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The dollar has been the world economy for 80 years. The US tariffs are starting to destroy it

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In the two long months he has in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has demonstrated that he did not joke when he said that his favorite word is “tariff.” The Commercial War in which it has been engaged, with ads and against ads, attacks and backgrounds that now focus the focus In China, it is however affecting what could well be the second header word for the Republican leader: the dollar, which faces its own historical chapter, in full depreciation against other assets such as The euro or the Swiss Franco. In the background, there are voices that already speak of a trusted crisis In the American currency, a weakening of its global position as a safe shelter or even They wonder If we go at the end of the golden era of the green ticket. Dollar slopes. In full tariff war and between recession drums In the US and loss of investor confidence, the US dollar does not go through its best moment. Although The partial truce 90 days decreed on Wednesday by Trump has paid the falls in the stock market, the trend is different if we talk about public debt and especially dollars. Green tickets They have deflated in front of currencies such as the euro or the Swiss Franco. And quite clear, besides. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What do the figures say? After the dollar suffered yesterday its worse day In about a decade, the Euro is already 1.14 dollars. You have to go back several years ago to find it in such low levels in front of the community currency. As for the Swiss currency, another key reference, Reuters remembers That the green ticket has fallen 1.2%, to 0.814 francs, for the first time since the beginning of 2015. All this with him and reaching his Maximum of several months and with gold moving in Historical maximums While investors are looking for safe shelters, precisely what (until not so ago) offered green tickets. “There has been a marked tendency to sell US dollars flowing through the general markets and towards classical shelter assets, with the dollar losing that position,” Confirms Reuters recently Chris Weston, from Pepperstone. Why is it important? Because the dollar is more than the currency with which the Americans make their purchases. Is behind the vast majority of transactions, acts world reference and has allowed the US to be financed at low types. “Half the world is stunned looking and the other horror about what will happen to the dollar as a universally accepted currency and vault key of the global financial system,” Explain to The country Juan Ignacio Crespo. “It is very unusual in the US”. The dollar situation has caught the attention of other experts, such as Nick Timiraos, economic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal And who yesterday shared In X some reflections on the drift of the yields of the treasure bonds at 30 years and the weakening of the dollar. “Rises in yields and low in currencies are common in emerging markets. We saw it in the United Kingdom during the debacle of Truss. But it is very unusual in the US. There are only four other episodes in the last 30 years in which the dollar depreciated more than 1.5% with an increase in return to more than 10 basic points, ” Timiraos collects citing the Evercore ISI firm. Its conclusion: the data suggests the end of ‘exceptionalism’ of American growth and a loss of attractiveness of dollars. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Crisis of trust in the dollar? That is the idea that appears for some time among some analysts, such as Francesco Pesole, of ING, which after the fall of the dollar to a minimum of three years in front of the euro, It was pronounced with roundness in Financial Times: “The question of a possible crisis of trust in the dollar has definitely been resolved: we are experiencing it with all its force.” It is not the first to point in that direction. Monday Reuters warned that there were investors and analysts concerned with the perspective that Trump’s protectionist policies, changes in the current global economic order in the last decades and the growing debt The US ended up undermining the attractiveness of the dollar, with even risk of a crisis of trust in the green ticket. End of the ‘golden age’ of the green ticket? That is the question he launched to Benjamin Dubois, head of Edmond’s coverage management of Rothschild, in An analysis collected by The economist. It slides that the fall of the currency “could be the beginning of a deeper underlying trend.” “Trump’s second mandate could make the dollar lose the dominant status he has enjoyed during the last decade,” Point out The expert before citing factors such as the depreciation of Trump’s currency or commercial war. The answer does not seem clear. For Per Jansson, vice governor of the Central Bank of Sweden, It is not predictable However, the US reaches the point that the status of the dollar changes. And he warns: “It would be a great change for the world economy … and basically create chaos.” The truth is that Trump has spoken against attempts to weaken the currency, which still has in his favor the support of the strong economy of the United States, the markets and the lack of a short -term alternative. Reindustrialization. One of The wishes of Trump, which already connects with his first presidential mandate, is to enhance The manufacturing industry of the US. And in that effort the currency and its strength also play a key role. After remembering the restructuring of the global financial system raised by S. Miran, Donald Trump advisor, Dubois remembers: “It is based on the conviction that the dollar must be depreciated to allow US reindustrialization.” The Republican himself has pointed out that a weaker dollar would also benefit exports. Images | Timis Alexandra (UNSPLASH) and Gage … Read more

A Samsung monitor with Smart TV functions at a scandal price, the ‘Mario Kart World’ is already offer and more. Hunting bargains

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Today is a Friday of hunting the most interesting bargains. Throughout the week we have been able to find enough offers, but we have gathered The five that are most worth having in mind. We are going to review which (and how) are these offers on television devices, virtual reality glasses, video games of the Nintendo Switch 2 And more. Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd gen) by 69.99 eurosthe new generation of the Xiaomi Box TV has arrived with a discount. Samsung Smart Monitor M5 by 158.53 eurosan interesting monitor that has functions that we see on the smart TVs. Mario Kart World by 74.90 eurosthe new video game for Nintendo Switch 2 can already be reserved with a good discount. Quest 3s goal by 299 eurosa very tight price for VR glasses that, in addition, come with a game. EUFY E20 by 549 eurosan aspirator robot that includes accessories to turn it into a vertical and hand vacuum cleaner. Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd gen) The new Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd gen) It can already be purchased in very few stores, and a lot of eye because right now it is on the offer in PowerPlanet, since it has dropped to the 69.99 euros. This small device is interesting for many reasons: it offers 4K resolution, it is compatible with both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ as with Dolby Atmos And DTS: X, its operating system is Google TV and comes with Chromecast. Xiaomi TV Box S (3rd gen) * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Smart Monitor M5 In Amazon we can find a very good price the Samsung Smart Monitor M5a monitor with smart TV functions that has dropped to the 158.53 euros. Mount a good one panel goes 27 inches With Full HD resolution, its operating system is Tizen, it is compatible with AirPlay and allows access to streaming apps without using a computer. Samsung Smart Monitor M5 (27 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review Mario Kart World The price of some Nintendo Switch 2 video games has made the players jump. He ‘Mario Kart World‘It is, for the moment, the most expensive video game of those announced by Nintendo and has an official physical price of 89.99 euros. Nevertheless, Some stores have already dropped it in priceat least to reserve. In Amazon, for example, we have it for 74.90 eurosa more affordable price. There are also Other exclusive video games of Nintendo Switch 2 that have dropped price. Mario Kart World (Nintendo Switch 2) * Some price may have changed from the last review Quest 3s goal If you have always wanted to make the leap to virtual reality, much eye with this device. The Quest 3s goal In their 128 GB configuration they have dropped to the 299 eurosthe minimum historical price of Amazon. In addition, VR glasses are not alone, since it includes the video game ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow‘, an ideal title for our first steps with this device, and a subscription of three months to goal Quest+. * Some price may have changed from the last review EUFY E20 As always, I like to leave in the last place a device that serves as discovery. This week I wanted to mention the EUFY E20an aspirator robot that, with the accessories it includes, can also be used as a vertical and hand vacuum cleaner. The base (of the device, not that of emptying) is what charges all importance, since it can be introduced into the aspirator robot or connect the brush to use the device as a vertical or hand vacuum cleaner. In Robot Aspirator mode offers a power of 8,000 PA, but if we use it as a vertical or hand vacuum cleaner that figure rises to 30,000 PA. Includes a highway base with capacity of up to approximately 70 days and comes with a navigation system with triple laser precision. It is, ultimately, a perfect device if we want to buy the two devices. The price of EuFy E20 is from 549 eurosalthough right now Amazon has a discount coupon (0uhelvah) of 15% that we can enter before processing the purchase. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | LG In Xataka | Best smart tv box. Which to buy and 11 set top box recommended from 27 to 214 euros In Xataka | Best vacuum robots in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and five recommended models

Spain is the second largest almond producer in the world. There are tariffs or farmers, farmers are already in trouble

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The world has entered an impasses. Except for the particular battle between the US and Chinathe rest of the planet is entering a period of calm and uncertainty that will last approximately three months in response to the sui generis Peace flag that Trump raised a few hours ago. Today von der Leyen has announced that the EU also pause the tariffs for 90 days to give “a chance to negotiations.” The problem is that this truce is far from being a return to “normality” and dozens of sectors They are preparing For what can happen. With the enormous problems that can generate: we talk about almond How did the European response work to Trump’s challenge? But, before that, let’s do some memory. On Tuesday, April 8, the European Commission presented its plan to impose tariffs on more than 1,500 US products. Once approved by the 27 Member States, the plan consists of three phases. In the first two (between April 15 and May 16), almost all of those tariffs would come into force. But there were certain products (such as soybeans and almonds) that They would not be affected until September 1. That is why almond is a key product to understand what happens. Or, being more specific, to see the distortions than the simple possibility that tariffs end up entering into force. Because as soon as the Plan’s phases the Coordinator of Agricultural and Livestock Organizations Coordinator He came up denouncing The “the great distortion that the national almond market will experience by postponing tariffs.” Do not forget that Spain is The second world producer of almond. The first, with much difference, is the United States. In the case at hand, the delay of the tariffs “will encourage importers to advance their purchases of Californian almond, causing a sense of excess supply in the domestic market, which will serve as a crop broth for speculation and to press down the prices that our producers perceive.” It will be necessary to see how the campaign of this rainy year evolves, but the problems of almond producers have been the same as those of the olive. That means that if the price collapses, many drying farms will have a really bad time. The tariff delay is, as the COAG defined it“a perfect trap.” 90 days to prepare for the worst. And that means what happens with the almond can happen with many other products. In recent weeks we have seen, for example, the Wine Importers Alliance in the United States (USWTA) recommended “Sorted to US companies that suspend all the shipments of wine, liquors and beer from the EU. “That has happened with many other products: the ‘cancellations’ They have been constant. And this 90 -day truce is the perfect excuse to collect generating distortions in the normal functioning of raw material markets that, without a doubt, will give us some scares. Image | TIM MOSSHOLDER | Michael In Xataka | Right now there are thousands and thousands of tons of olive oil embarking on the United States

It will be the fastest civil plane in the world from the Concorde

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The private jet industry is about to break a new barrier. Bombardier finalizes the details for the entry into service of the Global 8000its most ambitious business plane to date, and one that spares in shocking figures: it will reach a maximum speed of Mach 0.94 – the highest in civil aviation from the concorde, that arrived in Mach 2.04– And it will offer an intercontinental scope of 14,800 km. We are facing a model that not only pretends to be the fastest, but also the most versatile. The Global 8000 has been designed to offer speed, autonomy and comfort in equal parts, with the ability to take off from short clues and operate in adverse weather conditions. In other words: more destinations, faster, and with less limitations. A speed monster (and ambition) During trial flights, The Global 8000 even exceeded the planned limits. Its cruise speed will be Mach 0.92, well above the standard in current civil aviation. With these figures, it exceeds direct competitors such as the Gulfstream G700 and the Cessna Citation X+both with a maximum speed of Mach 0.93. Bombardier calls it “the fastest business jet on the planet.” And it is. This translates into routes such as Singapore-Los Angeles or London-Perth without scales, something unthinkable for almost any plane that bears the name of an airline. Its Smooth flĕx wing wing is key: it is designed as “two wings in one”, capable of offering low speed and efficiency stability in high speeds. All, With Turbofán General Electric Passport engines that combine power and efficiency. The first global production is already in the final assembly phase at the Bombardier facilities in Toronto, where the company concentrates the manufacture of its most advanced models. The process advances according to the scheduled calendar for its entry into service in 2025. Who will premiere this aircraft will be Netjets, the American executive aviation company that has opted to incorporate this model into its long -range fleet. An interior at the height. Inside, the Global 8000 literally seems a luxury spacecraft. It has four independent habitable areas, seats with zero gravity position (The Nuage, patented by Bombardier) and a main suite that can include double bed and shower. All that with a pressurized cabin at 2,900 feet and an air renewal system with HEPA filters capable of eliminating up to 99.99 % of particles. What makes this plane so special is that all this can be in a design that can operate from small airports, even on wet tracks, where many other jets simply cannot land. In adverse conditions, you can use up to 2,050 airports, something that the manufacturer says it is more than its direct competence. Technology and efficiency until the last detail. In the command cabin, the pilots will find the Bombardier Vision Flight Deck, An optimized environment with Fly-By-Wire controlsgraphic flight planning and state -of -the -art connectivity. All focused on making the most fluid flight experience, both for crew and passengers. Images | Bombardier In Xataka | Faced with the fear of losing a fortune, the US denies a button off its F-35. It has something worse: the control of the “blue line”

The great technology built their empires in a connected world. Now that world is falling apart

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The Trump tariffs They are not only an economic measure, but the visible manifestation of a phenomenon that goes much further: the potential fragmentation of the technological world in isolated and incompatible islands with each other. The technological map we knew so far is changing. The stock exchange that has evaporated almost 2 billion the value of technology – and climbing – in a few days hides points to Something more than short -term fears: The interconnected system in which the great technological ones built their empires are disintegrating. As Ben Evans says in your analysis of Stratechery“It is more difficult to overestimate the degree to which every aspect of modern life rests in global supply chains, so long and complex that no one can truly understand the effects of altering them.” The American Big Tech, whose success has been built on the premise of a world without digital bordersThey now have the nightmare of a planet that is, technologically, bursting. The American superisla dominated by Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta is surrounding increasingly turbulent waters. He will no longer be able to have cheap factories from China or Vietnam. The Chinese island, while, has a five years building its own ecosystems and standards. Huawei is a paradigmatic case. The European island, still in formation, focuses on regulation (GDPR, Dma, DSA) and tries to position themselves as “third way” with emphasis on values ​​about privacy and ethics, while maintaining critical strategic positions with manufacturers like ASML. We count it a few days ago: Huawei has not thrown five years building bridges, but cavando trenches. His Harmonyospresent in more than 1,000 million devices, does not seek to complement the global ecosystem, but replace it. Do not compete, build a parallel reality. West still thinks of market fees while Huawei builds an entire digital continent. The symptoms of this fragmentation are increasingly evident, and if nothing changes, they will go more: Nintendo delaying The early orders of the Switch 2. Vietnam negotiating the desperate to reduce tariffs. Companies drawing alternative supply chains in a hurry. They are only the superficial waves of the tsamot that is happening at the bottom of the digital ocean. We are facing The fracture of a technological model that we assumed universal. Where there were now integration there are digital walls. The economies of scale that allowed affordable smartphones and global services will give way to smaller, less efficient and possibly more expensive ecosystems. The end user will not only pay more for its devices but will have to choose which technology island belongs to. The European Union, aware of what is coming, no longer speaks only of response tariffs, but use his Anti-coercion instrument to “limit intellectual property rights” or “restrict the access of financial services to EU markets.” We talk about hardware, yes, but the war also extends to software, services and digital infrastructure. Europe could find its opportunity as a bridge between islands, taking advantage of its experience creating global standards (GSM, GDPR) that can be adopted beyond its borders. Our unique position, with relations with both the United States and China, could become integrators in a technologically fragmented world. And in this digital archipelago where Pangea was before Companies will have to decide which islands inhabiting and which ones to abandon. The divergent standards (with China we are already seeing it, They throw to their own HDMI), redundant supply chains and incompatible ecosystems will be the new normality. Innovation will no longer flow between continents, but will be confined in these technological islands, with its own rules, limitations and opportunities. Not that technological globalization is threatened, is that is being actively disassembled. The dream of a digital world without borders is coming to an end. Welcome to the technological archipelago. Outstanding image | Xataka, Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | “A zero tariff”: Before Tesla’s collapse, Elon Musk already presses for an agreement between Europe and the United States

Nintendo has just postponed the Switch 2 reserves in the US. Tariffs begin to take effect on the gaming world

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Nintendo prepares the ground for A new earthquake in the video game industry. The Nintendo Switch 2long expected by the followers of the brand, promises to renew his hybrid proposal with ambition. The expectation soon translated into a movement: while the presentation was developed, the official website activated a waiting list to access. But Nintendo has decided to slightly lift the accelerator foot in the United States. The Japanese company He has postponed The beginning of the reserves of its new star product in that country. The reason? Tariffs driven from the White House, which begin to leave their first visible mark on an industry that seems to be directly exposed. No date to book in the US. As usual in Nintendo, its new devices cannot be reserved the same day they are announced. Reservations are activated days later and shipments take a little longer. This time, April 9 was the date marked in the calendar of users in the United States, but they will have to eliminate it because it is simply no longer valid. As Nintendo has pointed out In a statement issued to Polygonthis movement is because they need to “evaluate the potential impact of tariffs and changing market conditions.” We are facing a movement that prints some uncertainty about the expected launch, but not everything is such discouraging news. The shipping date is maintained. Although Nintendo will take time to evaluate the impact of new tariffs on the United States, and will later announce the new date to reserve the Nintendo Switch 2shipments are still planned for June 5. With that horizon in mind, the margin to open the reserves is not too broad. For now, it only remains to wait for Nintendo to announce the new reservations for the US market. It should be remembered that this measure affects only the United States. In the rest of the markets, everything follows as planned. In Spain, for example, reservations will begin on April 8. The context that explains it. Just over 48 hours have passed since Donald Trump will announce the “reciprocal tariffs.” The measure extends to dozens of countries, with 24 % tariffs for Japan and 46 % for Vietnam, where Nintendo has transferred part of the hardware and component production. View price increase. Tariffs, As explained by Tax Foundationthey function as taxes applied to imports. In practice, this additional cost is rarely assumed by companies: it ends up impacting directly on the consumer pocket. Impact on Nintendo and other companies. Tariffs promise to leave their mark on the technological sector, especially among companies that manufacture outside the United States. The case does not affect Nintendo only: giants like Apple also face a complex scenariodespite having diversified its production to dodge these barriers. Images | Nintendo | Cristina Glebova In Xataka | Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk have also suffered the coup of tariffs: their fortunes have lost more zeros than they would like

We have already tried ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ in Nintendo Switch 2. Also ‘Metroid Prime 4’, ‘Mario Kart World’ and the ‘Zelda’ improved

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The hopeful Switch 2 is hereand we have not only been able to find out all the technical details, at the same time as the rest of the planet. Like everyone, we have surprised ourselves with News of the catalogwe have asked ourselves questions about hardware peculiarities and we have arched eyebrows with prices. But in addition, we have had the opportunity to try the first games of the console, a few exclusive and some ports, and these have been the sensations. As you can see, we have not come to taste all the news presented In the Direct. For example, perhaps the biggest surprise, it can more than the exclusive Nintendo, it has been ‘The Duskbloods’, the DefromSoftware game that will be exclusively (at least temporarily) on Switch 2, but was not available to be played, like many of the others THIRD-PARTS announced. But most (and of course, all of Nintendo) were at our disposal, so we have first -hand opinions. Mario Kart World Although the most intriguing proposal of this new ‘Mario Kart’ is its possibilities as an open world, we have not been able to explore it more than punctually (before all the players join a race, we have been able to zascandilear field through, with the only result of detaching us for a precipice). But we have played other ways: a Grand Prix in local competitive, a career against the game and a fun way against more than twenty online players, with a frantic system and the driver of Checkpoints increasingly demanding. Few differences are superficial and mechanical with the already legendary ‘Mario Kart 8’ that devastated Switch incarnation, but the power rise in the new console is evident: atmospheric effects, journeys with impressive level changes, specific details such as making Slides On elongated or circular surfaces by others in horizontal … Of course, the softness and speed of the game is impeccable, and although an infallible formula does not revolutionize anything, the new graphic capacity of the console, which allows for example effects of Ray Tracingit is very visible. Is it worth 90 euros? We fear that this is a very personal matter. Donkey Kong Baniza We came with the secret hope to run into a ‘Super Mario’ in 3D, even if it was a sequel to ‘Odyssey’. But ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’ is, perhaps, too close, so this ‘bananza’ not only becomes, de facto, in that anmulation of a colorful and carefree world to explore and that we subconsciously link Mario, but also in one of the surprises of the day. Everything in ‘Donkey Kong Baniza’ is destroyed, and with controls that emulate in the arrangement of the buttons the four orientations towards which tube can be shaken, we have an exploration and demolition game that is pure fun. Visually delicious and with classic 2D phases (which we have not come to play), this ‘bananza’ demonstrates that Nintendo remains the best in its specialty: digital toys, without more purpose than fun and invite the player to experience. Without a doubt, the title that we expect most from the initial batch of the console. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond One of the games that we wanted most to try, not only because it is Samus’s return and because of how anticipated this delivery, but because of the possibility of using the new mouse -type controls of the Joycon. The experiment has its buts (with big hands, control is anything but ergonomic), but certainly adds a very interesting dimension to the game. We will tell more detail in the future article, but the really interesting thing about the experiment is to pass without pauses in a traditional joycon mode, one for the accuracy in the one pointed in the fighting, another to explore. The sum is interesting, at least on paper. And ‘Metroid 4’ How are you? Well, as never: visual spectacularity and more frantic, explosive and spectacular fighting. It will be necessary to see if the game retains that almost magical balance between silent and meditative wandering and frantic shootings against the pirates. Drag X Drive Let us recognize it: the game is simpler than the mechanism of a rattle, but we have fun as mycos in this kind of spatial paralympic basketball in which two teams of three robots in wheelchairs give tube and snatch the ball to mark in the opposite basket. The fun, obviously, is that it is controlled with the two Joycon as mice, imitating with your hands the movement to boost the wheels with your hands. The result is easy to understand but difficult to dominate, and until we have become accustomed to browsing the JoyCon against the table, the six opponents seemed drunk and drunken ades. A lot of noise and a lot of fury in a game that we have something scarce as an independent title, but that as a cheap downloadable can provide more than an afternoon of exhibition of mechanical gross. Breath of Wild and Tears of Kingdom The improved game that we most wanted to try does not have such evident improvements as others, with new levels or tests, because the two Zelda deliveries for Switch were already impressive in the visual. But more fluidity is noticed, there is some level that shines thanks to the improvements in the rate of Frames And the excellent management of the new console will well deserve a renewed walk through Hyrule. Although we have not been able to explore it thoroughly, what we have seen from the Zelda Notes for the mobile seems to add a new and interesting dimension to the game. Super Mario Party Jamboree Another of the improved games from the switch catalog. In this case, the impulse is evident: new mini -games where the newly presented camera for video calls will be used. We will not compete with Mario’s fauna characters, but with our own full -body avatars, and we have participated in mini -games, as always, noisy and demential, where you have to … Read more

The best paid Spanish manager in the world does not work in a great technological: sells “sugary water”

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Maybe his name does not sound to you at all since, unlike Tim Cook, Jensen Huang or Satya Nadella, Ramón Laguarta does not direct a great technological. However, for seven years he has been the helm of one of the world’s largest brands in the world: Pepsico. Or as Steve Jobs would say: sell “sugary water“ According to the published data By Pepsico before his shareholders, the Catalan Ramón Laguarta, president and CEO of Pepsico, has established himself as the best paid Spanish manager in the world. The best paid Spanish CEO in the world. As you collect The environmental environment Five daysin 2024, the total remuneration of Laguarta reached 28.8 million dollars. This salary milestone positions it well above other executives of large corporations, both in Spain and globally. Despite having reached this milestone, 2024 has not been the most lucrative year for Laguarta. According to records From the AFL -CO union, in 2023, the manager charged 33.9 million dollars, which meant 648 times the average salary of its employees. However, Ramón Laguarta is not the only Spanish manager at the head of an American multinational who receives a millionaire remuneration. Joaquín Duato, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, He received a salary of 24.3 million, seeing its compensation reduced in 2024 compared to the 28.4 million that was pocketed in 2023. For his part, Enrique Lores, first HP executive, received a Salary compensation total of 19.4 million dollars. Laguarta’s salary. Actually, Laguarta “only” received 1.76 million as a salary, which represents a 4% increase with respect to the same concept of 2023. In addition, the CEO received a bonus of 11 million dollars in company shares and metallic incentives of 6.8 million dollars. In this concept, the company has applied a significant cut with respect to 2023, when it received 13.4 million dollars. To this figure, we must add 8.7 million dollars more in pension plans and other deferred remuneration, as well as $ 500,000 for personal expenses. Among personal expenses, the Use of private plane of the company. The sum of all these amounts corresponds to the aforementioned 28.8 million dollars that the manager pocketed in 2024. Although their total income was reduced by 15% with respect to 2023, Laguarta continues to stand out as one of the best paid managers, and the Pepsian Board of Directors stood out in Its presentation of annual results The solid leadership of its Spanish CEO in turbulent economic times. A “sugary water seller”. Laguarta occupies the position of president of Pepsico since 2018 and assumed the presidency of the Board of Directors in 2019. However, his career within the company began in 1996, when he joined the Spanish subsidiary of the company after a stage in front of Chupa Chups. A decade before the arrival of Laguarta to Pepsico, Steve Jobs He told John Scullyat that time CEO of Pepsico, one of those phrases that have remained for posterity: “Do you want to sell sugary water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?” It should be noted that, in English, the expression ‘Sugar Water’ is also used to refer to something bland, without substance. As if being the Pepsi CEO was something unimportant. There is no doubt that, in the case of Laguarta, directing a “sugary water” company has turned out to be very lucrative. However, the Apple CEO salary It continues to be better: in 2024, Tim Cook received 74.6 million in retribution. Point for Jobs. In Xataka | In 1985 Coca-Cola changed her formula when Pepsi was about to defeat her. It went wrong In Xataka | The best paid CEO in the world is Elon Musk, but its salary is 1 dollar: the great bonus of the bonus Image | Unspash (Nikhil), Wikimedia Commons (Qwertyfry38)

Openai lifts the greatest financing round in history. It is a demonstration of the blind faith that the world has in AI

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Yesterday Openai gave colossal news. With the title “New financing to develop the AGI” announced that it has completed a new round of financing. Not only new: it is the largest in history for any private company. The figures here are more dizzy than ever, and they talk to us again of extraordinary expectations. We keep waiting for everything from AI, and OpenAi is taking advantage of it very well. Historical Financing Round. Never in history a private company had raised a similar financing round. Openai has raised 40,000 million dollars, an absolutely colossal figure. In October 2024 they already built 6,600 million dollarswho joined the “multimillionaire investment“Microsoft made in January 2023, and which is estimated was 10,000 million dollars. The Redmond company already He had invested 1,000 million dollars in 2019 and other 2,000 million In 2021. But they have to become ‘for-profit’. OpenAI will receive 10,000 million dollars immediately. Of these, 7,500 million dollars will come from SoftBank, while the other 2.5 billion will arrive from an “investor union.” The remaining 30,000 million will arrive at the end of the year, they indicate In CNBCbut only if the company manages to do the Transition to a company ‘For-Profit’that is, a company with profit. If they fail they will lose a quarter of the investment round. Of the total round, about 18,000 million dollars will be dedicated To the Stargate project. They are worth as much as Coca-Cola. The financing round causes the “post-money” assessment (after the round) of OpenAI to rise to 300,000 million dollars. It is already as much as Coca-ColaNovo Nordisk, Chevron or LVMH and more than Asml Samsung or Nestlé. Only Spacex (350,000 million dollars) is worth more in the private companies sector, and with this OpenAi round it is put to the Tiktok level According to CB Insights. 500 million in love with chatgpt. In the Openai announcement he indicated how they currently have 500 million weekly chatgpt users, a really remarkable figure that makes it clear that the growth of users continues to be produced at a remarkable pace: a month ago the figure was 400 million users. The Ghibli phenomenon shows. The chatgpt phenomenon made Openai take only two months to reach 100 million users (Instagram took 26). Yesterday Sam Altman indicated how in the last five days they had grown up in one million users, but after The phenomenon of the Studio Ghibli style images They grew up in a million users … in just an hour. But AI still does not be profitable. The financing round responds to that almost blind bet in the potential of the AI, but the current reality is clear: this technology is not profitable. The companies are burning money as if there were no tomorrow To develop it, but its training and operational cost is huge. Openai herself estimates that It will not be profitable until 2029and until then it will continue to lose more and more money without stopping. In Openai, yes, they expect income They triple In 2025 to 12.7 billion dollars, but they will continue to lose money. Gasoline for the AGI? Openai’s ultimate goal is to develop a General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) that overcomes human intelligence in all areas. The problem is that it is not clear that neither they nor anyone succeeded, but precisely that is about this bet: that it will be OpenAi to achieve it. To do so, the impact at the social and economic level is potentially the greatest in the history of humanity, but once again, we insist: here everything is unknowns, and the AGI could take years or decades to arrive … if it arrives one day. SoftBank, Openai’s new girlfriend. The other remarkable element of this investment round is the final turning point that occurs in the OpenAI alliances structure. Since 2019 his great ally was Microsoft, but That non-dilio was seen the seams months ago. The relationship between both companies is now much weaker, and each one It takes time preparing a “cordial farewell”. Microsoft has participated in this round, they claim in CNBC, but has done it with a totally secondary role. SoftBank, meanwhile, becomes the great OpenAi patron and trusts a good part of its future to the success of Altman’s company. Image | Nibor With Midjourney In Xataka | Openai will abandon altruism. Your new profit will completely change your financial reality and that of your investors

If the question is “what are people reading most around the world”, there is only one answer: Romantasy

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With their colored loins, dream covers and mixture of romance and fantasy, novels Romantasy They are probably bombing you the subconscious in both social networks and in your library visits. What is more complicated is to elucidate exactly what we are talking about and which book or author enters this category, so we will try to shed some light on (sometimes unabarcable) term Romantasy. What do you refer to Romantasy? We would be facing a subgenre either of the fantastic or romance genre that combines those two factors in their books. Within that construction, the fantasy world has to cohabit, yes or yes, with one or more love stories to adhere to this definition. In a good novel Romantasy Or romantic fantasy does not prevail one genre over another, fantasy and romance are at the service of the narrative and enriches the entire plot on which the book or book saga is supported. The possibilities, as is usually the case with romance novels, are endless. Thanks to the multitude of tropes that authors can include, diversity within the romance part is very wide, but without a doubt the one that stands out the most in the best -selling books is a good Enemies to lovers (“Enemies to lovers”). Romantasy It does not refer to something new. Romance and fantasy have always formed a perfect hybrid and have complemented themselves in stories for many years. Diana Gabaldon, the successful writer of the Saga ‘Outlander’ began publishing this romantic history of travel in time in early 1990. If we appeal to the most youthful public we also have the case of the saga ‘Twilight’. Stephanie Meyer’s absolute teenage 160 million copies. At the time of its launch, marketing was not aimed at using a label like Romantasybut the truth is that they adapt perfectly to their requirements. The already omnipresent sales strategy linked to this term is something that we find more or less recently and thanks to social networks, specifically #BookTok. Its origin is not clear or we can place it on a specific date. The editorial Bloomsbury He declares that he coined him to identify the genre of one of the most famous writers of romantic fantasy, Sarah J. Maas. But “Romantasy“It was already published in the Urban Dictionary Since 2008. These different versions do not overshadow the fact that their complete explosion happened from the pandemic and especially, since 2024 on social networks. The queens of Romantasy If there is an absolute queen of romantic fantasy that is Sarah J. Mass with its saga ‘a court of roses and thorns’ (saga limit). The series began to be published in 2015 but undoubtedly its peak, and when the conversation around Romantasy I copied it, it happens from 2021. The author herself acknowledges that Tiktok He has played an essential role in his sales number. Bloomsbury, its editorial, affirms that videos with hashtags related to books have more than 14,000 million of visualizations on the Bytedance platform. Looking made the author the best selling in the United States last year, exceeding the figure of 7.7 million copies And, in turn, the English editions of his work exceed 55 million copies sold worldwide. The key to Maas’s success is the ability to attract followers not only the saga to limit, but to all his previous work and loyalty for upcoming publications. Elucubrations and search for Easter Eggs In all your videos, in pure style Swiftie, They are the order of the day in #BookTok. Sarah J. Maas has triumphed with ‘a court of roses and thorns’, which tells us the story of Feyre and her sisters in the world of FAE, a fantasy place where her loyalties both in war and love will be committed. But the truth is that with this series the foundations for knitting a magical universe that expands to other series of his as ‘crystal throne’ (2012) or ‘Crescent City’ (2020) were laid. With that methodology as planned, and reaching figures as 4.83 million Sales only in books printed in the first half of 2024, it is difficult not to catalog it as absolute queen of the romantic fantasy. But the undisputed success of this subgenre is not only due to Sarah J. Maas. If we review the list of best -selling we also find names such as Rebecca Yarros (Empyre Saga), Callie Hart (Saga alchemia & Fae), Cassandra Clare (shadow hunters saga), Lauren Roberts (Powerless Saga), Jennifer L. Armetrout (blood saga and ashes), Holly Black (Holly Black (Saga of the air) among others. But once again, nothing better than numbers to corroborate the success of Romantasy. Five of the 10 best -selling titles of 2024 were written by Sarah J. Mass and Rebecca Yarrosaccording to the statistics of Publisher’s Weekly in October. In addition, in 2024, romantic books reached 610 million dollars In sales, compared to 454 million in 2023. We talk about 11 million books of this subgenre sold in the first five months of 2024, almost double that in the same period of 2023. Circana, a well -known analysis company, provides that The end of the bubble arrives this same 2025but it seems unlikely that the romantic and especially the Romantasy Stop having that privileged hole that you have been getting in bookstores. A proof of this is the large number of special editions and reissues that we find for the sale of the main titles of this category, with colored and print looms that have begun to be replicated by other authors of different genres. Another fact that makes us doubt that imminent end of leadership we find it with the numbers harvested with ‘Onix wings’ of Rebeca Yarros. The third installment of the empyreo saga, which continues the story of Violet Sorngagail at the Higher School of Basgiath, where candidates live or die in the attempt to become dragon riders, has gone on sale at the end of January 2025 and has sold more than more than 2.7 million of specimens in … Read more

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