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Jeff Bezos’ superyacht is one of the largest and most expensive in the world. Now it is for sale for a curious reason: parking

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At more than 127 meters in length, Jeff Bezos’ superyacht is one of the largest in the world. In fact, it is so big that even caused some problems to its Dutch builder when he was trying to take it out to sea from the shipyards. The ship was so large that it did not pass under a bridge, over which it was even considered disassembling it. It was just the first of the problems that Jeff Bezos was going to have with the size of his ship. According to advanced Page Sixnow the millionaire would be considering putting the Koru up for sale. The reason has nothing to do with the price or its maintenance. The problem is that the boat is so big that it doesn’t fit almost anywhere, and wherever it manages to get in, everyone instantly recognizes it. A huge boat with a price to match. The Koru is a three-masted schooner more than 70 meters high. built by the Dutch shipyard Oceanco and delivered to Bezos in April 2023. At 127 meters in length, it was for a time the second largest sailboat in the world and is currently among the largest in its category. In fact, it is so big that when it approaches Miami, Jeff Bezos’ usual place of residence since his move in 2025, the luxury sailboat must moor. along with large cargo ships and oil tankers because it doesn’t fit in the nearby marinas. Its construction cost around 500 million dollars and is accompanied by a support ship called Abeona, valued at another 75 million dollars. According to calculations of Robb Reportkeeping both vessels in operation costs about $30 million a year. Practically pocket change for someone who could spend a million dollars a day and still it would take more than 548 years in ruining. The problem: parking. According to a source close to the millionaire consulted by Page SixBezos considers that the yacht has become “too big to manage.” But it’s not just about the size: the Koru has become so popular thanks to its owner, that it is impossible to maintain privacy where it anchors. Hide a sailboat the size of a ten-story building off the coast it is not a simple task. One of the drawbacks of the Koru’s size is that, for example, the millionaire could not even get close to it. the marina of Monte Carlo during the last Monaco Grand Prix, a sporting event in which millionaires watch the cars pass by without even getting off their yacht. The Koru, on the other hand, had to settle for remaining anchored far from the moorings and use a small boat to get to land due to its enormous proportions. Something similar happened during the celebrations prior to the Jeff Bezos’s wedding and Lauren Sánchez in Venice, where the Koru had to remain anchored in the middle of the Venetian lagoon because it didn’t fit at the moorings near Venice. A sale without an official price and many unknowns. At the moment the sale has not been confirmed by any intermediary or by the founder of Amazon himself, and it is also not clear if the Abeona support ship will be part of the sale agreement. What does seem certain is that Jeff Bezos could be tired of all the inconveniences involved in operating a boat of that size, and would be considering buying a somewhat more discreet and manageable superyachtwhich does not cause so many “parking” problems. In Xataka | We already knew that superyachts were floating mansions: Roman Abramovich’s is a fortress with an anti-missile shield Image | Oceanco, Smithsonian

We have done the math and this is the cheapest way to watch all 104 World Cup matches on DAZN

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There is just over a month left until the event finally begins. soccer world cup. It’s time for the same thing as every four years: see how and where we can get tired of watching games. It is true that we will have free games both on DTT as in YouTubebut the bulk of the 104 matches We can only see them on DAZN. Let’s do calculations and see what is the cheapest way to see the entire competition. Two months ‘Made in USA’ + the entire Soccer World Cup The price could vary. We earn commission from these links 19.99 euros to watch the World Cup, but there is a “trick” Let’s go in parts. As we mentioned a little above, DAZN announced just a few days ago that the entire World Cup (that is, the 104 matches) will have a price of 19.99 euros. If we look back, This is exactly what the Qatar World Cup in 2022 cost at the timewhere the same platform broadcast its 64 matches. A priori it sounds good (same price for 40 more games), but the reality is that it is going to cost us more. Because? Very simple: we cannot only contract the World Cup, but also We have to be subscribed to one of the DAZN plans. The only exception to this is the Premium plan, which includes the World Cup for free. What happens is that this plan has a price of 25.99 euros per month with a 12-month stay or 44.99 euros per month without a stay. That is, we would be paying almost 90 euros to see the World Cup in this way. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Luckily, we can access the 104 games in a much more economical way. The “play” is to contract the most economical plan that DAZN has (called ‘Made in USA’) and add the World Cup to this. To make everything more visual, let’s break down the prices: ‘Made in USA’ Plan: We can contract this plan for 4.99 euros per month with a 12-month stay or for 7.99 euros without a stay. Since we are interested in paying as little as possible, the best option is the latter. World Cup 2026: The price of this plan is, as we have said before, 19.99 euros in total. Single payment. Total: As the competition starts on June 11 and ends on July 19, we have to subscribe to ‘Made in USA’ for two months (in addition to the 19.99 euros that the World Cup package costs). Therefore, we would pay a total of 35.97 euros to see the 104 games. ‘Made in USA’ plan without permanence The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Three things to keep in mind. The first is that the ‘Made in USA’ plan includes competitions such as the NBA, the NFL or NASCAR. The other is that these accounts are valid if we subscribe in the month of June, since if we subscribe right now we will be paying for one more month. And the last thing is that DAZN requires a 30-day notice to unsubscribesomething to also keep in mind to avoid paying more. ⚡ IN SUMMARY: watch the entire World Cup on Dazn ✅ THE BEST There are 104 games: It is the World Cup with the most matches in history, quite a spectacle for those of us who like football. You can watch the matches on the device you want: DAZN has an app for both mobile phones and tablets, computers or TVs. ❌ THE WORST Higher price than the last World Cup: It is true that there are many more matches, but the price is also almost double. It forces you to hire something that you may not want: Having to sign up for a plan on DAZN should be optional and not mandatory. 💡 SUBSCRIBE IF… You like football and you want to see all the World Cup matches, regardless of which team is playing. ⛔ DO NOT SUBSCRIBE IF… You don’t want to have to subscribe to another platform or you are only interested in the games that Spain plays. For that, DTT is fine for you. You may also be interested XIAOMI TV F 65, 65 Inch (165 cm), 4K UHD, Smart TV, Fire OS8, Alexa Voice Control, HDR10, MEMC, Game Boost Mode 120Hz, 2GB+32GB, Compatible with Apple AirPlay The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL 65V6C Television 65 Inch 4K Smart LED TV, HDR, Google TV, Dolby Audio, Alexa and Google Assistant, Chromecast Built-in, Motion Clarity The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | DAZN In Xataka | The best streaming platforms 2026 | Comparison of Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, Filmin, Apple TV, SkyShowtime and Rakuten TV: catalog, functions and prices In Xataka | How to add all the World Cup matches directly to your calendar

Japan has just crossed a line that it has not crossed since World War II. China has responded with supersonic missiles

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At the beginning of the 20th century, during the battle of tsushimathe Russian imperial fleet took more than seven months to circle half the planet to confront Japan. The result was so disastrous and fast that several powers suddenly understood an idea: in the Asia-Pacific, controlling the sea could decide the global balance long before a total war began. Supersonic missiles off the US and Japan. It we count last week. The South China Sea is becoming a huge military board where Beijing wants to make it clear that it is willing to answer directly to any attempt to surround its area of ​​influence. While the United States, the Philippines and Japan develop the largest Balikatan maneuvers of recent years, China has now responded by sending H-6 bombers armed with YJ-12 supersonic missilesJ-16 fighters equipped with anti-ship missiles and several naval groups around Luzon and Scarborough Shoal. The message is difficult to ignore: Beijing wants to show that it can deploy air and naval force heavy right in front of a military bloc led by Washington and Tokyo without abandoning the initiative in the region. Already looks like a war rehearsal around Taiwan. The Balikatan maneuvers have changed enormously in recent years. What were once relatively conventional exercises between the United States and the Philippines have morphed into focused simulations in maritime settingsattacks against major adversaries and possible conflicts around Taiwan and the South China Sea. The full participation of Japanese forces and the presence of ships from Australia and Canada reflect the extent to which Washington is trying to build a regional network capable of responding to China in the event of a crisis. Beijing interprets it as a direct threatespecially since several of these maneuvers take place near routes and positions that China considers essential to protect its access to the Pacific. Japan has crossed a symbolic line. A few hours ago one of the movements that most irritated Beijing during the maneuvers took place, and it was not only the American presence, but the increasingly active role of Japan. for the first time since World War IIJapanese forces launched abroad a Type 88 anti-ship missile during military exercises in the Philippines, something that China interprets as a clear sign of Japanese “remilitarization.” Although the missile can be used for defensive purposesBeijing considers that deploying this type of weaponry outside Japanese territory breaks part of pacifist logic that Tokyo maintained for decades after 1945. Furthermore, the context further aggravates the tension: Washington also fired Tomahawk missiles from the Philippines using the Typhon systemcapable of hitting targets hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away, potentially including mainland China itself. For Beijing, the image is disturbing because it reflects how Japan, the Philippines and the United States are beginning to rehearse together a scenario where the Pacific island chains could be transformed into advanced attack platforms and military containment against China. Two armed H-6 bombers fly over Scarborough Reef in an attempt by Beijing to show its superiority to Manila and its allies amid the Balikatan maneuvers and territorial disputes H-6 bombers are no longer simple propaganda. Chinese bomber flights over Scarborough Shoal have become relatively commonbut this time the important detail was the weapons. The H-6 appeared with a greater load of YJ-12 supersonic missiles, specifically designed to attack large ships and naval groups. At the same time, J-16 fighters They escorted the deployment while Chinese ships closely followed the multinational flotilla led by the United States and the Philippines. In other words, Beijing is using these exercises to show something very concrete: in a hypothetical regional conflict, it would try saturate and keep away US naval forces using massive quantities of anti-ship missiles launched from land, aircraft and ships. China is surrounding the Philippines with layers of military pressure. Beyond the bombers, China deployed the combat group of the Liaoning aircraft carrier and various armed surface groups with Type 055 destroyersconsidered some of the most powerful ships in the Chinese Navy. One of these groups carried out live fire exercises east of Luzon, precisely in areas that the United States and the Philippines are studying as possible reinforcement routes in the event of war. The Chinese strategic idea is increasingly evident: convert the Philippine maritime environment into a extremely dangerous area for any US attempt to move troops, supplies or reinforcements towards Taiwan or the South China Sea. Naval warfare is changing because of drones. While showcasing bombers and aircraft carriers, China is also accelerating the adaptation of its navy to a threat that has transformed recent conflicts such as Ukraine or attacks in the Middle East: the drones. In fact, Beijing has just presented a new naval antidrone system capable of intercepting stealth and very low altitude attacks in complex electronic warfare environments. The tests carried out in the Bohai Sea show the extent to which the Chinese Navy assumes that future naval confrontations will not depend only on large ships and missiles, but also on enormous swarms of drones capable of harassing or destroying much more expensive ships. The China Sea is filling with signs. The bomber combination with supersonic missilesnext-generation destroyers, aircraft carriers, artificial bases and anti-drone systems reflects something deeper than simple military exercises. China is preparing an environment where any US intervention around Taiwan or the Philippines would be extremely complexsaturated with aerial, maritime and electronic threats. And the most significant thing is that it is no longer just about propaganda displays: Beijing is testing in the field how to coordinate all those capabilities against real forces from the United States, Japan and their allies in one of the most tense regions on the planet. Image | CCTV In Xataka | The YJ-20 has just entered the scene at the most delicate moment: China has launched its hypersonic missile against the US and Japan In Xataka | China is beating the US with a simple strategy: manufacturing hypersonic missiles at the price of a Tesla

has just opened its warehouse and delivery network to any company in the world

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For decades, Amazon has built its business one of the most powerful distribution infrastructures on the planet, one that allows its workers to ship products anywhere in the world extremely efficiently. Now he is going to make it available to any business that wants to use it. global network. amazon has announced the launch of Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a service with which any company, not just its marketplace sellers, will be able to access its global logistics network. Transport by sea, air, road and rail; warehouses; distribution centers; and last mile delivery: all under one umbrella and available for companies in all types of sectors, whether healthcare, automotive, manufacturing or retail, among others. Why does it matter? Amazon has a fleet of more than one hundred cargo planes, only behind FedEx and UPS, thousands of warehouses and sorting centers around the world, and its own last-mile delivery service. In fact, according to data from ShipMatrix, this parcel service is already the largest in the United States by volume, ahead of UPS, FedEx and the US Postal Service. What changes now is that all that capacity, previously reserved for its own sellers and internal operations, is formally opened to the market. Likewise, the movement turns Amazon into a gigantic logistics operator, what is known in the sector as 3PL (third-party logistics provider) and places it in direct competition with giants such as DHL, Kuehne + Nagel or DSV. According to data From the consulting firm Armstrong & Associates, it is estimated that this global market moves more than 1.3 trillion dollars. The parallelism with AWS. In 2006, the company took the technological infrastructure it had built to run its own business and began selling it to third parties. This is how Amazon Web Services was borntoday the largest cloud service provider in the world. Now try to replicate that model with logistics. “Amazon brings the infrastructure, intelligence and scale of its decades-proven supply chain services to businesses around the world, just as Amazon Web Services did with cloud computing,” counted Peter Larsen, vice president of Amazon Supply Chain Services, in the company’s official statement. Variety of services. According to the company, ASCS offers services divided into four large blocks: Transportation of goods (sea, air, land and rail freight). Distribution and storage with automated inventory forecasting. Preparation and shipping of orders through any sales channel, including rival platforms such as Walmart, Shopify, Shein or TikTok. Parcel delivery with deadlines of between two and five days, seven days a week. A blow to the sector. Following the news, FedEx and UPS shares fell more than 9% each after the announcement, while GXO Logistics plummeted around 13% and DHL lost 7.3%. For these companies it is a direct competitive blow, and according to analysts from the Baird firm, the impact could also extend to air and maritime cargo transport operators. With this blow on the table, another of the threatened segments is business-to-business (B2B) logistics, a niche with a high profit margin where UPS and FedEx have been focusing all these years. Between the lines. Beyond the competitive threat, Amazon seeks to monetize an infrastructure that already exists and in which it has been investing for almost thirty years. The company was already according to Armstrong & Associatesthe world’s largest logistics operator by gross revenue in 2025, although its services were sold in a fragmented manner and without a unified proposition for external clients. “They have warehousing operations, transportation management, and international air and sea freight, but they did not have a coordinated sale like 3PL, although together they are already the largest,” counted Evan Armstrong, CEO of Armstrong & Associates, told the Wall Street Journal. Customer data. Opening the network to external companies raises a question: what does Amazon do with the information of its logistics clients? The company has already been accused in the past of using data from sellers in its marketplace to compete against them, something it has always denied. Larsen assures told the WSJ that Amazon explicitly prohibits using ASCS customer data to make decisions in its own marketplace, citing the fact that hundreds of thousands of sellers already use its logistics services for channels outside of Amazon. Cover image | Garakhan Safarli and Claudio Schwarz In Xataka | What is the cheapest Amazon device you can use Alexa+ on?

In 2014 it was inaugurated as the largest solar thermal power plant in the world. 12 years later they want to close it after incinerating birds

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The huge Ivanpah solar thermal power plant, opened in 2014 in the Mojave Desert, was almost closed after just 11 years of operation. An end accelerated by its history of technical, economic and environmental problems that, however, was paralyzed in January of this year after the agreement of all those involved. Context. Concentrated solar thermal energy, once considered one of the most cutting-edge technologies for clean electricity generation, is not going through its best moment. Especially in Nevada, where the Crescent Dunes fiasco was already very public. The concentrating solar thermal system uses thousands of mirrors, or “heliostats”, that follow the path of the sun to concentrate its light on central towers. In these towers, the extreme heat is used to heat water and produce steam, which drives turbines connected to electrical generators. The Ivanpah case. The Ivanpah plant was built with an investment of $1.6 billion in loans from the U.S. Department of Energy and long-term contracts from major electric companies. It was the largest solar thermal power plant in the world until the inauguration of Port Augusta in Australia. 11 years after its inauguration, the enormous solar thermal plant began to close after failing to meet its initial expectations. The lack of profitability condemned it, at least a priori. A succession of rulings and complaints from environmental groups about its impact on wildlife accelerated its end, approved by the US Department of Energy. Continuity. However, the decision was reversed in January 2026 by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Ivanpah will remain open. Their argument is that uncertainty in federal renewable energy policies forces us to prioritize the reliability of the current electricity supply. In addition, the commission seeks to prevent the enormous investment in infrastructure already made from being lost, despite the high operating costs and the serious environmental impact on local fauna. The measure ignores the previous agreement between the companies to close the plant and save money for users. A priori, it will remain open until its contract expires in 2039. A complex technology. One of the main problems has been the difficulty of keeping the mirrors precisely aligned. The technology, which requires exact tracking of the sun, has proven to be unstable and unreliable in practice, says a CNN report. The maintenance of the complex mechanisms and the management of the turbines in turn generate high operating costs, which has caused concentrated solar thermal to lose competitiveness compared to other renewable technologies, especially photovoltaic solar, whose prices have plummeted. A bird cremation machine. The criticism is not limited to the technical aspects. The Ivanpah plant has been questioned for years for its environmental impact, especially on desert wildlife. Environmental groups denounce the irreparable damage to the habitat of species such as the desert tortoise. But also the death of birds that are incinerated by the intense rays concentrated by the mirrors. A second Crescent Dunes. The case of Crescent Dunes, also occurring in Nevada, reinforces this image of failure of solar thermal energy. This project, which was intended to be one of the milestones in innovation and energy storage using molten salts, ended up becoming a multimillion-dollar waste. Developed by the Spanish group ACSpromised continuous production of electricity, even during hours without light, thanks to thermal storage in salts. In practice, Crescent Dunes never managed to deliver the promised amount of energy and ended up going bankrupt due to engineering and management problems. In the shadow of photovoltaics. In short, the rapid fall in prices of photovoltaic technology and its lower impact on wildlife have made concentrated solar thermal obsolete. While solar panels have been gaining efficiency and reducing their installation and maintenance costs, solar thermal plants have lagged behind in terms of competitiveness, which has led investors and electricity companies to reconsider their bets on this type of projects. In Xataka | The first central tower solar plant to be commercially exploited is in Seville: a pioneer that has survived other more ambitious ones In Xataka | Chile has one of the most valuable skies on Earth. Renewables are putting it on the ropes In Xataka | China’s largest solar park is doing much more than generating energy: it’s greening a desert Image | Pexels

Mythos has struck fear into governments around the world. That’s why Spain wants “early access” to see what happens

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Spain wants to have access to Claude Mythos Preview, the AI ​​model it is making shake the world. The vice president and Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, has made clear that the European Union needs “early access” to Mythos to be able to assess what vulnerabilities European financial systems have. For the minister, “Europe cannot be a second-class region.” Bad news: today, at least for the most powerful AI startups on the planet, it is. There is not only fear in the banking sector. Although the alarm was initially raised by the financial sector, the Spanish Government warns that Mythos’ ability to find “back doors” affects practically all economic sectors. We are talking about threats that extend to critical infrastructure and essential elements for the functioning of any modern country. Anthropic itself has already made its fears clear: they did not want to launch the model publicly to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. The AI ​​Act is a problem. The European AI Law was widely celebrated among Eurolegislators for being the world’s first major regulation about this technology. In reality, it has become clear that it has been a shot in the foot for EU countries, which have often seen how the most advanced AI models could not be used on our borders because they could violate this regulation or others. like DMA/DSA. This regulation forces companies to comply with strict requirements if they want to deploy especially advanced models, considered “high risk.” And Mythos is just that, so the AI ​​Act is precisely what would prevent it from being used in Europe. So they want to delay its application. Euroofficials have realized their mistake, and are now trying to buy time because technology moves (much) faster than bureaucracy. Their proposal is simple: delay until December 2027 the application of these obligations for “high risk” models like Mythos. In this way, this model could operate in Europe without having to go through these strict controls for another year and a half. Milestone or marketing maneuver? While the Eurogroup and the ECB analyze the risks with those responsible for financial supervision, in El Mundo quote to a group of critical voices who suggest that Anthropic’s maneuver could be a distraction strategy. The thesis is simple: the company has a clear computing capacity problem, and is not able to satisfy demand. Their solution: argue that Mythos is too powerful to avoid having to release it publicly, which would cause an avalanche of petitions. Coordination. Body added that in this case it is important that the request for “early access” is coordinated and comes from the EU as a block: “We Member States cannot each go on our own in an uncoordinated manner to try to access this software to this model. We need the umbrella of the Commission and a coordinated approach.” AI as a geopolitical weapon. What this has shown is that little by little access to advanced AI models is becoming a geopolitical weapon that is straining relations between Washington and Brussels. Anthropic is expanding access to Mythos to some institutions for example in the United Kingdoma traditional ally of the US. However, trade relations with Europe they are still complicatedespecially after the tariffs with which the Trump administration wanted to change the rules of the game. In Xataka | The bad news is that the EU loses out in the tariff pact with the US. The good thing is that Spain comes out relatively unscathed

The world wants to verify the age of children so that they do not access social networks. Children’s solution: paint a mustache

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The United Kingdom presume to have one of the strictest legislations in the world when it comes to protecting minors from social networks. The curious thing is that young people are managing to demonstrate that age verification technology has a unique Achilles heel: an eyebrow pencil. Look, I have a mustache. The British country has been forcing platforms to implement age verification measures in accordance with its Online Safety Act for months. However, a recent study from the NGO Internet Matters reveals that the limits imposed by these platforms are surprisingly easy to overcome. In fact, one of the methods is especially striking, because some children simply use an eyebrow pencil to paint a mustache and thus look older than they really are. Children 1 – Machines 0. This agency surveyed 1,000 children and parents in the United Kingdom and although it showed positive effects after activating these measures, it also made it clear that many children saw these systems as an easy obstacle to overcome rather than as a way to keep them safe. 46% of minors believe that the measures are easy to overcome. Only 17% believe that they are very difficult to avoid, while 19% say they do not know. Source: Internet Matters. Cheating machines is trivial. 46% of the children surveyed indicated that These age verification systems are easy to overcomeand only 17% found them difficult to avoid. There are several methods to overcome these systems, but most are simple. For example, using video game characters like ‘Death Stranding’ to show them in front of cameras trying to verify their age. Also show IDs of other people when asked, or simply use false birth dates. (At least) One in three skips the controls. But not everyone uses these methods: although the aforementioned 46% say that it is easy to overcome these systems and another 17% say that they are neither easy nor difficult, “only” 32% admit to having used some technique to overcome them. Of course, it is one thing that only 32% admit it and quite another that these figures are representative taking into account that they are confessing that they are doing something that they should not do. Methods vary, but many use fake birth dates or log in with their parents’ or siblings’ accounts. Complicit parents. The effectiveness of the Online Safety Act depends largely on the family environment, with data suggesting that at least a quarter of parents are uncooperative. The study indicates that 26% of parents have allowed their children to ignore or overcome these age verification systems, and in fact 17% admit have actively helped their children to evade these controls while 9% simply turn a blind eye. It’s not that big of a deal. Many parents justify this “help” by indicating that they understand the risks of their children accessing these platforms, but prefer to supervise the use of services such as TikTok or video games themselves. The idea: allow your children to bypass restrictions to play with friends or stream, but theoretically under your supervision. The failure of putting doors to the field. It’s not just that age verification systems are easy to overcome: The thing is that they do not eliminate risks completely either. In the Internet Matters study, almost half of the minors surveyed (49%) indicated that they had recently encountered toxic material on the Internet. This makes it clear that even children who do not try to bypass these controls still encounter inappropriate content. There are those who advocate going further and push for the end of online anonymity. Image | Jeremiah Lawrence In Xataka | The EU has just ready its app to verify age on the internet. And Ursula von der Leyen warns: “There are no more excuses”

first the Pentagon, then the rest of the world

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The United States had a maxim to win the AI ​​race: that there were no rules or limits. Politicians and regulators have turned a blind eye because what mattered was that US companies could develop the best AI models without restrictions. The problem is that some models have ended up being so good that now the US Government is beginning to fear their potential. Your easy solution: review them before anyone can use them. Is the open bar over? Donald Trump’s team is designing a plan intended to have a formal supervision process for new artificial intelligence models. Under this structure, a group of experts and government officials would analyze and review each new model and approve its launch. The implications are enormous, because the US Government would have preliminary and exclusive access to the model before its mass launch. Trump did not want restrictions on AI. Last summer, Donald Trump compared to AI with a “beautiful baby that has been born. We have to grow that baby and let it thrive. We can’t stop it. We can’t stop it with politics. We can’t stop it with absurd rules, not even stupid rules.” But he’s staying alone. This total support for AI is leaving the US president in an uncomfortable position. Both Democrats and Republicans they are worried over the risks posed by AI, and a Pew Research Center survey from last year Indian that half of all of them do not welcome how AI is increasingly used on a daily basis. Mythos as a turning point. This feeling of rejection has been growing among political groups, but fears have been reactivated especially after the launch of Claude Mythos Preview by Anthropic. The company only allowed access to the model to a small group of technology partners, claiming that it was too advanced in areas such as cybersecurity. The internal tests Of course They seemed to demonstrate their potential. Priority access. The White House wants to avoid political repercussions from a potential cyber attack created by AI, but at the same time the administration is assessing how these capabilities can be useful to the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies. Some government officials want this review system to be put in place that allows priority access to these models even if that does not block their launch. Good news for China. This type of plan has a big problem: it would slow down the development of new models and the innovation capacity of US companies compared to Chinese companies, which do not undergo this type of prior government review. And if they do, it is a problem that is not reflected in the advancement of the AI ​​models of Chinese companies, which are increasingly closer in terms of capacity to the best models of US companies. There is no more “AI czar”. These plans coincide with another unique event. In March, David Sacks, the so-called “AI czar” of the White House, left his position. He has been replaced by Susie Wiles and Scott Besset. While Sacks fully supported such a “no rules” policy for AI, both Wiles and Bessent intend to have more control over the policies that apply to AI. AI as a weapon. All events make it inevitable to compare the development of AI with the development of the atomic bomb in World War II. It was the US Government that led and controlled this technology in the past to have a definitive strategic advantage against its adversaries, and the same could happen with AI now that it is becoming a potential “cyber weapon.” In Xataka | Only a handful of US companies have access to Claude Mythos: the ECB already fears for the savings of all of Europe

In the year of the World Cup, the brand is betting everything on RGB MiniLED

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Hisense reaches 2026 playing a good part of its range on a single card: the RGB MiniLED. The Chinese brand has renewed everything your television catalog and has presented it to society exactly where it should be done in 2026: at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, the same year in which the entire world will be glued to a screen watching the World Cup. This movement is not coincidental. According to Omdia data provided by Hisensethe manufacturer ranks second in the world in total television sales and first in the 100-inch or larger segment between 2023 and 2025. From that position, the brand has designed a catalog that ranges from a 116-inch giant to the most affordable models with MiniLED, through two high-end series that are going to be a lot to talk about in 2026. 116 UX RGB MiniLED Evo UR9 UR8 panel RGB MiniLED Evo (4th subpixel cyan), VA, 4K UHD, 8-bit + FRC RGB MiniLED VA 4K UHD, 8 bits + FRC, 180 Hz and 16:9 RGB MiniLED VA 4K UHD, 8 bits + FRC, 180 Hz and 16:9 resolution 3,840 x 2,160 points 3,840 x 2,160 points 3,840 x 2,160 points size 116 inches 65″,75″,85″ 55″, 65″, 75″, backlight RGB MiniLED Evo, FALD up to 8,000 nits, 3,584 dimming zones RGB MiniLED FALD, up to 4,000 nits RGB MiniLED FALD, up to 3,000 nits hdr Dolby Vision 2, Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, HDR and HLG Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, HDR and HLG processor Hi-View AI Engine RGB Hi-View AI Engine RGB Hi-View AI Engine RGB operating system VIDAA U9 VIDAA U9 VIDAA U9 sound 2 x 15 watts + 2 x 10 watts + 2 x 5 watts + 2 x 15 watts + 2x 10 watts Dolby Atmos, DTS 2 x 15 watts + 2 x 10 watts + 20 watts + 2 x 15 watts + 2x 10 watts Dolby Atmos, DTS 2 x 10 watts + 2 x 5 watts + 20 watts Dolby Atmos, DTS connectivity 3 x HDMI 2.1 3 x HDMI 2.1 4xHDMI 2.1 wireless connectivity Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 price Not available Not available Not available FIFA, the World Cup and TCL in the background Hisense has renewed for the third time consecutively its official sponsorship with FIFA after the 2018 and 2022 editions, and in 2026 it goes further: it will be the official and exclusive supplier of RGB MiniLED TVs for VAR Video Operations Rooms throughout the tournament. Romy Gai, FIFA’s chief business officer, said the organization “partners with Hisense to welcome the best display technology to deliver an unprecedented World Cup experience for billions of fans around the world.” Hisense is not the only one bet on the king of sport as a sales driver by 2026, its competitor TCL has been official sponsor of the Spanish Soccer Team from 2023 and expanded that agreement in October 2025 to include new products and a renewed contract. The television market anticipates one of its best years in volume precisely due to the World Cup effect, and the big Chinese brands They are well positioned to take advantage of that momentum. The pie that manufacturers share in the Soccer World Cup is not small. It is estimated that the match played between France and Argentina in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar had a hearing of 1,420 million viewers and the tournament registered a average of 2.9 billion viewers from the different television signals. All glued to a television. That’s a lot of televisions. The 116UX and the fourth color that changes the image The most advanced model in the 2026 catalog is the 116UX, a 116-inch television that incorporates the RGB MiniLED Evo panel that Hisense already advanced at CES in Las Vegas. Its particularity compared to the conventional RGB MiniLED is the incorporation of a fourth cyan subpixel, an intermediate color between the blue and green that the three traditional colors cannot reproduce accurately enough on their own. Thanks to this fourth subpixel, the 116UX manages to expand the coverage of the BT.2020 color space, the standard used in professional film production. The change applied by Hisense has certain parallels with what LG has been doing for years in its WRGB OLED panelswhere a white subpixel is added to improve brightness. The difference is that in the case of the RGB MiniLED Evo the objective is not brightness (something that is necessary in OLED) but rather to expand the volume of color available, covering complex tones that were previously only approximated by combining the three RGB subpixels. The result is an image with greater fidelity in skies, vegetation and skin, exactly the elements that make a sports broadcast look more natural. With this new panel, the 116UX is positioned as the brand’s flagship for the domestic field of large-inch models with 116″ and 100″ diagonals. UR9 and UR8: the flagships in one size below 85 inchesHisense proposes two models within its high range: the UR9 and UR8. Both models are a technological showcase of what Hisense is capable of offering in its 2026 catalog, lowering RGB MiniLED technology to more accessible price ranges for users. Both mount RGB MiniLED panels (without the last name Evo and the fourth pixel, which is reserved for the UX), the Hi-View AI Engine RGB processor, and sizes of 65, 75 and 85 inches in the case of the UR9, and from 55 inches for the UR8. One of the arguments of the panels Hisense RGB MiniLED is the improvement in color representation and increased brightness. However, here is the main difference between the UR9 and UR8, depending on the brand, the UR9 can reach peaks that exceed 4,000 nits with 1,056 local dimming zones, while the UR8 would have its ceiling at 3,000 nits. Beyond that difference, both the UR9 and the UR8 share some elements that place them in a different category from the … Read more

The highway with the most lanes in the world is in China and has 50 lanes, except for one small detail: it is a lie

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Demographic growth, urban development and the great automobile boom crossed paths in the 20th century to give rise to some of the most spectacular roads today: from the Panamericana that has never closed to the road with the longest straight line in the world. Logic leads us to think: if there are more cars, then more lanes are needed to avoid traffic jams (spoiler: from one point on, not working). And if we talk about roads with more lanes, there is one place that takes the cake: the Interstate 10 in the United States. The point that interests us in question is in Houston, Texas: there an ordinary six-lane highway from the 60s became thanks to an astronomical widening of the widest road on the planet. It is this American highway that holds the record with 26 lanes and not a chinese highwaydespite the fame of the 50 lanes of the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao. The highway with the most lanes is in Texas. Within that highway that crosses the United States from Santa Monica in California to Jacksonville in Florida with a route of 2,460 kilometers in total length there is a specific section known colloquially as the Katy Freeway: a segment about 37 kilometers west of Houston. At its widest point, at Gessner Road, the road has 26 lanes in total: 12 main lanes (six in each direction), 8 service lanes (four in each direction) and 6 central dynamic toll lanes. This corridor is the backbone of mobility for the entire west of Houston, one of the largest cities in the United States and extremely dependent on the automobile (even for the United States): it has hardly any public transportation, little urban planning and decades of peripheral expansion. In this scenario, the I-10 is more than a highway: it is the artery of mobility and business parks, logistics centers, hospitals and universities that depend on private vehicles are concentrated around it. An unofficial record, not official. The Katy Freeway holds this record in practice, but it is not official (there is no Guinness for this) because no one has agreed on how to count the lanes. Do you only count those on the main road? There are 14. Do you add the side service lanes and the center toll lanes? You reach 26. Without a single, agreed upon criterion, Guinness cannot set a number and certify it. Brief history of its construction and expansion. The Katy Freeway was built in the 1960s and had six to eight lanes, sufficient for the mobility needs of the time. But between the 80s and 90s, Houston suffered spectacular urban growth: in 2000, traffic surpassed the 200,000 vehicles when had been designed for 120,000. In 2004, the American Highway Users Alliance (AHUA) classified it as the second most serious bottleneck in the country: they estimated that drivers lost 25 million hours a year. So the Administration planned a huge road expansion: an investment of 2.8 billion dollars and a four-year project between 2004 and 2008 to incorporate dynamic toll lanes inside an interstate highway for the first time. To make room they demolished an old railway corridor. As a curiosity, in 2014 there was another small expansion to add an auxiliary lane in each direction. Travel time from Pin Oak to downtown. Source: City Observatory / data: Houston Transtar More lanes and more traffic jams. Since a picture says a thousand words, above these lines is a graph from the non-profit organization City Observatory with data from Houston’s official traffic agency. City Observatory collects Although the AHUA described in a report that this expansion was one of the great success stories of traffic engineering to alleviate traffic jams and traffic jams, this was not the case: the congestion got worse. Just two years later, they recorded that travel times on that 47-kilometer route from the outskirts to downtown Houston increased by 13 minutes in the morning rush hour and 19 minutes in the afternoon. This phenomenon has a name: induced demand. Thoroughly developed by Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner in “The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities“, offers a clear conclusion: vehicle kilometers traveled increase proportionally to the available lanes and the new roads attract more drivers and more trips until the added capacity is saturated. The G4 toll, seen in Street View What happens with the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao. It is common to find references to the G4 as “the 50-lane highway” thus overtaking the Katy Freeway on the right. The reality is another story: as verified by Africa Check with Google Mapsthe G4 is in practice a four-lane highway along almost its entire length of more than 2,000 kilometers. The expansion to dozens of lanes that usually appears corresponds exclusively to the Zhuozhou toll area (can be verified with Street View), near Beijing, where the number of lanes is expanded punctually to distribute the flow to the toll booths. Just half a kilometer later, it is reduced to four again. In 2015 there was a terrible traffic jam during the week of China’s National Day at that point that caused kilometer-long queues and the spread of that supposed “50-lane highway” when in reality it is the toll infrastructure of an ordinary four-lane road. In Xataka | The longest straight road in the world is a mental challenge: 240 km without curves, in the middle of the desert and with truck traffic In Xataka | The longest road in the world has been incomplete for 50 years: the 106 kilometers of jungle that no country has been able to pave

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