ChatGPT ads will arrive in Europe next week. Six months after testing them in the United States, free access to OpenAI’s popular chatbot will also have advertising. The company has announced that the ad-supported version will expand to 31 European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans will continue to be ad-free.
They dance, run, do somersaults, and even practice martial arts. Now they also trade on the stock market. Unitree, the company that has turned its humanoid robots and robot dogs into one of the most recognizable images of Chinese technological advancement, debuted this Wednesday on the Shanghai stock exchange and sparked euphoria among investors: its shares soared 629% as soon as they started trading. Why has this frenzy broken out?
The Israeli army announced this Wednesday that it has opened a criminal investigation into the shootings by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, in January 2024, against the vehicle in which the girl Hind Rajab was traveling and the ambulance that went to rescue her. That episode resulted in the death of nine people, including the minor.
Josep Cusí, the most loyal friend of King Juan Carlos, both at sea and on land, passed away in the early hours of this Wednesday, at the age of 92, at his home in Barcelona, surrounded by his family, who have been by his side tirelessly since a few days ago when his already fragile health worsened. Known for his close relationship with the King’s father, Cusí will be remembered as a kind man, a husband in love with his beloved Inés Muiños, father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather, a recognized athlete, promoter of nautical sports, and above all, for having a personality and innate elegance that earned him the affection of all who knew him, from kings and princes to the humblest of sailors. King Juan Carlos, upon learning of the fatal outcome of his faithful regatta and life companion, was the first to mourn the sad loss.
The pressure from the Popular Party on the Government does not cease due to the migratory crisis in Ceuta and will use its absolute majority in the Senate to censure, in the first plenary session of September, the ministers Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), José Manuel Albares (Foreign Affairs), Margarita Robles (Defense), Mónica García (Health), and Ana Redondo (Equality).
The Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has been temporarily suspended after testing positive for cocaine in a doping test last June during a tournament in Mallorca. This was announced this Wednesday by the ITIA, the International Tennis Integrity Agency, and the athlete himself through a long message on his social media.
The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.
After twenty days sleeping outdoors, protected by neighborhood associations that have filled the gap left by the administrations, the unaccompanied minor migrants who entered Ceuta during the mass crossing are being housed in emergency centers. This is the first phase of a shock plan that the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, led by Sira Rego, says it is working on, which later includes, in weeks or months, a formula for NGOs to develop care in resources on the Peninsula, without the need to transfer guardianship of the adolescents to the autonomous communities. The figure handled by Childhood, although it may vary during the process, is around five hundred minors. From the Ceuta Government, which was caught by surprise by the announcement, they claim not to be aware of the possible transfer.
The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and 2030 Agenda has announced today the imposition of a one million euro fine on the car rental company Avis for engaging in abusive practices.
Rodrigo Hernández, ‘Rodri’, (Madrid, 1996), does not arrive at Barcelona as just another signing. This was staged by president Joan Laporta raising his fist in the air after dining with the player at the Botafumeiro restaurant in Barcelona after signing the contract that ties him to the club until 2031 following a payment of a maximum of 60 million euros fixed to Manchester City, which could reach 75 in variables. In return, Barcelona gets the 2024 Ballon d’Or winner, and, above all, a piece that fits like a glove in Hansi Flick’s Barça machinery. A humble footballer, raised in a family of professionals, university-educated, without social media, and with a surgeon partner, who has maintained a life away from the noise of football. He will wear the number 16 jersey. These are the reasons for his signing.