The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year [50d]
• Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole [50d]
• Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump [50d]
• Google would like you to study with Gemini instead of cheat with it [50d]
• Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan after pressure from Donald Trump [50d]
• WB Games’ best PC titles are in this $12 Humble bundle [50d]
• The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [50d]
• OpenAI teases GPT-5 launch event this Thursday [50d]
• OpenAI teases GPT-5 launch event this Thursday [50d]
• I tested Grok’s Valentine sex chatbot and it (mostly) behaved [50d]
• Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search [50d]
• Bose’s stylish SoundLink Home speaker is cheaper for the first time in months [50d]
• Call of Duty’s PC anti-cheat will require Secure Boot on Windows [50d]
• Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Copilot to the Windows Game Bar [50d]
• Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters [50d]
• Welcome to Regulator [50d]
• Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world [50d]
• The Switch OLED went up in price, but you can still save $110 [50d]
• A ‘unified’ Disney Plus could be the end of Hulu’s app [51d]
• Sonos’ smart assistant is expanding from music to home control [51d]
• Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps [51d]
• AI could turn your town nuclear [51d]
• Jeff Buckley died young but is immortalized in a new documentary [51d]
• Disney will stop reporting its streaming subscriber numbers [51d]
• ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month [51d]
• Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips [51d]
• Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows [51d]
• Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw [51d]