The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS [59d]
• Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results [59d]
• Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot” [59d]
• Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit [59d]
• An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend [59d]
• Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant [59d]
• The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters [59d]
• Valve upends the CS2 item marketplace with new “trade up” update [59d]
• Great hybrid V6, lousy HMI: Three days with a Ferrari 296 GTB [59d]
• Trump eyes government control of quantum computing firms with Intel-like deals [59d]
• Reports suggest Apple is already pulling back on the iPhone Air [59d]
• An outcast faces a deadly alien world in Predator: Badlands trailer [59d]
• Porsche does U-turn on electric vehicles, will focus on gas engines [59d]
• Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian [59d]
• California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime [59d]
• We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened [59d]