The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing [26d]
• People Inc. forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops [26d]
• Beta Technologies ends first day on NYSE in the green and $1B raised [26d]
• Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics [26d]
• Google’s AI Mode gets new agentic capabilities to help book event tickets and beauty appointments [26d]
• Sequoia names Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as new co-stewards as Roelof Botha steps down [26d]
• Sora is now available on Android in the US, Canada, and other regions [26d]
• Norway’s wealth fund vote is latest blow to Musk’s $1 trillion pay package [26d]
• Shopify says AI traffic is up 7x since January, AI-driven orders are up 11x [26d]
• Netflix in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia, report says [27d]
• Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds [27d]
• Anthropic projects $70B in revenue by 2028: Report [27d]
• Tesla’s Master Plan 4 still lacks specifics ahead of $1T Musk pay vote [27d]
• Spotify now has half a million video podcasts, which nearly 400M users have watched [27d]
• WhatsApp launches long-awaited Apple Watch app [27d]
• Nvidia, Deutsche Telekom strike €1B partnership for a data center in Munich [27d]
• Crowdfunding giant GoFundMe plans to sell gift cards [27d]
• ClickUp adds new AI assistant to better compete with Slack and Notion [27d]
• Wait, people actually use Facebook Dating? [27d]
• a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff [27d]