The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Amazon must recall dangerous products properly — even ones sold by third-parties [222d]
• Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots [222d]
• AMD is becoming an AI chip company, just like Nvidia [222d]
• Samsung hypes the Galaxy Z Flip as a great police bodycam [222d]
• Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data [222d]
• Minecraft and Tetris combine for some very blocky dungeon crawling [222d]
• Microsoft’s cloud revenues rule again in Q4, as Surface continues to dip [222d]
• Intel will officially ‘launch’ its Lunar Lake laptop chips on September 3rd [222d]
• Pixel Watch 3 leak shows thinner bezels and new 45mm model [222d]
• The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic [222d]
• Apple’s entry-level AirPods have already returned to their Prime Day low [222d]
• OpenAI starts rolling out its Her-like voice mode for ChatGPT [222d]
• Batman: Caped Crusader is a pulpy throwback to the golden age of DC animation [222d]
• Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act [222d]
• Echo Spot review: this smart alarm clock hits a sweet spot [222d]
• Lime tests two new e-bikes you don’t have to pedal [222d]
• Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags [222d]
• Lawmakers want to carve out intimate AI deepfakes from Section 230 immunity [222d]
• Marvel reportedly spent big to bring back Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo brothers [222d]
• Your new AI Friend is almost ready to meet you [222d]
• Dasung’s latest color E ink monitor is portable [222d]
• Meta’s Quest 3 ‘Layout’ app lets you take measurements in mixed reality [223d]
• Olympic men’s triathlon postponed due to river pollution [223d]
• The history of Roku and the fight over CarPlay [223d]
• Dashlane says passkey adoption has increased by 400 percent in 2024 [223d]
• Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations [223d]
• Canva adds a new generative AI platform to its growing creative empire [223d]
• Microsoft wants Congress to outlaw AI-generated deepfake fraud [223d]
• Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves [223d]
• Logitech’s Circle View Doorbell is safe ... for now [223d]