The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools [16d]
• Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity [16d]
• AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high [16d]
• Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize? [16d]
• The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most [16d]
• A16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers [16d]
• OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own [16d]
• One of Europe’s largest universities knocked offline for days after cyberattack [16d]
• Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers [16d]
• NASA astronauts can now bring their phones with them on their mission to the moon [16d]
• OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents [16d]
• Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’ [16d]
• Secondary sales shift from founder windfalls to employee-retention tools [16d]
• Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos [16d]
• Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work [16d]
• Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric [16d]
• Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans [16d]
• Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis [16d]
• Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers [16d]
• ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI [16d]
• Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue [16d]
• Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features [16d]
• Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads [17d]
• As it preps Specs for the masses, Snap’s Q4 shows revenue growth but fewer daily users [17d]
• Mundi Ventures closes on €750M for Kembara, its largest deep tech and climate fund [17d]