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Americans watched YouTube more than any other platform on TVs in February

YouTube’s share of TV usage has increased 53% in the last two years, per Nielsen.

3/28/25 6:07AM

When it first landed on Apple devices, the YouTube app icon was a little, beige, vintage-looking cartoon TV. It stuck with that for years before eventually distancing itself from the older, more familiar medium, switching in its distinctive red play button — an icon that’s gently seared itself into the minds of billions.

Now, years on, YouTube seems to be taking over the medium it once mimicked.

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According to February data from Nielsen’s Media Distributor Gauge report, YouTube was the most-watched platform across US televisions, taking an 11.6% share of screen time and topping the distributor list for only the second time since Nielsen began tracking the data.

Put another way: Americans watched YouTube on their TVs more than anything else — more than Disney (and all of its entities), NBC, Paramount, Fox, Netflix. Everything.

YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006, having clinched the top spot again underscores the growing shift in how people are consuming content from the platform, with its CEO last month confirming that people are watching on their TVs more than their phones for the first time.

Apart from the two YouTube instances and a high jump from NBC during its Olympics coverage, which saw the company take a record 13.4% share of TV usage in August last year, the Walt Disney Company has been winning the war for American eyeballs, with channels like ESPN, ABC, and its streaming services all counting toward its overall share. Indeed, thanks mostly to the ESPN-aired College Football Playoffs, Disney made up 12% of TV usage in January — its highest monthly total so far.

While Nielsen has made only distributor figures from November 2023 onward public, it revealed that YouTube accounted for just 7.9% of American TV viewing time in February 2023, meaning the number of us who’ve been switching on our TV sets to tune in to the latest offerings from Mr Beast et al. has jumped 53% in just two years.

Rani Molla5h

Bitcoin’s plunge could hurt Tesla’s bottom line

Sometimes bitcoin giveth, but lately it’s been taking away from Tesla.

A new accounting rule that took effect earlier this year requires Tesla to include unrealized gains and losses on its bitcoin holdings in its quarterly results. According to analyst Troy Teslike, Tesla is facing an unrealized loss of more than $300 million in the fourth quarter on its 11,509 bitcoin, thanks to bitcoin’s recent plunge. That would reduce its GAAP earnings per share by about $0.10. If bitcoin plummets further, say to $60,000, that unrealized loss could grow to more than $600 million, with a -$0.19 impact on EPS.

For context, the FactSet analyst consensus for Tesla’s net income in Q4 is penciled in at $1.6 billion with GAAP EPS of $0.37, so additional losses would represent a big earnings headwind. For a company already navigating margin pressure, bitcoin’s volatility adds one more wild card to the mix.

Tom Jones

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Teens are upset that they can’t speak to Character.AI chatbots anymore

The platform has restricted access for those under 18, as concerns around the tech’s impact grow.

Rani Molla8h

Elon Musk: We’ve tried to license Tesla’s FSD technology to legacy automakers but “they don’t want it”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly said his company is open to licensing its Full Self-Driving technology to major automakers so that they could potentially make their own fleets drive themselves. Now, Musk is saying that those automakers aren’t interested.

“I’ve tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don’t want it! ” Musk posted on X.

I’ve tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don’t want it! Crazy …

When legacy auto does occasionally reach out, they tepidly discuss implementing FSD for a tiny program in 5 years with unworkable requirements for Tesla, so pointless. 🤷‍♂️

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2025

While the post is presumably meant to convey that the auto industry is out of touch and behind the times, it also suggests an anticipated future revenue source for Tesla so far isn’t panning out.

Elon Musk on X: "@LewisWithrow5 @SawyerMerritt I’ve tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don’t want it!

I’ve tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don’t want it! Crazy …

When legacy auto does occasionally reach out, they tepidly discuss implementing FSD for a tiny program in 5 years with unworkable requirements for Tesla, so pointless. 🤷‍♂️

🦕 🦕
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2025

While the post is presumably meant to convey that the auto industry is out of touch and behind the times, it also suggests an anticipated future revenue source for Tesla so far isn’t panning out.

Jon Keegan11/24/25

Apple cuts sales jobs in rare layoff

Apple is cutting “dozens” of roles from its sales team in a rare layoff, according to a report from Bloomberg. The reductions are aimed at streamlining the company’s sales to businesses, schools, and government accounts, per the report.

Apple rarely turns to layoffs, compared to its tech peers, making the reduction noteworthy.

An Apple spokesperson told Bloomberg: “To connect with even more customers, we are making some changes in our sales team that affect a small number of roles,” and that the employees will be able to apply for new roles in the company.

Apple Cuts Jobs Across Its Sales Organization in Rare Layoff

Jon Keegan11/24/25

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 as AI war heats up

The past few weeks have seen new, impressive AI models debut from OpenAI and Google. Today it’s Anthropic’s turn to flex, as it releases Claude Opus 4.5, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model.

Anthropic’s Claude model is widely considered to be among the best at coding, and this model helps the company stay at the head of the pack.

Benchmarks released by Anthropic show Opus 4.5 besting both GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 with an all-time high score of 80% and the widely used SWE-bench coding benchmark. It also posted high scores for benchmarks measuring computer use and the notoriously challenging ARC-AGI-2 visual problem-solving test, though apparently it can’t run a vending machine as profitably as Google’s Gemini 3 can.

AI coding is one of the few bright spots as companies seek profitable enterprise applications for AI that actually improve productivity. Anthropic’s success with enterprise customers has helped push its valuation to nearly $350 billion.