The Brutalist Report - tech
- Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round [104d]
- Boon raises $20.5M to build agentic AI tools for fleets [104d]
- A bad experience with an accounting firm spurred this founder to start Aiwyn [104d]
- Meet the robot with two Guinness World Records for basketball [104d]
- TuSimple pivot from self-driving to AI animation is complete with CreateAI rebrand [104d]
- Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z [104d]
- Real estate VC Fifth Wall is raising $500M for a new fund [104d]
- In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation led by Thrive, sources say [104d]
- Backed by a16z and NEA, Backflip raises $30M Series A to turn text into AI-generated designs [104d]
- Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, blogs, and more, will launch in ‘early 2025’ [104d]
- Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to icon Jean Jennings [104d]
- Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, backgrounds in videos using prompts [104d]
- Over 20 venture firms pledge to not take money from China, Russia [104d]
- Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model [104d]
- $25 billion valuation Chime takes another step toward an IPO [104d]
- Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy [104d]
- Hyme Energy signs global deal with Arla to scale thermal storage tech [104d]
- BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications [104d]
- Indian startups raised 32% fewer rounds in 2024 as VCs got selective [104d]
- ‘We want to pay it forward’: Funding Societies raises $25M to boost capital for SMEs in Southeast Asia [105d]
- Exclusive: Google’s Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise [105d]
- Samsung wants to build its first AI data center as it seeks to crack $1 billion dollar annual sales in cloud services [104d]
- Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk abused to deploy dangerous malware, so be on your guard [104d]
- Fake DocuSign and HubSpot phishing emails target 20,000 Microsoft Azure accounts [104d]
- Got an Intel Core Ultra 200S CPU? These are the patches you need to help gaming performance – with one more update coming in January 2025 [104d]
- Apple set to build a server chip to service its own AI and may have sacrificed the company's fastest ever chip to achieve this; report suggests a strategic tie-in with $850bn Broadcom [104d]
- Government employees are still using Kaspersky despite the ban [104d]
- Helldivers 2's Killzone crossover items are now available for free after pricing backlash [104d]
- Salt Typhoon: US cybersecurity watchdog urges switch to Signal-like messaging apps [104d]
- Was 2024 a naughty or nice year for tech? We find the answer in this special Christmas episode of our podcast [104d]
- Midnight Blizzard hacking group hijacks RDP proxies to launch malware attacks [104d]
- Gamers beware: Windows 11 24H2 update could wreck your colors and crash your games [104d]
- CD Projekt Red knew making Ciri the protagonist of The Witcher 4 might be 'controversial for some people' but wants to prove it 'can do a lot of interesting things' with this decision [104d]
- The Witcher 4 will introduce new regions, but the map will remain "more or less the same" size as The Witcher 3 [104d]
- Amazon stops return to office policy for US workers due to lack of office space [104d]
- DJI drones escape US ban for now, but clouds continue to loom for 2025 [104d]
- Lighter. Better. Faster. Stronger. The legendary laptops that created today's killer kit [104d]
- Google plans on a handy fix for all those duplicate Chrome tabs, but it's only for Android [104d]
- Microsoft lays out reasons Windows 10 gamers should upgrade to Windows 11, but I can pick a few holes in these arguments [104d]
- The first official trailer for James Gunn's Superman movie has been revealed, and I'm utterly obsessed with the DCU's take on Krypto the Superdog [104d]
- Elevated levels of 'forever chemicals' found in smartwatch bands – here's what you need to know [104d]
- Thousands of GPS tracking customers have info leaked following data breach [104d]
- A24's Death of a Unicorn trailer looks like it could be its wildest movie yet, and I'll be first in line to watch this [104d]
- GitHub is making its AI programming Copilot free for VS Code developers [104d]
- Sick of your AirTags dying on you? This new accessory gives them a decade-long battery life [104d]
- ExpressVPN enters eSIM market with the launch of holiday.com [104d]
- The EU could force Apple to put AirDrop and AirPlay on Android phones [104d]
- Microsoft really wants users to ditch passwords and switch to passkeys [104d]
- Improved Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses could land in 2025 – with a much requested upgrade [104d]
- Sony is officially the largest shareholder of FromSoftware owner Kadokawa [104d]
- New PS5 Pro details explain what "advanced ray tracing" really means [104d]
- Satya Nadella claims Google "makes more money on Windows than all of Microsoft" [104d]
- Creature Commandos stars open up on how episode 4's two huge plot twists will impact the DCU TV show's overall story: 'it's an interesting reveal' [104d]
- Apple’s long-rumored iPhone subscription service has reportedly been scrapped [104d]
- CRM vs. CDP: what’s the difference? [104d]
- Developers targeted by malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions [104d]
- The Russo Brothers' new Netflix movie The Electric State looks like the robot odyssey I've been waiting for in the official trailer [104d]
- US government mulls entire TP-Link product ban - routers, switches and more all set to be blocked [104d]
- IT firms recognise the gender gap, but not all have plans to fix it [104d]
- Sony announces new 'Amethyst' collaboration with AMD to develop 'machine learning' technology in games [104d]
- New Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and Plus renders give us a clear look at their screens [104d]
- The OnePlus Open 2 could come with these key upgrades – and the biggest battery yet in a foldable [104d]
- Samsung next-gen OLED TVs' leak, and there's a surprise in the name and a tempting new size [104d]
- AMD looks to have scrapped its RX 7900 GRE – the graphics card that’s our current pick for best GPU [104d]
- Creature Commandos episode 4 reveals the DCU's Justice League for the first time, but its showrunner has a warning for fans who might 'infer' anything from it [104d]
- Supporting business resiliency for all working policies [104d]
- Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg [105d]
- Now AI can keep you alive after you’re gone, and it’s as creepy as it sounds [105d]
- NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Thursday, December 19 (game #557) [105d]
- NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, December 19 (game #291) [105d]
- Quordle today – my hints and answers for Thursday, December 19 (game #1060) [105d]
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