The Brutalist Report

Fortune

House votes 219-212 to halt Trump’s attacks on Iran. “Donald Trump is not a king,” says top Dem on Foreign Affairs Committee [40d]
Meet Markwayne Mullin, the new multimillionaire head of DHS, who owns a cattle ranch in Oklahoma [40d]
Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views [40d]
Google’s AI chatbot convinced a man they were in love. It then allegedly told him to stage a ‘mass casualty attack’ in newly released lawsuit [40d]
Trump will take ‘any assistance from any country’ including asking Zelenskyy and Ukraine for help on countering Iran’s Shahed drones [40d]
China just set its lowest economic growth target since 1991 [40d]
TikTok arsonist in Wisconsin gets 7 years in prison after his fiery fury over the idea of losing his social media fix [40d]
Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla has ‘no plans to leave California’ amid billionaire tax uproar—but he has another idea to fix the wealth loophole [40d]
Congress realizes maybe it’s a bad idea to let presidents declare war unilaterally after decades of letting it slide [40d]
Former Trump official on White House’s ‘challenge’ with standard practice of agreeing a rationale to go to war [40d]
Oops, I did it again: Britney Spears arrested for the second time [40d]
Trump says ‘I have to be involved’ in choosing next Iran leader, ‘like with Delcy in Venezuela’ [40d]
MrBeast fired video editor after the predictions market Kalshi accused the employe of insider trading after making $4,000 with “near perfect” success [40d]
Bill Gates-backed firm gets permission to build sodium-cooled nuclear reactor in Wyoming [40d]
Almost every Democratic AG just sued Trump over tariff refunds, demanding money back now [40d]
Vanguard exec says Trump Accounts are a good idea, but don’t bank on them for college [40d]
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, replaces her with MMA Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who tried to fight a teamster during Senate hearing [40d]
The Anthropic–OpenAI feud and their Pentagon dispute expose a deeper problem with AI safety [40d]
Warren Buffett’s successor is all-in on the company: He will spend his entire after-tax salary of $15M buying Berkshire Hathaway stock [40d]
Trump touts tariffs as a budget fix. But the brutal truth is ‘they’re very weak’ and barely dent the $39 trillion national debt [40d]
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, its most powerful model for enterprise work—and a direct shot at Anthropic [40d]
Tech billionaire Shlomo Kramer: the cyber selloff proved that Wall Street can’t price tech anymore [40d]
Fed survey reveals Trump’s tariff gut punch to the backbone of the U.S. economy: small business [40d]
Most Americans are woefully short on saving for retirement—Warren Buffett’s investing advice could help [40d]
Now, even six-figure earners say buying a house is unattainable—half of Americans can’t even afford to eat out or go on vacation right now [40d]
‘Usually everybody loves money’: Trump’s FDA chief to start giving bonuses for faster drug reviews [40d]
Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word [40d]
Trump’s loss of $1.7 trillion in tariff revenue will send the national debt to $58 trillion by 2036, think tank projects [40d]
Why women’s earnings plateau in their 30s while men’s just keep growing through their 40s: It’s not just motherhood [40d]
Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri’s words used against them in never-before-seen videos airing in addiction trial [40d]
Google Gemini was a deadly ‘AI wife’ for this 36-year-old who resisted its call for a ‘mass casualty’ event before his death, lawsuit says [40d]
Time on his side: Michael Dell the real business icon as Icahn the activist recedes from view [40d]
Asia faces an energy shock from the Iran war and a closed Strait of Hormuz, as governments halt exports and draw down stockpiles [40d]
The world’s largest tech gathering is talking about “accountability laundering”—here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year [40d]
Can Anthropic’s CFO sell Wall Street on an AI firm Washington calls a ‘risk’? [40d]
Gen Z women are the new face of unemployment—and it’s not because they’re too choosy. Low grades and bad health are to blame, new research warns [40d]
In the Iran war, it’s not the oil that’s important—it’s the water [40d]
Exclusive: NYSE parent company invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation as part of push into blockchain-based stocks [40d]
A shiny new Fed Chairman will be keen to start with an interest rate cut—but the bank is growing more hawkish due to Iran [40d]
Exclusive: The Pentagon is committing $150M to a maritime tech VC fund and appears to be ramping up venture deals [40d]
‘The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero’: why AI gives company owners what they think they want [40d]
The Iran war is giving rise to a centuries-old economic theory—and laying waste to the WTO-based world order [40d]
The housing paradox: why banning institutional investors could make affordability worse [40d]
Vinod Khosla thinks future presidential candidates should run on removing income tax for those making less than $100,000 [40d]
Poor brain health costs the world economy $5 trillion a year. The world is waking up to the crisis [40d]
SpaceX is poised to raise more money in its IPO than was raised in last year’s 90 IPOs, combined [40d]
Korean startup wrtn is on track to pass $100M in annual recurring revenue, riding a loneliness epidemic-fueled boom in AI entertainment [40d]
Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and bitcoin miners to fuel the ‘superintelligence’ race [40d]
American consumers are the ultimate losers in the ‘immense mess’ that is $175 billion tariff refund, says Trump’s former commerce secretary [40d]
Trump pledged the ‘free flow of energy’ from the Middle East, and he has a week to show progress before prices really spike again [40d]
Trump’s new 401(k) match collides with a harsh reality: More workers are dipping into their retirement cash just to get by [41d]