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OpenAI has turned ChatGPT into mainstream AI. In the business world the game is being won by its great rival

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Anthropic is nowhere near as well-known as OpenAI, but its AI model, Claude, is gaining traction almost unnoticed. Perhaps because he is doing it in a somewhat more opaque sector like that of companies. at least like this I pointed it out this summer a study by Menlo Ventures that certainly paints an interesting picture for this corporate AI war. Overtaking on the right. The data of that company venture capital companies reveal that at the beginning of 2023 OpenAI dominated the business segment with its AI models: it had a 50% share, when Anthropic barely had 12%. In July the situation had changed radically, and while OpenAI had reduced its share to 25%, Anthropic had managed to grow it to 32%. Source: Menlo Ventures. Companies bet on Claude. According to data from OpenAI itself, the company already has 800 million users. A small part of them already use a paid subscription, and that has allowed annual revenue to rise to $13 billion by 2025. Of them, 30% come from companies. Anthropic itself points out that revenues in 2025 will be about 5,000 million dollars – although they may end the year with 9,000 – but 80% of them come from business clients, whose number now amounts to 300,000. The difference is notable. The programmers, protagonists. The Menlo Ventures report further argues that there is one type of professional user that is especially important in those numbers: programmers. In fact, Anthropic’s market share among developers is 42%, while OpenAI’s is 21%. A priori and according to this data, the developers’ preference is clear: they like Claude more than ChatGPT—and specific products, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex—when it comes to programming. Source: Menlo Ventures. Companies pay more easily. This reality seems to make it clear that for business users the benefits seem to be clearer and that is why companies do not seem to have qualms when it comes to paying for subscriptions to these AI models. Not only in programming, but for example in legal or administrative departments is where ChatGPT or Claude can improve productivity and save work for professionals, who pay to be able to use these options without the limitations of free plans. Even Microsoft signs up. Anthropic’s reputation is making companies traditionally linked to OpenAI also want to start betting on its models. This is what happened with Microsoft, which in September announced that Claude would be available in the Copilot suite in addition to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, OpenAI conquers the ordinary user. OpenAI’s approach is quite different. Although it obviously has part of its business focused on companies, its latest movements are very focused on attracting the largest possible number of users. The launch of Sora 2 and its social network Sora, and the recent presentation of the ChatGPT Atlas browser – which of course can also be used by professionals – indicate this. But. The data that puts Anthropic in this excellent position among companies comes from the Menlo Ventures study, but this company is an interested party because one of the startups in which it has invested is precisely Anthropic. Not only that, it is a common criticism among Anthropic users that their models are comparatively more expensive than those of competitors like OpenAI. These conclusions from the Menlo Ventures study may therefore be subject to suspicion. Image | Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2023 In Xataka | Anthropic has seen what OpenAI is doing with its circular financing and has decided that you only live once

He won an art contest with an image made with Midjourney. Now he is fighting in court to be recognized as an artist

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It seems like an eternity has passed, but in 2022, AI image generation tools were already achieving the most convincing results. And if not, tell the participants in the Colorado art contest, who saw how An image created with Midjourney took first prize in the ‘digital art’ category. The controversy was afoot: can we call something that an AI does art? Its author is very clear about this and has gone to court to defend it. What has happened? Jason Allen, the author of the image (or rather, the prompt), tried to register ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ a month after winning the contest, but was not allowed. According to the US Copyright Officethe image contains “more than a minimal amount of artificial intelligence-generated content.” Allen began a legal battle to get the image registered. According to what they say in 404medialast August they filed a request in court defending that it is a work of art and Allen an artist. The prompt. Although it was created by software, Allen states that the creation of the prompt is an artistic process in itself and therefore should be considered an artist. In the text presented to the court, his lawyers defend that “he created the image by providing hundreds of iterative text prompts (…) to help express his intellectual vision.” However, for the copyright office, just providing the instructions was not enough and they repeatedly rejected his request. Art or not. The news unleashed a wave of criticism on networks and brought to the table the debate of whether images generated with AI should be considered art. This controversy has polarized the artistic and technological community, creating two marked and opposing positions: on the one hand, those who They consider that it cannot be considered art because it lacks human intentionality, on the other hand those who defend that AI is one more tool with which the artist expresses himselfjust like a brush, a graphics tablet or a camera. It’s not the first time. Art has faced more debates like this and there is a very clear example. The same thing is happening with AI that happened with photography in the 19th century; was rejected by defenders of drawing and paintingwho saw their jobs threatened by new technology. More than a century later, photography is considered art and fills galleries and museums. And most importantly, the painting still exists. The intention. The debate arises when mechanical means come into play. In the case of photography it was the camera and with AI it is software, very complex but software nonetheless. If we accept that photography, digital illustration or 3D modeling are art, AI can be too. The key that makes the difference is the intention behind it. Setting any prompt and sticking with the first result that comes to mind is not the same as having a clear idea, a story to tell, a feeling to express, and looking for the result that captures it as best as possible. Of course, it would be fair that those works compete in their own category. The problem. AI has turned the art community against it from the beginning. Image generators, especially the first ones, were trained with countless works of art by authors who received nothing in return. Some authors they began to “poison” their works for AI to go crazy and there are several initiatives that artists can join to prevent your jobs from ending up training AI. Image | Jason Allen and Midjourney In Xataka | Either you pay or we will use your works to train AI: the threat of hackers to an artists’ website

40 years ago three researchers insisted on blurring the borders of quantum physics, today they have won the Nobel

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It was 1935 and Erwin Schrödinger was already tired of reading nonsense. It was not a decade since the birth of modern quantum mechanics, but the world had already filled with delusional pseudophilosophical reflections on what reality really was. It was then that poor Erwin inflated his noses and decided to talk to us about his cat. The happy cat of Schrödinger. Of his cat, of a closed opaque box and, in addition, of a container with a poisonous gas. The container in question is controlled by an opening device that only works if a radioactive particle disintegrates over a certain period of time. After that period, the probability that the cat is dead is 50% and that it is also alive of 50%. “If we do not open the box,” the standard version of this ‘paradox’ tells us, “the cat will be alive and dead at the same time.” Or, in other words, we could be calm: as long as we did not open the box, the cat would not be really dead. According to many interpreters, in fact, it would be the one that opens the box that kills the cat. No one understands poor Erwin. The interesting thing about all this is that, although it has been used to the fed up to illustrate The idea of ​​quantum overlapSchrödinger used it to demonstrate how absurd it was to apply categories of quantum mechanics to the real world (macroscopic). For the Austrian physicist, the happy cat would be alive or dead regardless of the opening of the box or not. But … what if not? However, half a century after all this, there were a group of researchers from the University of Berkeley who did not have it so clear. For some years it was known that we were missing a key piece to understand the process of molecular disintegration. That is, “the ability of individual particles to disintegrate is well known” (this is, for example, the physical fact that there is Behind carbon-14); What happens is that according to what we knew about physics, that could not be. The particles should not disintegrate. Between 1984 and 1985, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis They performed a series of experiments With a closed electrical circuit with superconductors and showed that, well, Schrödinger was wrong. How was it wrong? As I say, the intention of the cat’s mental experiment was “to demonstrate the absurdity of this situation, since the special properties of quantum mechanics usually disappear on a macroscopic scale. The quantum properties of a complete cat cannot be demonstrated in a laboratory experiment.” However, since these researchers were successful in demonstrating that the very strange properties of the quantum world can also be seen in a larger system, none of this is so clear. This explains very well people like Anthony Leggett Because, although “a macroscopic system composed of numerous pairs of Cooper remains many orders of magnitude smaller than a kitten”, the key of the experiment is that “there are phenomena that involve a large number of particles that, together, behave as they predict quantum mechanics.” A Nobel to kill a cat. “It would surprise you very much if the ball suddenly appeared on the other side of the wall. In quantum mechanics, this type of phenomenon is called a tunnel effect and is precisely the type of phenomenon that has given it the reputation of being strange and not very intuitive,” explained the award committee. That is precisely what these researchers showed that it could happen at the macroscopic level. But they did something else. And I do not mean to lay the foundations that have allowed us to create the technological system we know: from the transistors of the computer microchips that we see everywhere to quantum cryptography. No. I mean blurring the wall that separated the world from the very small with the world we know. Along the way, “they killed a cat”; But because of the gap they opened, one of the best science we have was sneaked. Image | Nobel Foundation In Xataka | Don’t call it “Nobel Prize,” call it “how Swedes are dynamiting current science”

Retocate a photo without inventing it. Google has succeeded and has won 10 million users

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Recently Gemini was news for the integration of a new image editor, called Nano Banana. Its great virtue is that it has achieved something that seemed impossible: finally an AI is able to make touch -ups in a photo without changing it completely. The launch has gone well to Google, who has announced that thanks to Nano Banana they have added no less than 10 million users to Gemini. The numbers. We have known it thanks to Central Androidwho echoed the last publication of Josh Woodward in X. The Vice President of Google announced that since the launch of Nano Banana on August 26, more than 200 million images have already been published and the Gemini app has won 10 million users. Woodward jokes that TPUs are burning (it refers to ‘Tensioning Processing Unit’, used in neuronal networks). The milestone The generation of images was at a very high level in which distinguish what is AI and what is not It is almost impossible. However, he was unable to make a small modification in an image without inventing things. And let’s not talk about asking him to put a text. The striking of Nano Banana is that you can add, change or remove something from a photo without changing anything else. For example we can ask to change our clothes or add a person in a photo. Viral. Artificial intelligence is already mainstream; practically everyone knows what a chatbot is and many people use it for all kinds of consultations (even As if it were his psychologist). If there is something that has contributed to the AI ​​reaches the general public, it has undoubtedly been the generation of images and the most viral case we have it with the Ghibli style photos. Although not with such an impact, during the days that Nano Banana has been available, several have been viralized Prompts like the one Turn any person or pet into an action figurine. It trembles, Photoshop. As we said, the image edition was a point that escaped the AI, but Nano Banana is able to remember and apply small modifications. At the moment Nano Banana does not reach the requirements for professional use, but if it continues to evolve it can be A great threat to image editing softwares like Photoshop. In Xataka | Cancel the adobe subscription has been hell for years. USA just denounced him

50 years ago, a man won the ‘US Dakar’ with an unusual co -pilot: his dog

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Dogs have been evolving thousands of years to become our best friends and They have a special memory When it comes to remembering our pampering. Other memories have a very short life in their head, but the safest thing is that Kookie, a mestizo dog, will remember throughout his life the adventures he had with John McCown, his owner. Because they did not give normal walks through the park: they toured the motorcycle desert competing in official tests. And Kookie was not the package: it was the co -pilot. The strange couple. Imagine The scenetoday impossible due to so straight regulations, the era of telemetrías, the absolute control of each extra gram in a competition vehicle and the most absolute technification: a dog uploaded on the deposit of a motorcycle, which competed in official tests and was moving based on the land they were going through. In the 60s, the carnicero by profession John McCown liked to walk with his bike. He did it accompanied by Kookie, his dog, who placed a back basket. At one point, John was going to go one step further: he bought an off -road motorcycle and began to get into his head that could compete in Cross competitions. He did so, and did not leave Kookie behind. My dog ​​knows how to wear the motorcycle. Instead of a basket, John improvised a “seat” with a blanket on the gas tank of his Husky 400 and OSSA 175 SDRand that is where Kookie felt like fish in the water. I imagine that the dog would be waiting for good doses of bones at the end of the day and that was the motivation, but the truth is that I was not there to make bulk: John and Kookie trusted each other to wear the motorcycle. During about 300 tests, the couple ate hundreds of potholes, swallowed dust and crossed puddles while both adapted their position on the vehicle to tame it in the best possible way. In This article From the American Motorcyclist magazine, McCown’s wife, McCown Describe That Kookie bowed to the curves, leaned on the deposit in the rugged field and stood up when potholes came. A bomb. Both executed a choreography on the motorcycle, and although at first they did not do it as an advertising maneuver, it is evident that it caught the attention of many. They appeared in the documentary movie ‘On Any Sunday‘, Kookie starred in children’s books such as’ Kookie the Motorcycle Racing Dog’ and ‘Kookie Rides Again’ and even brands like Ossa, Can-Am and Kawasaki the They sponsored. Kookie Junior. When Kookie got on the motorcycle, she was 10 years old. Hundreds of races later, and with 13, after a check, McCown preferred that his compi would limit to some shorter and less demanding races. Until 14, when John decided that Kookie should hang the helmet and live on the couch. He died at age 16, but as John remembers in the 1981 article, before leaving he left a litter. One of them was baptized as Kookie Junior, and for 10 years, he ran with John as Kookie had done before. They got some off-road championship (such as the 175cc class championship) and, although some wondered if it was not crazy, it was a friendship that benefited both of them for fun and for the company in the long and hard careers for the western American deserts. To the hall of fame. Such was the legend of McCown and Kookie (s) that were included In the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame, an organization and museum dedicated to preserving the history of motorcycle races in ‘Flat Track’ and ‘Speedway’, recognizing both the pilots and the mechanics, personalities and influential journalists in that world. “Kookie learned to read the terrain, leaning back in the rugged and standing at the most smooth. John could always know what came ahead because of the way Kookie moved.” – Description of the “plaque” of the Hot Shoe Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, that recognition is something that John did not live. McCown He died In 2011 due to complications after cardiac operation. On the other side, surely Kookie and KJ were waiting for him, with the engine on and ready for one more adventure. Images | McCown, Race DezertAmerican Motorcyclist In Xataka | “With head, we would all go on motorcycles of 20 hp”: there is a bud debate about how much power is too much power for a motorcycle

It is that others have won 102.00 billion

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Since Elon Musk snatched Bernard Arnault The richest person title in the world, the South African millionaire has remained in that position retaining a considerable difference with respect to second place. The high point of his fortune It was recorded after Donald Trump’s electoral victory, when Musk’s heritage broke the roof of the 432,000 million dollars overcoming all records. However, in 2025 his financial empire is going through one of the greatest falls in its recent history. Musk has lost 80,000 million of dollars of your assets so far this year. Paradoxically, the reason that made him reach the peak of his fortune, is the same as can make it lose His status as a richest man in the world: consequences of his passage through politics. According to him Bloomberg Millionaire Index At present it is estimated that your heritage is around 357,000 million dollars. It may seem unattainable fortune, but other technological titans such as Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg step on their heels driven by the rise of Investments in AI. Tesla’s falls and its impact on Musk’s fortune Musk’s relationship with Tesla has become a Roller Financial Mountain. In it Second quarter of 2025the company experienced A fall 12% in their income, reaching 22,496 million dollars. In addition, the net profit of the company suffered a decrease of 16%, placing 1,172 million dollars in that period. The Tesla problems They have been so notorious that the trust of their shareholders has also resent And its price has dropped 20% so far this year, after 2024 It would almost double and the company will reach a maximum stock market capitalization of 1.4 billion dollars. These fluctuations have made Musk’s fortune, with Tesla as the main source of income, has lost more than 80,000 million dollars. Some master moves that Musk It has taken out of the sleeve They have caused their personal fortune not to bleed at the same rate as the capitalization of Tesla. An example was the Purchase of X by XAIElon Musk’s company. With this movement, the millionaire made a financial trilero changing x pocket To increase capitalization of Xai and diluting accumulated losses By X. Musk’s relay The US economy is suffering a situation truly complicated Making bobbin by the constant regulatory bands for Trump’s tariff war, its commercial balance and the wars of Gaza and Ukraine. All that instability has turned stock markets into little less than a lottery in which a few days are obtained Milmillionaire gains And the next one is lost Everything achieved. In that context, Musk is not the only one who has suffered a serious Varapalo in his fortune. Jeff Bezos, for example, went from being the second richest person in the world at the beginning of the year to occupy the fourth, and Bill Gates, A historical In the first positions of this list, has fallen to the fifteenth put in recent months. However, a determining factor by which Elon Musk could cease to be the richest person in the world in the coming months does not depend so much on their financial movements or the quotes of their companies, but on how good they are going To others. Larry Ellison, for example, is following the reverse path that Musk. Oracle, the company that founded, has not stopped earning money with the infrastructure of servers in which IA models are developed. Only in 2025, the New York millionaire has increased its fortune by 102,000 million dollars, unseatting Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to place itself as the second greatest fortune in the world. Today, just under 60,000 million separate Musk and Ellison in the competition for the throne of the world’s greatest fortune. It is a barbarity of money, but with the rhythm at which losses and benefits of new companies and quoteda bad afternoon and Musk would lose his throne in favor of his good friend Larry Ellison. In Xataka | How much money Elon Musk has: how the fortune of the man who plans the colonization of Mars from a social network is distributed Image | Flickr (Haddad average)

The figures of ‘El Hormiguero’ certify who won the war with ‘La Revuelta’

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A few weeks ago we certified that An undisputed winner in the conflict of the access that kept us in suspense for months (El Hormiguero vs. The revolt). Now we can talk about something less subjective, more quantifiable with figures: income and benefits that the Motorcycle Program on Antena 3 has receivedand another conclusion is drawn on the horizon. Actually, the shock with Broncano has come great. The accounts. Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador, owners of producer 7 and Action, which performs the program for Atresmedia, have had benefits of 8.05 million euros that will be distributed as shareholders of the company, 60% more than the previous year. The 6.7 million benefit has also been very slightly higher than that of 2024. And there are also 5% in revenue, which this year have reached 32.9 million. The producer had already entered 2024 8.5% more than in the previous year, and had experienced a 55% growth. We can even go back back in time to verify the undisputed success of the producer for years: already in 2021, 7 and there were action distributed eight million euros between its only two shareholders (and four in 2022). This year that astronomical distribution figure of dividends is recovered, which certifies the good health of ‘El Hormiguero’ in a year that seemed complicated. How money is distributed. The dividends of 7 and action are distributed to 50% between their two partners. Motos does it through Japala Japala and Jorge Salvador through Primetime Production. In addition, both receive 100,000 euros as administrators of the common company. It is an association of great success that has led to ‘El Hormiguero’ to lead the ranking of The most seen in Antena 3 in the last 11 yearsalready exceeding half of The 19 it has in Antena. Against Broncano. Behind him premiere in September of ‘La Revuelta’his rivalry with ‘El Hormiguero’ put in trouble more than one day the hegemony of motorcycles, with Broncano anticipating him in audience on more than one occasion and, of course, generating a styles shock that moved to social networks and continuous allusions from the programs. In fact, 2024 ended ‘La Revuelta’ Gaining slightly ‘El Hormiguero’with more days as a hearing leader. However, Motos seemed to return with renewed energies after the Christmas break. Broncano experienced a small wear effect, and although its program is far from being a failuresince it generates conversation and plant very dignity to ‘El Hormiguero’, it remains (at least until its return after summer) in an honorable second position. Without advertising there is no benefit. It is obvious that in terms of fame or audience (which can be quantified from many points of view) the triumph of ‘El Hormiguero’ is relative, but it is not in benefits: Formwork Encofrassa, the producer of David Broncano, Jorge Ponce and Ricardo Castella, stays far behind motorcycles and Salvador. According to the Mercantile Registry, the business figure in 2023 of the producer – last registered year – was 2.5 million and obtained a benefit of 215,000 euros. These are figures prior to the premiere of ‘La Revuelta’, but already made ‘the resistance’ in Movistar Plus+. In addition, when issuing in La1, ‘La Revuelta’ does not have advertising or can make promotions with the same freedom as El Hormiguero, so the benefits will be substantially lower than those of its rival in any case. Unexpected effect. Views these figures, you cannot speak of the effect of ‘El Hormiguero’, which has remained faithful to its usual codes, aware of what its audience is looking for. Guests such as Carlos Alcaraz, Antonio Banderas, Karla Sofía Gascón, Raphael, Laura Pausini or Illia Topuria and Marc Márquez, and collaborators such as Juan Ibáñez, Damián Mollá, Luis Piedrahita, Nuria Roca, Tamara Falcó, Juan del Val or Susi Caramelo have delineated a completely continuous season. An intelligent play, taking into account that advertising income has not resent the least. ‘El Hormiguero’ continues to reign at the gates of its twentieth anniversary. Header | Atresmedia In Xataka | The motorcycle and broncano clash honors a long television custom: that of the presenters wars

A quick look at the ten best -selling car brands in the world offers a dramatic conclusion: China has already won

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17.29 million. That is the amount of electric cars and plug -in hybrids that, according to Autovista24they were sold last year. Suppose we take all those cars and reduce them to ten. What brands would be the most popular? Surely, don’t surprise us to find Tesla, Byd or BMW, but what will get attention is that of those ten cars that we have in front, six are Chinese. Of course, it has all the meaning of the world. The cast. According to the data of EV volumeslast year the electric cars represented 62.5% of the total electrified vehicles sold globally. PHEV, AKA plug -in hybrids, 37.5%. It is a sensitive change compared to the previous year, when the percentages were 69.3% and 30.7%, respectively. Why does an electric car have less autonomy than the announcing The list. The crown, of course, is for China byd with a 22.2% market share. It follows, and from afar, Tesla with 10.3%. It is the maximum exponent of the Western electric car, since BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz just add up to 8% between the three. The rest of the brands are from China, as reflected in the graph shared by Rest of the World: Global Electric Car market share | Image: Rest of the World Normal. That China leads this ranking is completely normal, especially if we take into account that, So far this year58.1% of electric car records and 70.1% of plug -in hybrids have been in China. In the United States, which is the second country in the ranking, the figures are 9.5% and 5.2%, respectively. Spain does not appear in the electric cars ranking, but in hybrids with 1.6%. China had, and has everything necessary to eat the electric car market. Has a government that offers incentives for adoptioneconomic resources that They are invested in high -level infrastructure, competitive prices derived from the two above factors, supply chains and, something important, The production of about 80% of lithium batteries. International expansion. The most obvious success case is that of Byd, which in just a few years He has managed to overcome Tesla In sales. In China, meanwhile, Tesla is the third best selling brand with a 5.9% share. Byd dominates with a 31.4% quota followed, very far from Wuling (6%). The next natural step was, of course, expanding to the rest of the world and that happens, in the first instance, through Europe. The company’s idea is that 50% of its sales come from our market, which is why it wants to establish factories in Hungary and Türkiye. Other brands such as Omoda, Jaecoo and Mg They have also opted strong for our borders. Best -selling electric cars worldwide | Image: Highway24 The best selling is still Tesla, but … The photo changes even more if we look The best -selling electric cars listbecause on that list only one brand competes (and strong) against China: Tesla. Elon Musk’s signature stays with gold and silver thanks to his Tesla Model and and Model 3that so far this year have been the best -selling Bevs. All others are signed by Chinese brands, highlighting Byd, Geely and, curiously, Xiaomi, whose Xiaomi Su7 It has been the sixth best -selling electric car of the year. Cover image | Byd In Xataka | The 35 cheapest electric cars that can be purchased (2025)

China has already won the nuclear energy career to the US and Russia. And he has done it thanks to a avant -garde reactor

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China’s nuclear program was born in the 50s of the last century. The cold war held by the US and the Soviet Union had incited these two countries to Develop your nuclear arsenal With a shocking speed, and Mao Zedong, the co -founder and leader of the Communist Party of China, decided to ask the Soviet Union for help for launch your own nuclear plan. In 1955 this cooperation allowed China to build its first floor of Uranium-235 and Plutonium productionand also supported the foundation of the National Nuclear Corporation of China (CNC). Only four years later, in 1959, the Soviet Union ended the collaboration with China in nuclear technology. This decision was a very hard setback for the country led by Mao Zedong, who embarked on A career towards self -sufficient in the development of nuclear energy. However, China’s plan prospered very slowly during the next three decades. The first nuclear power plant designed and built entirely by China, the Qinshan plant, was successfully connected to the electricity network on December 15, 1991. At that time China could not rival at all with The development of nuclear technology that had reached the US and the almost extinct Soviet Union. In 2002 China only had two nuclear centrals in operation. Today has no less than 58 nuclear reactors in activity. Only US has more (94). During the last two decades China’s civil and military nuclear program It has advanced with a vertiginous speed, but the most important thing is not the number of reactors that it currently has in operation: the really differential thing is that it has been placed At the forefront in nuclear technology. China leads thanks to its nuclear reactor of molten salts and Torio The TMSR-LF1 reactor officially entered into operation on October 11, 2023. A few months later, on June 17, 2024, he began working at full power. And on October 8 of last year the technicians who operate it detected protacinium-233 (PA-233), a radioactive isotope intermediate derived from the transformation of the thorium into Uranium-233 as part of the fuel cycle of the thorium. This nuclear reactor is in the Minqin industrial complex of the province of Gansu, in northern China. It has a power of 2 thermal megawatts (MWT), and, although it will not be the first Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactor in activity, and neither the first one that Torio will use as fuel, yes It will be the first of molten salts that will use this chemical element. However, the ambition of this Asian country does not end here; It is already planning to build a molten salts and torium reactor of more capacity for 2030, although China is not the only country that bets on this technology. China plans to build a molten salts and torio reactor of more capacity for 2030 The US, France or India are some of those who have also invested in research programs that pursue the development of nuclear reactors capable of generating electricity from the thorium. India’s in particular is interesting because it aims to demonstrate the viability of fuel cycles based on thorium in the context of its advanced heavy water reactor project. This technology is still far from being adopted in a generalized way, but its advantages closely link it to the future of nuclear energy. Our planet brings together approximately 12 million tons of thorium, so this chemical element is three times more abundant In the earth’s cortex that Uranium used as fuel in the current nuclear centrals. The largest deposits reside in China, Brazil, Canada, Australia, USA, Greenland, Russia, Norway, South Africa and Venezuela, although prospects reflect that the country that Torio has is precisely one of the ones that is investing most in the development of reactors capable of using it: India. Another point in your favor is that it is as easy to extract as uranium, but it has the inconvenience that it is not directly physable. It is necessary to introduce it into a reactor that manufactures uranium from Torio, and what it produces is not uranium-235, it is Uranium-233, but the important thing is that it is physable. Once this uranium has occurred, it can be introduced into a conventional reactor like those we have in Spain, which could not work with Torio, but with a derivative of that element. In addition, experts say that molten salts nuclear reactors are safer than reactors installed in the nuclear power plants that are currently in operation. Experts say that molten salts nuclear reactors are safer than reactors installed in the nuclear power plants that are currently in operation Two of the reasons are that they use as a refrigerant lithium fluoride and beryllium at a very low pressure, and the fuel remains dissolved in the form of salt, so it is very unlikely that an accident could trigger the fusion of the reactor’s core. Another quality of these reactors that are worth not overlooking is that Its architecture allows them to be installed undergroundwhich, again, increases your safety. But this is not all. Another peculiar and positive feature of these reactors is that they allow to recharge the fuel while remaining in operation. And, in addition, the fact that they do not need water to maintain the refrigerated nucleus allows them to be installed in regions in which water is scarce, or, simply, in areas where there is no river and are not close to the sea. This is one of the reasons why China is investing in the development of this technology as a means to build fourth generation nuclear power plants in the most remote and arid regions of the country. It is also worth not overlooking that Radioactive waste They generate have a much shorter semi -grid period than that of the residues of the reactors that use uranium, which logically facilitates their management. And, in addition, the folk salts reactors They use less fuel Because the efficiency of the thorium is much higher than … Read more

Ferrari has won on land, but now points to the ocean. His new challenge is a ship that works without a drop of fuel

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Ferrari has already conquered the circuits. Now he wants to do the same in the ocean. Its new project has no wheels, nor ailerons, nor a V12 engine. Is called Hypersail And it is a Monohull of regattasalthough that description barely scratches the surface. The Italian brand has decided to build an extreme boat, designed to challenge resistance and engineering. The challenge is not less: to create a 100 -foot monoccasco that literally rises on water, driven only by renewable energies. Without a drop of fuel. A brand that is no longer limited to asphalt For decades, Ferrari has been synonymous with competition, engineering and prestige. Its history has been written in the most demanding paths and in the most select garages in the world. But times are changing. The brand continues to manufacture sports cars, yes, but it is also expanding its playing field. Today Ferrari not only innovates in his vehicles, he also does it in his strategy. Part of that evolution It has to do with the public. The Z and millennial generation They already suppose 40 % of their new buyers. They are younger customers, interested in design and technology, but also in impact and sustainability. And Ferrari is adapting. In that context, Hypersail It does not seem to be a whim or a marketing maneuver. It can be a way to apply everything learned in the asphalt to a different environment, although later also carrying that experience obtained in the water to their cars. Ferrari describes Hypersail Like a floating laboratory. And it is not an exaggeration. The boat, designed by the Naval Architect Guillaume Verdier and directed by the navigator Giovanni SoldiniIt has little to do with a conventional ship. Its structure is designed to keep the helmet out of the water by means of three support points: a foil coupled to a tilting keel, another in the rudder and one side that acts alternately. This provision Reduces friction to a minimum and literally allows “flying” on the waves. The most radical aspect of the project is not seen with the naked eye: it does not carry a combustion engine. All the energy necessary for its operation – from the control of hydraulic systems to navigation computers – is generated on board while sailing. The source is exclusively renewable: solar, wind and kinetic. It is not just about installing panels or captors, but of redesigning each system to be as efficient as possible. There are no hidden generators or plans B. According to the company itself, for many, this combination of total autonomy and oceanic navigation It seemed unfeasible. Ferrari wants to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible. Ferrari not only contributes his name, he actively participates in development. The equipment has applied to the sailboat many of the tools already used in its cars: aerodynamic simulation, advanced structural calculations and a flight control system adapted to the marine environment. That joint work has already resulted in nine patents, with another six in preparation. The ship reacts in real time to sea conditions, adjusting its position as a racing car would make it trace a curve. According to Ferrari, the development of Hypersail is also contributing to the evolution of its sports. The company has not specified specific models, but this technological approach would fit with its current hyper -sports linelike him Ferrari F80a hybrid of 1,200 hp called to continue what Enzo and Laferrari left. Hypersail It is not a finished product. It is an idea under construction. His assembly has already begun in Italy and the launch is scheduled for 2026. For now, Ferrari has shared very few images of the project, and everything indicates that we will have to wait to see more details of its development. Until then, the sailboat will continue to evolve as an open innovation platform. Images | Ferrari In Xataka | In Australia they already have the ‘infinite train’. To batteries, without catenary and unlimited autonomy, but with a great asterisk

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