Apple regains top spot as world's most valuable company Apple has surpassed chipmaker Nvidia as the world's most valuable company as artificial intelligence-driven market pressures weigh on investors. Apple is now worth $4.88 trillion compared with Nvidia's $4.86 trillion, following a 3.5 percent decline in Nvidia's market value. The milestone marks the first time the Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has held the top spot in more than a year. Last month, Apple unveiled a revamped version of its assistant, Siri AI, which enables the personal assistant to better understand the personal context of users' questions, access real-time information from the Web, and perform more complex tasks on behalf of users. "Market sentiment has shifted from rewarding model makers, then to semis, and now on to those companies that can turn compute into experiences and outcomes the customer will pay for, thus driving corporate earnings," Michael Monaghan, founder of Founder ETFs, told Al Jazeera. "Apple investors first questioned Apple's lower AI spend, but now have treated Apple's lower AI capital expenditure as an advantage, with the bull case being that Apple benefits from consumer AI without spending at cloud-infrastructure scale."

China beats U.S. with world's fastest supercomputer, but race not geared for AI work Workers at Elon Musk's xAI facility, which houses a large supercomputer known as Colossus, used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) data processing, in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sept. 11, 2025 | REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO - China has overtaken the U.S. to win the top spot on a list of the world's fastest supercomputers, but the results may say more about Beijing's desire to show self-sufficiency in computing systems than its standing in the global AI race, experts said. The LineShine system at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, uses domestically designed chips and won the top spot on the TOP500, a biannual global ranking of supercomputers, with the country's first listing in three years. The ranking comes as the U.S. and China are increasingly competing in advanced computing, with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signing an executive order that aims to put the U.S. ahead of China in the emerging field of quantum computing. In the June 2026 edition of TOP500, LineShine beat out the previous titleholder, El Capitan, a supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that the U.S. government uses to develop and maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile. But technology and policy experts said the results do not mean that China has the world's fastest computer for AI work because of changes in the computing industry in recent years and the methods used to compile the list.

Elon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X. "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. In a post earlier that day, he wrote: "Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your'Must Have' section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? OpenAI's ChatGPT currently holds the top spot in the App Store's "Top Free Apps" section in the US, while xAI's Grok ranks fifth. Apple has a partnership with OpenAI that integrates ChatGPT into iPhones, iPads and Macs.

Back in the day, couples typically met at bars, with those flirty glances eventually progressing into blossoming romances. Others might have been set-up by friends playing Cupid. Nowadays, however, singletons hit the love jackpot by swiping through a conveyor belt of strangers' faces on dating apps. A mesmerising chart today shows how the likes of Tinder and Hinge have killed off the traditional ways lovers used to meet. In the early 1960s, more than a third of couples originally met through friends.

Nvidia has handed back the position as the world's most valuable company to Microsoft after its share price fell by more than 3.5% on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant briefly held the top spot from Tuesday, with a stock market valuation of 3.34tn ( 2.64tn). But Nvidia's shares fell to 130.78 on Thursday, sending its value down to around 3.22tn, with Microsoft reclaiming the title as it held steady at more than 3.3tn. Nvidia's rise has been fuelled by its dominance of what analysts call the "new gold or oil in the tech sector" - the chips that power AI. Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple - each worth more than 3tn - are in a three-horse race to be the world's most valuable company.

Porn has reached a golden age as people are searching for mature content like'sexy granny' and'MILF' Those are among the many search terms that saw growth on Pornhub in 2023. The adult website sifted through data from billions of visits to see what content defined the year's tastes, finding the top category was'The Golden Age.' 'MILF' became the second most searched term worldwide, while'Granny' saw a 132 percent increase from 2022 - and terms like'sexy granny ' and'hot GILF' trending. Many searches also included'DILF,' with'muscle DILF' traffic growing by 71 percent. It seems Pornhub is maturing, according to its most searched fetishes of 2023 that included'Granny' and'MILF' This year, the MILF category climbed a spot on the charts to the fifth most viewed category worldwide, Pornhub revealed. The Mature category came in seventh, seeing a 69 percent increase among viewers, and it is now the second most popular among men and fifth among women.

Worldwide revenues for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, are expected to total $156.5 billion in 2020, a growth of 12.3 per cent over the previous year, according to a new forecast by International Data Corporation (IDC). While this year's growth is somewhat slower than previous years due to the economic impact of Covid-19, investment in AI will recover quickly, said the IDC'Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker'. Worldwide AI market revenue revenues are likely to surpass $300 billion in 2024 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.1 per cent. Software is the largest AI technology group delivering roughly 80 per cent of all AI revenue. Most of the software revenue comes from AI applications - $120.4 billion in 2020 - with AI Software Platforms delivering the remainder.

Technology solutions built around artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G offer the most immediate opportunities for tech firms to generate new business and revenue, according to CompTIA's third annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report released on Wednesday. Each year, the Emerging Technology Community of CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the global technology industry, releases its list of the top emerging technologies. "Our ranking represents a consensus viewpoint that emerged after some spirited debate and discussion with the community," said Michael Haines, director of partner incentive strategy and program design for Microsoft and chair of the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community, in a press release. "We're not proposing that every solution provider and channel partner needs to immediately add these technologies to their menu of products and services," Haines added. "But these innovations will have a sweeping impact on the business of technology. Companies need to prepare now for the changes ahead."

Which technologies are driving the tech industry in 2020? It's been an interesting and unexpected start to the year, but the CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Assn.) Emerging Technology Community set out to provide some perspective on emerging technologies with its third annual top 10 ranking. The 2020 ranking differs slightly from the 2019 list; what does this mean, if anything? For 2020, the top 10 emerging technologies, according to the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community are AI (artificial intelligence), 5G, IoT (Internet of Things), serverless computing, biometrics, AR (augmented reality)/VR (virtual reality), blockchain, robotics, NLP (natural language processing), and quantum computing.

A year after China overtook the USA as the number one country for AI investments, the Americans have reclaimed pole position. According to figures published by ABI Research, the United States received 52.3 percent of global AI investments in 2018. In 2018, investments in US-based AI technologies reached a total of $9.7 billion. This represents a staggering 120 percent year-on-year growth. Huge AI investments from companies such as Zoox, Cruise Automation, Zymergen, and Dataminr helped to propel the US back into the number one spot.