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Mark Zuckerberg is transforming an idyllic neighborhood of Palo Alto into his personal strength

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Grow PRK is an opulent neighborhood of Palo Alto in California, which for decades has been the dreamed home of lawyers, executives and renowned teachers. A place where wooded streets and single -family houses made up a quiet and community stamp. Until Mark Zuckerberg moved. The arrival of the founder of Meta to the neighborhood was noted. As He has reported The New York Times, ended this idyllic peace. The billionaire, whose fortune is estimated Right in 270,000 million dollars, it has invested 110 million dollars in the purchase of at least 11 properties, creating a residential macrocomplex that has brought with them pharaonic works, extreme surveillance and a deep discomfort among the neighbors who still remain. A monopoly in real life. What was previously a normal neighborhood has become the Zuckerberg personal monopoly board. Since 2011, it has gone acquiring the houses surrounding their main residence in a staggered manner In Englewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue. The offers, often of the double or triple of their market value, have caused one family to leave the neighborhood. To maintain a low profile, purchases were made through limited liability societies, with natural theme names such as ‘Pine Burrow’ or ‘Seed Breeze’. The result is that Zuckerberg now has an entire apple, with several empty properties in the middle of the worst housing that crosses California. The construction of a small city. Zuckerberg’s plan was not simply to accumulate houses, but to create a great complex to have all the comforts available. That is why five of the properties they acquired have merged into an enclosure that includes: The main residence where the goal CEO lives with his family. Guest houses. Gardens extensive and a pickleball track. A pool with a ‘hydrosuelo’ that allows it to be covered by complex to make parties. But its great residential complex also reaches the depths. And it is that underground, the project is even more ambitious. The work permits speak of basements, but the neighbors describe it as ‘bunkers’, or what colloquially already seems to name it as the “Batcueva of the billionaires.” And logically everything has meant having works almost uninterrupted for eight years, Filling the quiet streets of this noise neighborhoodmachinery and debris. This is something that has not only done in California Zuckerberg, but is also doing in Hawaiiwhere you are building mansions on land of almost 400 hectares in total. But when knowing the reason for these, the confidentiality of the plans is what we are. Zuckerberg is seen as an invader. The presence of the Meta CEO feels daily. Surveillance is one of the most conflicting points. There are security cameras that point to neighboring houses and a private security team that constantly patrol the streets of the neighborhood. And they even tell how the members of this team question people who simply walk down the street, as if they were intruders or suspects of something. One of the most affected people, Michael Kieschnick, a neighbor whose house is surrounded by all three sides by Zuckerberg properties, is one of the most critical voices when pointing out that “no neighborhood wants to be occupied.” Although this is precisely what he feels with the presence of the Meta CEO. “The billionaires are accustomed to creating their own rules” is the feeling that this neighbor has to see how the City Council initially rejected the initial construction plan. But then it has been slowly developing to be able to raffle the refusal that was given in 2016. The Zuckerberg family doesn’t see it that way. One of the spokesmen that has been authorized to talk to the press defends that the couple strives to be modelic neighbors. He ensures that intense security is necessary due to “specific and credible threats”, that cameras do not point to the properties of other people and that the events that are developed are notified with time. They even try to compensate for discomfort. In one of the last parties that took place in this complex, an ice cream cart was sent to the neighbors. And even when the works were developed and the noise could become very annoying, those affected with foamy wine, chocolates or donuts were presented. And even giving away headphones with noise cancellation. It is a new fashion among Millionaires. Zuckerberg is not the only one who has taken this path. Others like Jeff Bezos too has invested billions in mansions, ranches And even on an island as it is Billionaire Bunker who presented as ‘little’ problem the Not knowing how to manage your excrements. Of figures admired to “villains of the 21st century”. We are seeing precisely as the great technological figures that were highly respected by marking a turning point in our vision of the entire world, it is changing. Elon Musk himself has also caused the IRA of neighbors with a house in Texas which was supposedly modified without permits. Images | Goal The New York Times In Xataka | Larry Page wants to get lost on an island, but it is not decided which. So you bought five

Zuckerberg is offering 1,000 million to take the best engineers. The problem is that they are rejecting it

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After being considered The cover of the AIGoal did not live up to expectations with The flame launch 4. So, in the Search for general artificial intelligence (AGI), Mark Zuckerberg He entered “Founder Mode”. Your great goal? Start winning another of the wars that I was losing: The attraction of talent. The ambition behind their Galactic offers believe A new upper class in Silicon Valley. Waiting to see results from his new Superintelligence team, of China majority, Zuck It has encountered a company where for the moment it has not been able to fish despite offers of up to 1,000 million dollars, According to Wired. It’s about Thinking Machines Labthe startup of Look Murati. So powerful gentleman is not a money. It is not yet known exactly what they are in in Thinking Machines Lab, but among its more than 50 employees there is a lot of talent, starting with Murati, one of the chatgpt mothers and head of OpenAi technology until less than a year ago. Goal has made offers to more than ten startup employees. And what offers. The Zuckerberg company has offered payments of between 50 and 100 million euros in the first year, with amounts ranging from 200 to 500 million dollars in four years, according to Wired. With an exception: an offer of 1,000 million in several years. And neither has a goal to attract talent: for now, employees are not accepting offers. The reason. Sam Altman came to affirm that Meta failed to take away talent because Openai employees believed that his company would be the best positioned for “Develop superintelligence“And” the company that is worth more. “According to Wired sources, which has led to Thinking Machines Lab to retain talent has to do with the leadership style of Alexandr Wangco -founder of Scale aiand that Zuckerberg has put in charge of the galactic team superintelligence labs. Despite their history, they mention their lack of experience (28 years) as one of the causes not to want to work under their command. That has not prevented the round of signings centered on OpenAi and Deepmind to be successful, despite having engineers from the same profile of the Murati team. Mark Chen, Cro, from Openai, told the respect that they felt that “Someone has sneaked into our house and stole something“. According to him Wall Street JournalChen would have been another of the AI geniuses to which Zuckerberg would have offered an offer on 1,000 million. Important, “for the moment”. In a market that does not stop moving, the deadlines are crucial and very changing decisions. Sam Altman He presumed That goal was not able to take any of its best employees despite offers of 100 million a year. However, a few days later, It was confirmed that with his irrigation of finishing money he had attracted: Bi Suchao (ex-openai. China): He was co-creator of the GPT-4o and O4-mini voice mode. Chang Huiwen (Ex-Openai. China): Co-Creator of the GPT-4O image generator. Before he worked in Google, where he created Maskit and Muse. Lin Ji (Ex-Openai. China): He worked on the creation of several language models, from GPT-4O to GPT-4.5. He also dealt with the reasoning of Operator. Ren Hongyu (ex-openai. China): He helped create several models and led the post-training team. Zhao Shengjia (Ex-Openai. China): He directed the synthetic data program and was key in the creation of Chatgpt. Yu Jiahui (ex-openai. China) led the perception team. Trapit Bansal (Ex-Openai. India): co-creator of several language models and pioneer of the combination between reinforced learning and ‘chain of thought’. It seems that Zuck Yes managed to leave several of the best, with a Chinese majority. You have to wait to see if the finishing CEO does not cause any ravage in Thinking Machines Lab. Ilya Sutskeveranother ancient heavyweight of OpenAi, a goal was not successful, even offering him Buy your startup for 32,000 million dollars. But the Meta team did Add to Daniel Grossyour adventure partner. In Apple they are falling. After fishing in Deepmind and Openai, goal pulled wallet with another Big Tech, Apple. Achievement take to Ruoming Pangfor 200 million dollars distributed in several years, an amount superior even to the one Tim Cook takes In a similar period. After this announcement, key for being Pang responsible for Apple’s models, Cupertino’s company lost two of the employees who worked for him: Mark Lee and Tom Gunter. Yesterday Bloomberg reported fourth big exit: Bowen Zhang. A plan that goes beyond talent. With the Metaverso as long -term betand with him Wall Street supportMark Zuckerberg goes with everything for AI. And everything is not just talent. He is so hurry to lead the AI who has done something unusual: Build a tent databasewaiting for it to be built ‘Hyperion‘, its mastodontic Data Center for the size of Manhattan. Feeding these megaconstructions need energy, a lot of energy. And goal too is launched for hereven betting on nuclear centrals that They were going to close soon. Image | Goal and Xataka In Xataka | The AI industry has become a kind of ‘game of thrones’. And that reveals a worrying truth for your future

Mark Zuckerberg is building mansions in Hawaii as if there were no tomorrow. No one knows what

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Mark Zuckerberg is putting target legs with his Galactic signings For his Superintelligence team, and also Hawaii, where he has been buying land and building buildings more than a decade. So much later, what is pursued there is still an unknown, especially in terms of details as a mysterious and giant underground bunker. Zuck continues to buy and build to expand his complex megalomaniac. In 2023, We knew the existence From Kolau Ranch, a new mansion that Mark Zuckerberg was building surrounded by luxuries. The figures left no doubt about the magnitude of the project: a minimum of 270 million dollars (counting only the value of the land and the main work) and 500 hectares. According to a new investigation of WiredAt the beginning of the year there has been a new purchase of land totaling almost 400 hectares. In total, today the property of the CEO amounts to approximately 930 hectares. The expense? More than 300 million dollars. Because. It is the great mystery, nobody knows what plans exactly in mind. An old project employee summed up well the secretism that surrounds the constructions of the Meta CEO project: “It is the fight club. We do not talk about the fight club.” Behind this difficulty in obtaining information, even in the field, are strict confidentiality agreements signed by the workers. They have sworn silence and expose themselves to lose their jobs if they talk to the press. What is building exactly. The first part of the plan, in which there was an investment of at least 270 million, included two huge mansions with dizzy figures: 500 hectares, an underground shelter of 460 m2 and a dozen buildings with at least 30 rooms and 30 bathrooms. Now Zuckerberg is building three large more austere buildings (so to speak), more functional and far from opulence. According to the information that Wired has been able to access, each one has 16 rooms and, in common, share a space of 120 square meters. The global size of the buildings range from 700 to 1,000 square meters. The confirmed. Brandi Hoffine Barr, representative of Zuckerberg in Hawaii, has confirmed to Wired that the new buildings will be used as guest housing: family, friends and staff. Not only are they 10 times larger than the middle house of the archipelago: two of them will cost between 3.5 and 4 million dollars. One of the most enigmatic parts of the megalomaniac project of the Meta CEO is its underground bunker. Regarding this, what he said is that it is not a bunker For the end of the worldbut “A small shelter, A basement“ It has encountered a funeral problem. While Zuckerberg has been put in founding mode To recruit the major Galactic team of artificial intelligence (AI) and assemble Data centers in tentsKauai’s properties, in Hawaii, have not brought him very good news, according to Wired. Zuckerberg’s property is on a cemetery where Julian Ako’s ancestors, a local resident. And a local fight. After negotiations, Ako has made access to the land to register the tombs of his great -grandparents, because he knew that his great grandmother and her brother are buried there. The local community fears that if more remains appear, it is not notified due to the confidentiality agreements signed by the workers. According to Ako, if they discover more bones and communicate it, construction workers put their jobs into play. The problem is not new, because in its first purchases, in 2014, Zuckerberg had to deal with the rights that the premises had on their property. Despite this, for now, nothing slows Zuck. Representative Brandi Hoffine Barr acknowledged knowing the idiosyncrasy of the land in 2015, and states that they fenced and maintained the fossal part. Millionaire’s trend buying in Hawaii. Mark Zuckerberg or is the only billionaire who with his investments aggravates the problem: Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey either Marc BenioffCEO of Salesforce, have also disbursed huge amounts of money for giving parts of the islands. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, who recently has unseat Zuck as a richer man, Buy Lanai Island almost completely. The consequence? The locals had to leave. With a huge consequence in the state. Although Zuckerberg is resorting to philanthropia and financing non -profit organizations, his investment is contributing to a problem of the islands and global: extremely expensive housing and away from the financial possibilities of local citizens. Prices is triggered from the pandemic, when many rich and Teleworking They moved to the paradisiacal environment. Influence in other billionaires. The publication of the Zuckerberg plan and his giant bunker has influenced In the rich bunkers market. Al Corbi, founder of Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments (SAFE), told that the request for information on the construction of these elements increased considerably when Zuckerberg’s plans were made public. According to Corbi, recently bunkers “have grown a lot in size and stature”, pointing to details such as equipment to keep a family for a week. The question is whether they will have a Pendrive with Ia. Outstanding image | Braden Jarvis in Unspash, Goal In Xataka | Larry Page wants to get lost on an island, but it is not decided which. So you bought five

Zuckerberg has given the keys of the future to a child prodigy of 97

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There is the elite talent ecosystem in AI like a anthill in the rain by The 100 classes that Zuckerberg is disbursing (In some case even more) to be able to take a goal to not only scientists of a very high level, but to the type of people who are able to move the needle that matters most: that of the stock market capitalization of the entire company. In those, surely he is not doing all the noise that the person deserves in whose hands the real power of the goal has ended. It is the one who solved the most mundane and decisive problem: how to feed it. Alexandr Wang, 28 years oldHe did not create Chatgpt or Gemini, but he did built a fundamental infrastructure to make possible proposals. And now Zuckerberg has opted 14.3 billion dollars to this – insulting – young is the piece he needed to win the superintelligence career. Son of outstanding scientists in New Mexico, Wang is the founder of Scale AI, a company that does the dirty work, the one that nobody sees but everyone needs: label and prepare the data that train the most advanced AI models of the world. It is not glamorous, but it is indispensable. Like himself He explained“AI is reduced to three pillars: computation, data and algorithms. The computation is promoted by people like Nvidia, algorithmic advances come from great laboratories such as OpenAi, and the data is fed by Scale.” His great success was to understand something that in 2025 seems obvious but that a few years ago was: that the bottleneck of the AI ​​does not only go to algorithms or calculation power, but of quality data, something that We already count on Xataka In … 2019! And Wang, instead of pursuing a viral AI application, started selling shovels in full gold fever. And it turns out that everyone needed shovels. On Monday, Zuckerberg sent an internal memo that sounds more like a declaration of war than with simple reorganization. And it is fair to recognize that when Zuckerberg gets in visionary mode, he usually is right. Nine years ago he nailed him. Wang is a technical genius, but only explains a part of his meteoric ascent despite his youth. The least obvious is that Early understanding where the real value is. When researchers much more experienced than he focused on competing creating better algorithms, he realized that the future would be the one to control the data. “You can have the best algorithms in the world, but if you don’t have quality data, you have nothing,” said Wang. Scale AI became the data provider for OpenAi, Google, Microsoft and, of course, goal. Basically, It was placed in the modern AI supply chain center. Something that has earned more than 14,000 million. His business philosophy is also pure maturity and balance, not always present in entrepreneurs under 30 (Ahem). Keep personal control over each hiring. Also about each data delivery to its customers. “The quality is fractal, the high standards are filtered throughout the organization”, He said. It is also true that if Scale AI was in creditors, we would say that he could not delegate. As the scenario is very different, we praise its involvement. It is, in any case, obsessive to the extreme, but in the correct specific aspects and not with all the width of an organization. “If you really exceed something, if you go to 10 miles per hour of more and constantly go further, then you will improve faster than any other,” said. Pise the accelerator so as not to lift the foot from there. Meta needed Wang because his previous strategy has not finished working: Call 4 It has been a disappointment in a market in which a disappointment is lapidary. Eleven of the fourteen researchers of the flame team They have left target. Several of them have gone to Mistral. Zuckerberg has realized that he is losing a career he really wants to win. And his solution has been to buy the most valuable data ecosystem in the world and give the keys to its creator. Meta reorganization under the umbrella of ‘Meta Superintelligence Labs’ is much more than cosmetics. It is a tacit admission that AI cannot be another department within the finish line. It has to be a goal. And he has put a traditional one twenty -year -old Yann Lecun. It is a total commitment: that in the world of superintelligence, it matters more to understand how the AI ​​business works that the algorithms work. Wang has been selling shovels for years while others cavan. Now Zuckerberg has given him the treasure map. In Xataka | If in 2020 they would have asked us which technology would be more attractive in 2025 we would not have said ‘goal’. But here we are Outstanding image | Scale ai

Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands

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Google used to be the place where all software engineers They dreamed of working. However, in recent years that dream It has vanished. The company, known for its conciliatory culture, now surprises with a strategy that invites some workers to leave the company voluntarily To save costs in dismissal, according to an internal email published by The Verge. New voluntary output strategy. As you can read in the memorandum to which you have had access The VergeGoogle is offering a voluntary exit to the employees of its “Knowledge and Information” department (K & I, for its acronym in English), the area that includes those responsible for the search tool, engineering, marketing, research and communications. This document signed by Nick Fox, current responsible of the department, raises the possibility that, those who want to leave the company voluntarilythey can do it with economic incentives, in what is known as the “Voluntary Exit Program” (VEP), a pilot program of voluntary exits that Google put to the test in some departments after the dismissal of 12,000 employees in 2023. In Xataka Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Google is only for motivated. In Your statement, Nick Fox, it has been very clear: “If you are excited about your work, full of energy because of the opportunity that you present to you and you yield well, I really hope (really!) That you do not accept this. We have ambitious plans and much to do.” At the same time, Google offers “an exit path with support for those who do not feel aligned with our strategy, do not feel vitalized for their work, or are having difficulty fulfilling the expectations of their role within the company.” Said otherwise, The door has taught them. Welcome to the offices. Since 2022, Google has carried out different rounds of layoffs massive, and has progressively hardening the flexibility to telework through pressures in employee assessments. The filtered document does not let the occasion escape and also remember that employees living less than 80 kilometers from a work center must go to the office three days a week to the office, and encouraging to move closer to them to Those who live further. {“Videid”: “X919SE0”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “The AI ​​and the future of our work Silvia Rivela | 100 years, 100 visions Ep.3”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “2630”} Template reaction. The reaction of the workforce to the new “non-descent” policy It has not been waiting. When associated with a hardening of teleworking policy for that department, many see in it an undercover dismissal that seeks to save dismissal costs. The discomfort has been fed because, while the dismissals and founders were happening demanded 12 -hour daysPichai sundar The salary climbed And the company announced Milmillonarios benefits. Risk leakage risk. Google is running a very high risk that, when opening the door to their employees, the best qualified decide to take the floor and lose their best talent in this operation of Costs. The announcement, in addition, occurs in a delicate moment. Companies as a goal are willing to Offer millionaire figures To capture that talent, especially in areas such as artificial intelligence, so this movement could have unexpected consequences for the competitiveness of the company. In Xataka | A figure shows that the problem is not to find qualified talent, but knowing how to retain it: 24.1% labor rotation Image | Unspash (Adarsh ​​Chauhan) (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Google has opened the door to its employees so that whoever is not motivated to go voluntarily: Zuckerberg rubs his hands It was originally posted in Xataka by Rubén Andrés .

A US nuclear power plant was going to close after running out of subsidies. Mark Zuckerberg has taken the opportunity to keep it

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Training large models of artificial intelligence consumes so much energy that technology companies are “appropriate” of nuclear power plants. Goal saves a nuclear power plant. Goal, the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp matrix, He has just signed an agreement which symbolizes paradigm shift. The company led by Mark Zuckerberg has saved a nuclear power plant that had the days of a 20 -year contract. Constellation Energy Corp., the largest nuclear operator in the United States, will supply 1,121 megawatts of energy from its Central de Clinton, in Illinois, directly to the target data centers. The contract will begin in mid -2027 and will be in force until 2047. It is not a casual date. 2027 is when the state subsidy that kept the Clinton nuclear power plant. To understand it you have to rewind 10 years until 2017. At that time, the Clinton Power Station, like so many other nuclear centrals in the US, was on the tightrope. Unable to compete with the low prices of natural gas and the rise of renewables, its then owner, Exelon, threatened to close it. Only an intervention in extremis From the Illinois government, which approved a 10 -year subsidies package, the oxygen ball it needed. A Big Tech knocked on the door. Finally, it will be a technological giant, in full boom of generative artificial intelligence, which stays with the Illinois Central. Total goal consumption It has been quasite Between 2019 and 2023. Training and operating generative AI models requires giant data centers running at full performance 24 hours a day. This is where the main weakness of renewable energy sources is shown, such as photovoltaic or wind solar: despite being a key piece of the stark strategy of technology companies, their intermittency makes them an insufficient option. Nuclear energy, with a massive and stable supply, complete the puzzle allowing companies to maintain their commitments to be neutral in carbon emissions. Goal is not alone. The goal is the last one, but it is not an isolated case. Rather, it is the confirmation of a strategic trend that has been consolidated in the last two years. Technological giants have gone from signing energy purchase agreements with renewables to actively seek the stability of atomic energy. In a movement similar to Microsoft, Microsoft signed an agreement with Constellation for Reactivate Reactor 1 of the Three Mile Island Central (famous for the accident of your reactor 2). The Central, which had been closed in 2019, now feeds the Azure data centers for AI. Amazon Web Services has moved directly to a nuclear power plant. In March 2024 bought for 650 million dollars A gigantic data center adjacent to the Susquehanna plant, in Pennsylvania. The agreement guarantees 960 MW of direct energy for its AI operations. Image | Constellation Energy, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) In Xataka | Japan’s energy gauge: after trying to become independent from its nuclear, it has had to back down

Zuckerberg is desperate with the advance of AI in goal. So entered “Founder Mode”

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Mark Zuckerberg is very frustrated with the advances of his company in artificial intelligence, so much that he is personally hiring a new team of AI experts and researchers to correct the current course of the company. His last launch was Call 4 and, as Bloomberg reportshe has not lived up to expectations. This has caused that the CEO is being implemented to the maximum in the creation of this new team with which it intends to turn to lead the competition and achieve its great goal: to create a AGI (general artificial intelligence). Absolute priority. Zuckerberg has entered “Founder Mode”, this means that he is not delegating the creation of the superintelligence team, as they refer to him internally, but is participating in each step of the process. Fuenter nearby, say that the CEO created a WhatsApp group with other executives to discuss possible candidates and is the first to contact them. He has even met with them in their houses of Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto and has reorganized the offices of its headquarters in Melo Park so that the team feels close to their office and that everything is as private as possible. The team will be made up of around 50 people and will have researchers and infrastructure engineers among others. What is not clear is how it will be integrated with the rest of the AI ​​teams in the finish line or if there will be possible dismissals. Discontent with the advances of the finish line in AI. In April, Meta announced Call 4its great language model that competes with others such as GPT-4. The truth is that it is difficult to unseat Chatgpt, which just in April was also proclaimed as The most downloaded app of the world. The people of the Meta team worked nights and weekends, but the result has been disappointing. This also caused a delay in launching Call 4 Behemothits biggest model to date, because the current one is not at the level they want. Given this, frustrated, Zuckerberg has decided that he wants a new team. Objective: General artificial intelligence. In early 2024, Zuckerberg revealed his great long -term goal: reach general artificial intelligence and “open it to the Open Source so that everyone can benefit.” General artificial intelligence is an even more ambitious concept; an AI that is able to perform any intellectual task, to carry out judgments and reason even with a greater capacity than human beings. There are many companies wanting to lead the next great jump in AI and goal does not want to be left behind. Zuckerberg would be determined to achieve it, although it seems an unrealistic objective considering that it has been launched so far, he has not lived up to his expectations. A Milmillionaire investment. In parallel to the formation of the new team, Zuckerberg would be planning a large investment in Scale AI, a company that offers services to train AI models and also develops applications for companies and governments. With this they would make a leap in quality by having a better data labeling. Although it is not confirmed, bells sound like The agreement is in a very advanced phase and could get to no less than 15,000 million dollarsthe largest external goal investment to date. But Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to worry these millionaire investments. According to Bloomberg, he told possible candidates for his team that the target advertising business is strong and have plenty of liquidity to finance their career in the AI ​​sector. One of these investments would have to do with the Creation of a gigantic data center that could leave for 200,000 million dollars. At its target moment he denied it, but if confirmed it would end up being the most expensive to date, followed by Amazon that will cost $ 100,000 million. In Xataka | What is calls, how we work and what do we know about the artificial intelligence of Meta

This literary science fiction utopia advocates the disappearance of millionaires. And Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg love

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The saga of ‘the culture’ of Iain M. Banks is one of the series of Science fiction books most important and influential of the history of gender. And among his fans are names as notorious of the Tech sector as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg either Jeff Bezos. What is still curious: the message and background of the saga are in one direction, it could be said, diametrically opposite to the businesses led by these billionaires. So … why do you like so much? The culture of ‘culture’. The saga consists of no less than ten books, the first of them written in 1987 and the last in 2012. In them there is a society in which the pan-human (similar to us in appearance, but without being completely clear what relationship they keep with humanity) coexist with artificial intelligences, having overcome any problem of scarcity of the past. All citizens can careless work: technology takes care of everything. Until death is a problem of the past: diseases have been left behind, and minds can move from one body to another when bodies do not give more. Below the work. ‘Culture ‘is one of the most clearly positioned science fiction works in political terms, already a difference from conservative thought classics such as’ the rebel rebellion’ of Ayn Rand Or allegations of white supremacism not very camouflaged such as ‘The landing’ or ‘Turner’s newspapers’, leans towards the socialist utopia, more in the line of other classications such as ‘Iron heel’ by Jack London. In the Society of ‘Culture’ goals are reached Socialist theory: Post-scarce society, abolition of money and private property, radical equality, voluntary work, collective management, absence of coercive laws, personal freedom … an authentic utopia. Stones to the roof itself. And since there are no inequalities for economic reasons, the same concept of oligarchs is aberrant. Banks hated the idea that a lot of money will concentrate on a few hands. As he exposed This article in Voxthe solution to antisocial behavior in ‘culture’ is not the legal punishment, but to make the offender a social out of theory, cancellation. Something against what they have manifested openly These billionaires. And well, then there is the subject of the genre completely fluid in this utopian society: the rigid genres are completely overcome. And we already know how little they like Musk, Bezos either Zuckerberg LGTBI ideas. What do you see? It is clear What do they like about ‘the culture’ then: The fascinating vision of technology as a solution to all problems. From facilitating the most daily tasks to overcome in space battles, everything is mediated by artificial technology and intelligences. Of course, for Banks technology is not an end in itself, but a tool in search of a more just and equitable society. And without millionaires. But it is easy for these oligarchs of technology to skip that part, because the comfortable is to get carried away by the sissured show that also proposes ‘culture’ (which are adventure novels, not thesis). Of course, it should be noted that there are voices, such as The journalist Max Readwho affirm that perhaps Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg have not completely misunderstood ‘culture’. Especially if we compare it with the findings of the other utopia par excellence of science fiction, ‘the dispossessed’ of Ursula K. Leguinis of dyes closest to anarchism. Possessing utopias. As technology is more complex, the bridges of understanding between science fiction and innovation are more constant. Science fiction has helped us to imagine the future and carry it out, and therefore the technological elites of Silicon Valley have reinterpreted utopias as inspiration, and even sometimes as Brandingas Musk did Putting Space X ship namesinspiring Neuralink’s own concept and defining itself as an “utopian anarchist of those described by Iain M. Banks.” He is not the only one who appropriates the saga: Bezos will adapt the first book of ‘La Cultura’ In Prime Video. And Zuckerberg promoted the saga in your reading club In 2015. However, this possession of the ideas of Banks or other utopias as a generator of imaginary and technological concepts has very obvious inconveniences when it goes from socialist utopia to business narrative. The critical sense of literary works is diluted and enters a paradox: that of the technocratic utopia. Banks is not here to meet her, but something tells us that he would have produced chills. In Xataka | The groundbreaking world of Chinese science fiction: this is the literature from which ‘the problem of the three bodies “has come out”

Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg and Altman believe that our mobiles have the days counted. Tim cook doesn’t have it so clear

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Substitute is sought for the mobile phone. We have been looking for it for years, but it is that smartphones continue to prove to be perfect products in almost all the scenarios. However, several great technological leaders They seem clear that the mobile has an expiration dateand the AI ​​and a potential change in the way we interact with technology have the fault. Elon Musk and Neuralink. The tycoon has been trying to win the AI ​​career for some time With his startup XAI And his Grok model, but also has another startup that will end up being the one that makes the mobile disappear. It is neither more nor less than Neuralinkwhose implants could become an extraordinary option to communicate with technological devices. Bill Gates and the tattoos. The Microsoft co -founder converted to Philanthropist has already advanced in 2022 that one of the potential substitutes (or rather, accessories, at least in this case) of mobiles They are electronic tattoos. He himself ended up investing in a startup called Chaotic Moon —What was acquired by Accenture in 2015 – that combines aesthetics and biotechnology. The orientation of these tattoos is for the health moment, but it could be used for other uses. Mark Zuckerberg and glasses. Much more plausible looks like Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, than with their Ray-Ban Meta connected glasses It proposes an increasingly promising alternative to the mobile. Maybe not for everything, of course, but every time for more things. These devices can win many integers thanks to artificial intelligence, and in fact we saw how their evolution, the Project Orionit does raise a future in which perhaps the mobile is much less relevant. He already said it: His prediction is that In 2030 we will not get so much the pocket smartphone Thanks to connected glasses. Sam Altman and the AI ​​iPhone. Meanwhile, the OpenAi CEO, Sam Altman, also seems to be clear that hardware can end up being the perfect substitute for our mobile devices. We still do not know what type of device is raising, but it has joined the famous Jony Ive who for years was the head of Industrial Design in Apple. Together they have the objective of Create the “AI iPhone”. Tim Cook continues to believe on the mobile. Faced with all of them, Tim Cook believes that mobile phones still have a long way ahead. In the presentation of results of the first fiscal quarter of 2015, the Apple CEO highlighted its optimism about the future of mobiles When saying “I think there is still a lot of innovation in smartphones.” Its pro vision are for example a product that is not raised to be used outdoors, but they seem to have a rival for the finish line in study through the Project Atlas. Hardware with AI has been a failure. The truth is that a year ago the fever of devices with AI seemed to promise a turning point. However both the Humane Ai Pin like him Rabbit R1 They ended up being two great technological fiascos. None met expectations, and today both products are practically missing from the map. The optimism of Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg or Altman is striking, but today the mobile seems to continue having rope for (much) time. Image | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Rabbit R1 and the Humane Ai Pin are too green. It turns out that we already have the best AI device in the pocket

Zuckerberg dismissed 5% of the goal template “for low performance”. His former employees say there is another reason

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In the same way as It is not the same to resign That they fire you (although the result is that you are left without employment), it is not the same as they fire you For a staff cut that for “low performance”. Goal, ha 5% of its workforcearguing that they were low performance employees. However, this public justification has enraged the 3,600 meta -employed since they stigmatizes them as bad workers when they apply for new jobs. The former employees say that their work performance has only been an excuse, but not the real reason for their dismissal. A “cruel” trick to cut staff. “I have decided to raise the level of performance management and fire low performance employees more quickly,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg in the internal memorandum sent to its employees in January. Such and as he published Business InsiderThis was raising the scale of what the company considered “low performance” to put employees in the pillory who, until that moment, considered that they had a good performance. Sally Maitlis, a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at Saïd Business School, assured to Fortune That the “low performance” label could be a ballast for the professional career of the former employees dismissed, doubly penalizing them with the loss of their employment and closing the door to find a new one. “It is a terrible way of being labeled and is clearly not useful for anyone in the labor market,” Maitlis said. They have shouted the four winds. Before such injustice for them, employees have not hesitated to raise their voice from social networks to claim their professionalism and denounce the bad faith that, according to them, has used a goal in their dismissal. “Today they have fired me, but not for being a low performance employee. Let’s be clear: that label is misleading and, for many of us, it is totally wrong,” ” published on his LinkedIn account Steven S, former product of Instagram product. Kaila Curry, who worked as a content manager, said in her LinkedIn profile that: “I often asked for comments and they always told me that I was doing a good job. They never assigned a PIP (performance improvement plan), they never gave me correction indications and never guided me or gave me clear expectations. I just struggled … I am not a person of low performance.” A mortgaged future. The main complaint of the employees focuses on the argument that has publicly wielded a goal to justify the dismissal of the 3,600 employees since, as they argue, it harms their options for free to get a new job. “The most difficult thing is that goal says publicly that they are cutting low yields, so it feels as if we had the scarlet letter on our backs. People need to know that we do not have low performance,” declared one of the employees dismissed to Business Insider. “It is possible that these people are superstar in other places. Therefore, it seems to me that it is an additional punishment because they are people who probably have a very high market value,” He pointed out to Fortune Dan Cable, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School. Employers are answering. One of the most recurring advice when running for a new job is not criticizing the company that has just fired you. However, against any forecast, the strategy of the finishing targets has had a positive impact. Many recruiters and companies have shown interest in the profiles of the target employees. “Good employers look for people who are good communicators, capable of defending themselves, just as they would in their position within the organization,” He stood out to Business Insider Ashley Herd, Recruitment Expert from LinkedIn and founder of a manager recruitment company. “Those who speak of course can be found, being realistic, with a smaller group of possible employers, but it will be a group that really aligns with their values ​​and supports professional success and long -term happiness,” said the expert. Now stigma is target. Mark Zuckerberg said the layoffs were not due to economic difficulties, but to a restructuring to focus on the IA development And, in fact, vacancies had opened to incorporate into this new profile. Since the hiring process is a relationship of two, the complaints expressed in social networks by their ex -employed can complicate that process. User forums as Reddit or Teamblind have filled the new candidates about the new goal policy with warnings. “It seems that it was more money than performance. Be careful to join this company. Zuck does not care about its employees. Only the company,” wrote A meta -employed. “Meta is now the most cruel technological company that exists,” added another former partner. Other great technological companies Like Microsoft or Amazon have already announced that they will take more into account the performance of their employees when signing their layoffs. In Xataka | A 1.3 million rolex and a brilliant suit: the new Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated his wife’s birthday Image | Goal, Unspash (Annie Spratt)

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