The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes [420d]
• Benchmark, Index, others are in a wild unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere, maker of Cursor [420d]
• ‘Whatever you want Ben’: Inside Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department [420d]
• What does Trump’s election mean for the TikTok ban? [420d]
• Monarch Tractor lays off 10% in restructuring towards software and licensing AV tech [420d]
• Startup land wasn’t as quiet this week as you might’ve expected [420d]
• Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down [420d]
• Trump included Elon Musk on call with Zelenskyy [420d]
• Tesla is part of the trillion-dollar club again [420d]
• The Beatles’ AI-assisted track ‘Now and Then’ is nominated for two Grammy awards [420d]
• How AI startup Conflixis is protecting hospitals from corrupt doctors [420d]
• AI-powered app integration platform UnifyApps grabs $20M from ICONIQ Growth [420d]
• FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information [420d]
• Large funds are too invested in the energy transition to turn back now [420d]
• Former Raya, Dispo exec has a new fund for the biggest out-of-favor tech: consumer [420d]
• Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing [420d]
• Block scales back TIDAL investment and shutters TBD in favor of Bitcoin mining [420d]
• Crypto CEO kidnapped in Toronto, released after paying $1M ransom [421d]
• Amazon may up its investment in Anthropic — on one condition [421d]