The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider [402d]
• Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI [402d]
• Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers [402d]
• Startup founders flooded inauguration parties hopeful for dealmaking [402d]
• Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes: report [402d]
• Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search [402d]
• Trump targets EV charging funding programs Tesla benefits from [402d]
• Govtech giant Conduent won’t rule out cyberattack as outage drags on [402d]
• OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $50B data center project [402d]
• Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US [402d]
• Trump moves to sink offshore wind [402d]
• Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses, content deals, free verification [402d]
• Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace [402d]