The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Adobe Animate is shutting down next month [74d]
• Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’ [74d]
• Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X) [74d]
• Will Elon Musk’s emails with Jeffrey Epstein derail his very important year? [74d]
• Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China [74d]
• Ikea’s next cheap Bluetooth speaker is a playful purple mouse [74d]
• Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off [74d]
• Crunchyroll is raising prices again [74d]
• Amazon’s desk-friendly Echo Show 8 is down to its lowest price ever [74d]
• Raspberry Pi is raising prices again as memory shortages continue [74d]
• Jeffrey Epstein arranged a meeting with Tim Cook for the former head of Windows [74d]
• Former Windows 8 boss recruited Epstein to help negotiate his messy Microsoft exit [74d]
• Abxylute’s new Switch 2 controller is for all the die-hard GameCube fans [74d]
• The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for her) [74d]
• Sony’s last-gen, but still great 1000XM5 are cheaper than ever [74d]
• OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent [74d]
• The Epstein files [74d]
• Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts [74d]
• Dragon Quest gets another great remake that’s perfect for newcomers [74d]
• Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men [74d]
• Now anyone can tap Ring doorbells to search for lost dogs [74d]
• Vivo and Oppo’s telephoto extender comes to iPhone [74d]
• The tragedy of Supernatural [75d]