The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups [15d]
• All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025 [15d]
• Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs [15d]
• Could MrBeast IPO? His CEO wants fans to have ‘a chance to be owners of the company’ [15d]
• Roblox banned in Russia, local media says [15d]
• Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business [15d]
• Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again [15d]
• WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use [15d]
• VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy [15d]
• ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted [15d]
• Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract [15d]
• Tonight, the future of deep tech will be explained to you at StrictlyVC Palo Alto [15d]
• Fintech firm Marquis alerts dozens of US banks and credit unions of a data breach after ransomware attack [15d]
• Energy department hands out $800M in grants for small nuclear reactors [15d]
• Anthropic hires lawyers as it preps for IPO [15d]
• AWS doubles down on custom LLMs with features meant to simplify model creation [15d]
• What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about Eventbrite’s acquirer [15d]
• Another bid to block state AI regulation has failed… for now [15d]
• Google Photos’ 2025 Recap turns to Gemini to find your highlights [15d]
• Amazon Fire TV’s new AI feature lets you jump to scenes by describing them to Alexa+ [15d]
• Waymo starts autonomous testing in Philadelphia [15d]
• Autolane is building ‘air traffic control’ for autonomous vehicles [15d]
• Spotify Wrapped 2025 adds its first multiplayer feature with ‘Wrapped Party’ [15d]
• Nothing looks to its community to raise $5M, wants to be ‘IPO-ready’ in 3 years [15d]
• After intense backlash, India pulls mandate to preinstall government app on smartphones [15d]
• Uber and Avride launch robotaxi service in Dallas [15d]
• All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025 [16d]
• Amazon challenges competitors with on-premises Nvidia ‘AI Factories’ [16d]