The Brutalist Report

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• Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes [520d]
• Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator [520d]
• Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition [520d]
• Biden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’ [520d]
• NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B [520d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [520d]
• Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently [520d]
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff [521d]
• Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch [521d]
• FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI [521d]
• Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads [521d]
• This Week in AI: AI isn’t world-ending — but it’s still plenty harmful [521d]
• Camera app Halide’s latest update adds an option for ‘zero-AI’ image processing [521d]
• Definity raises $4.5M as it looks to transform data application observability [521d]
• Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition [521d]
• Apple opens up NFC transactions to developers, but says there will be ‘associated fees’ [521d]
• TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s latest GPT4-o model gets weird [521d]
• Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape [521d]
• Telegram adds new ways for creators to earn money on its platform [521d]
• Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam [521d]
• Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [521d]
• Parker Conrad says founders have been building software wrong for the last 20 years [521d]
• Virtuix’s VR treadmill is finally launching in September [521d]
• Check out this $800 rotating VR chair for Meta Quest [521d]
• MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks [521d]
• EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters [521d]
• Kiteworks captures $456M at a $1B+ valuation to help secure sensitive data [521d]
• Apple finally allows Spotify to show pricing info to EU users on iOS [521d]
• The defense tech acquisition spree has begun: Autonomous factory startup Hadrian acquires Datum Source [521d]
• India’s top court clears way for Byju’s insolvency proceedings [521d]
• xAI’s Grok can now generate images on X [521d]
• Google faces headwinds as it brings Pixel 9 to India [521d]
• Zepto hits $5B valuation as quick commerce heats up in India [521d]