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Alphabet-owned YouTube reported Q4 ad revenue of $11.38 billion, up 9% from the prior year but below analysts’ $11.84 billion estimate, with full-year revenue reaching $60 billion, a 17% increase, driven by subscriptions now at 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium.
YouTube disclosed on Wednesday that the number of paying users for Google One, its cloud storage service,...
Spotify announced updates to its audiobook business, enabling U.S. and U.K. users to buy physical copies of audiobooks through the app via a partnership with Bookshop.org, alongside new features Page Match and Audiobook Recaps for Android.
Spotify introduced the option for users in the United States and United Kingdom to purchase physical editions of audiobooks directly from the app. This...
NASA has approved a rule change permitting astronauts to bring smartphones into space for the first time, starting with the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station next week and the Artemis II mission rescheduled for March. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced the decision to enable crews to capture moments for families and share images and video with the public.
The Crew-12...
SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday for a million-satellite data center network. The company merged with xAI on Monday, combining Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence ventures. The FCC accepted the filing on Wednesday, established a public comment schedule, and Chairman Brendan Carr shared it on X. Musk detailed the rationale for orbital data centers...
Amazon Web Services reported $35.6 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025, a 24 percent year-on-year increase that represents the segment’s strongest quarterly growth rate in more than three years. This performance stemmed from sustained cloud demand, new customer agreements, and expansion in AI workloads.
The $35.6 billion figure marked the largest growth rate for AWS in 13...
Reddit held its fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, where executives positioned the company’s AI-powered search engine as a key business opportunity and potential revenue driver. CEO Steve Huffman explained that generative AI search performs effectively for queries lacking a single answer by aggregating multiple user perspectives.
Huffman specified during the call that Reddit excels at...
Newsletter platform Substack confirmed a data breach in an email to users, disclosing that an unauthorized third party accessed email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata in October.
The company specified that sensitive information remained secure during the incident. Credit card numbers, passwords, and other financial data were not compromised. Substack chief executive Chris Best...
The shift from abstract usage data to tangible, visual evidence is becoming an increasingly important development in web analytics. Companies and analysts are recognizing that while numerical data reveals a great deal about user behavior, it often leaves critical aspects of the actual user experience unexplored. This is where automated website screenshot analytics comes into play: by capturing...
Anthropic released Opus 4.6, its latest flagship AI model, on Thursday to expand capabilities for Claude Code users. The update introduces agent teams, a one-million-token context window, and direct PowerPoint integration, building on Opus 4.5 from November.
Opus serves as Anthropic’s most advanced model and plays a key role in Claude Code, the company’s coding-focused tool. The release of Opus 4...
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, a new coding model with improved reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities that operates 25 percent faster than its predecessor. Anthropic launched rival model Claude Opus 4.6 on the same day. Earlier this week, OpenAI introduced the Codex app for macOS to manage multiple AI agents simultaneously.
OpenAI describes GPT-5.3-Codex as its first model...