The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Amazon doubles down on AI with a massive $100B spending plan for 2025 [384d]
• Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests [384d]
• Early Meta employee sues for sexual harassment, gender discrimination [384d]
• OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process [384d]
• DOGE staffer steps down after racist posts emerge [384d]
• Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50% [384d]
• Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users [384d]
• Snap CEO helps launch LA wildfire recovery program [384d]
• Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America [384d]
• Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained [384d]
• Google is adding digital watermarks to images edited with Magic Editor AI [384d]
• Snapchat+ subscribers can now create custom AI-generated stickers [384d]
• Ford goes protectionist as EV losses top $5B [384d]
• Fintech Ramp lands Eagles’ Saquon Barkley as investor and Super Bowl commercial star [384d]
• EU details which systems fall within AI Act’s scope [384d]
• Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: media reports [384d]
• Mark Zuckerberg’s charity insists its not abandoning its DEI efforts [384d]
• GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images [384d]
• RPLY is a new AI assistant that responds to missed texts [384d]
• Keyboard maker suspends U.S. shipments over Trump tariffs on Chinese goods [384d]
• Flashes, a photo-sharing app for Bluesky, opens beta [384d]
• Tinder revamps ‘Explore’ page to connect people with similar dating intentions [384d]
• OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves Anthropic after just five months [384d]
• Superlogic raises $13.7M at a $200M valuation to help consumers use reward points toward cool ‘experiences’ [384d]
• Spotify, Warner Music Group sign new deal to help deliver ‘further paid subscription tiers’ [384d]
• Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android [384d]
• a16z stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny [384d]
• OpenAI launches data residency in Europe [384d]
• Intel Capital fuels TrueFoundry’s $19M funding to help boost AI deployments at scale [384d]
• Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine [384d]
• Lyft’s new AI customer assistant is powered by Anthropic’s Claude [384d]
• Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand [384d]
• You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging in [384d]
• IMI becomes the latest British engineering firm to be hacked [384d]
• Shein gets more questions from EU about DSA compliance [384d]
• Could this startup’s compact nuclear reactors revolutionize cancer detection? [384d]