The Brutalist Report

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• Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans [13d]
• Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial [13d]
• Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits [13d]
• Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world [13d]
• OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team [13d]
• Tesla’s fourth ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense [13d]
• Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense [13d]
• Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline [13d]
• Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation [13d]
• WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool [13d]
• Tesla Dojo: the rise and fall of Elon Musk’s AI supercomputer [13d]
• ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon [13d]
• MrBeast reportedly plans to launch a phone company [13d]
• Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels [13d]
• OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls [13d]
• Klarna revives IPO plans, aims to raise $1.27B [13d]
• Just 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — 10 tables remain [13d]
• Astro Teller, “Captain of Moonshots,” joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October [13d]
• BMW, I am so breaking up with you [14d]
• Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants [14d]
• U.S. and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups [14d]
• India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage [14d]