The Brutalist Report - techmeme
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- Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms (Aisha Down/The Guardian) [7d]
- Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms (Marcel Thee/Nikkei Asia) [7d]
- How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal) [7d]
- A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays (Financial Times) [7d]
- How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times) [7d]
- Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more (Jason Hiner/The Deep View) [7d]
- Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago (Bloomberg) [7d]
- A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs (Robert P Baird/The Guardian) [8d]
- Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg) [8d]
- Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (Duc Dao/TNGlobal) [8d]
- Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) [8d]
- Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a $55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to $75M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit) [8d]
- Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement (Gene Maddaus/Variety) [8d]
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