The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Tesla delays reveal of production Roadster 2 to April Fools’ Day [24d]
• Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund [24d]
• Tesla to begin Cybercab production in April, Musk claims [24d]
• Accel backs Uber rival Rapido as Prosus boosts stake [24d]
• Grand Theft Auto VI is delayed — again [24d]
• Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1T pay package [24d]
• Laude Institute announces first batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI grants [24d]
• Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says [24d]
• Sam Altman says OpenAI has $20B ARR and about $1.4 trillion in data center commitments [24d]
• Google to buy carbon credits from massive Amazonian reforestation project [24d]
• Amazon launches an AI-powered Kindle Translate service for e-book authors [24d]
• Sam Altman says he doesn’t want the government to bail out OpenAI if it fails [24d]
• Ford execs reportedly discuss ending the F-150 Lightning [24d]
• Sora for Android saw nearly half a million installs on its first day [24d]
• SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers [24d]
• Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe [24d]
• Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments [24d]
• Italian political consultant says he was targeted with Paragon spyware [24d]
• Mastodon’s latest software update brings quote posts to all server operators [25d]
• Peloton recalls 833,000 bikes after reports of injuries [25d]
• Spotify now lets you see weekly listening stats [25d]
• Why Benchmark made a rare crypto bet on trading app Fomo, with $17M Series A [25d]
• Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text [25d]
• Google Maps upgrades navigation in India with Gemini, safety alerts [25d]
• Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat [25d]
• Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth [25d]
• Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised another $64 million [25d]
• Discord’s Family Center update now lets parents monitor weekly purchases [25d]