The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million [4d]
• Another setback for Firefly Aerospace’s beleaguered rocket program [4d]
• Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks [4d]
• Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire [4d]
• EA will be a very different company under private ownership [5d]
• F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project [5d]
• ESA will pay an Italian company nearly $50 million to design a mini-Starship [5d]
• Senators try to halt shuttle move, saying “little evidence” of public demand [5d]
• Fortnite disables Peacemaker emote that might resemble a swastika [5d]
• Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection [5d]
• It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal [5d]
• Big AI firms pump money into world models as LLM advances slow [5d]
• ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nurburgring war [5d]