The Brutalist Report

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• A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and its testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was mainly a research effort (Business Insider) [27d]
• Sources: several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) [27d]
• Source: Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; Tenstorrent discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation last year (The Information) [27d]
• OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool for prompting multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can achieve "Fable-level intelligence at half the price" (Brian Thomas/OpenRouter Blog) [27d]
• SpaceX stock closed up 19.6% on Monday, its first full day of trading; Musk said it "might be able to reach" around $1T revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) [27d]
• Meta launches new AI features, including an "AI Mode" for search that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts across the platform (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) [27d]
• Arcade, which helps companies manage which actions AI agents are authorized to take, raised a $60M Series A led by SYN Ventures, following a $12M seed in 2025 (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal) [27d]
• A US judge dismisses xAI's lawsuit alleging OpenAI stole trade secrets, saying xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former xAI engineer to divulge trade secrets (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [27d]