The ‘Moana’ Rotten Tomatoes Critic Review Score Is A Disney Disaster

The Moana live-action movie Rotten Tomatoes score is in, and it is absolutely not what Disney wants to see ahead of its opening weekend.

NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone

NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls …

Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web
Cloudflare spent a year blocking AI crawlers. Now it’s helping OpenAI index the web

Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudfla…

California Will Give You $3,500 To Buy A New EV

The incentive is for first-time buyers of new battery-powered models priced below $50,000, with half the amount covered by automakers. Used EVs qualify for $1,750

OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business
OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business

OpenAI wants the work that once belonged to consultants. Its deployment arm has agreed to buy Northslope, an applied-AI firm, the company told Axios in an exclusive on Wednesday. It did not disclose terms, and the deal still needs regulatory clearance….

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO
RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Mid…

Will ‘The Odyssey’ ‘Flop’? Here’s Christopher Nolan’s Box Office History

Christopher Nolan has become a serious box-office draw over the past two decades, and we only need to look to the past to see that.

Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal
Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal

Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal shoul…

Russia Shoots Down One Of Its Own Drone-Hunting Helicopters

The loss of a Russian Ka-52 Alligator hunting drones highlights the challenge of deconfliction; can Russia afford to keep using and losing helicopters in this role?

After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation
After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation

Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outside money at last, in a round that values the rocket firm at $130 billion, CNBC reports. It follows Elon Musk’s record SpaceX IPO and pits the two space fortunes against each other again. Blue Origin is raising …