The Brutalist Report

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• Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance [147d]
• Certification platform Certiverse nabs $11M Series A led by Cherryrock [147d]
• Trump’s auto tariffs are a gift to Tesla [147d]
• Why HoneyBook’s $140M in ARR may finally justify its $2.4B ZIRP-era valuation [147d]
• Instagram now lets you speed up reels just like on TikTok [147d]
• Facebook debuts a revamped Friends tab as part of its return to ‘OG’ Facebook [147d]
• Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice-retrieval agent for Qonto customers [147d]
• TikTok to launch TikTok Shop in France, Germany, and Italy [147d]
• Signal downloads spike in the U.S. and Yemen amid government scandal [147d]
• New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification [147d]
• eBay backs WunderGraph to build an open source GraphQL federation [147d]
• YC alum Mendel, a ‘Ramp for LatAm enterprises,’ raises $35M Series B [147d]
• With the Switch 2 coming, Nintendo is working on Virtual Game Cards for cross-device portability [147d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [147d]
• 4 days left to lock in $300+ savings for investor and founder tickets for TechCrunch All Stage [147d]
• Google rolls out new vacation-planning features to Search, Maps, and Gemini [147d]
• Times Internet spin-out Abound raises $14M to let more Indian Americans send money home [147d]
• NHS vendor Advanced to pay £3M fine following 2022 ransomware attack [148d]
• OpenAI will reportedly close its SoftBank-led $40 billion round soon [148d]