Netflix revenue grew 17 percent to $11.5 billion in Q3 versus the same period a year earlier, driven by membership growth along with price hikes and an increase in ad revenue. Net profit was up by almost 8 percent for the quarter to $2.5 billion, versus the $2.98 billion that was expected. The quarter was Netflix’s best-ever for ad sales, with that revenue expected to more than double this year over 2024. The new user interface it began rolling out in May is now available to 85 percent of TV devices and the company is beta testing an AI-powered “conversational search experience.” Read more

OpenAI has launched Atlas, a free web browser that uses ChatGPT as its search engine and integrates with the company’s other products. Initially released for Apple’s macOS, OpenAI says support for Windows, Android and iOS is coming soon. News that OpenAI was developing the product surfaced in April as part of the Google antitrust trial, where OpenAI executive Nick Turley testified the company was interested in buying Chrome. Now the ChatGPT Atlas browser is available for download, challenging Chrome and others. Rather than type queries, people can chat with Atlas, something Chrome and Perplexity’s new Comet browser also allow. Read more

Samsung — the number one television brand worldwide — has teamed with AI search firm Perplexity to bring an AI app to all 2025 Samsung TVs. The app comes with a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, normally $20 per month, aiming to elevate the TV to its place among the smartest devices in the house. And those that own 2024 or 2023 Samsung TVs won’t be left out, with the Perplexity AI app to be added via an OS upgrade before the end of the year. Samsung is the first to deliver this standalone Perplexity TV app, which enhances its own Vision AI companion. Read more

Netflix is consolidating its VFX holdings, merging the internal Eyeline Studios unit it created in 2019 with Scanline, the visual effects house it acquired in 2021 into a new entity called Eyeline. “Merging Scanline VFX and Eyeline Studios under one brand enables us to pioneer new tools, facilitate creative collaboration, and drive the future of filmmaking for the most ambitious storytellers around the world,” Eyeline CEO Jeffrey Shapiro said of the realignment. Eyeline’s initial plans include a focus on areas such as visual effects, virtual production, volumetric capture, generative AI, machine learning and computer vision. Read more

Samsung debuted its Galaxy XR headset with news that it is on sale now in the U.S. and Korea for $1,799. Developed by Samsung, Google and Qualcomm, the headset runs on the new Android XR operating system, which Samsung EVP of Customer Experience Jay Kim said at Tuesday’s virtual launch event will steer “a new category of devices” powered by Google’s Gemini AI that “uses visual data, voice input and sensors in real time,” making it truly multimodal. Kim said Samsung’s vision for this new “spectrum of XR devices” includes four form factors: headsets, wired and wireless XR glasses, and AI glasses. Read more