Disney is exploring making some of its streaming content available at an unbeatable price: free. The Mouse House is considering making some content accessible on Disney+ without a paywall, according to two people familiar with the matter. Chief product and technology officer Adam Smith discussed enabling free-tier content during a streaming town hall Thursday afternoon,
European countries are showing growing interest in the Israeli-made David’s Sling missile defense system, a senior Israeli official told Business Insider. The continent is racing to bolster its air defenses in preparation for a possible war with Russia. About a dozen European countries have shown interest in purchasing David’s Sling over the past year, Moshe
Popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows an earlier $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. In total, the company has raised $88 million. Ollama, which launched in 2023, helps developers run open-ended
IT hedge fund Qube is hiring flesh-and-blood portfolio managers for a new equities unit, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans. The quant giant, which now manages $50 billion across its suite of strategies, is developing a team of portfolio managers who will trade long and short positions across different sectors and report
The race to produce more chips has begun, and Europe is in it. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near monopoly on manufacturing the machines used to make chips, will soon cease to be an isolated success story. Like its American counterpart, the European Chip Law aims to encourage the semiconductor industry, partly thanks
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance are not over, but challenges and options are emerging from all directions. ZML, a popular French AI startup backed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference performance software that enables running a variety of large open source language models on a variety of chips, including Nvidia,