The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• The iPhone just had its best quarter ever [23d]
• Guys, I don’t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI [23d]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports [23d]
• Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI [24d]
• Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE [24d]
• Microsoft won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says [24d]
• Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach [24d]
• Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot [24d]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says [24d]
• Apple buys Israeli startup Q.AI as the AI race heats up [24d]
• Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport [24d]
• I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator [24d]
• OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch [24d]
• Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works [24d]
• India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale [24d]
• Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI [24d]
• Tesla’s energy storage business is growing faster than any other part of the company [24d]
• Spotify rolls out group chats [24d]
• Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data [24d]
• Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling [24d]
• Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica [24d]
• Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building ‘runtime’ cloud security [24d]
• Apple hires iPhone camera app Halide’s co-founder for its design team [24d]