The Brutalist Report

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• Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs [1h]
• AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams [3h]
• What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about AOL’s acquirer [16h]
• Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta [21h]
• Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week [22h]
• AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition; it buys Python notebook Marimo [23h]