The Brutalist Report

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• New Hampshire data center developer withdraws plans hours before opponents were to pack town meeting [8d]
• Google's new app icons are getting the meme treatment [8d]
• A top Disney AI exec is gushing about his chatbot assistant: 'I knew you before you were born' [8d]
• Keanu Reeves asks judge to give Netflix fraudster Carl Rinsch a light sentence [8d]
• Some users may be giving Google's AI search the bird, and DuckDuckGo is benefiting [8d]
• Read the exit memo from '60 Minutes' correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who clashed with Bari Weiss [8d]
• Every Drake album, ranked from worst to best [8d]
• I wrote a story about a California family regretting moving to Texas. The internet — and Texans — had thoughts. [8d]
• Fareed Zakaria told Bard grads we're asking the wrong question about AI [8d]
• The tokenmaxxing backlash has begun [8d]
• I put an AirTag on my 8-year-old's bike. It backfired and taught me an important parenting lesson. [8d]
• 'The G-shaped economy': A market vet says the driving economic force in the US is old vs young [8d]
• The pope, Sam Altman, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang have something in common: They all just said reasonable things about AI. [8d]
• Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits. [8d]
• I compared similar meals at Gordon Ramsay Steak and Papi Steak. One was way more worth the splurge. [8d]
• Claude Code creator says 22-year-old CS grads should found startups: 'It's the golden age' [8d]
• Ex-Snowflake CRO says top engineers don't want this booming AI job [8d]
• 'The White Lotus' season 4 will be set in 2 very different hotels. Take a look inside. [8d]
• Why AI hasn't replaced every 'automatable' job — yet [8d]
• I've been to every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip — but there are just 5 that I'll always return to [8d]
• AI curing cancer has become a meme. This Google researcher is actually trying to do it. [8d]
• An 80-year-old retired engineer, who flies planes and races boats, shares his 3 longevity habits [8d]
• Everyone flocks to the same tourist spots in Seoul. As a frequent visitor, I prefer these 4 lesser-visited areas. [8d]
• The 2 questions you should ask after a company refuses to boost your salary [8d]
• I grew up living 2 miles from Disney World. Here are 8 things I wish tourists knew. [8d]
• I've traveled to all 50 states. Here are the 7 cities I'd happily live in if my current one weren't an option. [8d]
• Traveling with my mom and college-age kids can be tricky. A cruise gave everyone what they wanted. [8d]
• See how Cuba looked before the Castros, when tourists, gamblers, and elites flocked to Havana [8d]
• Sundar Pichai said a Google AI Search result was 'more opinionated than it should be' [8d]
• The US Air Force is working out how to hand the A-10 Warthog's combat search-and-rescue role off to jets like the F-35 [8d]
• I took a solo trip to Japan in my 20s. My experience traveling there alone as an English-speaking woman astonished me. [8d]
• Small-business owners could look to Wolfgang Puck for help with their biggest problem [8d]
• How to fix AI's branding problem, according to top marketers [8d]
• What marketers think about Google's big search and AI changes [8d]
• Top YouTubers back a new $3,750 program to train aspiring creators [8d]
• Special ops wants "geeks with guns" bringing both grit and tech skills into combat [8d]
• Join us: Lovable's CEO pitches straight to laid-off Big Tech workers [8d]
• I moved back to Canada after living abroad for 5 years. The hardest part is rebuilding my social life. [8d]
• 3 new low-cost ways to check for colon cancer — that only take 5 minutes [8d]
• The US is dangerously exposed to drone attacks, a detection company warns, saying it's concerning just how easy they are to arm and launch [8d]
• The 'hottest' AI job right now might involve locking your bedroom door [8d]
• Wolfgang Puck didn't think his son would follow in his footsteps. Now he's preparing the succession. [8d]
• Western arms makers are lining up to test their weapons on Ukraine's battlefields [8d]
• A Waymo car ended a ride early, then the company told the passenger to get an Uber [8d]
• I grew my salary to $180K a year while paying down $40K in credit card debt. I've gone from ashamed to empowered. [8d]
• Here's why a nearly new Airbus jet is more valuable as spare parts [8d]
• OpenAI is building a new kind of ad machine. Early data suggests Google should worry. [8d]
• Cerebras CEO says AI 'as an industry' has done a terrible job of selling data centers: 'We ought to pay our own way [8d]
• The most miserable big-money job in the C-suite [8d]
• I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weird. [8d]
• How an obscure EV tax accidentally cost Ukraine thousands of battle bots this year [8d]
• Moving to Japan at 22 helped my depression. At 31, I don't know where I belong. [8d]
• I'm a college senior who built a vintage clothing marketplace with Claude. It took me 5 days to build the pilot. [8d]
• Architect brothers moved to a Himalayan town and built a mud villa by hand. It's now a busy Airbnb. [8d]
• Trump's green card memo dropped before a holiday weekend. Immigration lawyers say clients panicked. [9d]