The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Amazon’s outgoing Echo head is Blue Origin’s new CEO [821d]
• Ford halts work on $3.5B EV battery factory with China’s CATL [821d]
• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’ [821d]
• New SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules: What you need to know to stay in compliance [821d]
• Max Q: Things got disrupted [821d]
• Apple executives break down AirPods’ new features [821d]
• Storybutton wants to redesign the radio for Gen Alpha podcast listeners [821d]
• ‘Nobody has lost their job because of what we do,’ says CEO of film industry AI tool [821d]
• Getty Images launches an AI-powered image generator [821d]
• The recent tech IPOs are flirting with negative territory [821d]
• Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma [821d]
• Hackers steal $200 million from crypto company Mixin [821d]
• Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs [821d]
• What’s the best way to run a startup in a world full of advice? [821d]
• VC firm Fuse closes $250M fund to invest in Pacific Northwest startups [821d]
• Decade of newborn child registry data stolen in MOVEit mass-hack [821d]
• Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature [821d]
• The current labor market is a gold mine of talent for startups [821d]
• X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature [821d]
• TeachMe.To lands $2M to connect beginner athletes with local coaches [821d]
• Everyone loves Anthropic [821d]
• Tinder snobs can now pay $499 per month to be matched with the ‘most-sought after’ profiles [821d]
• OpenAI gives ChatGPT a voice for verbal conversations [822d]
• Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review [822d]
• Notetaking app Goodnotes invests $1.9M in digital stationary company WeBudding [822d]
• Google expands its subsea cable infrastructure with Nuvem, connecting the U.S., Bermuda, and Portuga [822d]
• Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic [822d]
• Correcto grabs $7M to build out its ‘Grammarly for Spanish’ [822d]
• California governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks [822d]