Por Pablo Antonio Garcia Escorihuela, CNN en Español

Cuando era un adolescente, Mike Macdonald soñaba con llegar a la NFL. Sin embargo, mientras estaba jugando como linebacker en la Centennial High School de Roswell, en Georgia, comenzó a sentir molestias en sus articulaciones y pinzamientos en los nervios. Eso, sumado a una lesión del ligamento cruzado anterior de rodilla, le hizo prescindir temprano de lo que parecía una prometedora trayectoria como jugador, y lo obligó a repensar su futuro.

En la Universidad de Georgia encontró el camino. Mientras jugaba como tercera base para el equipo de béisbol de esa casa de estudios, siempre terminaba dando asistencia a sus compañeros, enseñándoles o corrigiéndoles algún detalle. Era cuestión de tiempo para que encontrara su verdadera pasión.

Macdonald comenzó siendo entrenador de fútbol americano en equipos de secundaria, pero llegó rápidamente al nivel universitario en Georgia, donde escaló hasta ser uno de los coaches del conjunto universitario.

Al tiempo que se graduó en finanzas de la universidad en 2010, terminó entrando al staff de los Bulldogs como coordinador defensivo. Estando allí, en 2013, le salió una oportunidad para irse a los Ravens de Baltimore como asistente del legendario John Harbaugh, donde pasó por distintas áreas de la coordinación defensiva del equipo hasta 2020.

En 2021 se fue a Michigan junto a Jim Harbaugh (el hermano de John, hoy entrenador en jefe de los Chargers de Los Ángeles) para asumir el cargo de coordinador defensivo, pero tras solo un año los Ravens volvieron a contratarlo como coordinador, puesto que ocupó por dos años, hasta que llegó el llamado desde Seattle.

Como su rival del Super Bowl LX, Mike Vrabel, Mike Macdonald está más enfocado en el lado defensivo de sus equipos. Sus dirigidos lo describen como un obsesivo del estudio del juego, al tiempo que destacan la inteligencia con la que realiza las lecturas de los rivales que tiene enfrente.

Acompañado de Klint Kubiak como coordinador ofensivo, asumió en enero de 2024 la conducción de los Seahawks de Seattle en un reto supuesto a durar mucho tiempo, pero que en su primer discurso resultó profético.

“Tenemos un gran programa listo para ustedes. Una de las cosas que quiero que sientan es la visión que tenemos de equipo para ustedes. Les pido, ahora mismo, que estén aquí, quiero que hagamos ahora un adelantamiento rápido a enero. Se juega el campeonato de la NFC, 30 y algo de grados, está mojado, con brisa, “una m***da” para ellos, perfecto para nosotros. Estamos sueltos, enfocados, confiados. Pasamos los últimos 9 meses reuniendo cada oportunidad. Ellos saben que enfrentan a un equipo que peleará a muerte y no se rendirá. Saben que somos inevitables. Vamos a trabajar”.

Desde que tomó la franquicia, Macdonald dejó marca de 10 triunfos y 7 derrotas en su primer año, y de 14 victorias y 3 caídas en el segundo, alcanzando el título de la Conferencia Nacional en 2025 y un viaje al Super Bowl que le costó cambios, resiliencia, dolores y el disfrute de llegar al gran partido del año.

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By Chris Isidore, CNN

(CNN) — SpaceX has acquired xAI, the company announced on Monday, merging two of Elon Musk’s most ambitious companies.

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission,” a statement on SpaceX’s website said.

The merger could be seen as an indication of the cash xAI needs to compete in the fast-growing field of AI, as well as the technology’s importance in future of space exploration.

The move is yet another sign that tech giants like Musk and his companies are scrambling to secure more computing resources to power advancements in artificial intelligence.

“Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling,” Musk wrote in a post on SpaceX’s website. “The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space.”

Musk said he estimates that the “lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space” within two to three years.

SpaceX sought permission on Friday from the Federal Communication Commission to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites into orbit. The filing said the aim is to provide a network of solar-powered data centers to “accommodate the explosive growth of data demands driven by AI.”

But the technology is not without controversy, particularly when it comes to whether it’s being used with sufficient guardrails.

Musk’s xAI also owns his social media platform X, whose chatbot Grok recently came under fire for producing sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people. The AI chatbot was also criticized last year for a series of violent and antisemitic posts, which the company apologized for and blamed on a systems update.

The potential problems with AI, however, have not made AI companies any less attractive to investors. AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, said last year it was investing $100 billion investment in OpenAI.

Musk’s xAI is not the only company with big cash demands. SpaceX has its own ambitious and extraordinarily expensive goals. Most notably, the company plans to eventually transport people to Mars and establish a permanent colony there.

Musk confirmed in December he was planning an initial public offering for SpaceX, which was founded in 2002. That Wall Street debut, reportedly already valued at about $1.5 trillion, could be one of the largest in history. And that was before the reports a merger with xAI.

Both SpaceX and xAI have had no trouble raising money from investors eager to participate in their growth plans. But being publicly traded would increase the ability of the companies to raise capital.

That proposition that could add to Musk’s already staggering net worth. He’s worth $676 billion, according to Bloomberg’s real time Billionaire tracker, making him the richest person in the world. A combined SpaceX and xAI public could only dramatically increase that net worth.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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(CNN) — A Minnesota judge has wiped away an order he issued last month that required federal investigators to preserve evidence gathered at the scene of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by immigration officers.

US District Judge Alex Tostrud said he was lifting the emergency order he issued the day of Pretti’s shooting that barred various federal investigatory offices from destroying or altering any evidence related to the incident because he had gotten assurances from federal officials that evidence would be properly maintained.

The judge, an appointee of President Donald Trump, had imposed the requirement at the behest of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office after they raised concerns in court that their own investigative efforts into the incident could be undermined absent his intervention.

“Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti’s shooting during the life of this case, and other relevant considerations do not on balance favor a continuing preservation order,” Tostrud wrote in an 18-page decision.

“The temporary restraining order’s terms are not meaningfully different from defendants’ preservation policies,” the judge wrote. “An ongoing preservation order – and the contempt power that accompanies it – would overlay, not just defendants’ preservation polices, but any investigative measures that might alter evidence.”

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension told CNN that talks with federal investigators on sharing evidence in the case are ongoing, adding that they are “hopeful” an agreement can be reached. Thus far, however, the FBI and Homeland Security Invesdtigations have not shared information with local investigators.

In his ruling, Tostrud went on to say that “examination and testing often leave evidence in a different condition after testing than it was before” and that such potential changes occurring under his now-dissolved order would have forced him to play what he described as an improper role in the government’s investigation into the shooting.

“Legitimate concerns over whether those types of investigative measures comply with a preservation order might reasonably prompt defendants to seek judicial direction,” Tostrud wrote. “That, in turn, would inject the court into Defendants’ investigation, not just their evidence preservation.”

The BCA had been iced out of an earlier federal probe into a different fatal shooting of a US citizen, Renee Good, by federal agents in Minnesota and the lawsuit before Tostrud represented a frenzied effort by the state investigators to ensure they’d later have access to the evidence for their own inspection.

An FBI official swore in court papers last month that “evidence was packaged by trained evidence collectors” who wore the correct personal equipment and packaged the evidence in tamper-proof evidence tape. The evidence the FBI collected is in a secure evidence room with controlled access in the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office.

CNN’s Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.

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El universo de Hawkins se resiste a desaparecer. A pesar del cierre de la saga principal, los hermanos Duffer expanden su mitología con “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85”, una nueva serie animada de Netflix que promete capturar la atmósfera de misterio y nostalgia de la primera temporada.

Liderada por el showrunner Eric Robles, esta entrega se ubica en un punto clave de la cronología oficial: el invierno de 1985, revelando los eventos inéditos que ocurrieron entre la segunda y la tercera temporada de la serie original.

Tras el cierre del portal en el laboratorio de Hawkins por parte de Eleven, el pueblo parece haber recuperado la calma. Sin embargo, bajo la nieve de 1985, algo aterrador ha despertado.

A diferencia de las amenazas apocalípticas de la serie original, Eric Robles destaca que en esta ocasión los riesgos son más íntimos.

“Estos niños no están salvando al mundo, están salvando al pueblo”, señala Robles.

La trama se centra en el Hawkins Investigators Club, una iniciativa de Dustin para proteger su hogar de nuevas criaturas que mezclan la ciencia del laboratorio con materia del Upside Down.

La serie nos permitirá “pasar el rato” con el grupo original. Veremos las etapas tempranas del romance entre Mike y Eleven, y profundizaremos en la dinámica de Max y Lucas. Ante la ausencia de adultos en la primera línea de defensa, la responsabilidad recae totalmente en los niños, quienes deberán proteger a Eleven para evitar que el gobierno intervenga de nuevo.

Con una fuerte inspiración en clásicos de los 80 como The Goonies y E.T., “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” llegará a Netflix el próximo 23 de abril.

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