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With Meta and Google building private subsea cables, they鈥檙e bypassing telecom giants, ensuring faster services and reshaping how the internet reaches developing regions.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we discuss the main reasons YouTube is the most watched platform on TVs, how 鈥淧lanet YouTube鈥檚鈥� gravitational pull is disrupting other media types, and what the biggest threat to its dominance is. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Vice President and Principal Analyst Jasmine Enberg, and Principal Analyst Bill Fisher for the conversation. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

As AI workloads push limits, Microsoft鈥檚 repeated outages threaten its once-unshakable claim as a reliable tech leader.

The African elephant in particular is considered to have the most advanced sense of smell, two and a half times better than dogs and five times stronger than a human. Cows actually have a stronger sense of smell than dogs, interestingly. In fact, the rat, the mouse and the horse all have more olfactory receptor genes, stronger sense of smell, than dogs.

Consumers are submitting medical scans to Elon Musk鈥檚 genAI chatbot, Grok: But Grok isn鈥檛 trained well enough on medical data, which could create a host of problems for patients.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss what the verdict is on Netflix's sports streaming experimentation and how small and mid-sized advertisers are spending more on CTV ads. Tune in to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Analyst Ross Benes and Vice President Paul Verna. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

The same is true for international expansion: Ad revenue growth was strongest in Meta鈥檚 rest of world segment, which includes Latin America and Africa, at 33%.

Dorsey said Block was eyeing regions where the population with internet access will grow the fastest鈥攊ncluding Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. Artificial intelligence. Block plans to introduce machine learning across all its products and services, according to Dorsey, to improve efficiency and create new features for customers.

Community members engaged in regular and repetitive transactions within a susu鈥攖heir trusted financial community, a popular collective savings practice in African, Caribbean, and some Asian cultures. Aaron Ansari, who used to program the algorithms that help FIs identify suspicious activity, told the New York Times: 鈥淭here is no humanization to any of this, and it鈥檚 all just numbers on a screen.

Growth has slowed significantly and is highest in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Snapchat is growing in India, with an expected 183.6 million users this year, largely as a result of the country鈥檚 TikTok ban. This year, over a fifth (21.7%) of the world鈥檚 population will be users of TikTok or its Chinese counterpart, Douyin. However, a potential ban could hurt future US growth.

New AI-powered Apple devices hit markets, but Indonesia鈥檚 ban and the EU鈥檚 App Store demands reveal global friction in Apple鈥檚 shift toward an AI-first strategy.

The reductions have landed worldwide in regions like Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, per The Wall Street Journal. In some countries, subscription costs were cut as much as 50%.

And for our final story, February the 11th was also a big day for African football, or soccer, with more viewing records falling. The Africa Cup of Nations, or AFCON, was played from mid-January to February 11th in Ivory Coast. And according to Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, nearly 2 billion people tuned in across the month to watch the games.

The service has lowered subscription costs in over 30 countries, including Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, as it aims to retain users who have a choice of various streaming options. In some countries, subscription costs were cut by up to 50%.