The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a ‘warrior class’ excited to enact ‘violence on others in pursuit of good aims’ [469d]
• Impulse bets shuttling satellites between orbits is big business, and raises $150M to scale up [469d]
• A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs [469d]
• A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild [469d]
• Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers [469d]
• Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma [469d]
• Direct ocean capture may be the next frontier for carbon removal [469d]
• OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers [469d]
• Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers [469d]
• Aspect Build gets $3.85M to help developers create software with Bazel [469d]
• Runware uses custom hardware and advanced orchestration for fast AI inference [469d]
• Acceleron Fusion has raised $15M to take another stab at cold fusion, filing reveals [469d]
• Microsoft HoloLens 2 discontinued with no successor in sight [469d]
• The complete agenda for the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [469d]
• Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [469d]
• Numa raises $32M to bring AI and automation to car dealerships [469d]
• How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death [469d]
• Ford cuts price of BlueCruise hands-free driving feature [469d]
• Serve Robotics and Wing to trial robot-to-drone delivery in Dallas [469d]
• Croissant debuts cross-posting app for Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon [469d]
• Microsoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you [469d]
• Microsoft brings AI-powered overviews to Bing [469d]
• Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot [469d]
• UK unmasks LockBit ransomware affiliate as high-ranking hacker in Russia state-backed cybercrime gang [469d]
• eBay removes UK seller fees to counter new wave of marketplace startups [469d]
• Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested. [469d]
• Google adds a multi-functional quick insert key and new AI features to Chromebook Plus [469d]
• Sonos outlines turnaround plan following app disaster [469d]
• Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure [469d]
• Air Doctor raised $20M to plug a gap in how people find doctors when they’re travelling [469d]
• Sequoia backs Pydantic to expand beyond its open source data-validation framework [470d]
• Invesco raises its valuation of Swiggy to $13.3B [470d]
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained [470d]
• Anduril speeds up launch of defense payloads by buying Apex satellite buses off the shelf [470d]
• Tier becomes Dott following the merger of the two micromobility companies [470d]
• Meta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos [470d]
• Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup [470d]