The Brutalist Report

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• OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion [392d]
• Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source [392d]
• Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger [392d]
• MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research [392d]
• ‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks [392d]
• Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies [392d]
• Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund [392d]
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit [392d]
• CFPB fines fintech Wise, alleging it charged deceptive fees [392d]
• Apple will pay $20M to settle Watch battery swelling suit, ‘denies wrongdoing’ [392d]
• Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom [392d]
• Stablecoins are finding product market fit in emerging markets [392d]
• This investor wants you to sign an NDA to build Legos together [392d]
• Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist [392d]
• OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model [392d]
• Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo [392d]
• Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts [392d]
• DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app [392d]
• Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention [392d]
• WeDoSolar pivots to B2B after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant [392d]
• AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement [392d]
• A brief history of mass hacks [392d]
• Backed by Mayo Clinic, Nutrix’s hardware monitors worker stress [392d]
• Tata Technologies says ransomware attack hit IT assets, investigation ongoing [392d]
• WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with Paragon spyware [392d]
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Last 24 hours for 2-for-1 Pass [392d]
• The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary [392d]
• US nonprofit healthcare provider says hacker stole medical and personal data of 1M+ patients [392d]
• Apple Intelligence will support more languages from April [392d]
• Apple Intelligence will support more languages starting in April [392d]
• In another challenging year for startups, higher valuations and revenue give reason for hope [392d]
• Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants for chip production [393d]