What did the world obsess over this year? Google just released its annual Year in Search report, and this year’s breakout winner was “Gemini,” Google’s AI chatbot.
Unlike the everyday searches we type in (like “weather”), Google’s list highlights topics that surged in popularity compared with last year. And surprisingly, Gemini beat out major headlines such as India vs. England, Charlie Kirk, and even DeepSeek, another AI tool that rocketed up the charts.
The rest of the report shows shifting tastes: hot honey topped food searches, Anora led movies, Mikey Madison was the most-searched actor, and Paris Saint-Germain F.C. dominated the sports category.
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Sam Altman’s Secret Space Ambition Could Make Him Elon Musk’s New Rival
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Sam Altman isn’t satisfied with battling Google and Anthropic on Earth. The OpenAI CEO has explored deals to own a rocket company, a move that would put him in direct competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Altman discussed investing billions through OpenAI to take a controlling stake in rocket maker Stoke Space. Why space? Altman has argued that the computing power needed to fuel advanced AI will eventually demand so much energy that it makes more sense to operate facilities off-planet, tapping the sun’s energy instead of the grid.
The talks have cooled, but Altman’s ambition hasn’t. He’s already committed tens of billions to a new data-center venture, launched a brain-computer interface startup that rivals Musk’s Neuralink, and is developing a social platform that could challenge X.
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