The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Sources: project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes [9d]
• A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025 [9d]
• X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow [9d]
• Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI [9d]
• Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says [9d]
• Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness [9d]
• Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store [9d]
• Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference [9d]
• Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6Tbps [10d]
• Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding [10d]
• OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST [10d]
• Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide [10d]
• YouTube TV’s multiview is getting a huge upgrade, letting viewers mix and match channels [10d]
• We’re not nostalgic for 2016 — we’re nostalgic for the internet before all the slop [10d]
• OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’ [10d]
• YouTube will soon let creators make Shorts with their own AI likeness [10d]
• OpenAI aims to ship its first device in 2026, and it could be earbuds [10d]
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates all year [10d]
• Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries [10d]
• NYT Games’ Scrabble-like game Crossplay is a dream come true [10d]
• PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps [10d]
• Lemonade launches an insurance product for Tesla Full Self-Driving customers [10d]
• Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal hands over reins to Blinkit chief as quick commerce takes off [10d]
• Zanskar thinks 1 TW of geothermal power is being overlooked [10d]
• Language learning marketplace Preply’s unicorn status embodies Ukrainian resilience [10d]