This Sunday, humanoid robots have reduced the time they set last year in the Beijing half marathon by almost two hours. Specifically, the Qitian Dasheng robot won with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The winning team, however, was not the fastest: the Shandian, which operates under remote control, completed the 21 kilometers of the race with a net time of 48 minutes and 19 seconds, despite suffering a fall 100 meters from the finish line. The fastest robot, however, was not declared the winner, because, according to the competition rules, the times of remotely controlled robots are multiplied by 1.2.

Two years ago, Dr. Alberto Breda (Verona, 1973) successfully performed a transcontinental robotic surgery between Bordeaux and Beijing. The president of the Robotic Surgery Unit (ERUS) of the European Association of Urology remotely removed a kidney tumor from over 8,000 kilometers away, a medical milestone that laid the groundwork for Europe's first robotic telesurgery program, which is just getting started. This system connects the Puigvert Foundation in Barcelona and the San Roque Hospital in Las Palmas, 3,000 kilometers apart, allowing surgeons to operate on patients from the Canary Islands from the Catalan capital.

The "free" economy has become the greatest illusion of our time. We don't pay with money; we pay in kind. And a lot. Every click, every registration, every "free" update is an invitation to surrender something more valuable than our money: minutes of our lives, attention spans, fragments of our identity. Digital freeness has trained us in a lie: if it doesn't hurt the wallet, it doesn't hurt anything. And that's false. The tech industry discovered before anyone else that our scarcest resource isn't money, but attention. And it orchestrated a perfect system to capture it. The entry price is zero euros. The exit price is never clear: it's the trapped users.

Consultant, confidant, friend, psychologist... and now also a lover? Artificial intelligence is expanding its scope, and OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, is the first to openly enter the realm of explicit sexuality. As confirmed, starting in December it will allow the generation of erotic content. To use this feature, users will have to verify that they are over 18 years old. The new version allows users to change the chat personality to make it more like an adult. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says he wants to "treat adult users like adults," as he mentions on the X platform (formerly Twitter). They are also developing technology that can estimate a user's age based on their interactions.