The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• AI helps Telegram remove 15 million suspect groups and channels in 2024 [382d]
• Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment [382d]
• G2 Ventures Partners is raising $750 million for a third fund [382d]
• Databricks is on track to raise a record $9.5+ billion round at $60B valuation [382d]
• Exxon can’t resist the AI power gold rush [382d]
• UnitedHealthcare’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet [382d]
• What failed before might succeed now — or fail again — and other startup bets [382d]
• See what Google’s Project Astra AR glasses can do (for a select few beta testers) [382d]
• OpenAI fires back against Musk, claims he wanted an OpenAI for-profit [382d]
• The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 [382d]
• Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting [382d]
• EVgo secures $1.25B loan amid Biden’s rush to approve clean energy loans [382d]
• Google’s NotebookLM now lets you talk to its AI podcast hosts [382d]
• The federal crash-reporting rule Tesla opposes could be on the chopping block [382d]
• OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos [382d]
• Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model [382d]
• Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are the latest billionaires to donate $1M to Trump fund [382d]
• Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises [382d]
• OpenAI blames its massive ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’ [382d]
• How 21-year-old Koko Xs became the new rising-star solo VC [382d]
• Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment [382d]
• Controversial EU ad campaign on X broke bloc’s own privacy rules [382d]
• Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders [382d]
• WhatsApp lets you select specific people within a group to start a group call without disturbing anyone [382d]
• New Syndicate One fund joins Belgium’s small-but-punchy tech ecosystem [382d]
• As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack [383d]
• Texas AG is investigating Character.AI, other platforms over child safety concerns [383d]
• Microsoft launches Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview [383d]
• Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos [383d]