The Brutalist Report

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David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic) [34d]
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka "Rey," was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach (Reuters) [34d]
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize "original content" and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) [34d]
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [34d]
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times) [34d]
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM (Howard Liu/South China Morning Post) [34d]
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) [34d]
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture "frontline intelligence" (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [34d]
Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M (Meir Orbach/CTech) [35d]
Sources: TSMC is exploring plans to work with Elon Musk's Terafab project as it mulls a presence in Texas, adding to its existing plans to expand in Arizona (Tim Culpan/Culpium) [35d]
Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) [35d]
Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [35d]
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of "indiscriminate mass surveillance", and violated the Fourth Amendment (Jason Koebler/404 Media) [35d]
Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) [35d]