The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Meta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rivals on a popular chat benchmark [66d]
• The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next [66d]
• Meta adds Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick to its board [66d]
• Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case [66d]
• 38 consumer startup founders lobby over Trump tariffs: One faces a surprise $200K bill [66d]
• TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assets [67d]
• Nikola founder Trevor Milton accused of trying to derail bankruptcy case [67d]
• Blue Water Autonomy comes out of stealth promising autonomous naval ships [67d]
• Ex-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transition [67d]
• GM cuts 500 jobs because of weak demand for BrightDrop electric vans [67d]
• ChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in March [67d]
• YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts [67d]
• Stripe CEO says company management regularly asks customers for ‘candid feedback’ [67d]
• Ireland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train Grok [67d]
• Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short-distance freight [67d]
• Hacked documents reveal guide to serving Elon Musk on private jets [67d]
• Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is still bullish on HVAC [67d]
• Spotify invests over $1M to grow its catalog of non-English audiobooks [67d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [67d]
• OpenAI will soon phase out GPT-4 from ChatGPT [67d]
• Less than a month to get your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI [67d]
• Dropbox Chief Customer Officer Eric Cox plans to step down, per filing [67d]
• A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs [67d]
• Startups Weekly: Enjoying the reprieve [67d]
• Microsoft inks massive carbon removal deal powered by a paper mill [67d]
• Leaders from Accel and Paladin Capital Group join the stage at StrictlyVC London in May [67d]
• Lucid Motors wins bankruptcy auction for Nikola’s Arizona factory and other assets [67d]