YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with advertising revenue increasing by 13% year over year, according to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in its second-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. This growth brings YouTube’s total ad revenue to $ 9.8 billion, up from $ 8.7 billion in the same period last year. The company […]
PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people
PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier. The platform will allow users to pay others using their local wallets and payment systems. The company said the launch partners include India’s NPCI International Payments Limited, which operates mobile […]
ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day
ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day, OpenAI told Axios. About 330 million of those are coming from users in the U.S. These numbers show just how ubiquitous OpenAI’s flagship product is becoming. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, does not release daily search data, but recently revealed that Google receives 5 trillion queries […]
Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations
The Trump administration, through the Department of Defense, plans to spend $ 1 billion over the next four years on what it calls “offensive cyber operations.” The provision in Trump’s landmark One Big Beautiful Bill does not say what those “offensive cyber operations” are, nor what specific tools or software would qualify. The budget does […]
Club World Cup prize money: Breaking down $1 billion pot and how much teams will get at flagship FIFA competition
FIFA has trumpeted the expanded 2025 Club World Cup as one of the biggest competitions in football history, and it has backed this stance with huge financial rewards. Thanks in part to the significant financial investment of broadcast partner DAZN, FIFA has earmarked a prize purse of $ 1 billion to be distributed across the […]