The Brutalist Report

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• Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post) [41d]
• Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) [41d]
• A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [41d]
• Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [41d]
• Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it (Reuters) [41d]
• Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) [41d]
• Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [41d]
• Sources: Monzo is in talks to be acquired by Nubank parent Nu Holdings in a deal valuing it at £8B-£10B; Monzo also discussed selling a ~15% stake to PE firms (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times) [41d]
• The US and China create a "Super Intelligence Dialogue" on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era "red telephone" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios) [41d]
• Walmart CEO John Furner says the company won't use its AI shopping assistant or electronic shelf labels to change product prices based on a shopper's identity (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times) [41d]