The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• McDonald’s newest $3 value menu is sounding an alarm about America’s K-shaped economy [25d]
• A gaming CEO asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying a $250 million bonus. It didn’t work [25d]
• Stocks haven’t hit bottom yet, says the analyst who called a ‘rolling recession’ when everyone else saw a boom [25d]
• Mark Zuckerberg is poised to finish what Jack Dorsey started: a ‘cascade’ of AI-related layoffs across the tech sector, top tech analyst says [25d]
• Scott Galloway wants the stock market to crash. Gen Z is already betting like it will [25d]
• Who is Joe Kent? Meet the Green Beret, MAGA loyalist, and former political candidate who quit over Iran [25d]
• ‘100% completely unsustainable as a society.’ Billionaire advisor calls out widening inequality that leaves America’s poorest 80% ‘falling behind’ [25d]
• Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks $1 trillion won’t be enough to meet AI demand—and he’s paying engineers in AI tokens worth half their salary to prove it [25d]
• AI was supposed to kill off consultants. It’s not happening, Capgemini’s strategy chief says [25d]
• Benchmark’s Bill Gurley: the AI bubble is about to burst—and a reset is coming [25d]
• Nvidia just forecast $1 trillion in AI demand. So why isn’t Jensen Huang a target of AI backlash? [25d]
• Won’t somebody think of the children? Advocacy group to spend $50 million to back Democrats pushing child care ahead of the midterms [25d]
• ‘This is the way’: Elon Musk endorses Warren Buffett’s famed 5-minute plan to fix the national debt [25d]
• ServiceNow CEO predicts Gen Z college graduates will face at least 30% unemployment in just the next couple of years as AI takes over [25d]
• Trump’s Iran War looks improvised. It isn’t. Here’s the playbook he’s been running for decades [25d]
• Liberal arts degrees have long paid the worst salaries—but Microsoft chief scientist says in the age of AI, they will be ‘really important’ for Gen Z [25d]
• ‘We started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby:’ Trump’s National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over wa [25d]
• The World Anti-Doping Agency wants to ban Trump and U.S. government officials from international sporting events for not paying their dues [25d]
• America’s economy is so bad that it’s driving a loneliness crisis, as two-thirds skip weddings and dinners to make ends meet [25d]
• Mastercard to acquire crypto startup BVNK for up to $1.8 billion in largest stablecoin deal to date [25d]
• Current price of oil as of March 17, 2026 [25d]
• As Meta removes privacy controls, TikTok explains why it never had any [25d]
• Amazon goes from free fast delivery to $14.99 within the hour [25d]
• Either Trump is lying or the 4 other living presidents are, about war on Iran [25d]
• $12 billion AI startup founder says future tech giants could operate with fewer than 100 employees [25d]
• The next energy superpower will make its own fuel [25d]
• A market correction of 10% could be on the cards as consumer psychology shifts due to gas prices, says top economist [25d]
• Backchannel talks between U.S. and Iran offer Trump an off-ramp—if he wants it [25d]
• The Google-backed AI investors nobody took seriously in 2017 just raised $220 million [25d]
• Exclusive: PayPal expands stablecoin access to 68 more countries [25d]
• The equity compensation gap: why even your most senior leaders are leaving money on the table [25d]
• Ray Dalio warns a brutal ‘final battle’ for the Strait of Hormuz is coming—and losing could end the American empire [25d]
• America’s $38 trillion debt crisis is already here. The reckoning comes next [25d]
• AI is making productivity obsolete. The leaders who thrive next will have something machines can’t touch [25d]
• Lululemon’s Chip Wilson is giving the company a severe case of ‘post-founder syndrome’ [25d]
• Your electricity bill keeps rising. Here’s what’s actually causing it—and how to fix it [25d]
• 78% of girls hate their bodies by 17. A former NCAA champion says running is the fix [25d]
• Ireland courts U.S. companies as taoiseach brings deals to Trump on St. Patrick’s Day [25d]
• Companies are pouring billions into AI and cutting training budgets. It’s a losing strategy [25d]
• ‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading [25d]
• Only 6 billionaires left California over its proposed wealth tax — but they took $27 billion in potential revenue with them [25d]
• Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers [25d]
• Trump suggests postponing his key meeting with Xi Jinping by ‘a month or so,’ as Iran overtakes China on the U.S.’s agenda [25d]
• Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but it can’t solve for the Strait of Hormuz ‘math problem’ [25d]
• Boards protected CEO bonuses as tariffs threatened business. Now, as Iran disrupts trade, CEOs may get more protection [25d]
• S&P 500 will return just 3% a year for the next decade, top strategist warns [25d]
• Musk says taxing every billionaire at 100% would barely make a dent in the national debt. Bernie says tax them 5% and you’re $3,000 richer [25d]