The Brutalist Report - tech
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- A report by short seller Culper Research from May is resurfacing because it had flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as "uncomfortably close" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 "intelligence usage packs" when monthly usage caps are met, starting in its Creator Studio apps (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) [3d]
- Trump says the FBI is "looking into" Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him he "had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy" (Associated Press) [3d]
- Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company (Semafor) [3d]
- AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month (Anna Tong/Forbes) [3d]
- SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [3d]
- Anthropic says during prerelease testing Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black hole physics problems (Jay Peters/The Verge) [3d]
- Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are "best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work", for $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens (Anthropic) [3d]
- Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Elliptic: hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) [3d]
- French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October (Reuters) [3d]
- Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened (New York Times) [3d]
- In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at "one of the big" AI companies over "bad" activities and this "person totally changed" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [3d]
- An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more (Patrick Jenkins/Financial Times) [3d]
- Disney and Adobe partner to develop proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models using Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [3d]
- Draft law: the EU's Digital Fairness Act would require companies to let adults disable addictive features and will target AI bots that simulate relationships (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017 (David Pierce/The Verge) [3d]
- Sources: Jensen Huang hired crisis communications firm Heller as early as October 2025; an NYT report in October 2025 on his Megaspeed ties caused tensions (Lauren Goode/Wired) [3d]
- Spines, which uses AI agents to edit and proofread amateur authors' books, design their covers, and handle the layout, raised $29M in equity and $35M in debt (Assaf Gilead/Globes) [3d]
- Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had "no problem securing GPUs" (Financial Times) [3d]
- Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after raising $80M in March (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Google unveils two specialized TPUs, the TPU 8tx, to be paired with AMD CPUs, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks, launching 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents "another successful op" for China's MSS (Bill Bishop/@niubi) [3d]
- Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones (Mark R. Long/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Meta says it is globally expanding Instagram's AI age estimation tech to apply Teen Account protections to teens aged 13 to 17 who misrepresented their age (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [3d]
- A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #982) [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1751) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1248) [3d]
- US air traffic control systems will finally start dropping floppy disks — but it'll take until 2028 to finish [3d]
- 7 of my favorite free (and fully optimized) iPhone Duo apps so far — from PianoFold to Spotify [3d]
- You can grab an AI mini PC housing an Nvidia Tesla GPU with 16GB of HBM2 for just $699 [3d]
- 'We are not giving up': Russian hosting giant Beget has cloud platform wiped in major cyberattack [3d]
- Hosting.com slashes 89% off Starter hosting for Black Friday [3d]
- Google pushes ahead with plans for $17 billion Wyoming data center despite US midterms dashing support for AI across the US [3d]
- How to watch Rivals: Fury vs Joshua for free, online and from anywhere [3d]
- CUBOT KingKong Dura rugged phone review [3d]
- New study finds half of tech workers have a side hustle — despite often being the best paid [3d]
- Workers feel pressure to use AI and show off to bosses — even when it slows them down [3d]
- This video shows how AI can read the radio waves coming from an HDMI cable to mimic what's on screen [3d]
- 8849 Tank 5 rugged phone review [3d]
- The New York Marathon winner wasn’t wearing a fancy Garmin, but something much cheaper [3d]
- Hundreds of copies of Chinese-made ARTEX hacking tools leaked online for anyone to use in further attacks [3d]
- Hinomi slashes $200 off its X2 Pro ergonomic chair for Black Friday [3d]
- Keep cold hands at bay this winter for £17.59 with the Afenau heated mouse pad [3d]
- NymVPN's new update promises to get you through networks that block other VPNs [3d]
- QNAP says more NAS devices hit in worrying Plex2Shell malware attacks [3d]
- Save up to 75% in the PlayStation Store Black Friday sale — I've picked my 16 favorite deals on Control Resonant, Silent Hill 2, Dispatch, 007 First Light, Cairn, and more [3d]
- ‘It feels like malware’: This Chrome extension redirects your web searches to monetized results and was promoted by a VPN with 50 million downloads [3d]
- Sony's WH-1000XM6 headphones plummet to an all new low price [3d]
- PS5 Prism Collection controller and console cover pre-orders build-up — all the best links and info ahead of stock dropping [3d]
- Microsoft plans two big Windows 11 interface changes — and one is divisive [3d]
- 1 in 8 Brits have used AI to write their Christmas cards [3d]
- Timekettle LiveTalk AI Translation Earbuds review [3d]
- GTA 6 is coming to Miami with a live Grand Theft Auto 6: The Festival special event — here's how to secure your pre-sale tickets [3d]
- The Gadhouse Eric CD player is affordable and feature-packed [3d]
- French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa hit in cyberattack — up to $133 million stolen and systems shut down [3d]
- AI slop is clogging court and complaint systems [3d]
- Another huge data breach hits a major Japanese company — Iris Ohyama attack exposes info of 7.7 million customers [3d]
- I review coffee makers for a living, and these are the 3 De’Longhi deals I want this Black Friday [3d]
- 'Frankly, it’s sort of bananas to think of BioWare as just…gone' — Original Mass Effect composer hopes 'someone else can come in and take it from here' following studio closure [3d]
- The best early Black Friday headphone deals from Nothing, Sennheiser, and Soundcore [3d]
- 'This represents an important evolution in AI governance': Infosys lays out how your business can thrive with the new generation of autonomous AI agents [3d]
- Tongue-in-cheek app emails Sam Altman daily to 'report the RAM he missed' [3d]
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- CNET’s Top-Rated VPN Is Offering Ludicrous Lifetime Savings This Month [3d]
- AI-Driven Tech Layoffs Could Trigger a 1.6 Million Job Recession [3d]
- iOS 27.3 Could Bring More Audio Intelligence and the Redesigned Health App Soon [3d]
- Adobe Max 2026 Live Updates: All the AI, Photo and Video News [3d]
- How to Find the Right Bose Open Earbuds for Work and Play [3d]
- Anthropic Introduces New Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 AI Models [3d]
- New Zealand vs. India: How to Watch 3rd ODI Cricket Live From Anywhere [3d]
- New Paramount Plus and HBO Max Bundle to Arrive Early Next Year [3d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #982 [3d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #1248 [3d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Nov. 10 #778 [3d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #1970 [3d]
- Bruvi’s Subscription Bundle Is One of Our Favorite Gifts and It’s Just $159 in This Early Black Friday Deal [3d]
- NASA’s Voyager 1 to Cross Historic One Light-Day Milestone on Nov. 18 [3d]
- The Best Early Black Friday Streaming Deals Let You Watch More for Less [3d]
- Vitamix Goes Portable: Meet Ion, the Brand’s First Cordless Blender [3d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Get Ready For GTA VI With Over 20% Off Logitech’s G733 Gaming Headphones Ahead of Black Friday [3d]
- Uber Parking Lets You Book a Spot Directly in the App. Here’s How [3d]
- Black Friday Brings Rare Savings on Pokemon TCG Box Sets and Booster Packs [3d]
- How Ireland Is Becoming One of Europe’s AI Powerhouses [3d]
- How Ireland Is Becoming One of Europe’s AI Powerhouses [3d]
- Get a Free Tool or Battery With These Milwaukee Tools and Accessories at The Home Depot [3d]
- Which Foldable Phone Has the Best Battery Life? We Put Them to the Test [3d]
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