The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• European tech gets political [12d]
• Tesla receives ride-hailing permit in Arizona in last required step to launch robotaxi service [12d]
• Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble [12d]
• AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multi-billion Microsoft deal [12d]
• AI data center provider Lambda raises whopping $1.5B after multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal [12d]
• Meta wins antitrust trial as judge denies that it’s a monopoly [12d]
• Monarch Tractor sued over tractors that were ‘unable to operate autonomously’ [12d]
• Toyota keeps betting on hybrid vehicles in the US [12d]
• Poe’s AI app now supports group chats across AI models [12d]
• ‘Our funds are 20 years old’: Limited partners confront VCs’ liquidity crisis [12d]
• a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere [12d]
• Hank Green’s Focus Friend is Google Play’s app of the year [12d]
• Google launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores [12d]
• Snapchat rolls out ‘Topic Chats’ for public conversations [12d]
• Physics Wallah enjoys a rosy IPO day, bucking the broader slowdown in Indian edtech [12d]
• Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug’ [12d]
• Waymo removes safety drivers in Miami ahead of 2026 launch [12d]
• Agentio secures $40M from Forerunner as it scales its creator marketplace beyond YouTube [12d]
• Agentio secures $40 million from Forerunner as it scales its creator marketplace beyond YouTube [12d]
• Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries [12d]
• Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider [12d]
• Zoox to begin offering robotaxi rides to public in San Francisco [12d]
• Zap Energy ramps up the pressure in its latest fusion device [12d]
• Creator Tayla Cannon recieves $1.1 million investment from Slow Ventures’ creator fund to build PT software [12d]
• Cloudflare outage takes down X one month after Musk mocked AWS customers [12d]
• Intuit signs $100M+ deal with OpenAI to bring its apps to ChatGPT [12d]
• Roblox will require all users to perform age-checks to access chat from January [12d]
• Databricks reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $130B+ valuation [12d]
• Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures [12d]
• As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt [13d]
• a16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill — he says bring it on [13d]