The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit [414d]
• Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta’s latest pivot in three-hour Joe Rogan interview [414d]
• These startups are making smarter canes for people with visual impairments [414d]
• A drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane [414d]
• Bench customers are now being forced to hand over their data or risk losing it, they say [414d]
• Amazon curbs some DEI programs [414d]
• TikTok ban: How both sides made their case to the Supreme Court and what the justices asked [414d]
• New OpenAI job listings reveal its robotics plans [414d]
• How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’ [414d]
• VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack [414d]
• Lenovo’s latest form factors prove PCs can still be fun [414d]
• How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads [414d]
• Riding in a Zoox robotaxi at CES 2025: Everything that went right and wrong [414d]
• Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement [414d]
• Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war [414d]
• Shein is still looking to IPO [414d]
• Meta eliminates DEI programs [414d]
• January almost had its first pentacorn, and other startup news [414d]
• EU approves $35B Synopsys and Ansys merger, subject to divestment conditions [414d]
• Overhaul raises another $55M to help companies like Dyson and Microsoft fight supply chain theft [414d]