3 November 2026

Netflix tests AI Discover - a feature that matches movies and shows to the viewer's mood

Netflix has begun testing AI Discover, a set of movie and show suggestions matched to the viewer's mood, Digital Trends reports. Instead of a genre, the viewer picks a theme such as “something lighthearted,” “something scary,” “a family movie” or “a quick watch,” and the AI serves up matching titles from the catalog. Any suggestion can be dismissed, and that title won't show up again. For now, the feature is available to some users in the U.S., only in the TV app and only in English.

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Google's search revenue growth slows - 12% in the third quarter after about 17% in the second

Google's search revenue rose 12% year over year in the third quarter, compared with about 17% in the second, The Verge calculates. Ad clicks grew just 8%, down from 13% a quarter earlier, even though search queries are growing at their fastest pace in five years. Philipp Schindler, Google's chief business officer, attributes the slowdown mainly to currency effects but acknowledges that the company earns less on AI Mode queries than on regular search. Alphabet shares have fallen about 14% since the results were published.

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Anthropic reports $33.24 billion in nine-month revenue and a $104 billion loss

Anthropic reported $33.24 billion in revenue and a $104 billion net loss for the first nine months of 2026, CNBC reports, citing its amended S-1. The loss mainly reflects an accounting revaluation of convertible notes and derivatives. Revenue was up about 1,200% from a year earlier, but growth is slowing: it rose 144% in the second quarter from the first, and about 47% in the third, to about $17 billion. Commitments under purchase and lease agreements, mostly for compute, total $895.4 billion.

CNBC ↗ Gizmodo ↗

Anthropic bans Claude Code from copying other people's games

Anthropic has barred Claude Code running Opus 5.5 from copying existing games, even under a different name, but you can still build your own games, including in a chosen genre. According to Anthropic's Addy Osmani on X, the ban is two sentences added to the model's instructions, based on a usage policy that prohibits infringing others' intellectual property. Users complain the model also refuses to help with reverse engineering, Tom's Hardware reports.

Tom's Hardware ↗ Digital Trends ↗

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