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Google’s AI chatbot Gemini reached 750 million monthly active users in the fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report. The app grew from 650 million monthly active users in the previous quarter through rapid consumer adoption.
Gemini now exceeds Meta AI’s nearly 500 million monthly users. ChatGPT holds the lead with an estimated 810 million monthly active users in late 2025. These comparisons highlight...
Starbase, the South Texas company town developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, approved an ordinance on Tuesday to establish a municipal police department for protecting SpaceX assets, pending Texas Commission on Law Enforcement approval.
The city’s commission passed the measure during a special meeting. The department will operate under a chief of police selected by the commission. Local news outlet...
Alphabet declined to answer an investor’s question about its AI partnership with Apple during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. The query focused on Google’s approach to AI partnerships, including the deal to power Siri, but company executives ignored it completely.
The earnings call featured minimal discussion of the Google-Apple AI arrangement. CEO Sundar Pichai stated he was...
Anthropic released four Super Bowl commercials on Wednesday targeting OpenAI users following the company’s announcement of ads on ChatGPT’s free tier. One ad depicts a chatbot offering advice that shifts into promotions for fictitious products, prompting a response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
The first commercial opens with the word “BETRAYAL” displayed prominently on the screen. A man seeks...
Voice AI company ElevenLabs has raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital, which also participated in the company’s last secondary round through a tender offer. As part of the deal, Sequoia partner Andrew Reed is joining the company’s board.
The latest financing values ElevenLabs at $11 billion, more than three times the valuation it received in its previous funding round...
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered application has been developed to identify dinosaur footprints, offering new insights into prehistoric life and potentially earlier bird evolution. The DinoTracker app allows users to upload photos or drawings of footprints via a mobile phone for immediate analysis of their shape and structure.
Dinosaur footprints provide valuable information about how...
For more than a decade, digital commerce followed a familiar playbook: SEO and marketing campaigns drove traffic, UX guided the journey, and a wide selection of on-trend products sealed the deal. The underlying assumption was simple – get a human to the site, and branding, design, and persuasion would do the rest.
That assumption is quietly collapsing. Just a few days ago, Google launched the...
Walmart reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on Tuesday when its shares closed nearly 3% higher at $127.71, resulting in a $1.02 trillion valuation for the largest U.S. retailer and grocer. The gain stemmed from expansion in digital businesses and acquisition of new customers.
The company’s stock rose more than 28% over the past year and more than 14% so far in 2026. These increases...
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman dismissed the feasibility of space-based data centers at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday, citing the weight of server racks and the lack of permanent space structures as key barriers.
Garman addressed the concept during an interview at the event, responding to questions about placing AI data centers in space or on other planets. He highlighted...
Alphabet executives will discuss their new artificial intelligence partnership with Apple during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, following Apple’s January announcement selecting Google’s Gemini AI to overhaul Siri.
Analysts anticipate roughly 15 percent year-over-year revenue growth for Google in the fourth quarter. Their attention centers on details emerging from the...