The Brutalist Report

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• Khosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-infused roll-ups of mature companies [10d]
• Zoox issues second robotaxi software recall in a month following collision [10d]
• Landa promised real estate investing for $5. Now it’s gone dark. [10d]
• What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor [10d]
• Apple CEO reportedly urged Texas’ governor to ditch online child safety bill [10d]
• Kesha is now a startup founder [10d]
• Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok [10d]
• TechCrunch Mobility: Uber Freight’s AI bet, Tesla’s robotaxi caveat, and Nikola’s trucks hit the auction block [10d]
• OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent [10d]
• Startups Weekly: Cutting through Google I/O noise [10d]
• Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more [10d]
• Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created [10d]
• Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla [10d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [10d]
• California prepares to sue feds after Senate revokes the state’s EV rule [10d]
• At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica confront the ethical crisis — when AI crosses the line [10d]
• X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage [10d]
• Founders First: Iliana Quinonez of Google Cloud on AI agents, infrastructure, and democratization at TechCrunch Sessions: AI [10d]
• Tick tock: Just 3 days left to save up to $900 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 pass [10d]
• Apple could launch AI-powered smart glasses in 2026 [10d]
• Trump threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones made outside the US [10d]
• Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say [10d]
• After Klarna, Zoom’s CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call [10d]