The Brutalist Report

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• India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up [3h]
• The creator economy’s ad revenue problem and India’s AI ambitions [5h]
• Remember HQ? ‘Quiz Daddy’ Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a daily mobile game show [7h]
• Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC [7h]
• Apple’s iOS 26.4 arrives in public beta with AI music playlists, video podcasts, and more [9h]
• InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting [9h]
• Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate [10h]
• Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped North Koreans get jobs at US companies [11h]
• Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict [11h]
• Threads posts can now be shared directly to your Instagram Story without leaving the app [11h]
• Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’ [12h]
• Meta’s metaverse leaves virtual reality [12h]
• Lucid Motors slashes 12% of its workforce as it seeks profitability [12h]
• AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier [13h]
• Prepare for pitch battle: Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are open [13h]
• Peak XV raises $1.3B, doubles down on AI as global VC rivalry in India heats up [13h]
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Super Early Bird rates end in 1 week [13h]
• Why investors are going gaga over solid-state transformers [14h]
• OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India [14h]
• The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni [16h]
• UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India [16h]
• General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years [22h]
• Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model with low-dilution terms [22h]