The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Adam Neumann’s crypto comeback company is reportedly refunding investors [490d]
• Amazon starts testing ads in its Rufus chatbot [491d]
• LineLeap lets users pay to skip the line at bars [491d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [491d]
• OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise at $150B valuation [491d]
• These sub-1mm robots morph and crawl with an electric zap [491d]
• YouTube Shorts’ collaborative Add Yours sticker is now available to all users [491d]
• Bluesky catches up to X with native support for video [491d]
• Taylor Swift cites ‘fears around AI’ as she endorses the Democratic ticket [491d]
• Mark Zuckerberg says he’s done apologizing [491d]
• This Week in AI: OpenAI’s new Strawberry model may be smart, yet sluggish [491d]
• Media talent app HUSSLUP shuts down as workers in Hollywood continue to face job slowdown [491d]
• Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud [491d]
• TechCrunch Minute: Why this entrepreneur is running the Oakland Ballers like a startup [491d]
• Apple’s newly available ‘win-back’ offers let developers reach lapsed subscribers [491d]
• Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri [491d]
• Fearless Fund is shutting down its contested Strivers Grant program [491d]
• Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content [491d]
• Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year [491d]
• Connectly, now backed by Alibaba, taps AI to personalize text messages to customers [491d]
• Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies [491d]
• Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources [491d]
• Mistral releases Pixtral, its first multimodal model [491d]
• Chrome wants to make sure your tabs and groups are accessible across devices [491d]
• Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt [491d]
• InMobi secures $100 million for AI acquisitions ahead of IPO [491d]
• Sergey Brin says he’s working on AI at Google ‘pretty much every day’ [491d]