The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Argentines once drank 90 liters of wine a year. Now they’re down to 15 — and 1,100 vineyards have already closed [24d]
• University of Florida College Republicans chapter sues over being shut down on antisemitism claims [24d]
• ‘The United States is undermining itself’: China is ignoring Trump’s Hormuz request as the Iran war deepens and his Beijing trip slips [24d]
• White House suspends the Jones Act for 60 days. Analysts see a gas price impact of 3 cents [24d]
• Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say back-to-back state and federal trials violate his constitutional rights [24d]
• It’s almost inexplicable why oil prices aren’t much higher. But here’s why markets are ‘resilient’ so far despite the biggest energy supply shock ever [24d]
• $39 trillion national debt is ‘an embarrassing milestone,’ think tank says. ‘Clearly headed in the wrong direction’ [24d]
• The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it [24d]
• Dachshunds and social media: absurd costumes may be driving a 20-year comeback [24d]
• Jerome Powell says this economy isn’t as miserable as the 1970s, but ‘maybe that’s just me’ [24d]
• Every Fortune 500 CEO’s nightmare: the Iran war and the Pandora’s Box of AI cyber warfare [24d]
• Meet a third-generation Tennessee farmer paying an extra $100k for fertilizer because of the Iran War [24d]
• Goldman Sachs says small businesses are embracing AI, but fewer than 1 in 5 are good at actually integrating it [24d]
• Arizona calls Kalshi an illegal gambling business as first state in first state lawsuit against company [24d]
• Social media companies are scrambling to verify minors online. Congress just made it a lot more complicated [24d]
• ‘One in a million’ shrapnel rain fell on California highway, military report says [24d]
• Delta CEO slams Washington over unpaid TSA agents, says front-line workers are being used as ‘political chips’ [24d]
• The Fed holds rates steady and punts on the Middle East: ‘uncertain’ [24d]
• Fortune Brands new CEO never officially worked a day—but he’ll get $18.4 million after a massive leadership shakeup [24d]
• Today’s Bob Iger’s last day leading Disney. Here’s what comes next at the company worth $176 billion [24d]
• XRP leapfrogs BNB to take fourth most valuable crypto spot [24d]
• New York is suing the Trump Administration again—This time over $58 million in withheld subway funding [24d]
• Tulsi Gabbard won’t say whether she warned Trump that Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz [24d]
• Stocks sink as market digests $110-per-barrel oil [24d]
• Trump officials say gas prices will return to normal in ‘a few more weeks,’ but his own Energy Department says it will be 2027 [24d]
• How Lumen Technologies is using AI to help cut $1 billion in network costs [24d]
• Robinhood rolls out long-awaited ‘Social’ feature to let users track and copy other traders [24d]
• AI and Crypto spent nearly $20 million to reshape Illinois’s Democratic primaries. They mostly lost [24d]
• Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro once planned to be a sculptor. He admits ‘I don’t know’ is one of the most important phrases in his career [24d]
• “A bend in the trajectory”: U.S. data center development has hit snags because the power grid is approaching its limits to support them [24d]
• An AI agent destroyed this coder’s entire database. He’s not the only one with a horror story. [24d]
• Oil prices hit nearly $110 as Iran vows to escalate the war in ‘new ways’ [24d]
• Markwayne Mullin called Rand Paul a ‘freaking snake.’ Paul questioned whether ‘someone who applauds violence’ should lead DHS [24d]
• The U.S. attacked Iran to show its power but the war is already lost. Epic Fury looks like an Epic Fail [24d]
• I run the world’s largest employee mental health company. Leaders are treating AI adoption as a tech problem. It’s not [24d]
• 66% of CEOs are freezing hiring while betting billions on AI. It’s a costly miscalculation [24d]
• Jack Schlossberg has a warning for America’s CEOs: you’re living in my ‘world’ now [24d]
• The dictionaries are suing OpenAI for ‘massive’ copyright infringement, and say ChatGPT is starving publishers of revenue [24d]
• BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns AI could leave the class of 2026 facing the highest unemployment in years—even without a recession [24d]
• ‘I just want all of it to end’: U.S. gas prices reach highest level since 2023 with no end for the Iran War in sight [24d]
• Exclusive: Polymarket acquires the startup Brahma, in effort to scale its crypto and DeFi infrastructure [24d]
• Trump said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela and sell its oil. Now it’s starting to happen [24d]
• The world’s EVs were already replacing 70% of Iran’s oil exports. The war just made that matter [24d]
• Coinbase’s Oscars ad says you’re an NPC trapped in someone else’s financial system–and crypto is ‘Your Way Out’ [24d]
• Current price of oil as of March 18, 2026 [24d]
• Sri Lanka just launched a four-day work week and declared Wednesdays a holiday—and the Iran War is why [24d]
• Stripe-backed crypto startup Tempo releases AI payments protocol, launches blockchain [24d]
• The ‘vibe coding’ threat to enterprise software is overblown, Workday’s CEO says—here’s his vision for what actually comes next [24d]
• Economists are ‘loath’ to call a recession, but the odds just hit 49% for the next 12 months according to Moody’s top economist [24d]
• As Trump rages against his allies, Republicans are asking what the plan is to end the chaos in Iran [24d]
• From robotics to AI agents, Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote was full of signals that startups can’t afford to ignore [24d]
• Exclusive: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40 million led by Khosla Ventures [24d]
• The best way for CEOs to keep bonuses in a downturn: Lower expectations [24d]
• Less than 10 out of 250 billionaires have kept their promise to give away their fortune—and a philanthropy CEO says Elon Musk is right about why [24d]