The Brutalist Report

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• Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers [15d]
• Amazon acquires Bee, the AI wearable that records everything you say [15d]
• OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services [15d]
• Rocket Lab’s first hurdle to flying its new rocket is getting it to the pad [15d]
• iOS 26 beta 4 arrives, with Liquid Glass tweaks and AI news summaries [15d]
• Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators [15d]
• Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’-branded products [15d]
• UK government wants ransomware victims to report breaches so it can carry out ‘targeted disruptions’ against hackers [15d]
• National security meets next-gen tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025’s AI Defense panel [16d]
• User privacy app Cloaked adds AI-powered caller screening [16d]
• Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day [16d]
• On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How AI is forcing late-stage startups to rewire GTM — or be left behind [16d]
• VSCO’s iPhone camera app is now available globally [16d]
• 21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight [16d]
• Telegram’s crypto wallet launches in the US [16d]
• Betaworks’ third fund closes at $66M to invest in early-stage AI startups [16d]
• Lucid Air owners will soon be able to use Tesla Superchargers — but there’s a catch [16d]
• Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel [16d]
• Lucid Air owners will be able to use Tesla Superchargers from July 31 [16d]
• Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive [16d]
• This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents [16d]
• Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup [16d]
• Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B [16d]
• Latent Labs launches web-based AI model to democratize protein design [16d]
• Instead of selling to Meta, AI chip startup FuriosaAI signed a huge customer [16d]
• Tesla’s retro-futuristic diner officially opens as Elon Musk hints at more locations [16d]
• OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other [16d]