The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense) [1d]
- Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges (Pritam Biswas/Reuters) [1d]
- SentinelOne's stock closes down 8% after the company announced plans to lay off 8% of its workforce and forecasted Q2 and FY revenue guidance below estimates (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [1d]
- Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [1d]
- Hands-on with Gemini Spark beta rolling out to AI Ultra subs: planned a birthday party from emails and calendar, but called a live-in boyfriend a "close friend" (Reece Rogers/Wired) [1d]
- US Space Force says SpaceX won a $4.16B contract to build a space-based tracking network as part of President Trump's Golden Dome defensive shield (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg) [1d]
- What to expect at Computex 2026: AI chips, budget PCs competing with the MacBook Neo, Nvidia entering laptop SoC market with the rumored N1X chip, and more (PCMag) [1d]
- Sources: Microsoft is working on an app that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic workflow tool called Autopilot (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune) [1d]
- ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, which it says preserves the original speaker's emotion, tone, and pacing across 90+ languages while staying synced to content (ElevenLabs) [1d]
- Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech) [1d]
- After hitting their annual AI budget in months or seeing their AI bills double or triple due to "tokenmaxxing", some companies are rationing or tracking AI use (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios) [1d]
- A BBC Question Time episode featured a panel with AI-generated historical figures like Churchill, intended to show AI images' "hyper-real and persuasive" nature (Holly Bishop/The Independent) [1d]
- Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost (The Information) [1d]
- AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge) [1d]
- Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology (Reuters) [2d]
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- NASA reveals more on its moon base plans — and it seems the astronauts might have to assemble it all themselves, like a load of IKEA furniture [1d]
- Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think" — advice on upskilling for the future [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 30 (game #1587) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, May 30 (game #1084) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 30 (game #818) [1d]
- AMD's rival to Nvidia's GB10 AI workstation is set to go on preorder in days, but is it too little too late? [1d]
- Could Microsoft kill the web browser at Build? Everything developers need to know about the NLWeb Protocol [1d]
- 'Just imagine what could get done' — How this US startup is building a 'cheap' fab-in-a-box to do for microchips what IBM did for PCs [1d]
- 'Our ability to achieve orbital AI at scale depends on our ability to access a sufficient number of AI chips, significantly more than are currently available to us': SpaceX admits that getting data centers in space may fall short due to a lack of chips [1d]
- Want great coffee, fast? I'm a trained barista, and these are my top 4 capsule coffee makers from Nespresso, Keurig, and more [1d]
- 'Built around volcanic materials' — Turkish startup wants to make billion-dollar radar systems near obsolete with cheap spray-in-a-can tech that claims to bring stealth capabilities to low-cost drones [1d]
- 'AI adoption has become a game of chance': Employees are being left to navigate AI tools on their own as businesses fail to implement proper training [1d]
- If you need identity theft protection for $10 per month, this is the deal for you — Norton LifeLock can help secure you against the #1 crime in America [1d]
- MIT scientists make lithium-ion breakthrough that could solve a global battery issue — new low-cost extraction method was inspired by a bathroom renovation project and could reduce reliance on China [1d]
- Lidl launches super-cheap solar balcony battery — as home backups become new energy crisis essential [1d]
- FIFA websites spoofed by hackers ahead of 2026 World Cup, FBI warns [1d]
- The Razer Viper V4 Pro took me back to basics, and you know what? Maybe that's all a gaming mouse should be [1d]
- Wix CEO cites 'fast evolution of AI capabilities' in announcement of 20% workforce cut [1d]
- CD Projekt Red CEO says the studio's 'ambitious' plans for a new Witcher trilogy could mean no expansions for The Witcher 4 — 'It would be difficult, to be very honest' [1d]
- Nintendo quietly launched a new game that's just like WarioWare, and you can try it for free [1d]
- CISA warns that Nx Console and GitHub repositories abused in multiple supply chain compromises – tools across enterprise, cloud, and DevOps environments exploited [1d]
- I made an AI clone of myself based on my Google and Reddit history — and it understood me better than I expected [1d]
- Palantir's 'unlimited access' to patient data — we examine the US tech giant's controversial £330 million contract with the NHS [1d]
- OpenAI just quietly retired the last of the GPT-4 models — and it feels like the end of an AI era [1d]
- A new Fire TV pop-up takes over your entire screen at startup, and it could be the beginning of the end — here’s why users think Amazon could open it up to third-party advertisers [1d]
- "The situation isn’t looking good" — Russia halts VPN fees, but the Kremlin's war against censorship circumvention tools doubles down [1d]
- This compact antivirus protection package is now less than £25 — Norton 360 has everything you need to secure your devices against malware, ransomware, and hacking [1d]
- Carnival cruise operator confirms nearly 6 million people affected in data breach [1d]
- A Russian hacker tricked a 17,000-strong MAGA Telegram channel with a jailbroken AI for over 5 years, leading to fraud, credential theft, and an empty crypto wallet [1d]
- FBI confirms 25 ransomware groups using First VPN’s now seized services — here’s what we know [1d]
- Closing the AI literacy gap is the real gender equalizer in tech [1d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (May 29) [1d]
- EU hits Temu with $232 million fine over sale of illegal products [1d]
- Proton CTO urges the UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late' [1d]
- 82% of IT pros report a web-based security incident in past year – BYOD, SaaS tools, and remote work policies all play a part in security resilience [2d]
- Dutton Ranch episode 4 recap: the most disturbing and heartbreaking ending in the history of all Yellowstone shows — and Taylor Sheridan isn't even behind it [2d]
- Exclusive: Lego just revealed a new Star Wars Sandcrawler set inspired by The Mandalorian [2d]
- CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion was supposed to launch this year, but a delay to 2027 'was the best possible result' [2d]
- EU to talk with Anthropic over access to Mythos AI Model [2d]
- 'A threat to the First Amendment': ABC blasts FCC over 'extraordinary' license change — as Disney-owned network brands it 'a clear warning to every broadcaster in America' [2d]
- Rivals season 2 episode 5 confirms who is running rings around the rest in the hit Hulu and Disney+ show — and why their scandalous dream relationship needs to come true [2d]
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