The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Aspiration co-founder and board member defrauded investors of $145M, prosecutors say [356d]
• Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI group [356d]
• X updates Communities with new filters, sorting options, and a way to see your own posts [356d]
• African VC LoftyInc Capital launches third fund for seed and Series A, reaches $43M first close [356d]
• Andy Dunn’s new app Pie uses AI to help you make friends [356d]
• Foundation Capital, an early backer of Solana and Cerebras, raises $600M fund [356d]
• Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI [356d]
• Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model [356d]
• Google still limits how Gemini answers political questions [356d]
• Hackers launder most of Bybit’s stolen crypto worth $1.4 billion [356d]
• OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agents [356d]
• TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7, submit yours today [356d]
• Google’s March Pixel Drop adds AI-powered scam detection and live location sharing with friends [356d]
• Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’ [356d]
• Cohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-class [356d]
• Solar installer Sunnova races to raise cash as it issues ‘going concern’ warning [356d]
• Didi reportedly seeking funds for self-driving unit at $5B valuation [356d]
• On a quest to revive the woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has created a woolly mouse [356d]
• OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research [356d]
• Funding to women-founded startups declined 12% in 2024, but that wasn’t far behind the broader market [356d]
• Polish space agency says it’s investigating a cyberattack [356d]
• Apple launches a new iPad Air with M3 chip [356d]
• Swap banks $40M to build tools for merchants to deal with tariffs and other cross-border trading nightmares [356d]
• Scrunch AI is helping companies stand out in AI search [356d]
• LlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructed data agents [356d]
• Hotel management platform Mews books $75M round led by Tiger Global [356d]
• Uber users in Austin are getting matched with Waymo robotaxis [356d]