The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Halide co-founder Sebastiaan de With is joining Apple’s design team [25d]
• Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on AI as the new social media [25d]
• Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10 [25d]
• Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots [25d]
• Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome [25d]
• Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon [25d]
• Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines [25d]
• Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of losses [25d]
• YouTube’s top AI slop channels are disappearing [25d]
• I used Claude to vibe-code my wildly overcomplicated smart home [25d]
• The entry-level Samsung Galaxy Buds FE are on sale for $30 off right now [25d]
• A ‘rogue Waymo’ that crashed into a parked car was being manually driven. [25d]
• Spotify says it paid out $11 billion in royalties in 2025 [25d]
• Process Zero II will let you do a little processing, if you want [25d]