The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• ‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park [28d]
• Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users [28d]
• Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep [29d]
• Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts [29d]
• After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering [29d]
• OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT [29d]
• Twitch starts testing vertical video streams [29d]
• Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads [29d]
• Rivian restarting work on its Georgia factory, emails show [29d]
• Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more [29d]
• Hackers are trying to steal passwords and sensitive data from users of Signal clone [29d]
• Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge [29d]
• Zuckerberg and Meta investors reach settlement in $8B privacy case [29d]
• Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode [29d]
• Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M [29d]
• North Korean hackers blamed for record spike in crypto thefts in 2025 [29d]
• Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members for the first time [29d]
• UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold [29d]
• Uber makes multimillion-dollar investment in Lucid and Nuro to build a premium robotaxi service [29d]
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch [29d]
• Slack bolsters search with AI, adds transcriptions and summaries for huddles [29d]
• Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech [29d]
• TikTok lures songwriters with new promotional features [29d]
• Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media [29d]
• Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles [29d]