The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• GM to end Chevy Bolt EV production next year, move China-made Buick to U.S. factory [54d]
• Capital One acquires Brex for steep discount to its peak valuation, but early believers are laughing all the way to the bank [54d]
• Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation [54d]
• Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM [54d]
• Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts. [54d]
• Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files [54d]
• Ring is adding a new content verification feature to videos [55d]
• Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPT [55d]
• Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it [55d]
• Substack launches a TV app [55d]
• Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver [55d]
• Meta seeks to limit evidence in child safety case [55d]
• Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini [55d]
• Former CEO of celeb fav gym Dogpound launches $5M fund to back wellness companies [55d]
• Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger [55d]
• Waymo continues robotaxi ramp up with Miami service now open to public [55d]
• Ireland proposes new law allowing police to use spyware [55d]
• Google’s AI Mode can now tap into your Gmail and Photos to provide tailored responses [55d]
• Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal [55d]
• Under Armour says it’s ‘aware’ of data breach claims after 72M customer records were posted online [55d]
• Google reportedly snags up team behind AI voice startup Hume AI [55d]
• From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing [55d]
• Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claude [55d]
• Blue Origin schedules third New Glenn launch for late February, but not to the moon [55d]
• Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada [55d]
• Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens’ screen time and friends [55d]
• Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off [55d]
• Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO [55d]
• Tiger Global and Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO [55d]
• Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids [55d]
• Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable [55d]