The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Travel guru Rick Steves is happy to pay more taxes [6d]
• Artemis II’s moonbound astronauts capture Earth’s brilliant blue beauty as they travel more than 110,000 miles from home [6d]
• Checking a bag on United Airlines now costs $10 more as Iran war sends jet fuel costs up nearly 100% in major hubs [7d]
• At least one crew member still missing after Iran shoots down 2 U.S. aircraft while Trump says ‘it’s war’ [7d]
• Internet Watch Foundation finds 260-fold increase in AI-generated CSAM in just one year, and ‘it’s the tip of the iceberg’ [7d]
• What Is NMN: Everything You Need to Know From Experts [7d]
• The Benefits of Red Light Therapy: Expert-Approved Advice [7d]
• Plowshares into swords: Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense surge is the largest since World War II — and no one can explain how to pay for it [7d]
• MIT created duplicate AI workers to tackle thousands of different tasks. The verdict? Most of the time AI is still just ‘minimally sufficient’ [7d]
• Jamie Dimon says the U.S. was right to go to war with Iran: ‘Why the western world put up with all these proxy wars for 45 years is kind of beyond me’ [7d]
• The AI kill switch just got harder to find: LLM-powered chatbots will defy orders and deceive users if asked to delete another model, study finds [7d]
• Bernie Sanders calls out Bezos, Musk, Bloomberg and Buffett in billionaire tax push: ‘The richest people in America have never ever had it so good’ [7d]
• The jobs report looks good ‘for the wrong reasons,’ top economist warns: It’s hiding how many Americans are giving up [7d]
• Energy markets are having a Wile E. Coyote moment as oil supplies go off a cliff, expert says [7d]
• Microsoft’s spending billions on AI—but even NASA astronauts can’t escape Outlook headaches [7d]
• Starbucks is offering $1,200 bonuses, expanded tipping, and weekly payouts to boost the pay of its U.S. baristas [7d]
• Red Lobster is reportedly bringing back Endless Shrimp 2 years after the CEO vowed it would never return [7d]
• Only one U.S. university ranks in the world’s top 10 in STEM. Pfizer’s CEO is calling for change [7d]
• A $10 billion ‘slush fund’ to pay TSA agents: Trump’s latest unilateral loophole, explained [7d]
• New Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America [7d]
• How AI and ‘experience creep’ are making it harder for new graduates to find jobs [7d]
• AI adoption isn’t the hard part, it’s building employee agency [7d]
• I helped build Uber and Discord and now my tools help fuel billion-dollar unicorns. But Silicon Valley is losing the AI race to itself [7d]
• Current price of oil as of April 3, 2026 [7d]
• France, South Korea say they’ll work together on reopening Strait of Hormuz [7d]
• ‘I was just talking to to the president’: Tiger Woods bodycam video hints at Trump role [7d]
• Trump insists $1.5 trillion military budget for a war Congress didn’t approve ranks above day care, Medicare, Medicaid [7d]
• U.S. jobs report bounces back from dismal February with surprisingly strong 178,000 payrolls [7d]
• Dell’s CFO built a 27-year career without leaving the company. Here’s how he kept moving up [7d]
• The startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem [7d]
• Leaders push for a ‘Manhattan Project’ and public-private solutions around AI and labor [7d]
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers [7d]
• The world’s wealthiest families adopt these 7 key habits for success, according to JPMorgan [7d]
• What it takes to retire comfortably in America: Nearly $1.5 million, Northwestern Mutual says [7d]
• Cyprus and Ireland top list of best places to retire—as boomers are forced to ‘unretire’, the only real solution is to move abroad [7d]
• How Delta CEO Ed Bastian built a massive partnership with American Express that now generates over 10% of the airline’s revenue [7d]
• The Walmart billionaires next door: Quiet backlash is brewing against the heirs who remade the retailer’s hometown [7d]