The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago [100d]
• X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns [100d]
• This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhone near you [100d]
• AI is coming for collectibles next [100d]
• Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards [100d]
• This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it even more potential [100d]
• Did you know that Gmail has emoji reactions? [100d]
• Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City [100d]
• The latest on Grok’s problem with gross AI deepfakes [100d]
• Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bill Gates’ startup [100d]
• Black Mirror has been renewed for another season [100d]
• I can’t find the Trump phone at America’s largest tech show [100d]
• The first sets with Lego’s new Smart Brick are now available for preorder [100d]
• Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing [100d]
• Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores [100d]
• Anker’s new AeroFit Pro 2 earbuds are already $30 off [100d]
• You can break apart and share this 10K power bank like a KitKat bar [100d]
• CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids [100d]
• The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: What is the point of a robot that falls over? [100d]
• Kia’s EV2 is its smallest and most affordable EV for Europe [100d]
• All the tech trends we saw at CES 2026 [100d]
• No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature [100d]
• Reality still matters [100d]
• The Verge Awards at CES 2026 [100d]
• Microsoft is making it much easier to add hyperlinks in Word docs [100d]
• Xbox’s Towerborne is switching from a free-to-play game to a paid one [101d]