The Brutalist Report - tech
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- SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) [2d]
- SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role at OpenAI because her medical condition has worsened, and will become a part-time adviser (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [2d]
- Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel (Hannah Lang/Reuters) [2d]
- Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post) [2d]
- Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
- Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [2d]
- The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico) [2d]
- OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [2d]
- GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 (OpenAI) [2d]
- OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios) [2d]
- Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules" and "businesses can't plan" without rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune) [2d]
- Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) [2d]
- Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 in 11 days; the task would've taken three engineers about a year (Jarred Sumner/bun.com) [2d]
- Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses (Ina Fried/Axios) [2d]
- Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge) [2d]
- European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News) [2d]
- Anthropic launches a "reflection" dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users to track Claude usage patterns over 1-, 3-, 6-, or 12-month intervals (Anthropic) [2d]
- Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [2d]
- Micron raises its US capex commitment to $250B through 2035, adding $50B for facilities in NY, ID, VA, and elsewhere, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) [2d]
- PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information) [2d]
- Internal memo: Meta plans to begin production of its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, in September, and aims to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027 (Reuters) [2d]
- India scraps import duties on some parts used to make phones and other devices until March 2029, removing 7.5% and 5% levies, in a move that might help Apple (Nikunj Ohri/Reuters) [2d]
- Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising ~$3.1B in the city's biggest listing in 2026 so far (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in a Series A in 2026, and says agents wrote investment memos (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) [2d]
- World’s largest digital camera weighs 3 tons and will take 7.88 million photos of the sky over 10 years; each is 8GB in size and has a 3200-megapixel resolution [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 10 (game #859) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, July 10 (game #1628) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 10 (game #1125) [2d]
- 75 B-52 strategic bombers set to get gigabit connectivity and a fiber-optic network for their weapons pylons as part of a huge upgrade to keep them going till it reaches almost 100 [2d]
- Quote of the day by NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden on the 'nothing to hide' argument: 'No different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say' [2d]
- YouTuber smashes Guinness World Record for longest drone flight with a huge 261-minute time [2d]
- An electric drone just set a new world air speed record - 434 mph device could be ideal for anti-aircraft interceptor action [2d]
- It's not just about the GPU crunching on an LLM anymore': Apple silicon leader explains why a Mac Mini could be the surprising choice for a machine running all your AI agents [2d]
- I'm a certified barista, and these are the best 3 espresso machines I've tested so far this year — and the only ones genuinely worth your kitchen counter space [2d]
- Meta announces its first data center in Canada — estimated $9 billion 1GW Alberta mega facility sees the AI expansion cross the border [2d]
- The 'spectacular' Bluetti Elite 30 V2 is our favorite budget portable power station — and it just got a powerful price cut for summer [2d]
- How do I know music is more important than clothes? I just moved home and the first thing I set up was my turntable and vinyl stash [2d]
- The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 is 'great value for those that just need a Windows computer' — and Argos just cut the price of this fuss-free business laptop [2d]
- These popular Tenda routers have an unpatched security backdoor which could give hackers access [2d]
- Universal is dropping a twisted new romance movie next month — and it’s perfect for fans of the horror hit Obsession [2d]
- This UnionSine 16TB Desktop Hard Drive deal works out at less than $27 per TB and boasts up to 270MB/s transfer speeds [2d]
- CEOs are being left baffled at the high cost of moving to AI — shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings [2d]
- HP's 16-inch OmniBook 5 laptop with Ryzen AI 7 CPU, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD is nearly half price at Walmart [2d]
- The top 6 back-to-school mini PCs for college and university — as benchmarked by our computing team (and no, they won't wipe out your student loan either) [2d]
- 'All options are on the table, considering the drastic measure already put in place' — Could Microsoft sell Xbox? Analysts say it's too expensive for that, but that it could be dismantled piece by piece [2d]
- Meta’s super-sensing AI glasses are still in the works, and I don’t know if I should be excited or terrified [2d]
- Amazfit Active 3 Premium review — Premium performance, just without the price [2d]
- The Gentlemen season 2 release date will arrive on Netflix just weeks before MobLand season 2 hits Paramount+ — as fans dub September 'Guy Ritchie month' [2d]
- How to watch France vs Morocco: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Kylian Mbappe and Co. set for quarter-final test [2d]
- OpenAI is looking for a 'Subject Matter Expert in Investment Banking' — could ChatGPT be set to replace bankers next? [2d]
- How to watch Big Brother 28: Free Streams & TV Schedule [2d]
- The TechRadar Awards return for 2026, and we're making big changes — nominate your favorite tech products now! [2d]
- DJI drones are saving Mount Everest from being the 'world's highest garbage dump' — FlyCart 100 removes over 10,000kg of waste to save Sherpas from an eight-hour trek across a hazardous icefall [2d]
- Two reasons why you might want to buy the Galaxy Z Fold 7 right now — yes, before the Galaxy Z Fold 8 lands [2d]
- Here are 7 of my favorite laptop deals from the latest Best Buy sale — get up to $700 off HP, Acer, Samsung, and more [2d]
- How to watch the FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-finals: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off times [2d]
- Accenture confirms breach after hacker steals 35GB of source code and other data [2d]
- Asus unveils the 'elite' ROG Raikiri II Pro PC Controller featuring 'competition-grade responsiveness and ultra-low latency' and the Gjallar Gaming Soundbar that boasts 'intuitive cross-platform controls' [2d]
- World Cup 2026 live stream: TV Channels and Fixtures worldwide [2d]
- Smarter, not faster: AI infra’s sobering effect on fiber strategy [2d]
- MobLand season 2 gets September release date as Paramount+ drops 'ruthless' first teaser trailer after controversial Tom Hardy exit drama [2d]
- I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write [2d]
- Japanese telco giant KDDI says 12 million emails exposed in major cyberattack [2d]
- Lenovo’s Ryzen 7 IdeaPad Slim 3 touchscreen laptop is a $655 back-to-school and WFH steal with a $345 price cut at Best Buy right now [2d]
- Nintendo's iOS and Android racer Mario Kart Tour will shut down later this year, with no offline mode planned [2d]
- Sony RX10 V vs Sony Cyber-shot RX10 IV: I love this classic wildlife camera’s upgrades after a nine-year wait, but there’s one big drawback [2d]
- I took over 1,000 shots with the Sony RX10 V across my kid’s sports day, a bird photography trip and more – here’s how Sony’s surprise new superzoom performed [2d]
- Insurance company AssuranceAmerica exposes 6.9 million drivers following major data breach — here's what we know [2d]
- NordVPN expands scam text protection to all Android users worldwide [2d]
- The Alienware AW3426DW is easily the best 34-inch ultrawide OLED I've ever used, and it's made me want to abandon my 45-inch monitor [2d]
- Major second-hand retailer warns loss of physical PlayStation games will mean higher prices for consumers and 'fewer opportunities to shop around' [2d]
- ‘The gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality is widening’ Google Cloud report finds 83% of organizations must overhaul their infrastructure in order to maximize the agentic AI opportunity [2d]
- The EU AI Act deadline has moved, but data lineage can’t wait [2d]
- Got ChatGPT’s new voice mode? Here's how to check — and 5 things you should try first [2d]
- Nextcloud leaks 367K records — European cloud giant exposes staff and clients in major breach [2d]
- Russia drops controversial VPN tax following technical delays and widespread backlash [2d]
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