The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin [84d]
• Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR [84d]
• Apple’s executive shake-up continues with departures of general counsel and policy head [84d]
• Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors [84d]
• Musk says new Tesla software allows texting and driving, which is illegal in most states [84d]
• From the NFL to Startup Battlefield: How Alltroo built a brand that wins [84d]
• Celebrity Co-Founders Not Required: Building Influence from Scratch [84d]
• Legal AI startup Harvey confirms $8B valuation [84d]
• Sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa had direct access to government espionage victims, researchers say [84d]
• Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft launch on December 10 [84d]
• California’s ban on self-driving trucks could soon be over [84d]
• Why Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher thinks VCs and storytelling go hand-in-hand [84d]
• Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant [84d]
• Amazon reportedly considering dropping USPS and building a competing postal service [84d]
• TikTok rolls out a ‘Nearby’ feed to display local content in select countries [84d]
• Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30% [84d]
• Spotify says Wrapped 2025 is its biggest yet, with 200M+ users in its first day [84d]
• Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake’s customers [84d]
• EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp [84d]
• AI finds its way into Apple’s top apps of the year [84d]
• Nexus isn’t going all-in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups [84d]
• Gemini was Google’s top trending search term in 2025 [84d]
• New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants [85d]
• Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer [85d]