The Brutalist Report

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• Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B [23d]
• Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X [24d]
• GTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era [24d]
• Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market [24d]
• EverNitro is simplifying the process of crafting silky nitro coffee at CES 2026 [24d]
• I watched LG’s new home robot CLOid do laundry but I have questions [24d]
• Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis [24d]
• OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo [24d]
• Anduril’s Palmer Luckey thinks the future of tech is in the past [24d]
• Disney+ is launching short-form videos this year [24d]
• The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 [24d]
• Illinois health department exposed over 700,000 residents’ personal data for years [24d]
• Nvidia’s reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips [24d]
• Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe [24d]
• Go-to-market strategies for an AI era [24d]
• Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will face a jury in March [24d]
• Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’ [24d]
• Hands on with a prototype of Clicks’ Communicator, a new BlackBerry-like smartphone [24d]
• Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation [24d]
• Gmail debuts a personalized AI Inbox, AI Overviews in search, and more [24d]