YouTube closed 2025 with over $60 billion in combined ad and subscription revenue, while Alphabet exceeded $400 billion in total sales. Growth was fueled by traditional advertising on Search and YouTube, but the platform is increasingly monetizing subscriptions like Premium and YouTube TV. AI tools like Google Gemini now power 70 million creative assets, enhancing ad relevance and campaign efficiency.…

Advertising has emerged as one of the most resilient engines inside Big Tech, and retail media is now driving that shift at scale. In 2025, advertising tied to commerce platforms crossed a new threshold, with Amazon’s ad business generating more than $68 billion in annual revenue. The momentum accelerated during Q4, when ad sales rose 22% year over year, fueled…

A new strategic partnership between Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA signals a shift in how artificial intelligence will be built and deployed across industrial sectors. The companies announced a shared industrial AI architecture that combines Virtual Twin technology with accelerated AI infrastructure to support mission-critical applications. At the core of the collaboration are science-validated “industry world models” that move AI beyond…

Markets across the globe woke up jittery after bitcoin sank to its weakest level in more than a year, dragging the wider crypto space down with it in a rough, uneasy session. Prices slipped fast, sentiment flipped faster, and traders who expected a calm February clearly didn’t get one this time. Early trading showed bitcoin tumbling below key technical levels,…

TikTok’s American audience is experiencing upheaval as the platform transitions to U.S.-based control under new ownership. With Oracle servers now hosting U.S. accounts, many users have expressed concern that content moderation could shift to align with political interests. The platform also suffered recent instability due to a power outage at a U.S. data center, compounding user frustration. As a result,…

Meta Platforms wrapped up Q4 2025 with a record $58.1 billion in advertising revenue, marking a 24% increase year over year. The growth comes amid surging holiday ad demand and continued investment in artificial intelligence to optimize campaign performance. CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted that 2026 will accelerate AI integration across the business, noting that some teams have been “flattened” as…

YouTube is experimenting with a controversial change that could turn one of its most-used features into a paid perk. According to user reports, the platform is testing whether playback speed controls should be limited to Premium subscribers. The experiment appears to divide users into separate groups. Some accounts retain free access to playback speed controls, while others see the feature…

Japan’s electric vehicle market is showing early signs of structural change after Toyota surpassed Nissan in quarterly EV sales for the first time, ending nearly a decade and a half of Nissan dominance. Toyota’s fourth-quarter surge highlights how product timing and portfolio refreshes are beginning to matter more in a market long resistant to battery-electric vehicles. Nissan’s decline underscores the…

The Trump administration has approved the export of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, introducing strict volume limits as part of a broader effort to balance economic interests with national security concerns. According to the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Nvidia may ship H200 processors to China only if total volumes do not exceed…

xAI has officially brought its Colossus 2 supercomputer online, marking a new milestone in large-scale AI infrastructure. According to Elon Musk, the system is now operating at one gigawatt of power, making it the first AI training cluster in the world to reach that scale. The new system is designed to train xAI’s Grok language models. Together with Colossus 1,…

AI companionship startup NatureSelect has raised more than $30 million in a new investment round backed by Alibaba and Ant Group, signaling growing interest in emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence. The funding positions the company as a rising player in a fast-evolving sector focused on human-like digital interaction. Founded with the goal of integrating AI more deeply into everyday life, NatureSelect…

Meta’s Threads has officially overtaken X on mobile daily usage. New stats from Similarweb show Threads with 141.5 million daily mobile users versus X’s 125 million. The rise is attributed more to steady growth and feature expansion than recent scandals surrounding X’s AI tool, Grok. Cross-promotion across Facebook and Instagram plays a major role. Users are introduced to Threads via…

Recent comments attributed to Jeff Bezos are resurfacing with fresh urgency as the global RAM shortage collides with the AI boom. The Amazon founder has long argued that personal computing will follow the same path as electricity: first local and expensive, later centralized and rented from the grid. With memory manufacturers prioritizing AI data centers, that idea suddenly feels less…

Apple has taken a notable step in its artificial intelligence roadmap by signing a multiyear agreement with Google to use Gemini models for Apple Intelligence. The deal deepens a long-standing relationship between the two tech giants and places Google’s AI technology at the core of future Apple features, including a more capable and personalized Siri.Rather than outsourcing control entirely, Apple…

The global smartphone industry recorded modest expansion in 2025, with shipments rising 2% year over year. At the center of this recovery was Apple, which claimed the top position with a 20% market share and double-digit annual growth. Premium smartphones played a key role in the rebound, particularly as consumers in emerging markets gained access to 5G networks and installment-based…