The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Starbase hires Cameron County to police its streets and jail its offenders [85d]
• Toyota adds another $1.5B to its bet on startups at every stage [85d]
• A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses [85d]
• Anonymous question app Sendit deceived children and illegally collected their data, FTC alleges [85d]
• Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans [85d]
• Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science [85d]
• OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model [85d]
• AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [85d]
• Fubo shareholders approve Hulu Live TV deal [85d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [85d]
• A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs [85d]
• AI note-taking app Granola adds a repeatable prompts feature [85d]
• Hance will demo its kilobyte-size AI audio processing software at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [85d]
• PayPal’s Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance [85d]
• Japan’s beer-making giant Asahi stops production after cyberattack [85d]
• Why you can’t miss the aerospace content at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [85d]
• Amazon unveils new Echo devices, powered by its AI, Alexa+ [85d]
• Venmo and PayPal users will finally be able to send money to each other [85d]
• Ring cameras can now recognize faces and help to find lost pets [85d]
• AI that talks back: Character AI in the spotlight with Karandeep Anand at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [85d]
• Amazon unveils new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft [85d]
• Alexa+ comes to new Fire TV devices with AI-powered conversations [85d]
• Imgur pulls out of UK after data regulator warns of fines [85d]
• Less than a month until TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — do not let competitors steal your exhibit table [85d]
• Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool [85d]
• CommanderAI says it’s building the Salesforce for the waste management industry [85d]
• Save up to 20% on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Community Passes — offer ends October 3 [85d]
• Adobe’s video editing app Premiere arrives on iPhones [85d]
• DoorDash rolls out creator program for short-form videos, adds AI features and dine-in rewards [85d]
• A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B [85d]
• DoorDash unveils Dot, its autonomous robot built to deliver your food [85d]
• Zoox chooses Washington DC as its next autonomous vehicle testbed [85d]
• Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts [85d]
• Spotify’s founder and CEO Daniel Ek is stepping down [85d]
• Whoop opens blood-testing service to what it says is a 350,000-person waitlist [85d]
• Hinge is taking a fairer approach to account banning [85d]
• Opera launches its AI-centric Neon browser [85d]
• Notion Capital raises $130M growth fund to tackle Europe’s follow-on gap [86d]