The Brutalist Report

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• One of Elon Musk’s longtime VCs is suing his former employer after allegedly being fired [30d]
• Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says [30d]
• A timeline of South Korean telco giant SKT’s data breach [30d]
• Aurora to add night driving, new routes as it ramps driverless trucking [30d]
• Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson is leaving the self-driving truck startup [30d]
• Appfigures: Apple made over $10B from US App Store comissions last year [30d]
• ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code [30d]
• Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture [30d]
• Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app [30d]
• Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab [30d]
• Google launches ‘implicit caching’ to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper [30d]
• Instagram Threads is getting video ads [30d]
• PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted [30d]
• Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams [30d]
• China’s Geely moves to take EV startup Zeekr private amid trade war with US [30d]
• Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can! [30d]
• Starlink’s launch in India now a matter of when, not if [30d]
• Sequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup Clay [30d]
• OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia [30d]
• Bill Gates tells his foundation to spend it all by 2045 [30d]
• Match to lay off 13% of staff [30d]
• Amazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings [30d]
• Reddit intros new profile tools for its business customers [30d]
• Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds [30d]
• VC firm Insight Partners confirms personal data stolen during January hack [30d]
• Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO [30d]
• Apple tries to delay ruling that bars it from taking a cut on external app payments [31d]