The Brutalist Report

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• VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments [113d]
• Waymo dips its wheels back into delivery, this time with DoorDash [113d]
• EFF, unions sue Trump admin. over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents [113d]
• EFF, unions sue Trump administration over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents [113d]
• Kayak launches an ‘AI Mode’ for travel questions, search, and bookings [113d]
• Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands [113d]
• Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police [113d]
• Meta to shut down Messenger desktop apps for Mac and Windows [114d]
• The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup [114d]
• Rent a Cyber Friend will pay you to talk to strangers online and will show off its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [114d]
• A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world [114d]
• Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs [114d]
• How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems [114d]
• Apple loses another AI exec to Meta [114d]
• Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed [114d]
• Microsoft, AWS and Google are trying to drastically reduce China’s role in their supply chains [114d]
• Final 2 days to claim your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [114d]
• General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips [114d]
• Amazon launches pay-per-visit virtual healthcare service for kids [114d]
• Last 48 hours to save before TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 flash sale ends [114d]
• Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products [114d]