The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world [14d]
• Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says [14d]
• GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices [14d]
• Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion [14d]
• AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” [14d]
• The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look [14d]
• RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn [14d]
• Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants? [14d]
• Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them [14d]
• Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago [14d]
• Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks [14d]
• How much of a problem is AI’s water use? [14d]
• How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face [14d]
• An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal [15d]