The Brutalist Report

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• Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, quietly shuts down [522d]
• Crewed commercial SpaceX mission will traverse the poles like the explorers of old [522d]
• Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says [522d]
• a16z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down after running out of cash [522d]
• TechCrunch Space: It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a rocket-powered aircraft! [522d]
• SEC charges crypto firm NovaTech with fraud [523d]
• FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies [523d]
• The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising [523d]
• Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses [523d]
• TikTok comes for messaging apps with the addition of group chats [523d]
• What is AI good for, anyway? Maybe not summarizing [523d]
• Waymo to begin testing driverless robotaxis on San Francisco freeways [523d]
• Anduril reaches milestone with major defense hardware contract [523d]
• Google begins shipping locally made Pixel 8 in India ahead of Pixel 9 launch [523d]
• TechCrunch Minute: Trade My Spin takes the pain out of selling used Pelotons [523d]
• Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store [523d]
• Enhance your brand: Host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [523d]
• Meta, Universal Music Group addresses AI music in new licensing agreement [523d]
• China’s autonomous vehicle startup WeRide seeks US IPO at $5B valuation [523d]
• China’s autonomous vehicle startup WeRide seeks US IPO at $5B valuation [523d]
• Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries [523d]
• Synopsys’s plans to buy Ansys for $35B falls on UK regulatory radar [523d]
• The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024 [523d]
• Conduit’s cross-border payments expand from LatAm into Africa with $6M round [523d]
• Bharti will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25%, $4B stake from Altice [523d]
• Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok [523d]
• India’s Kazam powers up to roll out EV charging in Southeast Asia [523d]