The Brutalist Report

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• Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing [21d]
• Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models [21d]
• Viral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact [21d]
• Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard [21d]
• Redpoint raises $650M 3 years after its last big early-stage fund [21d]
• Sprinter Health raises $55M to expand its at-home healthcare service [21d]
• Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code [21d]
• Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation [21d]
• Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic [21d]
• Lucid’s record quarter got a lift from rental sales and company leases [21d]
• Startups Weekly: A brighter outlook, but don’t get carried away [21d]
• TikTok rolls out a new meditation feature to help you get off the app and sleep [21d]
• Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips [21d]
• Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome [21d]
• Host a tailored Side Event at All Stage 2025 in Boston [21d]
• Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism [21d]
• Threads now lets creators add up to 5 links to profiles, track clicks [21d]
• Apple finally launches next-gen ‘CarPlay Ultra’ software, starting with Aston Martin [21d]
• Doji raises $14M to make virtual try-ons fun through AI avatars [21d]
• Roblox now lets creators sell physical products within their experiences [21d]
• Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird [21d]
• Coinbase says customers’ personal information stolen in data breach [21d]
• Trump tells Apple’s CEO to stop expanding iPhone production in India [21d]
• South Korea delays decision on letting Google move hi-res map data overseas [21d]
• Hedra, the app used to make talking baby podcasts, raises $32M from a16z [21d]
• Harvey reportedly in discussions to raise $250M at $5B valuation [21d]