The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI startup [40d]
• Responsible compounding could close the innovation gap [40d]
• The path to future U.S. innovators starts with K–12 robotics [40d]
• What our time-management styles say about productivity and gender [40d]
• Millennials don’t want to quit. They want to get laid off [40d]
• Robinhood joins the high-fee premium credit card race with an invite-only Platinum offering [40d]
• In recovery? Here’s how to handle social drinking situations in the workplace [40d]
• Meta CEO Zuckerberg takes issue with the word ‘addictive’ in deposition shown at landmark trial [40d]
• Kroger joins Trader Joe’s in recall of rice products: Growing fears of glass fragments spark dramatic expansion [40d]
• NYSE stock exchange operator partners with OKX to launch crypto futures and tokens [40d]
• AI in education requires national strategy [40d]
• Generational conflict is costing sales organizations an estimated $56 billion in lost productivity annually [40d]
• Social Security is making big changes—including one this weekend. Here’s the good and bad news for benefits recipients [40d]
• James Talarico’s vintage-print-inspired type signals a new political landscape [40d]
• Tai Chi walking: Why ’meditation in motion’ has taken over TikTok [40d]
• How to get funded in 2026 if you’re not an AI startup in San Francisco [40d]
• The quarry that built modern Beijing gets a surprising second life [40d]
• This specialty license plate is a design fail. Can you spot why? [40d]
• ‘We just have to experiment faster’: AI’s changed design forever. Now what? [40d]
• AI is changing how people use AT&T home internet—and helping stabilize the network [40d]
• The architectural sketch is back [40d]
• The Pentagon-Anthropic feud is quietly obscuring the real fight over military AI [40d]
• The new Galaxy S26 Ultra isn’t much to shout about [40d]
• A rejected candidate keeps demanding to know why I didn’t hire him [40d]
• The agent boom is splitting the workforce in two [40d]
• 16 phrases to never use in a job interview—and what to say instead [40d]
• Why I take founders on a 3-mile hike before writing a check [40d]
• Is it time to update your career goals? (And if so, how?) [40d]
• ‘Take that break’: Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu on the power of quitting [41d]
• Systems design and the semantic revolution [41d]
• Why forward-looking organizations apply a design lens [41d]
• What this Texas Republican primary revealed about the politics of AI data centers [41d]
• Your brand is only as strong as the leaders who carry it [41d]
• Can an AI chatbot be held responsible for a user’s death? A lawsuit against Google’s Gemini is about to test that [41d]
• Trump assaulted renewable energy. Now America is more vulnerable to Iran fossil fuel shocks [41d]
• ‘A threat to the survival of the planet’: Insider trading fears rise over Polymarket nuclear war market [41d]
• Report: These 20 companies are paying poverty wages [41d]
• Sportsman’s Warehouse may close stores after identifying a list of underperforming locations [41d]
• This Block employee survived the ‘Thanos snap’—then refused a 90% pay bump and quit immediately. Why her explanation is going viral [41d]
• ‘It’s a ‘Prove it’ story’: Target’s new CEO outlines a plan to win back customer trust [41d]
• Trump’s MAGA base splits as leading media figures criticize the war in Iran [41d]
• U.S. and European stocks rebound as oil prices retreat despite escalating war with Iran [41d]
• ‘A result of hanging in there’: How Delroy Lindo, 73, received his first Oscar nomination [41d]
• Elon Musk to testify in Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of deflating stock before $44 billion purchase [41d]
• The MacBook Neo is Apple’s take on the Nike Dunk [41d]
• TikTok won’t use end-to-end encryption, citing harm to users [41d]
• How Iran built such a formidable cyberwar machine [41d]