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For the first time in 30 years, Nvidia will not present new GPUs for gamers in 2026. They earn much more with AI

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In 1995 Nvidia presented its NV1 chipsits first multimedia card and the one that would start its particular revolution in the world of gaming. Since then, every year the company has presented a new model intended for this segment. In 2026 that tradition will be broken. what has happened. What has happened is AI. The rise of this industry has been of such magnitude that it has had a critical impact on the technological field and, little by little, on the social field. Nvidia is at the center of this particular revolution, because the company bet early on the ability of its GPUs to be used as AI chips and that bet has been rewarded. Gamers in the background. Such has been the explosion in this field, that Nvidia has decided that what is important is no longer gamers, but AI chips for data centers. From a financial and business point of view, the logic is overwhelming: the profit margin of AI chips round 75%, especially thanks to price control that allows the company to set prices to its liking thanks to the fact that it currently has almost no competition. Data centers win by a landslide. There is another element that favors it: volume. Not only is the price per unit higher, it is that the volume handled in data centers is much higher than that of gaming GPUs. Analysis like that of App Economy show how the market started timid, but in the second fiscal quarter of 2024 revenues began to skyrocket and the data center fever has made Nvidia the company with the largest market capitalization in the world. No GPUs for gaming in 2026. After the launch of the RTX 5000 in January 2025, this year Nvidia was expected to announce the “SUPER” versions of said family. These models they were going to tell with denser GDDR7 memory modules, which would allow the memory configuration of the original models to be increased. The memory crisis and the total focus on the catalog of GPUs for AI has meant that Nvidia has not announced them, and for the first time in more than 30 years there will be no renewal of the gamer catalog for this year. And the RTX 6000 even further. If the news is already bad for the SUPER versions of the RTX 5000, things are even more terrible for the theoretical RTX 6000, which will have Rubin architecture and from which a notable jump in performance is expected. According to the latest datathese graphics cards will not begin to be manufactured until the end of 2027, which would mean that they would not arrive until 2028. The current situation suggests that it is likely that they will not even arrive that year. Do we really need more powerful GPUs? On Reddit a user did an important comment when it became known that NVIDIA would probably not release new graphics for gamers. “On the one hand it makes me angry. On the other hand I realize that I am playing ‘Rimworld‘ and ‘Terraria‘”. It refers to very popular games that can be played even with integrated GPUs such as those used by many Intel or AMD processors. Others they responded that Nvidia GPUs are so powerful that they are actually often necessary because game developers don’t really squeeze the hardware. Be that as it may, it seems that the current generation is usually more than prepared for the most demanding titles, and the urgency for a new generation is perhaps not so pressing. The April 2026 Steam survey makes it clear that the next-generation RTX 5000 coexists with a market in which the RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 remain very popular. Source: Steam. The data confirms it. If you go through the April 2026 Steam Survey you see how more than a year after its presentation, the RTX 5000 has almost 24% market share, while the RTX 4000 has 35% and the RTX 3000 has 16%. The rest of the users opt for previous solutions or from rivals like AMD, which is still far away in this battle. Many users have already invested in their RTX 3000 and 4000, and it seems unlikely that they will do so again for a new GPU, especially when in the recent times The prices of these cards have skyrocketed. There is nowhere to run. There is another problem with this Nvidia strategy of turning gamers into second-class users: there are not many alternatives, at least if we want maximum performance. AMD continues to fight in this market, but its graphics still fail to capture the interest of many users. Intel has done interesting releases recent years, but not in the high range in which Nvidia is a de facto monopoly. Your efforts They are not achieving great success either.and the company is not focusing on it either because it knows that now the money is somewhere else. In Xataka | If at some point NVIDIA has to choose between giving its best chips to the US or China, its choice is very clear.

Princeton had not monitored its students in exams for 133 years due to an “honor code.” AI just broke that pact

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For more than a century, Princeton has based its academic trust on an honor code, an oath its students signed not to cheat on exams. Even the teachers left the classroom. Nobody watched, because honor was enough guarantee. That model just disappearedand artificial intelligence is largely to blame. What has happened. Princeton faculty voted earlier this week to have all in-person exams proctored starting July 1. The measure throws away a policy that dates back to 1893, when students themselves asked to eliminate supervision in exams. With only one vote against, the decision ended up being practically unanimous, making it the most significant change to the university’s honor system in 133 years. Why now. Generative AI has radically transformed students’ ability to copy without detection. According to the proposal presented by Michael Gordin, dean of the faculty, tools such as ChatGPT They allow copying in a way that is almost impossible to identify with the naked eye, especially during an exam. If before cheating required some effort (finding someone who would let you cheat, taking a cheat sheet in the middle of the exam, etc.) now there are a thousand and one ways to do it digitally. Numbers. In one student newspaper survey Of more than 500 seniors, almost 30% admitted to having cheated on an exam or assignment during their time at Princeton. 44.6% claimed to have known people who had violated the code, without telling them. Only 0.4% filed complaints. The number of cases investigated by the Honor Committee reached 60 this year, and the president of that committee, Nadia Makuc, believe They are just the tip of the iceberg. Nobody says anything. Princeton’s honor system historically relied on students themselves denouncing their peers. That doesn’t work anymore. According to the approved proposal, the fear of being publicly pointed out on social networks or in anonymous applications such as Fizz (the campus social network) discourages any complaint. Additionally, the way the AI ​​works makes the traps much less visible to whoever is sitting next to you. There are no more little papers or little glances or those stories. What exactly changes. According to account the faculty newspaper, professors will be present in the classroom during exams, but not to actively intervene. Their role is as witnesses, referring any possible infractions to the student Honor Committee if they detect something. On the other hand, the code oath (“I promise on my honor that I have not violated the Honor Code during this exam”) remains. The difference is that now there will be someone watching. Trust. Professors such as David Bell or Anthony Grafton, from the Princeton History Department, have recognized that the change alters the relationship of trust with their students. The former dean of the faculty, Jill Dolan, counted to the student newspaper that “I think it’s a shame, but it’s necessary.” AI has forced a spiral that is difficult to break. And the more people believe that others copy, the more tempted people feel to do it. Christian Moriarty, professor of Ethics and Law at St. Petersburg College in Florida counted to the Wall Street Journal that “what is at stake is not just the soul of education, but the genuine development of critical thinking.” Further supervision. Princeton has more measures than proctors to supervise the work of its students. In the last year, the number of at-home exams has been reduced by more than two-thirds. Furthermore, according to they count at The Atlantic, the Economics department will introduce oral defenses of term papers. Other teachers have also started to require that essays be written in Google Docs, to be able to review the editing history and verify that the text has been written progressively. Cover image | Roxana Crusemire and Ben Mullins In Xataka | Some Chinese humanoid robots are already going to “school”: the mission is to teach them to work in real life

60 years ago a student wanted to study the mountains of the United States. Unknowingly felled the oldest known tree

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At a glance ‘Prometheus’ It was a twisted, rugged, whimsically shaped pine tree that stood on a Nevada mountain. Nothing to do with gigantic sequoias of Redwood National Park, also in the USA, where specimens of more than 100 meters high with bases that are around 30 m in diameter. That, of course, at first glance. Although its size was not striking and it barely stood out in the grove in which it sprouted, ‘Prometheus’ was a tree of almost 5,000 yearswhich made it one of the oldest in the world. Why do we talk about him in the past tense? Very simple: because in the 60s a student who was especially diligent with his research felled it with permission from the authorities. With you, the Pinus longaeva. Its name may not be as well known as that of the redwoods, the baobabs or the Douglas firstrees that have been fascinating humanity for centuries due to their colossal dimensions, but the bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) are just as amazing. Not because of its size, but because of its age. Located primarily in the higher altitude mountains of California, this species has managed to survive for several millennia. As? Its growth is very slow and they usually sprout separately from each other, which allows them to adapt to harsh habitats and withstand fires better. The key to its longevity however lies in its “architecture” and adaptations. As remember from the US National Park Service (NPS), the roots of the Pinus longaeva They only nourish the part of the tree that is directly above them. If that root dies, it only affects its section of the tree. Hence, it is not unusual to see specimens with dry bark on one side and that, however, continue to grow healthily. an old acquaintance. In Wheeler PeakNevada, stood years ago a magnificent specimen of Pinus longaeva. Its height was nothing out of this world, but it was so twisted and had such an ancient appearance that mountaineers in the area They baptized him ‘Prometheus’. Seen in perspective, the nickname is still ironic. In the classical mythology Zeus imposed a horrible punishment on the titan of that name for giving humanity the gift of fire and metallurgy. At Wheeler Peak the ‘Prometheus’ that grew rooted to the mountain ended up perishing precisely because of the efforts of a university student to understand the geology of the region. To understand it you have to go back to summer of 1964when Donald R. Currey, a graduate student studying the ice age of eastern Nevada, had an idea: To better understand the formation of glaciers, he decided to extract samples from the oldest trees that grew in the region. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking. The dendrochronologythe discipline that is responsible for studying climate patterns by analyzing tree rings, dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. In fact, the idea of ​​obtaining samples from the logs sounded so reasonable that authorities raised no objections when Currey asked for permission to study them. The great unknown. In theory, what Currey proposed was to use a drill bit to remove small samples of the trunk, a kind of cylinders from the trunk. pencil size that could later be analyzed in the laboratory. It came with the different rings and their characteristics being appreciated. When it was ‘Prometheus’ turn, something went wrong. Or so it is believed, since more than six decades later it’s still not entirely clear what exactly happened at Wheeler Peak. Some accounts claim that Currey’s drill bit broke while the geologist was trying to make his way through the dense pine wood, so he requested help from the Forest Service. To solve it, the workers opted for the most radical solution: they took out the chainsaw and cut down the tree. Other versions claim that Currey did not know how to work with such a complicated specimen or that there was simply no error and from the beginning he needed a complete cross section to study the trunk. Regardless, there are two clear details. First, that was the end of ‘Prometheus’. Second, Currey did not work as foreigners. He had permission from the Forest Service. And the surprise came. It was not necessary to cut ‘Prometheus’ in two to intuit that it was a very ancient tree. If Currey looked at this pine and others in the area it was precisely because he assumed that they were old enough to give him a broad ‘snapshot’ of the climatic events that had occurred in the region. The surprise came when he took the piece of wood to his laboratory. As ancient as I suspected ‘Prometheus’ to be, one thing is clear: Currey fell short. When he started counting growth rings, he added neither more nor less than 4,862. Given the harsh conditions in which the pine grew, which could have influenced the formation of the layers, the experts ended up concluding that its age was most likely closer to 4,900 years. That is to say, the ancient tree already appeared on the Nevada mountain when the pharaohs reigned in ancient Egypt or Hammurabi ruled in Babylon. The oldest in the world? Although environmental awareness in the 1960s was not the same as it is today, the mistake was considerable. Especially since it was the Forest Service itself that made it possible. The age of ‘Prometheus’ is in fact so astonishing that the NPS itself recognize which at the time was considered “the oldest tree ever dated.” It even surpassed the famous tree ‘Methuselah’other Pinus longaeva of California that is around 4,850 years old. Today that title is in question. Especially after a theoretically even older tree was discovered in 2012, another bristlecone from more than 5,000 years. The US authorities recognize in any case that it is “very likely” that there are other, even older, undated specimens of the same species. “The bristlecone pines of the Great Basin are notable for being the oldest non-clonal species on the … Read more

The V60 has been an icon of specialty coffee for 20 years. Its first big update is coffee for coffee lovers

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When you enter a specialty cafe and they have ‘V60’ on the menu, you automatically know that things have to be very bad for them to not make good coffee. The V60 is to filter coffee what the Bialetti is to italian coffee maker: a symbol, a declaration of intentions and a ‘gadget’ with a design so perfect that it has not had to be modified in its 20 years of life. Until now. Hario launched the original V60 around 2004 in a show of how a simple and functional design could be perfect for any level. Simply put, it is a cone with a 60 degree inclination (hence the name) that can be placed on top of your jug, any jug or even a cup. In that cone we place a paper filter, add the coffee, hot water and the coffee solution flows to the container. It is simple and came to solve the problem that Hario had detected in the percolation coffee makers that dominated in the 80s: those typical ones that many of our grandmothers have at home and that are the ones that appear in any American series in which the coffee remained there passively soaking until it came out under its own gravity and the jet black liquid was deposited in the jug. The classic V60 It was not what best extracted all the nuances of the coffee and Hario implemented three design ideas: The cone at 60 degrees so that the water tends to the center, lengthening the contact time without the need to create a long-lasting ‘pond’. A single exit hole which made it easy to make coffee for non-expert users, but also gave a lot of control possibilities to the expert user. By restricting the water channel, pouring speed, exposure time or grinding, different “recipes” can be created. Spiral striations on the cone. These “ribs” have a lot of technology behind them because they serve to release air between the filter and the wall, avoiding the suction effect of the paper and causing the filter to expand as the coffee releases the product. The translation is that Hario designed a coffee maker that combined simplicity, complication capacity for experts and that rib design that was very well thought out to facilitate a relatively quick extraction while being able to extract all the nuances of the coffee. It was so perfect that, over these 20 years, it really hasn’t changed beyond different sizes for the cone or the plastics and glass that came after the original Japanese porcelain version. There were some little problems and limitations and they released an accessory, the Hario Switch, but the most important thing of all is that the V60 was a good, versatile and very, very economical coffee maker that, as we say, there was no need to touch. And, then, Hario… touched her. The V60 Neo In what seems like a clear “find the differences” exercise, Hario presented the Hario V60 Neo. If you are not very involved in the coffee world and the new one seems the same as the old one, I have to tell you that the Neo was a tsunami that stirred up coffee content creators. It was the first time that Hario redesigned the conethe core of the V60, and has done so in two ways: design and material. The new V60 The material issue is the easiest to explain. The Neo is manufactured in a resin called ‘tritan’a plastic that retains great transparency, is resistant to both heat and impacts and has properties that make it very good in an essential issue for the most enthusiasts: very good thermal retention. This allows the temperature to remain stable during extraction so that the processes are more constant and it is easier to replicate a good coffee. The second change is the one that has drawn the most attention is a new geometry. From the larger “ribs,” Hario transitions to 72 microribs at the top that converge into nine channels at the base. The explanation is that these grooves will now guide the water much more uniformly, while the nine exit grooves ensure a clearer path towards the hole, minimizing the dreaded channeling. This channeling thing is interesting. because in any coffee maker, the water passes through the coffee and what it looks for is the least resistance in its path. If it encounters little resistance in one point, it will go that way, failing to go through other areas and, therefore, not extracting the solution that it could extract from the entire coffee. With the new design, what Hario suggests is that these channels will be minimized while we will be able to achieve a more uniform extraction. It seems like a lie, but there is a lot of technique in a cone that looks the same as the one from 20 years ago, but that makes sense if we look at the narrative of a brand that, it claims, has been working on prototypes and playing with fluid dynamics for two years. Is she a motorcycle dealer? Well… I don’t know. I have the original V60 and I am clear that my skills do not reach the point of thinking that those microribs are what I was missing to finish making the perfect coffee at home. I have not the slightest interest in this V60 Neo and, although it makes sense from the point of view of the very specific needs of a tiny niche of baristas, At home I don’t think it’s something different.. In fact, what interests me most about the new V60 is that they have kept the price very similar, so it remains one of the most affordable coffee makers with which to prepare a very good specialty coffee at home and, above all, it shows that a simple design, even if it can be intricate with micro-rib technology, triumphs if from the first moment it is a product that makes sense and that is … Read more

China has been using trams without rails or catenary for years. The problem is that they are not as revolutionary as they seem.

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Imagine a tram that runs on the asphalt like a bus, without needing rails, without overhead cables to feed on and without a driver. That is exactly ARTor Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit, a technology that China has been developing for more than a decade and that already operates in several cities in the country. An idea that comes from afar, although it may not seem like it. Chinese manufacturer CRRC, the world’s largest producer of railway equipment, presented the first prototype in Zhuzhou, China, in June 2017. The first commercial line It started in that same city in May 2018, with a route of just 3.2 kilometers. Since then, the system has nine operating lines in five Chinese cities. Yibin (Sichuan) was the second to joinin 2019, with a 17.7 kilometer line. Later came Xi’an, Yancheng and Yongxiu, where ART circulates both on a demonstration and commercial basis. Click on the image to play the video How it works. The ART It is, in essence, an articulated bus large that imitates the shape and capacity of a tram, but without requiring the infrastructure that makes trams expensive. The vehicle does not follow physical rails, but rather what CRRC calls a “virtual rail”: a set of marks painted on the asphalt (white dashed lines) that the guidance system reads in real time using optical cameras and LIDAR sensors. A GPS system complements the navigation. With three carriages, it measures about 30 meters and can transport up to 300 passengers; With five cars, it reaches 500. Its maximum speed is 70 km/h. The propulsion is 100% electric. Initial versions used supercapacitors (which charge very quickly at stops, but store little energy) and batteries. At InnoTrans 2024, one of the largest public transport fairs in Berlin, CRRC presented an evolved version that incorporates hydrogen propulsiondesigned especially for markets like Malaysia. The “autonomous” thing is nuanced. Here in this case marketing can be misleading. Although the acronym ART includes the word autonomous, all ART vehicles in operation still operate with a driver, using optical guidance for assistance. They are not autonomous driving vehicles in the strict sense of the word. The driver supervises the journey and takes control in the event of any incident. Why is it cheaper? The great promise of ART is the cost. According to CRRC data shared According to The Conversation, deploying a kilometer of this technology costs between 7 and 15 million dollars, compared to 20-30 million per kilometer for a conventional tram or 70-150 million for the subway. There is no digging, no catenary to lay, no rails to install. In principle, it is enough to paint markings on the asphalt and segregate a lane. However, according to they count researchers from the University of Sydney in the middle, that advantage has fine print. As the vehicle travels exactly the same route over and over again, with the wheels always stepping on the same points of the asphalt, the surface ends up deteriorating more quickly than on a conventional road. A study published in 2021 by transportation researchers James Raynolds, David Pham and Graham Currie found evidence of significant pavement wear, which may require structural reinforcement of the roadway. A process that, in some estimates, ends up being as expensive as installing rails directly. Where can you see it today? ARTs continue to be vehicles with the greatest presence in China. Outside this country, progress is modest, and its record is not devoid of failures. Indonesia, for example, purchased a vehicle which was returned to China after tests in Nusantara (the new capital under construction) when it was found that the autonomous control system was not working optimally and required constant manual intervention. In Abu Dhabi two units were tested under the TXAI brand, with a view to connecting the main tourist attractions of Yas Island. In Malaysia, Putrajaya launched a pilot project in February 2024. In Auckland, New Zealand, negotiations with CRRC broke down after the manufacturer demanded that the city purchase the vehicle at the end of the demonstration, something that Auckland Transport did not end up liking. Japan, for its part, study a similar concept (with hydrogen propulsion) to connect the Mount Fuji area with the tourist centers of Yamanashi. Although the regional governor preferred that the project be entrusted to Japanese companies, and not to CRRC. Cover image | Wikipedia In Xataka | China created the C919 to stand up to Airbus and Boeing. And we already have data to know if it is being successful

We have spent years looking for how to stop muscle fragility as we age. The answer was hidden in garlic

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Aging brings with it a series of inevitable tolls, and one of the most limiting is loss of muscle mass and strengthwhich is a problem known as sarcopenia. This can cause a person to not be able to move comfortably around their home, causing them to have significant limitations in their daily lives. But now we have seen that there is a compound in garlic that can help us delay this agingalthough without being magical. A new study. Now, a promising new study published in the prestigious magazine Cell Metabolism has identified a specific compound derived from garlic that improves age-related muscle function. But we must keep in mind that we are not talking about the raw garlic that we add to the pan and which for many has a horrible taste, but rather about a very particular metabolite present in the aged garlic extract. The protagonist. This study focuses specifically on S-1-propenyl-L-cysteine ​​(S1PC), which is one of the metabolites that is generated during the aging process of garlic. This is where we can find a little help to delay aging. But it is essential to avoid the promises of “anti-aging elixir”, since eating raw garlic daily will not provide you with the necessary doses of this compound to replicate the results. Furthermore, it must be taken into account that it is not a “cure against old age”, but rather a solid therapeutic target to combat muscle fragility and sarcopenia. A surprising connection. The most fascinating thing about the study is not only what S1PC does, but how it does it, since when ingested it directly activates an enzyme called LKB1 that encourages adipose tissue to secrete a key protein called eNAMPT into the bloodstream. This protein is essential, since when it reaches the brain it acts on the regulatory centers of systemic metabolism and causes nervous and chemical signals to be sent from the brain that drastically improve the function of skeletal muscle tissue. Just what we want to improve in aging. Your results. To verify that this mechanism really works, the researchers carried out tests in both animal models and humans. Here, aged mice, after being administered the metabolite S1PC, improved their muscle strength and reduced markers of frailty related to aging. In the case of humans, the team conducted a human clinical trial using aged garlic extract, and the results confirmed that consumption of this compound raises the levels of eNAMPT that we have discussed before. But the most interesting thing is that the effect is greater in those people with enough body fat, which makes sense, since this protein is released by the adipose tissue itself. Images | wirestock at Magnific In Xataka | It is possible to convince an AI that shoving garlic up your ass is a good idea. You just need the right words

It is a project that has been lying fallow for more than 30 years.

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Bilbao has been promising for a long time a subfluvial tunnel that runs under the Nervión, connecting both banks to be able to cross it in a few minutes. This would alleviate one of the biggest bottlenecks in Euskadi. The good news is that The works will start this summer. A problem that has been unsolved for decades. The Rontegi bridge supports nearly 175,000 vehicles a day and has become the main road bottleneck in Bizkaia. Crossing from one bank to the other of the Nervión estuary without passing through that point requires a detour of more than 13 kilometers. This causes chronic traffic jams, a considerable loss of time and ends up generating more emissions. The solution that had been on the table for decades (and that is now finally beginning to materialize) is a subfluvial tunnel that pierces the bed of the Nervión and directly connects the Right Bank with the Left Bank. What exactly is going to be built. The subfluvial will be 3.2 kilometers long and will be made up of two independent tubes (one in each direction of travel), each with two lanes and safety shoulders. It will link the Artaza roundabout, between Leioa and Getxo, with Ballonti, between Portugalete and Sestao. Just like they count from El Correo, the project will also include connections with La Avanzada, the Uribe Kosta corridor and the Getxo neighborhood of Zugazarte. The intention with the project is that in a journey that today can exceed fifteen minutes during rush houris reduced to just four. The effective distance will go from about 13 kilometers surrounding the estuary to just four. Heavy vehicles must pay a toll to use it, as occurs on other roads in Bizkaia. A technical challenge. The most demanding section will require drilling up to 45 meters below the river bed, crossing quite geologically sensitive materials. The Lamiako area, with its sandy terrain, is one of the most delicate points of the entire route. The project will use the cut and cover technique, which involves excavating from the surface, installing side retaining walls and then covering the infrastructure to generate a false underground tunnel. According to The Mailthe works will begin in Artaza, the access on the Right Bank and also the most delicate environment of the project, as it is made up of areas with a high residential density, and a school and institute nearby. More than 80 controlled microblasts will be used and it is expected that the Artaza park will be partially emptied. To minimize the impact and disturb neighbors as little as possible, open-air work will be limited to daytime and working hours. Of course, within the galleries, drilling will be done in continuous shifts, 24 hours a day. Figures. The work has quite an important magnitude, to be honest. According to data from the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the execution of the subfluvial will involve excavating 1.8 million cubic meters of earth and use more than 21,000 tons of steel. About 170 trucks will circulate every day to remove the extracted material (90 through the mouth of Artaza and 80 through Ballonti), whose destination will be the facilities of the Port of Bilbao, where the earth will be used to fill dikes. How the project is progressing and how much it will cost. The Provincial Council has already awarded two of the four major contracts into which the work is divided. As shared by El Correo, the Artaza junction will be executed by the UTE formed by Ferrovial, Construcciones Mariezcurrena and Cycasa, while the section to the Lamiako plain will be assumed by Nortúnel, Geotunel and Tunelan. Both contracts total 277 million euros (without VAT) and have an expected duration of 60 months. The Left Bank contracts (Ballonti access and riverbed drilling) will be awarded later. The total investment in the project is expected to be around 540 million euros, with a view to completing the work by 2032. Emissions and neighborhood controversy. The Provincial Council defends that the subfluvial will reduce polluting emissions thanks to shorter and more fluid routes, with an estimated annual saving of 6,000 tons of CO₂ and two million liters of fuel. However, the project It has generated quite a bit of discussion among the neighbors.. And various neighborhood and environmental platforms criticize the prioritization of road traffic in the midst of the climate transition. They also remember that the initial project contemplated a rail connection with Bilbao Metro stations such as Areeta and Sestao, something that ended up disappearing in the final project. This train was, precisely, one of the City Council’s main arguments in terms of sustainability. Artaza residents also express concern about noise, vibrations from blasting and truck traffic during years of construction. The Provincial Council has promised permanent controls, prior technical inspections in nearby buildings and a citizen service office throughout the execution. Cover image | Minube and Bizkaia.eus In Xataka | The most ambitious megastructure in Madrid is one beam closer to becoming a reality: the Ventas elevated park

The ‘Chinese Netflix’ has designed a plan for AI to generate the majority of its content within five years. It sounds risky

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iQiyi, China’s largest video streaming service with more than 400 million monthly active users, announced in its annual content presentation in Beijing which expects AI to generate most of its movies and series within five years. Its founder and CEO, Gong Yu, summed it up before a room of producers and directors with a succinct phrase: “It’s a once-in-a-decade opportunity. We have to go with the tide.” Why is it important. iQiyi is not a minor platform betting on a trend. It is the subsidiary of streaming of Baidu, shares with Alibaba and Tencent the online video oligopoly in China, and operates in the streaming largest in the world by number of users. Whether it decides to pivot towards content generated entirely by AI affects how the rest of the platforms that tend to follow in its footsteps will produce, distribute and monetize audiovisual entertainment. The context. iQiyi has been losing audience for years to Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok owned by ByteDance. Short video has cut into the time that Chinese users spend on long video platforms. The result is that its revenue has fallen by 13% in the first quarter of 2026. The company, listed on Nasdaq, has also applied for a second listing in Hong Kong seeking closer capital. The announcement of the pivot towards AI comes from a certain pressure. In detail. The center of the plan is Nadou Proa suite of AI tools that the company presented on April 20 and that, it says, can manage practically the entire film production process: script, storyboardvideo generation and final assembly. The software does not work with its own models, but rather integrates those of several direct competitors: Alibaba, ByteDance and Kuaishou for the domestic market; Seedance 2.0 and Google I Spy 3.1 for the international version. iQiyi has also launched a library of virtual assets and “signed” talent for third-party creators to generate new content using the platform’s characters and universes. The incentive strategy to attract these external creators involves… An extra 20% on advertising and subscription revenue for those who produce content with Nadou Pro. An inaugural catalog of 16 AI-generated films, in science fiction and anime. A public goal: release a commercially successful AI-generated film before the end of summer 2026. Yes, but. The question that remains to be seen is whether anyone will want to pay to see that. Recent history does not invite optimism. AI-generated video has shown some traction on TikTok and Instagram, where the cost of user attention is practically zero and the scroll Erase any disappointment in a tenth of a second. That this tolerance is transferred to a two-hour feature film for which someone pays a monthly subscription is another story. Between the lines. Gong Yu has said that iQiyi will continue investing in professional production, but in the same sentence he has clarified that this type of content will reduce its relative weight on the platform. The direction is quite clear. The risk is that viewers of C-dramas and the anime Koreans who have made iQiyi great are exactly the type of audience that has the least tolerance for ‘AI slop‘. Main loser? The producers and directors who filled that room in Beijing when Gong Yu announced the pivot. iQiyi has designed a system where independent creators can use Nadou Pro to generate content and earn a percentage of the advertising revenue. It’s the same model that YouTube has applied for years with human content, now transferred to AI. In this scheme, professionals in the sector go from being the protagonists of the production chain to being, in the best case, supervisors of a process that they no longer control. In Xataka | In China, 470 series made with AI are produced per day. 99.9% of them do not reach anyone Featured image | iQiyi, Xataka with Mockuuups Studio

Claude has helped a man recover $400,000 worth of bitcoin he lost 11 years ago. Logged in and forgot password

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An X user named Cprkrn recently told of his odyssey with a (very) happy ending in X. In 2015 he bought five bitcoins (BTC) when the price was around $250. In a fit of university euphoria he decided that his password should be an anti-establishment manifesto and changed it to the phrase ““lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)”. The problem is that he did it completely stoned, and when he got up the next morning he realized that his money had disappeared. He then began an odyssey to try to remember that password. One with a happy ending. Eleven years of despair. For eleven years, those five bitcoins remained lost while their value continued to increase. Today its value is around $400,000, and our protagonist has not stopped seeing how this fortune had slipped through his fingers. To try to recover the password he tried everything, especially brute force attacks to try to guess the password with thousands of combinations. He looked through old folders that he had saved without success, and then something occurred to him: turn to Claude. Claude didn’t hack your wallet, he was just a spectacular detective. What Cprkrn ended up doing was ask Claude to analyze 1 GB of iCloud backups, old Apple notes, emails, and forgotten system files saved on a computer I had used in college. The challenge was not to “crack” the password, but to find the trace of how it could have been created. Order within chaos. What Claude did was organize all that data that was scattered to turn it into a perfect structured file that could be analyzed. After evaluating all the information, the AI ​​model realized that it was trying to open the wrong file. He located a file called wallet.dat from before the password change that caused the nightmare, and crossed it with a mnemonic phrase that the user had written down in an old notebook that he had discarded. That allowed that password to be reconstructed, and in less than an hour Cprkrn had recovered his fortune and regained access to your BTC wallet. Money safe. The first thing he did after discovering that password was move those bitcoins to another secure wallet to avoid problems: every conversation we have with Claude or other chatbots is recorded on the servers of those companies in plain text, so Cprkrn covered his back to prevent that information from being used to avoid scares. Blessed Darius. The joy of having recovered those five bitcoins led this user to publish a message on Twitter telling the whole adventure. In said message promised who would name his future son “Darío” in honor of Anthropic CEO, Darío Amodei. Needles in the haystack. History shows that great language models are extraordinary tools for finding needles in haystacks. Traditional tools helped, but AI’s ability to analyze information and find patterns is once again amazing. This anecdote is linked, for example, to recent rise of models like Claude Mythos Preview to find security vulnerabilities that seemed impossible to find. Again, everything is based on the ability of these models to “understand” the data provided to them, organize them and extract what is needed from them. Being a digital Diogenes has a reward. For years the recommended practice for those changing or upgrading equipment was “delete/format the old, start from scratch with the new.” This story changes the focus, because in the age of AI, messy data from 15 or 20 years ago is not digital garbage: it can be a treasure that helps us review our past and reveal data that we no longer remember. The story, however, contrasts with that of James Howells, who for years struggled to try to recover the hard drive with thousands of bitcoins that ended up in a landfill. He ended up giving up after the court’s refusal to give him permission to search for that hard drive. Image | Kanchanara In Xataka | The NYT claims to have found Satoshi Nakamoto and the evidence is as conclusive as ever: little or nothing

Iceland has had a four-day work week since 2019. Seven years later, it delivers on all the promises of Gen Z

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Iceland was one of the first countries that dared to experiment with the four-day workday and new working day models maintaining the salary. Today, Iceland has not only managed to reduce the working hours of 86% of its population, but it is also among the most dynamic European economies. These data show that the four-day work week and the reduction of working hours are not incompatible with growth. Pioneers of the four-day work week. Between 2015 and 2019, the country implemented a pilot program in which 2,500 public employees reduced their working hours from 40 hours a week to between 35 and 36 hours. The Iceland test data indicated that productivity levels were maintained and the well-being of workers who reported lower levels of stress and well-being was considerably improved. improvements in work-life balance. The reactions were immediate and the Icelandic unions reached agreements with the companies to take this model to other sectors. According to the study monitoring of the experiment of reduction of working hours carried out by the Autonomy Institute of the United Kingdom and the Association for Sustainability and Democracy (ALDA) of Iceland, as a result of those negotiations, 86% of Icelanders already work under some form of reduced hours. “This shows that the public sector is prepared to be a pioneer in reducing the working week, and other governments can learn from this lesson,” said Will Stronge, research director at Autonomy Institute. Years of implementation are beginning to bear fruit. Monitoring of test data in Iceland has continued to see the long-term effects on the impact of the reduction in working hours both among employees and on the country’s economy. ALDA and the Autonomy Institutejust published a study in which it analyzes the impact after four years of reduced working hours available to the majority of its population. Between 2020 and 2022, for example, 51% of its workforce already had access to reduced working hours, including a four-day work week or a five-day work week with shorter days. In parallel, the study revealed that Iceland’s economy was growing faster than that of most of its European neighbors. According to the report World Economic Outlook April 2024 prepared by the International Monetary Fund, Iceland’s economy recorded growth of 5.2% for 2024 and 4.9% for 2025. Greater well-being for employment. The International Monetary Fund report points to the strength of employment in Iceland as one of the keys to its economic growth. According to the ALDA study By 2024, 78% of Icelandic workers are satisfied with their current job. 62% of those who have adopted reduced working hours claim to feel more satisfied with their working hours, while 97% have stated that shorter working hours have made their balance between work and family easier. Impact on the Icelandic economy. The authors of the study point out that Iceland had always worked more hours than its surrounding countries, obtaining lower productivity. However, they highlight that, after the change in working hours, the productivity in Iceland has increased 1.5% annually on average over the last five years. “This is a possible break with the past, when productivity was lower in Iceland than in neighboring countries.” The data provided by the study reflect a behavior very similar to that recorded in the test of the Valencia four-day week: Having more free time encourages the local economy and recreational activities. The study estimates the improvement in the internal economy at 10% after implementing reduced working hours. The key is not the reduction of working hours. The conclusions of the study reflect an idea that was also put on the table in the conclusions of the test of the four-day work week in Germany: “A probable cause of this change (in productivity) is the optimization of work and the reorganization of work shifts as strategies aimed at reducing effective work hours,” the study notes. This clarification reveals that the key to the successive successes in terms of productivity of the tests of the four-day work week would not be a consequence of the reduction of the working day itself, but of the prior optimization process that is carried out in these experiments. Happy future. Iceland’s experience is especially positive for generation Z, definitely the labor cohort that most enthusiastically embraces hybrid or reduced work formats. As we have seen in other countries, Sean Norway or Germany, and as various studies point outGeneration Z has a strong preference for the four-day week. Both socio-labor trends and cultural priorities point in that direction. And the case of Iceland is important because it underlines that the economy is not suffering. In Xataka | Germany is considering the most ambitious labor reform: it wants to eliminate the limit on eight-hour days a day Image | Einar H. Reynis

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