The Brutalist Report

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• Federal judge allows the EFF’s lawsuit against DOGE and Elon Musk to proceed [323d]
• Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series [323d]
• Grace raises €5.9M seed to offer insurance to luxury goods [323d]
• OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment [323d]
• Intel and TSMC are reportedly launching a joint chipmaking venture [323d]
• Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund [323d]
• Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities [324d]
• TikTok quietly launches a new ‘TikTok for Artists’ platform [324d]
• Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan [324d]
• Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans [324d]
• X may soon start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations starting at $10K, code reveals [324d]
• Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has [324d]
• Apple loses $250B market value as tariffs tank tech stocks [324d]
• Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports [324d]
• YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok with new creation tools [324d]
• Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government. Tesla is taking the hit. [324d]
• Thatch raises $40M to give employees more control of their health care choices [324d]
• This sneaky Android spyware needs a password to uninstall. Here’s how to remove it without one [324d]
• ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says [324d]
• Voice AI platform Phonic gets backing from Lux [324d]
• Call for speakers: Showcase your knowledge at TechCrunch All Stage [324d]
• What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it [324d]
• Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying [324d]
• New session at TechCrunch All Stage: Jahanvi Sardana on how top startups reshape markets [324d]
• Runway, best known for its video-generating AI models, raises $308M [324d]
• The Nintendo Switch 2, hands-on: It’s pretty good! [324d]
• A web3 startup aims to change the game in the tariff wars [324d]
• Fuse raises $6.6M to fix a payment problem for companies expanding to MENA [324d]