The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada [7d]
• Fintech lending giant Figure confirms data breach [7d]
• Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI [7d]
• Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information [7d]
• OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model [7d]
• The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker [7d]
• India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans [7d]
• Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10 [7d]
• Roku to launch streaming bundles as part of its efforts to continue growing its profitability [7d]
• A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup [8d]
• Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull [8d]
• Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull [8d]
• Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach [8d]
• Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police [8d]
• Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO [8d]
• Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims [8d]
• Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back [8d]
• Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline [8d]
• Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars [8d]