The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (New York Times) [1d]
- Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more (New York Times) [1d]
- Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd) [1d]
- Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse (Jyoti Mann/The Information) [1d]
- TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO (Financial Times) [1d]
- At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US (Matt Bracken/FedScoop) [1d]
- OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 (@openrouter) [1d]
- Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund (Melia Robinson/Business Insider) [1d]
- At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs (New York Times) [1d]
- During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework (CNBC) [1d]
- CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) [1d]
- Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its "most advanced live dialogue models yet", to more effectively enable voice agents (Google) [1d]
- Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (Alix Coutures/The Information) [1d]
- Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [1d]
- UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly "proliferates" copyright-infringing tracks (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide) [1d]
- Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Sources: Palmer Luckey-backed Erebor Bank ended its free stablecoin-to-cash redemption offer after trading firms like Wintermute exploited it for arbitrage (The Information) [1d]
- DoorDash agrees to acquire Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business, formerly Tapingo, for $300M, and will add $125M to Wonder's $650M Series D announced in July (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Sources: the US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down an AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns; Kalshi complied (Semafor) [1d]
- AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline more than six months after being damaged by Iranian drones, complicating the region's AI ambitions (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Elon Musk says top US AI labs and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate safety (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [1d]
- Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [1d]
- GM plans to add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs (David Welch/Bloomberg) [1d]
- India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [1d]
- OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law) [1d]
- Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, which offers audits and safety certifications for AI agents, raised a $40M Series A, bringing total raised to $55M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Meta says it plans to deploy MTIA 450, its third-generation custom AI chip, in data centers in H1 2027, followed by a broad rollout of MTIA 500 by end of 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [1d]
- The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [1d]
- OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House proposal, that would require AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety (Brendan Bordelon/Politico) [1d]
- Altera, which makes chips for AI, automation, and more, files confidentially for an IPO; Intel acquired it for ~$16.7B in 2015, and Silver Lake took 51% in 2025 (David Morris/Bloomberg) [1d]
- The Gates Foundation pledges $1B+ over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good" (Claire Moses/New York Times) [1d]
- Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade at no extra charge in 100+ countries, plus Music Select, a set of ad-free radio stations, in some markets (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac) [1d]
- Sources: ByteDance's H1 2026 net profit dropped by a single-digit percentage YoY to $20B and revenue rose ~30% to $120B; its 2025 revenue rose 29% to ~$200B (The Information) [1d]
- New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [1d]
- HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, expensive at $499+, and imaging needs to improve (Daniel Cooper/Engadget) [1d]
- Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) [1d]
- New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores launches Who Decides, a nonprofit that raised $10M and aims to raise another $20M in 2027 to shape Democratic AI policy (New York Times) [1d]
- Amazon says its India quick delivery service, Amazon Now, crossed $1B in annualized gross revenue, with orders doubling QoQ since its launch in summer 2025 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg) [1d]
- MediaTek unveils the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first phone SoC on TSMC's 2nm node, and the 3nm 9600M, with boosted AI performance, as it competes with Qualcomm (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) [1d]
- Microsoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs (Tom Warren/The Verge) [1d]
- China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a sweeping new law, as Beijing moves to secure state secrets and advanced tech (Financial Times) [2d]
- Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all" (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Apple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse (Apple) [2d]
- Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in LA, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover (New York Times) [2d]
- Google gives all of its engineers Claude Opus 5 access via Antigravity, and says "Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development" (Hugh Langley/Business Insider) [2d]
- A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the "network wall", and more (SemiAnalysis) [2d]
- Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B+ through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks liquidity after billions in share buybacks (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation (Tom Wilson/Financial Times) [2d]
- OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans "are losing the ability to evaluate them" while humans rely more on AI to lead research (Daniel Kokotajlo/@dkokotajlo) [2d]
- A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium) [2d]
- Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch) [2d]
- Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs (Bryan Shan/SemiAnalysis) [2d]
- Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU prices skyrocket to $9,000 — as fresh RTX 6000 rumor suggests a 2027 launch that fills me with dread [1d]
- New Polish jet-powered drone looks a lot like a miniature B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, and there's a good reason why [1d]
- A dancing dog mascot, 23 screws, 9 parts: Inside Dell's attempt to show Japanese kids how computers work and how to assemble one [1d]
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ‘the world is right to be afraid’ of AI influence — but that it can benefit humanity like no other technology before it [1d]
- Desperate attempt or marketing genius? Microsoft's Project Zenith is a confusing attempt to get those who can afford an expensive PC to buy one [1d]
- Diablo 5 senior game director says 'the continued passion' is the reason Diablo 2: Resurrected exists and has allowed Blizzard to look at it for modern inspiration — 'Because it exists today alongside Diablo 4, we can look at it through today's lens' [1d]
- 'We're going through a new industrial revolution': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei share differing views on AI at Dreamforce 2026 [1d]
- Now we know which iPhone Apple really wants you to buy, and John Ternus gave us the key [1d]
- How to watch Run Hide Fight: Infidels online from anywhere [1d]
- AI on Intel MacBook laptop uses webcam and mirror to rewrite and debug its own AMD Radeon driver code live and direct — without a programmer in the loop [1d]
- Huawei says its new smartphone chip is entirely free of any US-made components [1d]
- First ever battle between two autonomous naval drones 'won' by Ukraine thanks to a salvo from a remote weapon turret [1d]
- Vertical GPU, top-loading HDDs: Morefine's 4-bay NAS is unlike any AI workstation PC I've ever seen, thanks to a simple physics law [1d]
- Whole-home Wi-Fi 7 just became more affordable with Amazon's Early Prime Day deal on the Deco 7 Pro Tri-Band BE10000 mesh system [1d]
- Reacher fans 'absolutely' responsible for Prime Video spinoff Neagley being made — but the new series will solve one outstanding mystery [1d]
- 'New arena for strategic rivalry': China’s intelligence chief calls for regulations and guardrails on AI to prevent new arms race [1d]
- The big AI 'slowdown' battle explained — 5 things you need to know about Trump's AI regulation battle with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and even Elon Musk [1d]
- The AirPods 5 are available for preorder at a surprisingly affordable price – and Amazon just surprised us with a first-time discount [1d]
- Google invests $15bn in Finland and secures 500 MW power from Soviet-era nuclear power plant till 2050 [1d]
- How to watch Forever Home on Channel 5 — it's *FREE* [1d]
- 12 early Prime Day deals under $50 you can get right now that actually improve your setup [1d]
- The new digital ID apps for age verification in pubs have a major flaw I'm worried about — and might make queueing even worse [1d]
- The UK's £100 billion data center boom is suffering from a major bottleneck that puts capacity and performance at risk [1d]
- Volkswagen sets three EV world records over 794-mile road trip in ‘most efficient near-production’ car — and it could be the battery breakthrough that EVs need [1d]
- New $50 billion buildout investment will build Canada’s largest data center in Saskatchewan with 1.2 GW capacity [1d]
- Surfshark now lets you block specific websites — but you'll need a Windows PC [1d]
- 'Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose' — Britain’s lawmakers have started calling for AI regulation, and they should refuse to settle for half-measures [1d]
- Has Downloader stopped working on your Fire TV Stick? Don’t panic, Amazon isn’t killing sideloading on previous models, and a fix is on the way [1d]
- I've compared all iPhone 18 Pro preorder options — this deal at Visible gets you a $480 discount on one of the best plans [1d]
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- Amazon's October Prime Day dates are official — but I'd shop these 15 early deals before the sale starts [1d]
- Obscura VPN's new 'Circle of Trust' rewards users for supporting independent privacy apps [1d]
- Blizzard says designing a StarCraft open-world shooter presents specific challenges in scale and perspective — 'If you're 10 feet tall and you're wearing something that weighs 1,000 pounds, doors are a challenge' [1d]
- NordVPN teams up with NBA star Shaquille O'Neal to slam dunk online threats [1d]
- NBA star Shaquille O'Neal teams up with NordVPN to slam dunk online threats [1d]
- 'The Orbi 373 immediately kicked my office Wi-Fi up a gear': Netgear's Wi-Fi 7 mesh 3-pack just hit a record low [1d]
- Almost 8000 organizations hit by fake voicemail transcript emails in credential phishing attack [1d]
- Discord not loading? The gaming chat service has gone down for some users [1d]
- Got iOS 27 but can't find the new Siri? You're not alone — here's why [1d]
- Aemagic's retro Nintendo-style mini PC with powerful Ryzen 7 performance drops $100 as Amazon launches its Early Prime Day sale [1d]
- Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm super-telephoto primes make light work of a heavy hobby — here are my favorite wildlife photos I shot with the pair [1d]
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- Oracle lays off undisclosed number of employees in restructuring, but hiring continues for AI and data center roles [1d]
- RubyGems say OpenAI agents responsible for undisclosed swarm attack against its infrastructure [1d]
- I've watched all 8 episodes of Reacher spinoff Neagley and think longtime fans will love it — mostly because they feel like the exact same show [1d]
- Spotify is finally giving you a button to block kids’ music from your recommendations and Wrapped — now YouTube needs to follow suit [1d]
- iOS 27’s new Spatial Reframing tool puts ‘random dude’ into Redditor’s photo — proving that the AI Photos feature still has major limits [1d]
- KitchenAid just unveiled its latest Design Series stand mixer, and its glowing, jewel-like glass bowl took my breath away [1d]
- How to watch England vs Sri Lanka 2026 T20 series: cricket live streams, schedule, tickets and preview [1d]
- I tested the spec-heavy Poco F9 Ultra and found a phone with top-tier performance and zero deal-breaker flaws for hundreds less than the competition [1d]
- 6 seasonal home office upgrades to improve focus this fall [1d]
- Anthropic's new Claude tool is here to help financial advisors — add AI to your spreadsheets, portfolios, CRMs, and more [1d]
- Valve says RAM crisis hasn't really changed its Steam Deck 2 plans, but hints that it could affect launch timing — and I'm all for a long delay if it's necessary [1d]
- PUBG: Dednet director says the game is all about 'spreading the gospel of PUBG to an audience that hasn't historically connected with it' [1d]
- Amazon is set to kick off Black Friday with its Prime Big Deal Days sale this October — here's everything you need to know [1d]
- Made in China, flying for Britain: Who really knows what’s inside our defense tech? [1d]
- Fujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 out-charms the Kodak Charmera, but misses the point of these novelty cameras [1d]
- Technology sovereignty is about keeping control, not geography [1d]
- Obsolete programs are powering 97% of US database systems — and the reason why won't surprise anyone [1d]
- Blizzard says StarCraft will have the same 'gritty' atmosphere and be inspired by the 'interstellar western' of the original RTS — 'Our real world has asymmetry to it, and so I think leveraging that and putting that into this world was key for us' [1d]
- Why every enterprise needs an AI model exit strategy [2d]
- iFi's newest hi-res headphone DAC and amp squeezes into a tiny USB-C earbuds cable — you just add your own audiophile IEMs [2d]
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- PVanish says server count doesn't matter, so it rebuilt the parts that do [2d]
- 'No old code exists': Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis experience director confirms the 'reimagining' had to be built totally from the ground up on Unreal Engine 5 — but this meant Crystal Dynamics could add more tech upgrades [2d]
- Chinese vendor debuts world's first AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 laptop, but 192GB LPDDR5X-8533 for gaming? Really?? [2d]
- Kioxia has nothing to lose, so it wants to swap expensive DDR for the world's fastest SSD ever built to save the world from AI RAMpocalypse [2d]
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- The Tesla Roadster’s October reveal looks like another piece of pantomime — it’s a shame the once ground-breaking company doesn’t focus on cars anymore [2d]
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