The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated. [12d]
• “First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion [12d]
• What to expect (and not expect) from yet another September Apple event [12d]
• Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs [12d]
• Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly [12d]
• Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode [12d]
• Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo [12d]
• NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon [12d]
• ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people [13d]
• Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port [13d]
• OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips [13d]
• Rocket Report: Neutron’s pad opens for business; SpaceX gets Falcon 9 green light [13d]
• BMW debuts 6th-generation EV powertrain in the all-electric iX3 [13d]