The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing [93d]
• People Inc. forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops [93d]
• Beta Technologies ends first day on NYSE in the green and $1B raised [93d]
• Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics [93d]
• Google’s AI Mode gets new agentic capabilities to help book event tickets and beauty appointments [93d]
• Sequoia names Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as new co-stewards as Roelof Botha steps down [93d]
• Sora is now available on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions [93d]
• Norway’s wealth fund vote is latest blow to Musk’s $1 trillion pay package [93d]
• Shopify says AI traffic is up 7x since January, AI-driven orders are up 11x [93d]
• Netflix in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia, report says [93d]