The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (Jen Judson/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service) [4d]
- Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [4d]
- Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [4d]
- DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters) [4d]
- Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [4d]
- Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [4d]
- Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes) [4d]
- Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge) [4d]
- Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 11%+ (Neil J Kanatt/Reuters) [4d]
- Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (Axios) [4d]
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- 'Not just an aircraft': US Navy MQ-25 Stingray drone hit a major milestone with maiden flight — largest US UAV ever built set to become world's first autonomous tanker to take flight from an aircraft carrier and maybe feature in a Top Gun movie one day [4d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #1564) [4d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #1061) [4d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #795) [4d]
- Vine is coming back, and it’s being relaunched by the guy who killed it — say hello to Jack Dorsey’s Divine, a TikTok and Instagram Stories rival with a ferocious ambition to end AI slop [4d]
- North Korean hackers target gamers with trojanized platform - here's what to look out for [4d]
- This foldable, futuristic neck massager will heat your aching muscles and talk to you while it does so — yes, really [4d]
- 'Putting the whole Earth into a computer’: Chinese scientists use supercomputers to solve one of Yellowstone’s most enduring volcanic mysteries — and now want to create a digital twin of our planet to predict its future [4d]
- ‘AI capabilities that did not exist at the time’: Delayed Siri features have cost Apple a massive $250 million, and iPhone users could get up to $95 per device [4d]
- AMD's CEO predicts 'higher memory and component costs' later this year — so brace yourself for Radeon GPU price hikes [4d]
- 'Change in technology that will reshape medicine': Leading medical experts say new AI reasoning models are so good they outperform even the best specialist doctors when it comes to diagnosing some of the world's most mysterious cases [4d]
- Tesla recalls all of its ‘budget’ Cybertrucks over fears that the wheels might fall off [4d]
- Tired of blurry pictures from your video doorbell? Blink just launched its first doorbell with 2K video — and it's only $50 [4d]
- How to watch M.I.A. from anywhere in the world – stream the new show from Ozark creator online [4d]
- I asked ChatGPT for the best TV to watch the World Cup — and it’s actually spot on [4d]
- Experts warn 'evolving AI is like an invasive species — it adapts to survive in ways we cannot predict': A new study says unchecked models are a risk to humanity, as it’s inevitable for autonomous systems to follow the path of Darwinian evolution [4d]
- Apple removes more Mac mini and Mac Studio models from sale, as CEO Tim Cook warns it 'may take several months to reach supply demand balance' [4d]
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- AI agents becoming more relevant than humans by 2035 has Big Tech 'terrified', says Hoskinson [4d]
- Grant Cardone says bitcoin-real estate strategy could outperform REITs, adds more BTC to treasury [4d]
- Nasdaq's president says the SEC’s new crypto stance is letting markets 'build' again [4d]
- Wall Street's clearinghouse seeks 'high-performance' blockchains to tokenize corporate actions [4d]
- Crypto’s mainstream moment has arrived, say industry leaders speaking at Consensus Miami [4d]
- Bitcoin’s post-quantum migration will be harder than Taproot and needs to start now, Project Eleven CEO says [4d]
- Reid Hoffman says NFTs may make a comeback as AI agents strain online identity [4d]
- Spot Bitcoin ETFs solved access, but custody, advisors and plumbing still lag, panelists say [4d]
- U.S. Bitcoin Reserve update coming in 'next few weeks," White House adviser says [4d]
- White House targets July 4 for Clarity Act passage, says crypto adviser Patrick Witt [4d]
- Dominance of Tether and Circle is a net bad for stablecoins, says Bridge executive [4d]
- Anthropic signs Elon Musk's SpaceX for Colossus 1 compute ahead of June IPO [4d]
- Eric Trump takes shot at JPMorgan rethinking bitcoin after 'crapping' on asset [4d]
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