The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Crypto lender BlockFills suspends withdrawals for clients in latest blow to the blockchain sector [12d]
Instagram boss reveals he’s paid $900k per year plus stock worth ‘tens of millions of dollars’ as he denies ‘addiction’ claims [12d]
One of Wall Street’s most feared hedge fund managers on the decline of the dollar: gold is ‘becoming the reserve asset’ [12d]
Layoffs and unemployment are quite low, actually, says BLS [12d]
Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions [12d]
The ‘largest immigration enforcement operation ever’ in Minnesota is ending [12d]
American home buyers are still on strike as lower mortgage rates are no match for sinking January sales [12d]
OpenClaw is the bad boy of AI agents. Here’s why security experts say you should beware [12d]
Billionaire founder of Minecraft slams anyone advocating using AI to write code as ‘incompetent or evil’ [12d]
The CEO of Google DeepMind juggles another job as the founder of a multibillion-dollar startup by starting a second work day at 10 p.m. [12d]
The tech billionaires aren’t just all grabbing trophy Florida mansions—they have competing half-billion-dollar megayachts jostling for dock space [12d]
Marriott’s CEO identifies a ‘fundamentally permanent shift’ for Americans: Even low-income families are stubbornly hanging on to vacations [12d]
The affordability crisis is driving unprecedented price cuts in the housing market, Realtor.com says [12d]
Ford CEO Jim Farley knew the EV pain would be bad but the ‘punch line’ is a $4.8 billion loss: ‘the customer has spoken’ [12d]
Trump’s tariffs cancel out what he claims is ‘the largest tax cut in American history’: the average person will lose $300 even after refunds [12d]
The Trump administration calls its climate change policy shift the ‘largest deregulatory action’ in history—but experts say the impact will be limited [12d]
The 70/30 rule that separates millionaires from everyone else [12d]
Google Gemini boss describes working with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to win the AI future [12d]
‘Fertility president’ Trump has demanded a baby boom, and Stanford researchers have a solution: letting more people work from home, study finds [12d]
Why 50% stay broke and how one hour a day can change everything [12d]
Why PayPal’s board chose to act early—and what other boards can learn [12d]
The same Yale professor who got wounded by a Unabomber attack wrote to Epstein about a ‘v small good-looking blonde’ [12d]
HPE turns finance into the front line of enterprise AI [12d]
FBI’s search for Nancy Guthrie has few leads, with potential break in the case fizzling [12d]
Forget ‘peak oil’: the era of scarcity is dead, and now we’re drowning in abundance [12d]
From ‘The Lord of the Skies’ to drones over El Paso, Mexican cartels have a long history of airborne drug fleets [12d]
‘We do not believe this is a bubble’: Taiwan’s 23 million people see a high-flying economy with one major risk [12d]
‘You can’t have fun if you don’t drink alcohol in France’: Paris wine show tackles a teetotal era [12d]
‘Our investments are beginning to pay off’: AI boom brings SoftBank back into the black [12d]
How HPE’s CFO used AI to transform the 100-slide Monday meeting her team spent all week preparing for [12d]
China rushes to stem price war in autos as passenger car sales drop nearly 20% in January [12d]
Trump tariffs on Canada slapped down in 219-211 bipartisan vote [12d]
Instagram chief grilled over his previous use of ‘addiction’ to describe smartphones [12d]
After Hegseth snubs NATO, Europe makes the best of it: ‘Sadly for him, he is missing a good party’ [12d]
6 in 10 Americans think Trump’s ‘gone too far’ by sending immigration troops into U.S. cities, poll says [12d]
British billionaire is sorry if you were offended by his statement that ‘the U.K.’s been colonized’ by immigrants [12d]
Exclusive: Seligman Ventures debuts with $500 million and a new model for the blurring line between public and private markets [12d]