The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Defense startup Epirus in talks to raise over $150M, potentially cutting valuation [414d]
• Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot gets to work at CES 2025 [414d]
• TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can’t work from home [414d]
• ChatGPT’s newest feature lets user assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’ [414d]
• Autonomous vehicles are having a moment and other vibes from CES 2025 [414d]
• CES 2025: Where have all the US automakers gone? [414d]
• Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’ [414d]
• Scale AI hit by its second employee wage lawsuit in less than a month [414d]
• Y Combinator scored a surprise win when Larry Page came to speak [414d]
• These are CES 2025’s least repairable and sustainable gadgets, according to iFixit [414d]
• DoorBox debuts its new and improved smart delivery box at CES 2025 [414d]
• Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims [414d]
• Facebook awards researcher $100,000 for finding bug that granted internal access [414d]
• Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh says modern cars have become ‘dystopian’ and ‘disconnected’ [414d]
• CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event [414d]
• Comcast and other TV streamers are now chasing YouTube’s ad dollars instead of the other way around [414d]
• Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking [414d]
• Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread [414d]
• PowerSchool says hackers stole students’ sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, in data breach [414d]
• Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed [414d]
• PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout [414d]
• Innovaccer aims to become healthcare’s AI powerhouse with $275M Series F [414d]
• Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves [414d]
• Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent [414d]
• Biosphere zaps germs with UV light to make biomanufacturing cheaper [414d]
• Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks [414d]