terms, China produces more than double electricity than the United States, which remained in the same line. But the most relevant is not how much it produces, but how it does. Data Source: Ember (2025); Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2024) The silent revolution. In just one month, China installed 93 gigawatts of solar capacity, which is equivalent – more or less – one hundred panels every second. To that are added another 26 GW in wind, some 5,300 new turbines underway. According to Lauri Myllyvirta, principal researcher at the Institute of Policy of Asian Society, cited by The Guardian: “Only the facilities of that month would generate as much electricity as whole countries such as Poland, Sweden or the United Arab Emirates.” In total, between January and May 2025, China has added 198 GW of solar capacity and 46 GW of wind, sufficient to match the electricity production of Türkiye or Indonesia. This way, Keep overcoming The more than 1,000 GW, which represents half of the world total. They have known how to get ahead. More and more linked climatic ambitions with the growth of renewable technologies. In a recent speech, cited by The GuardianXi Jinping linked the development of the clean energy sector with China’s economic revitalization: “We have built the world’s largest and most complete energy chain in the world.” The term “new energies” includes renewables, batteries and storage technologies. The Asian giant is currently the largest global supplier of clean technologies: the market of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles and nuclear reactors under construction dominates. In addition, it has almost 700,000 patents in clean energy, more than half of the world total, According to The New York Times. The other face. For a good part of the twentieth century, the United States was the reference in energy innovation: from the first commercial solar cells until The first wind farms. However, since Trump’s arrival, the focus It has been placed again strongly towards fossil fuels. According to The New York TimesWashington has pressed allies such as Japan and South Korea to invest billion dollars in American natural gas infrastructure. At the same time, companies such as General Motors have given clear signs of where the wind blows: the company canceled an electric motion plant near Buffalo (New York) to allocate 888 million dollars To manufacture gasoline V-8 engines. Where asymmetry resides. It is not just two different paths, but in world influence. According to Climate Energy Finance datathe companies of the Asian giant have announced more than 168 billion dollars in foreign investments in clean energy projects: from turbines in Brazil to electric cars in Indonesia, through gigantic solar plants in Saudi Arabia and hydroelectric projects in the Congo. Green energy, for Beijing, is not just a business. It is a soft power tool. A way to gain global land through infrastructure, long -term contracts and own financing. An influence that does not need military bases, but solar panels. In contrast, the United States has cut many of its international energy cooperation programs. Its foreign strategy is more transactional: specific gas, oil or even weapons agreements. But without a structural project that allows you to compete on this new energy board. And this change of roles? Half a century ago, the United States led energy innovation. In 1979, Jimmy Carter He installed solar panels In the White House. Decades later, Barack Obama financed projects like Tesla. But cases Like Solyndra’s failurea solar company that broke after receiving a federal loan, unleashed a conservative narrative against public investment in renewables. China, on the other hand, assumed risks. In the early 2000s, then Prime Minister Wen Jiabao – rare earth geneologist – understood that the country’s economic and geopolitical future went through controlling energy production. Your government invested hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, factories, technical training and innovation. Protected his market, automated manufacturing and dominated access to essential raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and silicon as has developed New York Times. The forecasts. The world is moving towards solar and wind energies, so confirms it The International Energy Agency. The energy demand will continue to grow, but its origin will be different. And that will change the global balance, because whoever leads this new energy matrix will also have a geopolitical, commercial and diplomatic advantage. China is prepared to lead that world. The big question is whether the United States – or any other global actor – is willing to compete with the same strategic vision, patience and scale. Because energy not only moves factories or illuminates cities. Today the global board moves. Image | Unspash Xataka | An explosive ramifications have just opened in the world energy industry: the “Peak Oil” of China

Justice allows airlines what Spain wants to fine. And who is winning is Ryanair

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The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid He has precautionary suspended sanctions of 179 million euros that consumption imposed to five airlines receivable the hand luggage. Companies will continue to invoice these services as an extra, at least until there is a final sentence. Why is it important. This judicial decision comes in full clash between Spanish and European regulations. Spain considers these practices illegal and sanctions them. The European Union Council expressly supports them. However, the latter has not yet been translated into current law, for the moment The European Parliament wants to restore its gratuity And then the inter -institutional negotiation will arrive. In figures. Ryanair and Norwegian have achieved precautionary measures contributing 110 and 1.8 million bank guarantees respectively. The magistrates argue that the fines are “very high” and their anticipated payment would cause “difficulties to the Treasury” of the airlines. This does not mean in any case that the court considers the fine illegitimate, only there are reasons to suspend it while judging. Ryanair heads the sanctions with 107 million, followed by Vueling (39.3), Easyjet (29,1), Norwegian (1.6) and Volotea (1,2). The total fine amounts to 179 million euros. The context. The EU Council reforms in June the European regulations for expressly allow collection by cabin suitcaseslimiting free luggage to packages of 40x30x15 centimeters. This reform, of course, must still be ratified by the European Parliament. But the European Parliament Transportation Commission this week approved a opposite proposal: That each passenger can wear a small bag and suitcase without additional cost. Between the lines. The European Commission has already opened a procedure against Spain for possible irregularities in these sanctions. Meanwhile, airlines press to maintain their freedom of rates. It is a clash between two ways of understanding the business of flying: Ryanair disaggregates everything that can be reduced to the basic ticket and fill the airplanes, something that explains its good profitability. Legislators want a basic ticket to include certain services that cannot be disaggregated. The only thing that all parts seem to coincide is to allow a small bag or backpack for free (40x30x15 cm). It is the minimum difference between plane traveling and traveling by subway. And now what. The proposal of the Parliament must go through the plenary in July and negotiate with the Member States. Until then, the airlines will maintain their current policies, which are also now backed by the Spanish judicial decision. Minister Pablo Bustinduy is confident that the position of the European Parliament prevails. The airlines, meanwhile, have won judicial legitimacy to continue charging hand luggage as extra. Outstanding image | In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

Huawei is China’s winning horse and is even leading where he seemed to death: in mobiles

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2025 will not be an easy year for telephony. The consultants They are checking down Growth forecasts of giants such as Apple and Samsung, hoping that the geopolitical impact of the commercial war will translate into higher prices in key markets such as the United States. The growth perspective in global shipments is especially low, and will be mainly starring Chinese manufacturers. Among them, there is one in which all expectations are set. One with the potential to shake the industry. All eyes put in Huawei. There is no worldwide manufacturer that grows more shipments than Huawei. It is something that We warn at the beginning of the yearin a global photograph of Canals that showed some interannual contraction for Apple and Samsung numbers (they lost 1% compared to 2024), and in which Huawei grew no less than 36%. A wild figure, taking into account that its local rivals such as Xiaomi, Honor or Live grew by about 15%. Less than half of what Huawei was achieving. An unstoppable trend. Ethan qiAssociate Director of Canalys, expects the Chinese manufacturer to remain a leader for 2025. Although not much further in its analysis regarding the relaxation of bottlenecks so that Huawei can stock up on critical components, there are several key points that explain why the Chinese company has all ballots to lead world growth this year. Among them, how will tariff pressure, Chinese technological nationalism of Huawei consumers play in favor of Chinese companies, The thrust with SMIC for the manufacture of Kirin chips and the turn Towards a domestic supply chain for close the circle. Without fear of own hardware. After the American veto, Huawei has focused all its efforts on achieving a product without external dependence. And he has achieved it. Huawei Mate 70 was the company’s first phone with Kirin 9020, A chip developed in silence and who planted the United States, a country that could not understand how were 5g chips developing despite the sanctions. Although this processor is manufactured under the lithographic process of 7 NM of SMIC, and notably below those manufactured by TSMC with its N3E lithographythe demand for mate 70 It has been high in China. However, if Huawei wants to continue pushing on national soil, he needs to prioritize a very concrete product: the mid -range mobile. The mid -range as a key. In Spain we are not the only ones who bet on quality-price mobiles. At the beginning of 2025, the Chinese demand of smartphones concentrated on the strip of 2,000 to 5,000 yuan (240 and 609 euros to change). Here Huawei places his Nova rangeone of its main sales engines in China. National policies of Subsidies Sales continue to warm up of smartphones, having added two to three percentage points to their growth in the first quarter of 2025, according to estimates. Huawei, together with the support of its local suppliers and SMIC, is at its best to aim with this family of products to its national soil. All to pure 80. Although the growth of Huawei in China will depend on a good part of the efforts that focus on their best -selling ranges, all eyes are now put on The pure huawei 80his Flagship family and a great opportunity to demonstrate what their efforts are being materialized to achieve self -sufficiency. They will be presented on June 11, and They already have more than 200,000 reservations without even having gone to the market. The great hope. Huawei’s role is key in China. He is not just the protagonist in the race to lead the manufacture of smartphones with SMIC, It is because of its potential to create chips for iaas his family Asce 910. This chip will play a key role in the effort for reduce national dependence with American manufacturers such as NVIDIApointing in front of their A100 and H100. Presumably, SAQC technology will allow SMIC to manufacture 3 Nm chipswhile they would be About to achieve capacity to make 5 Nm chips No need for access to equipment extreme ultraviolet photolithography asml. A way to travel that leads to an inevitable destination: sooner or later, China will be the world chips leader. Image | Huawei In Xataka | Best Mobile Huawei (2025). Which to buy and recommended models based on budget, tastes and quality price

There is a career to achieve the cheapest and most powerful model. And against all prognosis, China is winning it

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On May 20 Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash in preliminary version. These new AI models were better than ever, and to demonstrate the company included in its announcement several graphs and comparative tables. They looked at how both surpassed their rivals both in the field of reasoning and in the traditional performance (Benchmarks of Mathematics or Programming), but there was also another fact that Google presumed: Google: The cost of Gemini 2.5 Flash. Source: Google. That table published by Google made it clear that Gemini 2.5 Flash It was clearly the winner of that comparison in the important price/benefits ratio. What Google did not say is that this success of this model was the exception to the rule, because in that race for having cheap and powerful models, China seems to take the lead. He does it at least if we attend to the cost of using these models. In Xataka we have analyzed that cost based not on the price of subscriptions for end users, but on the cost of access to the API, which is the one that allows developers to integrate these models into their own chatbots and their services. The API prices of each model clearly differentiate two uses from artificial intelligence. On the one hand, how much does it cost to write something for the model to then process it (the so -called input tokens). On the other, how much does the text generated by the model once processed the answer (the so -called output tokens). The entrance tokens They are usually five times cheaper than exitbecause processing the request and generating text is much more expensive than receiving it, analyzing and “understanding it.” We wanted to compare the cost of the main models of the AI ​​developed in China and those of the US, and although as always are not all that are, if they are all. The resulting table is as follows: These prices are public and very easy to find in the case of US AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) but not so much in the case of Chinese models (Deepseek, Qwen (Alibaba), Doubao (Bytedance), GLM-4 (Zhipu), Ernie (Baidu)). Be that as it may, the table, ordered from the cheapest to the most expensive, demonstrates that today Chinese models are especially cheap. Only Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview manages to compete – and does it exceptionally. In the rest of the cases, the AI ​​models in China win the battle for cost. It must be noted that, Like all comparisons, this is unfair. And it is because that table does not take into account the benefits of each model. Openai O3 and Anthropic Claude Opus 4, the last and most powerful models of those companies, are especially precise in their answers, but each consultation consumes much more resources (computation, energy) and that makes it logical that they are much more expensive than their competitors. But these models are also designed for very special cases and for specialized, detailed and deep consultations. In the vast majority of cases it is not necessary to use these models, and that is where they are competing for example Deepseek R1 or Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview: in the price/benefits ratio. Models with variable prices That price battle has made us see in recent times two techniques that some companies are applying to the prices of use of their APIs. The first one is to differentiate normal entries and outputs of inputs (and even exits) cache. Deepseek API prices. Attentive to the lower left: according to the time you use them, they can leave cheaper. Source: Deepseek. The explanation is simple: a “normal” entry is a request or question that the model has never processed and therefore has to process completely. If the entrance has been caught (Cache hit) is because that request has been processed in the past, so the system can obtain the response of its cache, which significantly reduces the computational costs. Deepseek, Google, Anthropic and Openai offer this type of option, as can be seen in the table. The second technique is to use variable prices according to (at the moment) the time slot in which we use these models. This is what Deepseek has done, which has “day” and “night” prices according to UTC schedule. If you use the Depseek API from 18:30 to 2:30 (Peninsular schedule in Spain), it will be half price. Good news: AI is every time (much) cheaper While China and the US fight who has the most powerful model or who has the cheapest model, what is constantly happening is that the AI ​​price is falling remarkably. It is an observation that several experts such as Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who recently analyzed how That price/benefits ratio does nothing but improve. The models are getting better and cheaper. Other experts such as Raveesh Bhalla – explained by Netflix and LinkedIn – also reflected this evolution at the beginning of the year. Then he showed how the cost of an O1 level model had dropped 27 times in the last three months. Moreover, at this rhythm the GPT4 level models – which a year ago were absolute referents – will be reduced 1,000 times in just 18 months. We are living it in price reduction. Dane Bahey, from Openai, said at a conference in September last year how the cost per million tokens had fallen from 36 dollars At just 0.25 dollars In the last 18 months. And that price drop is still clear and fantastic for users. Thus, we are facing a career that at the moment has a lot of stretch: China’s models carry the lead if we attend only to their cost, but careful, because we must also take into account the benefits. It is true that these Chinese models have already shown in the benchmarks that have been showing that they compete from you to you with the best US models, and now it remains to … Read more

Despite never winning, England always had to have invented football. It is possible that now not that

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It is not necessary to go very far to know until Where they are capable If some English arrive when what is at stake is the king sport. Just 24 hours ago the Europa League final left in the city of Bilbao Scenes Barbaric that remembered other times with empires in between. Therefore, the last archaeological discovery should put Europe on guard. What would happen if the English discover that in the end they were not the inventors of football? Worse, what would happen if they discovered that they were their neighbors? The invention of football (and its rules). The truth is that the last finding adds to others that have questioned the authorship of the sport of the ball over the English. We have already told it before, the Maya They played footballor something very similar, and the same could be said of China thousands of years ago or of the Florentine calcium (As for the modern rules). Be that as it may, the last of the possible “inventors” is, perhaps, the one that can hurt the English. The friends Scottish They are behind. The beginning: pig. Let’s go with The English theory. For more than a century and a half, the official history of football has been unequivocally of them. The roots of the so -called “beautiful game” have commonly tracked to the chaotic and brutal games of the so -called Mob Football In medieval England, where crowds of peasants pushed and hit collective struggles without clear rules for the control of an inflated pig bladder. Over time, and to order chaos, a young London lawyer written in 1863 The first formal sport regulation, adopted by the Football Associationwhich consolidated England as the recognized cradle of modern football. That narrative, however, has now questioned a Archaeological finding in Scotland that could force to review the symbolic foundations of football as it is known. Mossobin’s field. The discovery, led by Ged O’Brien, founder of the Scottish Soccer Museumand a team of archaeologists of the Archaeology ScotlandIt consists of what could be the oldest organized soccer field: a rectangular extension of flat terrain in an old seventeenth farm in Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire. The key, apparently, is in A written letter between 1627 and 1638 by Reverendo Samuel Rutherford, Presbyterian pastor of the local parish, where regretted that his parishioners They played Foot-Ball on Sunday afternoon, instead of attending religious trades. As a deterrent, Rutherford ordered row To prevent matches, what archaeologists interpret as a kind of precarious sign of “forbidden to play.” Physical tests and context. The team excavated and analyzed the terrain, discarding any agricultural or livestock use for the line of stones found, and determined that he dated about 400 years ago. The alignment, the configuration of the field (about 85 x 45 meters) and the documentary evidence supports the hypothesis that there was played there The closest to football regularly and organized. O’Brien insists that this It wasn’t Mob Footballbut a more civilized and recurring version, practiced every Sunday with implicit social rules, such as avoiding excessive violence so as not to prevent players from working the next day. The continuity and function of the field suggest a sports practice with structure and periodicitywhich, if confirmed, would displace southern England as the only legitimate origin of organized football. National pride and shock. No doubt, the reaction from England has not been waiting. Steve Wood, representative of the organization Sheffield Home of Footballhe has responded With skepticismclaiming that you cannot know what type of “foot-ball” was played in Mossobin or establish a direct connection with modern football encoded in 1863. From that optics, the Sheffield FC Foundation In 1857 (recognized by FIFA as the oldest club in the world) it would continue to be the true starting point. But for O’Brien, that attitude is a more manifestation of English chauvinisma subtle way of belittling history and Scottish cultural contributions. “We weren’t too poor or too small or too stupid to play football,” He underlined. “What was played in Mossobin was the grandfather of modern football. And he was Scottish,” he settled. Rewriting a legend. Had the New York Times That, although it is unlikely that this finding immediately replaces the official narrative accepted by global football institutions, its symbolic value is enormous. It offers an alternative look at the evolution of king sport, showing that the impulse of kick A community ball was not a sudden invention of English boarding schools, but a cultural expression more widespread and old of what was believed. If you want also, the dispute goes beyond the pitch: a battle For historical identity of a worldwide phenomenon, in which a small but proud nation demands its place in history books. Thus, in the 21st century, the debate on the origin of football not only faces fans or historians, but becomes a more land between two visions of greatness diametrically opposed within the British islands. That trembles Europe. Image | James Kirkup In Xataka | The Maya played football. And now we know that under the courts they buried a hallucinogenic surprise In Xataka | Bilbao promised them very happy celebrating the final of the Europa League. Until two English teams were classified

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