US$8 million for 30 seconds. A television advertisement during the Super Bowl is expensive. In fact, no paid promotion anywhere in the world costs that much. For instance, the equivalent for a World Cup final or Olympic Games opening or closing ceremony is $1 million–$2.5 million. But the costs do not stop there because advertisers spend millions more on production, celebrity talent and p
Amazon.com Inc shares plunged after it forecast a big increase in capital expenditure this year, despite posting increases in profits for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2025. The global technology giant said net income grew 6% to US$21.2 billion (A$30.5 billion) in the three months ended 31 December 2025 from $20.0 billion in the previous corresponding period (pcp). Diluted earnings per share (E
Rio Tinto has formally walked away from talks with rival Glencore to create the world’s largest mining company because they could not agree on terms that would deliver value for its shareholders. Rio Tinto said it had assessed the proposed transaction but concluded the terms under discussion failed to meet its investment and capital allocation criteria. “Further to the announcement of 8 Janu
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6 as the San Francisco-based firm reportedly prepares for a potential 2026 listing that could value it north of US$350 billion. The model outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro across multiple benchmarks, particularly in agentic coding and knowledge work applications. On GDPval-AA - measuring performance on economically valuable tasks in f
The United States labour market is showing increasing signs of strain, with new data pointing to weakening demand for workers, rising layoffs and a pickup in unemployment claims. Job openings unexpectedly fell for a third consecutive month in December, sliding by 386,000 to 6.542 million vacancies, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). The reading marked the
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The National Football League (NFL) has announced that the San Francisco 49ers will play the Los Angeles Rams in the historic first-ever regular-season game in Melbourne. No date or time has been announced for the game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 2026, which is part of an NFL record nine international games in 2026 across four continents, seven countries and eight stadiums this year
The Trump administration has announced it will strip up to 50,000 federal employees of their job protection. This is an election promise made by President Donald Trump, which will allow him more control over job termination and hiring processes for these employees, who he says are “influencing” policy. The announcement came from the Office of Personnel Management this week, confirming that t
Close to five years of upward gains in cryptocurrency are unravelling across the global market, leaving investors concerned. The downturn has come in hard and fast over the last couple of months, otherwise known as ‘crypto winter’. Data from Coingecko found that the crypto market has lost approximately US$2 trillion in value in the last 4 months, but Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hou
Reddit beat expectations and gave guidance for the start of 2026 in its latest earnings release. The social media site’s fourth-quarter revenue soared 70% to US$726 million, far exceeding expectations of $665 million. Net income had an even bigger jump of 255% from $252 million to $181 million last year. Revenue accounted to 35% of this, with Reddit’s sales in the U.S. coming in at $583 m
Ukraine and Russia have completed their second day of United States-led talks in Abu Dhabi without any breakthrough on ending the war. Both sides agreed to hand over 157 prisoners of war, as confirmed by officials of Ukraine and the U.S., as well as Russia’s Ministry of Defence. While Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, said the prisoner swap showed that “sustained di
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