The Brutalist Report

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• Intuitive Machines prepares for first lunar mission, faces challenge to NASA contract win [951d]
• Polestar and Volvo are the latest automakers caught in software purgatory [951d]
• Daily Crunch: For second consecutive quarter, millions of subscribers drop Disney+ Hotstar [951d]
• Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers [951d]
• Anthropic’s latest model can take The Great Gatsby as input [951d]
• TechCrunch is heading to London for London Tech Week [951d]
• Axiom Space gears up for second private human spaceflight mission to ISS [951d]
• Dungeons & Dragons gets its very own streaming channel [951d]
• ‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management [951d]
• GitHub’s Thomas Dohmke talks open source, AI and more on the Disrupt SaaS Stage [951d]
• Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter [951d]
• Teenage Engineering teases the tape recorder of my dreams, only it’s digital [951d]
• Hands on with Google’s AI-powered music generator [951d]
• Pudgy Penguin’s $9M seed round could point to a growing NFT industry [951d]
• Project Starline is the coolest work call you’ll ever take [951d]
• Keepon, carry on [951d]
• TuSimple continues its slide into the ether with new delisting warning [951d]
• VanMoof updates its last-gen e-bikes with simplified X4 and S4 models [951d]
• Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source [951d]
• Pitch Deck Teardown: Fibery’s $5.2M Series A deck [951d]
• Meta is killing the Messenger app for Apple Watch on May 31 [951d]
• SLAIT pivots from translating sign language to AI-powered interactive lessons [951d]
• ‘Bigolas Dickolas’ is more powerful than the Pulitzer Prize [951d]
• Tensor is climbing to the top of the Solana NFT marketplace totem pole [951d]
• WhatsApp rolls out back-end fixes to address spam calls impacting Indian users [951d]
• Google enables Chromebook app streaming for select Pixel and Xiaomi devices [951d]
• Hyundai Motor to invest $2.45bn in India by 2032 to boost EV ecosystem [951d]
• Peloton recalls millions of exercise bikes after reports of injuries [951d]
• AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund [951d]
• AI2 is developing a large language model optimized for science [951d]
• Australian software giant won’t say if customers affected by hack [951d]
• Wellthy lands $25M to help caregivers feel less overwhelmed [951d]
• Higher interest rates are fostering a fintech comeback story [951d]
• Pinterest is combining Pins and Idea Pins into a single format [951d]
• Capchase gets into buy now, pay later with Capchase Pay for SaaS financing [951d]
• AudiencePlus wants to help every company run its own media platform [951d]
• Making foundation models accessible: The battle between closed and open source AI [951d]
• Crikey! Only 48 hours left to save $800 on passes to Disrupt [951d]
• Study says App Store revenue of small developers grew by 71% in last two years [951d]
• Meta content review partner Sama told by court to pay moderators [951d]
• Writer introduces product that could help reduce hallucinated content in its LLMs [951d]
• Cable wants to help banks cut financial crime through automated assurance [951d]
• Apple’s ATT faces competition probe in Italy [951d]
• Unlocking the M&A code: 5 factors that can make (or break) a deal [951d]
• MediShout wants to bring Amazon-like efficiency to hospital operations [951d]
• EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI [951d]
• Canon sidles up to vloggers with PowerShot V10 [951d]
• Twitter launches encrypted DMs for verified users with security drawbacks [951d]
• Fairphone gets its audio groove on with repairable over-ear BT headphones [951d]
• Microsoft makes strategic investment into Builder.ai, integrates its services into Teams [952d]
• Google’s new Labs page lets you sign up for its AI experiments [952d]
• SoftBank Vision Fund yearly loss widens to $32B on startups valuation cut [952d]
• Everseen raises over $70M for AI tech to spot potential retail theft [952d]
• Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44M from the EIB [952d]
• Disney’s Hotstar loses 8.4 million subscribers as Ambani’s JioCinema ascends [952d]
• APAC startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 [952d]