The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Square’s big comeback: AI, Bitcoin, and the neighborhood next door [25d]
• Gen Z ‘translators’ promise to connect brands with elusive younger customers [25d]
• OpenAI’s Sora used to make deepfake AI videos of dead celebrities, outraging their families [25d]
• YouTube opens the door to banned creators—again [25d]
• Trump’s promised 100% tariff on China is escalating the trade war to new, turbulent levels [25d]
• This week in business: cold fronts, cool stores, and a hot mess in Washington [25d]
• This new law solves a longstanding sound design problem: ads that are way too loud [25d]
• Furloughed? Here are 5 things you should do right away [25d]
• Housing markets where deals are emerging as homebuilder inventory piles up to 16-year high [25d]
• Starlink satellites are already falling, and it will only get worse [25d]
• I asked chatbots to find me cheap flights over the holidays. The results were mixed [25d]
• AI isn’t just for productivity: It’s for human connection [25d]
• Markets and crypto are down today. Why these stocks are an unusual exception [26d]
• Move from reactive to proactive customer service [26d]
• Your Google ratings are ESG in action [26d]
• Former Syrian president Assad is video gaming in a luxury Moscow apartment: report [26d]
• GLP-1s are reshaping bodies and budgets [26d]
• The holy grail of modern marketing [26d]
• 4 ways to make a brand indispensable [26d]
• Heard kids saying ‘6-7’? It’s so annoying that schools are banning it [26d]