The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• The White House snubs Elon Musk’s offer to cover TSA salaries as airport miseries hit record levels [16d]
• Two private school boys get probation for using AI to create 350 fake nudes of their classmates [16d]
• It’s time for slavery reparations, ‘the gravest crime against humanity,’ UN General Assembly says [16d]
• Enter Melania Trump, escorted by humanoid robot: ‘I’m Figure 03, a humanoid built for the United States of America’ [16d]
• ‘We do not plan on any negotiations’: Iran laughs at White House’s claims of cease-fire talks [16d]
• Bernie Sanders and AOC launch bill to ban new data-center construction [16d]
• Meet the 40-year-old Democrat who owns a fitness company for pregnant and postpartum women and just won in Trump’s district [16d]
• A court just ruled that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. It could be Meta and YouTube’s Big Tobacco moment [16d]
• ‘I didn’t want anybody shooting me’: Five Guys CEO gave away $1.5 million bonus to employees over botched BOGO burger birthday celebration [16d]
• ‘Don’t leave’: the remote work guru who nailed the labor market during the Great Resignation offers job advice for 2026 [16d]
• U.S. natural gas exporters literally answer Asia’s calls for ‘help’ from the Iran war, but aid can’t come overnight [16d]
• A notorious short-seller unloaded on SoFi. The stock shrugged it off [16d]
• New college grad unemployment will spike to 35% in 2 years, senator warns, forcing ‘Dario, Sam’ to quit AI fear-mongering [16d]
• Mark Zandi warns recession odds are creeping toward 50%, and the Iran war could launch us into economic turmoil by midyear [16d]
• Trump wrote the tariff playbook. Now Iran is using it on the world’s most important oil route. [16d]
• Meta and YouTube found liable in landmark child social media harm case, ordered to pay $3 million—with punitive damages still to come [16d]
• The ROI for AI isn’t one-size-fits-all, says data storage CTO [16d]
• Trump taps Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison for tech advisory council—but excludes Musk and Altman [16d]
• The median first-time homebuyer is now 40. Zillow’s CEO says don’t expect that to change anytime soon [16d]
• Rishi Sunak is giving advice to CEOs on AI. Here are his golden rules [16d]
• Rishi Sunak is giving advice to CEOs on AI. Here are his golden rules [16d]
• ‘I want everybody to have enough food’: the scientist who made your packaged food safer just won the world’s most prestigious food prize [16d]
• Harvard may be under federal investigation and cost over $87,000 a year—but it’s still Gen Z’s No. 1 ‘dream college’ [16d]
• JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth [16d]
• Surgeons, airline pilots, and software developers are becoming the hottest roles for female representation—and most jobs pay over $100,000 [16d]
• ‘Wealth doesn’t erase your problems—it magnifies them’: One serial entrepreneur’s brutally honest take on making it [16d]
• Research shows workers are using AI to get away from their computers—sneaking gym classes, skipping meetings, and clawing back 30 minutes a day [16d]
• OpenAI Foundation pledges $1 billion to mitigate some of the jobs that it thinks AI will destroy [16d]
• ‘You won’t be able to AI your way through an oral exam’: Colleges have an Ancient Greek-style solution to the Gen Z stare [16d]
• Philadelphia responds to unpaid TSA worker plight with ‘world record for the longest cheesesteak in history’ [16d]
• America claims it sent a cease-fire plan to Iran, which doesn’t confirm receipt [16d]
• Current price of oil as of March 25, 2026 [16d]
• Quadruple amputee cornhole champion charged with murder, American Cornhole League declines to comment [17d]
• Yes, Mark Zuckerberg’s social media products are harmful for children, New Mexico jury finds [17d]
• Workers around the world are scared. A massive new survey shows just how much [17d]
• Exclusive: Normal Computing raises $50M from Samsung Catalyst to tackle soaring AI chip costs and power demands [17d]
• AI robots could cost $13,000 by 2035: Here’s what that means for CFOs [17d]
• Larry Fink says the Iran war ends in one of two extremes: Abundance, growth, and oil at $40 a barrel—or global recession and years of oil at $150 [17d]
• On Iran, Trump is open to a deal but he also has ‘a fist, waiting to punch you in the [expletive] face,’ White House insider says [17d]
• The growing problem of ‘tech addiction’ spawns a new detox economy [17d]
• The youngest-ever female Fortune 500 CEO is reinventing the largest Medicaid insurer amid funding cuts and rising costs [17d]
• Our retirement system gets a C-plus; policymakers have an opportunity to make it A grade [17d]
• Goldman raises recession odds to 30% on higher inflation, lower GDP outlook as oil prices surge [17d]
• Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies [17d]
• ‘We’ve become like Europe’: Jamie Dimon warns China is beating the U.S. as he says Iran war means a ‘better chance’ of permanent Middle East peace [17d]
• The job market is so bad that ‘reverse recruiters’ are charging $1,500 a month just to help people look for jobs [17d]
• Exclusive: AI-powered benefits platform Origin raises $30 million in fresh funding to bring CHROs visibility into benefits usage and spend [17d]
• China could be the ‘big winner’ in the AI race, thanks to abundant power, cheap manufacturing, and an open-source craze [17d]
• Why QVC is making such a big bet on TikTok [17d]
• ‘Attempted corporate murder’ — Judge calls on Anthropic and Department of War to hash out dispute over supply chain risk [17d]