The Brutalist Report

Fortune

Warner Bros. officially deems Paramount’s bid ‘superior’ to Netflix’s [45d]
Medicare spending set to nearly double in 10 years and Medicaid and ACA spending up a third, CBO says, just as Trump’s tax cut shortens its lifespan [45d]
Bitcoin fans latch onto ‘ridiculous’ Jane Street conspiracy to explain price slump [45d]
Citadel demolishes viral doomsday AI essay, arguing the real ‘Global Intelligence Crisis’ is ignorance of macro fundamentals [45d]
For $20,000, a humanoid robot will do your household chores for you like unloading the dishwasher and watering plants—but it still needs help [45d]
As Meta battles addiction claims in court, Instagram says it will start notifying parents of kids searching for suicide or self-harm [45d]
American Express to move into new headquarters in final World Trade Center building nearly 25 years after the 9/11 attacks [45d]
China’s government intervenes to show Michigan scientists were carrying worms, not biological materials [45d]
Dolly Parton’s Tennessee philanthropy kicks up a notch with renaming of East Tennessee Children’s Hospital [45d]
Exxon can sue California’s AG for defamation over recycling comments, judge rules [45d]
Remote employees have quietly unlocked one major workplace perk: Getting paid 12% more than their in-office colleagues, Fed study finds [45d]
Couple who got live insects, bloody pig mask mailed to them reach settlement with eBay [45d]
For the first time since 2022, the average U.S. mortgage rates is below 6% [45d]
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he spends up to 40% of his time on company culture, not products, because it’s the only thing that will win the AI race [45d]
Trump brags that America is ‘winning so much.’ Without tariffs, “we could have seen more of the good news,” says IMF director [45d]
Bitcoin rides Nvidia wave to spike above $70,000 before pulling back [45d]
Forget the STEM safety net. Peter Thiel warns AI is a bigger threat to technical roles than to creative thinkers [45d]
After months of quiet, Perplexity’s CEO steps into the OpenClaw moment [45d]
Despite the constant ‘job apocalypse’ warnings, computer science graduates are actually on track to earn $81,000 right out of college [45d]
By Tesla’s own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details [45d]
MacKenzie Scott gave away $7.2 billion in just one year. That’s more than Jeff Bezos and most other billionaires have donated in their lifetimes [45d]
50 seasons later, ‘Survivor’ bets on nostalgia to win the ratings game [45d]
There are less than 2,000 watchmakers in the U.S., so Rolex has opened a trade school in Texas to tackle the shortage—it’s already rivaling Harvard [45d]
Mexico approves reduction of work week from 48 to 40 hours—eventually [45d]
Medicaid funding to Minnesota to ‘temporarily halt’ over fraud concerns, JD Vance says [45d]
NYPD is on a 4-person manhunt after ‘disgraceful’ and ‘criminal’ assault that Mamdani calls ‘snowball fight’ [45d]
Gates Foundation says Bill Gates ‘spoke candidly’ about Epstein ties in address to staff [45d]
The great (small business) wealth transfer: McKinsey sees $5 trillion of baby boomer companies coming up for sale over the next decade [45d]
Why Pennsylvania sits at the center of the big data-center power problem [45d]
The BAFTA Tourette racial slur controversy, explained, by a sociologist with Tourette’s who studies social stigma [45d]
Inconvenient fact about the Epstein files: they’re missing Trump mentions that have appeared in the press [45d]
The remote work fight isn’t over: Workers are willing to take a major pay cut, up to 25%, Harvard study shows [45d]
Everything’s fine, FIFA’s Infantino insists with Mexico aflame with violence: ‘We have complete confidence’ [45d]
Harvard professor finally cracks the scientific secret of why sneakers squeak during basketball games [45d]
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t understand why Hillary Clinton is testifying over Bill Clinton’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein [45d]
World Economic Forum head to resign over Epstein ties [45d]
Reality of Nvidia earnings beat wipes out Monday’s spooked stock swoon [45d]
Come 2030, the U.S. deficit will be worth 5.9% of GDP—more than the spending on social security, and equal to major health programs [45d]
‘The Pitt’: a masterclass display of DEI in action [45d]
Meet your new robot fry cooks: inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box [45d]
Nvidia’s record quarter and what it signals for CFOs: ‘Compute equals revenue’ [45d]
Exclusive: Crypto trading platform raises $30 million from CMT Digital and Kraken [45d]
Senator opens inquiry into Binance over allegations it fired investigators who flagged that more than $1 billion flowed to Iranian entities [45d]
Trump didn’t mention the $38.8 trillion national debt once in his State of the Union, but 90% of voters are worried [45d]