The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger [11d]
• Classic Sesame Street episodes are coming to YouTube [11d]
• Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement [11d]
• Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic [11d]
• The Lenovo Legion Go 2 will get Xbox-flavored Windows in spring 2026 [11d]
• Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse [11d]
• Planet Money TikToks inspired one of the year’s most brilliant animated movies [11d]
• The Nothing Ear Open headphones are below $100 for the first time [11d]
• Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge might look like an iPhone 17 Pro [11d]
• Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner [11d]
• The Exit 8 movie is even scarier than the game [11d]
• We saw the next Boox Palma and… is that a color E Ink screen and cellular connectivity? [11d]
• Eero’s Signal is a cellular safety net for your Wi-Fi network [11d]
• Tesla offers $1 trillion to Elon Musk to unleash his army of robots [11d]
• What would actually make the Apple Watch better? [11d]
• Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions [11d]
• I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment, so imagine my surprise: its successor is the best Windows handheld yet [11d]
• Bose announces QuietComfort Ultra headphones with support for lossless audio over USB-C [11d]
• Your robot is about to get its own robot [11d]
• OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year [11d]
• Reolink’s new floodlight cam has 360 vision and on-device AI [11d]
• The iPhone 17 case makers are ready for Tuesday [11d]
• Withings adds predictive AI health features to the ScanWatch 2 [11d]
• Google leaks its own new Nest Cams and Doorbell [11d]
• Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year [11d]
• Circle to Search adds continuous translation [11d]
• OnePlus and Hasselblad are parting ways [11d]
• Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life [11d]
• Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving [12d]
• BMW’s iX3 is a ‘new class’ of EV that packs a lot of range and computing power [12d]
• Honda’s Prelude returns as a 200-horsepower fake-shifting hybrid [12d]
• This robot lawnmower is designed to pick fruit and throw your dog a ball [12d]
• Timekettle’s new translation earbuds are made for sharing [12d]
• Legion Go 2 official: Lenovo’s new flagship handheld costs $1,099 — and up [12d]
• Lenovo updates its beefiest and bulkiest laptops [12d]
• Lenovo’s new concept laptop has a rotating screen that’s perfect for doomscrolling [12d]
• This stand can automatically lift, tilt, and turn your laptop toward you [12d]
• Better get used to your smart lights having built-in microphones [12d]