The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• A US Trustee wants troubled fintech Synapse to be liquidated via Chapter 7 bankruptcy, cites ‘gross mismanagement’ [489d]
• Seraphim’s latest space accelerator welcomes nine companies [489d]
• OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data [489d]
• X pushes more users to Communities [489d]
• Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand? [489d]
• Strava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats; unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more [489d]
• Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up. [489d]
• Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week [489d]
• Tesla keeps cutting jobs and the feds probe Waymo [489d]
• Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI [489d]
• GrubMarket buys Butter to give its food distribution tech an AI boost [489d]
• Bolt founder Ryan Beslow wants to settle an investor lawsuit by returning $37 million worth of shares [489d]
• With the end of Workspace, it’s fair to wonder if Meta was ever serious about the enterprise [489d]
• ThreadsDeck? Threads in testing pinned columns on the web [489d]
• Meta Threads is testing pinned columns on the web, similar to the old TweetDeck [489d]
• Google’s expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android [489d]
• Hacker claims theft of India’s Samco account data [489d]
• Ireland privacy watchdog confirms Dell data breach investigation [489d]
• Ampere teams up with Qualcomm to launch an Arm-based AI server [489d]
• Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution [489d]
• Meet the Magnificent Six: A tour of the stages at Disrupt 2024 [489d]
• Khosla Ventures, Pear VC triple down on Honey Homes, a smart way to hire a handyman [489d]
• TikTok tests 60-minute video uploads as it continues to take on YouTube [489d]
• Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveilliance more widespread [489d]
• Agora raises $34B Series B to keep building the Carta for real estate [489d]
• Google adds Gemini to its Education suite [489d]
• Poshmark’s ‘Promoted Closet’ tool lets sellers boost all their listings at once [489d]
• YC-backed Recall.ai gets $10M Series A to help companies use virtual meeting data [489d]
• Colab’s collaborative tools for engineers line up $21M in new funding [489d]
• Reddit reintroduces its awards system [489d]
• Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools [489d]
• EU ‘closely’ monitoring X in wake of Fico shooting as DSA disinfo probe rumbles on [490d]
• Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines [490d]
• Cannabis and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa [490d]
• EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design concerns [490d]
• Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries [490d]
• Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation [490d]
• Temu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaints [490d]