The Brutalist Report

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• Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool [288d]
• Rivian earnings: EV maker cuts delivery guidance because of Trump’s tariffs and trade wars [288d]
• NSO Group must pay more than $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for spyware campaign [288d]
• Substack launches audio-only livestream feature [288d]
• IBM CEO urges the Trump administration to increase — not cut — federal AI R&D funding [288d]
• Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots [288d]
• Patreon’s app can now accept web payments after US App Store changes [288d]
• Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash [288d]
• TechCrunch Sessions: AI welcomes Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to talk AI-native startups [288d]
• FutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discovery [288d]
• Amazon Kindle’s iOS app adds new ‘Get Book’ button following Apple payments ruling [288d]
• Uber turns to Chinese companies to snap up robotaxi market share in Europe, Middle East [288d]
• What OpenAI’s restructuring plan means for its corporate future [288d]
• Can the Cadillac Celestiq EV make GM’s luxury brand great again? Don’t rule it out [288d]
• Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the web [288d]
• Finom, a challenger bank aimed at SMBs, lands $105M in growth funding from General Catalyst [288d]
• Google’s new ‘Simplify’ feature for iOS uses AI to make dense text easier to understand [288d]
• Google debuts an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model ahead of I/O [288d]
• Unblocked raises $20M for AI to help devs understand codebases [288d]
• NewLimit, founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $130M to develop age-reversing treatments [288d]
• Uber Eats comes to Turkey via $700M Trendyol Go acquisition [288d]
• CNaught wants to make carbon credits easy for businesses small and large [288d]
• Agree.com raises $7.2M to take on Docusign, Bill.com with AI [288d]
• Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents [288d]
• Instacart launches Fizz, a new app for ordering drinks and snacks for parties [288d]
• Meet Posha, a countertop robot that cooks your meals for you [288d]
• Spotify now shows how many times people listened to podcast episodes [288d]