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]