The Brutalist Report

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• Waymo and Toyota are dating. If they get serious, a new autonomous vehicle could be created. [3d]
• Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokers [3d]
• Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely [3d]
• Snapchat abandons plans for a simplified version of its app [3d]
• Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data [3d]
• Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year [3d]
• OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’ [3d]
• Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations [3d]
• Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times [3d]
• Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space [3d]
• A Tesla board member actually bought some stock [3d]
• Meta previews an API for its Llama AI models [3d]
• Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons [3d]
• Google Wallet to add support for digital IDs in more states [3d]
• Google’s NotebookLM expands its AI podcast feature to more languages [3d]
• Meta launches a standalone AI app to compete with ChatGPT [4d]
• Meta needs to win over AI developers at its first LlamaCon [4d]
• Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail [4d]
• Spotify adds 5M premium users and hits record operating income [4d]
• The deadline to book your exhibit table for TechCrunch Sessions: AI is May 9 [4d]
• Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI [4d]
• Final 6 days: Save big and bring a plus-one for 50% off to TechCrunch Sessions: AI [4d]
• Amazon Prime Day to return in July despite threat of tariffs [4d]
• Hoofprint Biome boosts cow nutrition while slashing methane burps [4d]
• Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere [4d]
• Here’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer event [4d]
• Yelp debuts AI voice agents for restaurants and service providers [4d]
• Government hackers are leading the use of attributed zero-days, Google says [4d]
• A16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmaker [4d]
• Grouphug is a stealth-mode startup that plans use AI inside WhatsApp groups [4d]
• IXI raises $36.5M from Amazon and others to bring autofocus to prescription glasses [4d]
• Reddit now supports translation of posts and comments into Hindi [4d]
• Are EWOR fellowships the real project Europe is looking for? [4d]