The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Bitcoin faces $14 billion options expiry while Middle East turmoil mounts [15d]
• Housing giant Fannie Mae to accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time [15d]
• A toddler needed a life-saving flight, and the insurer said no. Then Mark Cuban called [15d]
• Trump extends his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to April 6 [15d]
• Southeast Asia could become a booming data center market if its data centers can beat the heat [15d]
• Today’s Equal Pay Day. Women and men still disagree about who has more economic opportunities [15d]
• Disney CEO’s no good, very bad week: Josh D’Amaro is dealing with 3 major headaches in his first week [15d]
• Exclusive: Megapot raises $5 million to create a crypto-powered global lottery [15d]
• Trump’s war in Iran is costing the U.S. economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says [15d]
• Gen Z’s credit scores are cratering — and Trump’s student loan crackdown is the biggest reason why [15d]
• Inside Meta’s chaotic AI boomtown in rural Louisiana [15d]
• How a war in the Middle East is hiking your mortgage rate in America [15d]
• New York is home to 154 billionaires. Together they’re worth $975.7 billion—and some of them are even making $2 million an hour [15d]
• 30-year-old CEO of $11 billion Harvey earned the backing of OpenAI and Sam Altman. He says you have to ‘re-earn’ your role every 6 months [15d]
• Influencer Alix Earle turned her worst insecurity into her first brand. This is her plan to monetize her 14 million followers and make it last [15d]
• Duolingo CEO’s taxi driver test decides who gets hired—before the interview even starts [15d]
• How badly the war in Iran is impacting your finances depends on where you live [15d]
• ‘Intelligence may be scalable, but accountability is not’: A new report exposes the hidden cost of the AI agent revolution [15d]
• How to watch the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8 of March Madness 2026 for free—and without cable [15d]
• ‘The Pitt’ shows an ER getting shut down by a cyberattack that is totally true to life [15d]
• Current price of oil as of March 26, 2026 [15d]
• Exclusive: Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry [15d]
• Foreign exchange startup XFX raises $17 million to help businesses go between cash and stablecoins [15d]
• The one-person unicorn: Myth, miracle, or the future of startups? [15d]
• CFOs believe AI is paying off. Researchers aren’t so sure—yet [15d]
• America is handing its mRNA lead to China—and RFK Jr. is to blame [15d]
• Trump said low-income housing would destroy the suburbs, but ‘soccer moms’ are still abandoning him in droves [15d]
• Houston airport, with nearly 40% TSA sickout, becomes symbol of America’s broken travel system [15d]
• Meta, YouTube face thousands of cases on whether they harmed children after bellwether cases go against them [15d]
• Postal Service to hike prices 8% on popular services on rising transportation costs [15d]
• Iran is already charging a toll, in Yuan, for oil sold through Strait of Hormuz as American ground troops prepare to enter [15d]
• Gen Zers are flocking to these Midwest housing markets where homes are about 30% cheaper than the coasts [15d]
• The college degree isn’t dead. But the wrong kind could cost you $2 million [16d]
• The scientist who helped create AI says it’s only ‘a matter of time’ before every single job is wiped out—even safer trade jobs like plumbing [16d]
• Trump says he wants the war wrapped up as fuel prices nuzzle up to $9 a gallon in California [16d]
• We’re no longer in a bull or bear market. We’re in a Trump market — and here’s how to navigate it [16d]
• Rishi Sunak tells CEOs to move fast on AI—or risk landing on the wrong side of the K-shaped economy [16d]
• From ‘Hard Knock Life’ to $2.8 billion, Jay-Z calls billionaire hate ‘a cop-out’ even as 1 in 5 Americans say it’s ‘morally wrong’ to be that rich [16d]
• Wall Street bonuses hit an all-time record in 2025 — but the outlook for 2026 is already darkening [16d]
• Washington and Silicon Valley have found their common enemy: China [16d]
• Social Security insolvency: How a ‘six figure cap’ to flatten benefits for the ultra-wealthy could buy the program 7 critical years [16d]
• The world’s consumers are ready for robotaxis. James Peng of Pony AI wants to make sure they’re riding in his [16d]
• What is tech addiction? A court ruling makes it Big Tech’s next big problem [16d]
• Meta’s $27 billion AI data center is causing chaos in small town Louisiana [16d]
• Vail Resorts’ CEO says it’s time to think beyond the $1,000 ski pass that helped build the empire [16d]