The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Top 30 startups announced for VivaTech 2025 Innovation of the Year Award [21d]
• Inside the AI revolution: Top insights and breakthroughs from our partners at TechCrunch Sessions: AI [21d]
• Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots [21d]
• Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them [21d]
• Tinder tests letting users set a ‘height preference’ [21d]
• Delaware attorney general reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan [21d]
• Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more [21d]
• Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology [21d]
• In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military [21d]
• YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts [21d]
• DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU [21d]
• US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams [21d]
• Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business [21d]
• Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024 [21d]
• DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds [21d]
• A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding [21d]
• Meta AI now has 1B monthly active users [21d]
• 7 days until doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AI [21d]
• Apple to change the way it names operating systems, report says [21d]
• Buildots raises $45M to help companies track construction progress [21d]
• Meet LoveJack, the dating app designed for users to find love using just five words [21d]
• X hits pause on its encrypted DMs feature [21d]
• Elon Musk’s stint in the US government is coming to an end [21d]
• NVIDIA, AMD may soon start selling new AI chips in China to comply with US restrictions [21d]
• Lightspeed backs Indian home services startup Snabbit as the next big consumer trend [21d]