European new car sales were surprisingly strong in the first half of 2026 but will likely fade. But sales are being increasingly snared by incoming Chinese competition.
‘Toy Story 5’ sustained its success because the movie is culturally relevant, but the themes of ‘Disclosure Day’ feel dated to contemporary audiences.

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator and others joined. The round takes the company’s total funding to $88M, three years after it launched, and Ollama set out the plan in a blog post on Thursday. Founde…

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursd…
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From Jamaica’s interior to the luxury herbal tea market, a patented botanical is relying on science, scarcity, and intellectual property to challenge tradition.
AI shopping is changing retail discovery, but its impact will vary by category based on how much help shoppers need comparing products and reducing uncertainty.
Moana is a huge bomb with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and if that translates into box office, that should cause Disney to rethink its recent strategy.
Character.ai enters microdrama with c.ai Series, letting viewers chat with characters after episodes and testing whether characters can drive engagement.