The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M [124d]
• Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations [124d]
• Apple projects tariff costs will hit $1.1B next quarter [124d]
• Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising [124d]
• Apple has now sold 3 billion iPhones [124d]
• Apple plans to ‘significantly’ grow AI investments, Cook says [124d]
• Iconiq’s Will Griffith explains how his firm celebrated Figma’s IPO and why investors sold shares [124d]
• Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s [124d]
• Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms [124d]
• The sequel to ‘The Social Network’ may have just found its lead actors [124d]
• Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines [124d]
• Figma’s stock soared in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hit $45B [124d]
• Google loses appeal over app store overhaul in Epic Games case [124d]
• The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps [124d]
• Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps — and AI is partially to blame [124d]
• Quora’s Poe releases a developer API with access to a bouquet of AI models [124d]
• Waymo’s Tekedra Mawakana on the truth behind autonomous vehicles at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [124d]
• Google is experimenting with machine-learning powered age estimation tech in the U.S. [124d]
• Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders [124d]
• Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication [124d]
• GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users [125d]
• Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut [125d]