The Brutalist Report

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• Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS) [40d]
• OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI) [40d]
• Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC) [40d]
• Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times) [40d]