The Brutalist Report
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- SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) [63d]
- SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed (Bloomberg) [63d]
- Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role at OpenAI because her medical condition has worsened, and will become a part-time adviser (Wall Street Journal) [63d]
- Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [64d]
- Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (Wall Street Journal) [64d]
- Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel (Hannah Lang/Reuters) [64d]
- Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post) [64d]
- Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [64d]
- PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [64d]
- Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [64d]
- The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico) [64d]
- OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [64d]
- Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg) [64d]
- OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [64d]
- GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 (OpenAI) [64d]
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- Top OpenAI executive Fidji Simo is stepping down [63d]
- The Fed's new task forces feature big names in business, from Marc Andreessen to Asha Sharma [63d]
- Disney is exploring adding a free tier to Disney+ as YouTube draws TV viewers [63d]
- Elon Musk has reversed course on Anthropic [64d]
- Why you should think twice about using AI to write your LinkedIn posts [64d]
- OpenAI is making its biggest play for the office [64d]
- Meta launches a new AI coding model with 'very aggressive' pricing, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says [64d]
- My son and I bonded over soccer, but I had given up on World Cup tickets. An email from a stranger changed everything. [64d]
- This chart should be a 'wake-up call' about AI cheating, Brown University professor says [64d]
- Cloudflare's latest AI rankings expose the web's biggest free rider [64d]
- I moved across the country for a dream job. Within a year, I realized I'd made a mistake. [64d]
- I traveled the world for nearly 2 years. It was great, but not having my own space was challenging. [64d]
- Tom Brady says one piece of tough feedback in college helped him become a better football player [64d]
- The 50 most expensive militaries in the world, ranked by defense budget [64d]
- Uber's CTO embedded its top AI engineers in HR, finance, and legal, and found better ways to build [64d]
- Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 Executive, to Step Down to Focus on Recovery From Chronic Illness [63d]
- Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell on Touring Together and Summer Nights Devoted to ‘Forgetting Madness and Being Part of Something Beautiful’ [63d]
- U.S. World Cup Loss to Belgium Averages 33.1 Million Viewers, the Most-Watched Soccer Telecast in U.S. History [63d]
- ‘Naruto’ Movie Launches Global Casting Search to Find Actors to Play Live-Action Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura [63d]
- How to Watch ‘Big Brother 28’ Online [63d]
- The Coven Is Back! ‘American Horror Story’ Season 13 Set Photos Reveal Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts and More as Witches [63d]
- Alisa Bowen Exits as Disney+ President to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo TV Streamer [64d]
- Emmy Rossum Says Years-Long ‘Shameless’ Pay Battle Only Ended in Season 8 After Salary Dispute Leaked to the Public: ‘It Was Resolved Within a Day’ [64d]
- Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar Mocks Film Industry in Campaign Spot, Vows to Defund Anti-Israel Movies [64d]
- All 5 ‘Hunger Games’ Movies Return to Theaters With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ Sneak Peek [64d]
- James Beard Award Winner Kwame Onwuachi Signs With CAA [64d]
- ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 Adds Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, Jerome Flynn [64d]
- ‘Toy Story 5’ Surpasses $800 Million Globally [64d]
- Music Industry Moves: T.I. Strikes Publishing Deal With Reservoir, Primary Wave Partners With Foreigner’s Mick Jones [64d]
- These Celebrity-Adored, Very Large Sunglasses Are the Hottest Summer Accessory [64d]
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