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]