The Brutalist Report

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• Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office [20d]
• Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome [21d]
• A Radiohead song from 1997 is on the Hot 100 charts, thanks to TikTok [21d]
• Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors [21d]
• Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs [21d]
• Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled [21d]
• Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC [21d]
• DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower [21d]
• Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral [21d]
• The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops tomorrow [21d]
• Apple is holding its iPhone 17 event on September 9 [21d]
• After falling behind in generative AI, IBM and AMD look to quantum for an edge [21d]
• Google Translate takes on Duolingo with new language learning tools [21d]
• YouTube’s ‘Hype’ feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally [21d]
• How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change [21d]
• iPhone 17, the ‘thinnest iPhone ever,’ and everything else we’re expecting out of Apple’s hardware event [21d]
• Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in son’s suicide [21d]
• Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data [21d]
• Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix [21d]
• Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade [21d]
• Instagram’s new feature helps college students connect with others on campus [21d]