The Brutalist Report

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• OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco [20d]
• Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16 [20d]
• Thousands of people have embarked on a virtual road trip via Google Street View [20d]
• How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite [20d]
• US man who hacked SEC’s X account to spike Bitcoin price sentenced to prison [20d]
• AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research [20d]
• Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet [20d]
• TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0 [20d]
• The Nuclear Company raises $51M to develop massive reactor sites [20d]
• AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing [20d]
• TechCrunch and VivaTech partner for the VivaTech Innovation of the Year [20d]
• Spotify responds to backlash over public podcast play counts [20d]
• OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT [20d]
• After adding its own billing option on iOS, Apple asks Patreon to move it to an external browser [20d]
• Mystery investor’s attempt to stop Canoo asset sale shot down by judge [20d]
• Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores [20d]
• Chipotle president Jack Hartung joins Tesla’s board ahead of Tesla Diner launch [20d]
• xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’ [21d]