The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [534d]
• Intel to lay off 15,000 employees [534d]
• AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’ [534d]
• iPad sales help bail out Apple amid a continued iPhone slide [534d]
• How filming a capella concerts and dance recitals led Northzone’s newest parter Molly Alter to a career in VC [534d]
• How filming a capella concerts and dance recitals led Northzone’s newest partner Molly Alter to a career in VC [534d]
• Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search [534d]
• Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cut [535d]
• Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch [535d]
• Twitter disappears from Mac App Store [535d]
• Heeyo built an AI chatbot to be a billion kids’ interactive tutor and friend [535d]
• Google brings Gemini-powered search history and Lens to Chrome desktop [535d]
• Boeing bleeds another $125M on Starliner program, bringing total losses to $1.6B [535d]
• Anthony Levandowski bets on off-road autonomy, Nuro plots a comeback and Applied Intuition gets more investor love [535d]
• Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities [535d]
• VC darling Rad Power Bikes hit with another round of layoffs [535d]
• Why Anthony Levandowski returned to his off-road autonomous vehicle roots with AV startup Pronto [535d]
• Vast plans microgravity lab on its Haven-1 private space station [535d]
• Open-source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5 million developers [535d]
• Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups [535d]
• Indian startups gut valuations ahead of IPO push [535d]
• The EU’s AI Act is now in force [535d]
• Healx, an AI-enabled drug discovery platform for rare diseases, raises $47M [535d]
• EU greenlights HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition [535d]
• Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3 [535d]
• Axle Energy’s sprint to decarbonize the grid lights up with $9M seed led by Accel [535d]
• OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model [535d]
• Meta says India is the largest market for Meta AI usage [535d]
• Founder behind social media app IRL charged with fraud [535d]