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 [37d]
• Meet Markwayne Mullin, the new multimillionaire head of DHS, who owns a cattle ranch in Oklahoma [37d]
• Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views [38d]
• 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 [38d]
• Trump will take ‘any assistance from any country’ including asking Zelenskyy and Ukraine for help on countering Iran’s Shahed drones [38d]
• China just set its lowest economic growth target since 1991 [38d]
• TikTok arsonist in Wisconsin gets 7 years in prison after his fiery fury over the idea of losing his social media fix [38d]
• 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 [38d]
• Congress realizes maybe it’s a bad idea to let presidents declare war unilaterally after decades of letting it slide [38d]
• Former Trump official on White House’s ‘challenge’ with standard practice of agreeing a rationale to go to war [38d]
• Oops, I did it again: Britney Spears arrested for the second time [38d]
• Trump says ‘I have to be involved’ in choosing next Iran leader, ‘like with Delcy in Venezuela’ [38d]
• MrBeast fired video editor after the predictions market Kalshi accused the employe of insider trading after making $4,000 with “near perfect” success [38d]
• Bill Gates-backed firm gets permission to build sodium-cooled nuclear reactor in Wyoming [38d]
• Almost every Democratic AG just sued Trump over tariff refunds, demanding money back now [38d]
• Vanguard exec says Trump Accounts are a good idea, but don’t bank on them for college [38d]
• Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, replaces her with MMA Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who tried to fight a teamster during Senate hearing [38d]
• The Anthropic–OpenAI feud and their Pentagon dispute expose a deeper problem with AI safety [38d]
• Warren Buffett’s successor is all-in on the company: He will spend his entire after-tax salary of $15M buying Berkshire Hathaway stock [38d]
• Trump touts tariffs as a budget fix. But the brutal truth is ‘they’re very weak’ and barely dent the $39 trillion national debt [38d]
• OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, its most powerful model for enterprise work—and a direct shot at Anthropic [38d]
• Tech billionaire Shlomo Kramer: the cyber selloff proved that Wall Street can’t price tech anymore [38d]
• Fed survey reveals Trump’s tariff gut punch to the backbone of the U.S. economy: small business [38d]
• Most Americans are woefully short on saving for retirement—Warren Buffett’s investing advice could help [38d]
• 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 [38d]
• ‘Usually everybody loves money’: Trump’s FDA chief to start giving bonuses for faster drug reviews [38d]
• Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word [38d]
• Trump’s loss of $1.7 trillion in tariff revenue will send the national debt to $58 trillion by 2036, think tank projects [38d]
• Why women’s earnings plateau in their 30s while men’s just keep growing through their 40s: It’s not just motherhood [38d]
• Mark Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri’s words used against them in never-before-seen videos airing in addiction trial [38d]
• 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 [38d]
• Time on his side: Michael Dell the real business icon as Icahn the activist recedes from view [38d]
• Asia faces an energy shock from the Iran war and a closed Strait of Hormuz, as governments halt exports and draw down stockpiles [38d]
• The world’s largest tech gathering is talking about “accountability laundering”—here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year [38d]
• Can Anthropic’s CFO sell Wall Street on an AI firm Washington calls a ‘risk’? [38d]
• 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 [38d]
• In the Iran war, it’s not the oil that’s important—it’s the water [38d]
• Exclusive: NYSE parent company invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation as part of push into blockchain-based stocks [38d]