The Brutalist Report

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• Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months’ severance [452d]
• General Catalyst reportedly to back Saudi Arabian startup [452d]
• Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion [452d]
• Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts [452d]
• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity [452d]
• All mobile phones must be hearing aid compatible under new FCC rules [452d]
• Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products [452d]
• Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’ [452d]
• Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft [452d]
• Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising [452d]
• Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price [452d]
• Beyond the hype: Why Tesla’s robotaxi future faces regulatory roadblocks [452d]
• The 14 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech [452d]
• ChatGPT comes to Windows [452d]
• Waymo offers $3 credit for San Francisco riders going to public transit stations [452d]
• Apple Music’s latest feature lets artists create dedicated playlists for concerts and tours [452d]
• Last-minute Expo+ 2-for-1 passes available for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [452d]
• Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide AI-generated audio conversations, launches business pilot [452d]
• With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer [452d]
• Subscription management firm Zuora agrees to be acquired for $1.7B [452d]
• Hackers are extorting Globe Life with stolen customer data [452d]
• Apple says support for redeeming rewards coming to Apple Pay [452d]
• Announcing the final group of top VCs to judge the Startup Battlefield 200 Final at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [452d]
• UK digital ‘end-of-life’ services startup Farewill acquired for $16.8M [452d]
• From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup [452d]
• Can AI make us feel less alone? The founder of Manifest thinks so [452d]
• Eclipse opens an NYC office with plans to bolster its presence on the East Coast [452d]
• Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B [452d]
• India’s central bank orders Sachin Bansal’s Navi to halt loans [452d]
• Elon Musk’s X boosts DSA info for EU users as bloc’s probe of its complaint handling continues [452d]
• Casio says ‘no prospect of recovery yet’ after ransomware attack [452d]
• Instagram rolls out new safety features to protect teens from sextortion [452d]
• Cyera acquires Trail Security for $162M; Cyera is now raising at a $3B valuation [452d]
• Zepto eyes $100M from Indian offices in third funding in 6 months [452d]
• Accel eyes stake in India’s Truemeds at $330 million valuation [452d]
• Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out [453d]
• Meta lays off employees across multiple teams [453d]
• ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant [453d]