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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix missed Wall Street third-quarter earnings targets because of an unexpected expense from a dispute with Brazilian tax authorities and it offered a forecast a touch ahead of Wall Street projections for the rest of the year.  The streaming service on Tuesday posted net income of $2.5 billion and diluted earnings-per-share of $5.87 for July through September, a period when the animated "K-Pop Demon Hunters" became the most-watched movie in Netflix history. Analysts had expected $3.0 billion and $6.97, according to LSEG. Revenue was even with forecasts, at $11.5 billion. Netflix is searching for growth from new areas such as advertising and video games after attracting more than 300 million customers around the world. It faces competition from YouTube, Amazon's Prime Video, Disney+ and others. Netflix said its operating margin for the third quarter came in at 28%. Without the Brazilian tax expense of roughly $619 million, operating margin would have exceeded the company's guidance of 31.5%, the company said.  "We don't expect this matter to have a material impact on future results," Netflix said in its quarterly letter to shareholders. For the fourth quarter, Netflix forecast revenue of $11.96 billion, compared with Wall Street's projection of $11.90 billion. It projected diluted earnings-per-share a penny ahead of analysts' targets, at $5.45. The company will release the final season of one of its biggest hits, "Stranger Things," in November and December and will stream two live National Football League games on Christmas. "We're finishing the year with good momentum and have an exciting Q4 slate," Netflix said in its letter. Earlier this year, Netflix stopped reporting subscriber numbers and urged investors to focus on revenue and profit. It has expanded into video games and advertising, two areas that have contributed little to revenue so far, according to analysts and investors.  (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Richard Chang)

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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix missed Wall Street third-quarter earnings targets because of an unexpected expense from a dispute with Brazilian tax authorities and it offered a forecast a touch ahead of Wall Street projections for the rest of the year. Shares of Netflix fell 4% to $1,186.82 in after-hours trading on Tuesday.   The streaming service posted net income of $2.5 billion and diluted earnings-per-share of $5.87 for July through September, a period when the animated "K-Pop Demon Hunters" became the most-watched movie in Netflix history. Analysts had expected $3.0 billion and $6.97, according to LSEG. Revenue was even with forecasts, at $11.5 billion. Netflix is searching for growth from new areas such as advertising and video games after attracting more than 300 million customers around the world. It faces competition from YouTube, Amazon's Prime Video, Disney+ and others. Netflix said its operating margin for the third quarter came in at 28%. Without the Brazilian tax expense of roughly $619 million, operating margin would have exceeded the company's guidance of 31.5%, the company said.  "We don't expect this matter to have a material impact on future results," Netflix said in its quarterly letter to shareholders. For the fourth quarter, Netflix forecast revenue of $11.96 billion, compared with Wall Street's projection of $11.90 billion. It projected diluted earnings-per-share a penny ahead of analysts' targets, at $5.45. The company will release the final season of one of its biggest hits, "Stranger Things," in November and December and will stream two live National Football League games on Christmas. "We're finishing the year with good momentum and have an exciting Q4 slate," Netflix said in its letter. Earlier this year, Netflix stopped reporting subscriber numbers and urged investors to focus on revenue and profit. It has expanded into video games and advertising, two areas that have contributed little to revenue so far, according to analysts and investors.  (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Richard Chang)

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XX (Reuters) -Meta said on Tuesday it formed a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital to fund its biggest data center project globally, as large technology companies race to build out the infrastructure needed to power their artificial intelligence ambitions. The JV will finance the development and conduct the operations of the Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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XX (Reuters) -Meta said on Tuesday it formed a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital to fund its biggest data center project globally, as large technology companies race to build out the infrastructure needed to power their artificial intelligence ambitions. The JV will finance the development and conduct the operations of the Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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(Refiles to remove extraneous character from dateline) (Reuters) -Meta said on Tuesday it formed a joint venture with Blue Owl Capital to fund its biggest data center project globally, as large technology companies race to build out the infrastructure needed to power their artificial intelligence ambitions. The JV will finance the development and conduct the operations of the Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The international research studied 3,000 responses to questions about the news from leading artificial intelligence assistants – software applications that use AI to understand natural language commands to complete tasks for a user. It assessed AI assistants in 14 languages for accuracy, sourcing and ability to distinguish opinion versus fact, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity. Overall, 45% of the AI responses studied contained at least one significant issue, with 81% having some form of problem, the research showed. Reuters has made contact with the companies to seek their comment on the findings. Gemini, Google's AI assistant, has stated previously on its website that it welcomes feedback so that it can continue to improve the platform and make it more helpful to users. OpenAI and Microsoft have previously said hallucinations – when an AI model generates incorrect or misleading information, often due to factors such as insufficient data – are an issue that they are seeking to resolve. Perplexity says on its website that one of its "Deep Research" modes has 93.9% accuracy in terms of factuality. SOURCING ERRORS A third of AI assistants' responses showed serious sourcing errors such as missing, misleading or incorrect attribution, according to the study. Some 72% of responses by Gemini, Google's AI assistant, had significant sourcing issues, compared to below 25% for all other assistants, it said. Issues of accuracy were found in 20% of responses from all AI assistants studied, including outdated information, it said. Examples cited by the study included Gemini incorrectly stating changes to a law on disposable vapes and ChatGPT reporting Pope Francis as the current Pope several months after his death. Twenty-two public-service media organisations from 18 countries including France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Britain and the United States took part in the study. With AI assistants increasingly replacing traditional search engines for news, public trust could be undermined, the EBU said. "When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all, and that can deter democratic participation," EBU Media Director Jean Philip De Tender said in a statement. Some 7% of all online news consumers and 15% of those aged under 25 use AI assistants to get their news, according to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025. The new report urged AI companies to be held accountable and to improve how their AI assistants respond to news-related queries. (Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The international research studied 3,000 responses to questions about the news from leading artificial intelligence assistants – software applications that use AI to understand natural language commands to complete tasks for a user. It assessed AI assistants in 14 languages for accuracy, sourcing and ability to distinguish opinion versus fact, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity. Overall, 45% of the AI responses studied contained at least one significant issue, with 81% having some form of problem, the research showed. Reuters has made contact with the companies to seek their comment on the findings. Gemini, Google's AI assistant, has stated previously on its website that it welcomes feedback so that it can continue to improve the platform and make it more helpful to users. OpenAI and Microsoft have previously said hallucinations – when an AI model generates incorrect or misleading information, often due to factors such as insufficient data – are an issue that they are seeking to resolve. Perplexity says on its website that one of its "Deep Research" modes has 93.9% accuracy in terms of factuality. SOURCING ERRORS A third of AI assistants' responses showed serious sourcing errors such as missing, misleading or incorrect attribution, according to the study. Some 72% of responses by Gemini, Google's AI assistant, had significant sourcing issues, compared to below 25% for all other assistants, it said. Issues of accuracy were found in 20% of responses from all AI assistants studied, including outdated information, it said. Examples cited by the study included Gemini incorrectly stating changes to a law on disposable vapes and ChatGPT reporting Pope Francis as the current Pope several months after his death. Twenty-two public-service media organisations from 18 countries including France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Britain and the United States took part in the study. With AI assistants increasingly replacing traditional search engines for news, public trust could be undermined, the EBU said. "When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all, and that can deter democratic participation," EBU Media Director Jean Philip De Tender said in a statement. Some 7% of all online news consumers and 15% of those aged under 25 use AI assistants to get their news, according to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025. The new report urged AI companies to be held accountable and to improve how their AI assistants respond to news-related queries. (Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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(Reuters) -Germany's Northern Data said on Tuesday that it had withdrawn its annual forecast, as the AI cloud company was evaluating potential strategic transactions and graphics processing unit's market pricing dynamics. Northern Data said in a statement that the forecast withdrawal is partially offset by improved utilization of its GPU capacity driven by customer traction after the second-quarter technology upgrade. The company said that its Taiga cloud business initiated an upgrade of its infrastructure in March to enable access to its GPU estate, which led to improving the company's ability to serve existing customers and added a new and diversified customer base. Currently, more than 15,000 GPUs of Northern Data's 22,000 H100 and H200 GPU estate have been allocated to customers, Northern Data added. Video platform Rumble, which hosts U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social, in August made an offer to acquire Northern Data, giving Rumble control of the German company's Taiga business and its large-scale data center arm, Ardent. Reuters calculated the potential total deal value at approximately $1.17 billion. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Alan Barona)

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(Reuters) -Germany's Northern Data said on Tuesday that it had withdrawn its annual forecast, as the AI cloud company was evaluating potential strategic transactions and graphics processing unit's market pricing dynamics. Northern Data said in a statement that the forecast withdrawal is partially offset by improved utilization of its GPU capacity driven by customer traction after the second-quarter technology upgrade. The company said that its Taiga cloud business initiated an upgrade of its infrastructure in March to enable access to its GPU estate, which led to improving the company's ability to serve existing customers and added a new and diversified customer base. Currently, more than 15,000 GPUs of Northern Data's 22,000 H100 and H200 GPU estate have been allocated to customers, Northern Data added. Video platform Rumble, which hosts U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social, in August made an offer to acquire Northern Data, giving Rumble control of the German company's Taiga business and its large-scale data center arm, Ardent. Reuters calculated the potential total deal value at approximately $1.17 billion. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Alan Barona)

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(Reuters) -AI startup Anthropic is in talks with Google to secure additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which has not been finalized yet, includes Alphabet's Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic, according to the report. Alphabet's stock gained 2.3% in trading after the bell. Google declined to comment, while Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Anthropic, which counts Google and Amazon.com as its major investors, is the creator of the Claude chatbot and competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT for AI dominance. Anthropic is projecting to more than double and potentially nearly triple its annualized revenue run rate next year, fueled by the rapid adoption of its enterprise products, Reuters had exclusively reported last week. The company is on track to meet an internal goal of $9 billion in annual revenue run rate – a calculation of annual revenue extrapolated from the current sales pace – by the end of 2025. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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