The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• MAGA hates AI, but Trump agrees with Bernie it might be time for partial government ownership [3h]
• Markets have worst day since October as tech stocks lead the way down, traders lose hope of rate cut [6h]
• Tech stocks lead market bloodbath as fears of Fed rate hikes add to worries about the AI-fueled chip boom petering out [6h]
• The Class of 2026: Meet the 12 companies making their Fortune 500 debut [7h]
• The U.S. is still one of the world’s biggest meat producers. So why are Americans paying so much for beef? [9h]
• As the World Cup draws millions to 11 U.S. cities, measles—not Ebola—may be the biggest concern [9h]
• A Kennedy, Kellyanne Conway’s ex-husband and a former Palantir data scientist debated AI regulation. Welcome to the Manhattan primary [11h]
• Trump says Knicks owner James Dolan invited him to Game 3 of the NBA Finals and he’s going [11h]
• Jamie Dimon called Elon Musk the ‘Edison of our time’ as JPMorgan hosted SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO roadshow—and even invited Musk’s mom [12h]
• AI productivity gains are real but so is bad management: ‘Leaders are really struggling to articulate what the vision and strategy is’ [12h]
• Putin is running out of money to wage war on Ukraine, and this Russian-occupied territory is running out of fuel as Kyiv smashes supply lines [12h]
• The ‘soccer’ vs. ‘football’ war has a 160-Year history — and your snobbish friends are wrong about which one is right [12h]
• The deficit climbing by $3.4 trillion is keeping your mortgage rate at 6.48% — not the Fed [12h]
• Wisconsin governor hails ‘historic’ $10m settlement over forever chemicals but a mayor sees ‘drop in the bucket’ [13h]
• Google forced to allow news sites to opt out of AI scraping in ‘world first,’ UK watchdog says [13h]
• Trump backs down on Bill Pulte after bipartisan Senate revolt [13h]
• DeSantis promised anglers a ‘God-given right to fish.’ It ran into a 25% kill rate and a Washington injunction [13h]
• A flesh-eating fly just crossed into Texas. The last time it did, it took 30 years to stop [13h]
• ‘I paid the price’: Workers share their Scott Pelley moments of boss talkback — and what it cost them [13h]
• 3 warnings from analysts on the truth lurking beneath the ‘barnburner’ jobs report — and why America’s AI hiring crisis is far from over [13h]
• Senate passes $70 billion immigration bill to fund ICE following efforts to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion settlement fund [13h]
• Melinda French Gates is done waiting for health care to take menopause seriously [14h]
• NYU Stern professor Suzy Welch says the career aspiration to follow your passion is ‘dumb advice’ [14h]
• Former ‘Glee’ star Jane Lynch says the secret to career success isn’t a 10-year plan: ‘Life doesn’t care about your timeline’ [14h]
• ‘Nobody knows what they’re doing’ says Michelle Obama [14h]
• ‘At some point you’ve got to make money’: Goldman’s top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs [14h]
• SAG-AFTRA approves a four-year contract with studios and streamers [15h]
• Anthropic warns AI could soon build itself without human involvement—and urges a global pause on development [15h]
• FIFA ‘just priced everyone out’: Soccer fans are skipping the World Cup over extreme prices [15h]
• ‘Send it overboard’: Federal judge just halted the longest red snapper season in years [15h]
• The May jobs report just blew past expectations—and maybe too far for markets [15h]
• The World Cup is coming to the U.S. — so where are the international travelers? [16h]
• Current price of oil as of June 5, 2026 [16h]
• What AI is actually good for [17h]
• OpenAI CFO: Not knowing AI tools like Codex is now a dealbreaker for finance hires [17h]
• ‘Human creativity is under fire’ says WPP [18h]
• Businesses are declaring war on AI slop. They are fighting a losing battle [18h]
• Can unions power the AI economy? AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler thinks so [19h]
• The S&P 500 will initially exclude SpaceX but Elon Musk is coming for your retirement savings anyway [19h]
• Anduril’s Trae Stephens says defense tech is headed for a shakeout [19h]
• The contradiction of ‘monoculture’: the word Americans now use to mourn Colbert’s finale and describe how AI is damaging creative output [20h]
• Sam Altman, Mark Cuban and Elizabeth Warren are wrong: the tax code doesn’t need an apocalypse clause [20h]
• ‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers are calling out the tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending after slashing 30,000 workers [21h]
• The death of the billboard: Amsterdam’s ad crackdown is part of a much bigger European shift [21h]
• AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons [21h]
• Trump promised deportations would protect American jobs. Brookings said ICE raids have cost the economy over 668,000 of them [21h]
• Taylor Swift, the economics of hype, and what the World Cup gets wrong [22h]
• Dropbox called hybrid work ‘the worst of both worlds.’ New research suggests it’s down to ‘paradox management fatigue’ [22h]
• MacKenzie Scott’s approach to her $26 billion giving spree was inspired by a book she read in college about writing [22h]
• Social Security faces a 24% cut in 2032—that’s a $345 billion hit to retirees nationwide, watchdog says [22h]
• Miami is the World Cup’s best-performing host city — and 45% of its hotels are still projecting a miss [23h]