The Brutalist Report

Venturebeat

• 'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra [7d]
• China-linked hackers backdoored executives' laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren't using [7d]
• Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yet [7d]
• The AI visibility gap: Why great brands disappear from AI answers [7d]
• Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed [7d]
• Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities [8d]