The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now [175d]
• General Catalyst loses three top investors as the firm expands beyond venture, contemplates IPO [175d]
• You can now talk to Google Gemini from your iPhone’s lock screen [175d]
• Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers [175d]
• Creator monetization platform Passes sued over alleged distribution of CSAM [175d]
• MWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impact [175d]
• The author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in California [175d]
• Google Play update makes it easier to find Android apps with widgets [175d]
• Ramp has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $700 million [175d]
• TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7 [175d]
• TSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilities [175d]
• Google releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlife [175d]
• Lee Enterprises ransomware attack hits freelance and contractor payments [175d]
• Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voices [175d]
• Google upgrades Colab with an AI agent tool [175d]
• Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins Frank McCourt’s TikTok bid [175d]
• No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI [175d]
• Fintech startup Ramp nearly doubles valuation to $13B in secondary share sale [175d]
• Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions [175d]
• What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it [175d]
• US said to halt offensive cyber operations against Russia [175d]
• Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash [175d]
• UK probes how TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur protect child privacy [175d]
• Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite U.S. export controls [176d]
• Conan O’Brien comments on AI during his opening monologue at the Oscars [176d]
• T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1K [176d]
• Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K [176d]
• Stability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chips [176d]
• As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses [176d]
• HackerPulse wants to help enterprises spot engineering bottlenecks [176d]
• Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI [176d]
• Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security [176d]
• Opera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browser [176d]
• Uber is piloting accounts for teenagers in India [176d]
• Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen [176d]