The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• One-time hot insurance tech Ethos poised to be first tech IPO of the year [10d]
• In an effort to protect young users, ChatGPT will now predict how old you are [10d]
• Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’ [10d]
• X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies [11d]
• Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case [11d]
• Why Serve Robotics is acquiring a hospital assistant robot company [11d]
• Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans’ Social Security data [11d]
• UStrive security lapse exposed personal data of its users, including children [11d]
• Ethernovia raises $90M as investors rush to fund ‘physical AI’ [11d]
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says tariffs are starting to drive up product prices [11d]
• ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification [11d]
• Retail startup Another raises a $2.5M seed to help sell excess inventory [11d]
• One of the first alternative app stores in the EU is shutting down [11d]
• Grubhub parent acquires restaurant rewards startup Claim [11d]
• Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M seed round [11d]
• Eat App wants a bite of India’s restaurant reservation business with an acquisition and Swiggy partnership [11d]
• Eat App wants a bite of India’s restaurant reservation business with an aquistion and Swiggy partnership [11d]
• SpaceX didn’t properly inspect crane before collapse at Starbase, OSHA says [11d]
• Netflix is rolling out a live voting feature [11d]
• Netflix revises offer to pay all cash for Warner Bros to stave off Paramount [11d]
• Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventures [11d]
• Meta’s Oversight Board takes up permanent bans in landmark case [11d]
• Everstone combines Wingify and ABTasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform [11d]
• Everstone combines Wingify, AB Tasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform [11d]