The Brutalist Report

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• X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’ [26d]
• OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be ‘unpredictable’ [26d]
• OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment [26d]
• AI helps Telegram remove 15 million suspect groups and channels in 2024 [26d]
• Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment [26d]
• G2 Ventures Partners is raising $750 million for a third fund [26d]
• Databricks is on track to raise a record $9.5+ billion round at $60B valuation [26d]
• Exxon can’t resist the AI power gold rush [26d]
• UnitedHealthcare’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet [26d]
• What failed before might succeed now — or fail again — and other startup bets [26d]
• See what Google’s Project Astra AR glasses can do (for a select few beta testers) [26d]
• OpenAI fires back against Musk, claims he wanted an OpenAI for-profit [26d]
• The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 [26d]
• Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting [26d]
• EVgo secures $1.25B loan amid Biden’s rush to approve clean energy loans [26d]
• Google’s NotebookLM now lets you talk to its AI podcast hosts [26d]
• The federal crash-reporting rule Tesla opposes could be on the chopping block [26d]
• OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos [26d]
• Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model [26d]
• Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are the latest billionaires to donate $1M to Trump fund [26d]
• Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises [26d]
• OpenAI blames its massive ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’ [26d]
• How 21-year-old Koko Xs became the new rising-star solo VC [27d]
• Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment [27d]
• Controversial EU ad campaign on X broke bloc’s own privacy rules [27d]
• Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders [27d]
• WhatsApp lets you select specific people within a group to start a group call without disturbing anyone [27d]
• New Syndicate One fund joins Belgium’s small-but-punchy tech ecosystem [27d]
• As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack [27d]