The Brutalist Report

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• Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes [574d]
• Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator [574d]
• Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition [574d]
• Biden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’ [574d]
• NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B [574d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [574d]
• Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently [574d]
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff [574d]
• Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch [574d]
• FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI [574d]
• Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads [574d]
• This Week in AI: AI isn’t world-ending — but it’s still plenty harmful [574d]
• Camera app Halide’s latest update adds an option for ‘zero-AI’ image processing [574d]
• Definity raises $4.5M as it looks to transform data application observability [574d]
• Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition [574d]
• Apple opens up NFC transactions to developers, but says there will be ‘associated fees’ [574d]
• TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s latest GPT4-o model gets weird [574d]
• Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape [574d]
• Telegram adds new ways for creators to earn money on its platform [574d]
• Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam [574d]
• Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [574d]
• Parker Conrad says founders have been building software wrong for the last 20 years [574d]
• Virtuix’s VR treadmill is finally launching in September [574d]
• Check out this $800 rotating VR chair for Meta Quest [574d]
• MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks [574d]
• EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters [574d]