The Brutalist Report

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• New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception [18d]
• Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up [18d]
• A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong [18d]
• Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology [18d]
• Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era [18d]
• Man to plead guilty to hacking US Supreme Court filing system [18d]
• Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot [18d]
• Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see [18d]
• Google’s update for Veo 3.1 lets users create vertical videos through reference images [18d]
• India reportedly tells quick-commerce firms to drop 10-minute delivery promise [18d]
• ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330 million ARR last year [18d]
• Apple launches ‘Creator Studio’ bundle of apps for $12.99 per month [18d]
• Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup [18d]
• Slackbot is an AI agent now [18d]
• Superorganism raises $25M to back biodiversity startups [19d]
• Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp [19d]
• Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz [19d]
• Meta-backed Hupo finds growth after pivot to AI sales coaching from mental wellness [19d]
• More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are [19d]
• OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, reportedly, $100M [19d]
• Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable [19d]