According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025. That’s a jump of 45.7 percent,
There’s no doubt that 2026 will go down as a milestone year for the growth in popularity of vertical media content in the U.S. The sector is booming but still incredibly diffuse. That will change as microdramas and other formats proliferate and generate more advertising, subscription and in-app purchase revenue. Those are among the conclusions
The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as “Project Panama.” The documents indicated the company’s aim was to “destructively scan all the books in the world”. Destructive scanning is the process of shipping books to locations where they can be
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD’s data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That’s up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday’s earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said
Alphabet investors have publicly worried that the company’s huge AI spending isn’t worth it. With the company’s latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a bit. The bottom line: Google’s cloud business, driven largely by the adoption of enterprise AI, is booming. The search giant saw Google Cloud revenue increase 82% from
While many newer venture capital firms are still struggling to raise fresh capital, Dimension Capital, founded in late 2022, has been raising larger and larger funds in rapid succession. On Tuesday, the New York firm, which invests at the intersection of science and computing, announced an $800 million fund, up 60% from its second $500