The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Superman is a box office hit, but the hard part comes next [24d]
• Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode [24d]
• Bose is offering an extra 25% off refurbished headphones, earbuds, and portable speakers [24d]
• Tesla’s Autopilot is under scrutiny in a rare jury trial [24d]
• Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare [24d]
• US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident [24d]
• Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs [24d]
• HBO’s new Harry Potter series will premiere in 2027 [24d]
• These are Sony’s new noise-canceling headphones for NFL coaches [24d]
• Pebblebee’s AirTag alternative now doubles as a panic alarm [24d]
• Every Best Buy store will have Nintendo Switch 2 consoles on July 17th [24d]
• Microsoft has a new trick to improve laptop battery life on Windows [24d]
• Google’s Pixel 8 Pro is $599, and includes a free Pixel Watch 2 [24d]
• Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release [24d]
• How AI can make us better decision-makers, with Cassie Kozyrkov [24d]
• A Donkey Kong movie is a safe bet for Nintendo’s growing entertainment empire [24d]
• Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026 [24d]
• Wordpilled slangmaxxing: how incel language infected the mainstream internet — and brought its toxicity with it [24d]
• Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers? [25d]
• Now Jack Dorsey has built an app to track your vitamin D [25d]
• Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’ [25d]