The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Google’s annual revenue tops $400 billion for the first time [17d]
• Senators grill Waymo and Tesla over robotaxi safety, liability, and China [17d]
• Nintendo’s new Virtual Boy is more fun to look at than to play [17d]
• Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads [17d]
• This Town, 2.0 [17d]
• Ikea’s cheap new smart home gear is struggling to get connected [17d]
• OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare [17d]
• I was detained by federal agents in Minneapolis [17d]
• Apple TV details its 2026 streaming lineup with big list of announcements [17d]
• Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security [17d]
• Google’s Pixel 10A will be revealed on February 18th [17d]
• Fallout’s season 2 finale left plenty unanswered as it expanded in scope [17d]
• GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents [17d]
• Roblox calls its take on AI world models ‘real-time dreaming’ [17d]
• ‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market [17d]
• The 14-inch, ARM-based Asus Vivobook is half off today [17d]
• The Verge’s 2026 Valentine’s Day gift guide (for him) [17d]
• I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US [17d]
• Spotify launches offline lyrics, translations, and lyric previews [17d]
• Amazon rolls out Alexa Plus nationwide and launches a new free tier [17d]
• Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy [18d]
• Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT [18d]
• Sen. Warren wants to know what Google Gemini’s built-in checkout means for user privacy [18d]