The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump’s White House: America is short 10 million houses [17d]
• Augusta Precious Metals review: What to know in 2026 [17d]
• The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature and says knowing how to ask the right question beats knowing how to code [17d]
• Another month, another record-high home price: March hits $408,800—the 33rd straight increase [17d]
• Home sales just fell 3.6%—and the spring buying season may not save them [17d]
• Trump’s economy officially passes Biden’s for worst consumer sentiment in recorded history [17d]
• Xi Jinping says the world order is ‘crumbling into disarray.’ Larry Fink and the IMF are worried about a global recession [17d]
• From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary [17d]
• Trump’s macho MAGA economy is a bust. But there are plenty of high-paying jobs for men—in nursing and teaching [17d]
• Goldman Sachs makes surprise jump into Bitcoin ETFs with a product one analyst dubs “Boomer Candy” [17d]
• U.S. utilities are planning a $1.4 trillion spending spree, up 30%, over the next five years amid the AI construction boom [17d]
• Dow’s CEO pick elevates a seasoned insider at a pivotal moment for the chemical giant [17d]
• Trump’s agricultural tariffs hit all 50 states—driving up food prices, crushing exports, and leaving farmers with nowhere to turn [18d]
• Bitcoin, Ethereum approach two-month highs as markets grow optimistic over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations [18d]
• Sam Altman’s attacker had a kill list of AI executives. Experts warn this is just the beginning [18d]
• Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe is giving away $10 million to get Gen Z into trades—and says the skills gap has never been worse [18d]
• Coca-Cola chairman calls work-life balance a ‘weird phrase’ and says success is down to survival—’kind of like Squid Game’ [18d]
• United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby lies on his office floor and takes 20-minute naps—and he says it doesn’t mean he’s accomplished any less [18d]
• Warren Buffett’s first tax return showed $7 owed to the IRS. The then-paperboy and former Berkshire Hathaway CEO is now worth $143 billion [18d]
• ‘Unequivocal opposition’: Over 1,000 members of Hollywood royalty lobby against Paramount/Warner merger [18d]
• Nava raises $8.3 million in seed funding to keep AI financial agents from going off the rails [18d]
• ‘I don’t need help’: Meet some of the AI resisters who smell their own extinction [18d]
• Debt management plan vs. debt relief [18d]
• IMF slashes global growth forecast, blaming ‘war in the Middle East’ for halted momentum [18d]
• Palantir CEO says working at his $316 billion software company is better than a degree from Harvard or Yale: ‘No one cares about the other stuff’ [18d]
• ‘If I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example’: OpenAI suspect’s chilling manifesto [18d]
• Trump tips $100 to DoorDash driver who dropped off 2 McDonald’s bags at White House [18d]
• Trump’s leaky blockade: ship sneaks through and talks with Iran resume [18d]
• Trump finds a tough guy from Chicago that he can’t intimidate: Pope Leo [18d]
• Americans rate Trump’s tax cuts a loser as most believe they’re still too high [18d]
• Current price of oil as of April 14, 2026 [18d]
• Exclusive: Paxos Labs raises $12 million after startup spins off from veteran stablecoin issuer [18d]
• American Express releases tools to build AI payments—and pledges to pay the price if agents go awry [18d]
• Exclusive: AlphaSense names new CFO as revenue tops $500 million [18d]
• ‘We have to be able to walk and chew gum’ on government spending, says budget chairman on debt crisis and national security [18d]
• Man charged in arson attack on Sam Altman’s house had AI CEO kill list, prosecutors say [18d]
• Retirees are facing a $345,000 bill they never saw coming — and most aren’t prepared [18d]
• Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers [18d]
• Trump’s war and rhetoric are drowning out the IMF’s growth agenda [18d]
• China’s export boom is losing steam, thanks to the Iran war and the global energy crisis [18d]
• Anthropic is facing a wave of user backlash over reports of performance issues with its Claude AI chatbot [18d]
• He was coding at 12 and became one of Google’s youngest ever CMOs—but now says Gen Z are better off ice skating than learning to code [18d]
• Most of Wall Street points to high oil prices as the driver of inflation. A maverick Johns Hopkins economist says they’re chasing the wrong culprit [18d]
• Tariffs are the new normal, and now most CEOs expect the import taxes to outlast the Trump administration, PwC report finds [18d]