The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump agrees 2-week ceasefire, says Iran has proposed a ‘workable’ 10-point peace plan [2d]
• Supermicro launches internal probe after cofounder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling [2d]
• Jamie Dimon warns of growing crypto competition in annual letter: ‘We need to roll out our own blockchain technology’ [2d]
• Markets cheer as Trump says he’s in ‘heated negotiations’ over a new Pakistani two-week ceasefire plan [2d]
• 2 years ago, Saudi Arabia quietly canceled the ‘petrodollar’ deal with America that wired the world economy for 50 years. Then war broke out in Iran [2d]
• Doritos prices jumped 50% in four years and PepsiCo waited until it lost billions to do anything about it [2d]
• A councilmember backed a data center project. Then 13 bullets and a ‘No Data Centers’ note hit his home [2d]
• H&R Block wants to be more than a tax company. It wants to be your year-round financial adviser [2d]
• Aspire built a financial stack used by 50,000 firms. Now it’s coming to the U.S. to take on Ramp and Mercury [2d]
• Bill Ackman’s $64 billion Universal Music play is part of his strategy to become the next Warren Buffett [2d]
• The AI trade is over. Top Wall Street analysts say the AI opportunity might be just starting [2d]
• The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show [2d]
• OpenAI is a drama company. Will that hurt its IPO chances? And Anthropic tries to get ahead of the cyber risks its own models are accelerating [2d]
• Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense [2d]