The Brutalist Report

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Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico) [15d]
Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing (Semafor) [15d]
Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Bloomberg) [15d]
How AI-native law firms use "management services organisation" structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds (Stephen Foley/Financial Times) [15d]
Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active "predictors" aged 18-34 (Mike Isaac/New York Times) [15d]
AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged (Catherine Perloff/The Information) [15d]
Oracle's stock fell 19% this week, the steepest weekly drop since a 20% plunge in August 2001, amid concerns about its debt load and AI investments (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [15d]
The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers (Bloomberg) [16d]
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets (OpenAI) [16d]
Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [16d]
Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [16d]
Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used "mind-blowing" encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B (New York Times) [16d]
OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [16d]
GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI) [16d]