The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly halts merger talks with Paramount Global. So what happens now? [538d]
• The gross reason Family Dollar’s Arkansas warehouse earned the largest-ever food-safety fine of $42 million [538d]
• Macy’s will add 150 locations to its list of closing stores as sales decline [538d]
• Under Elon Musk, X is denying API access to academics who study misinformation [538d]
• Rent-to-own appliance king Aaron’s Company’s stock plunges on big earnings miss [538d]
• Can Loft Dynamics’ VR Flight Simulator help solve America’s pilot shortage? [538d]
• Why Essence just revived its 50-year-old logo [538d]
• How to run your business when the only constant is change [538d]
• Wendy’s wants to bring Uber-like surge pricing to your burgers as it tests AI-powered menus [538d]
• Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people [538d]
• I worked with an AI productivity coach and mostly just found it annoying [538d]
• How Gap’s latest ad campaign starring Tyla signals the brand’s new strategy under CEO Richard Dickson [539d]
• How to ask in a job interview if a company is going to have layoffs [539d]
• Today’s top business headlines: Microsoft’s new AI partner, AT&T’s outage fallout, Amazon’s blue-chip stock [539d]
• Confusing new LA Clippers logo is what happens when logos try to do too much [539d]
• A new TikTok meme has workers venting their corporate frustrations [539d]
• Alabama’s IVF ruling is the latest challenge for women’s health-tech startups in the post-‘Roe’ era [539d]
• This is what it would look like if Nike made a home-renovation commercial [539d]
• This fabric recycling company was going to change fashion. Why did it suddenly go bankrupt? [539d]
• Redfin: Boomers aging in place are ‘the driving force’ doubling homeowner tenure and keeping housing inventory turnover low [539d]
• What one longtime design editor learned about the power of transferrable skills [539d]
• This small wooden cube is actually a satellite that’s being sent to space [539d]
• California’s billionaire-funded city is now going to include a billionaire-funded train [539d]
• How (and why) you should let go of pet peeves [539d]
• J. Crew wants to turn your old swimsuits into new ones [539d]
• Why Floorp has become the browser of my dreams [539d]