The Brutalist Report

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• Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools [31d]
• The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund [31d]
• Amazon’s Kuiper satellites to get boost from rival SpaceX [31d]
• US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion [31d]
• A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there [31d]
• Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content [31d]
• AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI [31d]
• Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round [31d]
• Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines [31d]
• The rights to Fyre Festival sold on eBay for 245K [31d]
• Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month [31d]
• Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker [31d]
• AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal [31d]
• Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’ [31d]
• Venture gets a rare Native American-led fund in Betsy Fore’s Velveteen Ventures [31d]
• Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model [31d]
• A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs [31d]
• Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu [31d]
• Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules [31d]
• Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app [31d]
• Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence [31d]
• Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials [31d]
• DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API key [31d]
• China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private [31d]
• ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom [31d]
• xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses [31d]
• Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield [31d]
• Joby Aviation doubles pilot eVTOL facility capacity as it races to launch air taxis [31d]
• Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track [31d]
• Amogy raises $80M to power ships and data centers with ammonia [31d]
• TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston today — don’t miss what founders are learning [31d]
• Tesla finally enters India — nine years after Elon Musk first teased its debut [32d]
• Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers [32d]
• Nvidia is set to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash [32d]