The Brutalist Report

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• Amazon doubles down on AI with a massive $100B spending plan for 2025 [203d]
• Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests [203d]
• Early Meta employee sues for sexual harassment, gender discrimination [204d]
• OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process [204d]
• DOGE staffer steps down after racist posts emerge [204d]
• Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50% [204d]
• Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users [204d]
• Snap CEO helps launch LA wildfire recovery program [204d]
• Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America [204d]
• Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained [204d]
• Google is adding digital watermarks to images edited with Magic Editor AI [204d]
• Snapchat+ subscribers can now create custom AI-generated stickers [204d]
• Ford goes protectionist as EV losses top $5B [204d]
• Fintech Ramp lands Eagles’ Saquon Barkley as investor and Super Bowl commercial star [204d]
• EU details which systems fall within AI Act’s scope [204d]
• Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: media reports [204d]
• Mark Zuckerberg’s charity insists its not abandoning its DEI efforts [204d]
• GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images [204d]
• RPLY is a new AI assistant that responds to missed texts [204d]
• Keyboard maker suspends U.S. shipments over Trump tariffs on Chinese goods [204d]
• Flashes, a photo-sharing app for Bluesky, opens beta [204d]
• Tinder revamps ‘Explore’ page to connect people with similar dating intentions [204d]
• OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves Anthropic after just five months [204d]
• Superlogic raises $13.7M at a $200M valuation to help consumers use reward points toward cool ‘experiences’ [204d]
• Spotify, Warner Music Group sign new deal to help deliver ‘further paid subscription tiers’ [204d]
• Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android [204d]
• a16z stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny [204d]
• OpenAI launches data residency in Europe [204d]
• Intel Capital fuels TrueFoundry’s $19M funding to help boost AI deployments at scale [204d]
• Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine [204d]
• Lyft’s new AI customer assistant is powered by Anthropic’s Claude [204d]
• Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand [204d]
• You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging in [204d]
• IMI becomes the latest British engineering firm to be hacked [204d]
• Shein gets more questions from EU about DSA compliance [204d]
• Could this startup’s compact nuclear reactors revolutionize cancer detection? [204d]
• India’s Zomato to rebrand as Eternal [204d]
• Presto is building Stripe for EV charging [204d]
• First lab-grown meat treats go on sale in the UK — for dogs [204d]
• Comstruct raises $13M to simplify the procurement process for construction firms [204d]
• Avelios nabs $31M led by Sequoia to fix the ailing world of healthcare IT [204d]
• European VC firm Emblem raises $85 million for its initial fund [204d]
• Aiming to accelerate product design with AI, Trace.Space raises a Seed round [204d]
• These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models [204d]
• Boston Dynamics joins forces with its former CEO to speed the learning of its Atlas humanoid robot [204d]
• SoftBank could soon buy Renee James’ Ampere chip company for about $6.5B [204d]