The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild [143d]
• Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from top early-stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [143d]
• Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China [143d]
• How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business [143d]
• Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump’s UK state banquet [143d]
• US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks [143d]
• Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown [143d]
• Notion launches agents for data analysis and task automation [143d]
• Uber is trying drone delivery again [143d]
• Google now lets you share your custom Gemini AI assistants known as Gems [143d]
• Mark Zuckerberg has begun his quest to kill the smartphone [143d]
• Google brings Gemini in Chrome to US users, unveils agentic browsing capabilities, and more [143d]
• Google partners with UK nonprofit to detect and remove nonconsensual intimate images from Search [143d]
• ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech [143d]
• Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI [143d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [143d]
• DACLab says it can remove CO2 using less electricity than many competitors [143d]
• Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce [144d]
• US House Oversight Committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization [144d]
• Nvidia buys $5B stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration [144d]
• From scrappy challenger to IPO: Chris Britt brings Chime’s playbook to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [144d]
• Building the future of Open AI with Thomas Wolf at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [144d]
• Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market [144d]
• EV Realty is betting the missing link in electric trucking is real estate [144d]
• Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B [144d]