The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Meta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot app [361d]
• Snowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capital [361d]
• Meta fires around 20 employees for leaking confidential information [361d]
• Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year [361d]
• Twitch is letting more streamers access its monetization tools [361d]
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’ [361d]
• Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users [361d]
• OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it money [361d]
• OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion’, its largest AI model yet [361d]
• TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI tools [361d]
• Accounting hasn’t fully embraced AI yet. Quanta just raised $4.7M to change that [361d]
• Figure will start ‘alpha testing’ its humanoid robot in the home in 2025 [361d]
• Microsoft Copilot gets a macOS app [361d]
• Lucid loses its CEO, and ‘founder mode’ comes for Flexport [361d]
• Stripe CEO says AI startups are growing faster than SaaS ever did and calling them wrappers ‘misses the point’ [361d]
• AI models trained on unsecured code become toxic, study finds [361d]
• Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including an age-checking system for apps [361d]
• Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps [361d]