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Trump Urges China to Ditch Iran as Google Hits $400B Amidst Tech Tensions

Google's Revenue Soars Past $400 Billion, While Microsoft Battles Russian Hackers

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced Wednesday that its annual revenue topped $400 billion for the first time, marking a significant milestone driven by growth in its cloud business and YouTube. Meanwhile, Microsoft released an urgent Office patch after Russian-state hackers exploited a critical vulnerability, compromising devices in diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations across multiple countries.

Google's Q4 2025 earnings report highlighted a 15 percent year-over-year increase, with YouTube's annual revenue ballooning past $60 billion in ads and subscriptions, according to The Verge.

In the realm of cybersecurity, Microsoft addressed a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, with an unscheduled security update late last month, Ars Technica reported. Researchers found that the threat group, known by names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, wasted no time in exploiting the vulnerability. Within 48 hours of the patch release, the group had reverse-engineered it and developed an advanced exploit to install previously unseen backdoors, according to Ars Technica.

In other tech news, Alphabet declined to comment on its AI partnership with Apple during its fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, according to TechCrunch. An analyst's question about how Alphabet views AI partnerships, specifically the one with Apple to power AI for Siri, was ignored, suggesting the company is not yet ready to discuss the partnership's impact on its core business, which is increasingly focused on AI. Filings from the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Google revealed that the search giant pays Apple $20 billion to be the default search engine on Apple devices, highlighting the mutually beneficial relationship between the two companies.

Meanwhile, Anthropic, an AI lab, released four Super Bowl commercials on Wednesday, including one that satirized the potential for ads in AI chatbots. One commercial featured a chatbot offering advice on how to talk to a mother, which then twisted into an ad for a fictitious cougar-dating site called Golden Encounters, according to TechCrunch. Anthropic stated that while ads are coming to AI, they will not be coming to its own chatbot, Claude.

In international news, US President Donald Trump said he had a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday where the pair discussed many things, from trade to the war in Ukraine. According to Euronews, Trump stated that the situation in Iran was also a key topic of discussion, as Washington continues to urge countries to isolate Tehran.

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