'Does super intelligence dream of creation?' A full house and a huge success & A parent-child creative and online literacy event will be held in August 2025, and the access analysis results of GIGAZINE for May 2025 look like this



Announcement 1: As part of the '

Machi★Asobi vol.28 ' event held in Tokushima Prefecture on Sunday, May 11, 2025, the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE held an offline lecture titled ' Does Superintelligence Dream of Creation? ' in which he spoke about the history and future of AI. The venue was packed to capacity and the event was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who came to the event!

The slides used in the lecture and the lecture can be seen in the following article.

The contents of the offline lecture given by the editor-in-chief of GIGAZINE entitled 'Does Superintelligence Dream of Creation?' are fully revealed - GIGAZINE



Announcement 2: As I announced in my Machi★Asobi lecture, I will be holding a creative event at ' Capas Day ,' which will be held at Onikuru, a complex in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, on Saturday, August 9, 2025. Details of the event will be announced at a later date, so please look forward to it.



Notice 3: We are changing the types of ads displayed on GIGAZINE. If you are already a member of the GIGAZINE advertising community, please report any strange ads you see immediately!

Announcement 4: As a result of seven years of running the GIGAZINE Manga Award , we have finally launched a new series, 'Ending the Infinite Reincarnation,' as an example of how 'longer series like this are also possible,' in addition to the short stories we've had up until now. The first episode has been published. GSC members and free members who support GIGAZINE will be given advance notice, and will also be notified by email.

An End to Infinite Reincarnation Episode 1 'The Arrival of a World Where No One Can Have Children and My Little World Going Crazy at an Incredible Rate' - GIGAZINE



So, here are some useful data to help you advertise on GIGAZINE :

◆May 2025
Number of access requests: 163.62 million
Page views: 39.89 million (down 960,000)
Number of unique users: 14.66 million (down 2.43 million)
Transfer volume: 13.314TB
*Measurement results by Cloudflare.

Of the total transfer volume, the volume of multimedia files such as images was approximately 10.556TB, while HTML, RSS, etc. accounted for approximately 2.758TB.

In addition, the number of articles created in May 2025 was 496.

Next, the top 10 most popular articles in May 2025. These are the results of an analysis using Google Analytics.

1st place: Hawks discovered using road traffic lights to hunt



2. How to use Vaseline and absolute ethanol to repair sticky equipment caused by hydrolysis



3. Over 2 billion Discord messages were scraped using a public API and published online, covering 3,167 servers from 2015 to 2024.



4th place: AI is causing a surge in cases of 'ChatGPT-induced psychosis,' where people are obsessed with spiritual experiences and religious delusions.



5. Amazon Kindle iOS app now features a 'Get Book' button after Apple loses lawsuit against Epic Games



6. Nintendo announces 11 new titles for Switch 2 upgradeable games and evolving content



7. NASA successfully remotely revived Voyager 1's thrusters, which were thought to have failed 20 years ago, from Earth, 25 billion kilometers away.



8. Nintendo began development of the Nintendo Switch 2 shortly after the release of the Nintendo Switch, according to court documents.



9. Apple may finally realize its dream of an all-screen iPhone



10th place: Mystical, a programming language like a magic circle



And below are the 10 least popular articles in May 2025. These are also the results of an analysis by Google Analytics.

1st place: OpenAI and the US Food and Drug Administration are considering the 'cderGPT' AI project for drug review - GIGAZINE



2. The UAE will introduce AI into its public education curriculum, including education on AI basics and ethics for students from kindergarten to high school.



3. White House withdraws plan to stop data brokers from selling Americans' personal information - GIGAZINE



4th place: Half of people who have come into contact with misinformation in the past believe it to be 'true information,' and 25% spread it in some way - GIGAZINE



5. Google uses AI to combat fraud in search, Chrome, and Android, introduces on-device Gemini Nano for safe browsing, and introduces fraud notification warning AI to Android - GIGAZINE



6. Meta begins testing video ads on Threads and trending reels ads on Instagram - GIGAZINE



7th place: 'Machi Asobi vol.28' Pre-party: Unveiling of the second kitchen car designed by Tanjiro Kamado and Kyojuro Rengoku, 'First Löyly' in the sauna - GIGAZINE



8. Apple suffers losses of over 130 billion yen due to Trump tariffs, but its performance in the second quarter of 2025 is strong - GIGAZINE



9th place: Gmail to add 'Personalized Smart Reply' feature that generates replies using AI and 'Gemini to clean up your inbox' - GIGAZINE



10th place: Opening ceremony report of 'Machi Asobi vol.28', a new 'Machi Asobi made by everyone' - GIGAZINE



So, next, to find out the trends of GIGAZINE readers, we look at the following by browser used.

1st place: Chrome : 52.53% (3.94% pt decrease)
2nd place: Safari : 30.68% (up 1.03% points)
3rd place: Edge : 5.91% (0.58% pt decrease)
4th place: Safari (in-app) : 4.01% (0.45% pt decrease)
5th place: Firefox : 3.25% (0.20% pt decrease)
6th place: Android Webview : 2.34% (0.70% pt decrease)
7th place: Samsung Internet : 0.31% (0.03%pt decrease)
8th place: Opera : 0.25% (no change)
9th place: Mozilla Compatible Agent : 0.09% (0.01% pt decrease)
10th place: Android Browser : 0.01% (up 0.01% points)

Next, the top 10 sites that linked to GIGAZINE and had the most traffic to GIGAZINE are listed below. Search engines are excluded. This is the first time that referral access from 'ChatGPT' has ranked in the top 10.

1st place: X (2nd place last month)
2nd place: Google News (1st place last month)
3rd place: Hatena Bookmark (3rd place last month)
4th place: SmartNews (4th place last month)
5th place: Facebook (5th place last month)
6th place: DuckDuckGo (6th last month)
7th place: Bluesky (7th place last month)
8th place: ChatGPT (out of the ranking)
9th place: Global stock prices (8th place last month)
10th place: Livedoor News (9th place last month)

Next, the top 10 phrases that led to GIGAZINE through searches are as follows:

1st place: gigazine
2nd place: Discord API
3rd place: have i been pwned
4th place: Chatbots
5th place: Circle drawing game
6th place:pornhub
7th place: airpods pro3
8th place: Expo rice prices
9th place: gemini diffusion
10th place: iphone17

Next, the top 10 YouTube views for May 2025 are as follows:

1st place
Anti-rape condom 'Rape-aXe' - YouTube

2nd place
Revival screening to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of the movie 'Battle Royale' - YouTube

3rd place
Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil sinks - YouTube

4th place
I tried riding USJ's new attraction 'Space Fantasy the Ride' - YouTube

5th place
360-degree theater of 'Monster Hunter Bridge', an experiential content that lets you enter the world of Monster Hunter Part 2 [Osaka Kansai Expo] - YouTube

6th place
PETA protests seal hunting in body paint - YouTube

7th place
A piggy bank with a creepy face 'FACE BANK' working movie - YouTube

8th place
360-degree theater of 'Monster Hunter Bridge', an experiential content that lets you enter the world of Monster Hunter Part 1 [Osaka Kansai Expo] - YouTube

9th place
A movie in which Professor Mori Kaoru of 'Otoyomegatari' draws Amil on colored paper - YouTube

10th place
Typing with Logitech's wireless mechanical keyboard 'MX Mechanical (brown axis)' looks like this - YouTube


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