The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year [20d]
• Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole [20d]
• Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump [20d]
• Google would like you to study with Gemini instead of cheat with it [20d]
• Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan after pressure from Donald Trump [20d]
• WB Games’ best PC titles are in this $12 Humble bundle [20d]
• The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [20d]
• OpenAI teases GPT-5 launch event this Thursday [20d]
• OpenAI teases GPT-5 launch event this Thursday [20d]
• I tested Grok’s Valentine sex chatbot and it (mostly) behaved [20d]
• Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search [20d]
• Bose’s stylish SoundLink Home speaker is cheaper for the first time in months [20d]
• Call of Duty’s PC anti-cheat will require Secure Boot on Windows [20d]
• Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Copilot to the Windows Game Bar [20d]
• Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters [20d]
• Welcome to Regulator [20d]
• Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world [20d]
• The Switch OLED went up in price, but you can still save $110 [20d]
• A ‘unified’ Disney Plus could be the end of Hulu’s app [20d]
• Sonos’ smart assistant is expanding from music to home control [20d]
• Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps [20d]
• AI could turn your town nuclear [21d]
• Jeff Buckley died young but is immortalized in a new documentary [21d]
• Disney will stop reporting its streaming subscriber numbers [21d]
• ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month [21d]
• Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips [21d]
• Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows [21d]
• Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw [21d]