Friday, April 18, 2025

A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information:
A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve  —  Next week, a federal judge will start the process of determining how to fix Google's search engine, which he ruled last summer was an illegal monopoly.



Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 2024, up from $49.8M and $40.1M in 2023, respectively (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)

Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Filing: Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of about $61.9M and $60.3M in 2024, up from $49.8M and $40.1M in 2023, respectively  —  Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw total compensation of, respectively, to about $61.9 million and $60.3 million in 2024, up sharply from the year before.



Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses "AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning" and AI can make movies "10% better" (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses “AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning” and AI can make movies “10% better”  —  Citing recent comments by James Cameron, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he hopes AI can make films “10% better,” not just “50% cheaper.”



Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News:
Exaforce, which lets cybersecurity teams work with AI agents to cut false positives and busywork, raised a $75M Series A led by Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest  —  Funding to venture-backed cybersecurity startups has trended up so far this year, and Thursday saw another sign of that.



A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information : A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate ...