The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [2d]
- Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer) [2d]
- Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [2d]
- LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times) [2d]
- The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC) [3d]
- Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge) [3d]
- OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says in a memo that the show's purchase is to encourage constructive conversation around AI (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT every weekday (John Coogan/@johncoogan) [3d]
- Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [3d]
- Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge) [3d]
- Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword) [3d]
- Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026 (Financial Times) [3d]
- An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI contract "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence", more (Hayden Field/The Verge) [3d]
- Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pushes "AI self-sufficiency" (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [3d]
- This new 'laughing rat' malware will steal your data and hack your systems — and then laugh at you while doing it [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #1530) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #1027) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, April 3 (game #761) [2d]
- 3 of the biggest new Netflix shows arriving in April 2026 [2d]
- 'Unlimited 5G data': HP's latest AI PC ultraslim laptop promises superfast WiFi-killer broadband and built-in antivirus — just make sure you read the fine print [2d]
- If only your EV did this: Dell’s new supercapacitor keyboard and mouse combo delivers 'full day use' with a 5-second charge — here’s how [3d]
- 'Side effects may include curiosity': Google's $3 ChromeOS Flex kit aims to save your old Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap [3d]
- 'I was stuck on the overpass with dump trucks all around me': A mass Baidu robotaxi outage just caused traffic mayhem in China [3d]
- I ran my first marathon with the Garmin Forerunner 265s — it's 25% off right now, and I'd recommend it to almost every runner [3d]
- I'm a homes expert — here are my top buys from Walmart's big Patio & Garden Event [3d]
- 'We will have an official ceremony to mark the ending of an era. I love those cars' — Elon Musk mourns the officially retired Tesla Model S and Model X [3d]
- I found the best Geekom mini PC deals in the Easter sale — save big on some of our highest rated and reviewed mini PCs if you're quick [3d]
- Dell just made its thinnest Pro Premium executive laptop yet — a magnesium alloy featherweight that finally makes carrying a workstation feel effortless [3d]
- Amazon is giving away one of the best strategy games ever, plus loads of other PC games for Prime members [3d]
- Your next iPhone case could be made from lab-grown T-Rex leather thanks to ‘world first’ technology — but experts say otherwise [3d]
- I’ve been testing film cameras for years, and the Lomography Lomo MC-A easily just became my favorite [3d]
- How to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist in theaters – and can you stream it online yet? [3d]
- 'This rootkit is highly persistent; a standard factory reset will not remove it': "NoVoice" Android malware on Google Play infects 50 apps across 2.3 million devices, here's what we know [3d]
- NymVPN's Mac app gets the split tunneling feature users have been waiting for [3d]
- The Last of Us Online director reveals Naughty Dog had to choose between canceling the '80%' completed game and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet — 'It was soul crushing. To find out that it was getting canceled 24 hours before it was announced' publicly [3d]
- The Testaments review: praise be, the Hulu Handmaid's Tale spinoff doesn't disappoint under his eye [3d]
- Amazon is slashing prices on best-selling running shoes for spring — Nike, Hoka, and New Balance from $55 [3d]
- HMV has discounted a ton of Arrow Films 4K Blu-rays for Easter — here are my 6 picks [3d]
- 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working': Artemis II astronauts have the most relatable complaint [3d]
- I’ve lived with Samsung’s new flagship OLED TV — and I’ve never seen anything quite like it [3d]
- The Division 2's latest season promises yet more challenge and chaos as new modes and difficulties drop — plus some gear I simply must get my hands on [3d]
- How to watch 9Now outside Australia – stream online and from anywhere with a VPN [3d]
- New Mario Kart World update adds a new Bob-omb Blast Battle mode and major track item 'performance' adjustments for Bullet Bill and the boomerang [3d]
- 'God-tier battery life': Dell XPS 14 lasts 43 hours in longevity test that shows the laptop leaves Apple's MacBook Air M5 in the dust [3d]
- 'We want to make sure you don’t pay for more memory than you need': Raspberry Pi reveals further price rises — and the RAM shortage is once again to blame [3d]
- Asus just revealed big ROG gaming laptop price hikes — and they're so painful some thought they were an April Fool [3d]
- 5 popular OpenClaw integrations that will level up your productivity [3d]
- 'By replacing a legitimate update with a malicious one, they turned the product’s update flow into a malware distribution channel': Experts find flaw in TrueConf video conferencing tool used by governments, military [3d]
- Netflix has released the first trailer for its next animated movie Swapped — but, even with Michael B. Jordan's star power, I can't see it being the next Kpop Demon Hunters [3d]
- The pilot phase is over. Here’s what’s next for enterprise AI automation [3d]
- 'Switch to MAX, by any means necessary' — Inside Russia’s great internet crackdown [3d]
- AI & cost of legacy systems in UK banking [3d]
- AI hype and the quality hangover [3d]
- Google has doubled its storage allowance for its AI Pro plan, and it’s just one-upped ChatGPT — here’s how they compare [3d]
- Major clearance sale drops the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 to just £59 [3d]
- Why hands-on digital skills will define the value of AI [3d]
- Exclusive: I put the foldable Honor Magic V6 in a washing machine to test its durability — here's what happened next [3d]
- Nintendo Switch 2 price hikes are 'inevitable', says former Nintendo sales lead — and that's not an exaggeration [3d]
- 'The upgraded PSSR significantly enhances Assassin’s Creed Shadows' — Sony confirms a release date for its next-gen upscaling tech on PS5 Pro [3d]
- 'This is not an April Fool's joke': Crypto platform Drift suspends services after millions stolen [3d]
- "Protecting children online is a parental responsibility, not a regulatory one" — the VPN industry reacts to Government VPN spending amid discussions on restricting child VPN use [3d]
- 'I'm not missing the four hours of daily prosthetics': For All Mankind season 5 star on 'challenges' in new Apple TV show Imperfect Women [3d]
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- YouTube Upgrades Its Music TV Experience, Just in Time for Coachella [2d]
- Amazon to Add 3.5% Fulfillment Surcharge as Fuel Costs Rise [2d]
- Want Fashion-Forward Smart Glasses? This Company Could Easily Make It So [2d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 3, #1749 [2d]
- It Was a Hoax: Jonathan, the World's Oldest Tortoise, Is Still 'Alive and Well' [2d]
- Flipboard Launches Surf, Pulling Together Your Social Interests and News Feeds [2d]
- Best Headsets for Working From Home in 2026, According to CNET's Audio Expert [2d]
- Flush With Success: Artemis II Crew Fixes Space Toilet [2d]
- Separate Shoots for Actors and Camera: How 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Was Made video [2d]
- iPhone 18 Pro Will Not Be Back in Black This Year, Insider Says [2d]
- Google's Latest Enticement for Its AI Pro Plan: 5TB of Cloud Storage [3d]
- Alexa Plus AI Can Order Food From Uber Eats and Grubhub, but Only With the Right Device [3d]
- Samsung's 2026 Frame TV Debuts Without Separate Breakout Box [3d]
- Microsoft's New AI Models Go Beyond Just Text [3d]
- YouTube TV vs. Hulu Plus Live TV: Which Offers the Best Experience for Your Buck? [3d]
- Purple Carrot Review: The 100% Vegan Meal Kit Service, Now With More Protein [3d]
- Foldable Phones Have Solved Nearly Every Trade-Off, Well Before Apple Debuts One [3d]
- Best LED Floodlights of 2026: Smart Lights for Big Spaces [3d]
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