The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPO [13m]
• China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang [59m]
• Starlink Mobile: All the news on SpaceX’s major mobile carrier ambitions [1h]
• Shure’s popular podcasting and streaming mic is almost $50 off [4h]
• Lame-duck Congress might actually do something: speed up energy projects [5h]
• Meta’s Muse AI can create custom ‘spaces’ for the version of the app you need right now [5h]
• Amazon is now making a Melania Trump TV series [6h]
• Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses [6h]
• Kobo will soon let you upload and sync your own ebooks across devices, for a price [6h]
• The iPhone Duo has more than 100,000 optimized apps, Apple says [6h]
• AI is the new dating dealbreaker [7h]
• Meta’s refurbished Quest 3S headset is nearly $100 off right now [7h]
• Big Tech lost big in the 2026 election [7h]
• How Akai and Moog are embracing vibe-coded mods [7h]
• This see-through camera lets photographers maintain eye contact with their subjects [8h]
• KPop Demon Hunters on 4K Blu-ray costs less than a month of Netflix Premium [8h]
• Apple has a secret list of banned autocomplete phrases including ‘dictator Trump’ and ‘covid is a hoax’ [8h]
• Fox bought Roku [8h]
• The Verge’s 2026 holiday gift guide [9h]
• Stranger Things is getting a live-action spinoff called Other Worlds [9h]
• TikTok’s For You page needs to change, says the EU [9h]
• Amazon will let you text Alexa your shopping list [10h]
• How Remedy designed Control Resonant’s wildest mission: ‘Anything kind of goes’ [11h]
• I’ve reviewed almost every Android foldable this year — here’s how the iPhone Duo compares [11h]
• After printing 40,000 whistles, this is the 3D printer I’d buy [12h]
• The Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screens [12h]
• Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam [12h]
• Tesla is ‘winding down’ production of the Cybertruck next year [13h]
• OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects [23h]
• Airbnb is working on an AI travel agent [23h]