The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work [31d]
• Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run [31d]
• Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal [31d]
• Motorola’s wild-looking Signature 27 runs Qualcomm’s new Extreme chipset [31d]
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too [31d]
• Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras [31d]
• Score free Pixel Buds 2A when you preorder a Googlebook at Best Buy [31d]
• Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad [31d]
• San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts [31d]
• Apple is reportedly working on a Whoop-like fitness tracker [31d]
• Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta [31d]
• Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity [31d]
• Rivian’s R2 beat its own climate goals four years early [31d]
• Trump says US is officially renaming AI ‘super intelligence’ [31d]
• Xbox is barely Xbox anymore [31d]
• Xbox is merging its Forza developers into a single studio [31d]
• Microsoft is laying off 268 Xbox staffers and Ninja Theory may close [31d]
• Activision is taking over Halo as part of a massive Xbox shake-up [31d]
• The Beats 360 are what I’d bring to the gym if I hated earbuds [32d]
• ‘Trump TV’ is just reruns of the president on YouTube [32d]
• These discreet hearing aid glasses now have better voice boosting and battery life [32d]
• Waymo is offering transit discounts again, this time with Visa [32d]
• Oppo’s new phone is the first with three 200-megapixel cameras [32d]
• Peloton is back with a ‘cheaper’ folding treadmill [32d]
• It’s time for the Mac Neo [32d]
• Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent [32d]
• Can you forget how you feel about Meta? [32d]
• Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters [32d]