The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA [47d]
• YouTube to pull music data from Billboard’s charts because it doesn’t like its ranking formula [47d]
• YouTube will stream the Oscars — exclusively — beginning in 2029 [47d]
• Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers [47d]
• Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day [47d]
• Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages [47d]
• Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org [47d]
• Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy and is looking to sell the business [47d]
• Radiant Nuclear raises $300M for its semi-sized 1 MW reactor [47d]
• Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app [47d]
• Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B [47d]
• Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘find friends’ feature without invite spam [47d]
• Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount’s hostile bid, calls offer ‘illusory’ [47d]
• Mozilla’s new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice [47d]
• Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini [47d]
• Skana Robotics helps fleets of underwater robots communicate with each other [47d]
• Amazon reportedly in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI as circular deals stay popular [48d]