The Brutalist Report

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• Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test [383d]
• OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany [383d]
• Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation [383d]
• Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions [383d]
• Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B [383d]
• Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption [383d]
• One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge [383d]
• Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge [383d]
• Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline [383d]
• Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair [383d]
• DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists [383d]
• Bluesky will soon let you limit replies to ‘followers only’ [383d]
• Ex-Apple engineer issues apology after lawsuit over Journal app, Vision Pro leaks is dismissed [383d]
• The biggest breach of US government data is under way [383d]
• Startups face the recurring dilemma of whether to partner [383d]
• Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections [383d]
• Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029 [383d]
• DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app [383d]
• Amazon deletes ‘inclusion and diversity’ language in latest filing [383d]
• VC Mike Ghaffary is looking for the job-creating AI startup that doesn’t yet exist [383d]
• German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections [383d]
• Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI [383d]
• Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round [383d]
• Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation [383d]
• HPE begins notifying data breach victims after Russian government hack [383d]
• PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development [383d]
• Pinterest lists DEI attacks as possible business risk in latest filing [383d]
• Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M [383d]
• Coalition of US states to file lawsuit after Musk’s DOGE gains access to Americans’ personal data [383d]
• UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: report [383d]