The Brutalist Report - tech
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- How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post) [1d]
- A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (Owen Walker/Financial Times) [2d]
- Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog) [2d]
- Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face) [2d]
- BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times) [2d]
- Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI) [2d]
- Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (Grace Shao/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Dario Amodei shares his view on AI regulation, says open-weights aren't a "sufficient" solution, defends testing, highlights a "crisis of trust" in AI, and more (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei) [2d]
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- The US Army is opening up its training centers for private firms to test out new drones [1d]
- Russian body, Desi brain: How India is turning the Su-30MKI into a lethal stealth hunter [1d]
- US Air Force wants AI help to keep its Minuteman III nukes ticking until they're 66, or maybe 80 [1d]
- Quote of the day by Elon Musk: '[The Tesla Bot] has the potential to be a generalized substitute for human labor over time' — a bold prediction on the future of work [1d]
- The Last House review: this tedious thriller is the worst Netflix movie of the year, and it's nothing like the trailer promised [1d]
- The Pentagon's next big project is hypersonic scramjet cruise missiles able to evade enemy interceptors [1d]
- Kioxia showcases the world’s fastest SSD with mind-blowing 10M IOPS and a staggering 50 DWPD endurance [1d]
- 4 of the most detailed and sonically stellar elite hi-fi speakers I heard Audio at Audio Advice Live [1d]
- I plunged into Subnautica 2 Early Access and can't wait to go deeper [1d]
- Sony Bravia 7 II vs Samsung R95H: which RGB TV wins, and does either model topple OLED? I tested them side-by-side to find out [1d]
- Russia's accelerating Starlink rival development means that war in space is not just probable; it's inevitable [1d]
- 'I can't think of a better pancake lens for Nikon and Sony cameras': I used Viltrox’s new 26mm f/2.8 full-frame lens every day for a month — at half the price of Nikon's version, it's unbeatable value [1d]
- What DisplayHDR True Black 1400 means for the future of gaming and productivity monitors [1d]
- The hidden cost of the RAM crisis: why memory prices might not be your only PC upgrade worry [1d]
- What is the release date for Reacher season 4 episode 4 on Prime Video? [1d]
- How to watch Burnley vs West Ham: Live streams and TV channels for the EFL Championship 2026/27 game [1d]
- Is the new Water Cyber Shield Act too little, too late, and can a cyber group do it better? The experts weigh in [1d]
- Gemini now lets you turn off the visible watermark on your AI creations — here's how to do it, and how your content is still flagged as AI [1d]
- I hike for a living, and these are the 5 best GPS watches I've tested on real mountains — including Everest — from Garmin, Suunto, Coros & more [2d]
- How to watch Community Shield 2026: FREE live streams and TV channels for Arsenal vs Man City [2d]
- I’ve been testing these cheap open earbuds for weeks, and they have me wondering why you’d spend more on expensive rivals from Shokz and Bose [2d]
- Think Flock is bad? This new tech is coming to link license plates with your phone — and it could be another death knell for privacy [2d]
- ‘Groundbreaking technology often enters the market at a premium before scaling’: Touch-sensitive e-skin could soon be commonplace in robotics [2d]
- Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves [2d]
- 3 places you can't install plug-in solar panels — the new planning rules that could ruin your grand designs for your balcony [2d]
- Want delicious lattes the easy way? I'm a certified barista, and these are the top 3 milk frothers I recommend for perfect results every time [2d]
- Photoroom AI photo editor review: A one-click wonder for making product shots unmissable on your ecommerce store [2d]
- From styling your hair to drying your socks — 5 ways to use your portable fan in between heatwaves [2d]
- ‘Never get blindsided by an empty battery’: I was pleased with the OnePlus Nord CE5's performance and camera, but its battery life is the part that truly impressed me in real-world testing [2d]
- I'm an Apple Watch die-hard — here are my picks for the 10 best Apple Watch faces of 2026 so far [2d]
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Nintendo Switch 2 edition could have been perfection — but unending menus left me burning with rage like Pyra [2d]
- Dolby says Dolby Vision 2 HDR should come to cheaper TVs than the original — and the basic version is less expensive to license than Dolby Vision 2 Max to achieve that [2d]
- Ukraine's new secret drone weapon could be this 25g antenna, capable of transmitting over an incredible range [2d]
- There's a sneaky way to watch UFC 330 for $1 [2d]
- I tested a cheap Dolby Atmos 5.1 soundbar system with real speakers — here’s where it impressed me, and where it fell short of the competition [2d]
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