The Brutalist Report

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• Accel doubles down on Sarla Aviation’s ambition to develop electric air taxis in India [408d]
• Elon Musk tweets so much, people bet over $1M weekly to guess how many posts [408d]
• Biden admin’s final rule banning Chinese connected cars also bars robotaxi testing on US roads [409d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [409d]
• Nintendo Switch 2 could be announced this week: The rumors (and facts) so far [409d]
• Intel spins off its corporate venture arm, Intel Capital, into a standalone fund [409d]
• Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal [409d]
• Hackers are exploiting a new Fortinet firewall bug to breach company networks [409d]
• Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans [409d]
• Flights delayed by SpaceX’s falling rocket debris [409d]
• Google-backed Pixxel launches India’s first private satellite constellation [409d]
• DJI Flip is a $439, fully foldable camera drone [409d]
• OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board [409d]
• Substack rolls out livestreaming for all publishers [409d]
• TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well [409d]
• CBRE buys remainder of co-working company Industrious at an $800M valuation [409d]
• Biden administration opens up federal land to AI data centers [409d]
• Why some former Bench customers are not happy [409d]
• Massachusetts senator seeks to extend deadline for TikTok ban [409d]
• OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why [409d]
• Boardy AI raises $8M seed round months after closing pre-seed [409d]
• Kayak founder returns with Steppin, an app that locks you out of social media until you go for a walk [409d]
• Thoras helps companies reach reliability without overspending on cloud costs [409d]
• AWS pledges to spend $5B in Mexico, launches new Mexico server region [409d]
• Powerset gives founders $1 million to invest in other startups [409d]
• North Korea stole over $659M in crypto heists during 2024, deploys fake job seekers [409d]
• UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers [409d]
• Venture funding remains stable in France thanks to AI startups [409d]