The Brutalist Report

Fortune

‘Russia is the only one responsible’: Moldova imposes 60-day energy emergency after Russian strikes in Ukraine [17d]
Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America’s Achilles Heel in Hormuz [17d]
ICE agents can make twice the salary of TSA employees—and economists warn their pay is more ‘shutdown proof’ than other government jobs [17d]
AI agents are getting more capable, but reliability is lagging—and that’s a problem [17d]
Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork [17d]
Exclusive: Nevada legislators press Governor Lombardo on Boring Co. oversight, demanding plan for state’s ‘structural failures’ [17d]
Soaring fertilizer prices could pressure a U.S. agricultural industry that supports 50 million jobs and over $10 trillion in output [17d]
Gen Z finally had room to breathe. Now Trump’s 26% gas price hike has them suffocating [17d]
Billionaire OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030, and that ‘fear of AI’ put American politics in a chokehold [17d]
Senate closes in on deal to end Homeland Security shutdown—without funding ICE operations [17d]
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls it ‘treason’: $580 million in suspicious oil futures traded minutes before Trump’s Iran reversal [17d]
Tether announces it has brought on a Big Four firm to conduct long awaited audit [17d]
Perplexity CEO says AI layoffs aren’t so bad because people hate their jobs anyways: ‘That sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to’ [17d]
Billionaire Larry Fink says you’re wrong to think that AI stealing your job is the big problem—it’s really about what it’s doing for his class [17d]
CFOs admit privately that AI layoffs will be 9x higher this year—and still a fraction of ‘doomsday’ predictions [17d]
Trump’s trillion-dollar TACO that wasn’t: Iran confronts the master of the deal with a partner he can’t bully [17d]
As war continues to rage, the World Economic Forum is the latest to postpone Gulf conference in Saudi [17d]
From 12 hours of video games a day to Big Ten Player of the year: The unlikely rise of Yaxel Lendeborg [17d]
Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’ [17d]
JPMorgan has started monitoring the keystrokes, video calls, and meetings of its junior investment bankers—and they say it’s for employee well-being [17d]
Philippine president declares state of emergency due to “imminent danger of a critically low energy supply” [17d]
Republican states rush to ban abortion pills as surveys suggest they’re spiking in pro-life states [17d]
Kalshi and Polymarket rush to update their policies after realizing that Congress could destroy them [17d]
Billionaire OnlyFans founder Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 [17d]
As planes crash at airports and war rages in Iran, Trump visits Graceland [18d]
‘I messed up’: overworked air traffic controller’s admission about deadly La Guardia crash [18d]
Jury holds Bill Cosby liable for sexual assault in 1972, awards $60 million [18d]
4 years after the ‘Great Resignation,’ workers do a 180 on whether it’s a ‘good time’ to find a job [18d]
Trump hates voting by mail—except when he does it in Florida [18d]
Current price of oil as of March 24, 2026 [18d]
One prediction isn’t enough — Why CEOs are shifting to wartime planning [18d]
Wall Street is ‘bewitched’ by positive news on Iran, says UBS, and investors want to believe the war is over without verifiable information [18d]
What avalanche safety training can teach corporate boards about bad decisions [18d]
Invesco takes over Superstate’s $900 million T-bill fund as Wall Street accelerates tokenization push [18d]
The rise and uncertain future of $29 billion AI coding startup Cursor [18d]
Trump searches for an exit strategy in Iran as $100 oil looms over the midterms [18d]
Exclusive: Cambridge Mobile Telematics secures $350 million from TPG, Allianz to make driving safer [18d]
How CEOs are grappling with the greatest energy shock ever [18d]
Nearly three in five Americans think AI will push homeownership even further out of reach [18d]
How COVID turned America against science — and what it will take to win it back [18d]
The youngest-ever female CEO of a Fortune 500 company is fighting Trump’s cuts to keep Medicaid strong [18d]
Grab expands to Taiwan, its first non-Southeast Asian market, with $600 million Foodpanda deal [18d]
AI’s disruption is a choice, not a forecast [18d]
Say hello to 10 a.m. starts. Mark Cuban says AI will cut your workday by an hour—and you’ll still get paid the same [18d]
What Mark Zuckerberg’s AI sidekick could teach CEOs about leading by example [18d]
Inside the Seattle clinic that treats tech addiction like heroin, and clients detox for up to 16 weeks [18d]
Airlines are preparing for the worst as Iran war enters its fourth week. But demand is still strong, and travelers are willing to pay higher fares [18d]