The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion [390d]
• Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source [390d]
• Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger [390d]
• MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research [390d]
• ‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks [390d]
• Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies [390d]
• Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund [390d]
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit [390d]
• CFPB fines fintech Wise, alleging it charged deceptive fees [390d]
• Apple will pay $20M to settle Watch battery swelling suit, ‘denies wrongdoing’ [390d]
• Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom [390d]
• Stablecoins are finding product market fit in emerging markets [390d]
• This investor wants you to sign an NDA to build Legos together [390d]
• Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist [390d]
• OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model [390d]
• Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo [390d]
• Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts [390d]
• DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app [390d]
• Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention [390d]