The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• NASA is pushing back its plans for a Moon landing [7d]
• Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk [7d]
• Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger [7d]
• Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI [7d]
• The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset [7d]
• CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year [7d]
• AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets [7d]
• FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs [7d]
• Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount [7d]
• AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines [7d]
• Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games [7d]
• We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots [7d]
• The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser [7d]
• Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show [7d]
• The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare [7d]
• Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027 [7d]
• Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating [7d]
• OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank [7d]
• TCL’s $7,000+ flagship TV is ready to fight [7d]
• Pokémon Presents 2026: all the news and trailers [8d]
• Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters [8d]
• Ultrahuman’s new flagship smart ring has a 15-day battery life [8d]
• Notes from a Burmese Prison [8d]
• Phones are going to get weird next week [8d]
• MWC 2026: all the phones, gadgets, and announcements from Barcelona [8d]