The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• India’s Varaha bags $20M to scale carbon removal from the Global South [18d]
• The Minneapolis tech community holds strong during ‘tense and difficult time’ [18d]
• Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia [18d]
• YC startups can now receive investment in stablecoin [18d]
• 2026 plans: What’s next for Startup Battlefield 200 [18d]
• Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics [18d]
• Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe [18d]
• Agentic coding comes to Apple’s Xcode with agents from Anthropic and OpenAI [18d]
• Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations [18d]
• Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old building retrofits [18d]
• Watch Club is producing short video dramas and building a social network around them [18d]
• Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free [18d]
• French police search X office in Paris, summons Elon Musk for questioning [18d]
• French police search X office in Paris, summon Elon Musk for questioning [18d]
• What tech CEOs and executives have said about ICE’s actions in Minnesota [18d]
• TikTok recovers from dip in usage that benefited rival apps following U.S. ownership change [18d]
• Fitbit founders launch AI platform to help families monitor their health [18d]
• PayPal hires HP’s Enrique Lores as its new CEO [18d]
• Peak XV says internal disagreement led to partner exits as it doubles down on AI [18d]
• India’s Supreme Court to WhatsApp: ‘You cannot play with the right to privacy’ [18d]
• Vema predicts cheap hydrogen could change where data centers are built [18d]
• Avalanche thinks the fusion power industry should think smaller [18d]
• Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum has been charged for alleged fraud [19d]