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https://www.europapress.es/economia/construccion-y-vivienda-00342/noticia-licitaciones-vivienda-publica-alcanzan-9009-millones-noviembre-44-mas-20260126123729.html

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Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards
Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:00PM from the how-about-that dept.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs.

The Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows increasingly nasty, but officials are also worried about the consequences of losing access to its industry-leading model, Claude. "The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting. Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.

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Justo esta semana me han comentado que CaixaBank está fijando el tipo de interés de las hipotecas al 4% (hace unas semanas estaba en el 2 y pico %), lo que en la práctica significa que muchos compradores no pueden acceder a la financiación necesaria para la compra de su pisito. El resto de entidades le seguirá...

https://www.abc.es/recreo/pilar-garcia-granja-experta-economica-sobre-hipotecas-20260224200414-nt.html

Pilar García de la Granja, experta económica, sobre las hipotecas: «Cuestan el doble de lo que suponía a nuestros padres»

El mercado de la vivienda en España atraviesa una fase especialmente compleja y llena de aparentes contradicciones

El mercado de la vivienda en España atraviesa una fase especialmente compleja y llena de aparentes contradicciones. Mientras las hipotecas se sitúan entre las más baratas de la eurozona en términos de tipo de interés, el esfuerzo que deben realizar las familias para pagarlas es cada vez mayor.

Sobre este tema han hablado esta semana la economista Pilar García de la Granja junto a Jorge Bustos y Pilar Cisneros en el programa Herrera en COPE. Durante la conversación han analizado las razones detrás de esta paradoja y han contado con el análisis del doctor en Finanzas de la Universidad de Comillas, Luis Garvía, que ha aportado contexto al debate.

Hipotecas en máximos históricos

El punto de partida fue el último dato del INE sobre hipotecas firmadas en diciembre, que rondan el medio millón. «Estamos en máximos», destacaba Pilar García de la Granja, pese a que el euríbor sigue sin bajar del 2,2%. La hipoteca media alcanza ya los 170.000 euros, con un tipo del 2,97%, uno de los más bajos de la Unión Europea.

Sin embargo, que el tipo sea reducido en comparación con otros países no implica necesariamente que el esfuerzo sea menor. Luis Garvía advertía en de que «debemos meter otras variables, la presión fiscal, la inflación también y sobre todo los salarios». Aunque los intereses y algunos costes sean más bajos en términos comparativos, «un esfuerzo por familias más alto» es el resultado cuando los sueldos son inferiores a los de otros socios europeos.

En esa línea, Pilar García de la Granja señalaba que todas esas variables explican que hoy pagar una vivienda suponga ya siete años de salario íntegro. «Esto es el doble de lo que suponía para nuestros padres», apuntaba.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/uk-graduate-jobs-drop-below-10-000-for-first-time-adzuna-says

UK Graduate Jobs Drop Below 10,000 for First Time, Adzuna Says
By Philip Aldrick
February 23, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTC

UK job vacancies dropped to their lowest in five years and graduate posts fell to a record low as hiring weakened in January amid mounting concerns about the labor market.

Employers advertised 694,940 jobs, a 3.05% fall in the month that continued the downward trend from last year, the online job search site Adzuna said. It was the worst reading since January 2021. Graduate jobs plunged 19.1% to below 10,000 for the first time since Adzuna started tracking the metric in April 2016.

“The market remains challenging, with fewer vacancies and intense competition, but continued wage growth suggests employers are still willing to pay for the right skills,” said Andrew Hunter, the firm’s co-founder. The average salary reached £43,289 ($58,300) in January, up 5.98% year-on-year, Adzuna said — above the Bank of England’s 3.25% estimate of non-inflationary stable wage growth.

The findings will add to fears that the UK labor market is fast unwinding, with young people hit hardest. Bank of England rate-setters have recently raised concerns about rising unemployment, which has climbed to 5.2% from 4.7% in the past six months.

Labour’s hikes to the minimum wage and payroll taxes have been blamed, as well as its plans for stricter employment rights. AI also appears to be replacing entry level jobs, which fell 4.46% on the month, according to Adzuna.

[Read More: Startups in Britain Turn to AI Instead of Costly New Hires]

Economists are hoping AI and improved business investment spark a recovery in Britain’s feeble productivity, a measure of output per worker that is vital to raising living standards. Research published Monday by the Boston Consulting Group found that Britain’s biggest industries have been responsible for the decades-long decline in productivity that has roughly halved the GDP growth rate since the end of the 1990s.

Finance, manufacturing, communications and retail have fallen behind the “productivity frontier” over the past two decades, reversing the catch-up achieved between 1997 and 2007, BCG said. The situation has been made worse by an increase in the number of underperforming small firms despite technological advances.

There are more low productivity small companies in the UK today than in 1997 and they are on average less productive than three decades ago. The BCG study highlights the scale of the challenge the UK faces to reverse its productivity trend and close the gap with the US and other economies.

alrededor de 900k estudiantes se graduan al año en el RU https://www.futurefit.co.uk/blog/graduation-statistics-and-facts/