The Brutalist Report - techcrunch
- How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to become Sequoia’s first defense tech investment [254d]
- Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data [254d]
- Solid, which claimed to be the ‘AWS of fintech,’ files for bankruptcy after raising nearly $81M in funding [254d]
- OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, calls for enjoinment from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’ [254d]
- a16z backs Base Power in $200M round for home backup batteries [254d]
- Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ [254d]
- A Waymo robotaxi got trapped in Chick-fil-A drive-through [254d]
- Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta of colluding with China [254d]
- Nvidia’s H20 AI chips may be spared from export controls — for now [254d]
- Threads is testing a feature that lets you follow the same creators you follow on X [254d]
- Ilya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI startup’s research [254d]
- Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, judge rules [254d]
- Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware [254d]
- More good news for New York startups: Lerer Hippeau raised another $200M [254d]
- OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks [254d]
- Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription [254d]
- Kalshi CEO: ‘State law doesn’t really apply’ to us [254d]
- MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values [254d]
- YouTube expands its ‘likeness’ detection technology, which detects AI fakes, to a handful of top creators [254d]
- Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA director, citing telco security ‘cover up’ [254d]
- US may fine TSMC $1B over chip allegedly used in Huawei AI processor [254d]
- Tired of doing laundry? These startups want to help. [254d]
- Samsung’s SmartThings app gets more home automation capabilities [254d]
- Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M – and is still hiring humans [254d]
- WordPress.com launches a free AI-powered website builder [254d]
- Instagram tests locked reels that can be accessed with secret codes [254d]
- Nuro’s $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech [254d]
- Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale [254d]
- Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflows [254d]
- The complete agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: AI unveiled [254d]
- Ironwood is Google’s newest AI accelerator chip [255d]
- Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency [255d]
- Google Workspace gets automation flows, podcast-style summaries [255d]
- Google’s enterprise cloud gets a music-generating AI model [255d]
- Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, gets ‘agentic’ abilities [255d]
- Samsung adds Google’s Gemini to its home robot Ballie [255d]
- Reddit’s conversational AI search tool leverages Google Gemini [255d]
- Lyst, the fashion marketplace once valued at $700M, sells to Japan’s Zozo for $154M [255d]
- Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware [255d]
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