The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider [339d]
• Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI [340d]
• Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers [340d]
• Startup founders flooded inauguration parties hopeful for dealmaking [340d]
• Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes: report [340d]
• Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search [340d]
• Trump targets EV charging funding programs Tesla benefits from [340d]
• Govtech giant Conduent won’t rule out cyberattack as outage drags on [340d]
• OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $50B data center project [340d]
• Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US [340d]
• Trump moves to sink offshore wind [340d]
• Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses, content deals, free verification [340d]
• Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace [340d]
• Stripe is laying off 300 people, but says it still plans to hire in 2025 [340d]
• Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse [340d]
• Samsung Unpacked 2025: Here’s how to watch and what we expect [340d]
• Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook [340d]
• IMDb founder steps down as CEO after 35 years [340d]
• Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude [340d]
• UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI [340d]
• Mistral AI plans IPO [340d]
• Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach [340d]
• Qomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers [340d]
• HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data [340d]
• MoneyHash, which provides single access to payment services in MENA, banks $5.2M [340d]
• Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products [340d]
• President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official [340d]
• Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days [340d]
• President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order [340d]
• UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy [340d]