The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• China’s $47B semiconductor fund puts chip sovereignty front and center [658d]
• Apple’s Design Awards nominees highlight indies and startups, largely ignore AI (except for Arc) [658d]
• Spyware maker pcTattletale shutters after data breach [658d]
• AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people [658d]
• Rock band’s hidden hacking-themed website gets hacked [658d]
• Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team [658d]
• The demise of BaaS fintech Synapse could derail the funding prospects for other startups in the space [658d]
• YouTube’s free games catalog ‘Playables’ rolls out to all users [658d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [658d]
• OpenAI’s new safety committee is made up of all insiders [659d]
• Early bird gets the savings — 4 days left for Disrupt sale [659d]
• Skej’s AI meeting scheduling assistant works like adding an EA to your email [659d]
• Faircado raises $3M to nudge people to buy pre-owned goods [659d]
• Tumblr launches its semi-private Communities in open beta [659d]
• Félix Pago raises $15.5 million to help Latino workers send money home via WhatsApp [659d]
• Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook [659d]
• The Chainsmokers light up Disrupt 2024 [659d]
• LumApps, the French ‘intranet superapp,’ sells majority stake to Bridgepoint in a $650M deal [659d]
• More neobanks are becoming mobile networks — and Nubank wants a piece of the action [659d]
• MARS doubles down on India’s Infra.Market with new $50M investment [659d]
• Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales [659d]
• Adani to battle Reliance, Walmart in India’s e-commerce, payments race, report says [659d]
• Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet [659d]