The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Web Summit attendees aren’t buying Scale AI CEO’s push for America ‘to win the AI war’ [183d]
• Anthropic reportedly ups its next funding round to $3.5B [183d]
• Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries [183d]
• Even Elon Musk forgets that X isn’t Twitter sometimes [183d]
• Holmes and Balwani’s appeal falls flat as court upholds fraud convictions [183d]
• Apple exec Phil Schiller testifies that he raised concerns over App Store commissions on web-based sales [183d]
• DOGE’s HR email is getting the ‘Bee Movie’ spam treatment [183d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs [183d]
• Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model [183d]
• SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout [183d]
• SoundCloud partners with Ticketmaster to let artists list events [183d]
• Khosla Ventures seeks $3.5B in fresh capital [183d]
• Google Drive users can now access and search transcripts for videos [183d]
• Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want [183d]
• Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights [183d]
• DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app [183d]
• The SEC will not sue Robinhood over crypto [183d]
• Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet [183d]
• Three years on, Europe looks to Ukraine for the future of defense tech [183d]
• TikTok (with Douyin) becomes first app to reach $6B in annual consumer spending [183d]
• Australia bans government use of Kaspersky software due to ‘unacceptable security risk’ [183d]
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist [183d]
• The startup battle begins now: TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open [183d]
• As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral [183d]
• Flexport releases onslaught of AI tools in a move inspired by ‘Founder Mode’ [183d]
• A single default password exposes access to dozens of apartment buildings [183d]
• Cambium is building an AI that helps turn waste wood into usable lumber [183d]
• Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform [183d]
• Meta AI arrives in the Middle East and Africa with support for Arabic [183d]
• Apple commits $500B to US manufacturing, including a new AI server facility in Houston [183d]
• Yope is sparking GenZ (and VC) interest with an Instagram-like app for private groups [183d]
• Key Cambridge, UK VC launches $126M fund to stem later stage flight [183d]
• The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming [183d]