The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Meta’s AI chatbot will soon have a standalone app [496d]
• Amazon CEO says ‘beautiful’ new Alexa hardware is coming this fall [496d]
• Cricut’s new crafting machines are more accurate, faster, and cheaper [496d]
• Apple will let parents share their kids’ ages to limit app access [496d]
• Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac [496d]
• Hands-on with Alexa Plus in the smart home [496d]
• OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model [496d]
• Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once [496d]
• Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking [496d]
• Here’s a new trailer for the ambitious survival game from PUBG’s creator [496d]
• Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry to space [496d]
• Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming [496d]