The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Oracle is under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs as it pushes ahead with Larry Ellison’s 3-step transformation [33d]
• Trump says war to end ‘very soon,’ floats removing oil sanctions [33d]
• Something will cause inflation to go up this year, but it’s not oil [33d]
• Stocks stage massive upside reversal as oil plunges after Trump says Iran war ‘could be over soon’ [33d]
• Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns AI’s hunger for internet comments could degrade the world’s ‘information ecosystem’ [33d]
• Healthcare has been propping up a shaky labor market. For the first time in over four years, the sector shed thousands of jobs [33d]
• The 2026 World Cup will bring a uniquely American sports tradition to the beautiful game: Mid-match ad breaks [33d]
• AI layoffs are coming. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don’t apply for unemployment benefits [33d]
• U.S. intel assessment: Iran regime change was unlikely in either short or long war, sources say [33d]
• Strategy buys $1.3 billion of Bitcoin using mostly common stock [33d]
• Like Trump, Iran’s new supreme leader is a real estate mogul, with a house on ‘Billionaire’s Row,’ a villa in Dubai, and upscale European hotels [33d]
• After losing her Malibu home, Paris Hilton is raising $1 million to get women-owned businesses back on their feet [33d]
• Dubai’s signature Token2049 crypto event set to go forward even as other conferences hit pause amid growing conflict [33d]
• Iran’s attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war as AI plays an increasingly strategic role, analysts say [33d]
• Trump promised to fill America’s oil reserves ‘right to the top.’ A year later, oil has exceeded $100 and they’re still less than 60% full [33d]
• Anthropic sues the Pentagon after being labeled a threat to national security [33d]
• DOJ strikes tentative Ticketmaster settlement as states break away to keep fighting Live Nation [33d]
• Billionaire Peter Diamandis offers $3.5 million to filmmakers who portray AI as the hero—not the villain [33d]
• Dave Ramsey slams Trump Accounts, the new investment accounts for babies—he’s advising parents to take the $1,000 and put their own money elsewhere [34d]
• Worried about AI job cuts? It might be time to move to Europe, where companies are planning to hiring more—not less—workers thanks to AI [34d]
• People really hate AI but not as much as Iran—or Democrats [34d]
• Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used mortgages to buy multimillion-dollar mansions. Here’s why that’s a savvy financial decision [34d]
• Investors priced in a 6-week Iraq War but it lasted 8 years and cost $3 trillion. They’re doing it again [34d]
• The ‘Singapore-washing’ strategy starts to unwind as both China and the U.S. closely scrutinize corporate roots [34d]
• Odds of a stock market meltdown with 1970s-style stagflation jump to 35% this year, veteran strategist warns [34d]
• ‘It feels like a video game, but in real life’: Gen Z’s love of analog ‘grandma’ hobbies jump from Pokemon to bird-watching, scrolling to needlepoint [34d]
• Saudi Arabia tells Iran it will be ‘the biggest loser’ as drone strikes spray Arab states [34d]
• Microsoft unveils Copilot Cowork agents built on Anthropic’s AI and E7 AI product suite as it seeks to calm investor concerns about AI eating SaaS [34d]
• Oil price moderates after Macron, as leader of G7, confirms ‘the use of strategic reserves is an envisaged option’ [34d]
• The Iran oil shock is really bad for countries in a region where cars and roads transport almost all food: Africa [34d]
• Iran’s Assembly of Experts picks 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei as next Supreme Leader [34d]
• ‘Country’ Joe McDonald, antiwar icon of the 1960s, dies from complications of Parkinson’s at 84 [34d]
• Dow, Nasdaq, S&P all falling as oil spikes briefly over $120 per barrel [34d]
• Disney and Pixar net biggest opening weekend in nearly a decade with $88 million worldwide for ‘Hoppers’ [34d]
• Meet the African cocoa farmers who are letting their crops rot because the commodity price has fallen so much [34d]
• Tariff refund process could be ready by the spring, customs official says [34d]
• Oil over $100, markets in freefall, and Iran’s new Supreme Leader is Trump’s ‘worst case’ scenario [34d]