The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups [17d]
• Blue Origin sticks first New Glenn rocket landing and launches NASA spacecraft [17d]
• Build Mode starts at the beginning: How Forethought AI found product-market fit [17d]
• Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’ [17d]
• Uber quietly pilots in-app video recording for drivers in India [17d]
• Newsletter platform beehiiv adds AI website building, creator tools in major expansion [17d]
• After 5 months, the $1,200 bottles of Besties All-In tequila are finally starting to ship [17d]
• In defense of Apple’s $230 iPhone sock [17d]
• Apple halves commissions for mini app makers [17d]
• Police take down three cybercrime operations in latest round of ‘whack-a-mole’ [17d]
• The 10 companies that just launched from Betaworks’ latest startup camp [17d]
• Tesla might finally bring CarPlay to its EVs [17d]
• Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations [17d]
• Google’s NotebookLM adds ‘Deep Research’ tool, support for more file types [17d]
• CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government [17d]
• TikTok launches its own version of Instagram’s broadcast channels [17d]
• Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk’s Boring Company construction site [17d]
• Google takes on Pinterest with a dedicated ‘inspirational’ images tab in its mobile app [17d]
• Tesla Powerwall 2 recall expands to US after reports of fires [17d]
• Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds [17d]
• LinkedIn adds AI-powered search to help users find people [17d]
• Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks [17d]
• Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in [17d]
• EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings [17d]
• Willow’s voice keyboard lets you type across all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said [18d]
• Kering-backed fund Mirova pours $30.5M into India’s Varaha for regenerative farming [18d]
• Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive [18d]
• ‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake [18d]