The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally [19d]
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space [19d]
• China is leading the fight against hidden car door handles [19d]
• Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI [19d]
• Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide [19d]
• What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race [19d]
• Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features [19d]
• Grubhub waives delivery and service fees on restaurant orders over $50 [19d]
• OpenAI launches new MacOS app for agentic coding [19d]
• Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months [19d]
• Ring brings its ‘Search Party’ feature for finding lost dogs to non-Ring camera owners [19d]
• Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants [19d]
• Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content [19d]
• UpScrolled’s founder says the social network has zoomed past 2.5M users [20d]
• Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps [20d]
• These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings [20d]
• TikTok says its services are restored after the outage [20d]