The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Netflix goes ‘all in’ on generative AI as entertainment industry remains divided [108d]
• Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation [108d]
• Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta [108d]
• OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at Google [108d]
• Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation [108d]
• Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google’s search and AI crawlers [108d]
• Bill Gates’s old climate lobbyists launch a new firm [108d]
• I spent a month living with a $430 AI pet, the Casio Moflin [108d]
• Google Fi to add AI-enhanced audio and RCS web messaging [108d]