The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs [23d]
• Amazon pulls the plug on Sengled’s Alexa skill after months of outages [23d]
• Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company [23d]
• Amazon’s best Kindles are cheaper than ever at Best Buy [23d]
• ChatGPT will ‘better detect’ mental distress after reports of it feeding people’s delusions [23d]
• Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites [23d]
• One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon [23d]
• Rivian calls Ohio’s ban on direct car sales ‘irrational in the extreme’ in new lawsuit [23d]
• Google dunks on Apple Intelligence in new Pixel 10 ad [23d]
• Alienware’s AW2725Q 4K OLED gaming monitor is down to its lowest price ever at Amazon [23d]
• Amazon is gutting its Wondery podcast studio [23d]
• 8BitDo’s first wireless Xbox controller is a surprise Rare collaboration [23d]
• Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding [23d]
• Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? [23d]
• Tesla proposes giving Elon Musk $29 billion so he stays CEO [23d]
• Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US [23d]