The Brutalist Report

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• Anthropic S-1 claims it may "imminently meet" its RSI threshold and may fail to identify "significant acceleration" in its development until after it's occurred (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [4d]
• Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response (Jason Shubnell/The Block) [4d]
• Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff (Wall Street Journal) [4d]
• Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, and more, grew 10% YoY to $31.57B, vs. $31.58B est. (Loree Seitz/The Wrap) [4d]
• Apple Q4: iPhone up 17% YoY to $57.58B, vs. $56.54B est., Mac up 24% to $10.8B, iPad down 10% to $6.2B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% to $8.3B (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) [4d]
• Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, above $113.39B est., and net income up 12% to $30.7B, in John Ternus' first earnings report (Apple) [4d]
• Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [4d]
• Roku reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.5B, Platform revenue up 23% to $1.3B, ad revenue up 23% to $727.4M, and subscription revenue up 23% to $580.9M (Todd Spangler/Variety) [4d]
• Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi) [4d]
• Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its staff, saying "automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate" (Liam Proven/The Register) [4d]
• OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain (OpenAI) [4d]