The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• For $1 million, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer [8d]
• Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT [8d]
• IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI [8d]
• Rivian was saved by software in 2025 [8d]
• Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha. [8d]
• Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot [8d]
• Anthropic raises another $30 billion in series G, with a new value of $380 billion [9d]
• YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro [9d]
• Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website [9d]
• Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act [9d]
• Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing [9d]
• Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI [9d]
• A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip [9d]
• Aurora’s driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers [9d]
• More U.S. investors sue South Korean government over handling of Coupang data breach [9d]
• Apple acquires all rights to ‘Severance,’ will produce future seasons in-house [9d]
• US FTC airs concerns over allegations that Apple News suppresses right-wing content [9d]
• Eclipse backs all-EV marketplace Ever in $31M funding round [9d]