The Brutalist Report - tech
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- World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips (Financial Times) [44m]
- A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal) [3h]
- Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (Nikkei Asia) [3h]
- India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin) [3h]
- Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (The Information) [3h]
- Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (Financial Times) [3h]
- Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades (Wall Street Journal) [4h]
- Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (Bloomberg) [4h]
- Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-Based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) [4h]
- WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say "AI" in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [4h]
- A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg) [5h]
- Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [5h]
- Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Politico) [6h]
- Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal) [7h]
- Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters) [7h]
- Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (Bloomberg) [8h]
- Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (Politico) [8h]
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times) [9h]
- Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now" (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica) [11h]
- SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC) [11h]
- Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [11h]
- Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany) [12h]
- Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [14h]
- Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (Z.ai) [14h]
- Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [15h]
- 'We’re helping make AI skills accessible to every marketer': Adobe & LinkedIn team up to spread AI knowledge [15m]
- How to watch Tour de Suisse 2026: Free Streams and TV Channels for the UCI WorldTour Race [39m]
- Avoiding the auto-fail under cyber essentials’ new rules [54m]
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day official trailer launch live — all of the latest news and rumors on the new Marvel movie's next teaser [1h]
- Clarkson's Farm season 5 ending reveals shock Jeremy Clarkson cancer diagnosis — but Prime Video filming for season 6 should be encouraging news [1h]
- The wait is over! Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset has finally landed in the UK, and I couldn’t be more excited [1h]
- Which Ring doorbell should I buy? A simple guide to the different options [1h]
- How healthcare practices should evaluate AI vendors [1h]
- How can businesses respond to the next generation of AI? [2h]
- How to watch State of Origin Game 2: NRL 2026 FREE streams, TV channels for NSW vs QLD [2h]
- How to watch England vs New Zealand: TV Channels, Full Schedule & 2nd Test Preview [2h]
- AI agents in live operations require new standards and management [3h]
- Bucking the trend, Superloop just confirmed it won't increase NBN 500 plan prices this July — and for those on other tiers, there's also a sneaky new way to delay the hikes [3h]
- SMBs are acting on financial advice from AI chatbots — before talking to their accountant, as experts warn 'that pressure is only going to grow' [4h]
- I'm testing the Oura Ring 5 — have a question? Tell me what you want to know about the world's smallest smart ring [6h]
- Holiday season is here — but watch out, hackers are launching more phishing scams and attacks than ever before [8h]
- How to watch Austria vs Jordan: Free Streams & TV Channels for FIFA World Cup 2026 [8h]
- Avatar, Interstellar, The Rolling Stones and Breakfast at Tiffany’s: I took a look at the Blu-ray reference library used by the world’s biggest AVR maker to develop its home theater gear [8h]
- China wants to spend nearly $300 billion on a national data center grid — all powered by domestically made silicon and looking to outperform the US [9h]
- Next-gen 128TB SSDs set to squeeze data on the fly thanks to a new smart chip — Longsys WM8500 promises a compression ratio of up to 2:1, creating a virtual 256TB SSD at a much lower price [10h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #1102) [10h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #836) [10h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #1605) [10h]
- GM is getting in on the data center game — auto giant will start building huge sodium-ion batteries to help with energy storage [10h]
- Quote of the day by former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: 'Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution' — commentary on society's relationship with programming [11h]
- Watch Snap Reveal Specs AR Smart Glasses at AWE 2026 video [6h]
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 17, #632 [6h]
- Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, June 17 [6h]
- Smart Glasses Are Capturing Footage in Public. Here's How to Spot Them [8h]
- Apple Is Reportedly Planning AirPods With Cameras for 2027 [9h]
- Commodore's New Flip Phone Focuses on 'Digital Detox' and Blocks Social Media Apps [11h]
- Meta's Smart Glasses Are Testing Facial Recognition Software Used by Police and the Military [12h]
- Disney's Imagineers Are Using Adobe's Firefly AI to Dream Up Ride Designs [12h]
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 17, #1102 [13h]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 17, #1824 [13h]
- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 17 #836 [13h]
- Iraq vs. Norway: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I Match Live for Free [14h]
- Is Claude Down? Here's the Latest [15h]
- Google Expands Parental Controls to All Devices Running Android 17 [15h]
- Android 17 Is Here! Take a Look video [15h]
- Rooting for France at World Cup 2026? Here's a Guide to All Its Matches [16h]
- Xreal's Android XR Aura Glasses Are Coming This Fall, With a Brand New Qualcomm Chip Inside [16h]
- Snap's New Specs Are Chunky, Pricey and I Really Need to Try Them [16h]
- France vs. Senegal: Stream FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I Match Live for Free [17h]
- Toy Story 5 Puts Technology at the Heart of Its Most Timely Story Yet [17h]
- Overwatch's Season 3 Kicks Off Today With New Damage Hero, Shion [17h]
- Nimble's Sharepower Portable Battery Doubled My Charging Pleasure [17h]
- Samsung Built a Real Spider-Man Tracker You Can Use This Summer [19h]
- Flat PopSockets Are Here (and I Like It Better Than OhSnap's Flat Grip) [21h]
- This New Gadget Doesn’t Just Track Sleep, It Uses Custom Scents and AI to Improve It [21h]
- BitGo offers Europe’s crypto firms a MiCA-compliance lifeline as license deadline looms [3h]
- Forget the price charts. Here's how bitcoin and S&P 500 look like when adjusted for the money printer [3h]
- Crypto PAC's $12 million Senate candidate, Barry Moore, wins Alabama GOP primary [4h]
- Live markets: A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June [4h]
- XRP gives back breakout gains, slipping below $1.23 on heavy selling [4h]
- Uniswap jumps 22% and altcoins rip while bitcoin stalls before the Fed [5h]
- Here is why Strategy's dividend-paying crypto stock is crashing to near-historic lows [11h]
- Bitcoin miners' AI pivot faces $50 billion reality check, says VanEck [12h]
- U.S. senators urge Treasury not to leave states out of GENIUS Act stablecoin process [13h]
- Hyperliquid, Uniswap and Worldcoin buck crypto slump as traders chase AI, DeFi trends [13h]
- Coinbase intoduces AI advisor, stock options, and pre-IPO markets in finance push [14h]
- Ripple invests in Flutterwave, pushing its stablecoin and XRP Ledger into payments across Africa [18h]
- Coinbase to join tokenized stock race with onchain shares, dividend payments [18h]
- Binance says its European regulatory application is compliant despite report of Greek rejection [18h]
- Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage [18h]
- State Street targets stablecoin reserve boom with new money market fund [19h]
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: Uniswap (UNI) gains 12.9% while index trades lower [20h]
- This AI builds you a business, runs it, and settles payments in USDC [20h]
- BlackRock's new bitcoin income fund offers cash flow alongside BTC exposure [21h]
- Mystery Polymarket trader turned $4 million into $9 million after Spain's shocking World Cup draw [21h]
- BlackRock's new bitcoin ETF lets institutions earn from volatility. There's a catch. [22h]
- Bitcoin buyers add over 250,000 BTC between $59,000 and $67,000 as accumulation returns [22h]
- Bitcoin rallies after Japan rate increase with XLM, INJ, UNI advancing [23h]
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