The Brutalist Report

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• Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times) [33d]
• Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico) [33d]
• Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders (Cory Weinberg/The Information) [33d]
• Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday (Financial Times) [33d]
• Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles "a page for every person in the user's life", with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more (Wired) [33d]
• Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico) [33d]
• In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters) [33d]
• DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times) [33d]
• Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [33d]
• Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor (Politico) [33d]
• A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal) [33d]